130 Dream Building (1/2)
Fang Yuan was extremely experienced in cooking spiritual rice.
However, he did not know what to expect from the Flame Jade Rice. For instance, the heat had to be brought up to cook it.
If he did not prepare enough Flame Jade Rice, he was afraid he would undercook and waste the first pot of spiritual rice, which would be a joke!
”Hu!”
Once the spiritual rice became cooked, Fang Yuan lifted the pot cover, and an intense heatwave came out of the pot.
”Keke!”
”Chirp! Chirp!”
The Flower Fox Ferret and Iron-tailed Black Eagle gathered around and stared at the cooked Flame Jade Rice.
In the pot, grains of spiritual rice were glowing red, and were of a much larger size than before, like a lychee. It was crystal clear, and there seemed to be a tiny flame in within.
”Why does this feel like I am making spiritual pills?”
In spending time guiding his disciple, he slowly understood Lu Renjia's alchemy techniques and felt that cooking this pot of spiritual rice was rather similar to making spiritual pills, and the end products of the two processes were rather similar as well.
'Of course... Spiritual rice is grown naturally and will, therefore, be better than a normal pill. Furthermore, it can be eaten as a staple, but for a pill, one still has to be worried if it is poisonous...'
He took out two grains of spiritual rice and distributed them to the Flower Fox Ferret and Iron-tailed Black Eagle. He then took one grain for himself and stuffed it in his mouth.
”Wu!”
This rice was crispy and fragrant. Needless to say, its taste was wonderful. More importantly, after unshelling the rice, it was as though a burning flame exploded in his mouth, through his throat and down to his stomach. His Dantian became warm, like a small fireball in it.
”Wonderful spiritual property!”
With such a strong replenishment of spiritual energy, it was easily many times more beneficial than the Vermilion Jade Rice, which made Fang Yuan's eyes glitter.
Even with his astonishing magical energy, he could still feel that the elemental force in his Dantian was being stimulated, becoming just a little stronger than before.
”This scale... It is much larger than the spiritual tea in the Secluded Mountain Prefecture...”
Fang Yuan touched his forehead and his hand became moist. He was beginning to sweat.
”If I consume this on a daily basis, it will train my fire element and cleanse my bone marrow! Furthermore...”
His eyes flashed and he gestured something with his hands.
”Chila!”
A small flame appeared at his fingertips.
”Fire-type spiritual spells... I've learnt it?”
Fang Yuan was extremely interested in spiritual spells. He had read up all about it in the Secluded Mountain Prefecture and took down mental notes of it.
Liu Yan was a fire-type spiritual knight himself. Although he did not teach his secret spiritual spells, he did not reject Fang Yuan's plea to learn a few basic spiritual spells used by spiritual disciples.
Spiritual spells were the hardest to learn, and as Fang Yuan tried to harness it, he encountered immense difficulties.
However, this time, with the stimulation of the spiritual spells, he felt that he understood fire-type cultivation even more, and he could even feel the fire-type force in the Heavens and Earth. It was a different path from dream accessing and harnessing wood-type spiritual spells, but the end goal was the same. All of them were equally profound.
”This Flame Jade Rice is fire-type. If I consume it for a long period, I would be able to increase my fire-type experience...”
Fang Yuan rubbed his chin and was in deep thought. ”If Liu Yan knew about this, he would spend a fortune just to get his hands on these!”
He was already at the peak of the Elemental Gathering Realm and was just one step from Elemental Breaking Realm.
However, this last step was arduous!
In order to get assistance to have even the slightest chance to break through, he would snatch or steal this Flame Jade Rice if he knew of its existence.
”Keke!”
”Chirp! Chirp!”
While Fang Yuan was lost in his thoughts, he suddenly became aware and realised that the Flower Fox Ferret and the Iron-tailed Black Eagle had eaten half of the entire pot of Flame Jade Rice, and was a little frustrated. ”Hmph... Both of you didn't leave anything for me!”
He joined them in the queue to snatch for more.
This Flame Jade Rice was extremely filling. Every grain was as big as a lychee, and he became full after eating 7 to 8 grains of it. Seeing the Flower Fox Ferret and Iron-tailed Black Eagle both slowing down to slowing chew on it, he then remembered to slowly savour the taste of it.
”With my qualifications, if I focus on cultivating fire-type spiritual spells, I should be able to be on par with Liu Yan in less than 20 years!”
After the meal, Fang Yuan felt that he understood more about the Flame Jade Rice's benefits.
”Of course, by purely training as a spiritual knight would be too dumb and a waste of my gifts!”
Fang Yuan's eyes glittered. ”With so much aid from all these spiritual objects, I don't believe that I cannot break through the bottleneck of a dream master!”
...
”Chirp! Chirp!”
On the peak of the Green Peak spiritual land, a large flock of Red-eyed White Birds were flying around, flapping their wings and chirping.
As the owners of this entire land, other than hunting, these birds were extremely free, and once in awhile would fly to the river, comb their feathers and play around, as though they enjoy it very much.
In this peaceful environment, a grey shadow took a shortcut and climbed up to the peak of the mountain.
”This Red-eyed White King Bird is about to starve to death, and yet it is still so strong-willed! How troublesome!”
This grey shadow was indeed Fang Yuan!
Without a doubt, this was the dream world of the Red-eyed White Bird.
It was a certain level to be able to awaken and become lucid in one's own dream world.
However, he was now able to become lucid in someone else's dream, which meant that he had attained a higher level in his journey as a dream master.
Furthermore, after a few reincarnations as birds and much experimenting, Fang Yuan was able to adopt a human body in the dream and therefore did not have to force himself to adapt to a bird's life anymore.
Otherwise, if he did this a few more times, he was afraid that he would pick up the habits of the birds and therefore affect his own lifestyle. For instance, the feeling of having wings, or the urge to fly once he was on a cliff.