Chapter 11 Planning the Hilltop and Building the Foundation
Half a month has passed since that day when Li Zhefei sent a letter informing him that Yanling Valley intended to rent out the hills around Xuefeng Lake.
Li Hui finally contacted the manager of Yanling Valley here and rented the one with the best location and the highest concentration of spiritual energy at the price of 13,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
Twelve thousand spiritual stones are the cost of renting the land, and the other thousand are personnel money for the management.
Thankfully it was all worth it.
After all, according to family calculations, these 12,000 spirit stones will generate at least 3,000 spirit stones per year in the next ten years, and it will only take four years to pay back the money.
What's more, the Li family also has Li Qing, a skilled spiritual planter, so the planting income will be higher. If you refine the elixir again, the profit can be doubled.
As soon as he got the legal deed, Li Hui flew a talisman to pass the letter, and asked Li Qing to take several tribesmen to inspect the rented hilltop.
"Uncle, this Yanling Valley is so stingy, not even a single blade of grass is left behind!" Looking at the bare hills ahead, Li Wei was dumbfounded.
Li Qing was also speechless, and it took him a while to squeeze out a sentence: "At least they didn't shovel away the spiritual soil on the ground..."
The mountaintop in front of me extends outwards into Xuefeng Lake. The spiritual energy it receives is very abundant, no less than the first-order spiritual energy. However, it cannot open up a cultivation cave, so its value is slightly lower.
The area used by Xiaoshan Kekan is about 120 acres.
The slope on one side near Xuefeng Lake is gentle, while the other side is steep and towering, and there is even a small cliff.
Li Qing used the wind control technique to fly into the air and have a panoramic view of the surrounding terrain. He already knew the types of spiritual plants to be planted in the future.
After landing on the top of the mountain, he casually asked the fellow tribesmen: "In your opinion, what is suitable for planting on this mountain?"
Li Wei thought for a while: "This area near Xuefeng Lake has abundant rainfall in summer, so we can plant red crystal rice for a season. When the lake is blocked by heavy snow in winter, we can use straw as a substrate to plant purple mist matsutake for a season."
< br>Red Crystal Rice and Purple Mist Matsutake are both relatively popular and slightly higher-value first-order low-grade spiritual plants.
The red crystal rice contains a trace of fire spirit. Long-term use can not only help practice, but also temper the body of the practitioner.
Purple mist matsutake has the same origin as medicine and food. One of its ingredients has the wonderful effect of nourishing spiritual consciousness, and even appears in some foundation-building pill prescriptions.
Li Qing glanced at her: "You copied the layout of Yanling Valley, right? Don't you have any ideas of your own?"
Li Wei thought for a while and still insisted: "I thought about it, but I really can't come up with a better plan. Yanling Valley is a large sect, and their approach is certainly worth learning from."
Several others also followed suit. go along. They are all members of the tribe who have the heart to walk with the spiritual planter, and they also understand this.
Li Qing shook his head helplessly: "What Yanling Valley did is certainly correct. But to grow red crystal rice, you need to use flame crystal chips. This thing is not valuable, but our Li family does not buy it in large quantities. Channel."
He paused: "Purple mist matsutake is also a good product, but it takes a lot of effort to grow it, so don't take this idea."
"Ah! That's it." Li Wei nodded in annoyance, "Thank you, uncle, for your teaching."
She has actually grown these two kinds of spiritual plants before and found no difficulty. But I never thought that the conditions would be completely different for large-scale planting.
Li Qing comforted him with a warm voice: "You are still young now, and most of the qualifications you need to practice are provided by your family. You are still young and have little experience. I can't blame you for not thinking about it."
Several young people I couldn't help but blush, and gathered together to brainstorm ideas.
In the end, Li Xun, a thirty-year-old junior at the second level of Qi Refining, gave an answer that satisfied Li Qing.
“Plant crane sprout rice in the spring, golden japonica rice after the summer harvest, and another season of Pingyang fungus after the autumn harvest. The first two have high yields, and the latter is easy to take care of.”
These three are also relatively popular first-order low-grade spiritual plants. Although their efficacy is not as good as the first two, they are better in line with the actual situation of the Li family.
Li Qing smiled and nodded: "That's interesting. It happens that Yanling Valley has just finished its autumn harvest. If we want to plant Pingyang bacteria, this area will be taken care of by you."
Hearing this, Li Xun responded without hesitation: "I will go to Fangshi tomorrow to order strains of Pingyang bacteria."
Several other people also claimed composting, culture substrate, germination and other tasks.
Li Qing waited for them to finish their assignments and took them to continue to explore the mountain without giving any further instructions.
Under his deliberate guidance, immature ideas collided with each other, and then relatively feasible planting plans were given one after another.
"Plant two rows of xuanyang fruit trees on the ridge. They have deep roots and will not be blown down by the wind. You can also plant some linghuangjing under the trees." "On the steeper slopes above, you can plant a patch of bitter tea trees. . There are clouds and mist, and the air is dense, which is suitable for tea trees to grow. ”
"On the cliff behind, you can plant some purple jade dendrobium and then plant green blood vine. The harvest time of the two will be staggered."
Li Qing nodded happily: "Okay. Since you have already made up your mind, go back first..."
Before he finished speaking, a brilliant sword light suddenly burst out from the blind corner of the cliff, like an antelope hanging its horns, aiming directly at Li Qing.
The sword light was clear and cold, and its power was far away in the Qi refining stage. Its sharpness makes it impossible to control even the shield and shield spells in the foundation building stage in a hurry.
Before the sword light even got close, a tribesman standing in front of Li Qing already had a stiff face and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
Li Qing didn't have time to think too much, his fingers were flying under his long sleeves, and the true energy in his Dantian was stirring. With one breath, he used a foundation-building spell: Aoki Xuanguang!
A ray of blue light flew out from the fingertips, brushed against the tribesman's shoulder, and intertwined with the sword light that was approaching in an instant, causing a loud "clang" sound from the collision.
Li Qing took a long breath, and the magic power of his Dantian spurted out, sweeping several tribesmen, retreating behind the cliff, and then his tongue burst into spring buds: "Why is Xiaoxiao so young, hurting people with hidden arrows?!"
The person who answered him was A pale fireball the size of a castanopsis flew from behind. The momentum is equally astonishing.
Li Qing's mind whirled, he pinched the fingers on his sleeves continuously, mobilized the true energy in his Dantian to the maximum, and used another foundation-building spell: Thunder and Killing!
There was a loud "boom", and a spherical lightning of the same size came first and exploded together with the fireball.
For a moment, tongues of fire and electric snakes intertwined and sputtered in all directions, accidentally injuring several members of the Li clan.
Two loud noises in succession set off turbulent air currents, causing several people with relatively low cultivation levels to bleed from their mouths and noses, and were seriously injured.
Li Qing was shocked and angry. He kept kneading the fingers in his sleeves and yelled: "Where did you come from? Do you only dare to shoot cold arrows in the back?"
His reply was, There was only silence.
Li Qing did not dare to ignore it, and secretly used another foundation-building spell: the sky sees and the earth hears. For a moment, all the movement on the hilltop was visible.
About thirty feet to the east of the cliff, there were two people covered with concealment talismans. They gathered together and hid in the shadow of another mountain.
The conversation between the two also reached Li Qing's ears.
"Didn't you say that Li Qing went bankrupt for the Foundation Establishment Pill? Why is there still a second-level talisman in his hand?"
"Could it be that Li Zhe sent it back to the Li family?"
"Are we still going to fight? I only have one card in my hand..."
The two of them can't wait to discuss a charter. Li Qing, who knew where the enemy was hiding, had already launched an attack.
Accompanied by two loud "booms", two balls of blue-purple ball lightning flew out of his sleeves at the same time, drawing two unpredictable trajectories.
"He actually has it!" The two people couldn't help but feel jealous, and were about to laugh at Li Qing for being blind and insane, and wasting two precious second-level talismans.
Unexpectedly, the two balls of lightning turned a corner and accelerated towards them.
"No, use it quickly..."
"Bang-bang-" After two loud noises, the surroundings returned to silence again.
The spell of Heaven's Vision and Earth's Hearing was about to end. Li Qing looked over there for the last time and saw only the broken bodies and broken arms scattered on the ground.
How can a second-level talisman that can only be aimed at and activated be compared to a genuine foundation-building spell?
Li Qing was covered in sweat, and his hair was standing on end for a while.
He breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at the direction where the two of them were just now: "I don't know who could make such a big move to plot against me, a young monk at the ninth level of Qi Refining?"
Thinking of the battle just now, he felt itching with hatred: There were only about twenty drops of true energy in total, and a quarter of it was lost in one go. It was a total loss of blood!
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