Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Within the sea of ​​consciousness of the blood cocoon, the gorgeous bird condensed by the immortal demon king's consciousness was imprisoned by Zhang He's consciousness.

"How outrageous! Why don't you let me go quickly and apologize again!"

Although this guy was restrained, he showed no signs of submission or the demeanor of an expert in transforming spirits.

The clone ignored his shouting and pounced on it, grabbing one of its wings and biting it.

This gorgeous little bird is made purely of energy. There is no need to pluck, clean or cook the bird to eat it. No matter what part it is, it can be eaten raw.

Amid the unyielding yells of the Immortal Demon King, the clone swallowed the last claw into its belly, and not a single hair was left in the sea of ​​consciousness.

"vomit!"

The clone burped, but the untimely shout of the Immortal Demon King sounded again.

"You're just ants, you can't kill me!"

Zhang He was shocked and quickly used his spiritual consciousness to explore the sea of ​​consciousness, but found nothing.

"Hahaha! Do you think my name as the Immortal Demon King is fake? You can swallow my soul, but you can't erase my consciousness."

"Hahaha……"

"Boy! Just wait! I will come back..."

In this sea of ​​​​consciousness, the immortal demon king finally fell silent after a while of shouting.

Zhang He's consciousness was fully activated, but he couldn't find any clues.

The clone sensed it, and he devoured the bird's soul and got only a ball of pure energy. Indeed, he did not find any spiritual consciousness, memory or anything like that.

The immortal demon king's consciousness lurked again, and this time he finally succeeded in seizing this blood cocoon-like body.

The clone still has a lot of things to do next. His soul needs to be completely integrated with this blood cocoon and officially become one.

Zhang He's consciousness slowly exited the blood cocoon, and he couldn't help with the rest, so he could only let the clone do it on his own.

As for the lurking consciousness of the Immortal Demon King, we can't find it now. His soul has just been swallowed by his clone. Even if the other party wants to cause trouble, he must hide it and recover his energy.

He can only wait until the other party shows up next time and then think of ways to deal with it.

Zhang He exited the space and walked out of the secret training room.

Knowing that Zhang He had been released from prison, Pang Hu and He Xiaoyu came together to find Zhang He.

"Sir, 143 people from the Blackwater Army participated in the battle this time, 35 were killed and 50 were seriously injured..."

Fat Tiger, who had always been high-spirited, was a little depressed at the moment. He had been warlike since he was a child and was not afraid of life and death, but he still felt sad when he saw his comrades falling around him one by one.

It is true that the Blackwater Army has achieved brilliant results on the battlefield, but it was also done by everyone risking their lives.

"Return the belongings of the war dead to their families, withdraw funds from the treasury to support their parents until they die, and raise their children until they reach adulthood."

"Thank you, Master!" Fat Hu and He Xiaoyu thanked Zhang Hexing at the same time.

"This is what the soldiers of the Blackwater Army paid for with their lives, and no one needs to thank you.

You should pay attention to supervising the payment of pensions. Anyone who dares to embezzle pensions will be killed without mercy! "

Now that the organization is bigger and has more people, it is natural that there are all kinds of people. Corruption has begun to appear among middle-level personnel.

A group of people are investigated and punished every year. Even if they are beheaded in public and skinned and harvested, they cannot completely cut off those greedy hands.

When wealth is in front of you, you can take it for yourself as long as you stretch out your hand. If faced with this temptation every day, how many decent people can resist?

Zhang He felt that his management system was not perfect enough. A perfect system should prevent his officials from having a chance to reach out.

Zhang He did not stay long in Mingcheng before leading his army back to Ningjing City.

There were only 20 Blackwater troops left in Mingcheng's Tingjing Garden, as well as more than a hundred people like Huya and Meng Tiantian.

All the contribution points gained from the Blackwater Army's military exploits this time were transferred to this group of people as capital for their studies at the General Helm.

Zhang He has always felt that the biggest gain from joining the Sun-Moon Alliance is not the current four counties, but being able to learn the legacy of the Chief Helm.

After returning to Ningjing County, Zhang He rewarded each person based on their military exploits and gave out a lot of rewards. Among them, the more precious ones were the Golden Condensation Pill. A total of 80 pills were given out, and some people even received two or three pills. .

In addition, various other treasures were distributed. All Blackwater troops participating in the war, as long as they were not deserters, could receive a reward.

There are still 50 seriously injured soldiers in the army, which need to be dealt with properly by Zhang He.

Immortal cultivators have strong vitality. Generally, minor injuries such as one or two stabs in the stomach or a few broken bones are not counted. They can recover after taking a pill and resting for a few days.

The so-called seriously injured people are often injured to the core by alien magic. It is difficult to recover by taking ordinary elixirs. Without special healing elixirs, they will be unable to recover for life.

The last time he bought a white jade ginseng plant in the Chendu Sky Palace, he planted it in the space and multiplied a large number of seedlings. The oldest one is more than 600 years old.

White Jade Ginseng is a healing elixir that also has a very good therapeutic effect on the injuries of Golden Pill monks. If used to treat these Foundation-Building monks, the effect should be even better.

After returning to Ningjing County, Zhang He selected several white jade ginseng plants that were more than 600 years old from the space, and spent a few days refining a batch of white jade pills.

After the 50 seriously injured people took the medicine, more than 30 of them successfully recovered from their injuries. The remaining people were too seriously injured and only slightly improved. They can only wait until the white jade ginseng grows to 1,000 years before trying again.

In the blood cocoon in the space, the clone has been sleeping since it began to merge with the blood cocoon.

Three years passed quietly. On this day, a tiny crack appeared on the blood cocoon, and then the crack gradually expanded.

"Click... click..."

Continuous sounds of cracking eggshells were heard, and a yellow pointed beak protruded from a broken cocoon of blood, followed by a fluffy, fiery red head.

A pair of round eyes on his head kept moving, curiously looking at the surrounding environment.

After a while, the plush head tried to push out, and the body under the neck seemed to be struggling hard, so much so that the whole cocoon was vibrating.

"Click... click..."

Pieces of hard red shell fell off, and finally a fiery red bird emerged from the blood cocoon.

Its whole body is covered with fine downy hair, and its whole body is fiery red, with only its beak and claws being bright yellow.

The whole thing looks like a dyed chicken, without any bearing of the immortal demon king.

The movement here had already alarmed the little skeleton in the space. At this time, he had a hoe in his left hand and a bucket in his right hand, squatting next to him and looking at the red bird curiously.

It wasn't until the clone took the initiative to greet him that he knew it was his master's bird.

The clone tilted his head and looked at his current body. It was only as round as a fist, and his wings were only a little bigger. Flapping his wings was useless except for being cute.

At this time, Zhang He's body also entered the space. He held his own clone in his hand, looked at it from side to side for a while, and then rubbed it with his hands. It felt really good.

It turns out that Phoenix was quite good-looking when he was young.

From now on, if you take the bird with you when you go out, others will never expect that this cute spiritual pet will be his doppelgänger.

Holding the little phoenix in his hands, Zhang He thought about what name he should give the clone.

"Call Xiaohong?"

"No! No! After all, it's my own clone. You can't be too casual. It's best to be domineering, loud, and noble."

"Long Aotian?"

"Immortal Lord?"

"Immortal old demon?"

"Invincible Bird?"

"..."

Zhang He thought about it for a long time, but could not think of a suitable name. He was deeply ashamed that he had studied too little in his previous life.

"Forget it, I can handle it with a random name, why not just call it 'Red Flame'."

Since then, Zhang He's first clone, Chi Yan, has had his own name.

When Zhang He took Chi Yan out of the training room, Zhang Yuan found his yard on an iron-eating beast and ran over excitedly when he saw Zhang He.

"Brother! Brother! Let me show you something good."

"What excites you so much?"

"I can't tell. You'll know as soon as you come with me."

Zhang Yuan pulled Zhang He away and then he noticed Chi Yan standing on Zhang He's shoulder.

"Wow! What a beautiful little chicken. When did you start raising chickens?"

Zhang Yuan reached out and touched Chi Yan's down, "Such a beautiful chick, what kind is it? Is it delicious?"

"His name is Chi Yan. He is a bird, not a chicken. His meat is poisonous and must not be eaten."

He was really worried that Zhang Yuan would make soup for Chi Yan that day.

After hearing that he couldn't eat it, Zhang Yuan's interest in Chi Yan dropped by half.

"Brother, let's go!"

Zhang He followed Zhang Yuan and walked out of the city lord's mansion.

Not far from the City Lord's Mansion, a new building complex was built, the total size of which is larger than the City Lord's Mansion.

This is a newly built science and technology center, production center and economic center in Ningjing County in the past three years.

Under the instruction of Zhang He and led by Huya and Meng Tiantian, a research institute was established in Ningjing County.

The main function of the research institute is to study various existing technologies in the world of immortality and innovate them, or to develop new products.

In the past, in Heishui County, because my foundation was too weak, I didn't know much about anything, and everything was just a little fuss.

Now, through their studies at the General Helm of the Sun-Moon Alliance, Huya and the others have become as knowledgeable as some of the weapon refiners of the great nobles. What they lack is just practical experience.

In fact, the world of cultivating immortals also has many powerful technologies, such as teleportation arrays, Chen Du's sky palace, and flying battleships. They are all products of the culmination of skills in the world of cultivating immortals.

It's just that these advanced skills are in the hands of a very small number of nobles, and these skills are very expensive, and ordinary immortal cultivators have no access to them.

Zhang He experienced a period of rapid scientific development in his previous life, and he knew well that science and technology were the primary productive forces.

Therefore, since he took charge of Blackwater Town, he has always attached great importance to learning various techniques in the world of immortality.

It's just that the major families in the world of immortality are extremely conservative and like to hide any technology.

As a result, various technologies lack circulation and exchange, making it difficult for technology to progress, and sometimes even regressing.

Next to the institute is the alchemy and weapon refining workshop responsible for actual production. When the technology matures in the future, there will also be talisman and formation workshops.

Next to the research institute and workshop, there is a bank.

The food stamps promoted in Heishui County in the past have slowly opened up the market here, and many merchants have become accustomed to using food stamps for transactions.

The next step for the bank will be to set up branches in various places, turning it into a huge network throughout the entire Zhou Dynasty, laying the foundation for the future issuance of banknotes.

Zhang Yuan took Zhang He into a room in the institute.

Zhang He felt a little strange when he walked into the room.

He could sense that the spiritual energy in the air around him was gathering here, but the concentration of spiritual energy in the room was not stronger than in other places.

His consciousness scanned the room, and there was a strange formation inside. The aura around him was attracted by this formation.

In the center of this Chenfa there is a jade pillar about a foot high.

The spiritual energy that was attracted was merged into this jade pillar.

There are several other similar jade pillars placed in the room.

"Brother! Did you see anything?"

Zhang He knew that Zhang Yuan wanted to show off, so he shook his head cooperatively, and then cast a look asking for advice.

"This formation was modified and arranged based on the spirit gathering formation commonly used in the world of immortality. It can attract the surrounding spiritual energy and gather it together.

What I modified is that I added some drainage runes to the spirit gathering array to let the gathered spiritual energy flow to the jade pillar in the middle. "

Zhang Yuan said, picking up a jade pillar from the corner.

"Actually, it's not difficult to modify the Spirit Gathering Array. The real difficulty lies in this small column.

This small cylinder was made by Huya, me, and several weapon refiners from the institute. It took two years and more than 300 failures to make it. "

Having said this, Zhang Yuan cut the jade pillar in his hand in half with one hand, revealing the complex rune structure inside.

"This is just a defective product, you can take a look at it.

This jade pillar has no other function. Its only function is to store spiritual energy and release it when needed. "

Zhang He took the cut jade pillar and looked at it carefully. If it could realize the function of storing spiritual energy, it would definitely be a big improvement.

"This is a jade pillar that is already filled with spiritual energy. This kind of jade pillar can be used repeatedly for more than ten times, and it releases spiritual energy more quickly than spiritual stones."

Zhang Yuan took a jade pillar full of spiritual energy and gave it to Zhang He while explaining.

Zhang He sensed the amount of spiritual energy inside. It was not a lot, only equivalent to two or three first-level spiritual stones.

"How long does it take for a jade pillar to be filled with spiritual energy?"

"It will take almost a month!" Zhang Yuan said a little embarrassed, this is indeed not very efficient.

"Not bad! It's already very good!"

You must know that spiritual stone veins take millions of years to form. Using formations to produce the spiritual energy of about two or three spiritual stones in a month is already a great achievement.

Moreover, what Zhang He thought was that this formation and jade pillar could be used in many other places.

Due to the limited spiritual mineral resources, the price of spiritual stones is fixed, about one thousand taels of silver for one first-level spiritual stone.

In fact, there are many cars or boats powered by spiritual stones in the world of immortality, but the running costs are too high and there are few applications.

If this formation and jade pillars are used, the cost can be greatly reduced.

You must know that Wen Sheng's caravan uses a large number of carriages each time and can only transport a small amount of ore, so the transportation efficiency is extremely low.

The same is true for other caravans within the Zhou Dynasty.

The world of cultivating immortals not only has top treasures such as palaces in the sky and flying battleships, but also has backward production capacity such as horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts.

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