Chapter Eighty Four – For Jingshi (2/2)
Realization appeared on Li Ying Feng’s face. She didn’t ask any further, nodding her head and said, “This batch of golden crow pills will sell easily. I can give you a down payment of jingshi to you first.”
“Many thanks, Shijie!” Zuo Mo was very grateful.
Li Ying Feng smiled, “But when Shigu comes back, you won’t be able to escape being punished.”
Zuo Mo spread his hands helplessly, “There’s no way around it!” After thinking for a second, he decided to remind Shijie, “Shijie could try to buy some raw materials about now.”
Li Ying Feng looked in shock at Zuo Mo and then suddenly smiled, “Didn’t think that Shidi is also concerned about business. En, Shidi, don’t worry too much. The sect has already hoarded enough materials. Especially dan-making materials. Master had started hoarding a long time ago.”
Zuo Mo was relieved. That seemed correct. A problem that even he could see, someone as clever as Yan Le Shibo, how could he not see it?
Zuo Mo’s heart was steadied by the sect’s proactive approach.
He was paid twenty pieces of third grade jingshi from Li Ying Feng. Taking this enormous sum of wealth, Zuo Mo didn’t feel very happy. He only felt that time was even tighter. The market prices had risen again! This was undoubtedly a strong signal.
Give it to Pu Yao? Zuo Mo gritted his teeth. Okay. But then, he paused. How would he give it to Pu Yao?
Usually, Pu Yao would do it himself, and rob him of jingshi. Zuo Mo didn’t have any way to take jingshi into his consciousness.
Pu Yao, it’s not that ge doesn’t want you to use it… …
Zuo Mo, mind at peace, put away the jingshi. After some thought, he decided to rent a ling garden.
Due to the climate of Sky Moon Jie, it was very suited for farming so there were many ling gardens. But many of the ling gardens, especially those with ling fields above third grade, they always lacked people to farm them. For ling fields of third grade and above, it needed somewhat professional xiuzhe to farm them. Otherwise, it was too much of a waste of resources. Normal xiuzhe were not able to pay the huge rent. Sky Moon Jie was primarily sword xiu, and the number of ling plant farmers were pitiful so there were many empty ling gardens.
The owner of the ling garden in front of him was chattering on, “Don’t worry, I won’t cheat you. This ling garden isn’t big but the ling energy is dense and it is all third grade ling fields. The air is very humid and sun exposure is appropriate. It is suited to farming all kinds of ling grasses and herbs. It would be a pity to just farm ling grains.”
“How much for a year?” Zuo Mo asked straightforwardly.
“Fifteen pieces of third grade jingshi.” The other answered resolutely.
“Accepted!” Zuo Mo, whose wallet had just bulged, responded briskly. He was trying to steal time right now.
Two hundred mu of third grade ling fields, it was enough for him to work with! Now that the ling fields had been rented, it was a question of what to plant. Since it was two hundred mu of ling fields, he couldn’t pay as much attention and care as he did for the ling fields of West Wind Valley. Luckily, this ling garden was not far from Wu Kong Sword Sect.
He needed time… …
Zuo Mo’s eyes were entirely red and extremely motivated.
In the end, Zuo Mo picked a ling grass called Fiery Red Flower that was used very commonly inmany healing lingdan. It also grew extremely quickly. The turnover was very quick and easy to sell, it was just perfect.
Zuo Mo planted a whole one hundred and eighty mu of fiery red flowers!
The remaining twenty mu, he planted three kinds of slightly rare ling herbs. This twenty mu was to increase his cultivation speed.
Speaking of how to speed up increasing cultivation, there were many methods, but the majority was related to jingshi. Of the ways, the best was to just take in the ling energy inside jingshi. This could dramatically increase the speed of cultivation. However, it require special methods to resolve the domineering nature of the ling energy of the jingshi. In comparison, Zuo Mo felt that it was more practical to find a way in dan-making.
Most of what he could make presently were first and second grade lingdan. His success rate with first grade lingdan was relatively high. It was hard to say about the success rate of second grade lingdan.
There were very little low level lingdan that could directly increase cultivation. As the ling grasses and herbs in low level lingdan were also low grade, their effects were very limited. Zuo Mo had been able to find a few that he needed in the records room of Fragrant Ginger Yard, like the [Bone Tempering Dan] to change the flesh, the [Evil Removing Dan] for removing impurities of the body. The effects of these obscure lingdan were not major, and the effects were all those that were not prioritized by sword xiu.
Zuo Mo didn’t have any room to choose.
[Bone Tempering Dan] and [Evil Removing Dan] didn’t have great effects, but he thought that if it was used together with [Vajra Profound Sutra], it would have some effect. The other than that what he placed importance on was [Spirit Increasing Dan]. Its effect was also obscure. It could increase the consciousness of xiuzhe. Zuo Mo decided to use it in combination with [Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation]. He didn’t know if it would help.
These obscure lingdan, there wasn’t any place that sold it in Dong Fu.
It was a pity that couldn’t find lingdan that could directly increase the speed of cultivation. Upon further thought, he found it normal. If those lingdan were easily made, one could just eat dan all day… …
However, Zuo Mo depressedly found that the three lingdan he had put so much effort into picking, had three kinds of rare ingredients that he couldn’t buy.
Luckily, he managed to buy the seeds and had planted down twenty mu.
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Bit of a relaxing chapter. I like translating these the most. Zuo Mo gets back to farming!