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

Chapter 8 Planting Spiritual Vegetables and Learning Spiritual Cooking

Hearing Li Wei knocking on the door, Li Qing looked at A Sun hesitantly, but ultimately did not retract it back into his dantian.

"Girl, come in." He casually opened the restriction of the cave.

Soon, Li Wei walked through the front yard of the cave as if she were familiar with the place and came to the spiritual medicine garden in the backyard.

Seeing the lettuce, cordyceps, and several other common crops planted on the spiritual energy nodes, she couldn't help but be stunned: "Sixth Uncle, what are you doing?"

Li Qing made an excuse: "It seems that I have no hope of building a foundation. Alchemy has reached its limit, so I want to switch to spiritual cooking..."

Not to mention that after the failure of the first attack on the foundation-building, the cultivator's foundation will be damaged and his character will be frustrated. The danger of the second attack on the foundation-building will be several times higher.

Just based on the rule that "if you don't enter the foundation-building stage by the age of sixty, there will be no hope for the rest of your life", even if Li Qing saved up resources for another twenty years to exchange for a foundation-building pill, it would be of no avail.

After all, the last time a person in his seventies successfully built a foundation in the Great Zhou Kingdom was more than three hundred years ago. It was even cited as a strange story and a good omen.

From the outside world's perspective, how could Li Qing, an ordinary alchemist, have such an opportunity?
Li Wei's eyes turned red when she heard this: "Everyone in this family is talking about Uncle Zhe's foundation building. But if you also have a genuine foundation building pill, maybe now..."

After all, people are divided into close and distant relatives. Compared with the distant uncle whom she had only met a few times, she certainly felt more sorry for her own great-uncle.

Li Qing smiled and waved his hands: "Don't say anything that is not conducive to unity. It is always a happy thing for a family to have a foundation-building cultivator in charge."

It's not that he is really calm and indifferent. It's just that a great opportunity has come to him. He has already made plans for the second impact on the foundation building, but he just doesn't want to say more.

The two chatted for a few more sentences before Li Wei took out several different types of lettuce from the storage bag.

The Li family is just a Qi-refining family, and no one can live on wind and dew without food. Compared to the bland fasting pills, most cultivators are still used to eating food containing spiritual energy.

"I went around the shops and only found a low-grade spiritual plant lettuce of the first rank. However, I saw three or four common varieties at a mortal market outside the valley..."

In the ancient times, Emperor Yuan ruled the country and defined the realm of cultivation, dividing those below the immortals into six levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Dan Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, and Return to Void.

Spiritual plants, elixirs, talismans, magical instruments and other spiritual resources were also divided into six levels, and then divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower according to their quality.

The first-grade inferior spiritual plant corresponds to the first three levels of the Qi Refining Period.

Li Wei did a good job and planted several types of lettuce with roots and soil around the lettuce and cordyceps under Li Qing's command.

Seeing the new variety of lettuce, Asun, who had already tasted the sweetness, jumped onto the first-grade inferior spiritual plant with a bounce, ready to absorb the essence of it.

"Ah! Why are there bugs in the spiritual medicine garden?" Li Wei was startled and quickly reached out to catch them.

Li Qing smiled and stopped him: "This is my new spiritual insect. It likes lettuce by nature. These are planted for it."

"Is that so?" Li Wei nodded, and said, "This little guy looks quite cute."

She didn't think about the plant spirits. After all, this thing was too rare. In the whole Great Zhou Kingdom, it was estimated that only a few major forces such as Tanyuan Fairy City and Yanling Valley had it.

"Besides, whose plant spirit would grow into the appearance of a natural enemy insect?" Li Qing muttered in his heart, "Everyone is trying their best to anthropomorphize..."

Afterwards, Li Qing tested Li Wei's progress in practice.

Like Li Qing, Li Wei also has a middle-grade wood spirit root and practices the Qingmu Jue. However, she does not have a fire spirit root to assist her, so she is not suitable for learning alchemy and can only follow the path of a spirit plant master. The Spring Breeze Technique, the Cloud and Rain Technique, the Spring Thunder Technique, the Soil Loosening Technique, the Light Illumination Technique...

After Li Wei performed a series of Qi Refining cultivation spells, the ordinary crops in the spiritual medicine garden naturally benefited a lot.

The few spiritual plants that were there also benefited to some extent from the nourishment of magic.

"Well, that's good. Your spellcasting level has improved again. It seems that you didn't slack off during the time I was in seclusion." Li Qing nodded slightly in affirmation.

He looked Li Wei up and down, and thought for a moment: "I see that your body is full of mana, and you will be promoted to the fourth level of Qi Refining in the near future."

"Go back to the Examination Hall and help me post a task to collect different types of lettuce, then come to my place for retreat."

Li Wei was delighted when she heard this: "Really? Then I'll go home first and make some preparations."

"Well, go ahead. By the way, say hello to your grandfather for me." Li Qing gave her a few instructions and watched her leave the cave.

"Ah!" After absorbing the essence of the first-grade low-grade spiritual plant lettuce, Asun lay dizzy on the leaves. He seemed to be not good at drinking, but he forced himself to drink a large jar of Shaodaozi liquor.

Li Qing picked it up and put it back on the Cordyceps: "You deserve it! Who told you to be greedy? Didn't you know to start with ordinary lettuce?"

Ah Sun shook his head and wagged his tail, his silly joy transmitted to Li Qing through the spiritual contract between the two parties: “Aaaaaaah!”

"Okay, now that you've received the benefits, it's time to get to work!" Li Qing flicked his fingers and knocked it down.

"Aiya!" Asun rolled over happily, his whole body emitting green light, which resonated with the spiritual energy of the lettuce and cordyceps below.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual medicine garden was inspired and slowly flowed towards the lettuce, and then along some magical trajectory, began to nourish the different types of lettuce around it.

This is the difference between the spirit insects and the plant spirits in the cultivation world. The spirit insects can only nourish plants of the same kind, while the plant spirits have a beneficial effect on all kinds of plants.

Li Qing swept his spiritual sense and found that the ordinary lettuces benefited greatly, but the first-grade inferior spiritual plant lettuce was better than nothing.

"According to Rick, the abilities of the elf bugs are limited. Only when they evolve into elves can they grow witch medicine. It seems to be true."

As he was thinking, another bell rang outside the cave.

Li Qing opened the restriction of the cave and found that it was a message sent by clan leader Li Hui, asking him to go to the ancestral hall to discuss matters in the evening.

"It seems that I can't refuse the position of the fourth elder." Li Qing pondered in his heart, "I just don't know which part will be assigned to me to manage."

The family has four ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators. The clan leader Li Hui is in charge of the overall situation, the first elder Li Yao is in charge of the Qinghe Market, the second elder Li Fang is in charge of the family's food warehouse, and the third elder Li Ye is responsible for the distribution of spiritual veins and caves.

There are only a few positions that hold real power. Li Qing estimated that the only position allocated to him is the figurehead of the position of elder who transmits skills.

After all, the Li family doesn’t have any extraordinary skills, so they need special elders to protect the inheritance.

On the contrary, Li Qing's ability in growing spiritual plants and refining elixirs was outstanding among those in the Qi Refining Period. Teaching them to the young disciples of the family was a match made in heaven.

Thank you [Xiu Buyu] for the 300-point reward, and thank you all for your collection, reading, recommendation and monthly ticket support.

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