The Legend of Fangren

Fang Shi had been in the mountains for several days.

For the past few days, aside from eating and sleeping, he has spent most of his time searching for spiritual objects.

There are many kinds of spiritual creatures, hundreds of which are described in the book alone. However, Fang Shi's profound energy is dormant, so others cannot sense him, and he cannot sense others. The same is true for the profound energy of spiritual creatures.

Therefore, he could only distinguish them by taste and smell.

However, these countless spirits were hidden by the omnipresent forests, and many of them hid among the grass and trees, appearing extremely small.

"This isn't a solution."

After several days of searching, Fang Shi became increasingly certain that the Sky Tree was indeed a weed in this Mystic Realm.

If it's a weed, then it's just like any other weed, easily stealing nutrients and taking up space.

Every time he finished clearing a grove of trees, he would find a few thin and short spiritual plants in the ground.

How could Fang Shi bear to decompose it? Let alone decompose it into fruit, even if he cooked and ate the entire spiritual plant, it would only take two or three bites, which would be completely useless.

Moreover, besides the fruit, many of the spirit plants contain toxins, and eating them can cause stomach upset... These are lessons learned the hard way over the past few days.

If it weren't for the principle of mutual generation of the five elements, which would allow one to find something nearby to neutralize the poison, this self-proclaimed hermit of the mountains and fields would probably already be a corpse scattered in the mountains and fields.

After much deliberation, I realized that such destructive harvesting was not a solution.

Now there is only one plan: farming.

Of course blocky people can farm! Everyone knows how to farm, right? Surely there aren't any blocky people who can't farm.

With careful observation, the spirit plant will surely flourish.

Back at their hideout, Fang Shi carried the dark red spiritual plant into the cave and, comparing it with the spiritual plant illustrations in the cultivation manual, confirmed the variety of the plant.

Treasures of the heavens and earth, all things that grow on the ground are treasures of the earth. This spiritual plant has thick roots and short stems, leaves that are broad and thick in the middle and pointed at the end, with fine veins like blood vessels, and is dark red all over. It is called: Fire Heart Grass.

According to the book, Fireheart Grass is a spiritual plant of the Fire element, and it has three stages of fruit production. The quality of the fruit in each subsequent stage is better, and the third stage of Fireheart Grass can even reach the second tier.

However, this spiritual herb has extremely high nutrient requirements, and the yield of its first harvest is limited, so it has not been cultivated on a large scale.

In fact, it's not just spiritual plants. Based on what Fang Shi has seen and heard over the years, he has discovered that agriculture and animal husbandry are not well-developed in the Xuan Realm. Only large families have the manpower and financial resources to manage them, but even then, it's not a large number.

Ordinary people mainly rely on gathering and hunting, and everything thrives because of the active material energy in the Xuan Realm.

Based on the evaluation of the world in the novels of the previous life, the Five Elements Mystic Realm is undoubtedly a world with extremely high energy.

Closer to home.

If others can't afford to farm, how could other places not be able to afford it?

In just the past two days, he has decomposed countless Sky Trees and obtained countless Sky Tree Fruits. Even after deducting the portion he eats every day, the rest is still enough to fill the cave behind him. For this reason, he specially opened a warehouse inside to store Sky Tree Fruits.

As for storing the celery fruit, he dries it into dried fruit before storing it.

This also corresponds to the principle of the Five Elements: the Azure Fruit belongs to Wood, and after it is picked, it belongs to Yin and dies, hence it belongs to Yin Wood. Since Yin Wood is dead, it should not generate each other. However, there is water in the fruit, and water governs transformation. It transforms stillness into movement, and death into life. Therefore, water generates wood, which causes Yin Wood to generate Yin Fire. Fire governs dispersion, and Yin Fire governs decay and rot.

Sun-drying fruit allows the moisture inside to be transformed into mist by the sun, preventing water from generating wood and wood from generating fire. Since wood is inherently yin in nature, and yin governs condensation and stability, this yin nature allows the fruit to be preserved for a long time.

This also shows that the fruit of the fire heart grass is difficult to preserve, because it is considered to be in a state of yin fire when picked, and it rots extremely quickly.

But are these problems for Fang Shi? Not at all!

Following the principle of wood generating fire, the Fireheart Grass has as much nutrition as you need. Look how pitifully you were bullied by those Sky Trees. Today, I'll stand up for you!

Fang Shi said this to Huoxincao.

When you're alone for a long time, you start talking nonsense about things.

However... it's clear that something went wrong on the way Fang Shi brought the Fireheart Grass back, causing the Fireheart Grass, which had been separated from the soil, to almost wither.

Not only the fruit, but the fire heart grass itself rots rapidly after being removed from the soil.

Startled, he quickly dug a hole and buried it in the soil in front of the cave. He then quickly took out the freshly picked celestial fruit, crushed it into pieces and mixed it into the soil, and poured some water out of his water bag.

Before long, the soil around the withered roots of the fire heart grass was filled with rotten fruit. The midday sun was still shining overhead, and there were no longer a bunch of giant trees to block the sunlight. All the nutrients within a radius of more than ten meters were enjoyed by the grass alone.

Fireheart Grass: I've never been this rich in my entire life.

Things in the Xuan Realm are like this: as long as you have enough resources, even grass can grow into a tree.

Only seven days later.

Fang Shi, who had just woken up, stepped out of the cave and stared at the Fireheart Tree, which was several heads taller than him... He fell into deep thought.

It can't really be called a tree, but this plant is growing so vigorously that one or two bracts protrude from the base of its broad leaves on its straight main stem.

"Is this the Fire Heart Fruit?" Fang Shishi stepped forward to examine it closely.

Several buds were already extremely swollen, threatening to burst through the outer skin. Through the cracks, one could see the glistening flesh inside, like rubies, which was extremely tempting.

Fang Shi's mouth watered at the sight, but he had to resist.

Who made the taste of fire bitter? This fresh fire-elemental treasure fruit must be extremely bitter.

The thought of having to eat this during cultivation makes one feel... ugh~

Furthermore, the fact that the Fire Heart Fruit is not suitable for storage is also a problem. It's not that you can just leave it unpicked. The mutual generation of the five elements is a principle of the mystical world. When the fruit is fully ripe, it will eventually fall to the ground and turn into soil. Moreover, the fire element fruit will ripen even faster, and may even start to rot while still on the branch.

This made Fang Shi so anxious that he scratched his head in frustration.

"What can we do? What can we do...?"

The spiritual fruit cannot be consumed directly; it must be used in conjunction with complementary substances. He had accidentally discovered this principle when he consumed the green and red Sky Fruits at Panyun Tower.

Wait, fire generates earth... I've got it!

Fire tastes bitter, while earth, its source, tastes sweet. The two should be eaten together. There is indeed a reason for everything in the universe.

Where does the soil come from? It comes from fire.

Who says that spirit creatures can only eat natural food? Can't they be processed?

He wants to make jam with fire heart fruit...

It should be noted that the most common phenomenon of Yin Fire is decay, but decay is disintegration, while disintegration is not necessarily decay. In essence, it is a reaction of disintegrating itself. Therefore, when a ripe fire heart fruit is picked, its outer skin is peeled off, it is crushed and placed in a clean container, allowing it to undergo its own disintegration reaction to produce sap. After sedimentation, it turns into crushed fruit pulp mud, and mud becomes soil, thus obtaining the sweet taste of earth.

"Slurp~"

Fang Shiguang swallowed a mouthful of saliva just imagining the sweet taste.

I'm such a genius! This not only means my cultivation has hope, but it also means I have a backup plan for the future.

The natural resources of the Xuan Realm are too abundant, and the sense of taste is unrestricted, which leads to the people here having very simple methods of food preparation. This is because people naturally believe that higher levels make ingredients taste better, rather than better processing methods.

The delicacies in the Xuan Realm are all numerically superior in terms of taste, so naturally they don't bother to study many techniques.

Recalling the dishes in the kitchen, the processing of ingredients was extremely simple. Even though many spiritual vegetables with a small amount of mystical energy could be cooked simply and tasted good, Fang Shi, who carried a lot of fancy food memories from his previous life, still felt very sorry.

So many delicious foods were discovered by people in the past who endured countless famines and hardships. How could they be allowed to be buried here?

He, Fang Shi, refused.