Cultivation begins with harvest.

Several days later, inside the ice mist array.

A thousand-needle flew nimbly, parting the white mist and landing precisely on the trunk of an ice pine. Its tiny claws peeled away the jagged, cracked bark of the ice pine, and it accurately found a blue-blooded mosquito with a bright blue abdomen and transparent wings, about the size of a little finger. With a gentle peck, it tore the mosquito in two and swallowed it.

The eyes of this thousand-needle are shrouded in a layer of mist. With these cloud-like eyes, it can see the changes in wind caused by activities within a certain range. Blue-blooded mosquitoes actually exist in the soil and in the seedlings of ice pine. Many insect eggs are like this, spreading their offspring everywhere. Under normal circumstances, they may never hatch in their lifetime. In a suitable environment, they will slowly hatch.

When the blue-blooded mosquito eggs hatch, the larvae crawl into the crevices of the bark of the pine tree to obtain the necessary nutrients and slowly grow into adulthood.

They are not completely still; as long as they move, the blue-blooded mosquitoes have no other means of hiding their activity, and will naturally be discovered by the thousand-needle wren.

Currently, only the third brother can find and capture these blue-blooded mosquitoes.

The third brother was the first to comprehend the cloud magic, and his eyes were the first to undergo some special changes. His spirit beast artifact, "Cloud Eyes," began to show its unique characteristics.

The second son's golden beak was exceptionally sharp and hard.

Only the youngest one has become increasingly inactive lately, spending most of its time in a daze. Even when it is occasionally awake, its eyes reveal deep exhaustion. It is too lazy to call out to or communicate with it, and it takes a long time for it to respond.

"They're probably about to collapse."

The second and third ones are in great condition. If they can continue to do so until they comprehend all the innate spells and awaken the spirit beast artifact, it would be quite an achievement to have five eggs and two birds in one litter on the first attempt.

Now the two have a clear division of labor. The second brother takes the initiative and has mastered the Golden Flight Technique, so none of the targeted ferocious insects can escape. He is very active in the Three Rice Spirit Field.

The third one is active within the ice mist array. The first one it mastered was the Cloud Might Technique, a kind of magic that is born from the environment. The spiritual energy of the digested spiritual objects will dissipate into the environment in the form of clouds. Living in a fixed area for a long time will gradually make that area rich in spirituality. Over time, if there are enough of them and enough time, some special spiritual places will emerge.

Besides the usual reproduction and protection by demonic beasts, wild spiritual plants are not uncommon; some spiritual plants only have a living space because of certain demonic beasts.

Similar spells include [Fire Blood Spell] and [Rock Heart Spell]. Monsters and spirit beasts with these spells are good partners on the farming path. When the Thousand Needle Wren matures, it will no longer live in the bird's nest, but will live on the Dingzhen Tea Tree. Even its droppings are more valuable than ordinary monster droppings, as they replenish the cloud energy attribute needed by the Dingzhen Tea Tree.

Therefore, the third brother is not strong in combat, but has excellent reconnaissance ability. It is still entrusted with the important task of finding the blue-blooded mosquitoes from the ice pine. Its efficiency in hunting ferocious insects is not comparable to that of the second brother. It still needs to be fed black beetles every day to be full.

When he had free time, he would take the two little ones to the spirit field of the Fiery Heart Grass for a stroll, which greatly reduced Chen Guang's burden. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. After only two days, the second son began to close his eyes and rest again. With each breath, a thin golden mist seeped out of his body and then condensed back in. This was a sign that he was beginning to comprehend the Thousand Needle Technique.

In the days that followed, the third brother also developed a layer of mist covering his body.

The task of controlling the Three-Smoke Rice, the Fierce Heart Grass, and the Ice-Smoked Pine Spirit Insects has returned to Chen Guang's hands. Fortunately, his weapon manipulation skills have made great progress. With a flash of the Fire Needle, the ferocious insects can be killed. Otherwise, Chen Guang would really be unable to take care of the three acres of spirit fields.

The cold orchid in the ice mist array wasn't as useful as I had imagined.

The first thing the Blue Blood Mosquito did after leaving Binglusong was to absorb the sap of the spiritual plants. Only when it was full and wanted to rest would it be unable to resist the attraction of the Cold Fragrance Orchid. It can't be said that it was useless, but it can be said that when Chen Guang discovered the Blue Blood Mosquito in the Cold Fragrance Orchid, he had already suffered a loss.

While the third brother was beginning to comprehend his second spell, the fourth brother finally couldn't bear it any longer. One night, Chen Guang, who had just finished inspecting the Spirit Field of the Fiery Heart Grass, suddenly sensed something and discovered that the fourth brother had died. He had never been able to comprehend a complete spell before his death, which was a great pity. All he could do was bury him in the Spirit Field.

Spring passes and autumn comes.

The first to mature was still the Spirit Rice, with 809 plants reaching maturity and a total of 1971 strands of Pure Spirit Qi being harvested. The quality of the superior and excellent varieties was significantly improved compared to previous years. It was only 21 strands short of being able to synthesize three complete strands of Pure Spirit Qi. Chen Guang couldn't bear to do that, so he prepared to dry the rice and then go buy a few dozen strands to make up the difference.

This harvest of spirit rice has broken a new barrier, with two more sections of the Purple Spirit Earth Root harvested.

The cumulative harvest of Spirit Rice has reached 7,000 for the third stage; and the cumulative harvest of Purple Spirit Soil has reached 9823, which will be completed this autumn.

The two third-stage rewards are exciting to think about.

After that, the Heart-Piercing Grass matures, and the harvest from Heart-Piercing Grass alone is enough to break through this limit.

The two third stages were only approaching each other, but the accumulation of spiritual plant masters finally reached ten thousand harvests, allowing Chen Guang to receive the spiritual plant master skill reward once again.

『收穫灵植奖励达成10000/10000（不包含劣品），获得特殊职业【灵植师（入室）】，继续收穫灵植奖励27/1 000 000解锁下一阶段（不包含一阶、出色以下品质）。』

The Spirit Plant Master's proficiency has increased, and a new skill, "The Birth of the Jianmu Tree (Volume 1)," has been acquired.

【The Way of Jianmu】Introduces a spiritual plant of a grade no higher than your own cultivation level into your body. At different levels of nurturing, you will obtain different nurturing effects. Depending on the spiritual plant, you need to release it periodically to absorb enough nutrients in order to continue nurturing. When you do not get enough nutrients, the nurturing effect between the spiritual plant and the host will be difficult to take effect. Once you choose it, you can only replace the spiritual plant when you have a deeper understanding of the Way of Jianmu.

Lin Miao nurtures a water-attribute spiritual plant, which, depending on the plant's characteristics and grade, gains the ability to heal itself and take damage for its host.

<Kuyan> requires at least 'Mastery' in the cultivation of Jianmu before it can be nurtured. It will continuously accumulate age-related medicinal properties based on the characteristics and grade of the spiritual plant. It can be released at will when needed, and will yield more age-related medicinal properties when used on fire-attribute spiritual plants.

<Existing in the middle volume>

<Existing in the middle volume>

<Existing in Volume 2>

<Existing in Volume 2>

Chen Guang was first surprised, then suspicious. How could the reward be given in separate parts? This time, he was only given one volume?

But even just from seeing the contents of the first volume, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the corners of my mouth turned up in a wide smile.

The first nurturing level, Lin Miao, is essentially a guarantee. For Chen Guang, there is always a concern when going out on adventures, which is the issue of safety.

It seems like it's not worth taking risks if you can steadily improve by staying put.

However, for the Water Spirit Root to evolve into Yellow Thorn, it still needs to capture Wood Juice to improve its aptitude. There is no clue about this in the market. It is too unrealistic to sit in the market and wait for it to fall from the sky.

Spiritual plants that enhance aptitude are extremely rare because they are so important. Simply waiting passively could take an unknown amount of time. Even if Chen Guang had the help of the reward light cluster and a small chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, what would happen after that?

Even those cultivators with exceptional talent have never given up on exploring opportunities in this area.

The more one cultivates, the more pronounced the effects become. The assistance from the reward light cluster is unparalleled, but some opportunities still require one to go out and seek them out on one's own.

The rampant water hyacinth has become a root cause of the problem. Although I will soon have to give up on the Linquan pumpkin, I still need to find a way to deal with it. How should I deal with it?

The spiritual plant of exceptional quality that I desire, now there is a way to improve the Jade Heart Grass through the Fire Beard Cave. Should I give it a try?

……

You can avoid taking unnecessary and dangerous risks, but you can't just sit around and live off your savings.

Putting aside other things, the next stage of rewards for Spirit Plant Masters is imminent, requiring an astonishing one million in harvests. Moreover, the characteristic of not calculating the rewards for Tier 1 and below is that collecting seeds only in the market is ultimately too slow and too passive.

It is foreseeable that as one receives more and more rewards from the reward orb, the threshold for obtaining further rewards will also become higher and higher. At a certain level, the assistance from the reward orb may become a pie hanging in front of one's eyes, visible but difficult to obtain.

The rewards from the Light Orb are not perfect; it possesses skills but lacks a complete lineage of spiritual plant masters.

To prepare for the future, one should also make some plans that enable independent action.

Lin Miao's cultivation level has solved a major concern for me. He can heal myself by refining pills and taking medicine, but he can also take the damage for me. This kind of spiritual object is even rarer than spiritual objects that improve one's aptitude, because it is, in a sense, a second life.

The other level of nurturing, the withered flame, is even more heaven-defying.

Some of Lin Miao's functions are still traceable, but the medicinal properties accumulated in spiritual plants over time, and the medicinal properties of a hundred-year-old plant, are a specific term for the medicinal properties of a hundred-year-old plant.

It can continuously acquire the medicinal properties of age and infuse them into the spiritual plants it desires...

Don't even mention that you are a spirit farmer who can cultivate exceptional quality herbs, or even cultivate century-old spirit herbs. Even if you can't, you can still use this ability to make century-old or even millennium-old spirit herbs!

Saying it's mass production might be an exaggeration, but when needed, targeted cultivation is no problem at all; whatever is needed, it can be cultivated.

The current drawback is that it is difficult to improve the proficiency of plant cultivators.

The earliest civil engineering engineers I acquired are still just beginners.

The levels of Spirit Plant Masters are divided into: Apprentice, Beginner, and In-depth. The levels beyond that are currently unknown.

Regarding the specific proficiency level of a skill, what is currently known is: basic and skilled. Whether it is mastery after that is still unknown. Chen Guang also has two other spirit plant master skills, Void Spirit Seed and Returning to Spring Blossom, as well as the Spirit Communication and Spirit Assistance that beast tamers use many times a day. Currently, they are only rated as basic.

Within a certain timeframe, it's more likely that he'll find a way to cultivate a century-old elixir himself than that of Ku Yan.

But the existence of Ku Yan, this hope, will always be the driving force that motivates Chen Guang to move forward.