Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 15: Spiritual Farmer's Exclusive Spells
Gu Mo listened to the other party's story quietly, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. Although the preferential treatment mentioned by the other party did not include any substantial rewards of cultivation resources, it did provide the standards for outer disciples.

As long as he joins the Spiritual Planting Hall and passes the assessment, Gu Mo can enjoy the same benefits of renting spiritual fields as the outer disciples. After ordinary menial disciples join the Spiritual Planting Hall, they will be assigned to the outer disciples of the Spiritual Planting Hall to manage the spiritual fields.

To give an easy-to-understand example, let's compare Qinglu Sect to a large company, Lingzhi Hall to a department of this company, and the outer disciples to the middle-level leaders of this department, who are responsible for a large piece of spiritual fields and in charge of important matters concerning the spiritual fields.

However, it is impossible for outer disciples to do the daily management of Lingtian themselves, as they also need to practice. Therefore, menial disciples are needed to take action at this time. These menial disciples are the company's low-level employees.

If the employees under them are capable, then the small leaders above them can naturally have an easier time. However, all Lingzhitang got were some unwanted rubbish employees. This made the outer disciples of Lingzhitang feel very helpless. They could only spend more time managing the spiritual fields themselves, which greatly affected their practice.

For this reason, some outer disciples took the initiative to apply to reduce the number of spiritual fields they managed in order to reduce the burden, but those vacant spiritual fields could not be abandoned, so there was this benefit of allowing menial disciples who took the initiative to join the Spiritual Planting Hall to rent spiritual fields.

After renting the spiritual field, you only need to pay rent every year, and the remaining income will belong to the tenant. The Spiritual Planting Church will not ask what is planted on the spiritual field.

Ordinary menial disciples worked under outer disciples and received at most a meager salary each year.

Of course, if you want to get this benefit, you need to pass an assessment to prove that the menial disciple who rents the spiritual field can indeed manage the spiritual field well before renting it. Otherwise, renting the spiritual field to someone who knows nothing about it would be a waste of the spiritual field.

"Let's go, we'll tell you the details on the way!"

Seeing the joy on Gu Mo's face, Mai Yunfa felt relieved. However, in order to avoid any further complications, Mai Yunfa planned to take Gu Mo to Lingzhi Hall first.

In this way, he has finally completed this year's recruitment task. Think about it, he had no results in the past few years, but this year he finally recruited one. Now, Deacon Zhao can't deduct his task reward anymore.

Mai Yunfa took Gu Mo out of the Personnel Hall, then he summoned a magic sword, made some magic gestures, and the magic sword grew bigger.

"Come up."

Mai Yunfa stepped onto the magic sword and waved at Gu Mo.

Gu Mo looked at the magic sword with some envy. This was a standard magic weapon made by Qi Feng. With the sword-controlling technique, he could control the magic sword in battle, and he could also use it as a means of transportation in normal times.

Unfortunately, it is still difficult for Gu Mo to get a magic sword now. Although this thing is a standard magic weapon made by Qifeng, it is not cheap. In addition, if you want to play with the magic sword, you must also learn the sword control technique.

"go!"

When Gu Mo stepped onto the magic sword, Mai Yunfa made a hand gesture, and suddenly, the magic sword flew into the air and rushed towards the distance.

"This speed is comparable to that of high-speed rail."

Gu Mo looked at the scenery below that was constantly receding. From the initial nervousness, he was now able to face it calmly, and he even compared it in his mind with the high-speed rail he had taken before.

The fact that it can carry people and fly so smoothly and quickly is enough to show that Senior Brother Mai Yunfa is very proficient in the art of controlling the sword.

After about a quarter of an hour, a valley appeared in front of Gu Mo, with endless rice fields in the valley.

"I'll take you to see Deacon Zhao."

Mai Yunfa brought Gu Mo to the building complex on one side of the valley, where the Lingzhi Hall was located.

Hearing that he was going to be taken to see the deacon of the Spiritual Planting Hall, Gu Mo's heart tightened slightly. To be a deacon of a hall, one must at least be a cultivator at the foundation-building level. Facing someone who was one major realm higher than him, Gu Mo was a little worried that his situation would be discovered. A menial disciple actually had three times the spiritual power and physique of a cultivator of the same period. Isn't this obviously strange?

If anything unusual is really discovered, then Gu Mo can only reveal some unimportant cards. As long as the most important sunflower is not exposed, exposing other cards should not be a big problem, and he may even get some benefits.

While he was thinking, Mai Yunfa had already brought Gu Mo to the Deacon Hall. Seeing this, Gu Mo controlled the flow rate of the spiritual power in his body to weaken the fluctuation of the spiritual power.

This was a very crude method of concealing one's cultivation that he had seen in the library. It couldn't even be considered a method, but it was better than nothing and could at least have some effect.

"Gu Mo, that's great."

Zhao Qiancheng, who looked middle-aged, simply glanced at Gu Mo and gave him a few words of encouragement. He didn't care much about a menial disciple. If it were normal times, it would be impossible for him, a deacon, to meet with a menial disciple.

But the times are different now. It is rare to find someone willing to join Lingzhi Church. Zhao Qiancheng naturally wants to meet him and express Lingzhi Church’s attitude.

Anyway, for these free things, you can give as much as you can.

"Yunfa must have already told you about the benefits of joining my Lingzhitang. As long as you can learn a spell exclusive to spiritual farmers, you will pass the assessment." After praising Gu Mo for a few words, Zhao Qiancheng took out a booklet and handed it to Gu Mo.

He took the booklet respectfully, and then Gu Mo followed Mai Yunfa to leave. The moment he stepped out of the Deacon Hall, Gu Mo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as he had successfully passed this level.

"Junior brother Gu Mo, you will stay here for the time being. If you have any questions about your cultivation, you can go to the Dharma Hall, where senior spiritual farmers will give lectures." After arranging accommodation for Gu Mo, Mai Yunfa left in a hurry. His task of recruiting people was not over yet, and he needed to go there as soon as possible. It would be a sin if he missed people while he was away.

"Thank you, Brother Mai!" Gu Mo bowed to Mai Yunfa who was walking away.

Afterwards, Gu Mo turned his gaze to the residence in front of him. Compared with the residence of menial disciples, the living conditions here were obviously much better. It even had a yard, and the house was guarded by a formation.

When in seclusion, you only need to activate the formation to avoid being disturbed, but activating the formation requires spiritual stones, and Gu Mo joins the Spiritual Planting Hall and gets nothing but an assessment opportunity and a booklet. I wonder if other peaks are also so stingy.

After complaining, Gu Mo entered the house and took out the booklet he got from Deacon Zhao. He was still in the Qi Refining Stage and had not yet been able to condense his spiritual consciousness, so he could not use the jade slips that could be read quickly. He could only slowly flip through it himself.

There are a total of 5 first-level spells recorded in the booklet. These 1 spells are all prepared for spiritual farmers, namely the Gold-type Small Gengjin Sword Qi, the Wood-type Small Rejuvenation Technique, the Water-type Small Cloud and Rain Technique, the Fire-type Small Flame Wave, and the Earth-type Small Earth Dragon Technique.

There are 5 spells, including gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and each spell has a corresponding effect. Gengjin Sword Qi is an attacking spell used to eliminate insect pests and rodent infestations.

The insects and mice that can appear in the spiritual fields are not ordinary creatures. Mortals and ordinary weapons cannot kill these spiritual insects and mice. Only cultivators, and cultivators who have mastered the powerful Gengjin Sword Qi, can do so. At the same time, in order to avoid accidentally hurting the spiritual plants in the spiritual fields, the Gengjin Sword Qi is a single spell with concentrated power.

If you unfortunately injure a spiritual plant by mistake, you can use the Wood Element's Minor Rejuvenation Technique to heal it. This Minor Rejuvenation Technique can not only heal spiritual plants, but can also be used to heal injured monks.

The most commonly used spell in the daily management of spiritual fields is the water-based small cloud rain spell, which is a spell that can summon spiritual rain. Only spiritual plants watered with spiritual rain can thrive.

As for the last two spells of fire and earth, they are used before planting and after harvesting the spiritual field. The small fire wave is a range-type fire spell that can burn insect eggs hidden in the spiritual field or the straw left by the spiritual rice to increase the fertility of the spiritual field.

The Small Earth Dragon Technique is a summoning spell that can summon a big earthworm to plow the land.

After reading the introduction of these spells, Gu Mo immediately had a general impression of the immortal version of farming, but why were these spells preceded by the word "small"? Could there be upgraded spells like the Great Gengjin Sword Qi and the Great Rejuvenation Technique?

(End of this chapter)