Chapter 6 The Farm’s Wonderful Use

# Chapter 6 The Farm’s Wonderful Use

"Huh? Spirit Rice?"

Wang Hao's brain froze for several seconds before he stepped forward to examine the cloth bag. Inside, it was indeed Spirit Rice. Hefting the weight, he estimated it was roughly 100 jin.

His face couldn't help but light up with wild joy. "Haha! So this is how the farm works! Isn't this just like the portable planting spaces in those novels? Except my farm is more worry-free; I don't even need to manage it manually..."

Simultaneously, his mind began calculating.

Typically, the yield of Spirit Rice per mu (1mu=667m2) ranged from 50 to 100 jin, depending mainly on the care the cultivator put into it. The profit wasn't huge, but farming was a time-consuming task. Many cultivators merely cast a Rain-making Spiritual Art occasionally and didn't bother with weeding or pest control. Under such circumstances, it would be strange if the yield was high!

However, if a professional Spiritual Farmer tended the fields, the yield would be much higher. The farm achieved the theoretical maximum yield, equivalent to a spirit field carefully tended by a master farmer.

The farm's Spirit Rice growth cycle was only ten days—one-tenth of the real world's time. His current two plots produced 200 jin of Spirit Rice every ten days. That was worth 60 Spirit Stones per month, or 180 stones per season... 720 stones per year. This was a fortune...

Even Old Wang didn't earn much more than that. It was a pity he couldn't return to the Wang family right now. If he had the family's foundation, he could help the Wang clan become the overlords of Qingniu Market within a few years.

Wait, I can't calculate like this.

Well-read in cultivation novels, Wang Hao knew that cultivation should prioritize caution. "A man's wealth is his own ruin by causing another's greed." If he dared to sell large quantities of Spirit Rice, sooner or later, it would attract attention. Old Wang couldn't protect him!

Moreover, according to farming game conventions, unlocking more land required money. The land could probably be upgraded to Red Land, Golden Land, and so on, which would all require money. So, in the short term, the farm's output shouldn't be touched. He should aim to open more land first.

Damn, I've turned into a gamer again...

However, eating some of it himself should be fine. Having switched to a dual-attribute cultivation technique, and with an ample supply of Spirit Rice, the time needed to reach Qi Refining Perfection would be greatly shortened. Foundation Establishment was hopeful!

Wang Hao purchased a packet of Spirit Rice seeds and planted them in the remaining empty plot. He clicked on the third plot of land and found that unlocking it required 100 Spirit Stones. He frowned slightly; the price was not low.

If he currently planted both plots fully with Spirit Rice, in ten days he would get 200 jin. He'd eat 10 jin, leaving 190 to sell for 19 Spirit Stones. Buying 2 seed packets required 2 Spirit Stones. This meant that every ten days, he could only accumulate 17 Spirit Stones. He would need to plant 6 batches of Spirit Rice to accumulate enough to unlock the third plot.

According to the nature of Tencent games, subsequent land unlock costs would multiply exponentially. Unlocking all thirty plots would probably take decades. Indeed, he couldn't get carried away!

30 mu (2ha) of land with a tenfold time flow rate was equivalent to 300 mu of ordinary spirit fields. This was more than a small family like the Wang clan possessed, as they only had one Foundation Establishment cultivator. But it still couldn't compare to established, powerful Foundation Establishment families, let alone medium-sized families or sects guarded by Golden Core experts!

Gathering his thoughts back to reality, he used the farm-produced Spirit Rice to cook a pot of rice, then began cultivating again!

Cultivation knows no time. In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

Sitting on a meditation mat, Wang Hao opened his eyes. Currently, he had already restored his cultivation to the third layer of Qi Refining and had even progressed a bit further. The red and green yin-yang fish spiritual energy mass in his Dantian appeared much denser than before.

In the Tencent Farm, he had already opened the third plot of land. The price for opening the fourth plot was less than he had imagined; it only required one hundred and fifty Spirit Stones. Planting Spirit Rice, it would still take six batches to unlock.

Additionally, he created a personal status panel. Ahem, this was mainly for mischievous fun. Without a panel, it felt like he wasn't playing a game—scratch that—cultivating!

"Check panel."

[Name: Wang Hao

Age: 18 years old

Cultivation: Qi Refining Layer 3 (91.5/??)

Cultivation Technique: Red Lotus Illusory Wood True Scripture (Layer 1)

Spiritual Energy: 90/90

Skills:

Alchemy: Tier 1 Low-Grade (Not Initiated)

Talisman Making: Tier 1 Low-Grade (Not Initiated)

Spiritual Arts: Fireball Technique (Not Mastered), Entangling Vine Technique (Not Mastered)

Divine Arts: You haven't mastered any divine arts.]

Looking at the panel, Wang Hao felt embarrassed himself. "Not Initiated," "Not Mastered"—why even write them down? But he felt that without them, the panel would only have five lines, which was too little and looked ugly!

The Spiritual Energy value of 90 wasn't randomly written but strictly calculated. Because he hadn't mastered any spiritual arts yet, he used "unleashing a basic attack with a Tier 1 Low-Grade spiritual weapon" as a reference point, consuming 1 point of spiritual energy. He could unleash a total of 90 attacks.

As for the "Qi Refining Layer 3 (91.5/??)": The 91.5 was because his spiritual energy was impure. Only 90 points were usable, but after exhausting his usable spiritual energy, his Dantian still contained three other types of unusable spiritual energy, adding up to 1.5 points. The question marks indicated he didn't know the upper limit of his Dantian's capacity for the third layer. He was currently still slowly cultivating and expanding it...

But he felt close to touching the threshold of the fourth layer.

Recalling his previous spiritual energy situations at the first and second layers, he set the first layer's maximum Dantian capacity at 50, and the second layer at 75. This allowed Wang Hao to discern a pattern. He guessed the third layer's upper limit was 112.5.

This panel wasn't completely useless. Monitoring internal spiritual energy was possible since the computer was integrated with his body. Of course, this was cultivation. Cultivation often couldn't be explained by science. To make it perfect, he needed more data support.

Qi Refining Layer 3 was still the early stage of Qi Refining. The Fireball Technique and Entangling Vine Technique were both mid-stage spiritual arts. Wang Hao wasn't unwilling to learn them; he simply couldn't learn them yet!

As for some Tier 1 Low-Grade spiritual arts like the Rain-making Spiritual Arts or the Condensing Qi Finger, Wang Hao felt learning them was unnecessary. He wasn't becoming a spiritual farmer right now, nor was he engaging in combat, so learning those would be a waste of time!

Better to use that time to cultivate and advance into the mid-stage of Qi Refining sooner!

Based on extensive calculations and observations, his current daily cultivation speed increased his capacity by approximately 0.18. Without eating Spirit Rice, it was 0.09. Clearly, since he wasn't lacking Spirit Rice to eat, he could expand his Dantian capacity by one point roughly every six days. If the third layer's upper limit was truly around 112.5 (implied by his 90 calculation earlier), he still needed nearly two months to reach the peak of the third layer.

However, he also had two bottles of Gathering Spirit Pills left by Wang Yanzhao. Each bottle contained ten pills. If not take them now, when? Taking pills should be faster!

"Haha, no wonder the original host was only at Qi Refining Layer 3 by eighteen. Even switching techniques, plus an ample Spirit Rice supply, my cultivation is still so slow! Five Spiritual Roots are trash indeed!" Wang Hao smiled self-mockingly.

He wasn't lacking anything and didn't need to go out to procure supplies, so he continued his secluded cultivation!

Two and a half months later, after continuously taking pills, Wang Hao finally touched the threshold of Qi Refining Layer 4. The effects of refining Gathering Spirit Pills were good—not quite double that of eating Spirit Rice, but close enough.

One Gathering Spirit Pill's efficacy was sufficient for six days of refining. This month, he took 15 Gathering Spirit Pills. In Qingniu Market, the price for a bottle of Gathering Spirit Pills was 30 Spirit Stones. In two and a half months, he had consumed 45 Spirit Stones' worth.

Don't think 45 Spirit Stones is a small amount. Wang Yanzhao, as an elder of the Wang family, had an annual clan stipend of only 40 Spirit Stones. Ten were added due to his elder status. Ordinary late-stage Qi Refining cultivators only received 30, and early-stage cultivators got a pitiful 10 Spirit Stones per year. Gathering Spirit Pills could usually only be bought individually. Who would dare eat them like candy the way he did?