Chapter 697: Five Elements Cultivated Together

Pure Nine-Lotus Lamp:

Yin Qingmei still needed some time to recover her spiritual power, so Chen Mobai took his two disciples to the core of Liujia Mountain's spiritual vein. The Divine Wood Sect's fourth-tier spiritual medicine, the Chongxu Immortal Ganoderma, was planted here to suppress the spiritual vein.

This immortal ganoderma had been harvested and used many times; only its last mature piece remained and was about to be cut off to serve as the main ingredient for the Infant Nurturing Pill. However, the roots were still there, and over the years, a new ring of ganoderma pieces had grown. But it was unknown how long it would take for them to mature. If only there were an endless supply of Myriad Transformation Thunderwater.

Amidst his thoughts, Chen Mobai remembered the blueprints for the Myriad Transformation Thunder Pool that Wenren Xuewei had given him. Now that the water spiritual veins had surrendered, he could try setting up this major project at Storm Harbor. However, even in the Immortal Sect, the Myriad Transformation Thunder Pool was an extremely difficult project. He wondered if it could be replicated here.

Chen Mobai made a mental note of this, planning to find a reliable person to handle it later. Then, he took out a top-grade spiritual stone and used it to replace the Chongxu Immortal Ganoderma as the spiritual vein core.

The main ingredient for the Infant Nurturing Pill was too precious, and there were also five Golden Liquid Jade Restoration Pills, which were crucial for the Divine Wood Sect's next generation to flourish. So, Chen Mobai considered it and decided to personally make a trip to Reversion Valley.

After the spiritual vein core was replaced, Zhuo Ming immediately cast Myriad Spirit Concord to calm the somewhat turbulent land and mountains.

In those years, the Divine Wood Sect was busy with closed-door cultivation to improve their cultivation and unify the Eastern Desolation. They hadn't paid much attention to Luo Yi's activities in Rainbow Country and were genuinely unaware that she had managed to achieve such feats using the Tai Sui.

Those experimental fields adopted the same cooperation model as Reversion Valley. Yin Qingmei's faction provided a guidance fee of one hundred low-grade spiritual stones, and before future harvests, only eighty percent would belong to them.

The Universal Illumination Divine Light inherently promotes the growth of spiritual plants. Since the Great Sun Purple Rice needed to absorb solar essence to grow, the Divine Wood Sect asked Luo Yi and Cao Guihao to try it when they had time. When Cao Gui arrived, he realized that even if all the cultivators of Yin Qingmei's group were mobilized, it would still be impossible to fully plant Rainbow Country and improve its soil.

"Saint Son, I can simulate Metal spiritual power to substitute."

After inspecting the Immortal Soil, Cao Guihao went to see the one hundred acres of Great Sun Purple Rice that were heading.

As soon as the master and disciple landed, they immediately entered the fields, commenting on each vibrant and thriving seedling. That place was an oasis called Cangshan Lake. "Then it's perfect!"

Lingmai Xuan belonged to the water element. She and the Divine Wood Sect could not directly cultivate together; instead, Cao Guihao's wood element was needed as a medium.

"Excellent, excellent, excellent! In that case, the Great Sun Purple Rice, which originally took eighty years to mature, can now be shortened to seventeen years!" Cao Guihao snapped his fingers, and instantly, a purple flame floated in mid-air. "This is perfect for verifying the conjecture about the Primordial Dao Fruit!"

This area had undergone the Primordial Earth Transformation, and with the nourishment of abundant spiritual energy, it had already become third-tier Immortal Soil. However, the spiritual fields of Bajia Mountain had been unstable before, so they dared not act freely. Now that the spiritual vein core had been replaced with a top-grade spiritual stone, they no longer needed to worry about that aspect.

Then, Luo Yi immediately grabbed a handful of somewhat pale soil, buried both the root system and the spiritual stone, and then guided spiritual energy to nourish them. After round after round of green plants dying and reviving, the originally withered and desolate sand and stone would gradually begin to transform, showing green, grass, and microorganisms, eventually restoring into true soil.

"Let's call it Purple Jade Spiritual Rice."

"We can arrange to transplant the Golden Sun Spiritual Trees from within the sect."

After hearing this, Luo Yi smiled somewhat innocently and didn't forget to ask the Divine Wood Sect to bestow a name upon this new third-tier spiritual rice. When the peak summer sun arrived in Rainbow Country, Luo Yi would divert water and begin sowing seeds. From the initial Green Jade to the current Purple Jade.

After hearing this, the Divine Wood Sect couldn't help but laugh heartily. Even if it wasn't sold, it could be consumed internally.

Cao Guihao said, "Ming'er, your contributions are immense. For generations to come, every cultivator in the sect who tastes this spiritual rice will owe you thanks."

What were precious spiritual materials in the eyes of Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment cultivators were, in Lingmai Xuan's hands, merely tools for skewering meat. "Greetings, Sect Master!"

Inside Lingmai Xuan's storage bag, there was also spiritual beef and lamb that she had frozen using her own cultivation method. Lingmai Xuan, who was beside them, finally found an opportunity to interject and immediately expressed her loyalty and gratitude to her master. Chen Mobai hadn't expected that in the remote Eastern Desolation, there would actually be a sect capable of cultivating such a talented spiritual plant cultivator.

Besides those, she also took out a handful of red willow branches, all of third-tier quality, which had been retrieved from a red willow forest discovered during the excavation of the White River. After hearing this, the Divine Wood Sect was also greatly pleased.

After hearing this, the Divine Wood Sect personally dug a handful of soil, felt the fertile energy contained within, and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. Luo Yi then mentioned another matter.

Then the group landed near the Bi-Jade Parasol Tree on the mountaintop.

Cao Guihao said, "Based on my experience, this new rice, when mature, should be precisely a high-grade third-tier variety, very suitable for widespread cultivation in environments like Rainbow Country."

Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth!

The master and his two disciples spent another half month touring Rainbow Country. Feeling that Chen Mobai should have almost recovered, they returned to Bajia Mountain. They hoped that in the future, they could also research and develop fourth-tier spiritual rice suitable for large-scale cultivation in the Eastern Desolation.

Aside from the Hall of Merits being unable to provide so many low-grade spiritual stones, this arrangement also ensured that when the rice produced ears in the future, it could be harvested every two years, guaranteeing a daily supply for Core Formation cultivators. Taking advantage of this time, the Divine Wood Sect imparted the art of co-cultivation to Lingmai Xuan.

Among them, Chen Mobai and Cao Gui were already well-versed in the process of spiritual power co-cultivation; they had only not yet tried it with Lingmai Xuan.

"Ming'er, you may go."

When the White River is opened up in the future, flowing through all parts of Rainbow Country, if there are enough manpower and resources, Cao Gui is confident that within seventy or eighty years, the originally desertified Rainbow Country can be transformed back into green mountains and clear waters.

According to Luo Yi's estimation, it would probably be able to upgrade to fourth-tier by the year after next. In the past, to solve this problem, they mainly chose spiritual plants with well-developed root systems or drought-resistant varieties, and constantly watered and irrigated. Perhaps it could be even better than an eighty-twenty split.

Even if cultivators cast rain spells, due to the characteristics of sandy soil, the water would quickly seep away after falling, unable to remain on the surface. In such a scenario, plants would wither and be unable to survive due to lack of water.

After observing Zhuo Ming's spiritual rice in Bajia Mountain, Cao Guihao then followed Luo Yi to a third-tier spiritual field a hundred li away. Originally a detached courtyard of Bajia Mountain, Luo Yi had converted all the spiritual fields there into experimental fields, planting new varieties that she had hybridized using Great Sun Purple Rice and Jade Sprout Spiritual Rice.

These experimental fields were not opened up all at once; their development was controlled at one hundred mu every two years. Despite any initial regrets, Lou Xuelong quickly understood the reasoning.

"Yes, Master."

Luo Yi used Tai Sui juice to prepare a spiritual water. When dripped into the sandy soil, it could imbue the soil with water-locking properties.

Cao Gui said, "According to current observations, this new rice seed is like an enhanced version of the Great Sun Purple Rice. Besides absorbing spiritual energy, earth energy, and water vapor, it also requires abundant solar essence to flourish and grow."

Chen Mobai (representing the Divine Wood Sect) spoke, and Luo Yi immediately took out Myriad Transformation Thunderwater and began helping the Bi-Jade Parasol Tree upgrade its tier. As expected, Cao Guihao was already eagerly anticipating it!

Luo Yi, however, repeatedly waved her hand, stating that without the Divine Wood Sect, she might still be an ordinary Qi Condensation cultivator, perhaps not even having broken through to the late Qi Condensation stage, already too old to bear, and needing to prepare her coffin.

"Ming'er, you might be the heaven-sent destiny to save this great land!" Although there might be some minor errors in the end, it was essentially spot on. The greatest fear in desert cultivation was insufficient water.

Luo Yi said, "That's excellent! This high-grade third-tier spiritual rice can be consumed by some Foundation Establishment cultivators. If promoted in the future, it will greatly enhance the sect's strength."

Lou Xuelong also brought the first batch of one hundred mu of Great Sun Purple Rice seeds with him when he led people to observe the heading during this trip. In that case, the seventeen hundred mu of spiritual fields we opened in Bajia Mountain will be able to continuously yield one hundred mu of third-tier Great Sun Purple Rice every year after seventeen years.

Chen Mobai had Zhuo Ming stretch out her hand, took her pulse, and confirmed that her essence, qi, and spirit had already recovered to their peak. He couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. He then recalled knowledge he hadn't used in a long time and reached a conclusion that made Luo Yi extremely happy.

Only fourth-tier spiritual fields could nurture fourth-tier Immortal Soil. That was not something Luo Yi could have researched. Spiritual water diluted with Tai Sui juice, when combined with sand and stone, would then possess the characteristics of soil, capable of retaining and locking water, preventing seepage. In that case, by only casting a rain spell once, the water contained and locked in the surface sand and stone could allow drought-resistant plants to go without water for several months.

However, after Luo Yi mastered all the processes for sowing Great Sun Purple Rice, Cao Guihao had already reached another cooperation model with Lou Xuelong. However, considering that this fourth-tier spiritual field would be the cultivation place for Luo Yi and Chen Mobai for a long time, the Divine Wood Sect only allowed Luo Yi to open up another seventeen hundred mu of experimental fields.

Her Earth Mother Cultivation Technique made further progress in the process of cultivating Immortal Soil. She even felt an opportunity to break through the limitation that the Mother Qi of Myriad Things could only cultivate third-tier spiritual soil.

Within the Immortal Sect, there were many methods to determine the grade of spiritual rice when it matured, even before it was fully ripe. From then on, whether it could be successfully planted and how much it yielded would depend entirely on Cao Guihao himself.

The Divine Wood Sect (Chen Mobai) watched his two disciples, one cooking fish and the other roasting meat, and suddenly felt a sense of old age, as if he were enjoying his golden years. "It's all because Master taught well!"

This time, with the Bi-Jade Parasol Tree's upgrade, he could control the overall situation with the art of co-cultivation, bringing his three female companions to experience the spiritual plant's transformation and the pressure of facing heavenly tribulation.

The more he looked at Luo Yi, the more he felt that his disciple was truly extraordinary! The greatest fear in desert cultivation was insufficient water.

Luo Yi had already begun developing new third-tier experimental fields.

After observing the Purple Jade Spiritual Rice at Cangshan Lake, the group stayed there for a night. The lake contained a type of spiritual fish; although its spiritual energy was thin, merely first-tier, its flesh was fresh and tender, and its bones were sweet and crisp.

The temperature of this flame was just right to perfectly roast out the juice from the red willow branches. These juices seeped into the meat, not only breaking down its gamey smell but also infusing the meat with the unique, fresh scent of the willow branches.

Grandma Ming suddenly emerged from Lingmai Xuan's shadow and spoke.

After enjoying the fish and meat, the group went to see Rainbow Country's desertification control experimental fields. Lingmai Xuan, who had been following, pretended to be very interested, nodding from time to time. The Divine Wood Sect decided that all core spiritual rice varieties developed by the Xiaonan Mountain lineage in the future would be named with "Jade."

After all, our faction (Yin Qingmei's group) now boasts four Core Formation cultivators. If they were to suppress Zhou Ye, that would mean four cultivators, and even if divided among each of them, it would only amount to 1250 jin per person.

When he was studying, Cao Guihao was first in agricultural studies. Among all his achievements, that was the only one where he hadn't relied on any "cheats," and he had always been proud of it.

Regarding this, Lou Xuelong, who had come to understand Luo Yi's spiritual plant cultivation level over the years, felt some regret. After all, even with the Immortal Sect's technology, the highest grade of spiritual rice was merely fourth-tier immortal rice.

Thinking this way, Lou Xuelong this year represented the Starry Heaven Grand Commerce Guild and signed the seventh contract with the Divine Wood Sect. After all, even with the Immortal Sect's technology, the highest grade of spiritual rice was merely fourth-tier immortal rice.