Chapter 22: This is Cheating!

Its crown was like an umbrella, pure white all over, the stem was about a finger long, half a finger thick. What was this?

"Mushrooms, mushrooms grew in the soil. But it's damp and wet here, so it's normal for mushrooms to grow. This should be a meat mushroom. The texture is thick and fat, and it tastes like meat. Now it's in the juvenile stage. In two days, it should be able to grow more, and can grow to the thickness of an arm."

Sure enough, worthy of being the God of Knowledge, there were at least hundreds of common fungi species, and even more uncommon ones. Nai Ge Li Si actually recognized the mushroom variety at a glance.

However, after saying a lot, Ang only heard one word: "Can eat?"

"Uh, can eat, but who would eat mushrooms? They are so difficult to eat and have no nutrition," Nai Ge Li Si said.

In an era of low productivity, mushrooms were actually eaten by very few people because they required a large amount of grease and ingredients, otherwise they would be very difficult to eat. The underground city didn't even have enough food, where would there be grease? If Auntie Minotaur were taken to boil, it was estimated that dozens of jin of beef tallow could be boiled.

Therefore, only hunters and herdsmen, because they had a large amount of animal grease, would stew some mushroom thick soup to eat.

"Oh." Not delicious and no nutrition, then don't plant it. Ang reached out and prepared to pull the mushrooms away, but an exclamation suddenly sounded behind him: "Eh, is this a Holy Mushroom?"

Looking back, Miss Lisha in a light black gauze dress stood behind him, looking at those mushrooms in surprise.

The light black gauze dress clung to her body, outlining Miss Lisha's plump curves, making it difficult for people to connect her with the withered lich yesterday.

"What is a Holy Mushroom?" Ang asked.

"It is this kind of meat mushroom watered with Holy Water. In essence, it is a meat mushroom, but it has some magical effects, such as clearing some negative effects, toxins, plagues, curses, diseases, etc. As long as it is not particularly serious, it has an effect," Miss Lisha explained.

After finishing, she smiled slightly and added: "The Church of Light will plant a large number of these Holy Mushrooms, dry them, grind them into powder, and distribute them to priests and holy maidens to show miracles. When we cure a child's food poisoning, it is easy to get the gratitude and faith of the whole family."

Ang didn't understand what she meant by these, but Nai Ge Li Si had already shouted angrily: "So that's how it is? Too shameless, too disgusting. This is cheating, this is cheating. No wonder the Church of Light is so smooth in spreading faith. So it was drugging others!!"

However, Nai Ge Li Si's words were only shouting in Ang's soul. Miss Lisha couldn't hear them. Only heard Miss Lisha say: "My Lord, if you can plant a large number of such Holy Mushrooms and make them into medicine, it should be very popular. By then, they will all very enthusiastically hope to bathe in your radiance."

A holy maiden who couldn't spread faith had no value. The former Holy Maiden of Light eagerly hoped to offer her strength to Ang, so that she could get the mercy of her Lord and grant her more power.

"Can exchange for food and seeds?" Ang asked. He had no interest in letting others bathe in radiance, but if it could be eaten and exchanged for food and seeds, then planting a bit more didn't matter.

"Food? It can be, but food is a bulk commodity. All three cities here lack food. Even if they are willing to exchange, they can't exchange for much. As for seeds, they have what we have. However, Cold Winter City has a small teleportation array connected to the human world, which can exchange for some seeds unique to the human world or high-value goods," Miss Lisha said.

"Teleportation array? World transit station?" Ang tilted his head. He now knew that the world transit station these people talked about was a teleportation array, which was the place where Ang was teleported, and it could be directly connected to one of the arches of the Palace of Breath.

"No no no, it's just a small teleportation array, very small, can't even teleport a person, can only teleport some precious items, such as magic crystals, magic accessories, etc." Miss Lisha said while gesturing. According to her gestures, this small teleportation array might be seventy or eighty centimeters in diameter, indeed unable to teleport too large a volume.

"Magic crystal? Humans have magic crystals?" If Ang had ears, they would be pricked up at this moment. Didn't he follow Aisike to the underground city back then just for magic crystals? Magic crystals could start the teleportation stone pillar, so he could return to the Palace of Breath.

Ang later asked Fei Lin if there were magic crystals. Unfortunately, the underground city didn't have them. The few magic crystals Aisike had were exchanged from Cold Bingcheng in the past, consumed more than half, and couldn't start the teleportation array again, and were used up shortly after returning.

"Yes, Cold Bingcheng has a teleportation array, which can exchange for magic crystals with the human world. However, we don't have any products that can be taken out, and the amount that can be exchanged is quite small," Miss Lisha said.

Ang pointed to the mushroom and said: "Exchange for magic crystals."

Since Holy Mushrooms were to be used to exchange for magic crystals, the amount of mushrooms couldn't be small. Ang simply replaced all the stone slab planting racks with Holy Mushrooms. He had seen some mushrooms growing on rotten wood and roughly knew how they reproduced.

So when the first batch of Holy Mushrooms completely matured and began to release spores, Ang used a Pollination spell to transfer the spores to the soil, and then spread the soil evenly on the soil ridges of the stone slab.

Two weeks later, Ang harvested a full fifty jin of Holy Mushrooms.

Miss Lisha looked a bit dizzy: "So many? I have never seen so many Holy Mushrooms piled together. How did you plant them? When I was in the church, it was already quite good for a diocese to produce so many Holy Mushrooms a year. You only used ten days?"

"Plant like this." Ang said his planting method. Comparing it with Miss Lisha's, he found several differences.

First, they wouldn't collect spores. Second, they wouldn't adjust soil and humidity. Third, they didn't have so much Holy Water to water.

The Church of Light didn't treat it as a crop at all, but as a grace bestowed by God.

If a piece of land grew Holy Mushrooms, they would fence it off, send priests to pray there, and then pour Holy Water, waiting for it to grow naturally. Holy Water wasn't poured much because the priests who could purify Holy Water were also quite busy.

With this way of heaven planting and heaven harvesting, it would be strange if the harvest could be good.

And how did Ang plant? After he collected spores, according to different light, different water volume, different humidity and temperature, he set up a series of control groups, even the Holy Water poured was five-time purified or six-time purified, all set up control groups, and then selected the combination that grew fastest and most.

Finally, he discovered that clean soil that hadn't been purified but contained a large amount of organic matter, watered with five-time purified Holy Water, grew fastest and best.

What organic matter was best? Those withered mosses were best. If it was fresh moss, it was easy to rot and not good, so it had to be dry.

"Are these enough? To exchange..." Ang silently recalled, Aisike seemed to have used more than ten blue crystals, so he must exchange for more than forty crystals: "Forty crystals."

"Enough enough, hehe, fifty jin of Holy Mushrooms, ground into powder, at least ten jin. According to the price of the Church of Light in the past, one jin of Holy Mushroom powder could exchange for twenty magic crystals. Of course, the church didn't lack those magic crystals, and Holy Mushroom powder couldn't be bought on the market at all. I will take five jin first, enough to exchange for more than one hundred magic crystals. Taking too many will cause the price to drop."

Speaking of this, Miss Lisha didn't know what she thought of, and a burning fighting spirit appeared on her face: "Seeing my current appearance, that old witch in Cold Bingcheng will probably kneel down and beg me to show her your power." ===== CHAPTER 23 =====