The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 143: Dragon Blood Rice Cooked, Qingxia Secret Realm (4K Large Chapter)

Just as they had agreed on the destination of the spiritual plant red algae, the vortex of spiritual energy in the dragon blood rice field over there gradually subsided.

Li Qing turned his head and saw a reddish-brown rice field with bunches of heavy rice ears hanging down.

The grains of dragon blood rice are twice as big as ordinary indica rice. The husk is crystal clear, and the grains inside are bright red with a faint glow, just like red agate.

A breeze blew by, bringing an alluring fragrance that made people feel full.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Li Qing walked over and was about to reward Chao Yin with a ball of spiritual energy, but unexpectedly, the little guy refused to accept it.

Chaoyin flapped its butterfly wings, spreading a light mist, and used her spiritual sense to send a message to Li Qing: "Gu Ka!" (Grilled fish!)
Li Qing was both amused and confused: "Okay, go and fish it out in Hexi yourself. Bring it back and I'll grill it for you."

Since the spiritual vein of Qinghe Valley was upgraded, the spiritual energy of the Crane Creek that runs through the valley has also become strong. Not only have the spiritual plants in the water increased, but there are even spiritual fish swimming around from time to time.

Chao Yin got his promise and flew to Li Yu happily: "Guka!"

Li Yu smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll help you catch it! At least one foot long!"

Li Yu's Guishui Youquan snail needs to be fed with sweet rain before it can transform.

Whenever Li Qing went to the spirit world or went into seclusion for some reason, Chao Yin would do the work for him. The man and the butterfly had been friends for a long time.

Chaoyin got what she wanted, and then she randomly found a plant of dragon blood rice to absorb its essence and accumulate the foundation for evolution.

But its eyes still moved, looking towards the Hongya rice field not far away: "Guka..."

The two kinds of first-grade spiritual rice planted in spring, Qingzhu Rice and Hongya Rice, have naturally matured long ago.

One side is shining with brilliant rainbow light, and the other side is dotted with emerald green and blue beads, presenting a scene of abundant harvest.

The green bead on Chao Yin's forehead was glowing, and she was eager to recreate the shocking scene in the elf world, but was stopped by Li Qing.

"Be patient! Good rice is never too late. When the winter solstice comes and the water and fire spirit rice is ripe, we will come together to reap the fruits of victory."

Chao Yin tilted her head and proposed another condition: "Gu Ka?" (Spiritual chef?)
Li Qing reluctantly agreed: "Okay, okay, tomorrow I'll have the spirit chef in my tribe come and teach you the basics. Hey, I don't understand why you, a water spirit insect, are so obsessed with cooking?"

Chaoyin ignored him and happily lay on the dragon blood rice, closing her eyes to absorb the essence.

Li Qing coaxed it into submission, then he picked up an ear of dragon blood rice, removed the husk, and examined it carefully in the palm of his hand.

The second elder, Li Fang, walked over and asked with concern: "Ah Qing, how is the quality of this dragon blood rice?"

Li Qing smiled and said, "Originally, the spiritual veins of Qinghe Valley were still a little weak, not enough to cultivate this kind of spiritual rice."

"Fortunately, we have Chao Yin's help. The quality of this rice is not inferior to the dragon blood rice sold outside Yanling Valley."

Li Fang stroked his beard and smiled, looking at Chao Yin with a look full of kindness and warmth: "Spiritual rice-like plant spirits, this is really a great fortune!"

Li Qing smiled and shook his head, and did not force others to treat everyone equally.

After all, for cultivators, spiritual vegetables like lettuce, or rare spiritual plants like red algae, are indeed not as affordable as spiritual rice.

He took out the purple bamboo tube from Liquan purchased from Zhuxin Island and placed it on the ridge of the field. This was the container certified by the Great Zhou Xuan Palace and was the most suitable for storing dragon blood rice.

Then he used Qingmu Zhenyuan to transform into scissors and cut each ear of Dragon Blood Rice whole and stored them properly in bamboo tubes.

The dragon blood rice seeds donated by Liu Yuan were not even enough to fill a box.

The rice yield was not high, and the total harvest was less than 500 kilograms. Even though Li Qing was very careful when harvesting, it only took him less than half an hour.

"Patriarch, elders, this harvest has come to an end."

Li Qing led everyone out of the spiritual field that was blocked by restrictions, leaving only Li Wei and Li Lang to harvest the spiritual lettuce plants one by one.

The remaining spiritual plant red algae was also entrusted to the two of them by Li Qing.

As Li Lang was harvesting, he chatted with Li Wei: "Sister Wei, how is your practice of "The True Solution to Qingmu's Prolonged Life" going?"

Li Wei spread out her hands, and the bright green wood light turned into the appearance of lettuce: "Fa You Yuan Ling has just entered the door, and can only transform into lettuce for the time being."

Even so, Li Lang was still envious: "I have just completed the transformation of my magic power, and I haven't even refined Qingmu Faguang yet!"

"It's not difficult to refine Qingmu Faguang." Li Wei shared her experience of cultivation without reservation, "When you take care of spiritual plants on a daily basis, don't use up all your magic power."

"After it has fully come into contact with the spiritual plant, retract it into the Dantian. In this way, within three months, the Qingmu Faguang will be completed."

"It is true that the method has a spiritual essence, and it takes a lot of effort to cultivate it. However, if you choose a familiar spiritual plant as an opportunity, you can learn by analogy and gain something."

"So, Sister Wei chose lettuce?" Li Lang pondered for a while, "What is the spiritual plant I am most familiar with?"

Just at this time, several other elf insects that Li Qing had left in the spiritual field to accompany Asun and the others entered the lettuce field, playing and fighting.

Li Lang caught a glimpse of Xiaolian from the corner of his eye and couldn't help but think, "Well, why not choose water lilies? After all, they sell better than lettuce."

"Aiya!" A Sun, who was not far away, gently wagged his tail to express his protest.

Under Li Wei's teasing gaze, Li Lang hurriedly apologized to Asun.

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Three days later, except for the water and fire spiritual rice and the dragon bell flower that was being planted on trial, all the second-level spiritual plants in the spiritual field had been harvested.

Li Qing simply held a buffet to share the joy of the harvest with his clansmen.

The tribe's talented chef used lettuce and lettuce leaves as side dishes and used all his skills to prepare six "bamboo shoot banquets". Of course, this bamboo shoot was not the same as that bamboo shoot.

Red algae is also used. Although its taste is strange, after multiple processing, a tiny bit of it can be used as a seasoning.

The most precious thing is the magical rice wine soaked with dragon blood rice. After drinking a small cup, you will feel warm all over, but it is not intoxicating.

When had the Qigong cultivators in the clan ever eaten such a second-level spiritual plant? They ate so much that they couldn't bear to put down their cups and chopsticks.

Li Hui was initially against using dragon blood rice. After all, this rice was beneficial to both foundation building and cultivation.

There is even a small chance that using it to refine Dragon Blood Pills can add a small magical power of the dragon clan to a great cultivator who has established his foundation. It is extremely precious.

It was Li Qing who convinced him: "Chao Yin's energy is mainly focused on growing water and fire spirit rice. He can't spare much time to grow dragon blood rice."

"If we don't expand the scale, we only need to keep a small portion of the dragon blood rice harvested this season for seeds. The rest can be cooked and eaten."

"As for the Dragon Blood Pill, it's even more impossible. Without the recipe and the attainments of a second-level upper-grade pill, how can one make it?"

Li Hui felt a little painful at the time, but when the spiritual rice wine was served, he was the one who drank the most.

The rice wine, which was not intoxicating by nature, made him drunk and he kept mumbling something.

Li Qing listened carefully, and only heard phrases like "ancestors' blessing", "smoke rising from the sky", and "no regrets in death". However, the second elder Li Fang reacted quickly and set up a ban, isolating the main table and other seats, so that the tribesmen did not witness the embarrassment of the tribe leader.

"Alas, the burden on his shoulders is too heavy." Great Elder Li Yao shook his head. "When the Li family was handed over to him, it was in a precarious situation."

"Fortunately, in the past two years, you, Aqing, and Brother Zhe have successively built the foundation of Taoism, and only then have you pulled the family out of the quagmire."

The third elder Li Ye also said: "It's rare that he opened his heart today, so let him get drunk."

Li Qing laughed and raised his glass, saying, "Since that's the case, everyone, drink this glass to the full!"

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After harvesting the second-level spiritual plants, autumn crops such as late rice in the spiritual fields also ushered in a good harvest.

Li Qing ignored it and went back to his cave to meditate, while refining the spiritual veins of Qinghe Valley to lay the foundation for building the earthly immortal world.

On the one hand, he followed the spiritual vein and used his spiritual sense to map the spiritual vein branches, spiritual energy nodes, as well as the earth veins and water veins on the spiritual field, in preparation for the transformation of the spiritual field by the end of the year.

On this day, Li Qing had just deduced the progress of refining the Qinghe Valley's spiritual veins to 20% when he suddenly heard someone ringing the golden bell outside the door.

He walked out the door and found that it was Li Hui and several elders who came. But he knew what they were doing without them saying anything.

In the distant sky, a magnificent blue cloud stretched across the sky, rolling from time to time, transforming into images of the heavenly palace, dragons and phoenixes.

"So the Qingxia Secret Realm has been opened." Li Qing suddenly realized, "I have been practicing for so long that I have forgotten about this grand event by the Xuefeng Lake."

Li Hui stroked his long beard and said, "At this time in previous years, we could only watch helplessly as the children of the foundation-building families entered the secret realm first and took the lead. This year, we don't have to endure this."

Li Qing laughed: "I wonder which cultivators in the clan are determined to venture into the secret realm this year?"

Li Hui then mentioned a few names, most of whom were at the sixth level of Qi training, including Li Zhuang, who had previously reported the news about the Spirit Fish King and was awarded the visualization diagram.

At that time, he chose a "Fish and Dragon Visualization Picture", which was quite consistent with his spiritual roots and temperament. In just a few months, he broke through from the fifth level of Qi training to the sixth level.

Li Qing thought for a moment and added Li Lang's name: "Let this kid go and see it too. How can he succeed if he stays in the spiritual field all day, tending to the spiritual plants, and doesn't know anything about fighting?"

Now that the list was finalized, Li Qing did not waste any time and led everyone out of Qinghe Valley, heading towards Xuefeng Lake.

At this time, the east bank of Xuefeng Lake was already crowded with people.

Many Qi-cultivating monks huddled together, looking up at the ancient bluestone door in the sky.

But coincidentally, no one set foot on the seven huge rocks near the lake.

Li Qing came with his tribesmen, looked around, and landed on a huge rock at the northernmost end: "Fellow Daoists have not arrived yet, but we are here a little early."

As soon as the Li family landed, a group of Qigong cultivators over there exclaimed: "The Li family of Qinghe Valley has arrived! The emerging foundation-building family!"

"That person is Patriarch Li Qing. He failed in his first attempt to build a foundation, but he was not discouraged. He tried his best to build a foundation on his own and succeeded!"

"This senior has great perseverance, determination and courage. He is truly a role model for us who are still learning from him."

The crowd was whispering, and soon two leaders of the Qigong families came to pay their respects.

Li Qing was impatient with this, so he said hello and pushed everything to Li Hui. He took out the white jade cushion, sat cross-legged by the water, and waited for other foundation-building cultivators to come.

Soon, four foundation-building families, including the Niu family of Xinghua Village and the Fan family of Zhuxin Island, arrived one after another and each chose a huge rock to settle down.

Li Qing chatted with Niu Xinjing and Fan Shuyun for a while, and then waited for the arrival of San Yuwan, who had gray hair on his temples.

"My fellow Taoists, I haven't seen you for several months, but you are still as charming and elegant as ever!" Sang Yuwan greeted several foundation-building cultivators with a smile.

Li Qing exchanged some pleasantries before looking towards Yanglong Lake: "Fellow Daoist Ao Lan, why didn't you come with me?"

Ao Lan is the dragon species that Sang Yuwan has cultivated for his entire life, the Blood Tide Dragon Eel, and has the cultivation base of the lower second rank, which is not inferior to that of a cultivator in the initial stage of foundation building.

Sang Yuwan smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, fellow Daoist. Ao Lan just had a few cubs a few days ago. He is taking care of the kids at home right now."

Hearing this, Li Qing pretended to be angry and said, "Why don't you send me a letter? I'll come and ask for a cup of dragon blood wine too."

Sang Yuwan laughed and said, "You want to drink dragon blood wine? Isn't that easy? Tomorrow, when this year's new wine is out of the cellar, I'll have someone send a few jars to your door."

Niu Xinjing joked, "Fellow Daoist Sang is really generous. I wonder if I can be lucky enough to get a jar as well?"

Fan Shuyun also said: "If I am not included, I will definitely not agree."

Sang Yuwan couldn't help but laugh and scold: "You two, you guard your own Qingxing wine and Zizhu wine, and you are reluctant to give them out, but you are thinking about my little belongings..."

Li Qing suddenly realized, "So Daoist Friend Niu and Daoist Friend Fan also have fine wine! I didn't have the chance to drink it last time I visited. I wonder if I will have the honor to do so next time?"

"That's impossible." Niu Xinjing shook his head helplessly, "My fellow Daoist Fan and I make wine from the same recipe. I have tried to brew it many times, but have not succeeded yet."

Everyone was chatting happily when they suddenly heard a strong fluctuation of true energy coming from the south.

Li Qing looked up and saw three foundation-building monks in black robes and red armor, flying towards him on a tripod-shaped spiritual weapon.

Behind the three of them were thirty-six cultivators at the sixth level of Qi training. Each of them was in perfect spirit and full of energy, with bright eyes and an aura far beyond that of their peers.

Soon, the group of people landed on the huge rock in the middle.

The Qi-cultivating monks who were originally whispering to each other were suddenly frightened by the momentum and fell silent.

"Greetings to Deacon Zhou Yi, and fellow Taoists Tu Ming and Zhang Chao!" Sang Yuwan took the lead and greeted the three black-robed monks.

It turned out that these three foundation-building monks were all from the Great Zhou Xuan Palace, and were ordered to garrison the Xuefeng Lake area.

Zhou Yi, the leader, had a serious job and the most powerful aura: "Fellow Daoists, there is no need to be polite. I am not representing Xuan Palace today. I just brought these juniors here to broaden their horizons."

Even Li Qing, who had just reached the stage of building his foundation, just laughed it off when he heard this.

Zhou Yi smiled and looked at the bluestone door in the sky: "The door to the secret realm has appeared. It requires the cooperation of nine fellow foundation builders to open it."

"In previous years, we had to ask for help from Friend Lou or my family. Now, we don't have to bother them."

As he spoke, Zhou Yi took out a green jade pendant in the shape of a cloud and handed it to Li Qing: "There is no time to lose, let's open the secret realm immediately. This will also give the younger generations more time to explore."

The Qingxia Secret Realm opens once every ten years. Li Qing could only watch from the sidelines before, but now he can participate.

He imitated the others, raised the Qingyun Jade Pendant high, and injected his own true energy into it without reservation.

"Boom--" the portal to the secret realm opened.

(By the way, I would like to ask for the guaranteed monthly ticket for the 15th, if anyone has one.)
This is a make-up update for May 5. So far, I have no more updates to go on. Good night, everyone.

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