Chapter 582: Modernized Agriculture

Returning to Qingming, Wei Yuan always felt uneasy, so he rushed to the medicine garden to see Xu Wenwu, lest he do something earth-shattering again.

As soon as he entered the medicine garden array, Wei Yuan immediately felt something wrong; the strength of the array seemed to have weakened a lot today. Either the area of the medicine garden had expanded significantly, or it had just been attacked or secretly sabotaged, causing damage to the array.

Wei Yuan scanned with his spiritual sense and couldn't scan the entire medicine garden? Wei Yuan was stunned; this medicine garden area had actually doubled, what was going on?

He scanned again with his spiritual sense and found the location of True Person Chuhe, so he flashed over.

He saw True Person Chuhe and Xu Wenwu sitting under the shade of an ancient tree. The ground was golden silk grass as soft as weaving, and the tables and chairs were made of spiritual wood of five hundred years or more, and a red copper hot pot was placed on the table. The pot was steaming, and the old Daoist and Xu Wenwu were sitting around the table, eating heartily.

Wei Yuan looked carefully again; there were not only two people at the table, but also Xu Shiba, the mink cat, and the snake. Three people and three beasts were eating happily.

At this time, dots of colorful light were shining in the sky; this was a dedicated large array that protected the entire medicine garden. This kind of large array was extremely expensive, and True Person Chuhe couldn't afford it. He didn't know what name he used to cheat this set of large array worth a million out of the Jianmu Hall and installed it in Qingming.

After that, Fenhai Zhenjun Huang Yun sat down here, and the several seniors in charge of the Jianmu Hall no longer mentioned the matter of this set of magic arrays, but instead sent a batch of spiritual wood saplings.

At this time, the position of Fenhai Zhenjun of the Jianmu Hall was vacant, and there were dozens of True Persons below, and there were three or four Dharma Form Perfection, but no one mentioned the position of Hall Master, so it was left vacant.

Many disciples in the hall already knew that the True Persons were waiting for a rare immortal tree to inherit the position of Hall Master.

The old Daoist was close to the water and got the moon first. At this time, the hot pot was boiled with spiritual spring water, and the slices of spiritual medicine were shabu-shabu, and everyone and every beast ate happily.

Seeing Wei Yuan's arrival, True Person Chuhe immediately greeted him to take a seat. The flying mink jumped directly onto Wei Yuan's shoulder, and its little claws kept gesturing. It gestured and called, and Wei Yuan finally understood its meaning:

The things working in the field are delicious. If you like them, I'll go and pick one up to the table in a while.

Wei Yuan looked in the direction the flying mink pointed and saw a large piece of newly opened land, almost double the size of the original medicine garden. But opening it so large suddenly had exceeded the range of Qingming's own spiritual fields. The spiritual energy in the edge area of the newly opened land was thin, and spiritual medicine was difficult to survive. I don't know why True Person Chuhe made such a large piece of land.

True Person Chuhe seemed to know what Wei Yuan was thinking, smiled, and mysteriously took out a small wooden box and placed it in front of Wei Yuan. Wei Yuan opened it and saw six small saplings the size of a palm, crystal clear like jade, placed inside.

Wei Yuan was shocked!

These saplings were called Spirit-Caging Jade Trees. After growing up, they could absorb the energy of heaven and earth by themselves and turn the world around them into spiritual fields. This kind of jade tree was the highest configuration of the medicine garden, and the ones planted in the medicine garden of the Taichu Palace main mountain were all this kind of tree.

Spirit-Caging Jade Trees could not be bought anywhere; they were all propagated by the Fenhai Zhenjun of the Jianmu Hall relying on their own life supernatural powers. Fenhai Zhenjun Huang Yun sat down, and the Jianmu Hall temporarily cut off the inheritance of the Spirit-Caging Jade Trees. The six in True Person Chuhe's hands were likely the last inventory of the Jianmu Hall.

This thing was too precious, so Wei Yuan said righteously: "Where did this come from?"

True Person Chuhe also knew it was not a time for joking, and said: "Before the ancestor sat down, he specially handed this small wooden box to me, telling me to take it out and use it when I felt the time was right. Today, I talked to brother Wenwu particularly well, and on a whim, I knew it was time to enable this treasure box."

Wei Yuan looked at Xu Wenwu, not knowing what this guy had said again. Xu Wenwu felt a little guilty and whispered: "I talked to brother Chuhe about what modernized agriculture is, and then we talked more and more speculatively, so brother expanded the array and decided to open up this place."

Wei Yuan just wanted to say that such a large piece of land was almost ten thousand *mu*, how could it be opened up with this little manpower? Just at this moment, a roar sounded in the distance, and a smoke column went straight into the high sky.

Wei Yuan looked and saw Xu Wenwu's Toad-style chariot driving slowly, with light lingering behind the car, actually dragging a rack, on which eight immortal swords were inserted side by side. The chariot walked in front, and the eight immortal swords plowed the soil behind.

The immortal swords constantly radiated sword energy, and in one breath, they could plow loose soil one *zhang* wide and seven *chi* deep. The old Daoist's eight swords were not very good at killing enemies, but plowing the land was indeed using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Behind the sword plow, there were dozens of guinea pigs of unknown breeds, each with fur flashing with dark light, obviously not ordinary beasts. This group of guinea pigs had hundreds of heads, the big ones were the size of a pony, and the small ones were only the size of a fist. They drilled in and out of the soil plowed by the immortal swords, their movements were exceptionally agile, and they turned the land more finely.

The sword energy left by the old Daoist in the soil was all eaten by this group of guinea pigs. The places they drilled through, the soil fertility rose in a straight line, and the spiritual energy also became much richer. It seemed that these guinea pigs' natural instinct was to take care of spiritual medicine and spiritual grass, and then feed on spiritual fruits and grass seeds.

Behind the guinea pig group were dozens of cultivators. Several fellow apprentices of True Person Chuhe walked at the forefront, constantly inserting seeds or medicine seedlings into the soil, followed by a row of cultivators responsible for watering, and then a row of cultivators responsible for releasing Daoist techniques to stimulate the growth of spiritual medicine.

Thus, a team of people walked slowly, opening up, planting, and maintaining in one step, and an eight-*zhang*-wide medicine garden extended all the way.

True Person Chuhe and Xu Wenwu looked like they were eating and enjoying, but in fact, their Dao Foundations were working, so this meal was eaten with justification and no psychological burden.

Wei Yuan looked at this efficiency, and it would take about ten days to complete the reclamation of the entire land. By then, planting Spirit-Caging Jade Trees, in a few years, this would be a top-grade medicine garden, and the scale was already one-tenth of the Taichu Palace main mountain. The Taichu Palace main mountain had accumulated for more than three thousand years and sat down several Immortal Lords, only then did it have today's scale. Holding the treasure box in his hand, Wei Yuan suddenly felt a little sour in his heart.

He understood that this was actually Fenhai Zhenjun Huang Yun worrying about Chuhe, so he borrowed Chuhe's hand to give these jade trees to himself. With this merit, no matter how Qingming develops in the future, there will always be a place for Chuhe.

Wei Yuan didn't break this point, sat down and tasted the taste of a few dishes, and then asked the two of them how they thought of this method.

True Person Chuhe said: "I just saw the weaving machine workshop, and I was deeply touched, and thought of the sentence 'large-scale production' in the data written by brother Wenwu. It just so happened that brother Wenwu talked about modernized agriculture, isn't this medicine garden agriculture?

The core of the so-called modernized agriculture in the world beyond the heavens is the tractor. It just so happens that brother Wenwu's Dharma body can also be used as a tractor. I will make a plow, call my fellow apprentices to help, and a few Dao Foundations who need to stabilize their realm to help, and it will be about the same.

It's just that it's easy to be hungry when working like this, and we have to eat once every hour. Hey, cat brother, what are you doing? You have already picked up three guinea pigs! They still have to work, you can't eat them all!"

The cat returned to the table reluctantly, looking at the group of guinea pigs drilling in and out of the ground from time to time, and had no heart to eat.

"What is more suitable to plant in this medicine garden?" Wei Yuan continued to ask.

True Person Chuhe said: "I have already discussed it with Xu Henshui. This medicine garden is newly opened, the time is too short, and the spiritual energy is insufficient, so it can't produce high-grade medicinal materials. So for now, Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng is suitable. As long as these spiritual ginsengs pass a hundred years, they are third-grade medicinal materials. Water-wood spiritual ginseng is exceptionally suitable for the environment of this world, and earth spiritual ginseng can increase the effect of the land, both are good choices."

Wei Yuan tried hard to recall his limited knowledge of medicinal materials and pills. The immortal cultivation world uniformly uses pills as the main thing, and the grade of medicinal materials follows the pills. First-grade pill medicinal materials correspond to Body Forging, second-grade is Dao Foundation pills, and third, fourth, and fifth correspond to Dharma Form, Master Yu Jing, and the manifestation of Master Yu Jing Mind-Reflection World respectively, and then further up are immortal pills.

Read every single word carefully!

Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng can provide pure spiritual energy and is an important auxiliary medicine for many pills, sometimes it can directly replace the main medicine. Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng is second-grade at twenty years, and third-grade at over a hundred years. Third-grade Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng is one of the currencies circulating in the immortal cultivation world, and it is often better to use than immortal silver.

When Wei Yuan first opened the medicine garden, he planted a large amount of Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng. A batch of Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng planted in the core area of the Qingming main medicine garden, under the growth speed of more than ten times, now has the medicinal properties of sixty or seventy years.

Wei Yuan naturally wouldn't object to planting Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng, and this was a suggestion made by Xu Henshui. Which medicinal material sells well mainly depends on the one who practices alchemy.

Is it just one kind of ten thousand *mu*? Wei Yuan felt that perhaps in the future, Qingming's Five-Element Spiritual Ginseng would have to be sold by the catty.

After listening to True Person Chuhe's conception, Wei Yuan pondered for a moment and asked: "Does planting these spiritual ginsengs help your Dharma body?"

True Person Chuhe said: "There is some help, but not much. However, with sufficient Nether Crystals, I don't need it anymore. Come, look at my Dharma body!"

True Person Chuhe said and manifested his Dharma body. Usually, what Wei Yuan saw was eight immortal swords, and this was the first time he saw the complete Dharma body of True Person Chuhe.

The old Daoist's Dharma body was very peculiar. In the center was a jade sword seat, on which was an eight-sword rack, but at this moment the sword rack was empty, and the Dharma swords were all outside plowing the land.

Around the sword seat was a large piece of twisted black forest, the forest was filled with gloomy energy, and resentful spirits and evil ghosts appeared from time to time. The small grass on the ground was hideous and terrifying, constantly spitting out black energy. Any ordinary creature that smelled it would faint on the spot and then become the food of the small grass.

Looking at this forest filled with evil energy and demonic shadows, to say that the old Daoist was not a demonic cultivator, I am afraid that not many people would believe it. But apart from the appearance not being very good, the old Daoist's Dharma body had excellent spirituality, that is, compared with the demonic forest, the sword seat was really not very conspicuous, and this Dharma body was a bit of a guest who overwhelmed the host.

After seeing True Person Chuhe's Dharma body, Wei Yuan had a number in his heart and was a little more certain.

Fenhai Zhenjun Huang Yun sent six Spirit-Caging Jade Trees, not only for care, but also hoping that True Person Chuhe's Daoist path could continue for another step. Wei Yuan had always adhered to the principle of not being rewarded for no merit, so he naturally understood the meaning of Fenhai Zhenjun Huang Yun.

At this time, with a number in his heart, Wei Yuan left the medicine garden and went to inspect the situation of opening the fields. The refugees bought in the last batch were very smooth in reclaiming the fields, and the sixth batch of one million *mu* of fields had already opened more than one hundred thousand *mu*, the progress was gradually accelerating, and the human fortune contributed to Wei Yuan was also increasing day by day.

Wei Yuan was very satisfied after seeing it, and inspected it in several cities. There was really nothing to see, and there was no one to talk to, so he prepared to go to the Nether Cold Realm again to see if there were any unusual movements between the two guys.

Just at this moment, a cultivator reported that the merchant caravan of the Desolate Ancestor tribe had arrived. Wei Yuan was a little strange, he hadn't called anyone to worship the Heavenly Language yet, so why did the caravan come? Could it be that someone had secretly worshipped behind his back?

Wei Yuan flew directly to the border and saw Heavenly Language being helped by two Shaman beauties, walking slowly from the gorgeous carriage, followed by two beauties carrying his long tail.

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