The spiritual field Si Qinghe rented was about five acres. He had just learned the Spirit Rain Spell, and its casting range was less than an acre. He needed to repeat it at least six times to cover the entire field.
Having tasted the sweetness of success, Si Qinghe cast the spell six times consecutively. His Qi Refining second-layer Cultivation was barely enough to cope, completely depleting his Spiritual Qi. Only then did he manage to bring Spirit Rain to the entire spiritual field!
The place where he lived also had no Spiritual Vein, and he was too lazy to go back, so he sat down by the spiritual field to Cultivate and recover his Spiritual Qi!
It took him two hours of Cultivation to slowly replenish the Spiritual Qi in his body to Perfection!
"I'm still too poor. If I had Spirit Stones, I could absorb them directly and save a lot of time!"
Thinking of Spirit Stones, he remembered the spiritual plant tasks from the Hall of External Affairs yesterday. Many of them involved casting Five Elements Technique on spiritual rice. With the current effect of his Spirit Rain Spell, he wouldn't have to fear any grade of spiritual field!
Among the Five Elements Technique, the Earth Qi Skill of the earth element promotes root development, the Spirit Rain Spell of the water element promotes plant growth and plump grain filling, the Azure Wood Skill of the wood element promotes leaf expansion and smooth meridians, the Sharp Metal Skill of the metal element promotes robust plants and kills pests, and the Burning Wilderness Art of the fire element reclaims land, burns weeds, and eliminates underground insect eggs.
Each spell has a corresponding effect, and the most commonly used is the Spirit Rain Spell, which ensures the spiritual plants are moisturized!
There were quite a few tasks for casting the Spirit Rain Spell, but Outer Sect Disciples have low Cultivation and insufficient Spiritual Qi to support several acres of land. Moreover, most who learned the Five Elements Technique also rented spiritual fields themselves, and those with high-level spells were already pre-selected by various Grand Elders and Peak Masters, so they wouldn't come to take tasks!
Therefore, there was still market demand!
After recovering his Spiritual power, Si Qinghe also cast the Azure Wood Skill once. The Azure Wood Skill allows the spiritual rice's internal meridians to flow smoothly, making the absorption and transportation of Spiritual Qi more effective. That was another two hours!
The spiritual rice that had been treated with the Spirit Rain Spell and Azure Wood Skill was robust and verdant, full of Spiritual Qi, growing even better than others'!
The effect was extremely obvious. Si Qinghe, who had previously been worried about not having enough to pay the Sect's share, was grinning from ear to ear. Judging by the current growth of the spiritual rice, there was no need to worry about this year's spiritual grain!
Looking at this growth, it would definitely be a great harvest. After paying the Sect's share, his five acres of spiritual field could still yield at least 1000 catties!
Si Qinghe became even more motivated. The Sharp Metal Skill was also necessary to cast once. When spiritual rice grows well, various insects also multiply. Insects feed on spiritual plants, and by killing the insects, their corpses can in turn be used as fertilizer for the spiritual plants!
The spiritual plants would be free of pests and receive fertilizer, killing two birds with one stone. Perhaps the yield could even increase by another level!
Another two hours passed, and it was completely dark. Cultivators have keen five senses and usually Cultivate at night, not needing sleep. Si Qinghe also didn't go back. After casting the Sharp Metal Skill, he also cast the Earth Qi Skill once!
The Earth Qi Skill promotes root development. Actually, at this time, the spiritual rice had already started filling grains, so promoting the roots was a bit late. But since he was idle anyway, he might as well apply all of them!
Except for the fire element's Burning Wilderness Art, all four other spells were applied, and only then did Si Qinghe stop!
Early the next morning, Si Qinghe excitedly went to the Hall of External Affairs to take on spiritual plant tasks. His Cultivation was low and Spiritual power insufficient, so he specifically chose tasks with small acreage.
With his experience of casting rain on his own spiritual field, he was very confident in the effect of the Heavenly Book version of the Spirit Rain Spell. It would definitely be no worse than the third layer of the old version!
After comparing for a long time, he chose one for twenty acres of spiritual field. His Spiritual Qi could cover about four acres per cast, so twenty acres was just enough for his day's work!
This was his first time doing a task, so he had to be a bit careful!
He took the Restriction token for the task location. The token would guide him to the task location, and the task owner did not need to wait there. The Nine Heavens Talisman Palace was a Talisman Cultivator School, and they were quite skilled with various Talismans!
This was a second-grade spiritual field, about four acres in size, requiring a Spirit Rain Spell of third grade or higher. With his current Cultivation and proficiency in the Spirit Rain Spell, it would take eight hours to complete the task, with a reward of ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones!
As long as he took on tasks for two days, he would have the Spirit Stones to buy the antidote Medicinal Pill!
Si Qinghe spent the entire day on this task, unaware that his few acres of spiritual field had caused a sensation among the Outer Sect Disciples!
Si Qinghe had few friends, and Li Minghai was his closest, but their friendship was only worth two Low-Grade Spirit Stones, not one more!
This time, when his spiritual field had problems, anyone with a discerning eye could tell it was due to the depletion of the Spiritual Vein, but no one spoke up, letting him struggle endlessly without a sound. Everyone wished that everyone else in the world, except themselves, would have bad luck!
Some also saw him going to the abandoned Spirit Stone mine to dig spiritual soil. These people were annoyed, wondering who taught this stubborn fellow the method. Now that the spiritual rice was saved, there was no show to watch!
Who knew that after only two days, Si Qinghe's spiritual rice was not only saved but grew much better than before!
The spiritual rice had uniformly grown much taller, the stalks were thick and strong, verdant green, and the rice ears were noticeably longer than others'!
At a glance, the yield could increase by at least 20%!
Could adding some soil have such a good effect?
The eyes of the many Outer Sect Disciples who cultivated spiritual rice lit up! A 20% increase meant a lot more Spirit Stones! It was just digging some spiritual soil. If Si Qinghe could dig it, everyone could go dig it!
There was only one abandoned Spirit Stone mine nearby. When these people went there, they knew that Si Qinghe's spiritual soil was dug from there; the traces were too obvious!
The news of Outer Sect spiritual plant Disciples forming groups to dig spiritual soil quickly spread throughout the entire Sect. Many peaks that cultivated spiritual plants, after specifically coming to see Si Qinghe's spiritual rice, immediately joined the ranks of digging spiritual soil!
Those with more Spirit Stones, too lazy to go dig spiritual soil, directly crushed Spirit Stones and scattered them in the spiritual fields. They wanted to test if it could also increase yield!
Si Qinghe was unaware of the Nine Heavens Talisman Palace's spiritual plant Disciples enthusiastically digging spiritual soil. He was busy helping to water those twenty acres of spiritual rice!
The spiritual rice grown in a second-grade spiritual field was indeed different. The rice stalks grew tall and strong, and the rice ears were long, large, and heavy, making Si Qinghe's eyes burn with desire!
"If only I had such thriving spiritual rice, the yield per acre would be at least 900 catties, possibly even over a thousand catties, and the quality of the spiritual rice produced would be superior! The taste would be better, the Spiritual Qi more abundant, and the selling price nearly double!"
Unfortunately, this was some Elder's spiritual field. Si Qinghe usually didn't even have the qualification to look at it, only to drool and envy!
He started the task early in the morning and didn't finish applying the improved Spirit Rain Spell to all twenty acres of spiritual field until late at night!
He would get his reward tomorrow after submitting the task. People who took tasks and didn't complete them well but still tried to claim rewards had very miserable endings. No one dared to do that; losing one's life for a few Spirit Stones was not worth it!
After receiving the reward, he would take another task, and the day after tomorrow, he could buy the antidote Medicinal Pill. Only then could he relax; otherwise, constantly worrying about being poisoned to death was not an option!
Si Qinghe had been doing tasks for two consecutive days and hadn't gone to check his spiritual field, unaware of how many people had come and gone to visit his spiritual field!
His spiritual rice had grown even better than yesterday. If Si Qinghe were here, he would discover that his spiritual rice at this moment was almost identical to the spiritual rice in the second-grade spiritual field he had watered yesterday!
The spiritual rice stalks were about a quarter taller than before, and the rice ears were long and heavy, even newly sprouting a section of ears!
The problem was that his spiritual field could barely qualify as a first-grade spiritual field, and it had no Spiritual Qi left, so no one would even want it if he gave it away!
A first-grade spiritual field produced the effect of a second-grade spiritual field, and the reason was simply because a layer of spiritual soil dug from the abandoned Spirit Stone mine was added!
No one believed it, so everyone came to see it, even the Grand Steward in charge of Outer Sect Disciples came!