Chapter 40 Planting Planning
The reclamation work was going on in full swing. Fang Chen took out paper and pen from his storage bag and started writing and drawing.

He was making planting plans after the spiritual fields were reclaimed.

In fact, he had already done this, but after all, his ability was related to spiritual plants, and he created a very valuable spiritual plant.

So these plans have to be revised again.

Fang Chen was used to this. In fact, he quite liked doing this kind of thing.

The first is spiritual grain. For Qigong practitioners who cannot practice fasting, spiritual grain is the best food and is also beneficial to their practice.

However, most Qigong practitioners simply cannot afford a meal of spiritual grain every day, and can only use fasting pills instead.

Although it is of little help to cultivation, it is not like the five grains in the mortal world, which cannot be completely absorbed by the body and need to be excreted through the cycle of grains.

After practicing, many people felt that this was indecent and gave up the pursuit of delicious food. It was in this context that the Bigu Pill was born.

Fang Chen now has so many Qi-cultivating monks under his command, and the demand for spiritual grains is very high. Although these people do not think that the reincarnation of the five grains is indecent, he will still prepare the necessary things.

The spiritual valley does not require much care, as long as the descendants of the Immortal Dynasty pay attention to it while taking care of the spiritual fields.

Through this large-scale development, Fang Chen estimates that he can reclaim three square kilometers of spiritual fields, which is 4,500 acres.

Apart from the five acres of spiritual plants that each person takes care of, it is impossible to plant spiritual grains in all the remaining spiritual fields.

After all, the spiritual valley just doesn't need much care, not that it doesn't need care. There are too many plants planted and there aren't enough people to take care of it now.

After careful consideration, Fang Chen calculated the area that could be used to grow spiritual grains.

"Set aside 500 acres to plant spiritual grains."

It takes about six months for the spiritual grain to mature. Spiritual plants are not picky about the climate, so they can be planted twice a year.

The calendar of this world is almost the same as the lunar calendar of his previous life; the year, month, day and other information almost match.

However, Fang Chen couldn’t tell whether it was a coincidence or there was some connection between the two worlds, but he personally tended to believe the latter.

Back to Linggu, the yield per acre is about 200 kilograms. With 500 acres of Linggu, the output of two crops a year is more than 200,000 kilograms.

Based on the calculation of one spirit stone for one pound of spirit grain, that would be more than 200,000 spirit stones.

Very scary numbers.

But there is a price but no market.

No one would spend more than 200,000 spirit stones to buy more than 200,000 kilograms of spirit grain.

The forces that can afford so many spirit stones have no shortage of spirit fields for growing spirit grains, so naturally they have no shortage of spirit grains. It is very likely that their annual output of spirit grains is much greater than that of Fang Chen.

Moreover, the output of Linggu is large, but the consumption is also large.

Due to its extremely high density, one pound of spiritual grain can only cook half a bowl of rice. If a Qi-refining cultivator eats as much as he wants, he will consume at least six pounds of spiritual grain a day.

By conversion, the people here at Fang Chen's place need to consume nearly one million kilograms of spiritual grains a year.

From this perspective, an annual output of 200,000 kilograms doesn’t seem like a big deal.

If the supply were really opened up like this, their cultivation speed would be several times faster than that of ordinary cultivators.

At the farewell banquet with Zhou Xingyun, Fang Chen also learned that the price of spiritual valley was used to defraud independent cultivators. The transaction price between various forces was about one spiritual stone to ten kilograms, and there might be some fluctuations depending on the harvest of the year.

But the price when selling to independent cultivators is always one spirit stone per kilogram.

If they cannot sell it, they would rather burn the spiritual grains and use them as fertilizer, or keep them until all the spiritual energy is lost, rather than let independent cultivators enjoy the benefits at a low price.

As mentioned before, if the independent cultivators can afford to eat spiritual grains, then their cultivation speed will increase several times. In this way, more people will stand out, establish families, and compete with them for resources.

Just like those sects use Foundation Establishment Pills to control their affiliated families, Linggu is also one of the tools used by various immortal cultivation families to control independent cultivators.

Fang Chen was also very glad that he had found Zhou Xingyun to say goodbye before leaving. If it weren't for the information he provided, he might have foolishly planted spiritual grains all over the Jueling Swamp.

Although you might get a good harvest at that time, you will basically not earn any spirit stones.

Because there is no buyer at all. As for selling it to independent cultivators at a low price, it is purely because he thinks he is not dying fast enough. Before he has enough power to change the situation, Fang Chen will definitely not do this.

"The demand for blue silver flower is not great, so we can plant it with the remaining 120 acres."

After planning the spiritual valley, the next thing is to plant various formal spiritual plants, the first of which is the blue silver flower used to refine the Huiling Pill.

For cultivators in the early stages of Qi training, this kind of elixir can quickly restore mana. However, since cultivators in the early stages of Qi training rarely encounter situations where they urgently need to restore mana, the effect of Huiling Pills is not very great.

Fang Chen also took this into consideration and did not allocate a large planting area for blue silver flowers.

One acre of spiritual field can plant one hundred plants, and the price of one plant is two spiritual stones.

Of course, this is the price that Lianyun Pavilion sells to the outside world, and the recycling price is one spirit stone per plant.

It seems that the profit is not as good as Linggu, but Linggu cannot be sold, while blue silver flowers can be sold as much as they can, and can also be refined into Huiling Pills, the price of which soars to five Lingshi.

But only if the success rate exceeds 20% will there be no loss.

"Next is Ganoderma Lucidum, the main material for refining Qi Gathering Powder. It is very effective for cultivators in the early stages of Qi training and has always been a hot commodity in the market. So let's plan an area of ​​300 acres for it."

The price situation of Ganoderma lucidum is basically the same as that of Blue Silver Flower, but Ganoderma lucidum is more popular, so sometimes it sells for a higher price.

So Fang Chen made some more plans.

"White Cloud Spiritual Grass and Spiritual Source Beans, one can be used to make talisman paper, and the other can be used to make spiritual ink. They are both indispensable resources. We will plan to plant 150 acres of White Cloud Spiritual Grass and 300 acres of Spiritual Source Beans."

There are more plans for Lingyuan beans, because they can not only be used to make Lingmo, but also to extract oil, and the oil residue can be used as feed.

Although breeding is not an item other than silkworms in the first step of the development plan, it is essential.

After things are on the right track here, Fang Chen will definitely go to the mortal world to buy some poultry and livestock, carry out small-scale breeding, and use various methods to turn them into spiritual birds and livestock.

In this way, monks will have more recipes to choose from.

Having lived in a country of foodies in his previous life, Fang Chen would never give up his pursuit of food and drink just because of practicing, and he wanted to have the best of both worlds.

What's more, Lingyuan beans themselves can be used as food for cultivators, so it is definitely worthwhile to grow more.

"Then there is the Sky Spirit Grass for feeding the spiritual silkworms, and the Sky Spirit Grass (Gold) and other spiritual plants. We have arranged a planting area of ​​50 mu for each type, for a total of 300 mu."

This is to expand the scale of silkworm breeding.

A pair of spiritual silkworms can lay about sixty eggs. For the batch of spiritual silkworms that produce materials for the second-generation immortal palace, Fang Chen only kept one pair of each type of spiritual silkworm for laying eggs.

Keep the number of each type of spiritual silkworms at around forty or fifty.

Otherwise, the spiritual plants he planted alone would not be able to feed more spiritual silkworms.

"And we can't just produce spiritual silk with spatial attributes. We also need to plan 50 acres of ordinary fire spiritual grass, gold spiritual grass and other five-element spiritual herbs, each for a total of 250 acres."

These ordinary spiritual silks can be used to refine robes and are also a hot commodity in the market.

"Let's also plan 200 acres of spiritual tea trees. There are many people willing to buy these spiritual plants that are beneficial to cultivation."

For the remaining 500 acres, Fang Chen planned to plant 100 acres of five-flavor fruit trees and 100 acres of sky-berry trees, both of which can strengthen the body.

And when the number of the two increases, he can try to give them spiritual energy affinity characteristics, so that they can become real spiritual plants, which will be more effective.

Fifty acres of rock cypress grass have also been planned. This thing can be used to treat blood deficiency and is also very useful.

Fang Chen decided to use the remaining 250 acres to grow various fruits and vegetables. These fruits and vegetables found in the mortal world were endowed with spiritual energy affinity and turned into various spiritual fruits and vegetables.

"More importantly, there are several kinds of spiritual vegetables and fruits that can serve as the base material for the Blood Spirit Bone Vine."

The plan was completed, Fang Chen murmured softly, and probed his spiritual thoughts into the first generation immortal palace.

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