Cultivation begins with harvest.

Back home, I continued with my own arrangements.

After five days, Chen Guang finally completed the formation of the illusory flower tree.

As magic power was injected, the scattered divination objects placed in the field were illuminated, emitting a grayish-white light. The moment they were all illuminated, a heavy, grayish-white mist appeared, converging towards the center until it was compressed into a thick, dark cloud that felt as heavy as a rock before being released and gradually spread out under the constraint of the array's power.

"This formation really consumes a lot of mana; it takes about five pots of mana to cover an area of ​​one acre."

It consumes too much magic power, requiring Chen Guang to activate it twice separately. The resulting dark clouds need to be replenished every six hours under bright sunlight. At night, let alone lasting for dozens of hours, they have little effect on the Void Flower Tree.

This is actually the effect of using an array to evolve the Cloud-Drawing Technique, but it's more complex. The Cloud-Drawing Technique can only create dark clouds, but this array can control the humidity and temperature of the air to a desired level, while creating a thin insulating layer to reduce the influence of other spiritual objects on the Void Flower Tree.

It can be considered a combination of cloud-drawing techniques and spiritual energy arrays.

The only drawback is that the effect is limited at this stage, and the Wind-Catching Lamp is needed. The main function of this formation is to create clouds and isolate them. If too much emphasis is placed on temperature and humidity control, the duration of the dark clouds will be greatly reduced. This function is actually reserved for the Wind-Catching Lamp. By leaving such a window, the operation of the Wind-Catching Lamp will not affect the rotation of the dark cloud formation.

Chen Guang was very satisfied with this achievement.

The making of the Wind-Catching Cup takes time, and during this time, some preparations also need to be made for the Three-Smoke Rice.

It is necessary to start building a brick wall three feet underground at the edge of the Three Rice Field using [Ice Stone]. On the inner side of the brick wall, plant a [Green Oak] every ten feet or so. The aura of this spiritual plant will change with the Ice Stone, forming a blue airflow wall. This gas is highly poisonous to most ferocious insects, enough to trap all kinds of ferocious insects within the Three Rice Field spiritual field.

There will definitely be some that slip through the net. Some resilient and vicious insects, and even some that have become poisonous insects, have a certain probability of getting through, whether inside or outside. That is the job of Chen Guang and the Thousand Needle Wren.

When planting Three-Smoke Rice, it is necessary to frequently sprinkle spirit charcoal, fresh Hehe Fruit, dried yellow wormwood, and dried monster dung mixed in a certain proportion and ground into fine powder, which is then evenly sprinkled on the surface of the spirit soil. If it is a paddy field, it needs to be filled from the water surface to the ground, so that the gap in the middle does not exceed one-fifth.

In the reward information, you can also add dried [Purple Water Sunflower] seeds and cracked tungsten powder. Adding Purple Water Sunflower will curb the number of ferocious insects and increase the number of ears of Three-Smoked Rice. Adding Cracked Tungsten will make the ferocious insects more aggressive but also tougher, and more likely to be injured but not killed, resulting in better quality Three-Smoked Rice.

Three-smoked rice will attract and breed a large number of ferocious insects. The more fiercely these insects fight, the lower the yield of three-smoked rice, but the better the quality. The bodily fluids and scents that seep out when the insects fight, and the growth after the damage to the three-smoked rice is healed, are exactly what the three-smoked rice needs. If you simply bleed it without fighting, the effect will be mediocre.

The investment in the three types of rice is also considerable. The two kinds of spiritual materials used to construct the poison gas wall would require approximately 4,400 grains of rice, and the six kinds of spiritual materials used to lay on the spiritual soil would require more than 1,200 grains of rice.

For other spirit farmers with insufficient funds, the construction of the poison gas wall can be done in a less efficient manner. Using medicinal powder made primarily of oak and ice stone is just as effective and can kill many insect eggs and ferocious insects. With the poison gas wall, it is easier to raise gu and improve the quality of the three-smoke rice.

Of the six spiritual items that follow, only monster excrement and the Hehe Fruit that stimulates mating are needed. This effort is for the purpose of increasing production.

Only someone like Chen Guang, who wants both quality and quantity, would choose to max out both.

Many spiritual plants are like this. You just need to keep them alive. As spiritual plants, not many are fragile. Even Jade Heart Grass, if you leave it alone and sow 120 seeds a year, it can grow into 30 or 40 plants by the end of the year. But if you want to grow a qualified Jade Heart Grass without any damage, then you need to invest in it and take care of it.

The purpose of the Spirit Farmer is to make more rational use of the Spirit Soil resources in order to improve both yield and quality.

Chen Guang soon encountered some difficulties.

One problem was that the three-foot-deep trench used to pile up the ice stones was too deep. Other soils were one thing, but the purple spirit soil was so hardened at this depth that it was ridiculously compacted. Chen Guang was going to ask Lu Da to help him deal with it first. As a spirit farmer, he had no other way to deal with spirit soil except for the earth qi spell. He was really unworthy of his status.

Then there's the cracked tungsten among the six spiritual creatures. You can only buy the powder instead of crushing it yourself, which is time-consuming and laborious. If the Thousand Needle Wren grows up, you can borrow its golden beak.

Without hesitation, Chen Guang went to invite Lu Da to help.

It had been a long time since I'd seen them. The spiritual plants growing in the Free Spiritual Field in front of Lu Daxian's door were no longer ordinary spiritual plants and vegetables, but some other spiritual plants that were presentable.

This means the other party actually sold snakes and actually made a sale.

Upon hearing Chen Guang's request, Lu Daxian immediately took the two demon snakes to work. He dug out sufficiently sized ditches along the edge of the one-acre spirit field, which only required a payment of fifty grains of rice. It would have taken Chen Guang two or three hours to wield the spirit hoe, but Lu Daxian only took half an hour.

He even took the opportunity to promote his snake business to Chen Guang, and his attitude was quite natural after Chen Guang refused.

After seeing Lu Daxian off, Chen Guang guessed that Lu Daxian's younger brother had probably really discovered a place where demon snakes gathered that was not very dangerous and rarely visited by other cultivators.

Everyone has their own unique opportunities.

Whether big or small, there will always be some.

After letting his thoughts wander for a while, Chen Guangcai began to process the various spiritual items he had bought from the market.

Light blue stones of varying shapes and sizes, resembling an old man's image, were placed in the ditch. Chen Guang personally rearranged their positions, and along the dug ditch, a stone wall was eventually built, rising half a foot above the field ridge.

This is the Ice Old Man Stone.

Ice Old Man Stone is quite interesting. The smaller the stone, the more worried the old man's lines on it will look. Conversely, the old man's lines will look cheerful. It can interact with various spiritual objects to produce some unique effects. As the interaction between spiritual objects weakens, the old man's lines will gradually become gloomy and dejected. Because Ice Old Man Stone is mostly used to assist in monitoring.

The Biguoqi is a spiritual plant with very limited uses; it just has a tall canopy, so Chen Guang simply planted them at appropriate intervals.

After three days of work, the poison gas wall and the spreading of the six kinds of spiritual powder were finally completed. Then, the three-smoke rice seeds with a layer of dry, rice-white hard shell were scattered in the spiritual field.

This is what makes Three-Smoked Rice special. It doesn't need to be planted in a very regular way. Although that would be possible and easier to manage, Chen Guang's approach is different. Maintaining such a chaotic planting pattern for Three-Smoked Rice is conducive to the breeding of ferocious insects, so he maintains the chaotic planting pattern. After getting used to the orderly spiritual fields, it's nice to plant spiritual plants in such a chaotic pattern once or twice.

After the three rice grains were scattered, Sun Zhongqing also asked someone to send over all the Wind-Catching Lamps. They were shaped like old-fashioned glass oil lamps, with an empty space inside where the captured moist and cold water vapor would condense into ice.

As Chen Guang had expected, they were all Void Arrays, which would take a long time to refine.