Chapter 106: Twenty Acres of Spirit Fields

Page 1 of 3

At the same time, with a mid-grade offensive magical artifact on hand, his opponent would have to exercise some restraint.

Besides that, now that his cultivation had reached the late stage of Qi Refining, He Song also planned to purchase some high-grade spirit talismans for self-defense.

Mid-grade spirit talismans were no longer of much use to him.

Only high-grade spirit talismans could further enhance his strength.

Moreover, he needed to purchase some life-saving spirit talismans as well.

For example, Earth-Escape Talismans, which could carry the user ten miles underground in an instant, along with other similar talismans capable of preserving one’s life.

Once one reached the late stage of Qi Refining, strengthening one’s ability to protect oneself required piling up resources with spirit stones.

Fortunately, He Song had not spent these years in vain.

Four years had passed since he sold the spirit rice and obtained two thousand spirit stones.

During those four years, He Song had been busy cultivating and had not deliberately expanded his spirit fields. Naturally, the only spirit fields he had cultivated were still the ten acres in the valley.

There was nothing he could do about it. He had once considered opening up spirit fields elsewhere, but after searching for half a month, he had still failed to find a suitable location.

Some places were too close to the mortal world.

Others lay in areas frequently visited by cultivators.

Still others were insufficiently secluded and had a high chance of being discovered.

After searching for half a month, he had given up for the time being, intending to continue looking gradually in the future.

Who could have known that even after four years, He Song would still not find another place as secluded as that valley and untouched by passing cultivators?

Left with no alternative, He Song once again expanded the spirit fields within that valley, adding another ten acres and occupying nearly the entire valley.

At present, the valley contained a full twenty acres of spirit fields.

Spirit fields required two years of spiritual energy nourishment before they could mature. Newly cultivated fields would only yield their first harvest of spirit rice in the third year.

Now that four years had passed, He Song had harvested spirit rice four times from the original ten acres, obtaining a total of more than forty-four thousand pounds.

From the ten acres he had cultivated later, he had harvested twice, obtaining a total of more than twenty-two thousand pounds.

Combined, the income He Song had gained from the spirit fields in that valley over the past four years amounted to more than sixty-seven thousand pounds of spirit rice.

However, during those four years, he had taken out some of the excess for his own consumption. Thus, the original sixty-seven thousand-plus pounds had been reduced to just over sixty-six thousand pounds.

Page 1 of 3

Page 2 of 3

Converted into spirit stones, He Song’s earnings from the spirit fields over those four years amounted to six thousand six hundred spirit stones.

Six thousand six hundred spirit stones in four years.

It had to be said that this income had far exceeded He Song’s expectations.

Now that he had cultivated twenty acres of spirit fields, he had become a wealthy man earning more than two thousand spirit stones a year.

At least during the Qi Refining stage, He Song no longer needed to worry about a shortage of cultivation resources.

Of course, He Song had not been in a hurry to convert the sixty-six thousand pounds of newly harvested spirit rice into spirit stones. Instead, he had kept it all in his small cargo storage pouch.

Four years ago, He Song had sold twenty-two thousand pounds of spirit rice at Spirit Rabbit Immortal Market, receiving one thousand nine hundred and ninety spirit stones.

He Song did not know whether the Thick Earth Sect had investigated the source of that spirit rice.

But he knew that if he sold twenty-two thousand pounds every year, someone would certainly keep an eye on him.

That would amount to confessing without being interrogated, revealing to the people of the Thick Earth Sect that within their sphere of influence there was a secluded place producing twenty-two thousand pounds of spirit rice every year.

Twenty acres of spirit fields was not much, but what truly concerned them was what was required to establish those twenty acres without making a sound.

Without a formation master, no one could accomplish it.

If He Song did such a thing, it would amount to indirectly announcing that a formation master had appeared within the Thick Earth Sect’s territory.

He certainly would not take such a risk.

The cultivation world was filled with countless bizarre and extraordinary arts.

If his secret were truly discovered, his soul might well be extracted, leaving him to endure endless torment day and night.

The sensation of being unable to live and unable to die was not something he wished to experience.

Therefore, he would rather keep the sixty-six thousand pounds of spirit rice in his small cargo storage pouch than clear out his stock every year.

It would be better to accumulate it for several years and sell it all at once.

That would also serve to mislead others.

After all, every time He Song sold spirit rice, he changed his appearance and build. He might easily be mistaken for a cultivator from elsewhere.

Thoughts flashed through his mind one after another.

After considering the matter, He Song ultimately decided not to sell the spirit rice for the time being.

The reason was simple.

Four years ago, He Song had already become a true talisman master.

Page 2 of 3

Page 3 of 3

After four years of laundering the spirit stones, he had successfully cleansed away the two thousand extra spirit stones he had possessed.

In fact, he still had more than a thousand spirit stones on him at present.

One had to understand that throughout those four years, He Song had been cultivating at full speed, and the spirit stones he spent had flowed away like water.

Pills, magical artifacts, spells, spirit tea, spirit rice, demon beast meat, and countless other things.

As long as a resource could improve his cultivation or combat strength, He Song had never been stingy.

Yet even so, he still had more than a thousand spirit stones remaining.

If one included the spirit stones he had spent during those four years, then at the height of his wealth, He Song had possessed more than three thousand spirit stones!

That was more than a thousand spirit stones above the two thousand-plus he had earned from selling the spirit rice before.

Those extra thousand-plus spirit stones had been earned through his identity as a talisman master.

A talisman master could earn spirit stones at a respectable pace. Although He Song’s success rate in crafting mid-grade Thick Earth Talismans had yet to reach fifty percent, even drawing only low-grade spirit talismans brought him considerable profits.

Over four years, his earnings from drawing and selling spirit talismans, combined with four years of annual stipends, had naturally left him with more than a thousand spirit stones beyond what he had possessed before.

Besides that, He Song had recently begun challenging himself to improve his success rate with mid-grade Thick Earth Talismans.

Once his success rate in drawing them exceeded fifty percent, the amount of spirit stones he could earn would increase even further.

Thus, even though He Song had spent more than two thousand spirit stones during those four years, he still had more than a thousand remaining.

More than a thousand spirit stones.

That was enough to arm He Song from head to toe, with some still left over.

Since that was the case, He Song immediately abandoned the idea of selling some spirit rice to rapidly fatten his purse.

The fewer times he sold spirit rice, the better.

If he accumulated more spirit rice before selling it, he could obtain a greater number of spirit stones in a single transaction.

In any case, whenever he sold spirit rice, he generally sought out the spirit medicine pavilions in various immortal markets. He had no need to worry that any spirit medicine pavilion would be unable to pay him in spirit stones.

With this thought in mind, He Song soon began calculating how he should spend the spirit stones he possessed.

End of Chapter