Watering The Spiritual Fields
Arjun returned back home with the three girls and started studying the secret technique.
The secret technique was really a simple one. All they required to do was to manifest their spiritual energy into the atmosphere and make it fall down as water.
Arjun got the basic outline of the secret technique and after a moment he went some distance away from the abode and tried using it.
Arjun used the Spirit Rain technique, and immediately after those small black clouds started to form around him, and there was Spiritual Qi falling as drops down to the ground.
Although he was able to form the spiritual rain, he was not happy. The secret technique manual said that a normal Qi refining stage cultivator in the first level of Qi can water 50 m area around them for fifteen minutes using 1/3rd of his Qi.
And according to the mission instruction, they should bring down moderate showers for the crops for 5 minutes for each area.
Arjun practiced the technique for an hour straight and after feeling that his spiritual energy is almost depleted, with the remaining spiritual energy he could only bring down one another shower for five minutes.
Arjun has still not reached the 50 m mark. He was around 5m shorter.
Arjun sighed and opened the system panel, thinking 'I didn't want to use these points now, but I don't have another choice'.
[Name: Arjun
Lifespan: 9/96
Cultivation realm: 1st level Qi refining technique
Cultivation Technique: Celestial Qi cultivation technique {1st tier top grade} (Basic) (22/100) +
Skills: Alchemy, Formation
Secret technique: Most basic swordsmanship (ungraded)(proficient) (133/100) +
Spirit rain technique {1st tier low grade} (8/100) +
Proficiency Points:7]
Arjun was happy to see that he already has 8 points in Spirit rain technique, and according to his estimates adding 2 points could make him considered as he learned the spirit technique.
Arjun added 2 points, and as expected he received 20minutes of memories of him practicing the secret technique.
Arjun looked at the system interface ad thought 'Why, why did I only receive twenty minutes of memories, last time I got memories wort days.
[Name: Arjun
Lifespan: 9/96
Cultivation realm: 1st level Qi refining technique
Cultivation Technique: Celestial Qi cultivation technique {1st tier top grade} (Basic) (24/100) +
Skills: Alchemy, Formation
Secret technique: Most basic swordsmanship (ungraded)(proficient) (133/100) +
Spirit rain technique {1st tier low grade} (10/100) +
Proficiency Points:5]
Arjun, then calmed and understood how the system worked.
He looked at the interface and thought 'Next time onwards no matter what, I will not use my points easily, at least not until I can't even get the proficiency up by a point in three days'.
Arjun felt that he had lost the deal and closed the interface.
Just Arjun was preparing to pour down one last shower, he observed that his surroundings were covered with thick green grass, and if one could see clearly there were some tiny wild vegetables growing.
Arjun immediately said "Hmm, why are these grass and vegetables growing quickly, according to the manual, these spirit showers should only be able to increase the growth speed and yield by at most 15%, but this speed surpasses that 15%".
Arjun thought for a moment and attributed it to the Celestial spiritual energy.
To confirm it Arjun summoned another rain and indeed the grass and vegetable were growing at a speed visible to naked eye.
After some calculation Arjun was able to say that 2 minutes of his spiritual rain was equal to a normal cultivator's 5 minutes of Spiritual rain.
Arjun finally felt some joy, slightly recovering his mood.
Arjun then went back to the courtyard to replenish, his spiritual energy, and within 25 minutes Arjun recovered the spiritual energy.
After that Arjun went to take a look at the girls' progress.
The three of them were almost there. There was another good news for him and that was that Ahalya's Spirit Rain also had great potency towards growing the plants and although the effect was not as great as Arjun, it was still better than normal cultivators.
Ahalya's three minutes of spirit rain was equal to that of five minutes of natural spirit rain.
Pavitra and Siri didn't have these kinds of affects. Pavitra practiced a cultivation art more inclined towards coldness while Siri practiced a cultivation art called Thunder Lotus Qi cultivation technique, which was inclined towards lightning.
The rest of the day went as usual, except that they practiced the Spirit rain technique once more.
The next day, at 7: 30 they arrived at the spirit fields deacon hall and showed the certificate.
The deacon, didn't seem to be like a cultivator, but a martial artist.
Martial arts were developed by mortals, in hope of gaining strength and extending lifespan. Many mortals would want to become martial artists and many martial artists wants to become cultivators and those at Qi refining stage wants to become foundation building real, sigh! this is an endless cycle.
Although they did succeed in extending lifespan up to 200 years they didn't succeed in strength issue.
Even the top tier martial artists can only counter Qi refining mid stage cultivators, and not defeat them. If the battle were to last long, then in most cases the cultivator would be the one to win.
The deacon then looked showed them the way to the plot they had to work.
When they arrived at the plot there the deacon asked the mortals, who were working in the field to step away.
Arjun and the girls divided the plot of three acres into 30 parts with Arjun taking ten parts, Ahalya taking 8 parts and the rest was divided equally between Siri and Pavitra.
Finally, by afternoon they completed watering the fields and asked the deacon to check the fields. They spent 2 and half hours for pouring down showers, while the rest of the time was used to recover spiritual energy.
The deacon looked at him and said "Daoist master, the field is watered according to the standard, come let us go to the deacon hall, there you can get the mission paper stamped as completed".
The martial artist didn't expect them to have completed so quickly. But when he checked the field, indeed it was according to the standard.
After getting the papers stamped, they went to the mission hall to redeem their reward of 8 contribution points. Each of them got 2 contribution point.
Ahalya was finally feeling happy for being of help to them.
After that Arjun and Ahalya directly went to the alchemy peak.
The rest of the day passed as usual.
The next day they.
As usual Arjun woke up and cultivated after sunrise and after breakfast, and then went to the mission hall to take up the mission to water spirit fields, after that redeem the rewards.
From afternoon, Arjun would go to the alchemy and then to the formation peak, and then return to his abode before the sun set and then cultivate.
After cultivating he would take bath and then have dinner and go to sleep.
Like these six days passed and today was the eight days since they started doing the mission.
The time they took to water the fields has decreased by half an hour during the week, and they have also made considerable amount of progress in cultivation.
Arjun also got to know that Leela and Gopal successfully became cultivators and joined the ethereal spirit peak, which was the one left in the top 13 peaks, that too only with 3 spots left.
Right now, Arjun had 14 contribution points. This is the benefit of joining a sect, and if you don't standout as a exceptional genius and just exhibit talent of a normal genius, the sect will also try to nourish you a bit, although a little low compared to those exceptional geniuses.
Arjun and the three girls decided to stop doing the missions for this month because they had to concentrate on cultivation and had to prepare for the scholarship exam that would take place in two weeks.
They have deciided that they will do missions for only a week in every month.
Arjun also returned the book back to the library and wanted to focused on increasing his strength and he would spend the Leisure time preparing for the exam.