Chapter 31

"Brother Chu, with such a fine night accompanied by delicious food, how about a song to liven things up?" Gu Han, recalling the night he encountered a stroke of luck, couldn't help but urge.

Of course, he didn't expect another stroke of luck, but he hoped no stray demonic beasts would show up.

"I'm no talented person, I can only occasionally come up with a few lines, which are just parroted from others. Why don't you ask Instructor Zhang to sing a song?" Chu He scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

Instructor Zhang waved his hands even more hurriedly and pointed to the nearby spirit field, saying, "I'm just a simple farmer. Asking me to sing or recite poetry is really beyond me. You might as well ask me how to increase the yield of this Green Spirit Grass and prevent pests."

"Haha, still Brother Chu, everyone's welcome!" Gu Han, to push Chu He forward, even clapped his hands, "Clap, clap."

"Give it a try?" Instructor Zhang's interest was also piqued.

"Alright, let me think." Chu He had no choice but to rack his brain and dredge up his memory.

The song he sang that night, "Partridge Sky," was a poem he liked in his previous life, so he could recite it effortlessly. Finding a suitable poem was not that easy.

Got it!

"Fine wine in a crystal cup, the light of amber. If the host can make the guest drunk, he will forget where he is." Chu He slightly altered Li Bai's "Guest in a Foreign Land," making it both fitting and smooth.

"Haha, not bad, not bad. Even I, a rough man, find it pleasant to the ear." Instructor Zhang lightly tapped the wine cup in praise.

"Having Brother Chu to drink with is truly a great pleasure. Here's to that." Gu Han raised his cup in invitation.

After drinking to their fill, the three of them leaned by the pond, chatting.

This was a good opportunity, so the two of them naturally asked about their cultivation dilemmas. Although they had good cultivation techniques, they were still feeling their way, and the experience of their seniors could help a lot. Mutual verification and learning were better ways to cultivate.

It wasn't until late at night that the three of them, slightly tipsy, parted ways.

However, Chu He didn't rest. He still had to use the Sweet Dew Technique to nourish the spirit field, then continue to draw qi into his body for cultivation.

Tension and relaxation, the way of both literature and martial arts. After relaxing and regaining energy, it was time to intensify the effort and improve efficiency.

When the sun rose, Chu He stopped his cultivation and went out to practice the Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique.

Having just mastered the Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique, he was eager to practice it until he was proficient.

This technique has five levels, and Chu He wanted to break through to the third level as soon as possible to manage seven or eight acres of spirit fields.

Leaving home, he stopped at the outer wall, where wild grass grew densely to half a foot high. His target was this wild grass.

The Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique has only two steps: [Withered Wood]: to draw wood spirit energy. [Spirit Gathering]: to gather the drawn wood spirit energy into a temporarily stable spirit ball.

Chu He had cultivated this technique to the second level, able to extract the wood spirit energy within a radius of about ten feet. This was far from meeting the requirements of the spirit field, so breaking through the second level of the technique was necessary.

His hands quickly formed seals, and strange, pale green light appeared before him. Using water spirit essence to drive the wood technique, the conversion loss was minimal and bearable.

When the many light beams converged into a disc-sized light ball, Chu He let out a low shout, pushing out a beam of light with his hands to shatter the pale green light ball.

The light ball shattered, turning into a fine rain that enveloped an area of over ten feet.

The beam of light Chu He pushed out still clung to his fingers, while at the other end, where the light ball had been, a small vortex formed.

Seeing the fine rain of light, Chu He continuously formed seals, using the connected beam of light to speed up the small vortex.

As the small vortex spun, a faint green mist rose from the ground where the light rain had fallen.

As the green mist rose, it was drawn into the small vortex, which generated a suction force.

The originally lush wild grass immediately turned yellow and withered, as if hit by an autumn frost.

This was the first step: Withered Wood.

The green mist gathered in the small vortex, quickly turning the pale green vortex into a dark green.

Having collected the wood spirit energy, the next step was: Spirit Gathering.

The spirit essence required for Spirit Gathering was much more than for Withered Wood, as it involved blending the wood spirit energy into a temporarily stable wood spirit ball, which indeed tested the practitioner's spirit essence and skill.

Even with Chu He's high-quality spirit essence, the wood spirit ball he formed could only last for a dozen breaths. Of course, this performance was already better than that of a typical sixth-level Spirit Farmer.

Putting in more effort, the small vortex's rotation slowed, but a green light point appeared in the center, with the green mist in the vortex continuously flowing into it.

As time passed, the green light point expanded, reaching the size of half an egg in a few breaths.

At this point, the green mist rising from the ground was almost gone, and the small vortex gradually faded. Chu He extended his hand, grabbed the connecting beam of light, and pulled the wood spirit ball into his hand.

Looking at the shapeless ball of wood spirit energy in his palm, Chu He quickly formed several seals with his other hand and shot a beam of light at it.

This beam of light, specialized in constraining, made the wood spirit ball stabilize into a spherical shape.

Without delay, Chu He immediately rushed into the spirit field.

The spirit field nourished by the wood spirit ball was about three to four acres. This time, Chu He aimed for the areas that had not been nourished.

At the edge of the spirit field, he used his spirit essence to lift the wood spirit ball.

To decompose the wood spirit ball's spirit energy to nourish the spirit plants, he needed to reverse the Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique. This reversal required a certain level of spirit essence, which was why the technique could only be cultivated at the sixth level of the Qi Condensation stage.

As he cast the technique, the wood spirit ball, following the reverse vortex, turned into a fine green mist, slowly seeping into the green seedlings on the ground.

Collecting the wood spirit energy within a ten-foot radius could nourish an area ten times larger. It was crucial not to reduce the range, as it would otherwise affect the growth of the spirit plants.

After all, the wild grass had grown for a considerable time and had gathered a significant amount of spirit energy. Suddenly forcing it into the same area of spirit plants would be counterproductive. Just like humans, spirit plants couldn't be over-nourished in a short time.

With the nourishment of this wood spirit energy, the Green Spirit Grass in the ten-foot radius appeared especially lush. On the other side, where it had not been nourished, the grass was not only less green but also much smaller in size.

However, Chu He, despite the fatigue, was determined to nourish the entire field with the Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique today.

The best times to use the Withered Wood Spirit Gathering Technique on Green Spirit Grass are three: sprouting, jointing, and a few days before maturity.

As long as these three times were well managed, and the Sweet Dew Technique was used effectively and sufficiently, there was a high chance of harvesting high-quality Green Spirit Grass.

These days were the sprouting period for the Green Spirit Grass, so Chu He naturally didn't dare to be negligent.