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

Chapter 18 Loss-making business, something is wrong with the snail

It takes time for the date palm snails to spit out the sand, and Li Qing is not in a hurry to think about working as a part-time spiritual chef.

In the following days, he either stayed on the island, teaching Ryan and his son, as well as other villagers, the art of growing magical rice, or went to sea to search for treasure.

Unfortunately, the elf worms are not cabbages, and the conditions for the birth of sea elf worms seem to be more stringent. Li Qing picked up a lot of sea products, but there was still only one elf worm, Ah Zao.

Because the resources gained were mostly used in the early and middle stages of Qi training, Li Qing only tried a few and did not waste too much energy.

However, the cultivation of Lingmi has encountered new problems.

The climate of Lettuce Island is suitable for growing rice, but the soil fertility is still a little lacking.

Li Qing had no choice but to ask Ryan to mobilize the serfs to go into the sea to dig the silt, and then go to other bird islands to pick up bird droppings, and then use planting spells to ferment and fertilize the fields.

But problems followed: grain seeds and seedlings with spiritual energy are particularly favored by seabirds.

For this reason, Ryan had to stop the construction of the castle and mobilize the entire island to prevent bird damage, which made him extremely busy.

But these are not the most annoying things.

Li Qing half-crouched on the ridge of the field, pulled out a yellow and wilted seedling, and used his spiritual sense to carefully sense and analyze: "It should be because the spiritual energy activity is too low."

The spiritual energy in this spirit world is extremely weak. The efficiency of practicing cultivation techniques is only one tenth of that in the cultivation world. Casting spells is also twice as effective but with half the result.

The spiritual rice varieties selected by Li Qing do have very low requirements for the spiritual environment, but they still show some symptoms of acclimatization.

On the other side, the young shoots of Qingling grass were green and lush, which was very pleasing to the eye, and were not affected by the environment at all.

To improve the growth of spiritual rice, the only way is to increase the concentration of spiritual energy, which requires setting up a forbidden magic array and increasing cost investment.

Li Qing did some calculations and was silent: "I'm going to lose money?!"

Ryan next to him observed and said, "Sir, I heard that there are people growing rice on the peninsula further south of the continent. With your ability, perhaps you can go there and trade for a rice elf?"

The elves evolved from the elf bugs, and they can catalyze ordinary seeds into magic medicine and promote their growth. Although these spiritual rice are not "enlightened" by the rice elves, I think they should be beneficial to the spleen.

Li Qing was unmoved. On the one hand, the time he stayed in was limited; on the other hand, the risks of going to the south were uncontrollable.

The most important thing is that his purpose is not to grow these acres of spiritual rice.

Instead, it breeds elf insects that can promote the growth of spiritual rice, and then after evolving into elves, it cultivates more advantageous varieties.

There is a saying in the past that seeds are the chips of agriculture. This saying is also true when applied to spiritual plants.

This is a long-term plan. If successful, the profits will be immeasurable, and the resources for Li Qing to build his foundation for the second time will be almost within his reach.

Determined to take a long-term view, Li Qing gritted his teeth under Ryan's worried gaze and said, "Keep planting!"

He took out the few remaining spirit stones and simple formation materials, and spent a full ten days to finally set up a "minimalist version" of a spirit gathering formation that covered all the spirit fields.

This magic circle can only gather spiritual energy rigidly, it cannot adjust the concentration, nor can it purify the spiritual energy, and it has no matching protective or warning restrictions.

But Li Qing was only a spiritual plant master and alchemist, and he was not proficient in formations. He was able to achieve this level thanks to his years of traveling.

Li Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead and pointed at the gaps in the spirit gathering array: "For the daily maintenance of the spirit field, let the villagers enter and exit through these paths and don't barge in randomly!"

Ryan looked at the green seedlings and carefully recorded the location of the gaps. He complimented, "Your Excellency is really amazing. The magic array you set up can even be used by ordinary people!"

Li Qing was silent for a while, then nodded: "Well, after all, I will be away for a while. If I am too careful, it may cause trouble."
On the day when the fragments of "Gate of Tianwei" were restored, the date palm snail finally vomited out all the mud and sand in its stomach.

Li Qing came to the pond and was surprised to find that the snail egg in the first female palm snail he caught was already pregnant: "Forget it, God is merciful and will let you go for now."

He fished out another male snail with spiritual energy fluctuations, and a lot of its juice had leaked out: "It's you! Since you have completed the continuation of the family line, you can go on your journey with peace of mind..."

Thinking that one date snail was not enough to eat, Li Qing took a few more that had no spiritual energy fluctuations and started a stove directly in Ryan's yard.

"Sir, you are going to do it yourself?" Ryan and Rick, father and son, were shocked.

Although there is no saying in this world that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, the nobles still consider cooking by themselves as something not very decent.

Li Qing smiled and said, "I have learned a little bit of cooking skills. After hearing Rick talk about how delicious these coconut snails are, I can't help but want to try my hand at cooking."

After saying this, he swept his spiritual sense to expel the obscured consciousness of the date palm snail, and recited the mantra of rebirth again, not sure whether it would be useful or not - this was the rule passed down from ancient times by the spiritual chef.

It is said that at that time, there was still reincarnation in the world of cultivation. The great way did not forbid killing, but it prohibited destroying the souls of living beings. Violators would be punished by heaven.

As for now, Li Qing feels that the spiritual chefs are just pursuing a sense of ritual.

After using the water purification spell to clean the date palm snails inside and out, Li Qing put a few ordinary ones directly into the pot and steamed them over high heat. He only kept the ones with spiritual energy fluctuations and placed them on an exquisite white jade plate.

He recalled the methods of those spiritual chefs and used his magic power to wrap the snail meat and paste and took them out of the shell intact.

Although the spiritual energy mainly permeates the heart of the date palm snail, its meat and paste also benefit greatly.

The pink and tender snail meat was like a pool of pudding, trembling and shaking. Li Qing used an ice blade to slice it into cicada-wing-like sashimi and neatly stacked it at the snail's mouth.

The snail paste was held together by magic power, and then passed through the spiritual fire of alchemy, then condensed into a translucent paste, which spread out to cool on the shell.

After a simple yet refined preparation, Li Qing took out three dipping dishes and poured in the soy sauce and vinegar brought from the cultivation world: "Please!"

At first, Ryan and his son picked up the fork and spoon slowly, but as soon as they tasted the food, they started slurping.

Rick would close his eyes from time to time to savor the taste: "Tsk tsk tsk, this taste is so delicious that I almost swallowed my tongue!"

Li Qing took a little from the jade plate and tasted it. He felt that the taste was acceptable, but that was all.

The essence of the entire date palm snail lies in its beating red heart. Even after it is taken out of the snail meat, it still rises and falls rhythmically.

What surprised Li Qing was that the faint fragrance of the date palm snail made his mouth water and he developed a strong appetite for the snail heart.

Ryan was a little jealous, but he still suggested sincerely: "Sir, this magical heart of the date snail is the most delicious when eaten raw! It will also have a better effect on the runes."

Li Qing originally planned to share the food among the three of them, but after hearing what he said, he did not pretend to be humble. He used clean water to condense cold dew, slightly chilled the snail heart, and then picked it up with jade chopsticks and put the whole thing into his mouth.

The tight muscles were bitten by the teeth, and a stream of runny juice flowed out - this must be the blood and sweat of the date snail.

Li Qing savored it carefully, and only swallowed it slowly after every taste bud was properly taken care of.

Suddenly, a clear breath spread from the stomach. Although it was faint, it vaguely penetrated into a hidden corner of the body.

"Hey! This snail heart..." Li Qing was a little surprised and doubtful, and tried using a water spell.

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