Cultivation begins with harvest.

Chen Guang's wish to make Linquan Pumpkin the signature product of his spiritual field suddenly became difficult.

"However, I have a reward light cluster, so compared to others, I'm already sprinting on the road to success. If used well, there's still a lot of profit potential. The specific operation is up to me."

Chen Guangping calmed down.

Chen Guang's fantasy of getting rich quick with top-grade first-tier spiritual plants has been shattered. He still needs to think carefully about how to maximize his profits.

"I'll buy a [Moonlight Garment]." Chen Guang decided to buy a top-grade spiritual plant seedling. He needed to carefully confirm whether he could receive the reward orb if he cultivated the seedling to maturity.

"Okay." The shopkeeper was very straightforward and didn't ask any questions. After taking Chen Guang's coins and giving him change, he brought over a flowerpot with a two-inch plant that looked like a fern with pale white, slightly curled leaves.

The stems and leaves are long and horizontal, and the leaves are wide, dense, and serrated, spreading out like feathers.

Although Moonlit Robe is a top-tier first-class plant, its medicinal value is average. However, it has extraordinary ornamental value. When mature, its leaves will display three colors in bright moonlight: 'Red Clouds', 'Blue River', and 'White Stone', and emit corresponding radiance, making it extremely beautiful.

Its market is limited to a few beauty enthusiasts and talented individuals who enjoy composing poetry and appreciating the beauty of nature.

Achieving great success in cultivating immortality is difficult, but simply enjoying it is very easy.

Moonlit Robe is also the cheapest first-grade top-quality spiritual plant in Fanglin Hall. Seedlings can be bought for 160 catties of spiritual rice. There is no large market for it, so Fanglin Hall probably never considered condensing a seed for Moonlit Robe.

Seeing that Chen Guang was happy, the shopkeeper said a few more words: "Guest, if you want to keep it in a pot, it is best to change to a spirit tool flower pot. As long as there are no major problems, Yue Nishang can live for more than ten years. If you keep it as a potted plant, you need high-quality spirit soil and a spirit tool flower pot, otherwise her roots will break through it."

"I know what I'm doing," Chen Guang politely declined.

Seeing that Chen Guang intended to leave, the shopkeeper quickly said, "Would you like to leave a name for me, sir? Our Fanglin Hall has a special feature: for every six thousand catties of spirit rice you spend in our shop, you will get a chance to go to Fanglin. Fanglin has many spirit trees and plants, and you can take them away at an 80% discount."

"Customers don't need to worry that 6,000 catties of spirit rice is too much. Whether it's selling us materials or buying things from us, it's all recorded the same way. If we keep a record, customers will have accumulated 1460 catties of spirit rice."

"So Fanglintang is the Fanglin of 'Fanglincang Clan'? Okay, please remember that for me," Chen Guang said in realization.

"Indeed, please allow me to examine your identity token," the shopkeeper said politely.

Chen Guang naturally agreed.

Not all members of the Qingheng Sect are their own disciples. Some cultivation families are allowed to open shops here, but they have to pay a fixed share of offerings every ten years and taxes on every transaction. Even so, many cultivation families still flock to it, although they are limited to operating within the Xingfeng Market.

Fang Lincang's family is one of the more well-known ones.

If we take Qingheng Sect as the center, then to the north are grasslands and snow-capped peaks, to the south are mountains and the most prosperous cultivator city in this region, to the west is boundless wilderness, and to the east are mortal city-states.

Because the eastern part is too mundane, there are not many cultivators or forces with high cultivation levels developing there. However, there are still some good spiritual veins between Qingheng Sect and the Mortal City Kingdom, about thirty special territories scattered around. These territories basically do not produce Foundation Establishment resources, so Qingheng Sect doesn't care about them. But other small forces and cultivation families regard them as their foundation.

Fang Lincang was one of them, possessing a thriving forest of spiritual plants and trees.

At first, Chen Guang didn't connect this Fang Lincang clan with the three characters Fang Lintang above his head.

But now, after the shopkeeper's reminder, a connection immediately formed—Hengshan Hall must have been founded by the Hengshan Lei family, who occupied the Hengshan mine, and Chaxi Pavilion must be the power of the Chaxi Dongfang family, who controlled a special stream that could nurture spiritual tea...

In this way, most of the shops in Xingfeng Market found their source. Almost all of them were shops opened by small forces with names and identities. In exchange for offering sacrifices and providing vitality to the market, they obtained the right to open shops and allow some of their family descendants to join the Qingheng Sect.

Chen Guang had heard of these things before, but he hadn't thought of them in this way. Now that he thought about it, he remembered them all. Qingheng Sect was known for its generosity and treated everyone equally as long as they met the requirements. Therefore, for small families with insufficient resources, joining Qingheng Sect in this way was an excellent way to improve their resources. Otherwise, if they had family or other forces involved, they would be rejected by Qingheng Sect.

Sects don't use their resources to train disciples of other forces for no reason.

"If I had the chance to go to Fanglin, its abundant spiritual plants would indeed be a good place to enrich the contents of my reward orb, but not now. I am only at the first level of Qi Refining, and it is at least two thousand miles from Ziling Peak to Fanglin. I cannot fully rely on the Cang Clan of Fanglin to completely protect my safety," Chen Guang thought to himself.

After completing the registration, Chen Guang left Fanglin Hall directly. He waited for Lu Daxian for a while, but when he didn't see him, he simply walked towards his own shop on Ziling Peak.

Although there is only one Ziling Pavilion, it has seven floors. Apart from some spiritual items displayed at the behest of Ziling Peak, the rest are items commissioned by various deacons and even peak-sitting disciples to sell. Small items are not worth a trip to Ziling Pavilion, but it is worth it if you want to find some fine items.

The price is really expensive.

Chen Guang spent 470 jin of spirit rice to buy a [spiritual energy array] from here. Carrying a large wooden box, he obediently returned to the small courtyard where the spirit crane was, and waited for Qi Luda to arrive.

1300 jin of Lingmi rice was reduced to only 670 jin in an instant. The pockets were fuller, but the demands of supply and demand also increased.

Just like this 470-pound spiritual energy array.

A spiritual energy array is not a true array, but a simplified version that utilizes a rich spiritual energy environment. A true array requires spirit stones.

This spiritual energy array was created specifically for spiritual farmers like Chen Guang.

It has many functions such as controlling wind, stopping dust, blocking light, changing temperature, and repelling insects. Its power is not strong, but it is suitable for farm work. With the spiritual energy array, Chen Guang's workload can be greatly reduced. However, he still needs to do weeding and loosening the soil himself.

"This was prepared for the Jade Heart Grass. The Jade Heart Grass is more prone to problems in the last couple of days. The weather is getting colder in the mornings and evenings and hotter at midday, and more and more Jade Heart Grass is showing signs of wilting. This kind of spiritual herb is really too delicate. If even one leaf of Jade Heart Grass withers, its value will drop sharply. At least Xingfeng Hall will not want it. With this spiritual energy array, at least some of the Jade Heart Grass will be lost." Chen Guang placed high hopes on the spiritual energy array.

This kind of spiritual energy array is called "greenhouse array" among spiritual farmers. It is mostly prepared for some delicate spiritual plants or those that need to be kept in a specific extreme environment for a long time, and it involves a lot of investment.

The raw materials for setting up a spiritual energy array, such as cloud-patterned stone, firewood, and rune stone plate, only amount to about 100 catties of spiritual rice. However, the price of carving the array [spiritual pattern] is worth more than 300 catties of spiritual rice. Moreover, the cloud-patterned stone, firewood, and other materials that have been carved with spiritual patterns will continuously consume their own spiritual energy, which can only last for about two or three years.

As a rune stone plate used to control spiritual energy arrays, it is a type of spiritual tool that needs to be replaced every year. Fortunately, replacing the rune stone plate only requires sixty catties of spiritual rice.

Whether used for a long time or only for a year, spiritual energy arrays are considered a luxury.

Lu Da returned quickly, with a few unsold vegetables left on his cart. His expression was ambiguous, neither sad nor indifferent. Upon seeing the wooden box beside Chen Guang, he exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Chen, is this a greenhouse formation?"

"Yes, some of the leaves of the Jade Heart Grass have been withering these past few days, and I've been wanting to deal with it for a while now," Chen Guang said.

Lu Da first showed a hint of envy: "I also tried to build a greenhouse myself using some methods from the mortal world, but the temperature control was too crude and almost ruined things. I wanted to buy a greenhouse formation, but I thought it was too expensive and I couldn't bring myself to do it."

There are also many similar greenhouse-like farming methods in the mortal world.

The simplest way is to rely on geothermal energy; hot springs are an atypical geothermal phenomenon.

There were also fire channels dug inside the houses to create "fire houses"; and "wind tents" made of sorghum stalks and soil, with animal dung covering the vegetable gardens...

Leek sprouts are one of the products resulting from this achievement.

However, there are some drawbacks in the mortal world, and it is even more troublesome when applied to spiritual plants. Spiritual plants that need to be grown in greenhouses are naturally more delicate and require more precise environmental control.

The most reliable method is to create a formation, even a simplified or weakened version.