I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 612: Chapter 394: New Rank-2 Spirit Rice_2

Chen Mobai remembered the Divine Wood Sect’s records about Soul Nourishing Wood. This spiritual object is a treasure for ghost cultivators, but for cultivators like them who focus on Qi cultivation, it is but an object that nourishes the heart and spirit and purifies the divine sense.

Wearing Soul Nourishing Wood for a long time would absorb some miscellaneous elements from one’s Divine Sense and gradually enhance its power.

However, the effectiveness of the Soul Nourishing Wood would also gradually weaken until it completely lost its spirit effectiveness.

A Rank-3 Soul Nourishing Wood was just right to be useful for a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Chen Mobai felt an indescribable change in his Divine Sense under the fluctuations of the Soul Nourishing Wood, revealing a relaxed expression on his face.

It seemed that there were signs of loosening in the bottleneck of his divine sense.

If he could use this Soul Nourishing Wood to let his Divine Sense reach the perfection in Foundation Establishment, then his trip to the five markets in Jian Country could be considered a truly perfect action.

Chen Mobai, who was thinking in such a way, used a simple artifact refining method to resize the Soul Nourishing Wood to the same size as the Flying Sparrow Hairpin.

Then he used the Soul Nourishing Wood as a second hairpin, inserting it crosswise with the Flying Sparrow Hairpin on top of his high bun.

“Master.”

At this time, his three disciples who had received his message had also arrived.

Zhuo Ming didn’t know about the Soul Nourishing Wood, so after greeting, seeing an extra dark hairpin that looked like a cut branch on Chen Mobai’s head, she couldn’t help but look at it a few more times.

“Wen Bo, here are some talisman papers and some sample talisman ink, you take them.”

Chen Mobai passed a storage bag to Liu Wenbo, who immediately reached out with both hands to respectfully receive it.

“Master, is this the income from the South Mountain Shop in the five big markets of Jian Country for a month?”

After Liu Wenbo took it, he handed over a small storage bag full of spirit stones to Chen Mobai.

“You keep it for now, hand it over to your master at the end of the year. If there’s an opportunity in the markets, try to exchange them for high-grade spirit stones.”

Chen Mobai, who now looked down upon these few hundred spirit stones, waved his hand to indicate that Liu Wenbo was now managing branches in five big markets and the expenditure was high, so he was allowed to use them first.

“Yes, Master!”

After Liu Wenbo nodded, he poured his divine sense into the storage bag in his hand, intending to see how he could arrange manpower to divide these talismans into batches.@@novelbin@@

Then he stood frozen in place, his mouth wide open, a shocked look on his face.

“Big Brother, what’s wrong with you?”

Luo Yixuan, seeing Liu Wenbo’s expression, thought he was possessed, and hurriedly rushed to Chen Mobai’s side, intending to show her concern.

“Master, aren’t there too many talisman papers!”

Liu Wenbo swallowed, and although he was from a prominent family and was quite world-wise, he had never seen such a scene of three hundred thousand high-quality talisman papers piled together.

This was a property worth tens of thousands of spirit stones!

He couldn’t help but tremble.

“I can move freely in and out of the Divine Tree Secret Realm. These talisman papers are made by me using the lifegiving teachings secret method with the Red Sun Spirit Tree as the raw material. The production can continue endlessly in the future.”

“However, it’s enough if you three know about this, remember not to leak it.”

“From now on, the talisman papers can be stored in the warehouse at the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, the rice barn is empty, Ming’er, you’ll have the trouble of looking after it.”

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Ming immediately nodded.

She was more than willing to be in charge of things.

Originally, Liu Wenbo intended to ask the mortals who were cultivating the South Mountain to help divide the talisman papers, as before. But three hundred thousand pieces were just too many.

After reporting to Chen Mobai, he decided that from now on, the South Mountain Shop would mainly supply other talisman paper stores on a large scale, first securing the Jian Country market with low prices and high quality.

In this way, even if the supply was large, there was no need to divide it into batches. This part of the manual work could be pushed to the talisman paper merchants.

Chen Mobai suggested a few minor points about this, as the pattern was more mature on the Immortal Sect side.

After Liu Wenbo learnt about the distributor model, he was enlightened and rode the Qinghong Bird to Yuhu Market to put it into practice overnight.

“Master, recently, there have been quite a few talisman shops in Divine Wood City who wanted to buy from us.”

Zhuo Ming also mentioned a minor matter, but at the sect, Chen Mobai had no intention of drawing too much attention.

As per his usual practice, he let Zhuo Ming sell 100 batches of symbols each month, and once they were sold out, there would be no more stock.

He would not start establishing a monopoly until he became the sect leader or achieved Core Formation.

“The Xiao Nanshan shop in Divine Wood City only retails the symbols and does not wholesale them.”

Having said this, Chen Mobai, along with Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan, descended the mountain.

Today happened to be the time when a batch of Spirit Rice matured, and since it was convenient, Chen Mobai was more than willing to go to the fields.

After a day of busyness, once the Spirit Rice was harvested and stored, Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming to see the most precious ten-acre Spirit Field planted with Rank-2 Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice.

“You can already smell the sweet aroma of the rice.”

Chen Mobai snapped off a piece of the healthiest Jade Bamboo, closed his eyes and sniffed the Spirit Rice inside the bamboo, a satisfied expression on his face.

Clearly, Zhuo Ming had managed these ten acres of Spirit Rice with care.

“Master, there are three types of hybrid Spirit Rice that are well-adapted, which one do you think is the best?”

After observing the ten-acre Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, Zhuo Ming brought Chen Mobai and Luo Yixuan to see the other hybrid Spirit Rice, an experiment that Chen Mobai had initiated to improve the ten-year maturation period of the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice.

Over the years, hundreds of trials had been conducted, with many meeting the requirements. Eventually, he selected these three for focused development.

If the improvement of the rice varieties was successful, their Divine Wood Sect would have a continuous supply of Rank-2 Spirit Rice.

In the short term, it would simply mean one more type of Spirit Rice.

But what Chen Mobai was thinking of was adding free Spirit Rice to the benefits provided to the disciples of the Divine Wood Sect in the future.

The more powerful the younger generation, the stronger the sect would become.

The reason why all citizens in the Immortal Gate could engage in Immortal Cultivation was that everyone had grown up consuming Spirit Rice, ensuring abundant innate Yuan Qi and flawless Spiritual Roots.

If every Qi Cultivation disciple in the Divine Wood Sect could eat free Rank-1 Spirit Rice, and Foundation Establishment Cultivators had enough Rank-2 Spirit Rice, Chen Mobai was confident that, a hundred years later, he could lead the Divine Wood Sect to become the top sect in the Eastern Wilderness.

“This Fire Spirit Rice can mature twice a year. Although it doesn’t taste as good as Jade Bud Spirit Rice, the spiritual energy it contains is not inferior.”

“Additionally, the Spirit Rice grown using Phoenix Tear Bamboo in place of Jade Bamboo appears promising in terms of growth and contained spiritual energy. It should be able to mature as Rank-2 Spirit Rice, but it doesn’t need ten years—I estimate six or seven years will suffice.”

“However, the most suitable for Master’s intentions should be this Qing Kuo Spirit Rice. This is a Rank-1 Spirit Rice that grows on the plateau in Rock Country and has a strong ability to bear Earth’s energy. After hybridizing with the Jade Bud Spirit Rice, it can achieve perfect complementarity. After several rounds of cultivation, if it can consistently mature as Rank-2, then it will be a completely new Rank-2 Spirit Rice!”

After examining the three types of hybrid Spirit Rice one by one, Chen Mobai couldn’t contain his joy and said a phrase.

“Ming’er, you remind me of myself!”

Upon hearing this, Luo Yixuan, who was following along, looked enviously at Zhuo Ming, who was bashfully lowering her head.

Among the three disciples, Chen Mobai was not stingy with his praises, but without a doubt, Zhuo Ming, who had the lowest cultivation level, always received the most praise.

“Remind me of myself”—these words implied the transmission of power in the future.

It was the highest praise a teacher could give to a disciple!

“Watch carefully the Art of Life-giving Thunder obtained during my closed-door cultivation.”

At that moment, Chen Mobai reached out and grasped a stalk of Qing Kuo Spirit Rice from the Spirit Field. The ferocious power of thunder seen in the minds of cultivators suddenly became as gentle as water in his palm, condensing into droplet after droplet, seeping through his fingertips into the roots of the rice stalk.

Afterwards, it was as if time rapidly moved forward. The hybrid Spirit Rice began to rapidly absorb the Earth’s energy, the atmospheric moisture, and the spiritual energy, maturing and producing ears as it transformed into a stalk with full grain.

Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan were astonished upon witnessing this scene.

“It only has a Rank-1 level; it can’t serve as the seed for next year.”

Chen Mobai picked the Qing Kuo Spirit Rice that had been matured by the Yi Wood Divine Thunder, squeezed it to discern the spirit essence within, and shook his head slightly.

Then, he made another move and matured all the Qing Kuo Spirit Rice in the one-acre field.

Unfortunately, in the end, only three stalks of rice had matured to just meet the Rank-2 level.

“Take them and plant them. Notify me once they sprout.”

Zhuo Ming nodded repeatedly. If it hadn’t been for the Yi Wood Divine Thunder speeding up the maturation, she would have had to wait at least until next year to see these results.

[The master is indeed the master, I still have so much to learn!]