Hybrid Spiritual Plant Cultivation

Chapter 148 Live a Good Life
It was a rare occasion that the master was not fishing, but teaching his disciples.

After all, a new batch of disciples have been accepted. Although most of them are just cattle and horses, they still need to be trained before they can take up their posts.

Under the scorching sun, on the widest platform in the cave.

A group of disciples fought against the straw man respectively.

The little straw man has an understanding of the five elements and can switch between the five attributes of gold, wood, water, fire and earth freely. When he is at the wood attribute, he turns into a martial arts master, cutting in flexibly and delivering ferocious elbow strikes. When he is at the fire attribute, he turns into a turret and bombards indiscriminately.

Chen Jing slowed down when he saw this familiar scene.

It was like returning to the days when I was training with Hua Qingxia, and it felt particularly familiar.

In addition to him, there were some bored monks watching and pointing, holding spiritual fruit watermelons in their hands and eating them sweetly.

"Master."

"You're here? It's a good opportunity to come and see if any of the disciples are performing well."

"It's all... okay. After all, it's only less than seven days."

"Ok?"

Taoist Yun Ting, who was drinking tea, immediately put down his teacup and said, "Seven days? I have been practicing for more than two months."

"what?"

This time it was Chen Jing who was surprised.

He hurriedly asked, "Don't we have to pass the test of the little straw man in seven days?"

"Who told you seven days? It'll take three months."

Taoist Yun Ting shook his head.

Chen Jing was stunned.

A wave of sadness welled up in my heart.

You're so good, Hua Qingxia. You gambled with the straw man and gave him only seven days. You also said that all disciples of the Qingnang Sect would have this test and could pass it.

"The world is in decline."

Chen Jing was immersed in the sadness of being fooled by a fool.

Who says honest people don't lie? They are just more likely to be deceived. It's a different matter...

Taoist Yun Ting said, "You don't come to me for no reason. Tell me what you need from me. I'm an old man."

"Master, I just came to see you, but I just happened to have something to ask you."

Chen Jing took the opportunity to tell the story of the beehive.

After listening to this, the master looked reminiscent.

"A beehive is a good thing. When I traveled to the Central Plains, I rented a beehive to stay. At that time, the rift had not yet expanded and the price was relatively cheap. A micro beehive only required 10,000 spirit stones per month. It was a great savings to be able to make an elixir on weekdays. However, I could not collect the essence of the sun and the moon, and I had to work day and night... What do you think of this beehive?"

“I think it’s great too. Every space is used very efficiently.”

"That's it. Good stuff like this will spread everywhere sooner or later. How can our Qingnang Sect avoid it? Since you can get in touch with the Yunzhou Wei family, try your best to negotiate. Although the sect's terms are still stuck, they can be opened up to you appropriately. You can use this as a condition to negotiate the best result."

Taoist Yun Ting said it lightly.

But he was deeply moved by the support expressed between the lines.

After all, he had never encountered such a thing in his life. This was the first time that the policy was changed and opened up specifically for him.

"What's so difficult about the beehive technique? I see that our houses all have spirit gathering arrays, so why can't we build a beehive cave?"

Chen Jing was curious.

"When you have time, don't stay in the fields all day. Go listen to the lectures on formations. Formations are the same as spells, and are also divided into grades one to six. They are not difficult. Above that is the 'Tao'. Only celestial beings can understand its subtleties, and only those in the transcendent realm can fully understand its principles. That beehive is a first-grade formation of Taoism."

Although Master’s explanation was not detailed.

It's just an analogy to magic.

But Chen Jing could feel the huge gap between them.

Just like a sixth-grade spell that can call the wind and rain, there are more than ten prerequisite spells. A sixth-grade spell requires two or three prerequisite fifth-grade spells, and each fifth-grade spell requires various prerequisite fourth-grade spells.

The sixth-grade spells alone were already so complex, not to mention the Taoist spells above that. Taoist spells were composed of more spells and were no longer limited to spells of their own type. The complexity of these spells was beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators.

The sixth-grade spell is to call the wind and rain.

The seventh-grade Taoist magic was the eroding spiritual rain that covered most of Suizhou and lasted for more than half a year with no end in sight.

It was like a natural disaster, unpredictable and difficult to resist.

This level of Taoist magic was condensed in a tiny honeycomb cave. No wonder Taoist Yun Ting had no extra thoughts. The technological gap was too huge.

"Master, there must be some unimportant corners in the beehive cave. How about replacing these unimportant places with our people?"

Chen Jing thought for a moment and asked.

"Why so?"

"Every bit counts. We don't need to build a towering building all at once. As long as we can make our building one level higher, it's good enough."

"You are not like a farmer. You know the road ahead is difficult, but you still want to climb up step by step."

Taoist Yun Ting stared at Chen Jing intently, as if he saw his younger self.

But he also knew that even when he was young, he did not have such ambition.

I have seen the world and learned a lot.

But the sense of one's own insignificance is also more profound.

No matter what I do, it seems meaningless. The gap is like a chasm, making it impossible to even think about catching up.

"It's not crawling, Master, please don't slander me..."

Chen Jing has no awareness of this at all.

Did I climb up? No, not at all. I just wanted the floor to be softer when I lay down.

Just make life a little better.

"Go, go. I am annoyed with you now. Please do not bother me... Wait a minute, go to the Sutra Library. There is an unnamed jade tube in the miscellaneous notes on the fourth floor. It records some of my experiences while traveling around the nine provinces. Take it and read the one about beehives."

And just like that, Chen Jing was driven away.

Taoist Yun Ting was still in a bad mood. He thought that he must have seen a lot of young people recently, so he felt old.

and so……

His gaze turned to the new disciples who were fighting bravely with the grass people.

"Just now, your fifth senior brother Chen Jing came over and told me that he was very dissatisfied with your performance. You are simply unworthy of being trained. Now, I will give you seven days. If you cannot defeat the Five Elements Straw Man within these seven days..."

Taoist Yun Ting casually pinched out a new straw man.

The new straw man was covered in electric light and crackling sounds, giving off a terrifying aura of power.

"After seven days, we will fight the Thunder Straw Man!"

Taoist Yun Ting looked at his disciples who were standing there with despair on their faces, and he suddenly felt relieved.

"Why are you just standing there? It counts as time!"

"Ahhh!"

The new disciples who were reminded cried out, and continued to get up and fight with the five elements straw men in front of them.

"Senior Brother Chen is not a human being!"

“I thought he was a good man…”

"I came to Juetian Peak just because of Senior Brother Chen Jing. I was wrong, wrong!"

on the contrary.

They were the old disciples who were watching the show nearby.

The part that old disciples love most is watching new disciples being beaten up by straw men after they join the sect.

Seeing that "Chen Jing increased the difficulty", he was overjoyed and felt that the fun this year was particularly good and very satisfying.

(End of this chapter)