Cultivation begins with harvest.

After examining the frozen shrimp oil he had refined and confirming that it was correct, Chen Guang took out a spoon and scooped up a spoonful.

It's icy cold on the palate, with a slightly fishy smell, but afterwards a faint fragrance lingers on the teeth. Chen Guang quite enjoyed this sensation, and more importantly, it was the effect of the chilled shrimp oil.

A slight tingling sensation gradually spread throughout the body. Upon internal observation, it was possible to observe some very subtle changes in certain meridians.

Chen Guang's meridians, having been nourished by the pure spiritual energy for a long time, were already strong enough. Even a small sip of iced shrimp oil could still have some effect, which shows that iced shrimp oil does indeed have remarkable effects.

The next moment, Chen Guang's mind surged, and as his magical power was guided through his mind and circulated in his meridians, it actually began to actively absorb the special spiritual energy in the ice shrimp oil, making the tingling sensation even more pronounced.

The profession of glutton is indeed more compatible with body refinement. Anyone can consume the glutton's recipes, but the effects will be more obvious for body refiners. Tempering the body can turn passive into active, and the absorption efficiency is self-evident.

Chen Guang carefully stored away the frozen shrimp oil. He had no intention of consuming it himself; the quantity was too small and its effects were minimal, so it would be more worthwhile to sell it.

Ice-mouth shrimp oil can be preserved for three to six months, but other methods and magical artifacts are needed to extend this time. After trying it, the Thousand Water Gourd had no effect on the ice-mouth shrimp oil, so I had to give up.

This is a drawback of gourmets. In terms of shelf life, they generally cannot be preserved for very long. Spiritual tea and spiritual wine are already extremely perfect examples, but they still require extra effort in preservation. Ordinary gourmet recipes cannot be preserved for a long time.

In the days that followed, Chen Guang waited for the medicinal herbs to mature while refining the Ice Mouth Shrimp Oil.

After a month, the Jade Heart Grass and Red Peony, which had been surveyed, were finally ready for harvest. Chen Guang also refined the first batch of mature Ice Tail Shrimp into shrimp oil, making up a whole jar.

As for Lingtian, he has indeed been quite distracted lately, but the accounts are still clear.

After thirty Jade Heart Grass plants were handed over, forty-five plants remained. Forty of these forty-five plants had five leaves. Even if we consider the remaining plants from the lowest to the highest quality, eleven of the thirty Jade Heart Grass plants taken by Xingfeng Hall still had five leaves.

There are five more plants with six leaves. The six-leaf jade heart grass is still of excellent quality. To achieve outstanding quality, it seems that only the seven-leaf jade heart grass is possible. However, if the problem of the tangled root system is not resolved, Chen Guang feels that he will not be able to cultivate the seven-leaf jade heart grass.

The Jade Heart Grass and the remaining 44 seeds were all sold to Xingfeng Hall.

The price of a single five-leaf jade heart grass at Xingfeng Hall was 25 yuan per plant, and a six-leaf grass was 28 yuan per plant. Including the seeds, Chen Guang obtained a total of 1424 yuan. The jade heart grass was of high quality, and its benefits even rivaled those of a first-grade top-quality spiritual plant, which left Chen Guang speechless.

But we have no idea how to do it better right now, so we can only leave it at that for now. If nothing unexpected happens, the quality may improve slightly next year, but there won't be any qualitative change.

This year, there were 150 red peony plants. 70% of them were handed over, which is 105 plants. Only a few of them were of ordinary quality this year. Most of them were of excellent quality, and 24 of them were of superior quality.

Both being fire-attribute spiritual herbs, Chen Guang put more effort into the Blazing Heart Grass because of the Red Locusts. He stayed in the Blazing Heart Grass spiritual field for too long, and with his best efforts, he cultivated two Blazing Heart Grasses of exceptional quality.

Chen Guang simply sold the extra 45 plants to Xingfengtang at a price of three yuan per plant, receiving 135 yuan. Too lazy to bother with anything else, he had already obtained a day of 20% discount from Cangshi Fanglintang. It takes 6,000 yuan to accumulate one day of the day's worth of red peonies. Now Chen Guang was confident enough to say that he didn't need any more red peonies.

Everything was normal during the day, but it wasn't until night in the bedroom that Chen Guang began to release the reward light orb.

After releasing the Jade Heart Grass, Chen Guang gained a total of 3560 hours of cultivation. He felt his mana growing continuously, getting closer and closer to the power of a pot, and eventually surpassing it in one fell swoop. It was still accumulating, and finally the mist-like mana in his dantian began to feel somewhat heavy.

One pot contains three-tenths of the magic power.

More than three thousand hours of cultivation could give Chen Guang almost a pot of magic power, which would be enough even for a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator, except that he wouldn't be able to break through once a year like he could in the early stage of Qi Refining.

"The next step is to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, which requires three pots of mana. Combined with my daily morning practice during the auspicious purple qi rising in the east, I should be able to break through again within a year, though it will likely happen around late winter or early spring."

As for the other obstacle at the fourth level of Qi Refining, opening up all the acupoints in the main meridians, Chen Guang didn't care much about it. After all the mortal energy in his body was gone, his pure spiritual energy was consumed in these areas, and many acupoints had already loosened or even opened up. Chen Guang only needed to spend a little time to open up these acupoints.

To put it bluntly, although he had just broken through to the third level of Qi Refining, Chen Guang had already begun to consider breaking through to the later stage of Qi Refining.

Breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining no longer evoked the excitement and anticipation of breaking through to the second level. He merely glanced indifferently at the 356 increase in accumulated gains, taking another step closer to obtaining the fastest-growing reward, the Purple Spirit Earth. Once he harvested the Red Peony, he would receive another Tier 1 Purple Spirit Earth Root.

If this attitude had been displayed by Chen Guang two years ago, he would have definitely exclaimed that Chen Guang was getting carried away and arrogant.

Now I have a calm attitude and don't think it's a big deal. How can I hide my sharpness in a cloth bag? As long as I don't show those shocking things, it's fine.

"Now that we have a bit of the mindset of cultivators, our previous thoughts and ideas haven't completely shed the shackles of mortals. Can we truly comprehend the will of Heaven and attain immortality simply through persistent effort? When the time is right, we should naturally progress."

Knowing when to hide and when to reveal has always been Chen Guang's approach. However, looking back now, he hasn't adjusted his mindset, and his sense of proportion has naturally gone astray.

Four years ago, he was still a mortal living a different kind of life. Even two years ago, when he had not yet mastered magic, he was anxious and fearful, afraid of missing the opportunity. Every night before going to sleep, he was worried about when he would have his first wisp of magic and could not fall asleep immediately. The later breakthrough and the reward orb were all from great sorrow to great joy.

Life may seem calm and uneventful, but my heart has been in turmoil for a long time. Now everything has finally calmed down, and I can truly look forward.

After a moment's thought, Chen Guang felt he had gained a lot in terms of his state of mind, so he opened the reward light of the red peony again.

Of the 150 red peony plants, only 7 were of ordinary quality, 119 were of excellent quality, and 24 were of good quality. This result was worthwhile, considering the effort I put into using spirit charcoal and large peony wood. The biggest benefit of roasting the red peony seeds was that it brought forward the harvest season. Otherwise, the red peony harvest would have been five or six days after the jade heart grass harvest.

"Harvested one portion of Red Peony (Excellent), and obtained two [Crimson Melting Pills]."

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A total of 95 Crimson Fusion Pills, 112 copies of the Secret Technique Green Flame, and 182 copies of the Flame Control Manual were collected.

Chen Guang values ​​the Crimson Fusion Pill most when planting red peonies. The benefits from the other two rewards are already minimal. He has received more than two hundred infusions of the Flame Control Technique, but he still feels there is still a distance to go before he reaches perfection.

But ironically, the Crimson Melting Pill was the one that received the least reward.

This kind of insight-related gain remained the same after the 50th time, but there was no qualitative change after more than two hundred times, which was somewhat beyond Chen Guang's expectations.

In addition to this harvest, I also gained two more insights into the formula for the Crimson Fusion Pill and a section of Purple Spirit Earth Root.

After sorting through the harvest and putting it into the Black Void Serpent's belt, Chen Guang wanted to take a quick rest, otherwise the Thousand Needle Wren would start calling again soon.

Lying in bed, I was planning what to do in the next few days.

I plan to wait a while longer and render all the frozen shrimp into shrimp oil before going to the market. Recently, a small number of frozen shrimp have matured, about twenty or thirty in total, which can also be rendered into a lot of shrimp oil.

The recipe for Ice Mouth Shrimp Oil is not complicated. As long as there is a market, it will likely be cracked soon. Each time it is sold, the price will decrease until it reaches a relatively close level to other similar spiritual items. This is only possible if the raw materials for Ice Mouth Shrimp Oil are not expensive, can be mass-produced, and will not be eliminated by the market. Otherwise, if there are competing products, it can only be produced and sold to itself or sold to places like Dongdu Market where supply is less than demand.

Thinking about this, I fell asleep without realizing it.

The next morning, after finishing his cultivation, Chen Guang went into the ice mist array to collect some ice-tailed shrimp to make shrimp oil. He then discovered a white light cluster on the black filament algae on the first cutting, which was clearly a sign of maturity.

Let me see what the rewards are.

Chen Guang naturally picked up the reward orb and opened it.

"Harvested one portion of Black Silk Algae (Excellent), obtained two ounces of the spirit item [Ice Salt]."

Chen Guang's expression was strange. He looked at the Ice Tail Shrimp again. Good heavens, there are only five raw materials for making shrimp oil. If he can produce three of them himself, does that mean he can also sell the recipe for Ice Tail Shrimp Oil?

With only the purchase of monster bile and amber flowers, the production cost is so low that no matter how many shops enter the market, one can still make a profit on their shrimp oil. Even with large-scale refining, the cost is still only five items, while Chen Guang's cost is too low. This is an advantage that cannot be erased.

"Tomorrow I'll go promote the frozen shrimp oil. I'll sell them the formula first, make a killing, and if the profit margin on frozen shrimp oil becomes thin because of it, I'll just use it myself or give it as gifts, okay?"

Chen Guang smiled happily; a path to wealth was about to be officially opened up.