I Just Want to Culti Chapter 6: Gaining a Few Extra Bushels

Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Gaining a Few Extra Bushels

The next day, early in the morning

Li Mu was in the yard sorting out the rice spikes harvested yesterday.

He placed a wooden roller and spread out a large piece of burlap in the middle of the yard, took a handful of rice spikes and forcefully struck them on the burlap, causing the grains to separate from the Linggu stalks and fall onto the burlap.

Repeating this process.

By around noon, Li Mu had harvested seven large baskets of Linggu rice, approximately weighing around 2,000 pounds.

Once all 2,000 pounds of rice is husked, roughly 1,200 to 1,300 pounds of Spirit Rice could be harvested, then 700 pounds of Spirit Rice will be paid as sect rent, and the remaining Spirit Rice will belong to him.

This yield is pretty good; under his ticulous care, the Spirit Field produced an extra three to four hundred pounds of rice. Other Spirit Plant Cultivators consider 1,000 pounds of Spirit Rice yield per acre of Spirit Field as decent. So Spirit Plant Cultivators focus too much on daily cultivation, neglecting their Spirit Field managent, not even yielding enough 700 pounds of Spirit Rice, and end up having to pay the sect with Spirit Stones.

However, the Qing Xuan Sect isn’t too harsh on the ’chives below’, as rent for Spirit Fields is paid annually. After planting a season of Spirit Rice, Spirit Plant Cultivators have the remaining six months to plant other spirit plants to increase revenue.

After lunch, Li Mu took a short rest and began husking the rice.

In the rural areas of the original world, farrs husk rice following general steps: first drying the rice grains to remove moisture, then placing the rice in a solid container and pressing it with wooden sticks to separate the husk, or using machines with drying functions to press and husk the grains.

In this world, the steps to husk Linggu rice differ as the rice contains Spiritual Qi. Exposing Linggu rice to sunlight causes its Spiritual Qi and moisture to evaporate, resulting in a loss.

Li Mu brought in a closed wooden husking box, poured in dozens of pounds of Linggu rice, then closed the box lid, injected Spiritual Power into the Array Stone on the box lid, and activated the Shell Refining Array inside the husking box.

The husking box buzzed with a ’hum’, discharging a large amount of husk powder from its nozzle.

Once the husking box stopped working and the box lid was opened, it revealed over ten pounds of Spirit Rice, each grain plump, full of Spiritual Qi, and crystal clear.

Li Mu quickly poured these over ten pounds of Spirit Rice into a Beast Hide Spirit Rice Bag, sealed the bag to prevent the loss of Spiritual Qi.

Husking ten pounds of Linggu rice at a ti, Li Mu tirelessly repeated his efforts.

With seven large baskets of over 2,000 pounds of Linggu rice, after husking, he filled twelve Beast Hide Bags. So Spirit Rice remained unbagged, so Li Mu emptied a water jar to store the Spirit Rice and also filled two rice urns, roughly enough to last him half a year.

The amount of Spirit Rice husked exceeded Li Mu’s estimate by over a hundred pounds.

After paying 700 pounds of Spirit Rice rent to the sect, keeping so Spirit Rice for himself, and selling the rest, he could sell three or four dozen Low-grade Spirit Stones.

After half a year’s hard work, this is all the Spirit Stones earned; being a Spirit Plant Cultivator truly has no future!

Unless one can lease the sect’s top-grade Spirit Fields and cultivate Alchemy Spirit dicine for better profits.

However, wishing to lease the Qing Xuan Sect’s top-quality Spirit Fields or dicinal Fields requires not only enhancing cultivation but also participating in sect competitions, passing assessnts, and upgrading from a Servant Disciple to an official Outer Disciple.

Li Mu moved the twelve bags of Spirit Rice into the warehouse, planning to bring seven bags to the Qing Xuan Sect’s Qing’an Town outpost tomorrow to pay the field rent. The Beast Hide Bag that holds Spirit Rice was distributed by the Qing Xuan Sect; each filled bag weighs exactly 100 pounds.

Looking at the warehouse filled with Spirit Rice Bags, Li Mu wiped the sweat from his forehead, sporting a face full of joy without feeling any fatigue.

Indeed, it’s the Cultivation World, full of Spiritual Power, Li Mu’s Qi Refining Fifth Layer physique is so much stronger than his forr mortal body.

After a day of hard farming, Li Mu felt no discomfort in his body.

He cleaned and tidied the yard, went back inside, and began searching for books to read.

Li Mu flipped through the sect-issued "Spirit Plant Cultivator’s Basic Chapter