Chapter 2

For the next period of time, Long Xuan stayed in the medicine garden, researching the best dosage and best usage interval of ripening liquid for each type of spirit medicine, and recorded the researched data on paper.

There are more than one hundred kinds of spirit medicines in the medicine garden, which is destined to be a long process; fortunately, there is a large white hen in the medicine garden to accompany him, so it is not boring.

This large hen is used for pest control; crops get pests and need pesticides, and spirit medicines also get pests and need to go to the merchant association to buy pest extermination powder.

Because the original owner was left to his own devices by Long Lao, he completely let himself go and messed around in the medicine garden, actually saving the spirit stones for buying pest extermination powder and buying a large hen back.

It can be considered a lucky mistake; chickens raised in the countryside have the ability to remove pests for crops, which all villagers know, but that is limited to ordinary crops.

How can the pests born from spirit medicines be simple? Logically speaking, after the hen eats the spirit insects, it will not only not digest them but will be parasitized.

But after being listless for a period of time, this hen not only survived but evolved into a spirit chicken, becoming a little expert in pest control, which can be considered the original owner's good luck.

At this time, Long Xuan looked at this large white chicken walking back and forth in the medicine garden and secretly marveled.

The white chicken held its head high and chest out, looking spirited; when walking, it shook, its head poked, and its eyes carried spirituality, as if its IQ had also improved after evolving into a spirit chicken.

It scratched back and forth in the ground, and after a while, a large fat worm was scratched out of the soil by it, and then swallowed by it in one bite.

The progress on the white chicken's head also instantly changed from the original 99.3% to 99.4%, and it looked like it was about to reach adulthood soon.

Seeing this scene, Long Xuan lightly touched his chin, his gaze thoughtful.

The white chicken has eaten many things, but only a few fat worms will cause its maturity to change.

If through this change, feeding the spirit chicken different food, it is completely possible to summarize the food that is most helpful to the spirit chicken, and then formulate chicken feed that can significantly shorten the growth cycle of the spirit chicken.

Long Xuan is certainly not thinking about making any chicken feed; at this time, he thought of another function of the golden finger; by the same token, he thought of raising Gu and raising insects.

The speed of making money from raising spirit insects is no worse than planting spirit medicines.

Spirit insects are used for Gu refining, and the higher the maturity of the spirit insects, the higher the success rate of Gu refining.

Rare spirit insects are even more hard to come by, and each one can be sold for a sky-high price, but few people know how to raise them.

The same kind of spirit insects are raised by different Gu cultivator families, and the growth time is completely different.

Some Gu cultivator families have higher-grade feed, and the spirit insect raising time is several times shorter than other Gu cultivator families.

That is naturally the Gu cultivator family that makes more money, and the profit margin is also larger; by lowering prices, they can completely squeeze out peers and completely monopolize the market for that insect species.

As long as you research good feed for a certain insect species, it is completely a huge profit.

At this time, Long Xuan instantly had the intention of raising a spirit insect.

Raising insects is like this, not to mention raising Gu.

You must know that the more powerful the Gu species, the longer the maturity period; many heaven-defying Gu species need a thousand or even ten thousand years to mature, and Gu cultivators have short lifespans, so how can they wait for such a long time?

But compared to the juvenile, the combat power of the mature Gu worm is completely different; Gu cultivators have to try every means to research methods to shorten the maturity period of Gu worms.

Often, the raising method of a powerful Gu species is much more precious than the Gu formula.

Gu refining is difficult for Gu cultivators, and raising Gu is even more difficult; the resources consumed by feeding are even more than the cost of Gu refining.

Many Gu cultivators have worried their hair white and exhausted their resources in order to research methods to shorten the maturity period of Gu worms.

But at this time, Long Xuan has no worries in this regard; no matter what Gu species he blood-contracts in the future, he can formulate the feed that is most suitable for it.

Shortening a Gu species that matures in ten thousand years to a hundred years or even within a hundred years is not a dream; this is simply cheating, Long Xuan was excited in his heart.

"The extreme usage method of ripening liquid for each spirit medicine has been researched almost enough; as long as you use ripening liquid according to the method I recorded, the yield of this medicine garden is enough to create another one-half profit."

"With such a high share, the money for refining the first Gu worm is completely here."

Long Xuan tightened his fists excitedly, his eyes shining straight.

Driven by excitement, he reached his hand toward the chicken coop, preparing to take out a few spirit chicken eggs to celebrate.

Speaking of which, he was really curious about what spirit chicken eggs tasted like; spirit chicken eggs are round and smooth, white and large, rich in sufficient spiritual power, and nutritious; they look very delicious, making his mouth water.

However, when his thieving hand just touched the round egg, the white chicken immediately noticed, lowered its head, and pecked at his hand fiercely.

"Go, go, presumptuous..."

Spring goes and spring comes, flowers fade and flowers bloom.

Time passed in a flash, and a year had passed; the colorful spirit flowers in the medicine garden bloomed, weaving into a colorful ocean; when the wind blew, it was an intoxicating floral scent, making people feel like they were in a dream.

Beside the sea of flowers, Long Xuan lay on a rocking chair, with paper filled with Chinese characters and tea on the table beside him; at this moment, he was holding a book in his hand, reading leisurely, blowing the breeze, very comfortable.

His originally thin figure had become much rounder in this year, probably because he had eaten too many spirit chicken eggs.

That large white chicken was also fed fat and strong; at this time, it was patrolling back and forth in the medicine garden, looking for spirit insects born on spirit medicines; as long as they showed their heads, they would be eaten by it in one bite.

Long Xuan gave it a loud name; influenced by the fact that he always liked to call the chickens in the game "Brother Chicken" when playing games in his previous life, he simply named it "Brother Chicken" out of nostalgia for his previous life, even though this Brother Chicken was a female.

With Brother Chicken around, it saved Long Xuan a lot of workload; he didn't need to remove pests, and it also saved the money for applying medicine.

This place was completely a buffet for it; it was well-nourished every day, ate until it was full, and could lay at least one egg a day; of course, they all went into Long Xuan's stomach.

And what he was holding in his hand at this time was a health-preserving technique with the three characters "Longevity Sutra" written on the cover.

Health-preserving techniques belong to the rotten street techniques in this world; all mortals can easily learn them, and almost everyone has a copy.

This is also intentionally spread by Gu cultivator families, with the purpose of letting mortals live a few more decades, so that they can do more work and plant more food for them.

The "Longevity Sutra" is divided into ten layers in total; for every layer practiced, one can increase their lifespan by ten years.

The original owner's cultivation aptitude was not good, and his cultivation speed was very slow, only practicing the rotten street "Longevity Sutra" was a genius rarely seen in a hundred years.

Gu cultivator realms can be divided from low to high into Spirit Gathering Stage, Essence Refining Stage, Spirit Sea Stage, Soul Departure Stage...

Each major realm is subdivided into four minor realms: early stage, mid-stage, late stage, and peak. Because the Soul Departure Stage is the strongest in this region, it is also called Gu King.

And the original owner was only fifteen or sixteen years old and was only a small Spirit Gathering early stage, and his aptitude can be seen.

This world, like the traditional cultivation world, pays attention to the pure flow; the purer the attribute, the faster the cultivation speed.

Single attribute is Heaven Grade aptitude, with the fastest cultivation speed; dual attribute is Earth Grade aptitude, with the second fastest cultivation speed.

The original owner had five attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; his aptitude was not the worst, it could only be said to be ordinary; plus the scattered cultivator had no cultivation resources, so it was understandable that his cultivation speed was so slow.

But people have shortcomings, they must have strengths; when Heaven closes a door for you, it will also open a window for you at the same time.

The original owner was not good at cultivation, but he had extremely high talent in practicing health-preserving techniques.

Other mortals found it difficult to break through the fifth layer in their lifetime practicing the "Longevity Sutra," but he was young and not yet an adult and had already practiced to the tenth layer, increasing his lifespan by a hundred years out of thin air.

Long Xuan also accidentally discovered that the progress displayed on the "Longevity Sutra" was not 100%, but a small 10%.

Driven by curiosity, he tried to continue writing downward according to the rules of the previous text; of course, he didn't have the ability to continue writing techniques, but he couldn't stand having a "correction device."

If the progress disappears, it means he guessed wrong, so he deletes it and rewrites it; conversely, it means he guessed right and can continue to guess downward.

He worked hard for a full year, and he really succeeded in continuing to write to the twentieth layer; starting from the eleventh layer, each layer increases lifespan by a hundred years.

If he continues to deduce backward, he doesn't know how much lifespan each layer can add; it might still be a hundred years, or two hundred years, or maybe more.

However, a rare twenty-layer technique only has 20% progress, which is equivalent to a fragmentary technique that is seriously incomplete; it's really seeing a ghost.

He knows very well that the "Longevity Sutra" really only has ten layers in this world, and there is not even a technique exceeding ten layers in this region.

Long Xuan had a liver ache; he only deduced 10% of the content, which made him grind for a full year; the content behind is more complex and deeper, and it is already so profound that he cannot continue to deduce it with his current knowledge, obviously needing to pay more time.

He really dare not imagine how long it will take to deduce the "Longevity Sutra" to 100%; a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years?

(End of chapter)