82: Chapter 82 My goodness, the yield is over 800 jin per mu?

Two days later, all thirty-six of Zhao Mo's spirit fields were occupied by red gold flowers.

The golden marrow fruit also seemed to have been injected with hormones, entering a frantic growth mode.

By the edge of the spirit field, Zhao Mo, Ding Xin, and Tong Weiping had been staring motionless at the spirit field for a long time.

"Since I can remember, I have never seen this kind of spirit plant."

Tong Weiping watched the golden marrow fruit change day by day. He didn't know if he felt shocked or terrified; he could barely articulate his words.

Time drifted by for a month.

The golden marrow fruit had already reached a height of three meters, one meter taller than the mature specimens of previous years.

"It really has become a tree."

"There shouldn't be any problems with it bearing fruit, right?"

People are always fearful of the unknown, and Cultivators are no different; Zhao Mo currently felt uneasy.

If it only grew the golden jade marrow fruit seedling and didn't bear fruit, then this whole year would be wasted.

Fortunately, the golden marrow fruit blossomed on schedule.

In contrast, the red gold flowers had now withered. After withering, the red gold flowers quickly turned black, and they crumbled to powder as soon as Zhao Mo touched them.

"How strange."

"Write it down."

red gold flowers have no medicinal value, cannot be used for Alchemy, and there is no record of them in the Scripture Pavilion.

Everything had to be figured out by Zhao Mo himself.

Buzz, buzz, buzz~

The familiar sound rang out again.

Zhao Mo stopped the eager Ding Xin and took out an iron stake.

"You go and rest."

"Let me do it~"

Ding Xin held a knife, her eyes full of excitement.

Zhao Mo added, "Have you forgotten about last year when you were chopping the Demon Worms and the residue splattered all over you?"

"Be a good little fairy and go away; leave this to me."

Ding Xin frowned, but in the end, she was swayed by Zhao Mo.

"Alright then."

【You have completed pest control in the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

After a day of hard work, the edge of the spirit field was piled high with the corpses of Demon Worms.

【You have completed pest control in the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

The next day, it continued.

It must be said that farming Experience points like this was truly addictive for Zhao Mo.

...

Slowly, the flowers withered, the Demon Worms no longer appeared during the day, and at night, there were no White Jade Bees flying around in the spirit field.

Zhao Mo checked his Experience points.

"Three hundred and sixty?"

This meant that the flowering period of the golden marrow fruit this year lasted for eighteen days.

While in the past few years, it had only been thirteen or fourteen days.

The conical shape of the golden marrow fruit had already appeared on the golden jade marrow fruit seedling.

【You have completed the harvesting of golden marrow fruit, Experience + 20.】

【Reward: After one hundred and ninety-eight days of meticulous care, your spirit field has achieved a bumper harvest, Experience + 2500.】

"Great, great, two thousand five hundred Experience points, enough for me to Breakthrough to the Golden Core Eighth Layer."

Actually, compared to the two thousand five hundred Experience points, the eighteen thousand catties of golden marrow fruit should have been even more exciting.

According to the ratio of one tael of golden jade marrow refined from one hundred catties of golden marrow fruit, Zhao Mo now had over seventy catties of golden jade marrow in his hands.

However, considering that Ding Xin might also need to Awaken Magical Artifacts, this amount of golden marrow fruit was still far from enough.

"Should I go and buy some?"

Answering Zhao Mo was Ding Xin's rolling eyes.

"Currently, golden marrow fruit still sells for seven hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per catty in the Xuan Sect."

"You haven't even calculated how many Spirit Stones eighteen thousand catties of golden marrow fruit can sell for, have you?"

"Besides the golden marrow fruit, what else could you plant in these thirty-six mu of spirit fields that would earn this many Spirit Stones?"

Ding Xin held a Medicinal Pill that Zhao Mo didn't recognize, popping one into her mouth from time to time.

She had recently become obsessed with Alchemy again. Thanks to her inhuman talent of being able to discern the Pill Formula of any Medicinal Pill she had eaten, she had almost finished deciphering all the Spirit Pills in the Liu Clan Apothecary.

Ding Xin stopped, rubbed her wrist, and on the table lay the Pill Formula she had just finished writing.

"Alright, then I'll just have to keep planting for a few more years."

The night passed without incident.

"Eh, what is this?"

While Zhao Mo was clearing away the golden jade marrow fruit seedlings in the spirit field, he unexpectedly discovered a special red gold flower—or perhaps it couldn't be called a red gold flower anymore. Although it grew in the shape of a red gold flower, it was white.

Moreover, there was something the size of a quail egg growing on its roots.

"A fruit?"

"How strange."

Zhao Mo casually put the item into his Storage Ring, planning to take a closer look when he had time.

What was even stranger was that in such a large spirit field, there was only one of these things.

"Hehe, could it be that the red gold flower has mutated?"

【You have completed the cleaning of the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

Ever since he had burned a batch of golden jade marrow fruit seedlings once, Zhao Mo felt that these seedlings were also good things because they were fire-resistant.

All the cleared golden jade marrow fruit seedlings were piled by Zhao Mo next to the Leisurely Residence, forming a high mountain of seedlings that looked even larger than the Leisurely Residence itself.

"Get up."

"It's time to work."

Zhao Mo looked at Ox Martial in the cowshed; he didn't know what was wrong with this guy lately.

It just ate and slept, slept and ate. The whole ox had grown a circle fatter, and when it walked, the fat on its belly jiggled.

Seeing Zhao Mo holding the ox-driving whip in his hand, Ox Martial looked displeased and got up reluctantly.

After putting on the ox headstall and attaching the rope to the ox tether, the plowing began.

"I don't know when this spirit field will return to normal. By then, I'll just use a Spell directly, and you'll be liberated."

Sensing Ox Martial's passive attitude, Zhao Mo started making empty promises.

As a result, Ox Martial remained the same.

Its life as an ox was over, unless it could break free from the shackles on its Divine Soul.

【You have completed the plowing of the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

"You, take care of yourself."

Zhao Mo patted the ox's head.

As long as Ox Martial was willing to help him plow the field, Zhao Mo would let it be for the rest.

"System."

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Golden Core Seventh Layer (Can be upgraded.)】

【Experience Points: 2920 / 2500】

【Reward: None.】

"Upgrade cultivation."

A month later, Zhao Mo came out of seclusion.

His cultivation had unsurprisingly reached the Golden Core Eighth Layer, just one step away from the Golden Core Ninth Layer, and he could begin preparing to Breakthrough to Nascent Soul True Lord.

"I'm going to the Heavenly Phoenix Grotto-Heaven for seclusion. Don't go out if you don't have to, and honestly stay in Tianfeng Valley to farm."

This was Ding Xin's message.

"This girl, couldn't she have waited until after the New Year to go," Zhao Mo grumbled.

Fortunately, Tong Weiping lived next door, so it wasn't far, and Zhao Mo wasn't bored.

Cultivation has no concept of time; in the blink of an eye, another year had passed.

Ding Xin had not come out of seclusion, and Li Feng was still trapped in the Heartless Valley.

The only difference was Zhao Mo's spirit field.

"What exactly is this thing? It probably can't be called a red gold flower anymore, right?"

At this moment, the golden marrow fruit in the spirit field had reached a height of six meters. Zhao Mo squatted underneath, looking at the vast patches of white red gold flowers.

He pulled up one at random, and there were fruits growing on the roots.

This was completely different from the red gold flowers Zhao Mo had brought from the Heartless Valley; it could even be said to be two different varieties. If there was any similarity, it might only be those seven petals.

【You have completed the harvesting of the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

【Reward: After one hundred and seventy-eight days of meticulous care, your spirit field has achieved a bumper harvest, Experience + 2500.】

"How many catties did we harvest?"

When Zhao Mo first started harvesting the golden marrow fruit, Tong Weiping was by his side.

The six-meter-tall fruit seedlings were three times taller than the original golden marrow fruit.

And the golden marrow fruit was thirty centimeters long; if one said it was a small sword, I reckon no one would doubt it.

"Thirty-one thousand catties."

Zhao Mo announced the number.

It made Tong Weiping's eyes widen.

"Good, good, good."

"Goodness gracious, the yield per mu is over eight hundred catties?"

He didn't know until he calculated it; once he did, he was shocked.

Zhao Mo did some mental math and confirmed, "It should be eight hundred and sixty-one catties."