Five days passed.
At dusk, Li An, as usual, closed the door and lit a fire to cook.
In order to prevent the smell of the new spiritual rice that was not fully mature from being detected, he added a dozen grains of mature spiritual rice to it every time.
In fact, the difference in the aroma of the two was not too big, and Wang Zilin and Zhang Susu could not have noticed it.
But being cautious has been engraved into Li An's bones and has become an instinct.
These days, Li An can harvest about one kilogram of spiritual rice every night.
This is the limit.
Because his stealing method is too careful, he only takes three or five grains from each rice ear instead of taking the whole ear.
While taking, he also used his fingernails to disguise some bite marks of insects and ants, so the speed is very slow.
Moreover, Li An is not greedy, mainly because there are more impurities in the spiritual rice, which limits the speed of extracting spiritual energy.
At present, his body can only digest one kilogram of spiritual rice in a day.
More than that, it will just be wasted and cannot be absorbed.
This is because he benefited from his experience in cultivation in his previous life. Otherwise, people like Wang Zilin would only eat half a liang of food every day at this stage!
This is the importance of resources. If you use spiritual stones to cultivate, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will be many times faster!
The progress of cultivation will naturally be faster.
…
A large pot of spiritual rice was out of the pot, and Li An ate it in big mouthfuls.
The taste was not as fragrant as the fully mature spiritual rice, and it tasted vaguely like grass, but Li An was happy with it.
The whole pot of rice was eaten.
Li An checked his body. Under the nourishment of a large pot of spiritual rice essence every day, the green sprout in his dantian had become the size of a pea.
But it was still in the budding state!
In the past few days, Li An's spiritual roots destroyed by thunder spiritual energy have been repaired by about one-fifth.
It was very slow, but he was very satisfied.
This fully proved the heaven-defying effect of the life-nourishing immortal art.
After all, if the spiritual roots are damaged, generally only the second-grade elixir can have the possibility of repair!
A second-grade elixir, let alone a chores like him, even a formal disciple would not be able to obtain it.
…
Wait until the night falls.
As usual, Li An sneaked into the spiritual field.
After a few days of observation, he had a deeper understanding of the spiritual field as a whole.
There are spirit gathering arrays around the spiritual field, which can gather spiritual energy for crops to grow.
But the spirit gathering arrays are unevenly distributed, resulting in the poorest land on the left and the worst quality of spiritual rice.
The right is second, and the middle is the best!
Tonight, he went directly into the middle area, which is the core production area and the central area of the spirit gathering array.
Under the moonlight, the rice in front of him is tall and dense, and the rice ears are full.
Li An's movements are already extremely skillful, and he pulls them all the way along the ditch.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, a green borer that landed on Li An's sleeve caught his attention.
The borer, which hides during the day and comes out at night, feeds on rice leaves. The larvae are very similar to maggots, and the adult form is similar to that of a moth.
It is normal to have borers in a spiritual rice field, but this worm is fat and big, and its body is transparent, which shows that it has become spiritual!
This is not right. Very few borers can become spiritual. Generally, they only show signs of spiritualization in the adult stage. Moreover, the current spiritual rice is not enough to support their spiritualization.
Li An was careful and moved forward along the ditch.
The terrain here is the flattest, and the water in the ditch is almost not flowing. It is in a static state, but as he walked, his skin was sensitive to the movement of the water, as if something in front was absorbing water.
Li An touched it and felt that the spiritual energy around him was extremely rich. At the intersection of the two ditches in front, there was a "gurgling" sound of water.
It was a whirlpool!
The water flow in the spiritual field was sucked into it.
Moreover, the spiritual energy in the spiritual field also gathered from here, and was carried by the water flow to an unknown place.
On the weeds around the whirlpool, there were more than a dozen huge borer larvae, almost all of which were transparent and spiritualized.
"It turns out that someone is stealing spiritual energy!"
Li An suddenly realized.
This whirlpool must have secretly set up a mechanism array, which stole part of the spiritual energy in the spiritual field gathering array.
"This whirlpool that steals spiritual energy has caused the spiritual energy in the spiritual field to be unbalanced, so a large number of borers have also been produced..."
Li An pondered, who would be the one who stole the spiritual energy?
He subconsciously glanced at the top of the Spiritual Planting Mountain.
Fan Jie is the only possibility.
Stealing from the public! ?
However, Li An had no desire to meddle in other people's business.
Instead, he was quite happy and caught all the spiritualized borers on the grass leaves around the whirlpool.
In the words before the time travel, these insects are all high-level proteins!
A thumb-sized spiritualized borer contains almost as much spiritual energy as one pound of spiritual rice.
If it weren't for the gathering of spiritual energy here, the entire spiritual field probably wouldn't produce so many spiritualized borers.
For cultivators who have just entered the Qi Refining Stage, this is a rare delicacy, but for cultivators like Fan Jie who are in the middle stage of Qi Refining, it is useless.
Of course, these insects also contain trace amounts of insect poison, so other low-level servants don't know how to eat them.
So, these borers have never been caught.
Instead, it's a bargain for Li An!
Moreover, as long as the spiritual energy is always unbalanced, there will be spiritualized borers in the spiritual field.
"There will be more and more borers, and the more serious the pest, the less likely it is that I will be discovered stealing spiritual rice!"
Li An was relieved. After collecting these insects, he continued to pull out the spiritual rice.
...
The next day.
Early in the morning, Fan Jie went down the mountain. He had something to go out for, and he checked the cultivation progress of Li An and the other two.
"Well, Wang Zilin, right? You have made some progress in the art of raising clouds and distributing rain."
"Zhang Susu is not bad either."
Wang Zilin's cultivation progress is the fastest, followed by Zhang Susu, which makes Fan Jie quite satisfied.
Especially after Zhang Susu successfully practiced Qi, her luster became more charming, and her figure was made more graceful by the spiritual rice. Fan Jie looked at her greedily a few more times.
"Li An, what about you?" Fan Jie turned his head and looked at Li An.
"My spiritual roots are damaged, and I have not yet been able to enter the first level of Qi training..."
Li An's face was ugly.
"You haven't practiced Qi yet?!"
Fan Jie frowned immediately, and the fat on his face trembled. He shouted: "There is only half a month left, and you haven't practiced Qi yet. Are you coming to my Lingzhi Mountain to eat free food?"
Li An lowered his head and dared not speak.
"Don't think you'll be fine if you don't talk. I'm telling you, Lingzhi Mountain doesn't support idlers, let alone useless people. You can't participate in farming in half a month, and all your monthly allowances will be deducted. Get out of here!"
"Do you understand?"
Li An said, "Disciple understands."
Fan Jie snorted coldly and said, "I have something to leave the mountain. During this period, you are not allowed to go up the mountain, otherwise I will find you and break your dog legs."
After that, he turned and left Lingzhi Mountain.
"Li An, haven't you repaired your spiritual roots yet?"
After Fan Jie left, Zhang Susu asked.
Li An smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Not yet... I'll try again."
After that, he went back to the house. "Susu, don't worry about him. I heard that unless he can get a second-grade elixir to repair his spiritual roots, he will never have a chance in his life. He is destined to be a useless person..."
"Come, how about we practice the technique of raising clouds and rain together? I feel that I have made some progress and can share my experience with you..."
Wang Zilin's brisk and proud voice was faintly heard from outside the room.
...
Today's dinner is particularly fragrant.
After dozens of spiritual larvae were cooked with spiritual rice, the rice had a hint of meaty aroma.
The spiritual energy and life essence of this pot of rice are almost equivalent to the amount of all spiritual rice in the past half month.
After eating, the life seed was visibly larger, as big as a peanut.
The top of the life seed was even more pointed, as if a sprout was about to emerge.
...
Another ten days passed.
In three days, the one-month "newcomer period" of the three people will end.
That evening, after dinner, Li An checked his dantian and finally showed a relaxed and satisfied smile.
In the Dantian, a green seedling has "broken the soil" and grown a tender leaf.
Li An's broken spiritual root, nourished by the life seed, finally recovered!
This is a miracle!
Because, even if you get the second-grade elixir, it will take about half a year to repair the spiritual root.
"With the life seed, my vitality and recovery ability have been significantly improved. Now even if I don't practice and become a mortal, I can easily live to 120 years old."
Li An whispered, and then took out the small half of the spiritual stone.
The lower-grade spiritual stone contains limited spiritual energy.
Moreover, Li An knew very well that this should be one-third of a complete spiritual stone.
The three of them should have a total of three spiritual stones every month, but Fan Jie deducted two, and then divided one into three parts to give to the three of them.
It's really a dog.
But it should be enough to enter the first level of Qi training.
Li An absorbed the rich spiritual energy in the spiritual stone, and then operated the life-nourishing immortal technique to refine the spiritual energy into his body.
Another five days passed.
Li An finally succeeded in practicing Qi and entered the first level of Qi training.
"The speed of practicing the Life-Nourishing Immortal Art is really...slow."
Li An woke up with a complicated look.
Even Zhang Susu, Wang Zilin, and those who were familiar with the breathing art, took a total of seven days.
The actual time spent practicing Qi was no more than two days.
But Li An spent so much time...
However, what satisfied him was that the Qi he practiced was very pure and free of impurities.
After all, the road to practice is long and difficult, and Li An's character has long been tempered to be firm and calm, and he will not be anxious because he falls behind others.
At the same time, Li An urged the life seed to let his spiritual root continue to show a broken state.
-This is one of the special effects of the life seed, which can disguise and hide one's state and breath.
...
Fan Jie went out for more than half a month and did not come back.
It was another noon three days later when he finally came back from outside.
"Come out and gather!"
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