Chapter 375: Living Soil of the Nine Heavens, Seeds of the Eternal Spirit Ginseng
Oom!
The farm shook gently.
A curious energy began to extend and under its influence, the entire farm was changing drastically.
The corpses of the six-tailed daemon fox and the other Mahayana foxes, the immortal-grade jade tower, the demi-immortal items, as well as the premium-grade sage items were all rapidly growing out of the ground.
Even the Mysterious Seed, which had a longer growth cycle, was growing rapidly with two fresh buds breaking out through the ground.
The Cloudsc.r.a.per Vine, which had just evolved just now, was also swaying and rapidly strengthening thanks to the energy swirling as his farm leveled up.
Likewise, the willow tree was rapidly changing.
“Aaaaah, Master...”
“It’s so curious! I feel like something has entered my body!”
The brain waves of the willow tree extended into Jiang He’s then, and he barked, “Stop that nonsense! Direct the flow of your cultivation to see if you could refine that energy! The same goes for you lot—Dumbo, Trumbo, Bottle Gourd Brothers, eagles!”
The cat, the dog, the Seven Bottle Gourd Brothers, and the two eaglets—who had just transformed into two brats—all sat on the ground, and began to cultivate.
Suddenly...
Boom!
A suddenly explosion made Jiang He jump from the shock, and he turned to find a part of the ground blown apart, with two leaves flickering in lightning glow creeping out.
The two leaves were palm-sized, and thunderbolts were shining brilliantly and cracking relentless over it.
Boom, boom, boom!!!
As a chain of explosions echoed, more thunderbolt leaves grew beside the palmed-sized leaves.
“Are those the heavenly thunderbolts I grew?”
Jiang He’s face twitched.
He looked up around the farm to find that the ‘walls’ around the farm was slowly fading, replaced by gray mist instead.
The mist was rolling outward relentlessly, with the turbid air sinking while the clear air rose above, causing whole farm area to expand rapidly.
[Ding!]
[Your farm area is expanding.]
[Ding!]
[The quality of soil in your farm has improved significantly!]
[...]
[Ding!]
[Farm level up completed.]
[Congratulations, Host. You have leveled up the farm to Lv6. Additional rewards: System Backpack boxes +12, cultivation manual planting slots +5, +1 pack Living Soil of the Nine Heavens, +1 pack Spirit Ginseng seeds]
A crisp System Notification jingled beside Jiang He’s ears as the farm stopped altering, while the swirling energy calmed down as well.
Kaboom!
An aura arose from the willow tree then, and it swayed as it called out, “Master, I’m ascending both in cultivation and technique, and I could transform soon enough.”
Dumbo and Trumbo’s auras had strengthened incredibly as well, although the Seven Bottle Gourd Brothers and the two eaglets did not develop much since they already strengthened greatly at Guanyin’s Bodhimanda.
However, it was the Cloudsc.r.a.per Vine which improved the most.
That thing was a curious being in this universe—it could evolve solely with eating without limit and without cultivating. It had just grown seventy-two tendrils that stretched up to one kilometer after being fed some daemon corpses, and in no time at all, all seventy-two tendrils grew up to 1.5 kilometers, with faint blood-colored stripes appearing on the tendrils and the leaves.
Its aura was more than twice stronger too, and it would not be long before it evolved again.
“With the Cloudsc.r.a.per Vine and the willow tree rooted to the farm as it leveled up and the soil improving greatly, the Spirit Qi in the farm would improve greatly as well, quickening their evolution and cultivation in the future!”
A thought crossed Jiang He’s mind then, and his eyes lingered over the Living Soil of the Nine Heavens as well as the seeds of the Thousand-Year Spirit Ginseng, both of which were the farm leveling rewards this time.
The Living Soil of the Nine Heavens was kept inside an elegant bag and was approximately twenty catties.
[The legendary Living Soil of the Nine Heavens is an sacred relic of humans in ancient times, a soul treasure of innate karmic merits...]
[...legends also stipulate that it was a material Nüwa used in creating humans.]
Information and legends about the Living Soil of the Nine Heavens appeared in Jiang He’s mind then, claiming that it was a sacred object of the five elements.
However, Jiang He thought that the Living Soil of the Nine Heavens was more or less the same as the Mysterious Soil—and was just a fertilizer.
“This must be an upgraded version of the Mysterious Soil, although I would have test to see the specific effects.
Jiang He turned toward the System Shop then, and just as he had expected, the Living Soil of the Nine Heavens was listed among the items sold now.
As for the price...
“What the h.e.l.l!”
Jiang He promptly mouthed an expletive after a look at the price of the Living Soil, cursing even as he scowled, “A f*cking pack of Living Soil costs a million Farm Points? Does it get any worse?”
Moreover...
It was the small pack that only contained five catties each.
In the System Shop, the Living Soil comes in three sizes: small, medium and large. The medium pack contains 10 catties of Living Soil and costs 2 million each, while the big pack contains 20 catties and costs 3 million for each pack.
This naturally made Jiang He seriously doubt the System’s intelligence.
According to the numbers, shouldn’t the 20 catties pack be sold at 4 million Farm Points?
Or perhaps there was a rebate when purchasing a big pack?
Then who would by the small packs?
Would it not be better to directly buy the big pack and use it on separate occasions?
“Anyway, those factions would come bringing my compensation, and I could test the quality of the Living Soil then.”
After that, Jiang He took out the packet of Eternal Spirit Ginseng seeds.
The packet itself had a weird ginseng drawn on it—it resembled a human shape and the leaves above looked just like hairs and it was tied with red ropes.
Several lines of text were also written beneath the picture, and it appeared to be instructions.
“Seeds of the Eternal Spirit Ginseng, 100-seed pack... function: cultivates flesh from bones and revives the dead. Improves cultivation, qi, and physique?”
“As for how to plant the spirit ginseng... plant it in fertile spirit farms, water with spirit fluids every day at the first earthly branch after planting, and cultivate with mystic energies. Also, weed it at the third earthly branch and clear pests at the fourth earthly branch, and keep it under the sun during the morning...”
The instructions on how to the plant the Spirit Ginseng was very detailed.
Jiang He studied it intently, only to find that the last part read: “The medicinal value of the Spirit Ginseng increases with a longer growth cycle, but it must be tied with red rope as it ripens, or it would jump out of the ground and run away.”
“...”
Hehe.
Jiang He laughed.
Was this supposed to be the spirit ginseng?
It sounded so childish.
Still, if he remembered correctly... the first earthly branch referred to 11 pm to 1 am, did it not?
In turn, the third earthly branch referred to 3 to 5 am, while the fourth earthly branch referred to the 5 to 7 am.
Was he supposed to stay awake just to plant some spirit ginseng?
Leaving aside a whole load of work in the evening, the ginseng must be basked under sun and then placed under the shed in the afternoon... was Jiang He supposed to be some sort of child apprentice herbalist here?
“I just hope for an easy farming life, and losing sleep over farming goes again my purpose in doing this in the first place.”
As such, Jiang He tore open the pack of Spirit Ginseng and noncommittally sprinkled the 100 Spirit Ginseng seeds all around.
Just grow however you like—I’m losing out if I have to help you clear weed and pests every single day.
After that was done, Jiang He checked his System Panel.
[Name: Jiang He]
[Cultivation: Immortal Path—full-fledged Mahayana; Martial Arts—Void-tier]
[Ability: Royal Sword, fire]
[Martial Arts Cultivation: Indestructible Diamond (Mastery), Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms (Mastery), Strengthened Nine Yang Technique (Mastery), Ninefold Thunderblade (Mastery), Dragon-Elephant Prajna (Mastery), Nine Heavenly Stars Body Formula (Seventh Tier+), Three Thousand Calamities (Seventh Fold+), Twenty-Three Swords (Mastery).]
[Arrays: Nameless Sword Array (Mastery), Great Nine Heavens Array of Dragon Sealing, Nine Heavens Thunderflame Array, Earthen Black Tortoise Array, Ten Thousand Phenomenon Array.]
[Owned Land: 100 Mu]
[Farm Level: 6 (EXP 1/5000000)]
[System Backpack: 36 boxes]
[System Shop: Unlocked]
[Farm Points: 1,580,000,000]
After his farm leveled up, Jiang He’s farm directly expanded from 9 Mu up to 100 Mu, which was more than ten times the area before.
“Haaaa...”
Jiang He sighed softly. “A hundred Mu is just 66,600 squared meters, and less than ten soccer fields... I even thought about digging an artificial lake in the farm, which I would slowly expand to a sea, but it seems that would have to wait until my farm levels up again.”
“Hold on...”
“When did my martial arts cultivation improve to Void-tier?”
“And that Nine Yang technique which I had given up on—how did it get to mastery?”
Jiang He did a double take.
When did he master it?
Why was he not aware of that?
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Translator’s note:
(1) Nüwa is the mother G.o.ddess of Chinese mythology.