Chapter 6

There are countless agricultural spells, which can be divided into three categories based on school of thought.

Namely: Heavenly Timing School, Geographical Advantage School, and Self-Nature School.

The main idea of the Heavenly Timing School is 'know the heavenly timing, set the heavenly timing, change the heavenly timing'.

They believe that the most important condition for plant growth is heavenly timing.

In ancient times, the Xuanhuang Continent experienced the 'Natural Disaster Era', and the celestial phenomena were extremely unstable.

One day could experience four seasons, and one year could see seas change into mulberry fields.

Even now, there are many places on the Xuanhuang Continent that possess such chaotic celestial phenomena.

For example, mountain ranges that are always burning with fire, and frozen seas that never thaw.

In other places, the morning is a scorching sun, enough to melt gold and iron, and at night it freezes water into ice, freezing people into zombies.

Some places are not so extreme, but they also experience 'disordered seasons' and 'reversed solar terms'.

Therefore, the agricultural 'Heavenly Timing School' believes that the research direction of spells is to know the heavenly timing, change the heavenly timing, and set the heavenly timing, creating a stable farming environment for local people.

The most famous spell classic is the "Solar Term Order".

After cultivation, one can regulate celestial phenomena and set local solar terms; the spells inside are all centered around this idea.

The core idea of the Geographical Advantage School is that heavenly timing cannot be reversed, and celestial phenomena cannot be changed; with this energy, it is better to think about how to improve cold and bitter lands into feng shui treasure lands.

Based on this, plant seeds again, and under the dual influence of geographical advantage and plants, slowly extend outward and expand the adapted living environment.

As long as the soil is improved to be fertile enough, it can bloom and bear fruit even in the harshest weather.

Little do they know that delicate snow lotuses can also bloom on ice mountains!

The classic secret essentials of the Geographical Advantage School include "Earth Return Origin Method" and "Earth Hidden Origin Gate Array"; this school is good at using tools and magic arrays and is very close to the Engineering School.

As for the 'Self-Nature School', they say you are all trash.

What heavenly timing and geographical advantage, they are all external objects; being strong yourself is the real strength!

The Self-Nature School believes that plants themselves are a kind of miracle and are full of tenacious vitality, which can adapt to all environments.

Collecting rare flowers and exotic grasses, divine trees, and fairy branches from all over the world, and breeding the best, after several generations of repetition, one can obtain seeds capable of resisting all external factors.

The Self-Nature School believes that spells should develop in the direction of 'cultivating plants to be stronger and stronger'.

The most famous classic is the "All Things Growing Map".

"In this period, the Heavenly Timing School is prevalent and occupies the mainstream ideology, while the Geographical Advantage School and the Self-Nature School have to retreat to the secondary position."

"It won't be until the recovery version that these two schools will shine, and there will even be void seeds that take root in the void, and magical soil that can make plants transform several ranks." On the way to the temple, Zhao Xing had already decided on his current main cultivation direction.

Mainly because he didn't have the conditions to follow the Geographical Advantage School and the Self-Nature School now.

"My current mobility is too weak; if I have the ability to travel far in the future, I can look for some treasures of this era, such as Lava Earth Fire Lotus, Blood-Sucking Vine, and parasitic seeds and exotic species preserved in several ancient tombs."

"As for now... just take what I can get."

Gucheng Temple is a county-level temple.

The statues inside are not ethereal legendary gods; a small part are famous historical figures, and most are deceased civil and military officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Either because they were brave in battle during their lifetime, or because they governed and benefited the people, they were lifted into the Great Zhou Temple.

Among them, the civil and military officials of the Ancestor's era were the most numerous.

For example, the main hall Zhao Xing sees now is dedicated to the 'Earl of East Lake' of the Ancestor's era.

Born in East Lake, Gucheng, he made a living by fishing when he was young. During the period when the Ancestor conquered a thousand countries and unified the chaotic world, he joined Zhou Gong's command, became a chariot driver, and was finally enfeoffed as the Earl of East Lake.

After returning to his hometown, he scattered his family wealth, built bridges and paved roads, transformed his hometown, and took the initiative to give up most of his land to displaced people for farming, making Gucheng develop from a town to the scale of a county.

After his death, he entered this temple to enjoy incense offerings and became an underworld god.

"The Earl of East Lake is good at martial arts; if I seek the law, it is not good to seek it from him. This period is most suitable for the development of the agricultural profession, not other professions. I took the Dao Embryo Pill; if he sees that my foundation is good and thinks I should practice martial arts, and randomly gives me some martial arts secret book, it would be a waste of time."

Zhao Xing didn't enter the hall, just bowed and burned incense in front of the bronze furnace on the periphery, and then planned to walk away.

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"Dong!"

Inside the Earl of East Lake's temple, the bronze bell rang automatically, carrying a strong will that clearly entered Zhao Xing's mind, as if trying to retain him, or as if persuading him not to leave.

Zhao Xing's face stiffened; he didn't expect that a bow from outside the hall would cause trouble. The Earl of East Lake actually manifested and actively tried to retain him?

The Dao Embryo Pill is truly this awesome... Zhao Xing bowed his hands again and quickened his pace to run away.

"Sigh."

After Zhao Xing left, the statue emitted another sigh that seemed to exist or not.

The temple ritualist who was meditating in the hall looked outside with some doubt, but found it empty and no one there.

Looking up at the statue again, there was no revelation, so he had to scratch his head and continue meditating.

With this interlude, Zhao Xing didn't dare to bow randomly anymore.

He quickened his pace and came to a side hall—the Hall of True Lord Cao Xi.

"Cao Xi, in the early days of the founding of the country, was the Grain Official of Nanyang Prefecture; because he vigorously promoted the Engineering School's 'Return Origin Water Wheel' and built the Thirteen Canals of Pinghu, combined with the Engineering School's magic array to control water disasters, he was classified as an outstanding figure of the Agricultural School's Geographical Advantage School."

"However, he was well-versed in many schools, had the work 'Cao Xi's Agricultural Book', and was a pragmatic person; bowing to him shouldn't be a mistake."

"It's you, old man."

Zhao Xing handed the county government's approval document to the ritualist guarding the hall; the ritualist was a position in the Office of Rites. The person in charge was the process of sacrificial rituals.

It is the 'Fuji' profession in the players' mouths, an early 'divine profession', because this profession can invite gods to possess them and summon underworld gods to fight.

Once upon a time, Zhao Xing also wanted to change his profession to this to have fun, but with the collapse of the Qi Luck dynasty, its combat power was greatly reduced; in the recovery version, wanting to become stronger was extremely difficult and complicated, so he could only give up.

Now he had even less possibility of giving up the agricultural profession for the sake of a moment of fun to choose this early divine profession.

"The document is fine; after entering, sit cross-legged on the prayer mat and pray with a calm heart." The ritualist guarding the hall was not old, but he was old-fashioned: "Remember, the law cannot be forced; to have gained something is already a great fortune; if you gain nothing, it proves your strength is not enough, just come back next time, don't have distracting thoughts."

This is to remind Zhao Xing that if he fails to seek the law, he should not have any obsession or resentment, because underworld gods are very sensitive to thoughts related to themselves.

"Yes, thank you, Ritualist." Zhao Xing took a deep breath and stepped into the Hall of True Lord Cao Xi.