Chapter 104: Planting Blended Qi Pellets
“Jiang He, your whole village has moved away. Why are you still staying here? You could just move to Lingzhou…”
“Hold on!”
“Where’s your mansion?”
Cheng Dongfeng did a double take when he got off Jiang He’s sports car.
He looked around—he would have wondered if he was at the wrong place if Jiang He had not been driving.
There was a mansion right there when he came by at noon. And it’s already gone now?
Pushing open his car door and stepping out, Jiang He chuckled, “Wasn’t it unfurnished? That’s why I slapped it away with a single palm, and ordered a simple mobile mansion online. The logistics are smooth and quick, and it would be delivered here by nightfall.”
He made something up, so that he would not have to be interrogated again after he had grown out a mansion.
How troublesome that would be.
After that, Jiang He and Cheng Dongfeng worked together to unload the large containers from the military truck behind the sports car.
Then, when that was done, Cheng Dongfeng did not hang around, and left with the military truck after a simple ‘see you’.
Nonetheless, Jiang He tried to keep him.
“Grandmaster Cheng, why not stay for the evening? I’ll cook something for you.”
Cook?
There was no sincerity there at all!
You don’t even have a house. How are you going to cook?
Jiang He laughed and looked at the time. It was already seven in the evening.
After cutting out several catties of the Leopard Python’s meat and improvising on his menu a little, Jiang He instructed both Dumbo and Trumbo to move the large container out into the yard.
“Slowly. Could you lower them gently?”
“There are nuclear warheads inside. I really don’t want to become a man who walks out of a nuclear explosion1!”
“Put it in that corner. Yes, that corner… alright, Dumbo, start digging.”
After the containers were settled in, Dumbo assumed digger mode.
Jiang He then walked up and opened one of the containers.
He found a dark-golden combat suit.
Noble, lavish, cool!
Moreover, it was forged entirely from S-grade alloys, and there was certainly nothing to complain about its sturdiness. However, it was not just sturdy—while S-grade alloy weapons permits easier conduction of True Qi, S-grade combat suits could dampen True Qi by a certain extent, even weakening certain superpower attacks.
There was a reason why it was so expensive.
Jiang He put it on, had Trumbo form a water mirror with its powers, and checked his reflection.
“Not bad. This dark golden S-grade combat suit really fits my style. Chen Jingzhou has a good eye.”
He then flexed his body and felt around the fabric.
The design and management on the joints shows great consideration for the human form, and even though the whole suit was over 200kg, it did not affect Jiang He’s mobility at all.
He hence took it off, just as Dumbo was done digging a hole.
Jiang He hence casually dumped the combat suit worth a billion dollars down the hole, and was not even in a hurry to bury it.
He turned on the System instead.
[Name: Jiang He]
[Cultivation: Rank-Six Advanced]
[Ability: Royal Sword]
[Martial Arts Cultivation: Indestructible Diamond (Initiate+), Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms (+), Blind Princess’s Eight Practices (Second Practice+), Strengthened Nine Yang Technique (Second Tier+), Ninefold Thunderblade (First Fold+), Dragon Elephant Prajna (First Tier+)]
[Owned Land: 888m²]
[Farm Level: 3 (EXP 2300/5000)]
[System Backpack: 12 boxes]
[System Shop: Unlocked]
[Farm Points: 2200]
“It’s best if I get some Mysterious Soil to strengthen the combat suit, but my farm points aren’t enough…”
After having accumulated Farm Points to improve his Strengthened Nine Yang Technique, he was left with 700 points. The 2200 points he had now was earned from harvesting the 150 potato landmines.
“What a shame.”
“I could only harvest a batch of gold ingots each week, or with their 10 Farm Points and +1 EXP, I would be invincible harvesting two hundred gold ingots every day!”
Jiang He sighed.
Since his Farm Points was not enough, he had to earn from another batch of crops.
Still, having experienced planting qi pellets before, Jiang He thought that planting the blended qi pellets would not fall short either.
He had Dumbo dig ten holes and planted all ten blended qi pellets he had, putting them in with ten nitrogen fertilizer pellets he had redeemed.
After burying and watering them, Jiang He instructed Dumbo to start digging again.
“No time to be lazy. We’ll keep digging and plant everything from the rocket launchers and the gatling gun…”
Meanwhile, Jiang He himself had brought out a stool to sit in a corner of the yard, sitting cross-legged as he leisurely ate some walnuts. Not having to peel the shells was already very convenient, and most important the taste was delicious.
Even as he ate, another thought crossed his mind.
“Oh, I should make several eggplant dishes and pack it with a lunchbox, and put it in my System Backpack. I could take it out to eat when I’m wounded, or it just feels so weird eating raw eggplants!”
“The carrots could be cooked or made into coleslaw too. I remember that carrot can be shredded thinly, and would taste well when matched with potato or tofu skin.”
“Ah…”
“What a shame—my potatoes can’t be eaten. I’ll have to buy some.”
Just as Jiang He made his plans, his eyes suddenly sparkled.
The ten qi pellets he had planted were sprouting one after another, with two tender buds breaching out of the ground. Soon, the buds grew into a small shoot that swayed gently in the breeze, and began bearing fruit when it rose up to two meters tall.
Jiang He counted the pellets.
There were around a hundred flowers on each blended qi pellet tree.
And just as he was done counting, the flower petals were shedding off into grain-sized qi pellets.
After around twenty minutes, the grain-sized qi pellets were fully grown, each of them now apricot-sized and bright red. A faint medicinal fragrance reached Jiang He noses as a gentle breeze blew over the trees—and it actually felt revitalizing.
[Ding!]
[+10 Farm Points]
Jiang He plucked off one of the blended qi pellets and studied it closely, with a cluster of data showing up.
[Blended Qi Pellets]
[Attribute: a strengthened version of qi pellets]
“…”
Jiang He was promptly blue with shock.
Screw me!
Could you not be that lazy, System?
Jiang He understood what ‘strengthened version of qi pellets’ means, and that it basically had the same function as qi pellets: assisting cultivation and regenerating True Qi, albeit with improved effect… but would it kill the System to simply repeat that?
Swallowing one of the blended qi pellets he was holding, Jiang He stretched out his senses.
He realized then that his True Qi had increased by a whole notch!
“It seems that my Strengthened Nine Yang Technique is more powerful than what Mu Wanqiu had expected. He told me that I might not actually ascend to rank-six pinnacle even if I downed ten blended qi pellets… now, it seems that I won’t improve even if I ate a hundred of them!”
[Ding!]
[+10 Farm Points]
[Ding!]
[+10 Farm Points]
[Ding…]
Nonetheless, Jiang He was smiling in satisfaction even as he watched his Farm Points and EXP increase without stopping.
Was this the joy of farming?
***
Meanwhile, Nanchuan Village.
In the courtyard of the farm house, one piece of information after another were being delivered to the Sixth Elder of the Sky Demon Cult.
“Useless!”
“All of them are useless!”
He abruptly crushed a table with his palm, growling, “A mere rank-five, inflicting such severe losses to our Holy Faith? Are Killer Star, Earthen Savage, and Earthen Majesty all useless?”
As he rose to his feet, rank-nine aura promptly exploded from around him.
There was even a faint blade will that revolved around him!
“Bring me my blade,” he said coldly. “I shall attack Jinyintan Village tonight, claim Jiang He’s wretched life and wash away the humiliation upon our Holy Faith.
“All of you stay here and wait for orders!”
“As you command, Sixth Elder.”
Brave Star and the orders all answered.
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