Chapter 90: Cultivating Dragon Tooth Rice

After settling the Tao Family members, Li Xuan was also very excited.

Although the Tao Family's martial soul is mediocre, they can't resist the abundance of Alchemy Pills Li Xuan has; mainly, the pills Li Xuan refined are useless to him, so he has to give them to these people, at least providing the Tao Family with a Soul Saint-level strongman, and a support-type Soul Saint can be considered a strategic resource.

And once the Tao Family recovers, it will become the first subsidiary Soul Master Family of Chunqiu Jiuzhuang!

It can also be counted as the first step toward building his own force by chance.

After a while, Li Xuan calmed down and went straight back to his small Courtyard, preparing to eat something and sleep.

Just as he returned to the manor, Li Xuan saw Xiao Ren Shen Wawa kneeling on the ground, devoutly gazing up at the high hanging moon in the sky.

As if hearing Li Xuan's footsteps, Li Bangchui turned his head and happened to see Li Xuan returning to the Courtyard.

"Brother, you're back!" Li Bangchui cheerfully scrambled up from the ground and rushed toward Li Xuan.

Since learning that Li Xuan saved his life, Li Bangchui has been very dependent on and trusting of Li Xuan.

"Bangchui, what are you doing?" Li Xuan patted Li Bangchui's head and asked with a smile.

"Brother, I'm training. When I was in the Soul Beast Forest I trained like this, but why doesn't it work at all today?" Li Bangchui scratched his little head, his voice soft and syrupy as he spoke to Li Xuan.

"By the way, after the Soul Beast Transformation Form, shouldn't you train using human cultivation methods? Why are you still inhaling Moon Essence? It would be strange if it had any effect." Li Xuan stepped forward, rubbed Li Bangchui's little head, and asked with a smile.

"Brother, indeed it hasn't been very useful; my soul power hasn't increased at all. Do you have any good method?" Li Bangchui lowered his head, speaking to Li Xuan with some nervousness.

"It's fine, don't worry. I'll transmit a technique to you shortly for training, and also interact more with others. It's said that after the Soul Beast Transformation Form, the cultivation speed is proportional to contact with humans—the more human contact, the faster the cultivation." Li Xuan scratched his head and said.

This is the legend Li Xuan heard; the original book records that after the Soul Beast Transformation Form, one must interact with humans, and the more one understands humans, the faster the cultivation.

"Is that so? I'll go down another day and have a good chat with them." Li Bangchui also nodded and muttered.

"Alright, let's rest today. After dinner I'll transmit the technique to you." Li Xuan rubbed Bangchui's little head, then returned to the room and ate dinner with Bangchui.

After dinner, Li Xuan transmitted Douluo Number One to Li Bangchui and instructed him not to pass the technique to anyone else, then each returned to their own bed to rest.

Douluo Number One is a technique Li Xuan designed himself; it's fairly basic and ordinary, so even if it spreads, the problem is minor, but a technique should not be given away lightly, and a Dao should not be sold cheaply. Li Xuan does not want his created technique to become commonplace.

Moreover, Li Xuan will continue to research new techniques, and Douluo Number One should be phased out before long.

After transmitting the technique, Li Xuan returned to his room to rest; after all, he rushed on the road in the morning, met the Tao Family at noon, and had to transmit the technique at night, so he was thoroughly exhausted.

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Early the next morning, Li Xuan rose from his bed feeling refreshed; he had rested very well last night.

After getting up from the bed, Li Xuan began washing up and changing clothes.

After leaving his own room, Li Xuan went to call Li Bangchui's door.

"Bangchui, get up and go train your body." After changing clothes, Li Xuan went to Li Bangchui's bed, woke the little fellow, and told him to train.

Although Li Bangchui is in Soul Beast Transformation Form, he suffers slight malnutrition during the transformation, so he looks very skinny. Though he receives plenty of nutrition normally, the little fellow still doesn't gain flesh, so Li Xuan makes him go for a morning run every day. After Li Xuan finishes washing up, he leaves the manor.

The manor's building materials are sufficient for a while now, and Li Xuan plans to postpone a few days before heading to Tian Dou City to purchase supplies.

Moreover, Li Xuan has another, more important task to handle himself today.

That is to breed Dragon Tooth Rice.

Currently Li Xuan holds only one Dragon Tooth Rice stalk, but thousands of Hundred Mu of land cannot be sown with just this single stalk.

So Li Xuan plans to use Green Spirit Liquid to cultivate several hundred jin of Dragon Tooth Rice; although he can't seed the entire thousands of Hundred Mu, it still greatly reduces breeding pressure.

There's no way around it; a few hundred jin is Li Xuan's limit, since Green Spirit Liquid only enhances knowledge of a single plant.

A single Dragon Tooth Rice stalk has a six-month growth cycle and can only produce one stalk; Li Xuan's vacation still has six days left.

That means Li Xuan can still cultivate 1,200 Dragon Tooth Rice stalks; although insufficient to plant the entire thousands of Hundred Mu, it can save several years of breeding time. Estimating a one-year growth, next year almost all the land should be able to grow Dragon Tooth Rice.

Li Xuan found an empty plot and took out the Flower Pot and earthen jar he had left from working in the Flower Sea.

Li Xuan first diluted the Green Spirit Liquid using the earthen jar; a Dragon Tooth Rice stalk's growth cycle is six months, and if not diluted, these stalks would likely burst into flowers.

Then Li Xuan took out a Flower Pot, filled it with soil, placed a seed taken from the stalk into the pot, and gently dripped a drop of the diluted Green Spirit Liquid.

In the instant the Dragon Tooth Rice met the Green Spirit Liquid, the seed sprang up instantly, completing the journey from seed to fruit in under a minute.

A palm-sized golden-yellow stalk hung on the Dragon Tooth Rice, looking very beautiful.

Then Li Xuan took out scissors, cut off the stalk, and, following the same method, continued to cultivate Dragon Tooth Rice in the Flower Pot.

Two hours later, a bag full of Dragon Tooth Rice appeared before Li Xuan—twenty jin of it.

This bag of Dragon Tooth Rice weighs only twenty jin; as seed, it would suffice for only two hundred Hundred Mu of land.

"Looks like the coming days will all be spent cultivating Dragon Tooth Rice," Li Xuan said, patting his smooth chin.

Now it's for seed preservation—by cultivating more himself, next year's harvest will produce more seeds.

At his current rate, in just one year the seeds will be sufficient to plant all the thousands of Hundred Mu.

Li Xuan stored the Dragon Tooth Rice seeds, returned to his room, took out a small notebook, and began writing the cultivation notes. Although Dragon Tooth Rice is not particular about its environment, providing a good living environment can increase yield.

As the sun set, Li Xuan finally set down his pen, rubbed his slightly sore neck, and picked up the finished booklet.

Li Xuan recorded in detail all the steps from breeding to harvest of Dragon Tooth Rice in this booklet.

He will arrange for people to copy it several times, then distribute it to eight villages so those laborers can learn how to cultivate Dragon Tooth Rice.

Ladies and gentlemen, good night.

(End of Chapter)