Cultivation begins with harvest.

While taking a walk to clear my mind, I followed the tracks of the tiger bees to the land of ultimate yang.

Flowers grow in streams, large and small, high and low, their fragrances intertwined, creating an endless burst of aroma in an instant, but a single breath becomes cloying and saturated.

This year, seeds were sown widely, and all sorts of flowers appeared. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as a chaotic mess. Some flowers died as soon as they sprouted, some bloomed in spring and then in summer, or there was no sign of them blooming at all.

The seeds interfered with each other, and since Chen Guang only sowed the seeds after a little thought, some weak spiritual plants were eliminated in the process, leaving only the spiritual flowers with strong vitality. This was inevitable. No matter how vigorous his energy was, it was already quite difficult for Chen Guang to take care of so many kinds of special spiritual plants. There are only twelve hours in a day, and if he had to take time out of that to take care of the spiritual flowers, it would have a greater impact on his own cultivation. Therefore, pursuing the resilience of the seeds themselves was inevitable.

After all, using spiritual plants as a foundation doesn't mean you have to devote yourself entirely to them and ignore everything else.

That would be a waste of time.

Chen Guang examined the spirit flowers. After a rough selection process, some had naturally died or withered and had been eliminated. Now it was time for another selection based on the flowering period, nectar, and reward orbs.

Looking at these flowers, I made some judgments based on the interaction between earth and wood and the actions of the celestial tiger bee, pondering the possibility of mutual interference and coexistence among these spiritual flowers, and considering the gains and losses in them.

On the other side, they began collecting and recording the reward orbs of the spirit plants that had already blossomed.

A hundred flowers blooming together is not the destiny of this spiritual field; that would mean greater chaos and disorder, creating a wilder spiritual atmosphere that would be extremely difficult to care for. To ensure the quality of the blooms, the higher the uniformity of the flower varieties in the field, the better.

After wandering around and examining the various spiritual plants and their needs for care along the spiritual fields, it got dark before they knew it, and the reward orbs were opened at an even faster speed.

"Blue Ganoderma Flower has a calming effect; among the rewards, only the [Calming Powder] is decent. However, the other two materials, which contain some resentment, are negative assets, rarely useful within the Qingheng Sect's territory."

"The Fire-Leaping Vine Flower offers a mediocre reward. The flames leaping between the blossoms after it blooms are somewhat interesting, but several surrounding flowers were burned to death. The nectar is like stone; the Tiger Bee was burned three times out of five attempts to collect it, all because it delayed collecting for too long and was scalded by the fire. Fortunately, the burns were minor, otherwise it would have been eradicated long ago... also a negative."

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There are too many and too varied spiritual objects in the cultivation world. To be fair, among those that can be traded within a sect, 30% have more positive effects than negative effects and both are very strong, while 50% have neither effect very strong.

Spiritual objects that have a completely positive effect are very rare; such pure things are naturally scarce.

Chen Guang used a wide variety of items, mostly the remaining 20% ​​of the best quality. Even if the positive effects were not strong, the negative effects were almost non-existent.

Just like in my previous life, how many plants there are?

How many things can be described as delicious? And how many of them are eaten every day?

Saying it's a matter of sifting through the sands of time is a slight exaggeration, but saying it's like finding stones in the rivers and lakes is definitely true.

One field of spirit flowers after another was eliminated. Most of the spirit flowers looked like a riot of color, but each had its own intractable troubles.

To maintain a certain scale, it's best to stick to the ordinary, which is the most efficient approach. For more unique plants, like the Firefly Vine, just plant a few in the yard and enjoy them. Planting a whole patch of them would only make things more complicated.

Driving the reward orb deeper and deeper, Chen Guang didn't stop for long.

"No, this?"

When I came across a small patch of what looked like out-of-season peas, the twisted, withered, and lonely vines lay listlessly on the ground, half yellow and half white-green. Although there were more than thirty "Stinking Vine" plants within a five-step radius, they were not as vibrant and lively as a bunch of weeds. Their flowers had already bloomed for two days, and they burned off all the petals themselves, producing not a single drop of nectar.

Such a spiritual plant wouldn't normally deserve much attention.

However, its three reward orbs are: [Fire Body Pill], [Radiant Flame Body Forging Technique], and [Five Organs Flame: Ginger Sunflower Flame].

The fact that Jiang Kui Bi Yan alone meant that Chen Guang couldn't give up the Fu Zu Teng. This was an earth-elemental spirit fire, the most capable of bearing and containing it. If he could first cultivate it into Bi Yan, it would greatly improve his cultivation of the other four spirit fires and his tolerance to fire.

However, the other two, no, the three, including the scorching vine itself, are not exactly any spiritual objects worthy of praise.

The Burning Foot Vine naturally radiates heat and then ignites itself. High-quality Burning Foot Vine has an inextinguishable flame and unfading flowers, like a slender torch, always radiating heat and light. However, to maintain this state, the resources invested would probably have to be at the level of a secondary Void Flower and Tree. The Burning Foot Vine sounds very special, but it is only suitable for some Xuan cultivators who are inclined towards the fire element to use to polish the soles of their feet, which can slightly speed up the hammering process on their feet.

For those who cultivate the Dao, that's all there is to it.

Perhaps the cultivators didn't really develop it, or more likely, the 'Stick Vine' is just that kind of troublesome spiritual plant that consumes a lot but digests little. Maintaining its optimal state requires a lot of resources, and apart from being a bit special, its actual effect is not as good as that of common spiritual plants.

Even cultivators in the wild wouldn't want to pick it up!

It's remarkable that the 'Stick Vine' hasn't mutated or gone extinct, and still maintains this amazing characteristic in the world.

This is one of the losses.

The Fire Body Pill generates a tempering fire within the body, continuously scorching and forging the flesh. When combined with healing and life-restoring pills, it can burn away impurities from the body in a very short time.

For some cultivators, it is indeed a highly effective elixir.

However, it has a fatal flaw: each time the Fire Body Pill is forged, it will cause the physical body to lean more towards the fire element and to reject other attributes among the five elements.

From this perspective, the effects of the Fire Body Pill are indeed somewhat unbelievable. It can artificially create a pseudo-spiritual body that tends towards the fire attribute. With the right cultivation method, it can probably distinguish the fake from the real.

"But I'm a spirit plant master. The higher my wood, earth, and even water attributes are, the better. If I were to transform into a fire-elemental spirit body, the first thing that would be suppressed is my affinity for the wood element."

For the Qingheng Sect, which excels in spells and formations, extremes in a single attribute are often unwelcome. Even if they treat the Fire Body Pill as a purely trading resource, they still have to go to areas where body refinement is more prevalent, which is quite troublesome.

"Radiant Flame Body Forging Technique" is a secret technique that allows one to further temper the physical body using the spiritual fire within the body. It is independent of cultivation methods and secret arts, and will not cause internal conflicts. It can more efficiently use the Fire Body Pill to guide the power to the five internal organs. If it were not guided to the fire attribute in the same way, Chen Guang would be much more interested.

"These two are a good match."

After careful consideration, the value of cultivating *Gnaphalium affine* is only that it is a necessary choice, while everything else is negative: it takes up land, does not produce nectar, and has no market.

"It's not too bad. With this, I'll have the Azure Flame, the Black Ginseng Flame, and the Ginger Sunflower Flame, enough for me to cultivate for a long time. As for a less desirable option, the reward from the Fire Leap Vine Flower is the [Flaming Leap] combat technique, which requires special training of the acupoints on the soles of the feet. The Flaming Foot Vine isn't entirely useless."

Feeling somewhat better, I continued my inspection, but finding no particularly special rewards, I focused my attention on further screening the candidate list.

The next day, Chen Guang entered the Scripture Pavilion to search for knowledge about various spiritual flowers in order to confirm the types of spiritual flowers. To supply the land of extreme yang, a sufficient amount of scorching spiritual energy was needed. At the same time, it was necessary to ensure that the Heavenly Star Tiger Bees had enough nectar while using the Hidden Dew True Peony to gather the spiritual energy of flowers. There was a lot to consider.

Fire-attribute spiritual flowers have short blooming periods and little nectar, so it is necessary to plant water-attribute spiritual flowers with abundant nectar and wood-attribute spiritual flowers with long blooming periods. The question of what kind of two can be planted without affecting the layout of the Yang Land, and what kind of flowers can coexist with other fire-attribute spiritual flowers to satisfy Chen Guang's greed for the three-way layout, is a complex and flawed problem.

The arrangements involved are extensive: knowledge of planting and breeding, spiritual awareness, formations, the five elements' interactions...

This once again proves the adage that no method is isolated. Those who only study one thing will have no choice but to choose all fire-attribute spiritual flowers in this situation, and even the types must be reduced to the extreme.

Chen Guang, however, had a better option, and he needed to focus on this for the next few days.