Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 871 Third-Tier Mid-Grade Mystic Frost Crystal Rice
Qin Yan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and felt the rich spiritual energy coursing through his body:

"This is already a fourth-grade high-quality spiritual vein. No wonder Senior Brother's cultivation has been able to break through so quickly."

The spiritual veins within the sect are of the fourth-grade lower level, and the concentration of spiritual energy here is in stark contrast to that here.

Ji An did not refute, "Junior Brother, sit down and talk."

Before his cultivation breakthrough, his spiritual veins hadn't improved yet. Back then, he relied entirely on various spiritual fruits to survive. The Bodhi Fruit and Vajra Bodhi Fruit didn't taste good; they made his lips numb after eating them, but he still ate them as food.

He was willing to endure anything as long as it would make him stronger.

After the two sat down for a moment, Ayun brought out some spiritual tea, which was a fourth-grade low-quality Cloud Peak Silver Needle.

"Prepare some wine and dishes. The wine should be good. Bring up two jars of Ling Shan wine."

After giving instructions to the puppet, Ji An then spoke to Qin Yan:

"Junior brother, try my fourth-grade mid-level spirit cedar wine. It has a unique flavor."

The wine is made from fermented Tier 3 low-grade Xuan Shuang Crystal Rice, combined with Tier 4 mid-grade Ling Shan tree seeds and Tier 3 high-grade Fei Ye Mulberry, resulting in a Tier 4 mid-grade wine.

Previously, the spirit wines were all fruit wines, but now that we have Tier 3 spirit rice, we have a new raw material.

"Last time I came here, I was fortunate enough to drink the fourth-grade low-quality spirit cedar wine. Now I can taste the mid-grade spirit wine. I envy my senior brother's life so much."

Qin Yan sighed inwardly. The other party was able to use very sophisticated planting techniques, had an extremely profound understanding of the power of the five elements, and even had a small world for his own cultivation. This was something that any cultivator would dream of.

When he received news from Lin Lan, he immediately realized that without the Gathering Yuan Tree, the Five Qi Pill would become a thing of the past in the sect.

The propagation of natural plants remains a mystery; trying to grow them by cuttings without seeds is simply wishful thinking.

The sect has developed extremely rapidly in recent years, but this has also resulted in a 'superficial realm' and an inability to meet the needs of Nascent Soul cultivators.

For example, he can only rely on the Five Qi Pill to increase the speed of refining spiritual energy. If he wants to obtain pills that can directly improve his cultivation, he can only rely on his own skills to exchange them with True Monarchs from other continents.

Ji An smiled and nodded without replying. Others only saw the magnificent world, but they did not see him casting spells on the spirit field day after day for hundreds of years, nor did they see how much Dao essence he had put into it, nor did they see how many Nascent Soul level cultivators and True Demons had their ashes buried here.

Ayun first served some of the prepared side dishes, such as honey osmanthus cake, musk-flavored beef jerky, salted peanuts, and two jars of spirit wine.

The honey osmanthus cake uses mid-grade fourth-level spirit cedar honey and Xuan Shuang crystal rice. Osmanthus is only a second-level spirit plant in the outside world, but here it is cultivated to a high-grade third-level plant. With such good ingredients, the taste is naturally extraordinary.

The beef is high-grade second-tier demon beast meat, while the peanuts are ordinary mortal peanuts that have been cultivated to a low-grade first-tier quality and can be used as a spiritual medicine.

The spirit wine is emerald green in color. If you pick up the glass and swirl it gently, you can see a shimmering dark red hue, which is evidence of the mulberry juice that has dissolved into it.

A gentle breeze blew by, and Ji An raised his glass, saying:

"Let's start with an aperitif, junior brother, drink it all."

"Senior brother please."

The two drank together, and Qin Yan quietly savored the rich aroma that exploded on his taste buds, the wine flowing smoothly down his throat, and a warm feeling spreading through his stomach.

He subtly circulated his internal energy to refine a small amount of the spiritual wine, and said:

"With this wine, I can endure even without any elixirs."

When enough fourth-grade spirit wine is consumed, the effect is the same as taking elixirs.

"Haha, the most important ingredient in the spirit wine is the seed of a mid-grade fourth-tier Azure Moon Purple Spirit Fir. It takes more than thirty years from flowering and seed formation to maturity, and then it needs ten years of recuperation before it can flower again."

Each spirit tree is as tall as the Red Cloud Pine, but only about a hundred catties of seeds are harvested, and each catty yields three to four ounces of wine.

Currently, I only have about four hundred mid-grade fourth-tier Azure Moon Purple Spirit Cedar trees here. After brewing, they need to be aged in cellars for at least ten years to develop their full flavor.

Ji An said with a smile that now that the quality of the spiritual veins in the small world has been improved, the total area has reached 1,000 mu, and the area of ​​each type of spiritual field has increased by 50 mu compared to before.

He further reduced the area of ​​Emerald Mulberry, and with the newly added land, planted more than 1,000 Jade Moon Purple Cedars on 70 acres of land.

His current strategy is to reduce the density of spiritual plants to make way for the accelerated upgrading of spiritual veins.

Having suffered enough from the low quality of spiritual veins hindering cultivation in previous years, this time I'd rather harvest fewer resources than let more spiritual energy remain in the soil.

Qin Yan smiled gently:
"The small world is thriving as a whole, and it will produce more and more resources in the future, which will not be a problem at all to support your cultivation, senior brother."

By the way, the Heavenly Water True Lord of the far north is very interested in the Lightning-Struck Azure Dragon Wood and keeps asking me if I can get a complete high-grade spirit wood.

He also said he was willing to exchange a fire-elemental spirit item that could be used to upgrade the grade of the Flame Banner, but I politely declined.

I wonder if you'd be interested in this deal? We could contact each other again in a few years.

The core of the Azure Dragon Wood accounts for about 30% of the value of the entire spiritual wood. True Monarch Tianshui needs to use the core to refine a secret treasure.

He didn't know if there were any high-grade fourth-tier spirit trees here, so he didn't agree immediately.

“I can’t produce a second high-grade lightning-struck Azure Dragon Wood right now. Let’s wait a few more years and see,” Ji An said with regret. The Daoist aura left on the stone tortoise was not much, and it was simply not enough to enhance another Azure Dragon Wood.

Ayun led the other puppets over, placed the cooked spiritual food on the table, poured wine for the two of them, and then stood behind Ji An.

The two continued to drink and chat, and soon the food and drinks on the table were gone.

Ji An stood up. "Junior brother, you must have expended a lot of energy flying all the way. You should meditate and rest. We will set off back to the sect at Chenshi tomorrow."

He could also hand over the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag to the other party to take back, and then send it back after the spirit treasure's grade is improved. However, the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag is an indispensable part of the defensive domain, and he was worried that the spirit treasure might encounter enemies while it was not with him.

The possibility is low, but if an accident happens, he could be in danger.

Putting aside other things, if that monk who had mastered the Divine Foot Technique were to launch a strong attack against him, without a defensive domain, he would only be able to protect himself with the Wuji Apricot Yellow Flag, which would restrict his movements during the battle.

"Senior brother, I won't stand on ceremony."

Qin Yan walked to the Gathering Yuan Tree, sat down cross-legged, and began to refine the spiritual food and wine.

Five-colored auspicious clouds rose from beneath Ji An's feet, and he flew to the center of the white spiritual field, landing near the Seven Luminaries Golden Branch.

This spiritual root of heaven and earth has now reached the middle grade of the fourth rank. It is already as thick as a water bucket, and its dark golden bark looks like it has been cast from metal.

It has seven branches, dark green, oval leaves with serrated edges, and white veins.

This spiritual plant does not flower, but it has already produced fruit. There are seven fruits on each branch, which are currently only the size of peanuts. The fruits on each branch are the same color.

The fruits on the seven branches are different colors, including green, red, yellow, white, black, silver, and gold.

According to records, spiritual fruits can grow up to the size of an egg. They will fall off automatically after ripening, and the ripening period can take anywhere from one hundred to one hundred and fifty years, depending on the grade of the spiritual vein into which they are planted.

Ji An sat cross-legged under the tree, his nascent soul activating the Xuanhuang merit energy above the Guanghan Palace, continuously merging it into the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag.

It has been proven that spiritual treasures refined with merit can be upgraded more quickly and save resources, so he is naturally willing to do so.

About two hours later, Lingbao could no longer absorb the merit, so he summoned it in its original form and held it in his hand.

The flag is dark black, with a lifelike Xuanwu embroidered in silver thread. With a gentle wave, it makes the sound of rushing water and the mist begins to spread, as if you are above a vast sea.

A moment later, Ji An stored the spiritual treasure in his dantian and sighed softly.

He felt that using only the Five Banners to build a defense system was a waste of resources, and that more methods should be developed.

His purpose in choosing to refine the Five Banners was to use the five spirit banners as nodes to evolve a Five Elements Grand Array, which could be used for both offense and defense.

Now his cultivation has become increasingly profound, and the grade of his spiritual treasures is also higher, but he still doesn't have many clues.

He flew on a cloud to the lakeside of the black spirit field. The ears of Xuan Shuang Crystal Rice drooped low. Each of these spirit plants now has about ten ears of rice, with thirty-five to forty grains in the main ear and about twenty grains in the smaller ears.

As the quality of the spiritual vein increases, the maturation time of the spiritual rice will be further shortened.

Moreover, some plants in the spirit field were noticeably half a foot taller than the others, and the spiritual light they emitted was warmer and more lustrous. These were spirit rice that had broken through the limits and reached the middle grade of the third rank.

Based on experience in cultivating Pearl Blood Rice, these Mystic Frost Crystal Rice can be cultivated relatively smoothly to the third-tier superior level, and eventually to the third-tier supreme level.

Ji An believed that Xuan Shuang Crystal Rice had a better foundation, and with the help of the Gathering Yuan Tree and Qingdi Hua Tu, it was possible for it to be cultivated into fourth-order spirit rice.

He set aside several acres of spirit fields specifically for cultivating spirit rice, continuing to cultivate it indefinitely to see if a miracle would occur after hundreds or thousands of updates and iterations.

Logically speaking, yes, anything is possible given the unique environment of the gourd world, and he was looking forward to it.

The following day at dawn, Ji An and his companion left the small world and exited the Xuanwu Armor Formation.

The night was still deep, and a crescent moon hung faintly in the sky like a blurry shadow.

Five-colored auspicious clouds rose from beneath his feet, and Ji An took the lead and flew away, using only three-tenths of his strength.

Qin Yan followed closely behind, using nine-tenths of his strength to barely keep up.

As the sun set behind the distant mountains and the stars began to twinkle, the two finally returned to the sect's protective array.

"Now I understand the benefits of having many magical treasures. You can maintain high-speed flight indefinitely, but unfortunately, not everyone has that kind of confidence."

Qin Yan's magical power was almost exhausted. If it weren't for the peace in Xizhou and the fact that he was with his senior brother, he would never have survived until he was completely exhausted.

Many people's primordial fire is not strong enough, and even if they refine multiple spiritual treasures, they cannot nurture so many at once.

During their journey together, he managed to glimpse a portion of his senior brother's hidden strength.

"Junior brother, you can try the Body Tempering Technique, which can significantly enhance the strength of your Yuanming Fire. Anyone who tries it will know."

(End of this chapter)