Chapter 10 Harvest and Life Essence Qi

Immediately, Fang Yun sat cross-legged beside the stream, and with a slight stir of his spirit, this refreshing breath began to flow slowly through his meridians just like mana, driven by his spirit.

Seeing this, Fang Yun's expectations for the effects of this refreshing breath increased even more.

When this refreshing breath reached the previously injured meridians,

it was like a piece of dry land that had been long parched, suddenly doused with a ladle of clear water.

Those injured meridians began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If the pace of healing with his own mana was used as a benchmark, the healing effect of this refreshing breath was roughly equivalent to ten days of his healing efforts.

Although it looked scant in quantity, it's important to realize that the vegetables he had gathered were merely less than one-tenth of all the vegetables beside the stream.

If he were to gather all the vegetables, the energy obtained, coupled with the effects of his previous healing with mana, would be enough for his injuries to recover by sixty to seventy percent.

Besides these vegetables, there were also rice, soybeans, and medicinal herbs.

Once the crops in the canyon ripened, not only would his injuries fully recover, but he would also be able to store some refreshing breaths.

By then, he might be able to explore more uses and wonders of this type of energy.

Thinking that his injuries were about to heal, Fang Yun's mood couldn't help but become excited.

This injury had plagued him for too long; if not for this injury, he would have been able to continue his cultivation long ago.

Moreover, with his previous Qi Cultivation of the first level, he could also cultivate the Earth Power Skills in the Chang Chun Skill.

This would greatly assist his farming endeavors, and in turn, he would obtain more Unknown Energy, creating a positive cycle.

Instead of the current situation, where he wasted a lot of time and had to wield a hoe like an ordinary mortal laboring hard to clear the land.

After calming his excited mental state, Fang Yun glanced at the panel where Unknown Energy was again displayed as zero and nodded.

The emergence of this type of energy was indeed timely for him.

In the following days, Fang Yun stopped healing with mana and inspected the Spirit Rice every day, removing some weeds.

Then he went directly to the canyon, caring for these crops even more diligently.

Over the next month, the other vegetables beside the stream gradually matured.

Fang Yun began to gradually harvest these vegetables.

After collecting the refreshing breaths, he immediately used them for healing; the remaining vegetables were casually placed in a corner.

He couldn't eat that many vegetables; adhering to the principle of not wasting, Fang Yun planned to use them for composting.

In this way, when the vegetables decayed sufficiently, by adding some other materials, he could add more fertilizer to the land.

A month later, all the vegetables had been harvested; perhaps due to different growing times, the remaining vegetables provided more refreshing breaths than the previous green leafy vegetables.

Using the refreshing breathable formed by these vegetables, combined with the part previously healed by mana, the injured meridians in his body were now eighty to ninety percent recovered.

Full recovery was not far off.

Thus, Fang Yun closely monitored the soon-to-ripen rice and soybeans in the canyon,

being constantly vigilant about pests and weed growth.

Meanwhile, he used his mana diligently to nourish the injured meridians.

A little over a month later, as the rice and soybeans were about to mature, the injuries in Fang Yun's meridians finally healed completely.

With the injuries in the meridians fully healed, the mana in Fang Yun's body could finally circulate freely throughout his body.

It also meant that he had returned to the cultivation realm of the first layer of Qi Cultivation.

The Spiritual Energy emanating from the Spiritual Spring could finally be utilized fully without waste.

Moreover, the Earth Power Skills he had longed for could finally be cultivated.

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It can be said that starting from this day, Fang Yun formally embarked on his journey of cultivation.

He began his ascent on the Immortal Path known as the summit.

However, no matter how excited he felt, Fang Yun had to forcibly suppress it for now.

For after more than three months, both the rice and soybeans had begun to mature.

To him, these crops were undoubtedly a tremendous source of energy.

Thus, after sensing the maturity of the rice, he went back down to the foot of the mountain to fetch the tools for harvesting the rice and soybeans.

And he politely declined the elders' offers of help, returning to the valley alone.

He began harvesting the rice and soybeans.

Ultimately, due to the different growing times, these rice and soybeans contained a much richer cool aura compared to the previous vegetables.

When the harvesting of rice and soybeans was completed, some changes appeared on Fang Yun's panel again.

Fang Yun

Cultivation: Qi Cultivation Level 1

Mana: 10

Control over Plants: spirit rice (63) astragalus (2536)...

Unknown Energy: 2

With his injuries healed, the character for 'damaged' no longer appeared behind Fang Yun's cultivation status.

And the amount of unknown energy was much more than when harvesting vegetables previously. Fang Yun estimated that one point of unknown energy could restore his injuries from their initial state to their peak state.

For him, that was like having an additional life.

Thinking of this, a bright smile emerged on Fang Yun's face.

After some thought, he decided to give a name to this 'Unknown Energy': Life Essence Qi.

After all, it could not always be called Unknown Energy.

Once Fang Yun firmly set this name in his mind, the name on the panel changed accordingly. It seems that the panel's data could also change according to his consciousness.

Then, looking at the grains that had been harvested in the valley.

He contemplated a bit. It would indeed be quite difficult to transport them out by himself.

Either he could go down the mountain to ask the elders to send people to take them away.

Or he could burn them all up, turning them back into nutrients.

After hesitating for a moment, rather than not wasting these grains, Fang Yun was more unwilling to expose this place.

After all, these crops were somewhat linked to his Golden Finger.

Although Fang Yun didn't think that after handing over these grains, the people of the Fang Family could detect anything unusual about them.

But out of caution, before he had the ability to protect himself, Fang Yun did not want any information related to his Golden Finger to be exposed.

When his strength improved later, and the crop yield increased, then it wouldn't be too late to hand them over to the Fang Family.

Consequently, among the two types of crops, Fang Yun selected the parts with the most vigorous life force as seeds for the next batch.

Then, after several days of exposure to the sun, he burnt all the remaining rice, mixing it back into the soil.

This served as a source of nutrients for the next generation of crops.

What remained was the herbs that hadn't matured yet, but the maturation time for medicinal herbs was much longer than ordinary crops anyway, and the longer the planting time, the better the medicinal effect.

Wouldn't that mean they also contain more Life Essence Qi?

In that case, there's no rush to harvest these herbs.

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