The abandoned cannon fodder girl's path to immortality

Chapter 8: Black Bugs Appear in the Field
After resting in the wooden house at the spiritual field for half an hour, Chen Jinshu practiced the "Eternal Youth Secret" several times. The spiritual energy was purified by the birthmark on his forehead, and finally the spiritual energy in his body was restored a little.

Although the spiritual vein grade of Lingjiu Mountain is much lower than that of Ningyu Mountain where her family is located, fortunately she is now practicing at the core of the spiritual vein, and her practice speed is much faster than the speed of absorbing spiritual energy at the foot of the family mountain.

After her spiritual energy had recovered a lot, she came to the spiritual field again and began to use the spirit-containing technique on the spirit seed, so that the spirit seed could absorb the spiritual energy faster and become saturated, so that it could break out of the shell.

In a blink of an eye, another half hour passed, and Chen Jinshu finally finished all the matters concerning the three acres of spiritual fields.

Looking at the fruits of her labor, she smiled with satisfaction, then left the spiritual field and closed the formation again.

The formation is designed to prevent spiritual insects from flying in to eat, and also to prevent some unscrupulous cultivators from attacking the spiritual fields.

"Jinshu girl! Are you sowing seeds today?"

The spiritual farmer from the spiritual field next door asked Chen Jinshu kindly when he saw him coming out of the spiritual field.

"Yes, Uncle Yongnian!"

Chen Jinshu nodded.

A few days ago, when she came to the spiritual field to check on the condition of the spiritual field and practice spiritual rain techniques, she happened to run into her uncle Chen Yongnian who was harvesting spiritual herbs in the spiritual field next door.

Chen Yongnian has been planting crops in Lingjiu Mountain for more than ten years and has already acquired good skills. When he learned that Chen Jinshu was preparing to plow the soil and sow seeds, he told her many planting techniques.

This allowed Chen Jinshu to learn the essentials of sowing and tilling the soil in just three days.

"It's better to sow the seeds early! It's the end of winter now. Lingjiu Mountain is mild all day long, regardless of winter or summer, so you can plant them anytime." Chen Yongan narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke to Chen Jinshu enthusiastically.

Years of exposure to the sun have given his originally yellowish skin more wrinkles, making him look like an ordinary farmer.

"Thank you, Uncle Yong'an, for your guidance these past few days! Jinshu is deeply grateful!"

After hearing this, Chen Jinshu thanked the old man with wrinkles on his face slightly.

"You're welcome. Seeing you reminds me of our daughter. It's a pity that she got married so early."

"Is it also a family marriage?"

"Yes! It's just that she was unlucky and married into a side branch of the Foundation Establishment family. However, the family reward she received will allow her to go further on her path of cultivation."

After hearing this, Chen Jinshu chatted for a few minutes and then said goodbye and left.

Marriage may be an opportunity for many female cultivators in the family to change their fate, but she believes in herself more.

……

After returning to the Plum Blossom Courtyard, she began to practice the golden needle technique on the flowers and plants in the courtyard.

"Swish!" A stream of golden light like a thin needle quickly pierced towards a thick weed.

The weeds broke with a sound, but the golden needle remained as powerful as ever, piercing quickly into the wall and leaving a tiny hole.

If you look closely, you can see that the wall is covered with densely packed tiny pinholes, numbering up to thousands.

"It's quite powerful! There's nothing wrong with using it against the enemy!"

She had been practicing this golden needle technique since she got it, and initially received guidance from her second uncle, but after coming to Lingjiu Mountain, she practiced it alone.

At this point, one has already reached the entry level, and the distance to proficiency is limited by the level of cultivation.

Because she was only at the second level of Qi training, she was limited in the number of times she could perform the golden needle technique, so her progress was much slower.

The Spirit Rain Technique is just the entry-level technique, and can be activated up to six times when the spiritual energy in the Dantian is complete.

Then she cast the rejuvenation spell on the broken weeds.

The broken rhizomes began to heal slowly, visible to the naked eye.

She didn't stop until the spiritual energy in her dantian was completely exhausted.

Every time she performed a spell and then practiced, the spiritual power accumulated in her dantian would increase a little, and her cultivation would improve a lot.

Then she returned to her room, swallowed the Lingyuan Pill, and began to practice the "Eternal Green Art" in an orderly manner.

The Lingyuan Pill that had just been swallowed began to transform into white spiritual energy and was slowly drawn by the lotus petal birthmark on the forehead.

At the same time, the spiritual energy underground was also drawn by the technique, turning into a trickle of water flowing into her body.

After a moment, the lotus petal birthmark began to emit pure and unadulterated spiritual power along her meridians, slowly converging towards her dantian.

She repeated this process for three hours, and finally the Lingyuan Pill she had taken was absorbed. Her Qi training level 2, which had been somewhat fragile, also became stable.

“There’s still some distance to the third floor!”

One Lingyuan Pill was only enough for the lotus petal birthmark to absorb for three hours. She took one pill every three or four days, and now she only had seven pills left.

"I have to learn alchemy as soon as possible." Then she took out the low-grade alchemy skills she had exchanged, which only contained three recipes: the Bigu Pill, the Lingyuan Pill, and the Rejuvenation Pill.

The first thing she learned was the preparation, process, and techniques of alchemy. Only by thoroughly studying these basic things could she be methodical when making the alchemy.

The preparations for alchemy are nothing more than elixirs, alchemy furnace, charcoal, and alchemy bottle.

The elixir bottle is used to preserve the medicinal properties of the elixir when it is taken out of the furnace. Many alchemists often skip this step, resulting in the loss of some medicinal properties of the elixir.

The process is to light the fire to prepare the furnace, control the temperature, add the medicine, adjust the fire to refine the medicine into liquid, quench the liquid to remove impurities, condense the liquid into pill, lock the qi into the pill, and prepare the pill.

The technique is also a key step. It is necessary to control the temperature of the flame, add the elixir in time, condense the pill in time, lock the qi, etc.

For a beginner like Chen Jinshu, the technique is undoubtedly the most difficult, so she is still practicing the fire control technique.

I saw a faint flame burning on a piece of spiritual charcoal in front of her. Under her control, the flame quickly grew and shrank, but the range of change was still pitifully small.

……

Five days later, Chen Jinshu went to the spiritual field as usual to check the germination of the spiritual seeds.

According to Uncle Yong'an, it is sufficient to check once every three to five days during the new bud period, and the spiritual rain should fall at intervals to prevent the spiritual field from having too much moisture.

As soon as she opened the formation and looked up, she saw a tiny green tooth tip emerging from the originally dark brown spiritual land.

“It actually sprouted!”

Her face was filled with delight and she couldn't help but move closer to observe the tender shoots.

The fastest growing one is the magnolia flower, which matures every six months. It has already sprouted a network of tiny thumb-sized leaves, and the wood spirit rice has also sprouted needle-like leaves.

She raised her hand and a golden rain of spiritual rain fell.

Three more days passed.

Chen Jinshu came to the spiritual field as usual to check the growth of the spiritual plants.

I discovered that the tender buds that were originally full of vitality were now filled with a faint aura of death.

"Black bug?"

She took a closer look and discovered that there were a large number of tiny black insects on the surface of the tender leaves of the golden vine flower.

It was still wriggling and gnawing at the leaves. The leaves, which were originally half the size of a palm, were now full of holes.

She checked the Mu Ling rice and found the same thing, except that there were not as many as the Golden Vine Flowers.

These black bugs look strange, similar to caterpillars, but their whole body is black and they have a hard black shell on the surface.

She immediately asked her uncle Yong'an next door for help to check.

"This is a black frost pig worm! The black velvet on its body is slightly poisonous! It hasn't appeared on Vulture Peak in many years. If we don't get rid of it in time, I'm afraid it will eat all the tender sprouts of spiritual plants."

Chen Yongan said this with a serious face, and couldn't help feeling sorry. He thought these three acres of spiritual medicine were well cultivated, but he didn't expect them to be plagued by insects.

Although he spoke very obscurely, Chen Jinshu still heard some twists and turns.

It’s just that someone planted insect eggs in her spiritual field.

But she had only been in Vulture Peak for a few days. The only people she had dealt with were Uncle Yong'an and the steward, Uncle San. She had met the other Ling farmers, but they had no interaction at all.

Moreover, she would close the formation in time every time after checking the spiritual field. How did this person place the insect eggs in her spiritual field?

"Thank you, Uncle Yong'an! I wonder what this black frost pig worm is afraid of?" Chen Jinshu asked with a serious expression.

"You can't use fireballs. You can only use powerful, small attacks."

After Chen Yongan finished speaking, Chen Jinshu didn't want to keep him, so he let him leave.

Then she began to check the condition of these black frost pig worms.

It was found that the number of golden vine flowers near the entrance was the largest, and the number of magnolia flowers in the third acre was the least, with only a few.

Soon she discovered tiny insect eggs in the soil, white and smaller than rice grains.

After some searching, she discovered the source of the insect eggs, which was at the edge of the formation.

The formation was surrounded by insect eggs. Once she opened the formation, the wind would carry the insect eggs into the spiritual field, or she would bring them in accidentally.

"What a sinister intention! This trick is too insidious. The white eggs are so tiny that they are impossible to detect with the naked eye."

Then she began to cast fireball spells along the edge of the formation to burn the insect eggs.

(End of this chapter)