Hermit in the Mountains

Within a radius of forty meters around the wooden house, the number of wood and water spiritual energy particles in the world has increased. This is not due to an increase in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but rather the influence of Gu Changsheng's long-term manipulation of the wood and water spiritual energy particles.

This area is like a nest of water and wood spiritual energy particles, attracting them to gather, while other attribute particles are pushed to the periphery.

The principle of uniform distribution of spiritual energy particles has been broken by human intervention, slowly creating an environment where specific spiritual energy particles gather.

Just like a place where a wood-attribute cultivator cultivates, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is mostly concentrated in wood spiritual energy. The surrounding land and trees absorb the spiritual energy dissipated by the cultivator, and the area will appear vibrant, with lush vegetation and fertile soil.

Conversely, fire elemental energy will be repelled.

Currently, the spiritual energy is thin and has not yet reached the point where it can affect the surrounding vegetation and soil. However, the distribution of spiritual energy particles in the surrounding area is more inclined towards water and wood spiritual energy particles.

Gu Changsheng inspected the newly planted saplings, and after returning to the wooden house, he told the green ox to find its own food.

He stood alone on the edge of the vegetable garden in front of the door, his left hand behind his back, his right hand raised to shoulder level, fingers spread out, palm covering the vegetable garden below.

"Taiyin Spiritual Rain Technique, activate—"

With each incantation Gu Changsheng recited, the "Taiyin Spirit Rain Seal" in the void in his palm became clearer.

"Water Spirit Gathering"

The Three Talents Qi Ring appeared, and the three opposing Qi Rings slowly rotated. The transparent identification node began to be filled with water elemental particles, and invisible ripples spread outward to form a vortex.

The water elemental particles were captured and drawn into the vortex, converging towards the Three Talents Qi-Guiding Ring in the void below Gu Changsheng's palm.

"Triple mill"

Three layers of spirit grinding patterns appeared. In each of the three grinding discs, the upper part rotated while the lower part remained fixed, absorbing the water spirit particles falling from above and crushing them one by one. After three crushings, the water particles were fused into a state.

"Water vapor is coming"

The three-dimensional water-drawing ring appears, rotating in the opposite direction to form a vortex that captures water particles in the air.

"Fusion and Derivation"

A high-frequency centrifugal ring emerges, stirring, colliding, and fusing water particles and fragments of water spirit particles into spirit rain particles.

"Shifting between illusion and reality"

Triple compression patterns emerge, transforming tiny particles into larger particles.

"Spiritual Rain"

In the final step, the Taiyin Cold Acupoint emerges to complete the final cooling and condense spiritual raindrops, thus completing the Spiritual Rain Technique.

As Gu Changsheng increased the output of his divine sense, the 'Taiyin Spirit Rain Seal' in the void in his palm slowly grew larger, reaching a diameter of two meters before stopping.

At this moment, Gu Changsheng resembled an immortal, with flowing long hair, wearing a gray-white robe, one hand behind his back, and the other hand summoning rain.

A tiny cloud, two meters in diameter, floated in front of Gu Changsheng. There was no lightning or thunder, but a very light, localized drizzle was falling from the cloud.

The raindrops dripped onto the vegetables and into the soil.

The crystal-clear raindrops clung to the chili leaves and the leaves of the apocynum venetum, instantly moistening the soil up to two meters deep.

After the spiritual rain had been falling for four minutes, Gu Changsheng saw that it was almost time to withdraw the "Taiyin Spiritual Rain Technique" and withdrew his divine sense.

His heart throbbed slightly, and as he withdrew his right hand, he rubbed his right temple and exhaled.

Casting spells does not consume one's own magical power; it relies entirely on the power of divine consciousness to perform them.

This was a last resort, as Gu Changsheng possessed ten strands of the power of withering and flourishing within his sea of ​​consciousness, yet he could not release them externally.

The compatibility between the power of withering and flourishing and his deduced "Gathering of Spirits" and "Spiritual Rain" is not high. It is better to use the power of divine sense to control the spell and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to drive the spell. It is safe and reliable. The only drawback is that it consumes the power of divine sense.

This defect also prevented Gu Changsheng from casting off-body attack spells. He once tried to gather fire elemental particles with his divine sense and shape them into a fireball to launch.

When he unleashed the fireball and released his control over it with his divine sense, the fireball instantly dispersed and returned to the heavens and earth, unable to form a true fireball technique.

He speculated that off-body attack spells should be centered on one's own magical power, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth corresponding to the spell's attributes to enhance their power, transforming from microscopic particles into visible objects.

Like a red, blazing fireball, or tough, blue vines growing out of nowhere...

Gu Changsheng cast the "Taiyin Spirit Rain Technique" twice more. Since there were no problems with the spell and incantation, he stopped trying.

He returned to his room and meditated to recover his depleted spiritual energy.

In the afternoon, Gu Changsheng performed the "Taiyin Spirit Rain Technique" inside the house. He placed a plastic bucket with a shower head in front of him and rested his right hand on the edge of the bucket.

Firstly, the larger the area covered by the "Taiyin Spirit Rain Technique," the faster and more divine sense it consumes;

Secondly, the sixty saplings are lined up in a row, totaling 600 meters in length, with one sapling every ten meters.

Directly casting spells to water the saplings would be a waste of time. Gu Changsheng thought that collecting the spiritual rain in a bucket first and then carrying the bucket to water the saplings would have the same effect.

The palm-sized "Taiyin Spirit Rain Seal" floated in the void in Gu Changsheng's palm. A cloud of mist enveloped Gu Changsheng's right hand, and the spiritual rain dripped down rapidly, all of it gathering in the plastic bucket.

It took Gu Changsheng an hour to accumulate a bucket of spiritual water. He dispelled the spell, and his eyelids kept opening and closing, as if he were dozing off.

He shook his wet right hand to dispel the weariness in his heart, and carried the plastic bucket full of spiritual water to the back of the wooden house.

Gu Changsheng started with the plum blossom saplings on the back mountain, watering each sapling with a watering can. He watered each sapling one by one until he finished watering all sixty saplings, then returned to the wooden house to meditate and rest.

In the living room, Gu Changsheng sat cross-legged with his eyes slightly closed, planning to plant Chinese medicinal herbs tomorrow and prepare to try making pills.

As the sun rose and set, and the next morning dawned, Gu Changsheng finished his morning exercises and fed his three pets. Then, he carried a bamboo basket and began selecting herb seeds.

Ginseng, Astragalus, Poria, Licorice, Angelica sinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Eucommia ulmoides, Aconitum carmichaelii, Schisandra chinensis, Dioscorea opposita...

Spatholobus suberectus, Euphorbia humifusa, Achyranthes bidentata, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Saffron, Cornus officinalis...

The seeds of more than twenty kinds of Chinese herbal medicines are used to make "strengthening the body and nourishing the vital energy pills" and to try to make body-refining pills.

Gu Changsheng always researched relevant information with a specific purpose, compiled a catalog of Chinese herbal medicines and their effects, and added his own cultivation directions that he wanted to try.

He carried a bamboo basket in his left hand and a small hoe in his right hand as he walked to the open space next to the vegetable garden.

Gu Changsheng used a small hoe to mark out square "田" (field) characters on the open space. Each "田" character plot was four square meters in size, and two meters long and two meters wide.

Each plot of land is planted with a type of Chinese medicinal herb, with the most expensive ginseng and salvia miltiorrhiza planted in the center of the open space.

The Chinese medicinal herbs planted in the open space outside are irrigated with spiritual rain. It is enough to make them about twice as effective as they were originally. Pills made with too strong medicinal effects are not suitable for the market.

He didn't touch the ten medicinal herb cultivation samples; he still kept them in the warehouse for cultivation, observation, and recording.

Gu Changsheng transforms into the most handsome gardener, digging and digging in the vast mountains, planting and planting in the small pits, hoping to one day cultivate a garden full of medicinal herbs.