Chapter 590: Fifteen Years (Please Subscribe)

Eight hundred li of Taize Lake.

The misty waves are vast, the lake surface as smooth as a mirror, without a single ripple.

Even though it has encountered troubled times again, Taize Lake is still that same Taize Lake!

"Your bodies and names both perish, yet the river flows on for eternity..."

"I, Hu Hansan, have returned!"

Aaron steers the Iron Leaf Boat, lands directly on a deserted island, and mutters to himself.

He still has a bit of a homebody attribute, or rather, people naturally feel more secure in the places they are most familiar with.

"And... this Taize Prefecture is not bad either. Every few decades, a Spirit Fish is born in the lake... This means the Spirit Qi in the lake is at least more concentrated than in mortal cities... suitable for planting medicine!"

Aaron shakes his sleeves, walks out of the Cave Abode, and arrives at the other end of Spirit Medicine Island.

In the middle of the valley, there is a spring eye.

Moreover, the returns are also hard to predict; perhaps just as one is about to harvest, one might run into a passing Immortal Cultivator and get robbed...

This is just like how a Red Blood Carp King can appear in Taize Lake every few decades; it is all the work of natural creation!

【Skills: Fishing (100/100), Lure Demon Manual (5/100), Disguise Technique (100/100), Bone Shrinking Technique (49/100), Medicine (100/100), Zither, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting (100/100), Huiyuan Wine Recipe (33/100)】

【Cultivation Art: Hunyuan Art Seventh Layer (433/700)】

Aaron looks at the vast, misty lake surface, his gaze deep: "This Taize Lake can produce Spirit Fish, so the Spirit Qi must be more concentrated than in mortal cities... I must search carefully. Even if there is no Spirit Vein, perhaps there is still a Spirit Qi environment where the Nine-Eyed Begonia can grow successfully?"

After settling down, the costs are still a bit too high.

Aaron gazes at Taize Lake and immediately decides to ride the 'Iron Leaf Boat' and use the 'Spirit Eye Technique' to observe the area carefully, looking for several places where he can transplant the 'Nine-Eyed Begonia'.

Time is Aaron's best friend.

'Nine-Eyed Begonia, one or two eyes means one or two hundred years; it's just the value of a material for a Qi Refining Spirit Pill, what use is it?'

Even if it is planted successfully, it will face many problems.

"Moreover, the real bulk of the investment is held in my own hands."

And by the edge of the spring, several Nine-Eyed Begonias grow exceptionally enchantingly, with fences and such for protection around them.

【Talent: Immortality】

'Now is the time to control costs... otherwise, even if one Spirit Stone could last a year, I simply couldn't bear it...'

This is a valley he found only after spending a great deal of time patrolling the entire Taize Lake.

"Now is the angel round; even if I fail dozens or hundreds of times, it doesn't matter... the investment is very small anyway... but as long as one project succeeds, I can make a fortune!"

He knows that even in the deep mountains and old forests of the mortal world, one or two Spirit Medicines are occasionally produced.

In fact, before coming to Taize Prefecture, he had already scouted candidates in several other mortal cities, letting them head to several deep mountains and old forests to open up Spirit Medicine Gardens for him.

'Therefore, apart from sects and clans... no Loose Cultivator would ever dare to think about opening their own Spirit Medicine Garden.'

"For now... I can only recruit the leaders of refugees, control them with poison, and handle it analogously to before..."

"That's right... and there are the refugees... If I want to open a medicine garden, these refugees hiding from the ravages of war in the lake are also a big problem. How hateful... If I knew Array Formation, even the simplest kind at the entrance of Dongmen Valley, it wouldn't be a problem."

Among them, there are honest and dutiful generational medicine farmers, vicious and wicked bandits, and even refugees and scattered remnants of defeated armies...

Aaron naturally would not indulge them; he gave each of them an insurance policy, such as an extended-term version of the Five Insects Heart-Devouring Pill.

To deal with mortals, some poison is enough. He did not expose any Immortal Cultivator methods; he only displayed some Transformation Energy, and they were all brought to heel.

In this way, even as a potted plant, with thin Spirit Qi... the Nine-Eyed Begonia can actually grow!

Moreover, because its requirement for Spirit Qi is actually very low, the powder ground from one Spirit Stone can support it for a very long time!

'This method... other Immortal Cultivators should know it too, but as I said before, they don't have the time...'

Of course... that is what is said, but in reality, the Spirit Qi environment is about the same as the worst Spirit Field area in Dongmen Market, and the range is very small; it really is just an 'eye'.

Then, he gave them some ordinary Spirit Medicine seeds and provided some guidance, letting them try to plant and look after them well.

On Spirit Medicine Island.

Aaron holds a flowerpot in his hands, inside which several 'Nine-Eyed Begonias' have already sprouted tender buds, growing quite gratifyingly.

Time flows like water; in the blink of an eye, another fifteen years have passed.

Aaron has already begun his grand plan for planting medicine.

This spring... is of course not a Spirit Vein, but after comparing, Aaron feels that the Spirit Qi here is still slightly more concentrated than in other places.

"Looking at it this way, it will take more than twenty years to complete the seventh layer, and then the eighth and ninth layers will take about sixty years. As for the tenth layer, there is no need to practice it, because once one breaks through, it is the Qi Refining Great Perfection realm! One can attempt Foundation Establishment."

'And by the time it opens one or two eyes, the Qi Refining Immortal Cultivator themselves will have already died of old age... Other 'Danhong Ginseng' and 'Black Marrow Ganoderma' are generally the same; without fifty or sixty years of medicinal properties, even Qi Refining Spirit Pills wouldn't look at them...'

Aaron knows that at the beginning, many Spirit Medicines will inevitably fail to grow.

"Sure enough, in the mortal world, those with Three Spirit Roots take over a hundred years to reach Qi Refining Perfection, and those with Four Spirit Roots and Five Spirit Roots are even worse; and that's not even counting the problem of encountering bottlenecks..."

In Taize Lake.

Aaron sits cross-legged, staring at his Attribute Panel:

【Name: Fang Yu (Aaron)】

【Realm: Qi Refining Seventh Layer】

'The few I have in my hands will at least have to wait until they open three eyes, which is three hundred years from now, before they can be sold for a high price...'

This is of course not because he is proficient in planting techniques; in reality, some of the techniques he understands were mentioned by the old man Donglong when he was drunk.

This technique of using Spirit Stones as fertilizer is only used when moving.

However, Aaron does not care.

【Martial Arts: Iron Shirt Fist Third Layer (1000/1000)】

"Fifteen years and only four hundred-plus proficiency; this cultivation speed has further declined... Cultivation in the late stage of Qi Refining is even more difficult. Sure enough, the environment in the market is the best... If I were in the market, I could probably complete the 'Hunyuan Art' in ten years and enter the eighth layer realm..."

The great chaos in the Lin Kingdom has subsided, and now a new Emperor has ascended to the throne, resting and recuperating with the people, waiting for the next cycle of order and chaos to begin.

It is said that it was fought over back and forth by the Refugee Army and the government troops, and even suffered a city-wide massacre once! It was too horrible to look at!

—Every once in a while, he would take the powder cut from the Spirit Stone and sprinkle it in a circle around the flowerpot as fertilizer.

Even for a cultivation family, they might not have this kind of patience, and furthermore, they can directly open up medicine fields in a Spirit Vein, which has better results!

【Age: 165】

"And I must also keep one plant for myself, to try and cultivate it to five eyes, six eyes... or even nine eyes?"

【Spells: Spirit Eye Technique (100/100), Wind Control Technique (100/100), Golden Light Shield (100/100), Fireball Technique (100/100), Rejuvenation Technique (100/100)】

And what about Taize Prefecture City at this time?

It is better not to mention it...

It is not that the local area is brimming with Spirit Qi, allowing Spirit Medicine to grow sturdily, but rather a clumsy method that Aaron figured out himself.

Even so, it is more than enough to plant a few stalks of Spirit Medicine, it is just that the Spirit Qi is truly a bit thin.

Aaron must stay far away when practicing, not daring to compete with these delicate Spirit Medicines for Spirit Qi.

(End of this chapter)