I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 624: Chapter 399: Spirit Rice Planning (6k)_3

Chen Mobai, however, shook his head. If he were the sect leader of the Five Elements Sect, and he discovered that the Divine Wood Sect had more than three Golden Core Cultivators, he would definitely start forming alliances and playing politics first. At least, he would support Shake Mountain and Liu Jia Mountain and push the Divine Wood Sect into the mud pit of a sect war.

“We can only take one step at a time. Or, all the Golden Core Cultivators can go to the outer regions, and when Sister Yin forms her core, Brother Chen and I can return. By then, we can reveal five Golden Cores together and sweep through the Eastern Wilderness with the power of thunder,” said Red River, revealing a plot.

Chen Mobai felt that this strategy was not bad, so he sat down halfway with him, pulled out the map of the Eastern Wilderness, and the two of them began to deduce the fastest and most efficient way to sweep across the Eastern Wilderness given the situation of the Divine Wood Sect having five Golden Cores.

Yuan Chiye, who was on the side, kept wiping the sweat from his forehead.

He never thought that these two could come to a consensus!

Over the next few days.

Whenever Red River had free time, he came to find Chen Mobai. The latter also worried about Meng Hong’s injuries after his failed core formation, so he stayed a few more days in Divine Wood City.

Half a month later, E Yun brought some good news.

Although Meng Hong failed in core formation, he didn’t forcibly push through. Coupled with the characteristics of the Everlife Sutra, after two or three years of recuperation, he should basically recover.

However, after this incident, Meng Hong was getting old and his elemental energy had been greatly damaged. He had no more chances to form a core again.

If he still insisted on making a breakthrough to form a core, he could only succeed and failure was not an option.

If he failed again, he would basically die.

“Master is in a good mood. He said that at least his core forming attempt revealed those people with evil intentions towards the sect,” said E Yun, while feeling regretful. Without his core formation attempt, he would never have known that so many financial forces were coveting the Divine Wood Sect in secret.

“As you are regularly stationed outside, you need to be extra careful,” said Chen Mobai. He himself was guarding Jian Country and was mostly on the Giant Tree Ridge or at the Immortal Gate. Having cultivated the Sword Sha, he could resist the Golden Core cultivators and he was safe.

But it was different for E Yun. They frequently had to go to Yun Meng Ze, the most dangerous and chaotic place in the Eastern Wilderness. If they were targeted by ill-intentioned people, they were likely to face heavy losses.

“Don’t worry, our Uncle Nu Jiang is at Yun Meng Zhe, and he has a good relationship with Elder Zhou and Elder Fu. If we encounter any danger, we can seek refuge in his Storm Shelter,” reassured E Yun.

Chen Mobai nodded upon hearing that.

“As I am entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding Yun Country and now that our master is out of danger, I need to leave the sect. In the future, Little Junior Brother will take care of our master, and I hope Brother Chen will also look after him whenever he has time,” E Yun said.

“Definitely!”

Even without E Yun’s request, Chen Mobai planned to visit Meng Hong after a while.

This former sect leader was quite admirable to him.

E Yun left with Red River.

After the two left, no one else came to visit.

Yu Lian was sent back to the Lonely Spirits Ridge by Chu Zuoshu, but it seemed that Fu Zongjue had given him a puppet body to take with him this time. After all, the Void Stone Mine was incredibly precious, and that place was known to ghost cultivators. It was better to be safe.

Half a month later, Chen Mobai brought the rank-2 Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice that he had ripened with Yi Wood Divine Thunder to visit Meng Hong.

“You came to visit, there was no need to bring gifts,” said Meng Hong who had already moved out of where the Everlife Wood was and was now living in the courtyard where he usually went fishing.

This place was also one of the rank-3 spiritual lands in the Giant Tree Ridge. With small mountains, streams, forests and flower seas, it was considered a scenic spot within the sect.

“These spiritual rice restore elemental energy. Elder should eat more to get well sooner,” said Chen Mobai as he handed over the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice that he had sawed one by one.

Mu Yuan took it and thanked him before leaving to cook the rice.

“Oh, you actually managed to grow rank-2 spiritual rice. This thing only matures once every ten years. Except for the spiritual vein part where the sect insists on keeping a hundred acres, the other cultivators in the sect don’t really bother to plant it,” said Meng Hong who was very familiar with the scale of the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice as a former sect leader.

The sect has been heavily investing in the cultivation of spiritual rice in order to diversify the supply channels and avoid being choked by the large trading companies. Yet, a few Qi Practitioners are willing to grow it.

On the other hand, rank-2 Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, which needs careful cultivation for ten years before it can be harvested, is hardly willingly planted by any Qi Practitioners.

The reason is that Qi Practitioners, who take on tasks from the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, are usually thinking about earning a fortune in a short period of time.

The cultivation of Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice takes too long.

Besides, they can harvest more by cultivating spiritual medicine in ten years.

“I have improved some varieties and bred Phoenix Tear Bamboo Spirit Rice, which also belongs to rank-2, but has slightly worse taste and only takes six years to mature. I also crossbred Qing Kuo Spirit Rice and Jade Bud Spirit Rice. Three of those samples have grown into rank-2. If my cultivation of the latter is successful, I am confident that I can reduce the maturity period of rank-2 spirit rice to three years and thus achieve freedom in spirit rice production.”

Although the sect’s higher-ups, including Chu Zuoshu, also knew the importance of spirit rice, they didn’t know how to change the current situation.

Chen Mobai wanted to plant spirit rice on the Giant Tree Ridge, but as he was just one person, he could only do so much. Today when he was visiting Meng Hong, as a former sect leader, he knew all the difficulties and could help Chen Mobai analyze whether they could be solved.