Chapter 39: Completion of the Growth Technique Experiment

Even so, from the perspective of yield, the Growth Technique demonstrated in this manner could not only significantly shorten the maturation time of crops but also wouldn't negatively affect the final results.

This had already achieved the primary objective for him.

Seeing that the spirit rice seedlings had also passed the seedling stage, Fang Yun chose to keep ten of the better-looking seedlings.

After clearing out all the remaining poorly growing seedlings, he once again applied the Growth Technique.

As the green light concentrated in a corner of the spirit field, the specifically selected spirit rice seedlings began to grow rapidly.

Perhaps because there were too few spirit rice plants, with just one application of the Growth Technique, these seedlings directly entered the maturation stage.

Watching the spirit rice grow rapidly while remaining lush and green, with the rice ears just starting to emerge at the tops,

Fang Yun nodded in satisfaction, noting that the remaining task was to see the harvest results in a month.

However, during this month, Fang Yun didn't plan to just wait idly.

After returning to the cave and spending a few days recovering his magical power,

Fang Yun went back to the canyon.

He began to promote the growth of the yellow soybean seedlings on 100 acres.

Since the previous experiment had shown no significant issues, it was naturally time to start promoting these yellow soybeans.

This would allow him to quickly harvest a large batch of quality seeds to facilitate his future planting plans.

With three successive applications of the Growth Technique, all the yellow soybean seedlings entered the maturation stage.

Fortunately, he was solely focused on the soybean seeds; if it were for life energy, he didn't know how much he would have lost.

While waiting for the yellow soybeans to mature, Fang Yun also planted all the weed seeds he had harvested in the original place where he had grown medicinal materials.

He then used the Ground Strength Technique and Spirit Rain Technique to enrich the soil with nutrients and spiritual energy.

Even if temporarily completing this task felt satisfying.

After about ten days, all the yellow soybeans were harvested, and there wasn't much difference in yield.

He gained another point of life energy.

Fang Yun's stats were as follows:

Cultivation Level: Qi Refining Stage Two

Magical Power: 21

Life Energy: 16.016

Spells: Ground Strength Technique (Proficient 30%)

Spirit Rain Technique (Proficient 10%)

Growth Technique (Beginner 59%)

Controlled Plants: Spirit Rice (330)

Aside from this harvest, the continuous casting of these spells during this period had resulted in significant improvements, with the Spirit Rain Technique officially reaching the proficient stage.

The coverage area of the spirit rain was broader, and its casting speed was faster.

Moreover, the spiritual energy within the spirit rain had increased.

The only downside was that the plants he controlled did not display their maturation time; otherwise, it would have been much more convenient.

However, with the Growth Technique, the maturation time for these plants had greatly accelerated; ordinary crops only needed about a month.

For spirit rice, which absorbed spiritual energy, the required time was just over two months, so there was no need for special calculations.

In this way, the speed at which he accumulated life energy would be greatly accelerated.

The only concern was that the supply of spiritual energy in the spiritual spring might not keep up with the consumption of spirit rice.

In this regard, aside from using spirit stones for replenishment,

the only method left was to use the Spirit Rain Technique to supplement the spiritual energy in the spirit field.

One issue remained: his magical power was still too limited. If he frequently used the Spirit Rain Technique in the future, it would likely be somewhat taxing.

However, once this batch of spirit rice completely matured, the life energy harvested should be sufficient for him to break through to the Qi Refining Stage Three.

At that time, he wouldn't feel so passive.

After sketching out a rough plan for his future,

Fang Yun used the Growth Technique once more on the fully grown weeds.

Weeds have a relatively short maturation time, and just one application of the Growth Technique was enough to bring all the weeds on the hundred acres to maturity.

In just a short while, he would be able to harvest everything.

However, because the maturation time was relatively short, Fang Yun didn't have high hopes for the life energy he could harvest from these weeds.

In other words, for ordinary crops, unless he could achieve a scale of over ten thousand acres, the life energy harvested wouldn't be enough to sustain his own consumption.

After completing the promotion of these weeds, it wasn't long before the ten spirit rice plants he had previously used for testing were fully mature.

Perhaps due to their small number, these ten spirit rice plants did not attract any pests this time.

This relieved Fang Yun.

To be honest, perhaps due to the environmental conditions on Spirit Water Island, apart from the initial green beetles, he hadn't seen any other pests on the island.

This greatly reduced his efforts in the farming process.

With all the spirit rice harvested, Fang Yun also gained 10 points of life energy along with a certain amount of spirit rice grains.

Fang Yun

Cultivation Level: Qi Training Level 2

Mana: 21

Life Energy: 26.016

Spells: Ground Strength Technique (Proficient 30%) Spirit Rain Technique (Proficient 10%) Growth Technique (Entry 60%)

Control of Plants: Spirit Rice (320) …

Fang Yun wasn't particularly concerned about the spirit rice grains. After all, the spiritual energy in the spirit field was limited; even if there were more seeds, he didn't have enough spiritual energy to nourish them.

On the contrary, the ten points of life energy gained surprised him greatly.

The harvest of these ten spirit rice plants also represented that he had fully mastered the usage of the Growth Technique.

From now on, the growth time of his crops would be greatly shortened.

This would be immensely beneficial for his future farming career and his cultivation endeavors.

Since he had completely grasped the Growth Technique, he naturally needed to promote the growth of the remaining 320 spirit rice plants as soon as possible.

Thus, Fang Yun directly cast the Growth Technique beside the spirit field.

Once the green light enveloped all the spirit rice, they began to grow rapidly.

However, being not an ordinary crop, a single use of the Growth Technique was evidently insufficient to bring the spirit rice to maturity.

Moreover, as the spirit rice grew rapidly, the consumption of ordinary energy and spiritual energy in the spirit field was extraordinarily staggering.

After casting the Growth Technique, the spirit rice conveyed a sense of extreme hunger to Fang Yun.

Using the Ground Strength Technique to sense the situation in the spirit field, he realized that the remaining ordinary energy and spiritual energy in the spirit field were already insufficient for the next use of the Growth Technique.

Thus, Fang Yun had no choice but to continuously cast the Spirit Rain Technique. After consuming over half of his mana, he barely managed to replenish the spiritual energy in the spirit field.

However, after replenishing the ordinary spiritual energy, he still needed a large amount of ordinary energy.

Then, Fang Yun returned to the cave and spent several days restoring some mana before entering the northern mountain range.

He used the Ground Strength Technique to gather a large amount of ordinary energy into the soil and transported all this soil back to the spirit field.

This completed the replenishment of ordinary energy in the spirit field.

After doing all this, Fang Yun had established the foundation for the next casting of the Growth Technique.

It could be said that while the Growth Technique could greatly accelerate the growth of the spirit rice,

the conditions required were also extremely troublesome.

Indeed, seeking shortcuts ultimately requires a certain price to be paid.