My Daily Life of Farming in the World of Cultivation-Chapter 36 - Progress of Experiments on Growth Skills

Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Progress of Experiments on Growth Skills

Several days passed, and the rice used for the experiment gradually entered the grain-filling stage.

Watching those grains slowly become plumper, Fang Yun’s worries also gradually lessened.

It seems that his previous guess was correct; even with Growth Skills applied, it did not hinder the rice from entering the maturation stage normally as long as it did not affect their pollination.

As for how much could ultimately be harvested, that would have to depend on the final results.

Fang Yun then went to check on the weeds he had planted earlier, finding that their growth condition was also quite smooth.

Perhaps due to the characteristics of being weeds themselves, these weeds thrived incredibly under the dual boost of rich nutrients and Spiritual Energy.

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There were no other uncontrollable weeds competing for the growing environment, so their growth condition was the least of Fang Yun’s concerns.

However, even though these weeds were growing rapidly, it would still take more than ten days for them to fully mature.

In contrast, the rice that had Growth Skills applied matured much faster.

Initially, Fang Yun wanted to apply Growth Skills on these weeds.

But considering that his experiment, although hopeful, was not completely successful, he decided to wait.

He felt it was safer to fully understand all the details of using Growth Skills before stimulating the weeds.

As time continued to pass, besides his daily attention to the Spirit Rice, Fang Yun spent the rest of his time closely watching the maturing rice.

After the grain-filling stage, under the ample warmth of the sun, the rice gradually began to mature.

The panicles turned yellow and drooped heavily.

However, as this rice gradually matured, Fang Yun also discovered some issues.

This rice ultimately could not compare with those naturally grown.

Although there were mature and full grains in the panicles, there were still many that were merely empty husks.

That is to say, the Growth Skills ultimately had some undesirable effects on the growth of the rice.

Perhaps there are some critical aspects of rice growth that cannot be directly stimulated with Growth Skills.

However, Fang Yun has not yet discovered exactly which aspect that might be.

But since the rice had matured, Fang Yun did not hesitate any longer and started to harvest it.

As his sickle swung continuously, stalks of rice were cut down.

At the same time, Fang Yun clearly felt a faint cool aura converge toward him.

Although these auras were very weak, Fang Yun, who was especially familiar with Life Essence Qi, of course, would not mistake it.

With the mature rice and the harvest of Life Essence Qi.

In fact, overall, Fang Yun’s experiment this time was a success, though it had not reached a particularly perfect level.

The remaining issues that had not been discovered, Fang Yun planned to slowly search and explore them in follow-up experiments.

Subsequently, Fang Yun turned his gaze toward the nearby soybeans, the other herbs, and weeds in the farthest corner.

Since the initial experiment with Growth Skills had achieved a certain degree of success, the next natural step was to continue using Growth Skills to stimulate these crops, so as to collect Life Essence Qi as quickly as possible.

After all, Life Essence Qi was something precious that Fang Yun was particularly lacking now.

However, when deciding to use Growth Skills, Fang Yun had to seriously consider the cost-effectiveness issue.

According to the current conversion relationship between Mana and Life Essence Qi, it should be around 1:1.

If it is during a breakthrough in Cultivation, the consumption of Life Essence Qi will be even higher.

After all, at the time of breakthrough, it’s not just the growth of mana, but also overcoming certain milestones, all of which require energy consumption.

Using Growth Skills once would roughly consume two points of mana value, and using Earth Power Skills once would consume the same.

The consumption for using Spirit Rain Skill once is approximately four points of mana value.

That is to say, the spells that can be performed at the first layer of Qi Cultivation consume two points of mana value, and the spells of the second layer consume four points.

Therefore, just considering the cost-effectiveness, using these spells on soybeans and weeds seems somewhat unwarranted.

Even if a Growth Skill could fully mature these hundred acres of soybeans, it would only harvest one point of Life Essence Qi.

Indeed, it seems hardly necessary.

Furthermore, one Growth Skill is likely not enough to fully mature a hundred acres of soybeans, thus even more consumption would be required.

Of course, given that Life Essence Qi is scarce right now, while Mana can be restored through Spiritual Energy, using a certain amount of Mana to facilitate crop growth in order to restore Life Essence Qi is not out of the question.

With these considerations, it’s not possible to consider just cost-effectiveness; as long as the ratio is not too exorbitant, conversions are possible.

Thus, after some deep consideration, Fang Yun believes it’s feasible to apply spells on medicinal herbs and then convert them into a certain amount of Life Essence Qi.

Coincidentally, those medicinal herbs have also been growing for a while, and after using the Growth Skills, they can be completely harvested.

The growth cycle of these medicinal herbs is relatively long, and in the current plan, they are not suitable for Fang Yun’s long-term cultivation.

After this batch of medicinal herbs is harvested, Fang Yun plans to temporarily cease the cultivation of medicinal herbs.

Once there is a new plan in the future, he will reconsider whether to continue the cultivation.

Having thought this through, Fang Yun came to the side of the medicinal field, chanting the spell silently, forming hand seals, and mana began to circulate, a stream of blue energy gathering in his hands.

Then, he infused this stream of energy into the medicinal field, Fang Yun concentrating intently on driving this blue energy, striving to spread it around.

The blue energy kept spreading until it eventually reached the ends, covering about one-third of the medicinal field.

Subsequently, in the medicinal field, those herbs marked chiefly by their rhizomes, began to frantically absorb the nutrients in the field, then grew at an astonishing speed.

Once the blue energy was exhausted, this part of the medicinal field had undergone tremendous change, Fang Yun glanced at it and did not rush to harvest these medicinal herbs immediately.

Instead, he applied Growth Skills two more times on the remaining herbs.

As the effect of the Growth Skills gradually dissipated, Fang Yun watched the significantly transformed medicinal field, took a deep breath, and picked up the hoe to start laboring.

In theory, these medicinal herbs require meticulous harvesting, but there was only Fang Yun alone on-site, and all he needed was Life Essence Qi.

As for the quality and integrity of the medicinal herbs themselves, Fang Yun did not give much importance, so the harvesting was naturally rather rough.

It took him two full days to harvest all the medicinal herbs.

At the same time, he also harvested 10 points of Life Essence Qi, ten times more than ordinary crops, but much less than Spirit Rice.

Overall, Fang Yun did not feel particularly thrilled.

Moreover, a lot of time and energy were spent on this medicinal field.

Including the previous use of Spirit Rain Skill and Earth Power Skill to promote the growth of medicinal herbs, as well as the Mana consumption by the Growth Skills.

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All things considered, Fang Yun actually incurred a significant loss in this cycle of planting and harvesting medicinal herbs.