Cultivation begins with harvest.

This collaboration might provide Chen Guang with an excuse to make rapid progress in his cultivation.

With the Pure Spirit Qi, he already had a reason to quickly improve his cultivation. Now, that reason was even stronger. He should still accept the Qi Nourishing Pills that Wei Donglai and the others had requested, as this gave him an even better reason to make rapid progress in his cultivation. This was originally part of his plan.

The best part is that the Qi-Nourishing Pill can be temporarily discontinued, as it may have other uses in the future.

Once a batch of Jade Heart Grass is harvested, one's cultivation level will skyrocket. This is much more effective than Qi Nourishing Pills, which only increase cultivation level for about a month.

The cultivation gained in this month is very different from the cultivation gained in the sixty hours of the reward light orb.

The former is based on a maximum of two hours of actual cultivation per day, which is about sixty hours of cultivation. However, it still requires careful refinement. In reality, based on the standard of three pills per bottle, one pill is taken every ten days or so, which is equivalent to cultivating for two months in one month, resulting in double the harvest.

If the frequency of consumption is increased further, it will lead to hidden dangers such as damage to the meridians, weak magical power, and unstable foundation, unless it is combined with other types of pills for assistance.

The contents of "The Record of Mysterious Daoist Pills" have been circulating for some time. It is roughly about how to take pills efficiently and which pills are suitable for which types of cultivators. Chen Guang also knows some of it, but he does not know the specific ratios and details. However, he has a general idea.

For example, the [Pulse Protection Pill] can protect the meridians, while the Qi Nourishing Pill is equivalent to "unmarked alien magic power." Even without the mark of other cultivators, it still has a certain stimulation to the meridians. Although it is far less harmful than the magic power of other cultivators, the stimulation is objectively present. The stimulation of the Qi Nourishing Pill will naturally subside in about seven or eight days. If you think it is too slow, you can supplement it with the Pulse Protection Pill. You can swallow six or seven Qi Nourishing Pills a day without any problems, and there will be no discomfort in the meridians afterward.

For example, the Star Sprout Pill can help quickly absorb the mana-enhancing components in the Qi-Nourishing Pill. After taking the Qi-Nourishing Pill, a gentle, unmarked foreign mana will circulate in the meridians. Refining and absorbing it also takes time, just like digesting food. It's not that your cultivation level will increase immediately after swallowing it. The Star Sprout Pill speeds up digestion. The faster the absorption, the less stimulating the Qi-Nourishing Pill is to the meridians. Without using the Meridian Protection Pill, it can shorten the cycle of taking the next Qi-Nourishing Pill to three or four days. With the Meridian Protection Pill, the cultivation level will improve even faster.

However, consuming so many pills can cause the medicinal power to accumulate in the meridians, making cultivators lose their keen senses and easily become "full without realizing it." At the same time, their magical power will dissipate, and their control will decrease. At this time, taking a Qi-Harmony Pill will suffice.

While the meridians can withstand it, the dantian may not be able to bear too much magical power in a single day, but the [Yuyan Pill] can solve this problem.

Are you feeling physically and mentally exhausted from taking too many pills?

There's also [Qingsang Pill] which washes away fatigue, nourishes the spirit, and restores you to your original state.

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According to the ideal state described in "The Record of Mysterious Daoist Elixir", a maximum of eleven kinds of pills, taken in sequence within a certain period of time, can increase one-tenth of the pot's magical power without side effects. If the recovery is good within a day, it can be done a second time.

How utterly insane! But the pills required would cost over four thousand catties of spirit rice. Considering that some of the pills are rarely used, the actual consumption might be even greater.

It's not that taking drugs has side effects, it's that poor cultivators have side effects. For every side effect you can imagine, there's a corresponding elixir to counteract it.

The side effects of taking medication for abortion are never in the cultivation level, but in the application.

Ordinary cultivators, whose cultivation progresses slowly, have a deeper understanding and application of magical power. They can use the time they cannot cultivate to practice spells, various immortal arts, and other skills, which will lead to more subtle and solid improvements. Just like how they consider the necessities of daily life when eating and sleeping, they have a knack for how to allocate limited resources and maximize their use. They don't even need to think about it; their instincts allow them to make an excellent allocation.

Taking medication to induce abortion is like living a life of ease, where everything is done for you and you don't know what to do. But when you need to do things yourself, you might not even be able to light a fire.

Even if someone improves their cultivation level by taking medicine, they often have to go back and relearn the skills.

It's like a medical student who has filled medical books with case studies but has no clinical experience. They might be flustered when dealing with minor illnesses and injuries, and when dealing with certain diseases, they might not be as calm and experienced as a patient who has become a doctor through long-term illness.

Therefore, even those with the ability would not use the most extreme pill combinations in the "Record of Mysterious Dao Stones". One-tenth of a pot of mana a day sounds tempting, but it is only suitable for cultivators who have accumulated enough mana and only lack the "quantity" of mana to quickly improve.

Most cultivators, depending on their own circumstances, will at most add one or two other pills to their Qi-Nourishing Pills.

Therefore, Chen Guang's improvement, which is equivalent to the extreme drug-drinking method without side effects, makes the reward orb seem incredibly powerful. If there is any shortcoming, it is that the quantity cannot be compared with the extreme drug-drinking method, but it is still much more efficient than simply using Qi-Nourishing Pills.

"No, I've already learned my lesson. I can't break through to the second level of Qi Refining in one go again. It's only been about eight months since I broke through before the beginning of spring. It's too fast, especially considering that I've exposed my Pure Spirit Qi. Pure Spirit Qi has a more stable and rapid effect of consuming Qi Nourishing Pills. I'll have to wait until I get my hands on the Qi Nourishing Pills, which would be best around the end of winter."

"Although this is quite frightening, the cause and effect are already known, and for those in the know, it is a level that is understandable and bearable. They will explain my cultivation improvement process to others with 'full confidence'. Although my aptitude is low and my self-cultivation speed is slower than that of Ding, with the Pure Spirit Qi and the Qi Nourishing Pill, it is only the second level of Qi Refining, which is not bad. As for the extra reward orbs—if the Jade Heart Grass is all reward cultivation, then let's discard them. There should be a limit to how much attention we can receive."

If all 76 Jade Heart Grasses were to grant cultivation rewards, and each reward were to be equivalent to the five days (sixty hours) that the light cluster believed to be awarded, that would amount to over four thousand hours.

However, these four thousand hours are based on one's own cultivation speed. There is a gap between this and the aptitude of Grade D, but it is not a chasm. Not all cultivators need more than four thousand hours to make a breakthrough. For Grade C, Grade B, or even Grade A aptitude, four thousand hours is enough for them to cultivate to the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Therefore, Chen Guang certainly cannot accept all the reward orbs. Or, to put it another way, besides the qualified Jade Heart Grass, could he keep the unqualified Jade Heart Grass until he breaks through to the second level of Qi Refining before harvesting it?

The harvest of qualified Jade Heart Grass cannot be delayed; when the time comes, people from each building will come to supervise the harvest.

In the past, Jade Heart Grass had to be harvested in a hurry. In fact, when the temperature dropped in the morning and evening at the end of autumn, Jade Heart Grass could not withstand it. Now, with the spiritual energy array, everything has changed.

The simple act of harvesting Jade Heart Grass filled Chen Guang with anticipation and excitement.

To advance to the second level of Qi Refining within a year was a speed I never imagined. Now I have to start laying the groundwork for a reasonable cultivation speed, otherwise I could have been faster.

Normally, a spiritual farmer would delay the breakthrough as much as possible, maximizing profits by holding the breakthrough for three years, and then make a rapid breakthrough, which would indeed attract some attention.

Reaching the second level of Qi Refining will grant me two more acres of spiritual fields; all I need to do is break through before planting next year.

One mu (a unit of land area) is still part of the sect's plan, while the other mu belongs entirely to oneself.

"Hey, I really am a spiritual farmer now. My thoughts are all aligned with those of farmers. With more land, I can't help but feel content," Chen Guang chuckled. "But isn't that pretty good?"

At noon, Wei Donglai returned with a contract.

The cultivators from the Three Halls naturally couldn't follow Wei Donglai around, but the seals of the Three Halls on the contract were genuine, exuding a unique charm, with a restrained yet profound spiritual energy.

If you don't want to believe it, you can take this contract back to verify it.

No one would dare to falsify anything here.