Cultivation begins with harvest.

The flower buds of the 'Decadent Flower Tree' are incredibly valuable. If we were to accept this fate and accept our loss, we would feel terrible about it.

If a flower bud of the illusory flower tree is even slightly damaged, its vital energy will be incomplete and it may perish. A flower bud that has been devoured by ferocious insects will have an unstoppable hole, and its spiritual energy will continue to be lost. If nothing is done, the flower bud will inevitably wither away.

The attempt to salvage the situation was made possible thanks to the Nine Husbands' legacy. Although the second skill had not yet been acquired, understanding most of the previous content made it easy to discern that this was a skill related to repairing and healing spiritual plants. The knowledge gained before the two hundredth step had already leaned towards this direction, containing a great deal of content on healing spiritual plants.

Now it came in handy. Using the essence of wood in combination with some spiritual items, Chen Guang made one attempt after another.

The result was that, except for the last flower bud that had briefly been touched by the ferocious insect, all the other flower buds turned into experience for healing spiritual plants.

Minor injuries are manageable, but more serious injuries are beyond the capabilities of Chen Guang, who is just beginning to learn about spiritual plants.

Saving one flower was a less than satisfactory result, which greatly relieved Chen Guang's depressed mood.

As summer approaches, the buds of the Void Flower Tree gradually open, and the pale purple, transparent petals, like cicada wings, become visible. Upon approaching, one can feel one's own magical power sometimes accelerating and sometimes stagnating, almost to the point of being cut off.

This is the Illusory Flower Wood. Its illusion lies not in whether it is real or fake to the naked eye, but in its ability to influence and come into contact with meridians and dantian, which have an even more illusory nature. It is an auxiliary material needed for many high-grade elixirs that affect magical power and meridians.

As it approaches maturity, it becomes more attractive to various ferocious insects, especially those of the Yu Dao type.

For the former, there is a chance that it can raise the upper limit of its physical body's tolerance to spiritual power to another level; for the latter, there is an additional chance that it can enhance its own special abilities.

During this period, many ferocious insects visited the Void Flower Wood Spirit Field. Among them, the more troublesome ones were naturally those with traces of the Dao of the Universe. As An Yu Mian said, Chen Guang had been on tenterhooks for a long time and had not encountered any more ferocious insects of the level of the Mangpi Insect. The characteristics of these ferocious insects with traces of the Dao of the Universe are that they are faster, more agile and elusive in sudden stops and turns, and more difficult to deal with, but not impossible to deal with.

Eleven purple venomous spiders lurked in the wood, while two thousand-needle wrens scurried back and forth, creating a scene fraught with danger.

Once a lurking purple venomous spider hits an enemy once, the others don't need to aim much; as long as their aim isn't too off-target, they're almost always locked onto the enemy.

The third brother, having learned from its mistake, became even more ruthless and aggressive. It chased after ferocious insects in the spirit field of the Void Flower Tree with extreme ferocity, causing them to fall into the net of the Purple Poison Spider. Now, it can move through the Void Flower Tree to hunt them down. Originally, it prioritized the Cloud Qi attribute, but in a short period of time, its control over the Golden Flight Technique has visibly improved to a higher level.

On the contrary, the second child, whose primary attribute is metal, is still basking in the satisfaction of "luckily I didn't exert myself back then, otherwise I would have crashed into the branches of the illusory flower tree like the third child."

If Chen Guang hadn't watched it grow up, he wouldn't have believed that this was the second child, who had once been so ruthless as to not give the third and fourth children a single bite to eat, and who had survived the metal-attribute transformation that even the eldest child, who had the most nutrition, hadn't made it through.

Now content with his current life and enjoying life, he seems to have become a complete failure, and his potential is already the same as that of most Thousand Needle Wrens.

"The animal-based faction is difficult to follow."

They do not use spells as shackles, nor contracts as fetters, but strengthen their bond with sincerity and deep affection.

More free and more natural, capable of developing their own intelligence, and their will is not constrained or affected by the master-servant relationship. The beast-bond faction, with its higher potential, has higher requirements for its master.

They'll make things difficult for any master on the path of spiritual practice, or any prodigy unseen for a century.

Just like educating people, the difficulty lies not in how much knowledge one possesses, but in the way one interacts with and imparts knowledge.

The human heart is unpredictable, which is why raising people is difficult; the animalistic nature is stubborn and untamed, which is why taming animals is difficult.

What they have in common is that their earnest expectations will not necessarily translate into the exact way they hope for growth. This is both the strength and the weakness of wise life; having one's own thoughts means not accepting the thoughts of others wholesale.

It's no wonder that the most common classic animal taming and insect control techniques are from the Law School, which has a high minimum skill level and is easier to master than the Beast Affinity School.

Animal training is inherently influenced by individual personalities, and the example of the second son being a failure made Chen Guang reflect on his handling of the relationship with spirit beasts.

While tending to the illusory flower tree, the Dingzhen tea tree finally accumulated enough to reach the first stage of cumulative rewards. Because a large number of tea leaves mature every month, only those of excellent quality are counted in the reward light. From the beginning of the tea leaves to the end of autumn, the number of excellent quality leaves quickly approached fifty.

However, the plan to achieve this cumulative milestone during winter failed to materialize.

The arrival of the ice flower sycamore changed everything.

Although the aura was completely obscured by the ice mist array, the ice mist array itself released some faint chill. In addition, with the addition of six second-tier spiritual plants, the demand for spiritual energy increased, causing a major change in the spiritual energy atmosphere.

Chen Guangda extensively planted a batch of peculiar spiritual plants, whose spiritual atmosphere was inherently complex, chaotic, and fragile. Now that things have changed, the effects have begun to manifest in some corners. The Dingzhen tea tree, which belongs to the cloud-like category, is the most sensitive to this change in energy. It was the first to show signs of discomfort, and there was no production of high-quality tea throughout the winter. Even the quantity of tea produced was affected.

The Thousand Needle Wren also showed signs of discomfort for a day or two, which served as a warning to Chen Guang and was one of the reasons why Chen Guang did not develop any new spiritual plants that year.

Faced with the complex and hidden changes in the Qi, Chen Guang was dumbfounded. The complexity was far beyond his ability to handle. In such a small area, there was such a dense and complex patch of high-level spiritual plants. If Chen Guang hadn't been quick to react and sacrificed Gu Shu to coordinate and balance the Qi, planting the Ice Flower Wutong might have been a disaster with a chain reaction.

The great formation protecting the spirit fields can lure the ferocious insects here; it will also weaken and block most of the energy and spiritual power from causing trouble between different spirit fields. Otherwise, it would be even more difficult for Chen Guang's neighbors. Unfortunately, this great formation only cares about the outside and not the inside, completely ignoring how Chen Guang recklessly caused trouble, which is why things have come to this.

After several months of adjustment, the spiritual atmosphere has finally eased, and the Dingzhen tea trees are once again producing high-quality tea, allowing Chen Guang to overcome that hurdle.

The Dingzhen Tea Tree has completed its first phase of harvest accumulation, rewarding the user with the [Qi Stabilization Technique Unlocked], unlocking more cultivation content.

"Just a spell?"

As a flood of information poured in, Chen Guang's doubts vanished, and his curiosity was satisfied.

The Qi Stabilization Technique is a spell that can be very simple, but becomes increasingly complex and profound as one goes deeper into it. Like the Purple Flower Azure Guidance, it does not possess strong offensive power, but it can directly enhance a cultivator's understanding of "Qi".

A single technique is quite ordinary, but when combined with a technique to counter it, it becomes extraordinary.

The Purple Flower and Azure Guidance is an interaction between two kinds of "Qi". It only involves the purple Qi of dawn and the pure spiritual Qi, but it is a key that opens a door for Chen Guang to the Great Dao.

The art of regulating Qi is another key that can unlock the door to "interference" Qi.

The mystery of Qi has countless pathways, and it is a fool's dream to try to master them all. However, mastering each one will be of immense benefit to one's future cultivation, even if what one has provided now is only the simplest step.

"The Purple Flower Azure Guide helped me quickly become a master of Qi, and I gained some understanding of Qi changes. If I master the Qi Stabilization Technique, it can also be used in situations where it's necessary to stabilize cloud Qi, making it both practical and promising."

Chen Guang naturally became immersed in the reward—

it is good!