Irrigation Techniques

Lin Dayou, who was obsessed with studying spells, grabbed his arm and said:

"Oh right, Erlang, tell me quickly, I clearly managed to use this Dust Removal Spell the day before yesterday, why isn't it working today?"

Lin Xiao saw where his problem was at a glance, and then taught his father hand in hand.

When Lin Yun returned from the Lin family's old house, he saw his father grinning from ear to ear at a pile of perfectly clean farm tools in front of him.

"Oh my! My darlings are finally clean—"

Seeing Lin Yun return, Lin Dayou smiled and said:

"Dalang is back? Come in and wash up, let's go eat."

Saying that, he contentedly carried the farm tools into the house to put them away.

After ten days, the three members of the Lin family finally sat together to eat dinner again.

Lin Xiao told his father and eldest brother about everything he had seen and heard on his journey, and very happily informed them that he had brought back an entire spirit stone mine.

Now that Lingxian Sect had the partial soul body of the Nascent Soul cultivator Liao Pantu watching over it, everyone had more or less been educated on some basic knowledge of cultivation. They knew that spirit stones were the common currency in the cultivation world, and that the spirit stones themselves could serve as a source of spiritual energy.

Therefore, when they heard that Lin Xiao had actually managed to secretly procure an entire spirit stone mine, they were extremely astonished, and at the same time very happy for the sect.

With this spirit stone mine, their sect could finally be considered to have some foundational wealth.

After eating dinner and chatting, the three members of the Lin family each returned to their own rooms.

Lin Xiao sat on his bed, opened the item synthesizer, and began to synthesize the farm tools he had bought in the county town one by one.

It didn't take long for the hoes, shovels, plows, and sickles he bought to all turn into spirit artifacts.

Although they didn't even have a grade.

Lin Xiao guessed that the reason these synthesized spirit artifact farm tools didn't even have a grade was probably because the materials were all mortal items.

As for the Heaven-grade high-tier peach wood sword he synthesized before, it was probably because the material used for it was extraordinary in itself?

It seemed that the ten miles of peach blossom trees were even higher level than he thought.

Speaking of which, ever since he got the appraisal function, he still hadn't gone to appraise this tree.

This was the very first reward the system gave when the sect was established.

Lin Xiao kept this in mind, planning to go appraise it tomorrow to see exactly what kind of existence these ten miles of peach blossom trees were.

Then, for the first time in a while, he opened the spell creation function.

To develop agriculture, how could just having farm tools, fields, and seeds be enough?

Since they were cultivating immortality now, if he didn't create some spells to assist with farming, the farming experience wouldn't be complete.

Earlier in the county town, he had reluctantly gone to the bookstore and bought two quires of paper.

He had to admit, the price of paper was truly expensive.

He had clearly picked the cheapest kind, but two quires of paper still cost him a full five hundred copper coins.

He didn't dare to buy too much at once. He kept the remaining money for now; he was used to keeping some spare cash on hand so he wouldn't have to panic if there was an urgent need.

Anyway, their travel speed was faster now. At worst, he could just go buy more later when needed.

As for why he went to buy paper instead of continuing to strip paper mulberry bark, it was entirely because there weren't many paper mulberry trees growing on the back mountain to begin with, and now most of those trees had been stripped by him until they barely had any bark left.

Lin Xiao didn't dare to strip the few remaining trees. If he stripped them all bare and they stopped growing, it would be troublesome.

That was why he endured the heartache and bought two quires of paper in the county town.

And now, Lin Xiao very cherishingly took out a piece of paper from his private storage, rolled it up, and placed it into the small slot of the spell creation function.

Don't look down on it just being one piece of paper, this piece of paper was quite large.

Then he took out a portion of pine soot ink and put it in.

Next was a spirit stone.

Finally, the spell concept.

The spell Lin Xiao wanted to create this time was a convenient spell that could water the fields.

While inputting the spell concept, he kept imagining the scene of a thin dark cloud forming above the fields, and then fine, dense drizzle starting to fall.

He didn't dare to imagine too much, afraid that if he wasn't careful, the spell would be made too high-level and that would be the end of it.

If the spell was too high-level, the cultivation base required to cast it would also correspondingly increase a lot. He couldn't just create this spell and have hardly anyone in the entire sect able to use it, especially his father. Wouldn't his purpose for creating this spell be defeated then?

So he strived to generate a spell that ideally could be used at the first or second level of Qi Condensation. For this reason, he only threw in one spirit stone, just out of fear that if there were too many spirit stones, the system would get excited and upgrade the spell.

Thus, in the end, Lin Xiao got his wish and obtained an Irrigation Spell that was only Tier 1.

The Irrigation Spell had no level distinctions; it simply achieved different irrigation areas depending on the user's spiritual power and cultivation level.

And even at the first level of Qi Condensation, after using all spiritual power, one could probably irrigate an area of five acres for fifteen minutes.

With this, when his father watered the fields in the future, he would no longer need to carry two wooden buckets on a shoulder pole, wobbling back and forth between the mountain stream and the fields to fetch water.

The only inconvenience was that when casting the spell, he had to do it quietly behind the villagers' backs.

However, this was also fine, because the dark clouds formed by this Irrigation Spell were truly very low and very inconspicuous. Looking from afar, at most one would just feel that the place where the spell was cast looked a bit gloomy.

And the rain brought down by the Irrigation Spell was also very fine. If one didn't stand nearby and look closely, ordinary people wouldn't even be able to tell that it was raining where the spell was cast.

Thus, this perfectly solved the problem of field irrigation.

Next up were those three sect construction quests!

Seeing that the night was already late, Lin Xiao took out the Peach Blossom Spirit Gathering Array and began to meditate and cultivate, cultivating all the way until midnight before finally resting.

Early the next morning, he got out of bed under his father's affectionate greetings.

After eating breakfast, Lin Xiao ran up the mountain like he was flying.

Tietou, who hadn't been there long, was greeting Little Luan. Seeing Lin Xiao arrive, he ran over in pleasant surprise and said to him:

"Brother Xiao! You're back! How did Yi Gao do in his exams?"

Seeing him, Lin Xiao was also very happy. He nodded and said:

"He passed, and he's even the top scorer of the county exam! Right now, he's probably already rushing to the prefectural city with his parents to participate in the prefectural exam."

Landlord Sun figured that right now it was only the county exam, and there were still the prefectural exam and the academy exam to come. He wanted to wait until his son completely finished all exams before notifying the village, so the village currently hadn't received the news that Sun Yigao had placed first in the county exam.

Since Tietou was here, Lin Xiao pulled Tietou over to the pile of dirt behind the sect's main hall to have him help process this soil. He took out a basket, handed it to Tietou, and said:

"Tietou, in a bit, use this basket to fill up that dirt for me. Whenever I empty a basket, you fill one."

Although he didn't quite understand what Lin Xiao meant, Tietou still immediately took the basket and nodded decisively, saying:

"Deal! Whatever you say, Brother Xiao, I'll do."