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

Chapter 2: Exploring the Village, Lettuce Creatures

The sun and the moon go back and forth, the tides change, and ten days pass quickly.

Li Qing finally finished conditioning his body, and then he came out of the big tree hole: "It's time to go to that village to take a look."

It was midnight, and the small village was shrouded in darkness, without a single light.

But for Li Qing, who was just one step away from building his foundation, seeing the empty room as bright and night as day had become instinct.

The village has about thirty households and is located on a high ground near the coast, protected from the tides.

There were several wooden boats moored near the coast, with fishing nets and other fishing gear on them. Perhaps because of the strong winds and waves in the past few days, no one went out to sea tonight.

On the side close to the jungle, there is a cultivated field with sparse crops and vegetables growing on it, and a few straw men are inserted in the middle.

Li Qing concentrated his mind and sensed that there were only four places in the village where spiritual energy was fluctuating, and the highest intensity was only about the fourth level of Qi Refining, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

One of the spiritual energy fluctuations was in the fields at the entrance of the village. It was the weakest, but full of spirituality. It was a world of difference from the gloomy spiritual energy in the vast universe.

Li Qing suddenly became interested, restrained his breath, and walked quickly to where he was.

This was a lettuce field, and there were two strong men guarding the field. When they saw Li Qing coming, they were about to shout, but they were hit by the sleeping spell.

Perhaps because of the bad soil and poor care, the lettuce here grows very poorly, and the leaves are almost all drooping.

What caught Li Qing's attention was one of the lettuces.

Judging from the appearance alone, this lettuce is much shorter than other similar ones. Its leaves are not only wilted but even a little yellow, and it looks like it will not live long.

But when Li Qing used his spiritual sense to scan, he found out that the lettuce was actively absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and even gathered into a small vortex.

In the lettuce half buried in the ground, a worm that looked like a silkworm curled up in a ball and fell into a deep sleep. With every breath, it was breathing in and out strands of spiritual energy.

"A plant spirit that is still in the making?" Li Qing was shocked. "But, how is it possible?!"

Plant elves are spiritual creatures born from the nourishment of plants' spiritual energy. They are extremely rare and have endless uses.

According to common sense in the world of cultivation, generally only rare spiritual plants have an extremely small chance of giving birth to plant elves.

If it were placed on an ordinary plant, it would have to be a precious medicinal material that is at least five hundred years old, and has been nourished by spiritual energy over the years, before there would be a glimmer of hope of breaking the limitations of heaven and earth and achieving spiritual communication.

For example, the legendary ginseng baby and chemazhi, although not classified as spiritual plants, are more valuable than the foundation-building pill.

However, today Li Qing discovered a plant elf on a lettuce that was only a few months old and of poor quality!

"What's even more outrageous is that this thing can actively absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before it's even born?!" Li Qing simply couldn't understand it.

As the spiritual energy continued to flow in, the lettuce seemed to bear an unbearable weight. Leaves turned yellow, withered, and finally fell off.

The lettuce half-hidden in the ground also shrank as if it was dehydrated, and cracks appeared all over it.

The plant elves nurtured within finally opened their eyes, but let out a faint wail, as if they were about to burst by the spiritual energy.

Li Qing came back to his senses and thought about it for a moment, then he realized that this was because the lettuce itself was of too low quality and could not withstand the impact of spiritual energy, making it insufficient to nurture plant spirits.

Without time to think, he clasped his hands together and cast a Qi Refining spell: the Cloud and Rain Spell.

A green light flashed by, and a palm-sized black cloud appeared above the lettuce, and rain began to fall like a watering can.

The Cloud and Rain Spell is one of the most popular spells in the world of cultivation. It can nourish plants and is mainly used to grow spiritual rice.

But the same spell will have different effects when used by different people.

Li Qing is an expert in the use of cloud and rain techniques. Not only can he control the time of the technique, he can also adjust the range at will.

In the early years, when alchemy was still in the trial and error stage and was losing money, he often relied on this to work in the spiritual fields and medicine gardens to earn spirit stones.

Under the nourishment of the spring rain, the lettuce finally stopped withering. The grass spirit fell into a deep sleep again. However, it seemed that the damage was too great before, and the little guy could not continue to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

It was like a broken wooden barrel. As soon as the spiritual energy was absorbed, it dissipated without being replenished and could not be retained at all.

Li Qing maintained the Cloud and Rain Spell for a while, but found that the effect was not good, so he used several enhancement spells in succession, but they could only maintain the status quo.

As the sound of the magic being cast spread, some people in the village were finally awakened.

Someone took the lead and shouted loudly, and soon others responded one after another.

Soon, a large group of people holding torches and carrying harpoons, dung forks, hoes, etc., ran towards the village entrance.

While Li Qing was maintaining the Cloud and Rain Technique, he turned around and looked at the crowd that was coming aggressively. With a quick scan of his spiritual sense, he knew that there were only two cultivators among them.

These people had round faces, red hair and green eyes, and were strong regardless of their height. Their appearance was different from the black-haired and black-eyed humans in the cultivation world, but rather resembled the Celts that Li Qing knew in his previous life.

The leader was a tall, middle-aged man with his chest exposed.

The spiritual energy in his body was restless and violent, as if it could explode at any time. Judging from its strength, it was roughly equivalent to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

He was also holding a harpoon in his hand, which was shiny and had strange runes carved on it. It also had spiritual energy, which was equivalent to a magic weapon in the Qi Refining Period.

Behind him there was a tall young man, whose spiritual energy was cold and condensed, roughly equivalent to the first level of Qi Refining.

With the addition of the lettuce at the entrance of the village, the spiritual energy fluctuations throughout the entire village have now come together.

In contrast, Li Qing quickly discovered that the interaction between these two people and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was also poor, only slightly better than his own.

Only this lettuce is different. When absorbing spiritual energy, it can actually directly form a suction vortex, which is very agile.

The leading burly man was startled when he saw the rainy cloud behind Li Qing. He waved his hand and led the others to stop just three feet away.

He looked at Li Qing warily, speaking rapidly and loudly.

However, Li Qing had no idea what he was saying. He asked tentatively, "Do you understand Yuanhuang language? Where is this place?"

Emperor Yuan was a powerful person who ruled the world of cultivation in ancient times. One of his achievements was to unify writing and language so that practitioners and mortals from all continents could communicate freely.

However, the people in this village obviously could not understand Yuanhuang language. Seeing him speaking in a strange tone, many people showed vigilance and hostility in their eyes.

After several rounds of monologue, the two sides were almost on the verge of a fight.

Li Qing was helpless. He maintained the Cloud and Rain Technique with one hand and made finger gestures with the other hand. Two beams of light shot towards the two leaders.

The two were shocked and angry, spiritual energy surged in their bodies, and runes flashed on their originally smooth skin.

In the blink of an eye, one person was covered in orange-red flames, while the other was surrounded by blue-black ice crystals.

One of them raised a harpoon and thrust forward, while the other waved his fist to meet the clear light shot out by Li Qing.

But Li Qing's realm was much higher than theirs, and even if he was distracted by the Cloud and Rain Technique, he was still able to handle it with ease.

His mind moved, and his finger gestures changed slightly. Two clear lights spun around, avoiding the real and attacking the fake, and hit the two men's foreheads.

The leading man was struck by lightning, while the other young man screamed and fell to the ground. The flames and ice crystals around him also disappeared.

The other villagers behind the two men were horrified when they saw this, but they did not retreat. Instead, they raised their dung forks and hoes high in their hands, and protected the two men, shouting and cursing.

Li Qing naturally wouldn't bother with these mortals.

He flicked his long sleeves, his magic power surged, pushed the others aside, walked up to the big man, and asked, "Now, can you understand what I'm saying?"

(End of this chapter)