Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 6: Giving Up Cultivation
The new use of the sun essence discovered by Gu Mo is that it can be used to dispel the black fog in the black fog space. Although each portion of sun essence can only dispel a small part of the black fog, this discovery still makes Gu Mo very excited.

He obtained this sunflower from the black fog space. If he dispels the black fog, can he find more sunflowers?
One sunflower allows Gu Mo to have the cultivation speed of a low-grade spiritual root cultivator. If he has two sunflowers, his cultivation speed is close to that of a medium-grade spiritual root cultivator. If he has five sunflowers, his cultivation speed is comparable to that of a high-grade spiritual root cultivator.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Gu Mo's heart was filled with excitement. He wished he could immediately use all the sun essence he harvested every day to dispel the black fog. However, the reality told Gu Mo that the top priority now was to improve his cultivation.

Only when he enters the Qi Refining Stage and becomes a spiritual farmer can he use the spiritual fields to grow sunflowers. Now, planting sunflowers in pots is only a temporary measure.

Gu Mo could feel the spiritual energy in the basin being consumed bit by bit. Once the spiritual energy in the basin was completely consumed, the sunflowers lacking spiritual energy would no longer be able to continue to condense the essence of the sun.

Fortunately, after becoming a formal menial disciple, the sect gave him three more spirit stones, so Gu Mo could still hold on for a while, but he had to enter the Qi Refining Stage before the spirit stones were used up.

After checking the time, Gu Mo set out to the cafeteria private room where he had been last time. When he arrived, Yao Shifeng and the other three had already arrived. At this moment, the four of them were discussing something.

"Gu Mo, which peak are you planning to go to?" Yao Shifeng asked when he saw Gu Mo appear.

As menial disciples, they will eventually go to various peaks to do hard labor, but they still have some choice as to which peak to go to.

"Lingzhi Hall!"

Gu Mo did not hesitate. The spiritual fields of Qinglu Sect were all managed by the Lingzhi Hall. If Gu Mo wanted to be a spiritual farmer, he naturally had to go to the Lingzhi Hall.

Gu Mo's answer made the four of them stunned. Among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, the most popular ones are elixir, instruments, formations and talismans. Therefore, these four peaks are the most popular choices. If for no other reason, they just want to learn some skills in these four peaks, so that they can have a foundation for themselves.

Yao Shifeng and other three people chose these four peaks. Hu Hai chose Dan Peak, Wu Jinfei chose Qi Peak, Chu Feifei chose Zhen Peak, and Yao Shifeng chose Fu Peak.

The spiritual church that Gu Mo chose was definitely the least popular one. After all, what future could a spiritual farmer have?

"If we go to different peaks, wouldn't we be able to complement each other better?" Gu Mo said with a smile after knowing the four people's choices.

"Too!"

Yao Shifeng nodded without saying much. Gu Mo was originally dragged here by him to make up the numbers, and he was just running out of time to complete the process of drawing Qi into his body. This aptitude was among the worst among the inferior spiritual roots. Now he had chosen a spiritual farmer with no future, which meant that Gu Mo could only provide him with limited help in the future.

If it were someone else, Yao Shifeng might have tried to persuade them, but as for Gu Mo, Lingnong might be his best choice. With his qualifications, no one would want him if he went to the popular peaks.

After the discussion about where to go, the next thing was the most important exchange on cultivation. Wu Jinfei immediately talked about the difficulties he encountered in cultivation this week, and Yao Shifeng explained with the help of his acquired cultivation experience. Afterwards, Hu Hai and Chu Feifei also raised questions.

Yao Shifeng answered all the questions, but Gu Mo did not ask any questions because he had not encountered any difficulties so far. It was really because the Sun Essence was so powerful.

The problems encountered by Wu Jinfei and the other two were basically about how to open up the meridians and complete the small circulation. To successfully open up the meridians it all depends on the amount of spiritual power and the control of the spiritual power.

The amount of spiritual power is determined by the spiritual energy refined by the cultivator every day. Gu Mo directly absorbs the essence of the sun without refining it, and one portion of solar essence is equal to two days of hard practice. This is comparable to the spiritual energy accumulation speed of cultivators with lower spiritual roots, which is by no means comparable to the four people present.

As for the control of spiritual power, because the spiritual energy transformed from the essence of the sun is extremely pure, it is also very smooth to control. This also means that as long as Gu Mo accumulates enough spiritual power, he can directly pass through a small cycle and enter the first level of Qi Refining without any bottlenecks during the process.

Although there were no questions, Gu Mo still listened carefully to Yao Shifeng's answers. During the period, Gu Mo also found that Yao Shifeng gave the most detailed answers to Wu Jinfei's questions, because he was the best qualified among the five people except Yao Shifeng.

With good qualifications, Yao Shifeng will naturally invest more so that he can gain more in the future. If it is someone like Gu Mo, even if Gu Mo did not raise a question during the period, Yao Shifeng would not take the initiative to ask.

As for giving Gu Mo the cold shoulder, that naturally wouldn't happen. The unity of a small group is still very important, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to actively exclude Gu Mo.

As the sky gradually darkened, today's meeting ended and everyone agreed to meet again in a week.

"Gu Mo, do you really want to go to Lingzhi Church? There is no future there." When Gu Mo was about to go back, a voice called him.

"Of course!"

Gu Mo turned to Hu Hai who called him and said with a smile, "I'll bring you some spiritual rice then."

"it is good!"

Seeing Gu Mo's firm attitude, Hu Hai stopped persuading him. He nodded and turned to leave.

Back in the cabin, Gu Mo took out the sunflower from the black fog space, but unfortunately it was already late, and today's supply of sun essence was missing for another day.

But the sunflowers were of such importance that Gu Mo did not dare to leave them behind and go away alone.

Without the essence of the sun, Gu Mo could only practice on his own. The shortcomings of his inferior spiritual roots were revealed and his practice speed was too slow.

Finally, Gu Mo stopped practicing. If he didn't have the sunflower, then Gu Mo could only bite the bullet and continue practicing. But with the sunflower, Gu Mo's practice speed was comparable to that of a cultivator with lower-grade spiritual roots.

He could completely give up the inefficient part of his practice and replace all of his practice with the essence of the sun. Although not practicing would mean halving his practice speed, from his original practice speed of three times the original speed of his own practice plus twice the speed of the sun's essence, it would become twice the speed of the sun's essence alone.

Although the cultivation speed was reduced by half, Gu Mo gained a lot of time. He had to practice hard for 8 hours to get half of the essence of the sun. It would be better to use this time to practice other things, such as spells. As a cultivator, it is impossible to practice only, and you also need to master some spells.

The other menial disciples are now practicing with all their might in order to enter the Qi Refining Stage as soon as possible. The practice of spells and the like can only be put aside for later. Gu Mo, who has freed up time, can practice spells in advance without delaying his practice. One portion of sun essence is equivalent to two days of hard practice. Such a speed of practice is still faster than those menial disciples with inferior spiritual roots.

Thinking of this, Gu Mo didn't care about the darkening sky and went straight to the library. There were many small spells of low level in the library, which were very suitable for Gu Mo to learn as he had not yet entered the Qi Refining stage.

"It's you!"

His eyes quickly swept over several low-level small spell books, and Gu Mo quickly locked onto one. He picked up the spell book and began to study it carefully.

(End of this chapter)