Cultivation: I have an omnipotent land

Chapter 26 Qi Refining Level 5

Inside the room, Xiao Ming was meditating and cultivating, with two small jade bottles placed in front of him.

One contained a Spirit Gathering Pill, and the other contained a Grain-Clearing Pill.

With an ample supply of elixirs, Xiao Ming has been focusing on cultivation for the past few months.

At this moment, his aura suddenly reached its peak. Amidst a violent fluctuation of spiritual energy, accompanied by a soft sound from within his body, the whistling spiritual energy swept outwards, blowing open the tightly closed windows.

Qi Refining Level 5, successfully broken through!

Xiao Ming opened his eyes, clenched his fist excitedly. With the support of ample pills, his cultivation speed was indeed different.

His consciousness entered the omnipotent space, where various colorful spiritual plants appeared before him. Looking at the "fruits" hanging among the branches and leaves, Xiao Ming couldn't help but smile.

Like a farmer who has just had a bountiful harvest, he began to reap the fruits of his labor with a joyful expression.

Then, based on the feedback from various spiritual plants, we loosened the soil, watered them, and fertilized them.

Over the past few months, both high-level talisman plants have grown to the third stage. With normal fertilization, they can be harvested once a month, with each plant yielding five or six talismans each time.

Therefore, Xiao Ming had accumulated a stack of high-level talismans.

Even if he were to encounter Shi Huai, the captain of the enforcement team, alone now, and throw out a handful of high-level talismans from his pocket, Shi Huai would still be dumbfounded.

Beams of light rose from the surface of the spiritual plant, followed by new information feedback.

[Name]: Spirit Gathering Pill

[Growth Status]: Fruiting stage (100%)

[Current Status]: Can be upgraded (requires special nutrients and spiritual water)

"Is it finally going to advance?" Xiao Ming was tending to this spiritual plant that could form spirit pills.

Xiao Ming valued this spiritual plant very much, and as his cultivation level improved, he needed to consume more and more pills.

When a spirit plant advances to the fourth stage, the shrub stage, its yield immediately doubles, and its quality is also higher.

Thanks to the careful tending over the past few months, there are still a few spiritual plants in the field that can advance to the next level. For example, the two spiritual plants that can produce low-level talismans still need special nutrients for advancement, namely talisman ink.

After Xiao Ming watered the talisman ink, the two spiritual plants have now successfully undergone a transformation.

In addition, the spiritual plants that Xiao Ming values ​​are also at a critical stage of transformation.

There stood a crystal-clear spiritual plant, as beautiful as a piece of glass or precious jade. It exuded pure spiritual energy, and as Xiao Ming approached, he felt the surrounding air become fresher.

Several low-grade spirit stones could be seen condensed among the branches of the spiritual plant.

[Name]: Spirit Stone

[Growth Status]: Fruiting stage (100%)

[Current Status]: Can be upgraded (requires special nutrients and mid-grade spirit stones)

"Advancing requires purer spiritual energy, which is just right." Xiao Ming smiled and took out a mid-grade spirit stone.

One mid-grade spirit stone is worth the same as one hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Although the cost is a bit high, it's only a matter of time before we can earn it back once the spiritual plant advances to the fourth stage.

As Xiao Ming crushed the mid-grade spirit stone and sprinkled it on the roots of the spirit plant, it began to transform amidst a faint light.

As the spirit stone plant advanced, Xiao Ming took out another spirit stone, which was also a mid-grade spirit stone.

Xiao Ming buried the mid-grade spirit stone in the ground.

Low-grade spirit stones are not very valuable, and they consume a lot of mineral sand. Overall, they are not as profitable as selling talismans.

However, the added value of a mid-grade spirit stone is much higher than that of an ordinary talisman.

Xiao Ming then picked a low-grade spirit stone from the nearby spiritual plant, crushed it, and buried it as fertilizer.

After this period of exploration, Xiao Ming has gained a new understanding of the mechanism of the omnipotent land.

As Xiao Ming had previously guessed, ordinary items could be grown directly by planting, but if he wanted to grow items with spiritual energy, he would need to fertilize them with spiritual energy nutrients.

Insufficient supply of spiritual energy nutrients will affect the normal growth of spiritual plants, just like malnutrition.

Therefore, among the three spiritual nourishments—spirit stones, spirit sand, and mineral spirit sand—Xiao Ming chose to purchase a large quantity of mineral spirit sand.

Because one low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for one pound of spirit sand, and one pound of spirit sand can be used to buy ten pounds of mineral spirit sand.

The amount of spiritual energy contained in ten catties of mineral spirit sand far exceeds that of a low-grade spirit stone.

But Xiao Ming's new conclusion is that high-quality spiritual energy nutrients will accelerate the growth of spiritual plants.

This is why spirit stones and spirit plants grow so slowly. If you were to plant mid-grade spirit stones and still use spirit sand, the growth rate would be even slower.

Although Xiao Ming had vaguely thought of this before, he was limited by the value of planting spiritual plants, so using mineral spirit sand was the most cost-effective option.

But now he has two high-value items, which are well worth investing more in.

One is a mid-grade spirit stone, and the other is a Spirit Foundation Elixir.

Xiao Ming took out a small jade bottle containing a light blue liquid.

This Foundation Establishment Elixir is a precious medicine that can increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment. How could Xiao Ming bear to use only this one portion? Of course, the more the better.

Even if he used low-grade spirit stones as nourishment, Xiao Ming believed he could still reap dozens of times the return.

Xiao Ming buried the small bottle containing the Spirit Foundation Elixir in the ground. Just thinking about how the spiritual plant would grow and bear a tree full of Spirit Foundation Elixir made Xiao Ming hum softly.

"In the little garden, digging and digging..."

"Plant tiny seeds, and tiny flowers will bloom..."

As Xiao Ming hummed a tune while applying spiritual energy to the seedling, a seedling quickly broke through the soil.

After tending to the spiritual plants in the all-purpose garden, Xiao Ming left his bedroom and went into the hall.

Although Xiao Ming locked himself in his room almost every day, the hall was very clean, and even the plants in the yard were growing very well.

It looks like it's regularly maintained.

Xiao Ming walked to the table, where he could see a box of pastries with a note underneath.

The note had a line of neat handwriting on it.

"Brother Xiao Ming, these are shortbreads I made. You must try them when you come out of seclusion—Cui'er."

"This girl..." Xiao Ming shook his head with a smile.

After Xiao Ming's last greeting, Cui'er is now a full-time employee of Yuanbaoge. This girl is exceptionally intelligent and seems to have guessed why she, an ordinary person with no background, was able to enter Yuanbaoge, so she comes over regularly to help Xiao Ming tidy up the house.

He picked up a piece of shortbread and put it in his mouth.

It tastes fragrant and sweet!

Unfortunately, Xiao Minggang had just taken the Bigu Pill and didn't have much of an appetite.

After putting the box of pastries away, Xiao Ming went out and headed towards the market street.

With the execution of Shi Huai, Liu Di, and others, Hu Fangzhu appointed a new captain of the enforcement team. Some of the previous regulations that had angered the people were abolished, and the entire market street gradually returned to its former prosperity.

People like Xiao Ming, who had been blacklisted and had their names posted on the Little Red Book, were all exonerated and their innocence restored, allowing them to freely conduct business in the market street once again.

Xiao Ming had only two goals this time: first, to acquire the spiritual water so that the Spirit Gathering Pill could be transformed into a fourth-stage spiritual plant.

The second step is to sell all the talismans that have been stockpiled during this period.