Chapter 2 Exploring the Village, Lettuce Creatures
The sun and the moon go back and forth, the tides alternate, and ten days pass quickly.
Li Qing finally finished recuperating his body, and then walked out of the big tree hole: "It's time to go to that village."
It was midnight, and the small village covered Under the night, there was no light at all.
But for Li Qing, who was just one step away from building the foundation, it was instinct to see the whiteness in an empty room and see the night as day.
There are about thirty households in this village. It is located on a high ground on the coast and is not disturbed by the tide.
There are several wooden boats moored near the coast of the village, with fishing nets and other fishing gear on them. Perhaps it's been a stormy few days and no one will go out to sea tonight.
On the side close to the jungle, there is a field cultivated. Crops and vegetables grow sparsely on it. There are also a few straw men stuck in the middle.
Li Qing concentrated on sensing and found that there were only four spiritual energy fluctuations in the village, and the highest intensity was only around the fourth level of Qi Refining, so he was slightly relieved.
One of the spiritual energy fluctuations is in the field at the entrance of the village. The intensity is the weakest, but it is full of spiritual energy. It is completely different from the gloomy spiritual energy in the vast world.
Li Qing suddenly became interested, calmed down his breath, and walked quickly to his location.
This is a lettuce field, and there are two strong men guarding it. When they saw Li Qing coming over, they were about to shout when they were struck by a sleep spell.
Perhaps due to poor soil quality and poor management, the lettuce growth here is very poor, and almost all the leaves are drooping.
What caught Li Qing’s attention was one of the lettuce plants.
Judging from the appearance alone, this lettuce plant is much smaller than other lettuce plants of the same kind. The leaves are not only wilted, but even a little yellow, and it looks like it will die soon.
But Li Qing used his spiritual consciousness to scan and knew that the lettuce was actively absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and even formed a small vortex as a result.
In the lettuce half buried in the ground, a silkworm-like insect huddled together and fell asleep. Every time he breathed in, he was swallowing strands of spiritual energy.
"The elves of plants and trees that are still gestating?" Li Qing was shocked, "But how is that possible?!"
The elves of plants and trees are spiritual creatures born from plants nourished by spiritual energy. Very rare and infinitely useful.
According to common sense in the world of cultivation, generally only rare spiritual plants have a very small chance of giving birth to plant elves.
If placed on ordinary plants, they must be precious medicinal materials that are at least five hundred years old and have been nourished by spiritual energy for many years before there is any hope of breaking through the limitations of heaven and earth and being able to channel spirits.
For example, the legendary Ginseng Baby and Chama Zhi are not in the category of spiritual plants, but their value is higher than the Foundation Establishment Pill.
However, today, Li Qing discovered a plant spirit on a lettuce that was only a few months old and of poor quality!
"What's even more outrageous is that this thing can actively absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before it is born?!" Li Qing simply couldn't understand it.
As the spiritual energy continued to pour in, the lettuce seemed to bear an unbearable weight. The leaves turn yellow, wither, and fall off.
The lettuce that was half hidden in the ground also shrank as if dehydrated and cracked.
The grass spirit conceived in it finally opened its eyes, but let out a weak cry, as if it was about to be burst by the spiritual energy.
Li Qing came back to his senses, and after thinking about it for a while, he realized that this was because the lettuce itself was of too low quality, unable to withstand the erosion of spiritual energy, and not enough to breed plant elves.
Without any time to think, he made a secret with both hands and cast a spell in the Qi refining period: Cloud and Rain Technique.
Cyan light flashed past, and a palm-sized dark cloud appeared above the lettuce, like a watering can, and it began to rain.
The cloud and rain technique is one of the most popular spells in the world of cultivation. It can nourish plants and is mainly used to grow spiritual rice.
But the same spell, used by different people, has different effects.
Li Qing is a leader in the use of cloud and rain techniques. He can not only control the time of performing the technique, but also adjust the range at will.
In the early years, when alchemy was still in the stage of trial and error and loss, he often relied on this to earn spiritual stones by working in spiritual fields and medicine gardens.
Under the nourishment of the spring rain, this lettuce finally stopped withering. The grass elves also fell into deep sleep again. However, it seems that the damage was too great before, and this little guy can no longer absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
It is like a broken wooden barrel. As soon as the spiritual energy is inhaled, it dissipates without replenishment and cannot be stored at all.
Li Qing maintained the cloud and rain spell for a while, but found that the effect was not good, and used several buffing spells in succession, but they could only maintain the status quo.
As the news of the spell being performed spread out, someone in the village was finally awakened.
Someone took the lead and shouted, and soon others responded.
Soon there was a large group of people holding torches, carrying harpoons, dung forks, hoes, etc., and rushed towards the entrance of the village.
While maintaining the cloud and rain technique, Li Qing turned around and looked at the menacing crowd. With a quick scan of his consciousness, he knew that there were only two cultivators among them.
These people have round faces, red hair and green eyes. Regardless of their height, they are all quite strong. The appearance is not the same as that of the black-haired and black-eyed humans in the world of cultivation, but rather resembles the Celts that Li Qing knew in his previous life.
The leader is a tall, middle-aged man with bare breasts.
The spiritual energy in his body was agitated and violent, as if it could explode at any time. Judging from its intensity, it was about the same as the fourth level of Qi Refining.
He also held a harpoon in his hand, which was shiny and engraved with strange runes. It was also activated by spiritual energy, which was equivalent to a magic weapon in the Qi refining stage.
Behind him was a tall young man with a cold and condensed spiritual energy, which was about the same as the first level of Qi Refining.
Coupled with the lettuce plant at the entrance of the village, the spiritual energy fluctuations in the entire village are now coming together.
In contrast, Li Qing soon discovered that the interaction between these two people and the aura of heaven and earth was equally poor, which was only slightly better than his own.
Only this lettuce is different. When it absorbs spiritual energy, it can directly form a suction vortex, which is very flexible.
The big man at the head couldn't help being startled when he saw the raining cloud behind Li Qing. With a wave of his hand, he led the others to stop three feet away.
He looked at Li Qing with a wary look on his face and said something quickly and loudly.
However, Li Qing couldn't understand what he was talking about at all. He asked tentatively: "Can you understand the Yuanhuang language? Where is the boundary here?"
The Yuanhuang was a great power who ruled the world of cultivation in ancient times. One of his achievements was the unification of writing and language. Let practitioners and mortals from all continents communicate without any hindrance.
However, the people in this village obviously cannot understand Yuanhuang language. Seeing his strange tone, many people showed wariness and hostility in their eyes.
After talking to each other several times, a fight between the two sides was almost about to break out.
Li Qing had no choice but to maintain the Yun Yu Technique with one hand, and pinched the finger gesture with the other hand, and then two clear lights shot towards the two leaders.
The two were shocked and angry, spiritual energy surged around their bodies, and runes flashed on their originally smooth skin.
In the blink of an eye, one person was covered in orange-red flames, while the other was surrounded by blue-black ice crystals.
One of them raised the harpoon and stabbed, the other waved his fist, facing the clear light shot by Li Qing.
But Li Qing's realm is much higher than the two of them. Even if he is distracted by Yun Yu, he is still able to do it with ease.
With a thought in his mind, his fingertips changed slightly, and two rays of clear light swiveled around, avoiding the real thing and turning it into a false one, and hit the two people's foreheads.
The big man in the lead felt like he was struck by lightning, while the other young man screamed and fell to the ground. The flames and ice crystals around him also disappeared.
When the other villagers behind the two saw this, although they were horrified, they did not retreat. Instead, they held up their manure forks and hoes and protected them around them, shouting and cursing.
Li Qing naturally would not care about these mortals.
With a flick of his long sleeves, his magic power surged, and he pushed the others away. He walked up to the big man and asked, "Now, can you understand what I am saying?"
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