Cultivation begins with harvest.

Chen Guang could only bury the Purple Spirit Earth Root in the deepest part of the rice jar, and the Thousand Water Gourd had to be placed slightly above it.

"With two acres of spirit rice paddies, wouldn't I be able to harvest a portion of Purple Spirit Earth Roots?" Happiness is always accompanied by troubles. The more spiritual items one has, the better, but Chen Guang's status as a sect disciple seems to have become a constraint.

How to transform these spiritual objects into something useful and helpful for one's cultivation has become a difficult task.

Putting everything else aside, the only things the reward group gives us so far, besides cultivation techniques and spells, are the Thousand Water Gourd and the Blood Qi Pill that we can use directly. Even the Thousand Water Gourd, one is enough. I have two on hand, which is a real problem. The other things are good, but I just can't use them.

"Wei Donglai?" Chen Guang suddenly had some ideas. Perhaps the arrival of winter would be a turning point. Wei Donglai, as a Qi Hall disciple, would certainly have plenty of hunting rewards and so on. He must have some way to make a move, or even some special way to make a move.

Chen Guang decided to inquire about it himself first, and if he couldn't find out, he would then ask Wei Donglai.

"Let's see what new abilities the plant master has unlocked."

After the initial shock, he quickly regained his composure. It seemed that he did have some unique insights into mental state, and Chen Guang couldn't help but feel a little smug.

"Upon achieving 100/100 of the spirit plant harvest reward (excluding inferior items), you will obtain the special profession [Spirit Plant Master (Beginner)]. Continue harvesting spirit plant rewards to 520/10000 to unlock the next stage."

"The Spirit Plant Master's proficiency has increased, and a new skill, [Return to Spring], has been acquired."

【Return to Spring】A complete spiritual plant, including roots, stems, leaves, and retaining its main body such as flowers, fruits, or seeds, is placed in a special array. A section of the plant that can regenerate on its own is selected. A spiritual plant affected by Return to Spring can ignore the effects of seasonal changes, growth cycles, and environmental requirements if the spell is continuously cast. The rarer and more special the spiritual plant, the weaker the effect of ignoring these effects.

After trying to understand, Chen Guang finally realized that the plant master's ability was "propagation by cuttings," or rather, a kind of propagation by cuttings. He would arrange a complete plant in a special array, and eventually a certain part of the plant would become special and transform into something that could be used for propagation by cuttings—roots, stems, leaves, buds, fruits, or any part of it. Therefore, Chen Guang thought it should be called a kind of propagation by cuttings.

"Perfect timing."

Chen Guang didn't know what to say.

The blood-shou-wu has just been harvested, and since blood-shou-wu is propagated from seeds rather than by cutting root tubers, the vines have also been sold.

The most pressing goal right now is still the Linquan Pumpkin. It costs 2,000 catties of spirit rice to condense a seed, and it is a seedless and pitless type. If we can use the Returning Spring Essence to make the Linquan Pumpkin grow again, that would be the best outcome.

Unfortunately, there are two difficulties now.

Firstly, Linquan pumpkins are seasonal plants, so they don't need to be sown from seeds and can't be grown in a particular season. They might have to rely on spiritual energy arrays, but these arrays can't block the view. If others see Linquan pumpkins that should have withered in winter continuing to grow, it will inevitably cause trouble.

Secondly, the Return to Spring requires some understanding of formations and some materials for setting up formations. It is not like the Earth and Wood Interaction, which can be used directly after being given by the reward light orb. Chen Guang's expertise in formations is zero.

Returning to the essence of spring seems to have solved something, but it hasn't truly solved anything; more needs to be accumulated.

The drawbacks of Chen Guangcai's long career in cultivation have already become apparent. His future is bright, but there is so much he needs to accumulate and prepare, and Chen Guangcai has accumulated far too little in this regard.

In short, the future is promising.

"However, the proficiency of the spirit plant master has increased by a hundredfold this time! The first time to achieve the earth-wood synergy only requires ten spirit plant harvests, the second time it is one hundred, the third time it is ten thousand, and the next time it will be one million, or one hundred million?" Chen Guangxin trembled.

After calming himself down, Chen Guang focused his attention on another reward.

New cultivation options have also been unlocked for the Swallowtail.

"The first phase of Swallowtail Grass harvesting has been completed, yielding the [Nourishing Beast Food] recipe, unlocking more training content."

The first stage of the cumulative reward for spiritual plants requires cultivating 50 mature plants (excluding inferior ones), and the second stage requires at least 1000 swallowtail grass plants.

The first stage of the cumulative reward for spirit artifacts requires obtaining three spirit artifacts of the same name and type.

The first stage of the Spirit Soil cumulative reward requires cultivating 100 mature plants, while the second stage requires at least 1000 plants for Purple Spirit Soil.

The cumulative reward for the first stage of the elixir is 15.

These are some of the data that Chen Guang has obtained so far. He has recorded them, which will be helpful when he obtains new spiritual plants and spiritual artifacts in the future.

The new cultivation methods for *Euphorbia tirucalli* also caught Chen Guang's eye.

This is the seed-condensing technique for Swallowtail Grass: Wrap the Swallowtail Grass seed in floating oily cloud soil. You need to prepare seven balls at the same time. Use the Warm Light spell to continuously irradiate this ball of floating oily cloud soil with a warm and bright horizontal light for two hours. During this time, add some dust rich in spiritual energy every quarter of an hour. Then use the Hundred Wood Dew Condensation Spell to absorb the life force of six balls. Use the Spirit Rain spell to wet the last ball of floating oily cloud soil. Once the floating oily cloud soil falls to the ground, peel the seed out from it.

"Perhaps the seven free spells provided by the sect were not entirely intended for spiritual farmers to cultivate crops. The path of spiritual plant masters is probably among them." Chen Guang suddenly realized that although he was not sure if the seed-forming techniques for other ordinary first-tier spiritual plants were the same, they should also use some of these seven spells.

The sect really went to great lengths.

Those who can pass the three-year mini-exams and reach the seventh level of Qi Refining have already proven their learning ability and practical talent. In addition, with some subtle arrangements made in secret, the Qingheng Sect can be said to have gone to great lengths to select disciples.

However, it's not needed now, so Chen Guang isn't in a hurry to continue cultivating the Swallowtail Grass. He doesn't need to use the seed-condensing technique right away—partly because the whole process requires several pots of mana, and a Qi Refining Level 1 cultivator only has one-thirty-sixth of that mana, which is simply not enough to complete the seed-condensing process.

The floating oil and cloud soil are self-contained; the dust rich in spiritual energy will be obtained after the spiritual rice is harvested and the straw is crushed.

Chen Guang then checked another reward.

Animal food: [Nourishing animal food]

Grade: Tier 1

Attribute: Wood/Vitality

Suitable mammals: Omnivorous/Carnivorous

Recipe: Made primarily with swallowtail grass, yellow wormwood, century-old spirit wood, and moon essence liquid. Squeeze the juice from swallowtail grass and yellow wormwood in a 7:3 ratio and mix. Crush any type of century-old spirit wood into pieces no larger than whole peppercorns, and mix it with the liquid from swallowtail grass and yellow wormwood. Stir thoroughly with an equal weight of moon essence liquid. When needed, mix with monster meat in a 1:10 ratio and knead into balls. Bake with spirit fire until the surface is golden brown. It will spoil if left for more than half a month.

Description: It has the effect of promoting the growth of monsters/spirit beasts. Long-term use can accelerate their growth speed, and can shorten their growth cycle to one-sixth at the fastest. It is limited to first-tier beasts. The higher the tier, the worse the effect of shortening the time.

"There's no deeper content, which shows that the potential of nourishing animal food has already been fully explored at this level." Chen Guang immediately understood.

Swallowtail grass and yellow wormwood are alright. They are a type of spiritual plant that many outer disciples who cultivate spiritual plants like to use to feed spiritual beasts. They are typical examples of plants that are not very profitable but are easy to grow and raise.

A hundred-year-old spirit tree is more troublesome. It needs to contain a hundred years of spiritual energy. "Hundred years" is just a degree. It means that the spiritual energy it contains has reached a terrifying level. It does not actually need to be a hundred years old. Even if a tree in the mortal world really lived for a hundred years, it would not meet the standard of a hundred-year-old spirit tree required by cultivators.

Moon Essence Liquid is relatively simple; it's a first-tier ordinary spiritual liquid, unlike Linquan. Yue Nishang can only produce a small amount, which may not be enough. Either we need to increase the cultivation of Yue Nishang, or we need to find another way.

However, the growth cycle can be shortened to one-sixth at most, which is already an extremely exaggerated number. From infancy to adulthood, demonic beasts generally need at least five years. Beast taming is common in offices because they need to maintain spirit cranes to facilitate transportation. However, there are not many cultivators who actually embark on the path of beast taming because the more powerful the demonic beast or spirit beast, the longer its growth time. It is equivalent to giving without receiving anything for many years.

It will hinder one's own cultivation and consume a lot of resources.

Nourishing animal feed can alleviate this problem.

"I have more and more good things in me, but I need to work harder to achieve many of them. Striving is tough."

Chen Guang looked up at the sky and sighed, his eyes filled with joy.