Hermit in the Mountains

Gu Changsheng dug the pits and began planting the saplings, one sapling every ten meters, forty saplings forming a square that surrounded the wooden house.

On the downhill side, peach saplings are planted 50 meters away from the golden bamboo, and plum blossoms are planted on the back of the mountain.

Gu Changsheng didn't water all the saplings with spiritual liquid; he wasn't that extravagant, nor did he have that much time to spend cultivating spiritual herbs.

Improving his cultivation level was his primary goal, and nothing could affect his cultivation plan.

He has already undergone four transformations, each taking longer than the last, while the concentration of the external environment remains constant. This means he needs to spend more time to improve his cultivation level each time.

His daily cultivation time will increase slightly, but the effect is negligible, since it is related to the mind and spirit, and the power of the mind and spirit increases slowly.

He was also considering devising a mental cultivation method that could enhance his spiritual awareness, but his days were fully booked, making it difficult to find time to focus on devising such a method.

The increase in the seeding time is particularly noticeable, at seven days, nine days, and eleven days.

One tree from each of the six types was selected as the king tree and nurtured with wood spirit liquid and water spirit liquid. The remaining tree seedlings could only be watered.

Gu Changsheng also tried to mix the spiritual liquid into the water for irrigation, but the result was contrary to his wishes, as the two could not be mixed.

The elixir will automatically isolate itself from water dilution, remaining independent, just like two parallel lines that can never intersect.

He must devise a technique that integrates clear water, spiritual liquid, and irrigation into one, the legendary fertility-enhancing technique "Spiritual Rain Technique," to improve irrigation efficiency and reduce the time he spends on planting.

In one afternoon, Gu Changsheng planted all sixty saplings, watered them, and checked on them the next day.

As night fell, Gu Changsheng sat cross-legged on the wooden bed in the bedroom, his eyes slightly closed, his hands forming a rounded shape at his knees, and he entered a meditative state in a moment.

Having prior experience in constructing the "Taiyin Gathering Spirit Seal," he quickly deduced what functions the "Spirit Rain Seal" should include.

It gathers moisture from the air, condenses the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, breaks them apart, merges them, tries to find the critical point where they can merge, turns into mist, becomes rain, and the raindrops fall evenly in the designated location.

Knowing what functions are needed gives us a clear direction for our deductions.

By directly utilizing the Three Talents Qi-Gathering Ring to gather moisture, Gu Changsheng overcame difficulties step by step, first deriving the model of the "Gathering Rain" technique.

He channeled his divine sense to draw the Three Powers Qi-Gathering Ring between his palms, then injected water particles into the identification node to see if it could attract moisture from the air to gather.

Once the Three Powers Qi Ring is successfully formed, water particles are injected into the recognition node, and the power of divine sense drives the ring to rotate. Pure traction force and perception force act simultaneously, and the two forces are like eyes and arms, spreading outward through the recognition node.

Perhaps because water particles and water spirit particles both belong to the Way of Water, there are occasional misjudgments when attracting water particles, mistakenly capturing water spirit particles as water particles.

Instead of immediately correcting the error or trying to improve the resolution of the identified nodes, Gu Changsheng decided to first verify his conjecture.

As time went by, more and more water particles and water spirit particles slowly gathered in the center of his palms.

He could feel a slight coolness and moisture on the skin of his palms.

Because there was no compression process, no mist appeared; the two types of particles filled both palms and diffused outwards.

Under the observation of divine sense, a sphere composed of particles appeared in front of Gu Changsheng.

Seeing the initial success, he withdrew his divine sense, the spell model disappeared, and the particles, no longer bound, returned to the world.

He thought of using a stone mill on a farm to break down particles, and then attached a mixer to it.

Success is achieved as long as the fragments of spiritual energy particles can be fused into water particles to form a mixture containing a trace of spiritual energy.

A millstone appeared between his palms, but it was more like the texture of two layers of paper pasted together than a millstone.

The bottom pattern remains fixed, while the top pattern rotates clockwise.

Gu Changsheng used his divine sense to grab a water elemental particle and threw it into the millstone.

He observed the particles rolling in the grinding wheel while adjusting the layout of the grinding teeth on the wheel.

The millstone rotated nine times before crushing the particles, which then floated in the center of the millstone, broken in two.

Even after the fragments were injected into the water particles, there was still no sign of them fusing.

The spiritual energy particles were crushed again and again until they split three times, meaning that one spiritual energy particle was divided into eight equal fragments, and one water particle could fuse into one fragment.

Gu Changsheng used his divine sense to observe the eight water particles invisible to the naked eye in his palms. They were not water spirit particles, but rather a substance between water particles and spirit particles, which could be called 'spiritual rain particles'.

Gu Changsheng stopped the experiment only when he reached the mental fatigue warning. The results were gratifying, but deducing the patterns of the magic model was too mentally taxing.

The mental exertion required to fuse the two types of particles is exponential, which is much more troublesome than simply gathering spiritual energy. If it weren't for the thought that he could summon a shower of spiritual rain with a simple wave of his hand in the future, Gu Changsheng would have given up on the idea of ​​deduce the "Spiritual Rain Technique".

It is similar to the legendary rain-summoning spell, but it is more advanced.

Gu Changsheng sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, gazing blankly at the moonlight outside the window, muttering to himself, "The difficulties to overcome between zero and one are more numerous than I imagined."

He was not discouraged by the difficulties before him; the process of overcoming difficulties was also a process of tempering his mind and honing his mental resilience and control.

In the latter half of the night, Gu Changsheng did not continue to deduce the spell model, but instead emptied his mind and entered an automatic cultivation state.

The next day, one should cultivate during the day, nurture spiritual herbs, and raise spiritual beasts, while also taking some time to observe the sixty saplings.

It took Gu Changsheng three whole nights to finally complete the initial construction of the "Spirit Rain Seal".

The "Spirit Rain Seal" consists of the Three Talents Qi-Guiding Ring, the Triple Spirit Grinding Pattern, the Three Talents Water-Guiding Ring, the High-Frequency Centrifugal Ring, the Triple Compression Pattern, and the Taiyin Cold Point.

The energy flow of the "Spirit Rain Seal" is twice as complex as that of the "Taiyin Gathering Spirit Seal".

The "Spirit Rain Seal" is not arranged from the outside to the inside, but from top to bottom.

The Three Talents Qi-Gathering Ring: responsible for condensing water elemental particles between heaven and earth and flowing them into the next level;

The Triple Spirit Grinding Pattern is responsible for crushing water spirit energy particles. Each layer crushes the particles once, and the particle fragments after three crushings just meet the fusion conditions and flow into the next level.

The Three-Talent Water-Gathering Ring is responsible for condensing water particles in the air and allowing them to flow into the next stage.

This process doesn't require controlling the proportions; if there's too much or too little, the spiritual rain won't be formed in the end, and it will naturally return to the heavens and earth.

High-frequency centrifugal ring: responsible for making water spirit fragments and water particles move, collide and merge with each other to form spirit rain particles, which then flow into the next level.

Triple compression grooves: responsible for particle compression, increasing volume to meet condensation requirements, and flowing into the next stage.

Taiyin Cold Point: Instantly cools particles invisible to the naked eye to their condensation point, condensing them into spiritual raindrops.

Once the raindrops have successfully condensed, the power of divine consciousness releases control, allowing them to fall freely under their own weight, simulating the natural phenomenon of rain.

Gu Changsheng was refining the coordination and connection between the programs when, unknowingly, the moon set and the sun rose, and a loud red crowing sound came from outside.

"Coo coo—oh..."