NOVEL NEXT Chapter 25: Earning Spirit Stones
Chapter 25: Earning Spirit Stones
Li Shan continued: “This year’s manager is new. He discovered that our Clear Eye Grass actually had some high-quality ones, and the quality was particularly good. But he didn’t seem inclined to investigate further and acted very discreetly, so we gave the manager a bit more spirit stones this year.”
In previous years, their family’s gift to the manager wasn’t as much as fifty low-grade spirit stones, only thirty.
Wang Xiuniang nodded, “That was the right thing to do. Although Tianyan Sect disciples have always been friendly towards us ordinary people, we should show some appreciation. Otherwise, they might not be willing to continue showing goodwill next time, especially since we’ll be dealing with him for at least five more years.”
“Dad! How many spirit stones did the Clear Eye Grass from Xi’er’s spirit field earn?” Li Xi, seeing that her parents had finally finished talking, eagerly blinked her big eyes and looked expectantly at Li Shan.
She had been waiting for this since they returned.
“Little sister, why don’t you guess?” Seeing Li Xi’s little money-loving appearance, Li Jiang became interested and started to tease her.
“Twenty spirit stones?” Li Xi said after some thought.
Li Jiang smiled and shook his head: “Be bolder, guess higher.”
“Forty spirit stones?” Seeing that Li Jiang didn’t seem to be fooling her, Li Xi guessed a bit more boldly.
“Wrong, still too low!” Li Jiang shook his head again.
“Forty spirit stones is still too low?” Li Xi had never even seen forty spirit stones before!
The rest of the family watched Li Jiang teasing Li Xi with smiles on their faces.
“I can’t guess anymore, Second Brother, please tell me~” Li Xi really didn’t dare to guess any higher, afraid of getting her hopes up too high and then being disappointed.
Liu Qiniang couldn’t help but laugh, “Brother Jiang, hurry up and tell little sister, look how anxious she is!”
Li Shan also smiled at Wang Xiuniang: “This mischievous Jiang, I wonder who he learned it from.”
“Definitely from you! You were just like him when you were young!” Even Wang Xiuniang’s serious face showed a hint of a smile.
“Your Clear Eye Grass earned fifty-eight spirit stones!” Li Jiang, seeing his little sister pleading, satisfactorily told her the number of spirit stones.
Li Xi was immediately delighted, “I earned so many spirit stones! I’m rich!”
She excitedly stood up from her seat with a silly grin on her face.
It’s not that she lacked ambition, but she usually didn’t have many expenses, and even if she did, they could be solved with spirit pearls. From childhood to now, all the spirit pearls that had passed through her hands added up to less than a thousand, not even enough to exchange for one low-grade spirit stone. But now she suddenly had fifty-eight spirit stones!
Fifty-eight spirit stones!
According to the exchange rate in the cultivation world, fifty-eight spirit stones equaled fifty-eight thousand spirit pearls!
A huge sum indeed!
Some people in villages outside Taohua Village might not even earn this much in a year!
How wonderful!
Li Xi had already started imagining what to buy!
With so many spirit stones in hand, she wanted to buy gifts for everyone in the family!
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Today was another day that required waking up early.
Because today they needed to fertilize the spirit rice fields again, then flood and seal them.
After that, the next major task for the spirit rice fields would be releasing the fry of the rice flower spirit fish.
Once the fry were released, it meant the spirit rice fields would enter a stable growth phase, and wouldn’t need human intervention for a while.
Li Xi’s task today wasn’t as heavy, she only needed to take care of her own small spirit field.
Because she still needed to practice the hand seals for the Fireball Technique. There were only three days left of the spring break, and she hadn’t made much progress with the Fireball Technique hand seals. Yesterday’s practice was only enough for her to become slightly familiar with each finger seal change of the Fireball Technique, so she needed to practice quickly.
She had already asked her father, Li Shan, about how to flood the spirit field. Li Shan had very carefully explained all the points that needed attention.
The fertilizer must be used first, and the Dust Micro Technique should be used several times to promote the spirit field’s absorption. Otherwise, after flooding, the fertilizer would dissolve in the water, wasting the fertilizer and making it unfavorable for the later fish fry to adapt to the rice field environment and grow.
She repeated the points Li Shan had mentioned in her mind while hurrying to the spirit field. When she arrived at the spirit field, Ling Niang was also just walking towards it, and they arrived at the same time.
This was of course not a coincidence, but because they had agreed on a time to come together earlier.
“Ling Niang, you’re here too.” Li Xi smiled.
“We really are of one mind!” Ling Niang said happily.
Although they had arranged this beforehand, it didn’t stop her from saying what she wanted to say.
Ling Niang looked at Li Xi and asked, “Xi’er, are you going to raise rice flower spirit fish in your spirit field?”
“Of course I will! I want to try and see what the taste of the rice flower spirit fish I raise will be like! What about you?” Li Xi said longingly.
“I haven’t decided yet. It’s fine for me either way, but my parents said that since this is my first year taking care of a spirit field, it might be better not to raise spirit fish, to avoid getting overwhelmed. So I wanted to ask for your opinion.”
The two very tacitly began fertilizing at the same time. Li Xi worked while thinking, then said, “What your parents said makes sense. If you didn’t particularly want to raise them anyway, it’s good to listen to your parents.”
Ling Niang sighed and said, “That’s true, but hearing you say you want to raise them makes me a bit tempted to do the same thing as you.”
Ling Niang just wanted to be closer to Li Xi. If they were both raising spirit fish, they would have more to talk about.
“It’s alright, when my spirit fish are ready, I’ll share some with you!” Li Xi comforted her.
“Really? Xi’er, you’re too kind!” Ling Niang immediately jumped up in delight.
Li Xi smiled and said, “Really, really. Be careful not to trample your rice seedlings!”
“Hehe, I’m just too happy~” Ling Niang grinned sheepishly.
Although Li Xi was still young, she had already become quite efficient in her work. She finished applying the fertilizer and prepared to start using the Dust Micro Technique on the spirit field.
Although she still didn’t quite understand the principle behind how the Dust Micro Technique worked, this time the spirit field once again actively responded to the spiritual light of the Dust Micro Technique. Li Xi used the Dust Micro Technique five times in total, and the fertilizer on the spirit field was completely absorbed by the soil.
Ling Niang watched Li Xi’s movements enviously.
She was still at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and no matter how much she accelerated her cultivation, she would have to wait a while before having a chance to break through.
After she broke through, she would still need to work hard to practice the Dust Micro Technique. By the time she could successfully use the Dust Micro Technique on the spirit field, it would probably be close to autumn.
So flooding and sealing her spirit rice field would have to wait until her parents finished with their family’s spirit fields and could come to help her.
Li Xi saw Ling Niang’s envious gaze and felt a bit smug, but she still maintained a calm expression on her face.
“Don’t worry, Ling Niang, I believe you’ll break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining soon!” Li Xi encouraged Ling Niang.
“Thank you, Xi’er. With your encouragement, I’m sure I’ll break through quickly!” Ling Niang immediately felt invigorated by Li Xi’s encouragement.
Next, Li Xi began to channel water into the spirit field.
Li Xi’s spirit field was quite close to the Clear Creek River, and with the help of the water channeling technique she had practiced, she quickly guided the river water into the spirit field. Due to the effect of the water channeling technique, some impurities in the river water, such as small fish and sand, were filtered out.
The first task of the day was completed.