Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 3 Chicken Coop Lv1

Ordinary semi-spirit fish are valued in terms of broken spirit stones, but Ji Yuan spent 5 low-grade spirit stones on these five semi-spirit fish.

There's no other reason than that he only buys "high-end goods".

Once they evolve into spirit fish, their value is always 15 spirit stones or more.

Cheap fish are evolutionary, expensive fish are also evolutionary, and this [fishpond] doesn't have any weakling bias, so naturally you have to pick the good ones to raise.

Three green-yellow chickens would be even more expensive, costing him a full five spirit stones.

After all, this green-yellow chicken itself is imbued with some spiritual energy, and its flesh and blood are not only highly nourishing, but it can also lay spiritual eggs.

Although the chances of producing a spirit egg are rather low.

It's estimated that one egg is produced every three days, and only about one out of ten eggs will be a viable egg.

However, once born, one spirit egg is worth five spirit fragments, and two spirit eggs are worth one low-grade spirit stone.

If they produce a lot, these green and yellow chickens can quickly recoup their costs... That's what the rogue cultivator who sells the chickens said.

He said that to everyone, but Ji Yuan took it seriously.

If he hadn't been short of spirit stones, he would have bought a few more. After all, chance is only relevant to other people.

For him... his chances are 100%.

Because the green-yellow chickens he raises can lay a spirit egg every day!

After releasing all the fish into the fishpond, Ji Yuan then pieced together a simple chicken coop from wooden planks in the backyard. As soon as it was assembled and three green and yellow chickens were put inside, a line of words appeared on the coop.

[Chicken Coop: lv0]

Upgrading the chicken coop requires two low-grade spirit stones, and Ji Yuan happens to have two left.

He also had 50 jin of rice left over at home.

Before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage and practicing abstaining from grains, even cultivators at the peak of Qi Refining need to eat grains, but most of them will take abstaining pills.

Ji Yuan looked at the two low-grade spirit stones he had left in his hand. All 18 of them had been used up in less than half a day.

Spirit stones are truly fleeting.

Ji Yuan shook his head, and with a thought, chose to upgrade the [Chicken Coop].

He watched helplessly as the spirit stone in his hand turned to dust, and the number after the chicken coop changed from 0 to 1. The upgrade conditions and effects of the level 2 chicken coop popped up on his panel.

[Chicken Coop Lv2]

[Spiritual Effect: Claws develop spiritual patterns, can excavate trace amounts of spiritual soil (1 qian per day), and can briefly control spiritual birds]

[Upgrade Requirements: 50 low-grade spirit stones, chicken coop made of century-old paulownia wood (not yet achieved)]

Ji Yuan's eyes lit up as he looked at the text on the panel.

This level 2 chicken coop actually yielded spiritual soil!

This complements the [Spirit Field] perfectly. If there were a Spirit Field made of pure spirit soil, plus the effect of the panel, Ji Yuan couldn't even imagine how good the effect would be.

Moreover, this brief control over the spirit bird is not a technique unique to the Beast Taming Sect...

When that time comes, we'll have to raise a chicken of spirit beast level, so it can act as a guard in critical moments.

However, Ji Yuan felt some pressure looking at the huge amount of spirit stones required to upgrade the chicken coop.

There's no other way but to take it slowly.

After finishing the chicken coop and fishpond, it got dark. He ate the little rice he had left at home and then lay down to rest.

As soon as he lay down, he couldn't help but think about his future path.

Currently, I am at the second level of Qi Refining. I was born with the four spiritual roots of metal, wood, water, and fire. In this world of cultivation, those with four or five spiritual roots are called pseudo-spiritual roots.

That's not a big deal, because all the fishermen in Zengtou City have pseudo-spiritual roots.

Some "gifted children" with all five elements are still diligently cultivating, while Ji Yuan has already mastered all four spiritual roots.

As for those true seeds of cultivation with second or third spiritual roots, they were taken away by the Water Dragon Sect long ago and nurtured as the backbone of the sect.

Such a heaven-defying thing as a single spiritual root has never appeared in Zengtou City before.

The cultivation method that Ji Yuan is currently practicing is the "Azure Sea Tide Cultivation Technique," which is commonplace in Zengtou City.

Water-based martial arts techniques sound incredibly powerful, but their actual effects are rather mediocre.

The only special effect is that cultivators who practice this technique experience a longer-lasting flow of spiritual energy compared to those who practice other techniques... and this is also a characteristic of all water-based techniques.

In the city of Zengtou, which cultivator doesn't practice the "Azure Sea Tide Technique"?

When the special becomes the universal, it ceases to be special.

The spells he knew were pitifully few; he was only proficient in the most basic water ball spell, and even the slightly more complex water arrow spell was unreliable.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Whenever the original owner had a little free time, he had to think about how to get spirit stones and how to go into the water. He simply didn't have that much time to hone his spells.

Of course, the main reason is that their cultivation level is too low.

With the cultivation level of the second stage of Qi Refining, a single Water Arrow Technique would deplete the spiritual energy in one's dantian.

It will take another half day to recover.

The heavy burden of the Immortal Abode Fee left the independent cultivators in the market with no time to think about such things.

Now it's all good. With level 1 [chicken coop] and [fish pond] available, there's no need to venture into the water anymore. We can just focus on training.

The next morning.

As soon as Ji Yuan got up, he went to the backyard. In the fishpond, there were still the same five and a half spirit fish. It makes sense, since no one advances every day.

The panel also says it's only a certain probability, but who knows what that certain probability is?

On the contrary, in the chicken coop, after Ji Yuan chased the three hens out, he saw three spirit eggs emitting a faint white light.

He quickly took it out, sprinkled some rice on the green-yellow chicken, and hurriedly went into the house.

Having obtained the spirit egg, he naturally had to seize the opportunity while it was still hot. He quickly cracked one open, poured the spiritual liquid inside into his mouth, and as soon as he felt the pure spiritual energy, he immediately activated the "Azure Sea Tide Technique".

The cultivation technique was activated, absorbing the spiritual energy provided by the spirit egg and channeling it into the dantian along the meridians.

After a while, Ji Yuan finished absorbing the essence and felt a few extra strands of spiritual energy in his dantian, which surprised him.

The effect of this spirit egg was greater than he had expected!

With three spirit eggs, one's cultivation level can probably break through to the third level of Qi Refining!

Ji Yuan dared not delay, absorbing one spirit egg after another until all three spirit eggs were absorbed. His dantian had more than a dozen strands of spiritual energy, but he still felt that he was still missing a little bit.

He had originally planned to absorb the free spiritual energy of heaven and earth himself, but then he didn't know when that would be possible.

But his gaze suddenly fell on the three spirit eggshells... Before long, Ji Yuan swallowed the spirit eggshells, which had been ground into powder.

In the end, it transformed into a thin layer of spiritual energy that dissipated within its body.

Ji Yuan's gaseous spiritual energy in his dantian reached its limit, as if breaking through some kind of shackle, and his aura finally became slightly stronger.

Qi Refining Level 3, achieved!

Ji Yuan exhaled a breath of stale air, and felt that many of the hidden injuries in his body were dispelled.

He then spent another half day stabilizing his cultivation, and only after he had completely settled into the third level of Qi Refining did he get up.

With this level of cultivation, although he is still unremarkable in Zengtou City, he can at least keep up with the main group.

Among the cultivators in Zengtou City, the highest level of cultivation is the third level of Qi Refining. After all, if they want to break through to the next level, they will need to reach the middle stage of Qi Refining, which requires a lot of spiritual energy. With the aptitude of a pseudo-spiritual root, they can only rely on spirit stones to break through.

But on ordinary days, the spirit stones aren't even enough to pay the rent, so where would they get so many spirit stones to break through their cultivation level?

Not to mention clothing, food, housing, and transportation—spirit stones are needed everywhere.

The original owner didn't understand much, but now, judging from Ji Yuan's perspective, the Immortal Abode Fee is a means used by the Water Dragon Sect to control the surrounding markets of Yunyuze.

Fortunately, these things are no longer relevant to Ji Yuan. With the panel, he can basically achieve small-scale self-sufficiency.

After achieving a breakthrough in his cultivation, he began honing his water arrow technique in the backyard.

The Water Ball spell is not very useful; it can't even kill a spirit fish. The truly reliable one is the Water Arrow spell.

As evening approached, Ji Yuan, who had been diligently cultivating all day, was about to take a break when someone knocked on his courtyard gate.

He got up and went to open the door; it was Old Huang from next door who was knocking.

Upon seeing Ji Yuan, he asked with a cheerful smile:

"Hey kid, do you want a wife?"

(End of this chapter)