Chapter 12 (1/2)
Chapter 12: Busy Farming
The cultivation level of most of the cultivators farming in the Heaven Jade Pavilion Valley were not very high.
But even though they were not high, they were still above Spirit Condensation Middle Stage. They were mostly friends and relatives of some low apt.i.tude members of Wuliang Sect and got jobs in the medicine fields through the connections. Every month, after completing their tasks, they could get quite a few spirit stones. Even though it can’t compare to being a disciple of the Wuliang Sect, but it wins in the fact that it is safer. Also, there is an abundance of spiritual energy in the medicine fields, so it’s not like there’s no possibility to cultivate to become a high level cultivator.
The most important thing is that all the medicine fields have an alchemist that oversees it. If they could get the alchemist’s recognition and learn the technique to refine pills, their positions would also rise like a boat with the rising tide.
“Every cultivator in Heaven Jade Pavilion must complete their medicine quota, this is the standard the sixth rank Alchemy Master Feng Yang set down. It can absolutely not be broken.” The one speaking was the manager of Heaven Jade Pavilion. He looked at Su Tingyun with a troubled expression: “Old Madam Wei is Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s benefactor so should be received properly. It’s just that this Alchemy Master’s temperament……”
Seeing him hum and haw while speaking, Su Tingyun knew that this matter could not be negotiated at all.
Since that Husband of Convenience* had her come here, he naturally knew the situation here. At the same time, they also knew the relations.h.i.+p between her and her Husband of Convenience so to be still like this meant that she must complete whatever task they had. At this current time, Su Tingyun was a person that couldn’t refuse to bow under the roof. She could only curse in her heart as she smiled: “May I ask what the task is?”
Su Tingyun refers to the Spiritual Master as 便宜相公 which as far as I can tell means they had a marriage of convenience(rather than love). I tried Convenience Husband, googled it, and decided Husband of Convenience sounded better.
“Old Madam Wei is Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s benefactor so it will suffice if you just grow fifty stalks of first rank medicinal herbs each month. I believe the Alchemy Master also wouldn’t feel it right to complain and would just turn a blind eye, after all it doesn’t count as violating his rules.” The manager spoke courteously: “Here is the secret arts of Spring Wind Transform Rain and Meeting of Minds. There’s also a considerably costly Golden Thunder secret art and and archive of low rank spirit plants. Originally, disciples must exchange for them with spirit stones or contribution points, but I shall lump them all together and give them to Madam.”
Su Tingyun didn’t understand the Cultivation World and for the time being didn’t have any particular concepts of what handing in fifty stalks of first rank medicinal herbs a month meant, so she hesitantly asked: “If I can’t complete the task, what will happen?”
“This ah…… the rules of Heaven Jade Pavilion are all set down by the Alchemy Master, so everything depends on the Alchemy Master’s mood.”
What kind of Master is this exactly, to be so tyrannical……
After the manager left, Su Tingyun started studying the secret arts that he had left behind. From the names, they all seemed like really high-end stuff, it completely opened her eyes to the door of a new century. Even though she was afraid of the bloodiness of the Cultivation World, but anyone would be curious and excite
d about these strength increasing methods that’s all over the internet. Even her, Su Tingyun, as a child she had once fantasised about being a beautiful young female warrior ne!
As her spiritual consciousness poured into the jade, even such a simple task caused Su Tingyun to struggle for a long time. Even in the very end she still didn’t understand how exactly to pour her conscious in. It was just that she wanted to look, really wanted to look, really really wanted to look at what was inside. This desire was way too strong and in the end, she really saw.
The name was super high-end, but the true usage of these secret arts made Su Tingyun speechless.
Spring Wind Transform Rain is for watering the herbs. The secret art of Meeting of Minds is just for communicating with medicinal herbs that have spiritual natures. In the past didn’t she see some medicinal plants that could run around and talk? Those were all cla.s.sified as spirit gra.s.s. But just because it’s a spirit plant doesn’t necessarily mean its rank is high. In the archive of low rank spirit plants it also had records of these types of medicinal gra.s.s. Among them there was a type of gra.s.s that could speak called Orchid Tongue Gra.s.s, it;s everywhere in the Cultivation World. It didn’t have any medicinal value, but it has a spiritual nature and can speak……
As for the secret art of Golden Thunder, it counts as an attacking skill. After learning it would be possible to call down thunder, like the Duke of Thunder and the d.u.c.h.ess of Lightning(Chinese G.o.ds).
Even though the records of spirit plants is only on one little jade scroll, but the archive described very clearly about low level medicinal herbs, medicinal natures, and all sorts of ways to plant and grow them. She discovered that handing over fifty low level medicinal herbs didn’t look very hard so also felt more relieved. She’ll just treat it as growing some plants and flowers out of boredom. She a.n.a.lyzed the secret art of Spring Wind Transforms Rain for a long time, circulating the spiritual energy within her body through her meridians in the way the jade scroll described. It was lucky that her grandpa was an old traditional Chinese doctor so she was quite familiar with the meridians of a human body. At this point, putting that knowledge to use was not too difficult.
Jade scroll(玉简) something like this, I think
It was just after putting it to full use for a long time, Su Tingyun discovered a problem. No matter what she did she couldn’t feel that kind of wandering special power anymore. She has killed spirit beasts with Xiao Mei and the others for this long so she also knew this is the effects of exhausting all spiritual energy. It’s just, how do you replenish it after exhausting it all?
When Xiao Mei and the others had sat in meditation to cultivate, they were using the most basic cultivation methods. At that time Su Tingyun’s strength was great, and she also didn’t know any spiritual energy techniques so she doesn’t have any cultivation methods. Now, naturally she had no way to cultivate, so what was she supposed to do?
The next day, after Su Tingyun woke up she discovered that there was already a little bit of spiritual energy in her body. Even though it wasn’t much, at least it replenished a little. She went to find that Manager Song and got another so-called Ascending the Clear Sky mental cultivation method. This finally counted as really talking a step into the large entrance of the Cultivation World.