Chapter 16: Immortal Technique, Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique!

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[In the duplicate realm, spiritual energy was abundant, and with a deep breath, you felt every cell in your body emitting a sound of pleasure.]

[As you and Jin Congxue walked toward the distant thatched cottage and knocked on the door, an old man with a youthful face and white hair appeared.]

[The elder praised both of you as individuals of profound fortune and bequeathed the task of cultivating spirit fields upon you.]

[You and Jin Congxue each received a plot of spirit field, ready for farming.]

[Since your cultivation level broke through to the fifth layer of Qi Refinement, the spiritual energy inside you was more abundant, so your spirit field's growth was especially good.]

[In your spare time, you taught Jin Congxue the knowledge of farming and helped him hasten the maturation of spirit grains.]

[You and Jin Congxue gradually became good friends.]

[On the day of task submission, the elder rewarded Jin Congxue with 20 spirit stones and 20 jin of spirit rice.]

[After Jin Congxue left the duplicate realm, the elder called you aside alone.]

[The elder took out a talent assessment stone and asked you to place your hand upon it.]

[You placed your hand on it, and green and red glows flickered on the stone.]

[The elder nodded with a smile, commending your talent as not bad and declaring that you had the potential to embark on the path of immortality.]

[The old man took out a jade slip and a bag of seeds, saying that your Wood-attribute spiritual energy was well-suited for cultivating spirit fields and that if you learned a Fire-attribute cultivation technique, you might have a chance to step onto the path of alchemy.]

[You did not accept the elder's reward but instead wished to become his disciple.]

[Afterward, the elder shook his head slightly, saying you had not completed his task and that you started cultivating too late in life, missing the prime age for cultivating immortality.]

[With no other choice, you could only take the jade slip and those spirit seeds and leave the duplicate realm.]

[You stayed in Jinling City for a few days, and you and Jin Congxue became close friends.]

[A few days later, you returned to Kyoto University of Technology and began studying the jade slip and the seeds given by the elder.]

[You channeled spiritual energy into the jade slip and discovered it contained an immortal technique called the "Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique", which described cultivation methods and marvelous uses for thousands of spirit plants and included thirteen minor techniques for nurturing spirit plants.]

[After months of study, you still couldn't grasp even the basics, further recognizing the excellence of the "Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique".]

[In the days that followed, you divided your time between studying this immortal technique and cultivating.]

[A year passed, and your Qi Refining cultivation broke through to the First Layer of Foundation Establishment.]

[You gained some understanding of the "Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique" and learned the method of cultivating spirit grains.]

[The next year, you dropped out of school on your own accord, left Kyoto City, and returned to your rural family home.]

[With your limited savings, you leased a piece of mountainous land in the countryside, believing the fresh air in the deep mountains was more suitable for cultivating spirit plants.]

[You cleared two acres of wasteland and began planting spirit grains.]

[You attempted to learn a Spirit Gathering Array from the thirteen minor techniques within the "Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique" in hopes of transforming these two acres of good land into a spirit field.]

[You failed and did not learn the Spirit Gathering Array.]

[Having no other option, you resigned yourself to a compromise, burying spirit stones in the good land in order to slowly improve the soil.]

[Quickly, three years went by.]

[By the fifth year, through your hard work, the mountainous soil was gradually nurtured into a spirit field, although it required ten spirit stones each month to maintain, which pained you.]

[The quality of the spirit field was not high, hence the spirit grains it yielded were of mixed quality, but these grains still produced a substantial amount of spirit rice.]

[In the sixth year, you harvested the spirit grains from the two acres, which you then processed into spirit rice, yielding a thousand jin of subpar spirit rice.]

[Although this rice was subpar, it was still capable of aiding your breakthrough in cultivation.]

[Concentrating on your cultivation for a year, you consumed hundreds of jin of spirit rice and successfully broke through to the Bone Forging Realm in Body Refinement.]

[In the seventh year, you attended the funeral of your younger sister, Su Nianan.]

[Not long after the funeral, you returned to the mountain and continued cultivating the spirit field, much like an old peasant in the mountains.]

[Every day, you carried a hoe, working from dawn until dusk, often so engrossed in studying immortal techniques that you would forget to eat and sleep.]

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"[In the eighth year, the number of Spirit Stones in your hands dwindled, leaving you with only a dozen or so.]

[You tried burying the husks of Spirit Grains in the Spirit Field to maintain its Spiritual Energy, but the effect was minimal.]

[You reduced your farmland from two mu to half a mu and occasionally used a Spirit Stone to replenish the field's Spiritual Energy.]

[Your skill in cultivating Spirit Plants improved rapidly, and you gained some understanding of the minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[In the tenth year, you attended Yu Yan's funeral.]

[After the funeral, you did not hurry back but went looking for Jin Congxue.]

[You traded one hundred catties of inferior Spirit Rice for 20 Spirit Stones from her.]

[Jin Congxue wanted to keep you with her, but you were determined to farm, and after a few days of lingering, you still returned to your old home.]

[Five years passed in the blink of an eye, bringing us to the fifteenth year.]

[Over these five years, you learned how to cultivate Spirit Grains and several types of Spiritual Medicine, and through your relentless effort, you finally made a breakthrough with the minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[Thanks to consuming Spirit Rice night and day and tempering your body, your Qi Refining Cultivation Level broke through to the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and your Body Refinement Cultivation Level broke through to the seventh layer of the Bone Forging Realm.]

[One day, while you were planting in the fields, you noticed the sky darkening.]

[You looked up and saw the gigantic beast that blotted out the sun.]

[You raised your middle finger at the beast, hope still alight in your eyes.]

[You died!]

[Activating your talent, 'Unyielding Gaze Upon Death'…]

[Ding, the simulation has ended!]

[You may choose one of the following rewards: Wood-Fire Dual-type Spiritual Root (Talent), Third Layer of Foundation Establishment Realm (Cultivation Level), Seventh Layer of Bone Forging Realm (Cultivation Level), Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique (Immortal Technique), fifty catties of inferior Spirit Rice (Item), Insights from farming in the simulation (Insight)]

[Wood-Fire Dual-type Spiritual Root]: A green talent, priced at 10,000 energy points.

[Third Layer of Foundation Establishment Realm]: Cultivation level, priced at 2,700 energy points.

[Seventh Layer of Bone Forging Realm]: Cultivation level, priced at 7,500 energy points.

[Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique]: Immortal Technique, priced at one billion energy points.

[Fifty catties of inferior Spirit Rice]: Item, priced at 25,000 energy points.

[Insights from farming in the simulation]: Insight, priced at 10,000 energy points.

After a long silence, Su Xing finally came back to himself from the simulation, murmuring:

"This simulation… really was full of harvests!"

It can be said that in this simulation, Su Xing took a completely different path from the past of making money and accumulating wealth.

In the simulator, he became a farming fanatic, beginning to cultivate Spirit Plants frantically, carving out a new path for Su Xing to explore.

What made Su Xing even more incredulous was that in this instance, he had actually obtained an Immortal Technique, the Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique!

Although it wasn't a technique or Divine Skill to enhance strength, this technique was exceptionally precious to Su Xing.

In the past, Su Xing had only Spiritual Energy and mana, but no spells or Divine Skills.

And this Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique was clearly very valuable, even priced as high as one billion energy points.

"This nurturing technique is really too expensive, but the more expensive it is… the more it shows the strength of this technique!" thought Su Xing.

What surprised Su Xing even more was that a new type of reward appeared in this simulation: Insight!

This means that Su Xing could spend a considerable amount of time learning a particular technique and then bring the insights from the simulation, saving him a lot of time in gaining an understanding of the technique.

"After all, in this simulation, this is still what I have to choose!"

Su Xing's lips curled up slightly.