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

Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Progress of Experints on Growth Skills

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

Watching those grains slowly beco 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 environnt, 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 experint, 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 ti continued to pass, besides his daily attention to the Spirit Rice, Fang Yun spent the rest of his ti 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 so 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 rely empty husks.

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

Perhaps there are so 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 sa ti, 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 experint this ti 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 experints.

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

Since the initial experint 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 sothing 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 ti 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 consu two points of mana value, and using Earth Power Skills once would consu the sa.

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

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

Therefore, just considering the cost-effectiveness, using these spells on soybeans and weeds seems sowhat 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 so deep consideration, Fang Yun believes it’s feasible to apply spells on dicinal herbs and then convert them into a certain amount of Life Essence Qi.

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

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

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

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

Having thought this through, Fang Yun ca to the side of the dicinal 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 dicinal 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 dicinal field.

Subsequently, in the dicinal field, those herbs marked chiefly by their rhizos, 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 dicinal field had undergone trendous change, Fang Yun glanced at it and did not rush to harvest these dicinal herbs imdiately.

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

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

In theory, these dicinal herbs require ticulous 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 dicinal 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 dicinal herbs.

At the sa ti, he also harvested 10 points of Life Essence Qi, ten tis more than ordinary crops, but much less than Spirit Rice.

Overall, Fang Yun did not feel particularly thrilled.

Moreover, a lot of ti and energy were spent on this dicinal field.

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

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