Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

Time passes day by day.

Li Mu started a three-point and one-line life, going to Xiaoliang Mountain every day to water the spirit rain for Fenglingcao, then going to Qingshui Town to take charge of the affairs of the Spiritual Planting Department, and finally, returning to Qinglong Valley to inspect the hundred acres of spiritual fields.

In his free time, Li Mu carved puppet nuclei, drew spiritual talismans, played with red wolves, fished in Qingtan, etc. His life was very happy and fulfilling.

In Qingshui Town, the day of collecting the rent from Zongtian has begun.

The handyman disciples pushed the grain carts one after another and began to line up to pay the spiritual rice.

At the Qingshui Town station, the outer disciples of Qingxuan Sect, the handyman disciples, assisting the Lingzhi Division, everyone was busy, maintaining order, patrolling the guards..., the entire Qingshui Town was busy with this matter.

Li Mu's busy feet never touched the ground. He had the most important task. He had to keep an eye on every land rent and put it into the warehouse, record accounts, and make sure that the spiritual plants paid in were OK... Fortunately, with his innate magical power - identifying all kinds of things, With the help of the spirit, no one can fool him.

"Open this bag of spiritual rice!" Li Mu pointed at the bag of spiritual rice handed in by a handyman disciple and gestured.

"Ah! Senior brother, I must have taken the wrong bag of spiritual rice. I will take it back and exchange it right now." The handyman disciple who paid the rent panicked and hugged the bag of spiritual rice and refused to let go.

"You don't know how to live or die, get out of here, you dare to take part in a fake Ling Zhi!" Chu Shuyuan slapped Ling Zhi's servant on the face and scolded him bitterly.

"No, I didn't, I really took the wrong bag of spiritual rice!" So Lingzhifu, the handyman, hugged the bag of spiritual rice tightly and shouted in panic.

This is absolutely not true. If you take a real job and pay the rent, the sect will punish such offenders very severely. Taking back the sect's land, abolishing the cultivation level, and expelling the sect are all frivolous things. It can't be done well. All lives are gone.

"Forget it, let him go!" Li Mu sighed and stopped Chu Shuyuan.

Li Mugang, who had just been promoted from a handyman to Ling Zhifu, couldn't bear to see this scene.

"Senior brother!" Chu Shuyuan looked at Li Mu with some reluctance, catching a handyman disciple who was on leave. The sect would reward him, and he really didn't want to give up this credit.

Li Mu gave Chu Shuyuan a cold look.

Chu Shuyuan was startled and quickly released Ling Zhifu's handyman. During this time, they had learned how powerful Li Mu was and they did not dare to disobey his orders.

"Thank you, senior brother, thank you, senior brother!" Ling Zhifu, the handyman, thanked Li Mu repeatedly and left quickly while pushing the cart in an embarrassed manner.

The other Lingzhifu servants around him continued to line up to pay the rent. They looked at Li Mu with respect. Knowing how powerful he was, no one dared to test the law again.

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A month and a half later, Zongtian's work of paying the rent came to an end, and the two spiritual plant warehouses of the Ling Zhi Department were filled with bags of spiritual rice and elixirs.

Enter August.

"Junior Brother Zhao, have all the rents been paid? When will we set off to Gangyang City?" Nangong Hong came to the Lingzhi Department again to ask Li Mu, preparing to escort him to send the collected tenements to Gangyang City for delivery. .

"Almost, Senior Brother Nangong, wait for me for two more days, and we can set off in two days!" Li Mu responded sheepishly.

In fact, the land rent collection work was completed ten days ago, and it was counted and stored in the warehouse. However, Li Mu cannot leave Qingshui Town and go to Gangyang City in the past few days.

During the period of collecting Zongtian's rent, Li Mu would go out early and come back late every day. He would rush to Xiaoliang Mountain early in the morning to water the spirit rain for Fenglingcao, and then rush back to Qingshui Town to complete the task of collecting rent.

Seeing that the Wind Spirit Grass had entered the mature stage and could be harvested soon, Li Mu decided to delay for a while until the Wind Spirit Grass was harvested before going to Gangyang City.

On this trip to Gangyang City, Li Mu had to pay the rent collected and sort out the accounts. In addition, there were other outer disciples escorting him along the way. It would take at least four or five days to go back and forth. At that time, he would come back to harvest. , the wind spirit grass is probably dead.

"Okay! Wait for two more days! We can't delay any longer! To be honest, with so many spiritual plants in the warehouse, I have always been frightened. I am afraid that something will go wrong. Junior brother, you can keep your composure!" Nangong Hong Looking at Li Mu dumbfounded, he reiterated solemnly.

"Brother Nangong, don't worry too much. Qingshui Town is the territory of Qingxuan Sect. Who dares to mess around!" Li Mu reassured with a smile.

"Alas! You don't understand. Cai Jin touches people's hearts. They are not afraid of ten thousand, but just in case. If anything happens, it is your and my responsibility." Nangong Hong said with concern.

"Even if something happens, it won't be in the town, more likely on the road! Senior brother, give me two more days to prepare!" Li Mu said seriously with a solemn expression.

After hearing this, Nangong Hong was silent for a while, agreed with Li Mu's view, and stopped urging.

As Li Mu said, transporting a large number of spiritual plant tenants requires the use of large storage bags provided by the sect. By then, robbing them will be much easier than breaking into the sect's residence.

"Junior brother, please be busy! I will come back to you in two days!" Nangong Hong looked at Li Mu and said goodbye.

Li Mu quickly stood up and sent Nangong Hong away.

Two days passed by.

In the early morning, Li Mu arrived with his sword, couldn't wait to rush into Huan Town, and landed on Xiaoliang Mountain.

Li Mu pinched the spell with his hand, waved it away, and released the golden spell - harvesting spell. The next second, a golden aura was released from Li Mu's hand and flew past the roots of a large number of green wind spirit grasses.

With a "swish" sound, Fenglingcao fell into a large area, revealing light green light groups.

Seeing these light green light groups, Li Mu looked happy, and his spiritual consciousness came forward. The next one, the light green light groups turned into green lights, like moths rushing to the fire, and they converged on Li Mu. enter.

[Talent Magical Power - Planting Spirit Absorption takes effect, you absorb a group of Planting Spirits, free proficiency points +3]

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In an instant, dense plant spirit extraction prompts appeared in the log column of the character's virtual frame. Li Mu was overjoyed. He harvested the wind spirit grass in a small half-acre of spiritual fields with one harvesting spell. This efficiency was incredibly fast. In the past, Working hard to harvest manually with a sickle is just silly.

Li Mu immediately spent his free proficiency points to raise the level of the harvesting technique.

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, and your harvesting proficiency will be +1. 】

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[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, your Harvest Technique proficiency +1, your Harvest Technique level is raised to: Level 5, your Harvest Technique has reached a minor level, and you have mastered the Golden Sword Technique. 】

Li Mu consciously controlled the proficiency panel and added points to the Harvest Technique like crazy. He spent 19,600 free proficiency points to prevent the Harvest Technique from being upgraded to level five and was rewarded with a small-level extension spell. He had no choice but to stop.

Li Mu closed his eyes slightly, feeling the memory of thousands of experiences using the harvesting technique, as well as the use of the extended advancement technique - the golden sword technique.

The principle of using the Harvest Technique is very simple. It is to condense the spiritual power of the metal system, turn the spirit into a sickle, and accurately harvest the spiritual plants. The derived advanced technique-Golden Sword Technique, on the basis of the Harvest Technique, adds a locking pursuit. special properties of the guide.

The original harvest technique required divine consciousness control and coverage, but now it only requires divine consciousness' fixed-point guidance. The golden sword technique is more efficient and precise. The condensed golden knife will perform the task until the condensed golden knife spiritual power dissipates.

Li Mu opened his eyes, and the metallic spiritual power in his right hand gathered. Soon, a 'golden sword' condensed by metallic spiritual power appeared. The half-foot-long golden scimitar was extremely dazzling, almost physical.

Li Mu 'locked' his consciousness on the root systems of all wind spirit grasses and shouted softly: "Go!"

The next moment, the 'Golden Knife' flew out like an arrow from its string. "Swish...", large areas of wind grass fell one after another, one after another. In the blink of an eye, all eleven acres of wind grass fell. Down below, not a single wind grass can stand in the field.

In the eleven acres of spiritual field, light green light groups the size of a baby's fist appeared, which were all the plant spirits left behind by the Wind Spirit Grass.

Without thinking, Li Mu let out his spiritual consciousness and swept frantically.

The sight of the plant spirit light clusters like a swarm of moths rushing into the fire appeared last time, but this time the number was particularly terrifying. For a moment, Li Mu turned into a large green light cluster.

[Talent Magical Power - Planting Spirit Absorption takes effect, you absorb a group of Planting Spirits, free proficiency points +2]

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Li Mu looked at the character's virtual box and saw the dense planting spirit acquisition prompts. In the end, the number of free proficiency points directly reached 573,230 points.

Li Mu looked at the character panel and decided to upgrade the five five-element skills to level 8 first, and then upgrade them to the full level. It just so happened that the five five-element techniques were all level 8. Upgrading to level 9 only requires 100,000 free proficiency points. .

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, Aoki Jue proficiency +1. 】

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[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, Aoki Jue proficiency +1, Aoki Jue level is upgraded to: Level 9, your Aoki Jue has reached perfection, your cultivation level has been partially improved, and you have gained control over wood spiritual power. Greatly improved, your wood spiritual roots have been strengthened. 】

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, and your proficiency in Gilded Art +1. 】

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[Ding, you consume a few free proficiency points, your gilded skill proficiency +1, your gilded skill level is upgraded to: level 9, your gilded skill has reached perfection, your cultivation has been partially improved, and your gold-based spiritual power Your control is improved and your metal spiritual roots are strengthened. 】

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[Ding, your Five Elements Kung Fu has reached perfection, your Five Elements Spiritual Root qualifications have been improved, and you have been promoted to the Five Elements Middle Grade Spiritual Root. Your cultivation level has been greatly improved. You have broken through the eleventh level of Qi refining and the twelfth level of Qi refining. 】

Li Mu's spiritual consciousness fell on the character's virtual panel, and he continued to increase his proficiency points in the five five elements exercises. His spiritual pressure increased rapidly one after another, until the last thick soil technique was raised to perfection.

The next moment, Li Mu exuded an extremely powerful aura, and the five elements of spiritual energy came out simultaneously. He once again achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation. He skipped the eleventh level of Qi refining and reached the twelfth level of Qi refining. His whole body exuded an extremely magnificent Five Elements energy. True Yuan.

With every move he made, a powerful spiritual pressure overflowed.

Li Mu only felt that the five elements of true energy flowing through the meridians in his body were still about to liquefy. However, something was stuck and it was difficult to break through the last hurdle.

"Thirteenth level of Qi refining should be the limit of the ancient foundation building method!" Li Mu made a rough estimate and felt that he was one step away from building the foundation. He only missed one skill that could allow him to build the foundation: "Yin Yang" "Five Elements Classic".

Li Mu scanned it with his spiritual consciousness and found that there was no spiritually planted light group in the spiritual field. He immediately used the phantom breath technique silently and quickly lowered the spiritual pressure on his body to the level of the primary level of the seventh level of weapon refining.

However, Li Mu discovered in vain that the strength of the spiritual pressure and the thickness of the true energy at the 12th level of Qi Refining were five to six times stronger than those at the 10th level. The fifth-level Phantom Breath Art was a bit underwhelming. If it was done easily, , this powerful spiritual pressure will overflow.

Um! Do you want to raise the level of Phantom Breath Art?

Li Mu glanced at the character panel. After upgrading the five skills to level nine, there were only 73,230 free proficiency points left. However, upgrading the five-level Phantom Breath Jue to level six required 30,000 free proficiency points.

no!

There are still many skills and techniques that need to be upgraded, and the remaining free proficiency points cannot be wasted.

For example, the Harvest Technique was originally just a common technique used by Ling Zhifu. After it was upgraded to the fifth level of Xiaocheng, a terrifying attack technique - Golden Sword Technique, was derived.

Li Mu was sure of one thing. With his current level of cultivation at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, even a late-stage Foundation Establishment monk would have difficulty resisting the golden sword technique released by Condensing Spirit. Even if he could not kill him instantly, the power would at least injure him severely.

The precision, uncertainty, and flexibility of the Golden Sword Technique turn it into an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous offensive technique.

What about Ling Zhifu’s other spells! Withering Technique, Ground Turning Technique, Baking Technique,..., if these techniques that originally serve spiritual plants are upgraded to the fifth level of minor success, and to the ninth level of perfection, what kind of derivative techniques can be born? ?

At this moment, Li Mu was eager to obtain more free attribute points. More than 70,000 attribute points were far from being able to meet the needs of these spells.

Many thoughts flashed through Li Mu's mind.

It's a pity that the free proficiency points are not enough, so Li Mu keeps them all and uses them when he gets the "Yin Yang and Five Elements Sutra" to immediately upgrade the level of this skill and hit the foundation.

Glancing at the wind grass harvested from the eleven acres of spiritual fields, Li Mu thought for a while and decided not to deal with it. These wind grasses were left to rot on the spiritual fields and turned into nutrients to fatten the spiritual fields.

Next, all eleven acres of spiritual fields will be planted with Yunwu Lingcha, and the spiritual fields need to be fattened first.

Soon, Li Mu left with his sword and headed for Qingshui Town. Nangong Hong and several outer disciples were waiting for him to transport a large number of spiritual plants collected from the tenancy rent.

"Coming, coming!" Seeing Li Mu approaching with a sword, Nangong Hong signaled to the four people behind him.

Li Mu's sword landed in the station compound and he apologized to the senior brothers who were waiting eagerly: "Senior Brother Nangong, Senior Brother Tang, Senior Brother Fu, and Senior Brother Wang, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long!"

"Let's go quickly! Don't miss the handover period!" Wang Kun glanced at Li Mu and urged.

"Yes! It has been delayed for several days! If the handover period is missed, it will be your responsibility. I will not be responsible!" Tang Hongliang nodded happily, looked at Li Mu and said bluntly.

"Okay, just say a few words, junior brother, go get the goods! We'll set off immediately." Nangong Hong looked at Li Mu and signaled.

Li Mu nodded, walked to the Lingzhi Department warehouse, unlocked the door with the key, shot out a stream of true energy, and closed the magic circle.

Soon, a group of five people stood up with swords and flew to Gangyang City.