Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

Qing'an Town, the residence of Qingxuan Sect, is located in the center of the town, the tallest and largest building.

Along the way, Li Mu met many Lingzhihus like him who came early pushing wheelbarrows and wooden carts to deliver rice and pay the rent.

During the Lingmi harvest season, the outer disciples of the Qingxuan Sect would be sent down to maintain the order in which the Lingzhu husbands paid their rent. No one dared to cause trouble at this time.

"Wormworms! I didn't notice the worms appeared. This harvest will be a disaster!"

"Yes! I only harvested 600 kilograms of rice from one acre of land. I worked in vain for half a year and still lost ten millimeters of rice."

"Oh! Who isn't? But if you don't grow spiritual rice, what else can you do!"

"I have quit farming. I heard that a vein of spiritual stone was discovered in Qingping Town next door and we are recruiting people. I am going to dig the spiritual mine."

"Digging spiritual mines? It's easy to encounter evil spirits when you enter a mine. You don't even know how you died. You'd better farm peacefully!"

"This insect infestation is not small. There will definitely be worms and aphids next year. Just be careful!"

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While waiting in line to pay the rent, Li Mu felt inexplicably heavy after listening to the sad discussions of the Lingzhi husbands around him.

The worm aphids suddenly spread on a large scale, and many Lingzhi farmers failed to discover it in advance, which resulted in a lot of losses in Lingzhi's income this time. All Lingzhi farmers sighed, and some secretly wiped away tears sadly.

Li Mu stood in line silently, waiting to pay the rent, without intervening in their conversation.

If not for the help of Golden Finger, Li Mu would have discovered the pests long ago. Now, he would be like them, gloomy and miserable because the harvest was not enough to pay the tenant rent.

Soon, it was Li Mu's turn to pay the rent. The disciple in charge opened the bags of spiritual rice and checked them all, and immediately found that the quality of this batch of spiritual rice was good.

"There are three bags of spiritual rice left. You want to take them to the market for processing, right? Sell them to the sect!" The disciple in charge looked at Li Mu and asked forcefully.

"Uh! Sir, how do you calculate the price of this rice?" Li Mu was stunned for a moment and asked quickly.

"I won't miss you, so I'll charge the market price!" The disciple in charge glanced at Li Mu angrily, and ordered the younger brother next to him: "Xiao Zhou, give him thirty hits and move the rice bags into the warehouse together."

"Okay!" The disciple named Xiao Zhou took a piece of spirit stone and handed it to Li Mu.

Li Mu counted, no more, no less, exactly thirty spirits.

All ten bags of spiritual rice were taken away by Qingxuan Sect. Li Mu felt relaxed and pushed the empty cart to the market to purchase some supplies.

When he arrived at the market and inquired about the price of spiritual rice, Li Mu wanted to slap himself a few times.

Big loss!

Due to the influence of vermin pests, many Lingzhi farmers do not harvest enough. Instead, they have to purchase Lingmi rice on the market to pay the rent. Now the price of white jade Lingmi rice has increased by two lings. If this trend continues, The price of spiritual rice will continue to rise.

Male Gobi!

Qingxuanzong doesn’t have any good things!

Well! except me.

Li Mu sighed and admitted the loss. The disciple in charge was in the late stage of Qi refining, and he couldn't afford to offend him. If he wanted to forcefully buy the spiritual rice, there was nothing he could do to stop him.

"Boss, how do you sell Fenglingcao spiritual seeds?" Li Mu came to the Lingzhi store and asked the store owner.

"One pound of five spirits." The shop owner directly took out a package of prepared spirit seeds from under the counter. Whenever the spirit rice harvest season is the season for rent payment, the seeds of the wind spirit grass are sold.

"Can one pound of spiritual seeds be planted in one acre? How much is the price?" Li Mu asked hesitantly. After half a year of planting, he only got thirty spiritual stones. He wanted to break a spiritual stone into two flowers.

"It's based on one acre of spiritual land. The price is indispensable. If you don't want it, just leave without giving it away!" The owner of the spiritual plant store glanced at Li Mu and said indifferently.

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Oh shit! If it weren't for the whole Lingzhi Seed Store in Qing'an Town and the attitude of the store owner, Li Mu would have walked away.

Helplessly, the entire Qing'an Town is almost under the control of Qingxuan Sect, and many industries are monopolized.

For example, this spiritual seed trade is all cultivated by high-level spiritual cultivators of the sect. Many of the spiritual seeds on sale can only grow fruits and cannot be kept for breeding.

Li Mu gritted his teeth and took out five lower spirits, bought a bag of wind spirit grass seeds, turned around and left the spiritual plant shop.

Li Mu pushed the wooden cart and strolled around the market. He spent five pieces of spirit and bought half a catty of spirit venison. He used two pieces of spirit to buy a set of training clothes at the tailor's shop. He bought a few stacks of talisman paper at the magic charm shop... ..., all kinds of food and supplies, and soon, a lot of daily necessities were piled on the cart.

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"How can I sell this book of exercises?" Li Mu stopped at a veteran selling exercises and pointed at a worn-out book of exercises and asked.

Just now, when Li Mu was cleaning up the stalls to repair the stalls, he accidentally discovered a small leak that could be picked up with his magical power - the recognition of all spirits. A book on the Finger Flicking Strength Technique, which was not of high grade, actually had a mezzanine inside. There is a book of Xuan-level skills hidden inside.

Li Mu suppressed his excitement and asked the old man selling the exercises for a price.

"Two lower spirits!" The old Taoist replied after glancing at the book pointed out by Li Mu.

"This technique is not even high-grade. Two subordinates are expensive. I want one!" Li Mu haggled habitually.

The old Taoist hesitated for a moment. As Li Mu said, an ordinary Kung Fu book really couldn't be sold for much, but the old Taoist was reluctant to sell it if he had a spirit.

"How about you buy other cultivation techniques, and this book will be a good gift for you." The old Taoist thought for a while and suggested.

This old guy knows how to do business!

Li Mu thought for a while, and in addition to sword control, which is a skill to defend against enemies, and sword skills, it seems that he should practice a skill so that he would not be in a hurry when encountering ghosts such as ghosts.

"Do you have fire spells? How do you sell them?" Li Mu scanned the exercise books on the stall again.

"Yes, yes, this Fire Control Technique, and this Fire Condensation Technique, are both good enemy-defending techniques. One book only costs 20 spells, and the other one is paired with the Finger Power Technique." The old Taoist cheered up, He quickly selected two exercises.

"They are all yellow-level inferiors, let's use the Fire Control Technique! 15 inferior spirits." Li Mu swung his sword again, making a sound.

"Give me some of what you earn! 19 magic spirits, take away the two books!" The old Taoist begged for mercy with a sad look on his face.

"I only have 15 spirits left. If it doesn't work, I will buy this Zijing." Li Mu flatly refused.

"If we add two more, we'll add two lower spirits, 17 lower spirits." The old Taoist begged.

Li Mu hesitated for a moment, but after touching the bag of spirit stones, his heart became cruel again and he unfolded the bag of spirit stones to show him.

In the end, the old Taoist was defeated by Li Mu's spirit stone bag, and he dropped the fifteen spirit stones with an unlucky look on his face, unwilling to talk to this poor guy again.

Li Mu silently put the two exercise books into his arms, pushed the wooden cart and left Qing'an Town neatly. In the blink of an eye, he spent all the thirty spirit stones he had received from selling the spirit rice. Next, he had to continue working hard for a while, and continued Earn spiritual stones by drawing spiritual talismans.