2: Chapter 2 Great Harvest

"Oh, there's even Crafting Talismans experience!"

Chen Jiancang felt the Crafting Talismans experience naturally appearing in his mind, and his face lit up with joy. Alchemy, Talismans, Artifacts, and Formations are the Four Arts of Cultivation, which every Cultivator desires to learn but finds difficult to master.

The Chen Family motto states that as a member of the Chen Family, one must not only practice Qi Refining daily but also learn one of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation.

Most Chen disciples choose the Chen Family's foundational industry, Spirit Plant Cultivation.

However, besides being famous for cultivating spirit plants, the Chen Family of Spirit Farmers is also renowned for Crafting Talismans in the Qingya Mountain Range.

Because qinghe rice stalks can be used to make low-grade talisman paper, this greatly lowered the threshold for Chen talisman masters to start learning Crafting Talismans.

Chen Jiancang had previously studied Crafting Talismans, but his talent was average. Despite consuming a large amount of talisman paper and energy, he could only draw First Order low-grade spirit rain talismans, and his success rate was particularly low.

However, now that the Crafting Talismans experience group was absorbed into his mind, the obscure and difficult-to-understand spiritual energy patterns he encountered when studying Crafting Talismans before became extraordinarily clear, as if he had practiced drawing these talisman experiences thousands of times.

"Continue! Continue!"

Chen Jiancang couldn't wait to start harvesting the qinghe rice.

In half a day, two mu of Spirit Field were harvested by Chen Jiancang.

A large wave of spirit energy groups was absorbed into his body. At this moment, he felt the Bottleneck of Qi Refining third layer that had troubled him for a long time break through with unstoppable force, like a dam releasing floodwaters.

The spiritual energy contained within his body even allowed him to break through to the Peak of Qi Refining third layer, and the barrier to Qi Refining fourth layer was subtly loosened.

"Hahaha."

Chen Jiancang couldn't help but laugh out loud in ecstasy, even startling Chen Yinzhang, who was working in the adjacent Spirit Field, causing him to look over.

"Jiancang, why are you so excited?"

"Seventeenth Uncle-Grandfather, just now after harvesting the qinghe rice, I had a realization and broke through a Bottleneck," Chen Jiancang replied with a smile.

The joy in his expression was hard to conceal.

"Oh?"

"Not bad, not bad. Five-element mixed Spiritual Root, yet you can break through to Qi Refining third layer at sixteen. It seems you've been diligent in your studies. Like me, with similar Aptitude as you, I'm still in the Middle Stage of Qi Refining. Breaking through to the later stage in this lifetime is probably out of the question."

Chen Yinzhang stroked his Hu and said with a smile.

Five-element mixed Spiritual Roots, if without fortuitous encounters, can mostly only stop at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining. This is common knowledge in the cultivation world.

"After selling this batch of spiritual rice, go to the Chen Family Market and buy some pills to improve your cultivation. Don't waste your spiritual stones at the Red Boudoir Tower."

Chen Yinzhang said with a teasing smile.

The Red Boudoir Tower is a brothel in the Market. The women who serve and entertain there are low-grade female Cultivators with poor Aptitude and shallow cultivation.

That place is also considered a famous money pit in the Market. For Chen Family Cultivators with five-element mixed Spiritual Roots like Chen Jiancang, who have the Chen Family's protection and a stable income, it's impossible to use all their ample spiritual stones for cultivation.

The Red Boudoir Tower is naturally an excellent place to go.

Among Chen Jiancang's peers, there is a cousin who is a regular customer there.

"Seventeenth Uncle-Grandfather, you're joking. How could I possibly go to such a place?"

Although he had transmigrated, having lived two lives, Chen Jiancang had never experienced carnal matters. At this moment, being teased by Chen Yinzhang, his cheeks couldn't help but blush.

As for Chen Yinzhang's suggestion to buy pills to improve his cultivation, how could that compare to the rapid progress gained from the rewards of harvesting spirit plants?

qinghe rice ripens in July. By this calculation, he can harvest roughly two crops a year.

At that time, the large amount of spirit energy groups harvested would be equivalent to several years of his arduous cultivation.

Breaking through again will no longer be a distant prospect.

Moreover, the harvest just now also yielded a large amount of Crafting Talismans experience and Spirit Rain Technique experience.

In addition to this, Chen Jiancang also unexpectedly gained a large amount of First Order Alchemy experience.

Chen Jiancang had never been exposed to Alchemy before, but now, the large amount of Alchemy experience gained allowed him to master this art without a teacher.

Two First Order Pill Formulas even appeared out of thin air in his mind, one of which was the Qinghe Bigu Pill, the pillar of the Chen Family of Spirit Farmers.

The other was a low-grade Qi Gathering Pill that used qinghe rice as the main ingredient and had never appeared in the Qingya Mountain Range cultivation world.

Qinghe Qi Cultivation Pill contains spiritual energy within the pill and can assist low-level Qi Refining Cultivators in their practice.

It should be known that pills that can assist cultivation are very popular in the cultivation world. If the Qinghe Qi Cultivation Pill were to appear on the market, the influence of the Chen Family of Spirit Farmers in the Qingya Mountain Range would likely increase again.

"Could it be that the harvest rewards are closely related to the spirit plants cultivated?"

Feeling the changes in himself, Chen Jiancang fell into deep thought.

The rewards he obtained from harvesting qinghe rice, whether it was spirit energy groups, Crafting Talismans, or Alchemy, were all related to qinghe rice.

To verify the thoughts in his mind, Chen Jiancang already had a plan. He would plant qinghe rice in the two mu of Spirit Field as usual.

In addition, he would rent other Spirit Fields within the Chen Family to cultivate some other spirit plants, so as to verify the idea in his mind.

Furthermore, he would contribute the qinghe rice cultivation plan and the Qi Gathering Pill formula to the Chen Family to earn Chen Family contribution points.

Chen Family contribution points can be used to exchange for Cultivation Techniques, inheritances of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, and Magical Artifacts. If the contribution points are sufficient, one can even exchange for a foundation establishment pill.

Chen Jianshen, with his three-element Spiritual Root talent, only had the Opportunity for priority allocation of a foundation establishment pill upon reaching the Peak of Qi Refining. If one's contribution points are sufficient, they don't need to queue and can exchange directly.

Chen Jiancang's willingness to contribute the cultivation plan and Pill Formula was naturally also because he hoped the Chen Family could become stronger. This way, he could cultivate peacefully by farming and steadily pursue immortality.