Cultivating to Become a Great Celestial

ostus Root’s maturing period is short.
In three days it would spout, six days it’ll bloom, ten days it’ll bear fruit.
After it bears fruit wait three more days and it would be time to pick the medicine. 

The Purple Costus Root didn’t require a lot of water, just using one Spring Wind Transform Rain a day is enough.
Afterwards, just check if there’s any insect pests or plant diseases and that was all that needed to be worried about.
This type of medicinal herb had tenacious life so it was very easy to keep alive.
Su Tingyun watered the seedlings properly the way the archive instructed, putting to use once Spring Wind Transform Rain as if she was hoisting water out with a ladle.
Afterwards, she just sat next to the field and dazed out.

The spirit farm allocated to her was at a corner of the valley, it was only one fifteenth of a hectare.
The soil was red, so it should be a high quality soil with abundant nutrients and spiritual energy.
Using it to grow first rank medicinal herbs was a bit of a waste.
But no matter what things must be done slowly, she’ll plant better ones after she gets used to it.
There were arrays set up around the medicine fields in this valley.
She could see other people’s fields and other cultivators, but she had no way of communicating with them and she also couldn’t enter their fields.
It’s as if there was countless invisible barriers stretching from the ground to the sky, cutting each portion of medicine fields apart, making it so that while the other fields were visible, they could not be touched.

The field next to her didn’t have anything planted on it, and she also didn’t see any cultivator go over.
Then, the one even more to the right had fourth rank Congealed Fragrance Flowers planted.
They were the most valuable medicinal plants in the low level spirit plants archive, because growing them were rather difficult.
The owner of that field was a forty or so middle aged man that usually wore a bamboo hat and a large cyan robe in the fields.
His pants were always rolled up to his knees and he walked on a pair of straw sandals, looking completely like a typical farmer.
He had built a little shack next to the field and from morning to night he always stayed next to the farm to look after the medicinal herbs.
Su Tingyun has never seen him leave before.

Uncle Farmer’s farm is about two-thirds of a hectare, next to his was the spirit field of a female cultivator that looked about thirty or so.
She planted a wide expanse of third rank Nix Orchid Grass, but lately it seemed they weren’t doing so well.
That female cultivator had a worried frown all day, seeming as if her mood was also not good.
What was beyond that, Su Tingyun’s eyes could no longer see, it’s as if the space here was folded up.
When she was at the entrance she could see huge rows after rows fields and cultivators, but now she couldn’t see it anymore.

When Su Tingyun had nothing to do she would spend time observing how the middle-aged man next door would take care of his medicinal plants and also polished her cultivation a little bit.
When she finally got to the third day, the day the Purple Costus Roots were supposed to sprout, Su Tingyun discovered to her astonishment that the seeds she had sprinkled down weren’t even showing the slightest sign of beginning to sprout……

She anxiously waited another day, but the Purple Costus Roots were still not showing any signs of sprouting.
At that time, Su Tingyun had planted quite a few seeds.
She dug out a scoop of soil to examine the seeds inside.
In the end, she found that the seeds didn’t go bad and she could feel a faint spiritual energy coming from it.
It was just that for some reason it didn’t sprout like it normally would.

Su Tingyun decided to go ask Manager Song, but she couldn’t find him after she went.
The only person she knew in Heaven Jade Pavilion was Manager Song, now that she couldn’t find him and also couldn’t ask anyone else, she was pretty much at her wits’ end.
She thought, let’s go ask that Uncle Farmer.
But he was in that space, Su Tingyun simply couldn’t cross over and he couldn’t hear her voice so the two had no way to communicate.

Then what should she do?

Su Tingyun wasn’t someone that gave up easily, so then she remembered the secret art of Meeting of Minds.
The art of Meeting of Minds can allow a person to communicate with plants that had spiritual natures.
She couldn’t ask other people, so she’ll just as the Purple Costus Root seeds.
They should probably know what the problem is……

The secret art of Meeting of Minds wasn’t hard to learn, all that she needed was to learn was a basic chant.
But the secret art had very high spiritual requirements.
First, your frame of mind must be strong, second, you must be affable.
A person’s consciousness is the thing that reveals a person’s true character the most.
The things in the world with spiritual natures are particularly sensitive to this, so it was very difficult to truly communicate with plants.

People did practice the secret art of Meeting of Minds, but it was just so that they could strive to sense where the plants were hurting when they were attacked by strange insect pests.
This way, it would be easier to get rid of bugs.

Su Tingyun deliberated over the contents of the secret art twice before starting to link with those Purple Costus Roots.
She still didn’t know how to use her spiritual consciousness to communicate, so she just sat next to the field and talked to the Purple Costus Root seeds: “Little seed, little seed.
Are you not feeling well? Tell grandma where? Why aren’t you sprouting ah……”

The name of the middle-aged man next door was Niu Hanshan.
His natural aptitudes were average, but he was quite an expert in farming.
His son was an inner disciple of Wuliang Sect and extremely hardworking.
As of now, he hadn’t even reached a hundred years old yet he was already in Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
Even though he couldn’t compare to those genius captivating monsters*, but he was still quite good-looking.
Niu Hanshan gives all the spirit stones he gets from planting medicinal herbs to his son to help with his cultivation.
Though it was exhausting, he felt it was worth it.

“captivating monsters”=”yao nie”(妖孽) in the past signified people with unusual looks that was thought to be a bad omen.
Nowadays, it’s more used as way to exclaim with connotations of envy and admiration that someone’s beautiful as a yao.
Now a yao is a supernatural creature in Chinese culture, what you become once you fall prey to your inner demon while cultivating, and some are also born

After this long crappy explanation, I think some pictures will help you visualize it more(adding eyecandy~):

The spirit fields in Heaven Jade Pavilion valley are separated into high, mid, and low grade.
High grade spirit fields are in a separate array in the valley, for the Alchemist and his disciples to use.
Right now what he was using was a mid grade spirit field.
Because it’s very close to that array, this area was also the best mid grade spirit field other than those right next to the high grade fields.
Of course, the best fifteenth of a hectare is naturally the one at the very corner.

Over there, both fifteenth hectore fields were empty so Niu Hanshan had always thought he would be able to win them over.
But he never expected that half way there an old woman would pop out and take up the most inner field.
If she could probably plant medicinal plants he would’ve just let it go, but that close neighbor to the Master’s brown soiled array was actually used by her to plant first rank Purple Costus Root.
The most irritating thing was, it had already been so many days, yet those Purple Costus Root that she had planted haven’t even sprouted yet.
Looks like it was a failure.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by Sonia