"Let's go check out the Lingsui rice first."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and then walked into the fertile fields in the valley.
This valley is located in the center of Yejia Island and is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, making it difficult for outsiders to see what is really going on. It is also able to gather sea water vapor, making it a great place to grow elixirs.
It's a pity that with such good geographical conditions, it cannot be transformed into a spiritual field due to the lack of spirituality and spiritual energy in the spiritual veins, which makes Ye Linyuan feel a little regretful.
"If the spiritual veins of the Ye Family Island are upgraded to the second level, and a large formation is laid to nourish the earth veins, all of these hundred acres of fertile land can be transformed into spiritual fields, which will be enough to serve as the foundation for the Ye Family."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, but shook his head slightly. It is not so easy to cultivate a hundred acres of spiritual fields. It requires a huge amount of spiritual stones and even various rare treasures.
Although he has enough means and methods, he does not have enough strength and resources, so he can only move forward step by step.
Entering the valley again, Ye Linyuan looked around the huge Lingsui rice field and found that most of the Lingsui rice here were half-dead, and only a very small number could produce spiritual rice, but the yield was also frighteningly low.
"There is not enough spiritual energy, and there is no spiritual nourishment method. In addition, insect pests devour the spiritual rice. The annual production of 300 to 500 kilograms of spiritual rice is already dependent on the weather."
Ye Linyuan evaluated this in his heart, and soon he came up with a sufficient plan.
Cultivate the hundreds of arts, with farming as the foundation.
Among the hundreds of arts of cultivation in this world, the status and importance of spiritual plants have always been ranked first since ancient times, because it is the basis and source of the vast majority of production materials in the world of cultivation.
After all, the number of rare and precious things produced by nature is limited, and the vast majority of elixirs and treasures require extremely harsh conditions to grow and survive.
However, the Spirit Plant Husband can use magic and other means to artificially create a living environment for spiritual medicines. He can even greatly increase the output of spiritual plants and speed up the maturation of spiritual medicines.
Taking the cultivation of Lingsui rice as an example, if these one hundred mu of fertile land for Lingsui rice were handed over to a first-class lower-grade Lingzhi farmer to cultivate, the annual output would at least increase by three times.
If this spiritual plant farmer can also master the spell of ripening the rice and eliminate pests, he can change the Lingsui rice that matures once a year to once every six months, and the output will increase several times.
This is still a first-level spiritual plant farmer. If a second-level spiritual plant farmer were to grow it, the output would easily increase by dozens of times.
Of course, the status of a first-level spiritual plant husband is already extremely noble, and he would never grow the cheap spiritual rice, not to mention those second-level spiritual plant husbands whose status is extremely precious.
They were all taking care of the spiritual fields, carefully planting rare spiritual medicines, or high-level spiritual woods and other materials for refining tools, talismans, and puppets.
The spiritual medicines and spiritual trees grown by many skilled spiritual hermits are treasures that are madly snatched away by countless high-level monks.
Because as long as there are enough medicinal herbs to practice with and enough cultivation, then no matter how dull the talent is, even a pig demon can be raised to become a high-level alchemist.
However, without sufficient high-quality medicinal materials to practice, and only relying on daydreaming and painstaking contemplation without sufficient opportunities to practice, then no matter how amazing one's talent and potential are, it will be impossible to break through the bottleneck of alchemy.
The development of the hundred arts of cultivation is essentially a refinement based on existing materials.
The same goes for refining weapons, making talismans, and refining puppets. Without the materials, it is impossible to achieve a high level of achievement.
It can be said that a high-level spiritual plant husband is fully capable of training multiple masters of refining weapons, refining pills, making talismans, and even refining puppets for the family and sect.
Even formation mages need various rare materials grown by spirit plant farmers.
"Among all the arts of cultivation, farming comes first, and spiritual farming is the foundation of all the arts of cultivation."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart and recalled the four core spells of the first-level spiritual plant husband. These four spells were the Spirit Rain Spell, the Ripening Spell, the Geng Golden Needle, and the Spirit Nourishing Spell.
Among these four spells, the Spirit Rain Spell can gather spiritual rain to irrigate the spiritual fields, and is the most core method of the Spirit Plant Man.
There are four levels of magic: initial stage, Hinayana, Mahayana, and near path.
Generally speaking, if one has mastered the Spirit Rain Art to the initial stage, he can be considered a quasi-spiritual husband. However, in order to become a true spiritual husband, one must at least master the Hinayana Spirit Rain Art.
Although the Spirit Rain Technique is of a lower grade, it is a mysterious magic that controls celestial phenomena. It is extremely difficult to practice. Even many people in the middle and late stages of Qi training may not be able to practice it to the Hinayana level.
As for the Mahayana spiritual rain technique, it is even more rare. Generally speaking, those who master the Mahayana spiritual rain technique are all first-class top-grade spiritual cultivators. Such people would be guests of honor even if they went to the Qinghe Immortal Sect.
As for spells at the near-path level, they can only be mastered by legendary prodigies from the past. If one masters the Spirit Rain Spell at the near-path level, it can even be comparable to the second-tier Spirit Plant Spell, and one's status is incomparably noble.
Because the spiritual rain technique of the near-path level has a certain effect on the second-level spiritual plants, such characters must be treated with great care even by the foundation-building monks.
In addition to the Spirit Rain Technique, the Ripening Technique, the Geng Golden Needle Technique, and the Soul Nourishing Technique are also very advanced first-level spells.
Among them, the ripening method can ripen elixirs, the Geng Golden Needle can kill pests, and the spiritual cultivation technique can increase the potential upper limit of spiritual plants, so that the medicinal power of the fruits they produce is improved, or even mutate into higher-level elixirs.
Moreover, the effects of spells will vary greatly depending on the level of spell practice.
If it is only at the initial level, the ripening method can only increase the ripening speed of the elixir by one level, but if it reaches the Hinayana or Mahayana level, the ripening speed will be doubled or even tripled.
If one reaches the near-path realm, the growth rate of first-tier spiritual medicines can be increased by more than ten times, and it can even have an effect on second-tier spiritual medicines.
The same is true for Geng Jin Zhen, this method was created based on harmful insects and evil insects.
Because the evil insects are attached to the elixir, and may even be hiding inside the elixir, if they are killed with idle magic, the elixir will inevitably be destroyed.
The Gengjin Needle of the Spiritual Plant Man is extremely small and can kill pests and evil insects without damaging the spiritual medicine. It is one of the key spells that the Spiritual Plant Man must learn.
This method can only release a few Gengjin needles at the beginning, but if it is cultivated to the near-Dao level, three thousand Gengjin needles can be released in a single thought.
The three thousand Geng gold needles can gather and disperse at will, and their combined power can easily kill a top-grade first-level demon insect. This is also Ling Zhifu's only means of fighting, and it is not weak at all even when used against enemies.
The Soul-Nurturing Technique can increase the medicinal power of spiritual plants by 10%, 50%, 100%, or even 300% depending on the level of attainment.
To become a first-class spirit plant husband, the minimum requirement is to master the Hinayana spirit rain technique, while a first-class mid-quality spirit plant husband must master four Hinayana spirit plant spells at the same time.
A first-class upper-grade spiritual plant husband needs to master the Mahayana Spirit Rain Technique on this basis.
It is said that if one masters four kinds of Mahayana spiritual plant spells at the same time, he can be regarded as a quasi-second-level spiritual plant husband, and his status and position are high enough to be treated as an equal by the Foundation Establishment Ancestor.