Cultivation begins with harvest.

Wan Longjing becoming the acting manager has indeed brought about some changes.

First, there was himself. Under the influence of this change in identity, he quickly passed the threshold of the fifth level of Qi Refining and reached a higher level. This gave Chen Guang a deeper understanding of the feeling of essence, energy and spirit.

Secondly, it was made clearer that the quality of the spiritual plants Chen Guang possessed was related to his future promotion to the position of a steward disciple in the Earth Hall. It was true that the late stage of Qi Refining was a prerequisite. At the same time, in order to distribute resources more effectively to the cultivators who needed them, a spiritual farmer in the Earth Hall was required to contribute an average of seven spiritual plants of excellent quality per year while becoming a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining.

This is the total number divided by the number of years of cultivation. After all, the limit for outer disciples of the Earth Hall is twenty-one years. The longer the cultivation time, the higher the requirements.

In addition, one must possess the ability to store the essence of plants.

If you cannot meet the above three conditions and have only cultivated to the late stage of Qi Refining, then you can only choose one of the following four options: Xingfeng Hall, Guanglin Hall, Suling Academy, or leaving the sect.

The Qingheng Sect has seven peaks and three academies. In fact, all indications suggest that the Suling Academy is not much different from the seven peaks. Instead, it has become the destination for some ordinary cultivators. However, when it comes to mystery, many cultivators, including Chen Guang, only know the name of the Suling Academy. They know nothing about its location or responsibilities, and have never seen a Suling Academy cultivator walking around the sect.

Even cultivators are not immune to such things, so the rumors about Su Ling Academy are full of intrigue and terror, making it not a very good place to go. If one cannot stay in the Earth Hall, then leaving the sect and entering Guang Lin Hall may be the best choice.

Under normal circumstances, such information would be gradually revealed as Ling Nong's cultivation level gets closer and closer to the seventh level of Qi Refining. As long as Chen Guang can do it in the future, Wan Longjing's advance notice will not only not be considered an abuse of power, but will also add a merit of having discerning eyes.

This move is intended to allow those who are not capable of cultivating to the late stage of Qi Refining to focus on cultivating their fields in peace during their final years, thus leaving themselves some reserves. Otherwise, some cultivators who try to break through with a do-or-die attitude will only end up achieving nothing.

If you're not cut out for it, it won't just be revealed at the very end.

Chen Guang understood the significance of the information Wan Longjing had given him. It seemed highly likely that he would break through to the late stage of Qi Refining. If he wanted to continue cultivating in the Earth Hall in the future, he needed to demonstrate his talent for caring for spiritual plants and accumulate a large number of spiritual plants of outstanding quality. It would be best to accumulate them as early as possible.

However, Chen Guang also had his own difficulties. He had a loan of 340,000 from the Taoist priest in the Sutra Repository, one-fifth of which had to be repaid with spiritual plants of at least superior quality, which was nearly 70,000 grains of silver. Depending on the type of spiritual plant, the lowest grade of the Five Grains was 200 grains of silver per plant, and even his best-kept secret, the Fierce Heart Grass, was only 350 grains of silver per plant, so he needed 200 plants...

Because the time limit is seven years, Chen Guang was confident in accepting such a clause, so the Ditang side will naturally be affected. Now it seems that he has dug a hole for himself.

"I'll reduce my cultivation time and focus on planting spiritual plants. Farming is where I earn the most profit."

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At dawn, Chen Guang hardly cultivated anymore. A purple aura rose from the east, and a beam of clear light swept past, landing a slender piece of green bamboo in his hand.

Within the emerald bamboo, three wisps of rosy purple aura were sealed.

A total of 999 strands of purple aura from the dawn can form a complete chakra. This is a preparation for the Purple Aura Canopy Fruit. We cannot wait until the planting season is approaching before we start to put in the effort, otherwise we will definitely make mistakes.

During this period, Chen Guang frequently gathered qi, collecting wind and thunder qi when thunderstorms occurred at the White Flower Spring Grass; collecting spiritual haze qi when the sky cleared and white mist swirled after the rain; and collecting some flower spirit qi from the blooming spiritual flowers outside the Pure Yang Land, giving his previously painstakingly planned scheme another way.

If this true qi is not gathered, it will dissipate into the world. Previously, there was no method to gather qi, so we could only let it dissipate. Now it is naturally different. By actively gathering qi, the qi-gathering green bamboo formed by Tuanxuan Qingxuan can also seal the true qi for a long time, forming an important foundation for gathering qi.

The most difficult to collect is the Purple Qi of Startling Spring; to date, not a single wisp has been collected.

Secondly, there is the essence of the flower spirit, but the amount is too small, currently only two strands. The method of using the hidden and exposed true peony is still the main way to provide the essence of the flower spirit.

Then comes the Purple Qi of Dawn. When the sky is filled with purple qi, even with the best effort, one can only collect three strands, which shows how difficult it is.

The energy of wind and thunder, as well as the energy of spiritual haze, have yielded good results and are about to form a complete true energy.

This is also why gathering Qi is so difficult. A wisp of pure spiritual Qi can sell for tens of yuan, and a wisp of flower spirit Qi can make Chen Guang hesitate. The gathering efficiency is really low and frighteningly slow. Apart from the purple Qi of dawn, other true Qi cannot be gathered every day.

An unexpected benefit was that after he collected all the vital energy, Gu Shu's condition improved significantly. It seems that the vital energy was also part of the culprit for his mental confusion.

After gathering the Qi, Chen Guang finally began to meditate when the purple morning sun finally revealed its true face. Although he had wasted the best time for cultivation, it was acceptable for the sake of gathering Qi. However, he must not neglect his self-cultivation. Running several cycles of Qi every day was also a must, so that he could adapt to the sudden increase in magical power as quickly as possible when gathering Jade Heart Grass.

Furthermore, his own unique pure spiritual energy, derived from the Purple Flower Azure Induction technique, also has a certain promoting effect on his cultivation.

Once all that's done, the harvest is in.

The first to mature was not the Lingmi rice, but the Dingzhen tea tree.

Each time a leaf is collected, a reward orb will appear, containing the [Cloud Essence]. This is a spiritual object formed by collecting cloud energy in the air. It is rich in cloud-like spiritual energy and is not a rare item. Chen Guang already has Floating Oil Cloud Soil, so there are few scenarios where he needs to use Cloud Essence. He can save it for future trading.

The harvesting of Dingzhen tea leaves is somewhat related to the season, but on average, more than fifty tea leaves can be harvested each month. However, only tea leaves of excellent quality from Dingzhen tea trees can be counted for accumulated rewards. Only some tea leaves that meet the requirements were harvested in the summer, and we are still a few leaves short of the fifty required for the first stage reward.

Spirit tea is different from ordinary tea. Spirit tea is not of very high quality at the beginning, but as the years go by, as long as it does not make any mistakes, the quality will get better and better. According to this trend, the first stage of accumulated harvest rewards can be completed this winter.

Similarly, there is the Unyielding Thorn, which bears hundreds of fruits a year, but the reward is just ordinary water-attribute spirit essence. Spirit essence has a wide range of uses, and with enough of it, one can create an environment with a specific attribute bias. Chen Guang could only put it away for the time being and wait to use it later.

It is not difficult to deduce from this that when a spiritual plant can produce a large amount of resources, the level of its corresponding reward orb will inevitably decrease. In terms of grade, the Unyielding Thorn and the Dingzhen Tea Tree are both high-level spiritual plants, but their average reward is still not as good as that of spiritual rice, precisely because of their endless production.

Therefore, the accumulated reward of Floating Oil Cloud Soil was the first to meet the requirements, rewarding the [Heart Star Stone], which can turn up to ten acres of land into Floating Oil Cloud Soil. After Black Thistle Corrosion Stone, it refreshed the lower limit of spiritual soil-related spiritual items once again.

After that comes the White Flower Spring Grass. This spiritual flower is actually considered mature when it blooms, but it is not considered mature until the flowers wither. The White Flower Spring Grass can either be harvested whole or left like this. It can bloom multiple times a year and can grow and bloom normally the following year, living for several years. However, according to Chen Guang's experiments, only the first batch of flowers is considered mature.

The more of the same species of white-flowered *Tetracentron sinense*, the better its quality. I only maintained a scale of half an acre, and the uniformly excellent quality of it is already quite good.

The reward from the reward orb is called [Golden Droplet]. This is not a spiritual liquid, but a substance that can be mixed with spiritual liquids to increase their quantity without damaging their effects. Although there is an upper limit to the amount that can be mixed within a certain volume, its appearance is still of great help to Chen Guang.

It relieved the pressure of situations where the elixir was used.

I harvested a total of 417 drops of golden dew and also received the first stage of accumulated rewards for the White Flower Spring Grass: the Water Purification Bottle, a low-grade spiritual artifact that can store a portion of spiritual liquid. It is a miniature version of the Thousand Water Gourd in various senses, except that it has the added effect of naturally removing impurities, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

Secondly, the Lingmi rice did not exhibit outstanding quality, which is understandable. The best growing environment for Lingmi rice is still paddy fields, so it is normal that it did not meet such expectations.

A total of 2106 strands of pure spiritual energy were collected, and three complete streams of true qi were obtained. The remaining portion was sealed away with Tuanxuan Qingxuan and will be used again next year.

With 150 red peony plants, two more of exceptional quality were finally added compared to last year's harvest. In the end, 161 Crimson Melting Pills, 119 portions of the Secret Technique Green Flame, and 140 portions of Flame Control Manual were obtained.

The value of superior quality red peony is slightly higher than that of blazing heart grass because it is more versatile.

Afterwards, eight catties of ice salt were harvested from black silk algae, nearly two hundred portions of frost-cleansed white sand were harvested from white mist duckweed, and 75 portions of the first volume of the Blood Classic, 55 Blood Qi Pills, and fifty portions of Blood-containing Atractylodes were harvested from half an acre of Blood Polygonum multiflorum.

Among them, five plants were of exceptional quality. Their tubers, which resembled blood droplets, emitted an amazing fragrance and weighed a pound.

One tael of blood-red Polygonum multiflorum can sell for fifty ears of silver, and this is of exceptional quality; such a piece is worth 1,500 ears of silver.

Blood-He Shou Wu was the earliest spiritual plant I cultivated, and the one I had the most experience with. Given that I was willing to give it to a demon beast for blood, this result was not unexpected. The promise I made to the Daoist in the Scripture Pavilion was not empty talk. At this rate, this request could be fulfilled within seven years.