Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

[You successfully drew the evil-repelling talisman, your Talisman-making proficiency +1, and your evil-repelling talisman proficiency +1,]

Half an hour later, Li Mu held a drawn evil talisman in his hand, and his eyes fell on a piece of text that popped up in the virtual screen log, and he got positive confirmation.

"Haha! It's done!"

Li Mu beamed with joy and laughed happily.

Talisman paper, spiritual ink, plus the consumption of spiritual power and talisman pens, the cost of an evil-proofing talisman is about one broken spirit. On the market, one evil-proofing talisman can be sold for three broken spirits, which is nearly double the profit.

Taking into account the three quarters of an hour it takes to make an evil-proofing talisman, as well as the chance of drawing failure, plus the labor expenses of setting up a stall, the final profit of the evil-proofing talisman is not that high.

However, even so, Li Mu was very happy.

As the proficiency of making talismans increases and the level of talisman making skills rises, the efficiency and success rate of making talismans will be improved. When the spirit stones are earned, one can switch to an advanced technique and a virtuous cycle begins.

Thinking of this, Li Mu was very motivated and continued to refine the next evil talisman.

Next, Li Mu took care of the spiritual field during the day, practiced and refined the runes at night, and spent seven days peacefully.

Seven days later, in the morning, Li Mu went to Qing'an Town with a stack of evil-proof charms to sell, and also purchased daily necessities such as spiritual rice and salt.

After paying the town entry fee, Li Mu came to the small town's casual cultivator market again.

Li Mu walked straight to a magic charm shop.

"Would you like to buy amulets, brother? A batch of amulets and light-weight amulets have just arrived. Which one do you want?" The manager of the amulet store greeted Li Mu enthusiastically as he entered the store.

"Does your store accept talismans?" Li Mu took out a stack of evil talismans from his arms and asked.

"Collect it, low-grade evil-proofing talisman, one piece of which will be broken into pieces!" He glanced at it and said with a hint of disgust. Shopkeeper Liu

"The market price of a low-grade evil-proofing talisman is not three broken spirits! Can you increase it a little more?" Li Mu's face changed slightly and he asked in a flattering manner.

"If you think the price is too low, just sell it yourself! There are too many casual cultivators who draw low-grade spiritual talismans. At this price, I don't want to sell it." Shopkeeper Liu of the talisman shop curled his lips, looking indifferent.

Li Mu was speechless. A piece of rune paper was half a broken spirit, plus spiritual ink, spiritual power, and artificial time consumption. One broken spirit was almost the same. At this price, he would definitely lose money. So much time was wasted, and there were still others wasted by failure. The magic talisman paper was lost to my grandma's house.

If you set up a stall in the market, you have to pay a stall fee of Xingling. If you just sell these dozen evil-proof charms, you won't be able to sell them all in the morning, so it's not worth it.

"Shopkeeper, can I add another spirit in exchange for two stacks of talisman paper and a bottle of spirit ink?" Li Mu gritted his teeth and decided.

Shopkeeper Liu of the Talisman Shop glanced at Li Mu and said sympathetically: "Forget it, I'll give it to you. If you have any Talisman to sell in the future, remember to come to me."

"Thank you, shopkeeper!" Li Mu thanked him gratefully and quickly completed the transaction.

Li Mu left the talisman shop with two stacks of talisman paper and a bottle of spiritual ink. He used the two remaining pieces of talisman and four pieces of broken talisman to buy 20 kilograms of talisman rice and a few pieces of salt. He ended the purchase in embarrassment. .

Leaving Qing'an Town in a hurry, Li Mu couldn't find a single spiritual stone.

Fortunately, the spiritual field will be harvested in seven or eight days. By then, after paying the sect's rent, some spiritual rice will be left for oneself to eat. The remaining spiritual rice can be sold for a lot of spiritual stones.

Back in the yard, Li Mu guarded the spiritual field, looking forward to the harvest season.

The white jade spiritual rice in the spiritual field lowered their heads and swayed in the wind.

Under the influence of the innate magical power of identifying all spirits, Li Mu can check the negative status of the spiritual rice plants at any time, such as: lack of water, lack of fertilizer, occurrence of insect pests, etc. Negative situations can be discovered and solved immediately.

Under Li Mu's careful care, the spiritual rice plants in the spiritual field grew vigorously, and all produced full and abundant fruits. The heavy rice ears bent the spiritual rice plants.

During the day, Li Mu often sat on the edge of the field, looking at the spiritual field, looking forward to it, hoping to harvest the spiritual rice early and replenish the shriveled spiritual stone bags.

Time flies and another seven days pass.

Li Mu ate the spiritual rice with salt every day. Just before the rice vat was about to be exhausted, he finally looked forward to the opportunity to harvest the spiritual rice.

Li Mu happily went down to the spiritual field with a sickle and began to harvest the spiritual rice plants.

Li Mu excitedly cut off a large handful of spiritual rice plants and was suddenly stunned.

At the fracture of the plant, Li Mu found a group of light-colored fluorophores. This group of light-colored fluorophores seemed to be related to the Golden Finger-character interface.

Li Mu quickly put down his sickle and reached out to touch the ball of light.

The next second, the light fluorescent group sank into Li Mu's palm and disappeared.

However, Li Mu found a log prompt popping up on the attribute interface below the character bar.

[Innate magical power - Spirit Planting takes effect, you absorb a ball of Planting Spirit, and your cultivation level is +1]

Looking at this log prompt, Li Mu was stunned. He quickly checked the character interface and found that the proficiency and cultivation level of the second level of Qi Refining had actually increased a bit.

Because the improvement in cultivation was too weak, Li Mu couldn't notice the improvement at all.

However, the virtual log’s tips are unmistakable!

Li Mu looked at the spiritual field, the large and heavy white jade spiritual rice, and his eyes no longer saw the spiritual stones, but a lot of cultivation.

Li Mu was happy, picked up the sickle, and harvested frantically.

[Innate magical power - Spirit Planting takes effect, you absorb a ball of Planting Spirit, and your cultivation level is +1]

[Talent Magical Power - Planting Spirit Absorption takes effect, you absorb a group of Planting Spirit, and your cultivation base is +2]

[Innate magical power - Spirit Planting takes effect, you absorb a ball of Planting Spirit, and your cultivation base is +1]

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The cultivation improvement prompt that pops up in the system log is like a waterfall of data, pouring down.

Li Mu was beaming with joy, flying his sickle, cutting a spiritual rice plant, and found a light group. After touching it, there were those with a cultivation level of +1, and occasionally with a cultivation level of +2,... hundreds, or thousands.

Li Mu harvested all the way, stretched out his hands to touch, and bent down repeatedly, feeling tired and happy at the same time.

[Ding, your cultivation has broken through the third level of Qi refining]

Li Mu, who was frantically harvesting spiritual plants, was shaken, and a powerful spiritual pressure suddenly burst out from his body. The meridians in his body were rushed open by the huge spiritual power. His cultivation successfully entered the third level of Qi refining, and his foundation was extremely solid. The magic power he worked so hard to cultivate is exactly the same.

Li Mu cried with joy, it was great!

From now on, all you have to do is farm, and you can improve your cultivation level without practicing. It’s really great!

Looking at most of the spiritual rice plants that had not yet been harvested, Li Mu bent down excitedly and continued to harvest tirelessly.