2: Chapter 2 Harvesting Spirit Rice, Double the Increase

Hearing the System's voice, Li Luochen grew excited. How pleasant this sound was; it was surely the foundation for his path to immortality.

"System, what is your function?"

"Ding! As the name suggests, as long as the host and your clansmen harvest from farming, you can obtain yield-increase rewards. There is a certain probability of triggering a critical hit reward. Host, please hurry and start farming."

Li Luochen hurriedly asked, "Are you saying that any Spirit Rice harvested from the Spiritual Fields will receive a yield-increase reward? And there's also a chance to be rewarded with other things?"

"Ding! Correct. You have one more consultation opportunity. Would you like to use it?"

Li Luochen was silent for a moment before asking, "System, can I still go back?"

"Ding! As long as the host is strong enough, you can travel to all the heavens and the ten thousand realms."

Li Luochen laughed and did not ask further. He knew that no matter what he asked next, the System would not respond.

He stood up, looked at everyone, and said with a smile, "Today is a good day, and it is also the day of our upcoming harvest."

"Let's go and harvest the Spirit Rice."

After speaking, Li Luochen walked quickly outside, his eyes filled with anticipation.

Li Yanlong and the others followed closely behind, heading rapidly toward those thirty mu of ordinary Spiritual Fields.

What was currently ripe was Spirit Rice from Unranked Spiritual Fields. This Spirit Rice was below Rank 1 Low Grade, but it still contained Spiritual Qi and was a favorite among ordinary low-level Loose Cultivators.

This kind of Unranked Spirit Rice was not expensive; a hundred jin was only worth one Low-Grade Spirit Stone, but its advantage lay in its high yield, producing about one thousand five hundred jin per mu.

Hidden Dragon Island had thirty mu of such Unranked Spiritual Fields. Based on a thousand jin per mu, it could produce around forty-five thousand jin of Spirit Rice. Once sold, it would fetch four hundred and fifty Spirit Stones.

For an ordinary Loose Cultivator, four hundred and fifty Spirit Stones a year was definitely not a small amount. Even for a Cultivator like Li Luochen at Qi Refining Stage 5, such a sum of Spirit Stones was not easily obtained.

Since everyone was a Cultivator, the speed of harvesting the Spirit Rice was very fast. In just one day, the thirty mu of Spiritual Fields were completely harvested.

After the threshing of the Spirit Rice was completed, everyone in the Li Family was beaming with joy.

These were pure Spirit Stones. With Spirit Stones, they could continue to nurture the Spiritual Vein and purchase Medicinal Pills to Cultivate.

Once all the Spirit Rice was placed into the Storage Pouch, the System's voice echoed in Li Luochen's ears.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host's Family for their diligent farming. You have harvested forty-five thousand jin of ordinary Spirit Rice, worth four hundred and fifty Spirit Stones. The farming reward condition has been met; the ordinary Spirit Rice yield is doubled."

"Ding! It has been detected that the host's Storage Pouch is too small. The System Space is now open, with an initial capacity of 1,000 cubic meters."

Li Luochen was overjoyed. Although it was only a double increase this time, the Spirit Rice had reached over ninety thousand jin, which could be sold for nine hundred Spirit Stones.

While it wasn't enough to upgrade the Spiritual Vein to rank 1 medium grade, it was sufficient to buy Medicinal Pills for the clansmen to Cultivate properly for a while.

Looking again at the Rank 1 Low Grade Spiritual Fields, the smile on Li Luochen's face grew even broader.

Rank 1 Low Grade Spirit Rice was quite valuable, worth one Spirit Stone for ten jin. Each mu could produce six hundred jin, equivalent to sixty Spirit Stones. Twenty mu meant one thousand two hundred Spirit Stones.

If the System rewards were added, it would be entirely enough for him to Cultivate to Qi Refining Stage 6 within this year.

Li Luochen smiled and said, "Yanlong, I'll leave the Family to you all for now. Take good care of the Spiritual Fields; I'm going to Qingsha Market."

Li Yanlong hurriedly replied, "Understood, Patriarch. Please be careful on your journey. The Family is protected by the Formation, so nothing will go wrong."

Li Luochen nodded, took out five thousand jin of Spirit Rice, and handed it to Li Yanfeng, saying, "Yanfeng, I'm leaving this Spirit Rice to you. From now on, our Family will eat the Spirit Rice we produce ourselves."

Although ordinary Spirit Rice wasn't enough to support their Cultivation, it was very beneficial for the three little ones who had just started, and eating Spirit Rice was much better than Fasting Pills.

Li Yanfeng quickly took the Spirit Rice, stored it away, and said with a smile, "Alright, Third Uncle, you must stay safe on the road."

Li Luochen waved his hand and said, "Take good care of the Family. I'll be back in three days at most."

After speaking, he walked out of Qianlong Valley. Just as he left the valley, he patted his Storage Pouch.

A small boat over two meters long appeared before him. It was a rank 1 medium grade Magical Artifact Flying Boat, barely large enough for five people, and was the most common flying artifact in the Beimen Archipelago.

Li Luochen leaped up and landed steadily on the Flying Boat.

After inputting his magic power, the Flying Boat slowly rose and flew rapidly toward Qingsha Island.

Qingsha Island was the headquarters of the Qingsha Sect, where the largest market in the surrounding area, Qingsha Market, was established.

Li Luochen had over eighty thousand jin of Spirit Rice in his possession. A small market wouldn't be able to handle it, but Qingsha Market could easily absorb it.

Furthermore, since Qingsha Island was where the Qingsha Sect was located, no short-sighted person would dare to act as a Bandit Cultivator here; it was relatively safe.

Before Li Luochen bought Hidden Dragon Island, it belonged to the Qingsha Sect, a Golden Core Sect located in the southeast of the Beimen Archipelago.

The Qingsha Sect acted fairly and wouldn't go back on the sale of islands; they only collected a protection fee once every ten years.

Hidden Dragon Island was not a large island; it was just an ordinary Mortal island with no Cultivation resources, so the protection fee was not high.

As long as two hundred Spirit Stones were paid at Qingsha Market every ten years as an island protection fee, one could receive protection from the Qingsha Sect.

Whether it was an attack by Yao Beasts or Bandit Cultivators invading the island, one could use the Island Lord Token to seek help from the Qingsha Sect, and their patrol Disciples would arrive quickly.

In reality, no one knew how much truth there was to this protection, but if the fee wasn't paid, they might be wiped out by Bandit Cultivators the very next day. In his view, this protection fee was simply paying for peace.

He encountered no danger along the way; after all, he was just a minor Cultivator at Qi Refining Stage 5.

Li Luochen had been to Qingsha Market a few times and was quite familiar with it. The market was not small, resembling a small city.

In the Beimen Archipelago, besides the Beimen Immortal City, Qingsha Market was likely among the largest.

Some Cultivators even called Qingsha Island one of the Eight Small Immortal Cities of the Beimen Archipelago, which showed how massive Qingsha Market was.

Li Luochen entered and made his way to the area where Loose Cultivators set up stalls. After paying one Spirit Stone, he found a prominent spot to sit down and placed several bags of Spirit Rice in front of him.

In fact, Li Luochen could have sold it all to the shops, but their purchase price was lower than the usual selling price.

By setting up a stall himself, he could sell a hundred jin of Spirit Rice for one Spirit Stone, but if he sold it to those shops, it would be one hundred and twenty jin for one Spirit Stone, which was not cost-effective.

It wouldn't matter much for a small amount, but with eighty-five thousand jin, selling to a shop would result in a loss of over a hundred Spirit Stones.

Accustomed to careful planning, he would never make such a losing deal and preferred to sell at a street stall.

Although selling this way was a bit slow, Spirit Rice itself was a hot commodity. In just one day, eighty-five thousand jin of Spirit Rice turned into eight hundred and fifty Spirit Stones.

Satisfied, Li Luochen stood up, left the stall, and headed toward the busiest street in the market.

He was in no hurry to buy anything; he simply kept moving toward crowded areas. Once he was certain no one was tailing him, he turned and walked toward the Lingdan Pavilion.

The Lingdan Pavilion was a place that sold Medicinal Pills. They had a complete range of Qi Refining Stage pills, including many high-quality ones, and their reputation was excellent.

Now that he had Spirit Stones, he naturally had to buy Cultivation resources, and Medicinal Pills were the best resources available.