Food System in Cultivation World-Chapter 393 - 376: Spirit Rice
Yes, it’s precisely spiritual rice.
Chen Xu discovered that the Xuantian Star Realm’s spiritual rice is divided into nine levels.
Ninth grade is the lowest, first grade is the highest.
No need for further elaboration; the point is, the ordinary spiritual rice in the Xuantian Star Realm is truly good value for money.
Compared to the Great Li Kingdom, where spiritual rice is precious and rare, in the Xuantian Star Realm, spiritual rice is widely planted. Even low-level cultivators can usually manage to eat some daily.
Previously, like Senior Brother Ding Chuan and his mates, who were almost starving in the wild, that was actually not the norm.
The reason they fell into such dire straits was mainly due to their faction’s defeat, with most of their property lost, and they were relentlessly pursued with no resources or storage left nor any means of replenishment.
But ordinary cultivators living in the city normally can afford to eat.
However, there is a significant difference between being able to eat and eating well.
Interestingly, ninth-grade spiritual rice can usually be harvested by mortals.
Chen Xu had seen numerous tenant farmers outside Bailiu City, and this was why.
In this world, materials picked or slaughtered by mortals are not invaded by the Nine Nether Disaster Fiends.
Therefore, it’s common for cultivator sects to employ or raise ordinary mortals as laborers in large quantities.
But the strength of mortals is limited.
For example, ninth-grade spiritual rice can be planted and harvested by mortals, but if the rice level rises to eighth grade, it’s beyond their ability to cut or harvest.
Thus, only cultivators can plant and harvest spiritual rice above the eighth grade.
Harvesting by cultivators results in many malignant toxins.
This necessitates the removal of toxins by spirit chefs before such spiritual objects can be properly used.
Ultimately, these difficulties are reflected in the price.
As a result, the price of eighth-grade spiritual rice can sometimes even reach ten times that of ninth-grade rice!
The saying goes, a difference of one grade results in a tenfold price gap, referring to the difference between ninth and eighth-grade spiritual rice.
One is good value for money, and the other is something that only people with ample family wealth can afford to taste, which is frustratingly unavoidable.
Chen Xu was currently interested in the affordable ninth-grade spiritual rice.
At the Hundred Battles Ruins, a pound of ordinary ninth-grade rice usually costs just ten Qingfu coins to buy.
The eighty-three Qi Radiance Pills Chen Xu recently acquired are worth eight thousand three hundred Qingfu coins, providing substantial purchasing power.
He bought a hundred pounds each of the ninth-grade Qingshuang rice, Ziyun rice, and Yusui rice.
[Qingshuang rice: Ninth-grade spiritual rice, planted in winter and harvested in spring, grows with morning dew, hence called Qingshuang rice.
It contains trace amounts of spiritual energy, and because its energy is balanced and gentle, it has a sweet taste, often satisfying and uplifting life forms that consume it.
Over time, it has a minor effect of extending life.]
[Ziyun rice: Ninth-grade spiritual rice... with a light purple color like rising clouds, thus named.]
[Yusui rice: Ninth-grade spiritual rice... because it’s crystal clear, resembling jade marrow, thus named...]
The three types of ninth-grade spiritual rice cost a total of thirty Qi Radiance Pills.
In reality, the three types of rice obtained amounted to over three hundred pounds.
Ji Yang bought all three hundred pounds of rice from the same stall, and the stall owner gifted Ji Yang an additional two pounds of Yusui rice.
This was because the Yusui rice was most abundantly produced in Bailiu City, making it the "least valuable," so the stall owner gave extra to entice a returning customer.
In Chen Xu’s view, even the lowest ninth-grade spiritual rice in the Xuantian Star Realm was several layers of quality better than the Pill Jade Spirit Rice in the Great Li Kingdom.
This was due to the dense spiritual energy in the Xuantian Star Realm, whereas the Great Li Kingdom had a scarcity of spiritual energy.
In the Great Li Kingdom, only high-ranking nobles could have a taste of spiritual rice, yet even the ninth-grade rice there couldn’t compare, highlighting a stark difference that evokes a sigh.
After acquiring the ninth-grade rice, Chen Xu also selected an eighth-grade spiritual rice worth a Qi Radiance Pill for a pound, specifically the Jinsui rice, and asked Ji Yang to buy three pounds.
Ji Yang felt a pang of heartache, his eyelids twitching constantly.
But the effect of Jinsui rice barely justified its worth.
[Jinsui rice, eighth-grade spiritual rice, grows by absorbing the Qi of the golden sun, sprouts once a year, and is harvested every two years, with a faint breath of pure yang inside.
Regular consumption can purify True Yuan and refine the physique, enhancing a cultivator’s Qi Blood.
Consuming it consistently from childhood may offer a certain chance of awakening the elementary pure yang body upon reaching adulthood.]
When buying the Jinsui rice, Ji Yang quietly marveled:
"Ah, the Jinsui rice is indeed a good thing. Yet how many people in this world can afford to eat it daily, three meals a day without pause?"
The rice vendor laughed and said:
"Oh, young man, your view is too limited. There are indeed many in this world who treat Jinsui rice as an ordinary meal and even grow tired of it!
Not to mention others, but in Qingxi City alone, the sons and daughters of several Vice Alliance Hierarchs from the Four-Elephant Alliance eat not just Jinsui rice but also the seventh-grade Bixue rice regularly."
Ji Yang looked forward with yearning.
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