18: Chapter 18 The Path of Spiritual Farming! The Power of the Azure Emperor's Legacy!

"Bainongzis Essential Guide to Spiritual Planting... It records the details of cultivating, nourishing, and harvesting one hundred types of spiritual plants..."

Shen Yi looked at the yellowed book before him, a flash of excitement in his eyes.

This thing didn't look like much.

But for him, it was crucial! Crucial! Crucial!

Important things must be said three times!

The lingyuan rice he planted in the fields was a spiritual plant developed by the Shennong Valley...

This spiritual plant required no special operations; it was practically foolproof... As long as it was planted in the spiritual field, one just had to wait for the harvest!

However, it had a fatal flaw, which was that it could not breed a second generation.

This could be considered a method of isolation through some immortal technique, and it was also a secret recipe of the Shennong Valley.

The purpose, naturally, was monopoly...

And the noble families had no choice but to bite the bullet and buy it!

This was called a patent; this was called professionalism!

And the methods for planting the one hundred types of spiritual plants recorded by Bainongzi, including cultivation, isolation methods... and different branches with different effects, were all included.

The utility was enormous!

This item... if sold in Taiping County, would be worth tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands!

Admittedly, the highest quality among them was only the cultivation method for first-grade spiritual plants, but as a Legacy, it was enough to live off of for a lifetime!

Shen Yi carefully tucked it into his robes, thinking about whether he could cultivate it.

He couldn't just hand this thing over to others yet!

After putting it away, Shen Yi continued to look at the other items...

[First-Grade Heaven and Earth Wonder - lingze flower]

This was a slightly delicate flower... fragile, almost like glass.

Yet, within it, there was a surging water Qi.

Shen Yi looked closely and saw that each petal was like a small pool of water.

The pools were incredibly clear... and it seemed that spiritual water was gestating within them.

The function of this wonder echoed in his mind.

[lingze flower, can absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and the vitality of the earth veins, can absorb water Qi... and gather spiritual water.]

Spiritual water could be consumed as a means of recovering Spiritual Qi, used to refine Medicinal Pills, refine Magical Artifacts, or for cooking; it could be called omnipotent.

And spiritual water was not so easily produced.

The lingze flower before him had already accumulated more than half, likely gestated by yesterday's diluojiang!

This demon lair was simply too good value for money...

Shen Yi thought for a moment and set it aside.

He took out the last piece of gold foil and looked at it carefully.

[Azure Emperors Legacy...]

The Azure Emperor should represent a Dao Cultivator.

It's just that this Dao Cultivator was too arrogant, calling himself an Emperor...

As Shen Yi thought this, he looked at the text on the gold foil... but he couldn't make out anything at all.

"Could it be some kind of record that isn't written text?"

"Even so, someone would need to be able to read it, right?"

Just then, a prompt suddenly appeared before Shen Yi's eyes!

[Use Official Aura to gaze upon it, you may obtain the Azure Emperors Legacy fragment, rate of return (???)]

Shen Yi was stunned for a moment; he had never seen a rate of return marked with '?'.

Official Aura... was this something he could possess?

He curled his lip... and his thoughts stirred.

He saw a gray, misty aura appear on his palm.

But in an instant... a voice like a heavenly pardon echoed in his mind.

[Guard the land, pacify the people.]

Shen Yi suddenly realized... he had indeed done a good job of pacifying the people.

But as for guarding the land... that had probably only been unlocked yesterday.

Was this why a wisp of Official Aura was born?

He looked at the Official Aura in his palm, feeling somewhat disappointed... He remembered that the seventh and sixth-grade officials had white Official Aura, while High Grade officials had some that were pitch black, some vermilion, some purple, and some even cyan.

His Official Aura... represented his own official fortune.

It seems... he really wasn't of a high enough rank.

Shen Yi shook his head, and with a thought, the Official Aura landed between his brows!

In an instant, he let out a muffled groan.

He saw the text, which had been as fine as mosquito legs, suddenly become large and bold.

It violently squeezed into his mind!

After a full stick of incense had passed, he finally stopped, drenched in cold sweat!

"The earth contains ten thousand lives, the Karma is boundless."

"Vitality nourishes all things, nurturing my true spirit."

"This Azure Emperors Legacy can actually generate a Spiritual Root in the body by absorbing the essence of vegetation condensed by spiritual plants?"

"If one has a Spiritual Root, can it also nourish the quality of the Spiritual Root, or even derive a special Physique?"

"Possessing all kinds of abilities?"

"Is this determined to make me farm?"

"I love farming!"

Shen Yi felt inspired...

Generating a Spiritual Root, did that mean he could cultivate?

Did that mean he could also achieve longevity?

Good thing!

He coughed and instructed Wang Meng.

"Today's events must never be known to anyone else!"

Wang Meng nodded repeatedly...

He naturally knew the importance of this matter.

Shen Li rubbed the gold foil in his hand, thinking... This Azure Emperors Legacy was a fragment, there should be other parts.

It was just that the surging of the earth veins was unpredictable, difficult even for great Dao Cultivators and court officials to capture.

It could only depend on luck...

Shen Yi thought about it and prepared to take the various spoils to Taiping County after the lingyuan rice matured... to pull some strings.

To see if he could get a better performance review.

And to purchase some items while he was at it.

He ordered people to send the items to his residence... then patrolled along the streets.

The blacksmith shop had also finished repairs and started the fires.

However, they didn't use earth fire... that stuff was expensive.

Now, the craftsmen were just forging some farm tools or repairing the armor and weapons of the Rakshasa Guard.

The weapons currently used by the Rakshasa Guard were ordinary weapons... so there was no need to quench them with earth fire!

Afterwards, Shen Yi came out along the city wall and arrived at the twenty acres of farmland.

Looking at the lingyuan rice that was a full person's height, he couldn't help but sigh at the power of this world of cultivation...

The Opportunity of diluojiang was rare and hard to come by; in about three days, these lingyuan rice would mature.

The plump ears of grain were like individual grapes.

This thing... an ordinary person would be full after eating just one grain, right?

Shen Yi met with the Old Village Chief... after giving some instructions, he returned to the town.

The people coming and going greeted and saluted Shen Yi busily.

Shen Yi had gotten used to it without realizing it.

Upon arriving at the house, Shen Yi saw the lingze flower placed on the table.

Pei Lingshu flicked the petals and said lightly.

"This flower is quite pretty."

Shen Yi paused for a moment and nodded casually.

"Then you can just take it."

Pei Lingshu was stunned.

"You don't feel bad about it?"

Shen Yi shrugged.

Pei Lingshu put it away and said haughtily.

"I won't take it for free. I'll trade you two acres of spiritual fields..."

"However, they are only first-grade spiritual fields."

Shen Yi was about to speak... when he saw Pei Lingshu continue.

"Of course, you have to figure out the Spirit Stones needed for the spiritual fields yourself."

"Miss Pei?"

Pei Lingshu turned her head and looked at Shen Yi strangely.

"Um... it's cold outside, can I go inside and sleep?"

A flash of liveliness appeared in Pei Lingshu's eyes as she pinched her delicate chin.

"Let me think about it."

Shen Yi was somewhat expectant.

"No..."

Clang.

The door was closed, and Shen Yi looked puzzled.

Three days passed in a flash...