Chapter 42: Opening up the Spiritual Field

One day half a month later, Song Qingming was making talismans at home when Song Qinghe suddenly asked for a meeting outside the door.

After hearing this, Song Qingming quickly put down the talisman pen in his hand, put away the unfinished talisman making materials, sorted out the table and welcomed Song Qinghe in.

When Song Qinghe saw Song Qingming, he didn't hesitate and asked directly: "Qingming, I don't know if you have a magic weapon to set up a spirit gathering array. In the past two days, I found a vein with abundant spiritual energy in a valley on the west side of the black iron mine. There happened to be a spring next to it. I want to cultivate a few acres of spiritual fields there. Can you help me set up a spirit gathering array?"

After Song Qinghe arrived at Lingyuan Mountain, he did not practice in seclusion all day, but wandered around Lingyuan Mountain. Song Qingming looked a little strange and didn't ask much. Now he knew that he wanted to open up some spiritual fields here.

The Song family also has dozens of acres of spiritual fields in Funiu Mountain, which can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of spiritual rice every year. Thirty percent of these spiritual rice must be handed over to Xiaoyao Sect, and thirty percent to the main family Huang family. The Song family can only keep 40% for themselves.

In addition to supporting more than 20 cultivators in their own family, there is still a surplus of about 2,000 kilograms. The Song family puts these spiritual rice in Qinghefang, which can generate more than 200 spiritual stones of income for the Song family every year, which is an important source of income for the Song family now.

"I saw you wandering around these days, and I thought you were not used to living here. It turns out that you can't stay idle. It happens that I have a set of formation flags on me. I will go with you to see it later. Don't worry, leave the formation to me."

The spirit gathering formation is a common formation that gathers spiritual energy in the spirit veins. It is generally arranged in spiritual fields and spiritual medicine gardens. Some cultivators will also deliberately arrange it in the cave where they practice, so that they can have sufficient spiritual energy when they break through their cultivation or practice.

It is not difficult to set up a spirit gathering array. A low-grade array master like Song Qingming can easily set it up. When he was still in Lingyuan Mountain, he often helped other cultivators in the clan to set up such arrays, and he also had several sets of such array flags on him.

Song Qingming followed his sixth brother and soon came to a valley not far to the west of the black iron mine. This valley was on the hillside on the right side of the mine, and it was just right to see the entire black iron vein from a high position.

This place is dozens of feet high from the bottom of the mine, and the mountain wall is very steep. Ordinary mortals can't get up without external forces. Even the dozen or so innate martial artists with some skills are a bit dangerous to climb up.

Song Qinghe can find this place, which shows that he has worked hard in the past ten days since he came to Lingyuan Mountain.

The valley is a triangular platform, only the sharp corner is slightly higher, with a radius of about twenty feet, and a stream flowing slowly.

Spring water dripped out from the mountain cracks at the corners of the valley day and night, trickling and merging into a small clear stream, flowing between the rugged rocks covered with weeds and thorns, passing through the center of the valley and falling along the cliff, and finally gathered in the Crescent Lake a few miles away.

Song Qingming carefully felt the spiritual energy here, which was indeed more abundant than that at the foot of the mountain. With a little tidying up on the platform, it would be enough to open up two acres of spiritual fields.

Taking out five three-inch-sized formation flags from the storage bag, Song Qingming scattered these formation flags and buried them three feet underground at several places on the platform, and took out a first-level formation plate and placed it in the center of the platform.

After playing a set of spells, the ground of the platform fluctuated with spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy in the entire mountain was slowly guided by the gathering spirit formation to flow to this platform.

After an hour, the spiritual energy gradually stabilized. Together, the two buried more than a dozen spiritual stones under the ground where the spiritual field was to be opened. After a month, the spiritual gathering array slowly refined the spiritual stones inside, and the land here would be infiltrated with spiritual energy to become a first-level low-grade spiritual field.

After ordinary land becomes a spiritual field, some spiritual objects such as spiritual rice can be planted. The spiritual energy in the spiritual field is sufficient, which can also shorten the time for spiritual objects to mature.

Like spiritual veins, spiritual fields are divided into high and low levels. For example, the lowest-level first-level low-grade spiritual fields refined by Song Qingming and the others, with the care of spiritual plant masters, can only shorten the time for spiritual objects to mature by 10% or 20%. If they can be planted directly on the second-level spiritual fields, at least 30% of the time for spiritual objects to grow and mature can be shortened.

Low-grade spiritual fields can only plant some spiritual rice and spiritual grass that are easier to mature. Low-level spiritual rice matures about once a year. It is the most profitable spiritual object in the spiritual field. All low-level spiritual plant masters in the world of cultivation like to plant this kind of spiritual object.

Other first-level spiritual herbs or spiritual medicines usually take more than three years to mature. Planting some in the spiritual field will also bring a good income in the long run.

The Song family only dared to plant some first-level spiritual rice and medicinal herbs in the spiritual field in Funiu Mountain. After all, planting high-value spiritual objects often attracts the prying of other high-level cultivators. Without sufficient strength to protect, even if you have spiritual medicine seeds, you dare not plant them on a large scale, otherwise it will easily be targeted and cause disasters to be exterminated. Only a few foundation-building families in Qinghe County dared to cultivate some second-level spiritual medicines at home.

Spiritual trees and herbs in the world of immortal cultivation are graded according to their age. Those with an age of less than 200 years are grade one spiritual medicines, those with an age of more than 200 years to 1,000 years are grade two spiritual medicines, and those with an age of 1,000 to 2,000 years are grade three spiritual medicines. There are only a few places in the entire Wei State where grade three spiritual medicines can be grown. It is said that there is a grade four spiritual medicine that is more than 2,000 years old in the spiritual medicine garden of Xiaoyao Sect.

After Song Qinghe opened up this spiritual field, he also became busy. With the help of Song Qingming, the two first spent a few days on the mountain wall, using magic tools to open up a staircase of more than ten feet, so that it would be convenient for mortals below to go up in the future. Planting spiritual fields is definitely not enough for cultivators alone, and some mortals are also needed to help with some trivial matters. The Song family also used hundreds of mortals to help cultivate the dozens of acres of spiritual fields in Funiu Mountain.

It took a day to migrate two mortals from Crescent Lake to the platform to help Song Qinghe take care of the spiritual fields here. They were very happy to help the immortal master farm. In the future, they would follow the immortal master and work hard. Maybe one day they would get some spiritual objects from the immortals.

After the spiritual energy in the spiritual fields stabilized, Song Qinghe opened up a cave on the side of the platform near the mountain and moved directly from the mine vein at the foot of the mountain to the platform. Except for the daily inspection of the mine vein, he basically stayed on the platform on weekdays. Except for cultivation, he was busy in the spiritual fields.

After Song Qingming helped him set up the spirit gathering array, he soon received more than a dozen spirit stones from Song Qinghe to buy his spirit gathering array. Although Song Qinghe broke through the fourth level of Qi Refining later than Song Qingming, he did not look embarrassed at all like Song Qingming did after the breakthrough.

The reason for this is that he has a cultivator father to help support him. Song Qinghe is the son of his second uncle Song Changwu. After embarking on the path of cultivation, although his innate spiritual roots are very poor, he has never lacked resources since his cultivation. He is also a spiritual plant master. On weekdays, he can earn some spiritual stones by helping the family manage the spiritual fields. In addition, his father subsidizes him. Compared with his brothers like Song Qingming who have to rely on themselves, his life is much better.

Although Song Qinghe invested dozens of spiritual stones in refining these two acres of spiritual fields, as long as he carefully cultivates spiritual objects for a few years and waits for the quality of the spiritual fields to stabilize, even if he leaves here and resells the spiritual fields to others or directly hands them over to the family, he can still get a considerable income.

For a profession like a spiritual plant master, it is relatively easy to earn spiritual stones in the early stage. Whether it is planting spiritual objects or cultivating new spiritual fields, it is a very stable income.

However, spiritual plant masters usually hide in spiritual fields all year round and are not good at fighting or hunting monsters. Their combat effectiveness is much lower than that of other cultivators. Most cultivators who choose this profession are people who can endure loneliness.