I Practice Farming While the Rest Cultivates

The second Red Cloud Pine Nut was picked.

It was also of superior quality.

Lu Xuan put it into his storage bag and looked at the white light cluster shimmering on the Red Cloud Pine.

The light cluster transformed into countless light spots and flowed into his body. A thought emerged in his mind.

“Harvested one Red Cloud Pine Nut and earned a Second Grade Magical Tool Red Line Needle.”

A long, thin, red needle appeared in Lu Xuan’s hand.

The red needle was about three inches long and extremely light. Holding it between his fingers felt like holding nothing.

Lu Xuan infused a trace of spiritual power, moved with his spiritual sense, and with a whistle, the red needle instantaneously disappeared from his hand.

Following a weak sense, he found the red needle embedded in the middle of the wall. The needle had completely penetrated the thick stone wall.

Under his spiritual control, the red needle flew out of the stone wall, rotating around Lu Xuan at an incredible speed, creating countless red thread illusions.

“Needle-type artifacts are rather rare. This red needle has excellent concealment and is slightly faster than the Slivered Silver Blade. Coupled with its terrifying piercing ability, it is an excellent tool for sneak attacks.”

Due to the small size of the red needle, Lu Xuan first placed it in a jade box before putting it into his storage bag.

“Two Red Cloud Pine Nuts, both of superior quality. One yielded a copy of the ‘Fundamentals of Rune Making,’ detailing the refining methods of dozens of commonly used First Grade charms. The other produced a Second Grade needle-type artifact, a red needle.”

“As expected of a First Grade Spirit Plant, the rewards are much more plentiful than those of the spontaneous Spirit Firefly Grass and the Moon Erosion Fruit.”

Lu Xuan couldn’t help but sigh.

With his current Cultivation Qi Level Six, the First Grade talismans from grinding the Spirit Firefly Grass and the spontaneous Formula Methods are somewhat unappealing. Still, it’s the only thing that can yield cultivation rewards at present.

Hence, before discovering a new Spirit Plant that can provide cultivation rewards, he still needed to plant a large number of Spirit Firefly Grass.

After harvesting two mature Red Cloud Pine Nuts, Lu Xuan approached the Grass Puppet.

Half of the Grass Puppet’s limbs were removed by the masked cultivator at midnight, leaving behind only its oversized head and gray grass torso, which looked quite strange.

At the moment, from the enormous gray grass lump on its head, countless strands of gray, black, withered grass were extending, merging at the spot where an arm used to be, slowly weaving itself together.

It was a perfect embodiment of the phrase ‘Undeterred even with a broken body.’

Unfortunately, the progress was too slow. After such a long time, only a small section had been woven at the shoulder.

Lu Xuan, who usually only fed it Broken Spirit, generously took out a Spirit Stone from his storage bag

and stuffed it into the grass lump on the Grass Puppet’s head.

“You did well last night. Here’s a Spirit Stone as a reward. After you finish weaving your limbs, continue helping me guard the Spirit Field.”

“Guard the Spirit Field! Guard the Spirit Field!”

When concentrated, Lu Xuan sensed the Grass Puppet’s innermost persistence.

“What a touching and dedicated employee for a Spirit Plant Master…”

With the Spirit Stone providing spiritual power, a few more strands of withered grass emerged from the gray lump, though the speed was still slow.

Lu Xuan had to leave it alone to slowly recover.

After only a few steps, suddenly, a coarse struggling cry came from beneath his feet.

“Ooh—”

Lu Xuan followed the sound and saw the Cloud Leopard Juvenile beast stepping on its thick cloud-like paws, passing under his feet.

It walked with grace, looking leisurely. Its green eyes seemed to disregard Lu Xuan entirely.

Having already known its true identity, Lu Xuan looked at the Cloud Leopard and couldn’t help but laugh.

“All right, all right, you performed quite well last night, I’ll reward you with two dried hedgehog meats at noon.”

The Cloud Leopard seemed not to have heard, it calmly strutted about, the slight trembling of its fur on its pointy ears revealing its inner excitement.

After dealing with the Grass Puppet and the Cloud Leopard, Lu Xuan took out a handful of Spirit Rice and threw it into the Spiritual Spring Pool. The three Red-bearded Carps fought over it, stirring up layers of ripples in the spring water, making the Pure Snow Lotus’s snowy leaves sway gently under the onslaught of the ripples.

Taking advantage of the mist that had not yet dissipated, Lu Xuan began his day’s work as a Spirit Plant Master.

According to the needs of each Spirit Plant, Lu Xuan controlled the range, capacity, and duration of the Spirit Rain Technique, providing them with thorough irrigation.

Incidentally, he also ruthlessly separated a clump of First Grade Blood Jade Ginseng that had grown entangled together. A single Blood Jade Ginseng was surrounded by eight others, intertwined from all sides.

“To deal with eight Blood Jade Ginsengs at once, I’d like to crown you the king of Ginseng.”

Lu Xuan carefully isolated them with spiritual power, to prevent the Blood Jade Ginseng in the middle from being directly drained by the other eight.

He also imparted a Sword Technique to the Sword Grass, allowing it to be nourished by Sword Qi.

The smoke produced by the Phantom Smoke Luo Fruit multiplied, obstructing any Spiritual Sense from permeating it, leaving Lu Xuan to carefully navigate to find its location.

For the rapidly growing plants, he used the Tree Life Spell, to urge them to mature quickly.

It was both simple and dull, busy, yet fulfilling.

After finishing all his tasks, half a day had passed. Lu Xuan returned beneath the eaves, looking at the flourishing Spirit Plants in the Spirit Field. Wiping the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, he revealed a satisfied smile.

He looked every bit the Spirit Plant Master, who was passionate about planting. It was hard to imagine that not long ago he had killed two Middle-Level Qi Practitioners.

After a short rest, Lu Xuan decided to go to the Loose Cultivation Market, to see if he could find a good Second Grade Defense Array and snake-type demon beast blood.

He would also stop by at Bai Cao Tang to see how the death of the Zhou-surnamed Spirit Plant Master might have affected things.

He adjusted his Concealment Method, revealing the power of a Fourth Level Qi Cultivator.

By projecting an intermediate Qi Cultivation level instead of his actual lower Qi Cultivation level, he could avoid unnecessary troubles.

When he first rented this Spirit Field, he appeared as a Third Level Qi Cultivator. In less than a year, he had broken through to the Fourth Level. Although this rapid improvement was still within reason for a loose cultivator, it would still draw attention.

As for revealing his actual Sixth Level Qi Cultivation, he dared not do so.

The difference between cultivating from the Third Level to the Fourth Level and cultivating from the Third Level to the Sixth Level was enormous. A discerning person would know that there is a serious problem with such a rapid increase and it would easily arouse the jealousy and scrutiny of other cultivators.

In Bai Cao Tang, everything was as usual. The death of the Zhou-surnamed Spirit Plant Master had not caused much disturbance.

Only occasionally would one hear an attendant who dealt with medicinal herbs mention it.

It was understandable, although the Enforcement Hall cultivators patrolled the markets, they couldn’t prevent all cultivators from being mysteriously killed, especially on the outskirts of the market where all sorts of people mingled. It was not uncommon for familiar cultivators to suddenly disappear or mysteriously die.

Moreover, like Lu Xuan, the Zhou-surnamed Spirit Plant Master was also under the second type of cooperation with Bai Cao Tang and did not accept its protection. Therefore, the attendants in Bai Cao Tang couldn’t empathize or worry about their own safety.

After Lu Xuan sat for a while, Manager He came out from inside.

“Kid Lu, are you here to hand in the Spirit Firefly Grass so soon?”

“Not really, I just wanted to go to the market to buy some things and I was passing by, so I thought I’d drop in and see you.”

“I intend to sell the remaining Spirit Firefly Grass to the Hall after all of them have matured. However, next time I may want to get more Spirit Firefly Grass seeds from you.”

“A hundred Spirit Firefl Grasses are not enough for you? If you want more, can your small amount of spiritual power handle it?”

Lu Xuan only laughed in response and took a sip from the cup of tea in his hand.

Seeing Lu Xuan in this state, the thin old man formed a guess in his mind. His spiritual sense swept over Lu Xuan’s body, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

“Have you broken through to the Fourth Level of Qi Cultivation?”