Foundation Grass (1)

"Yang-Boy... What brings you here to my residence?" the Village Chief smiled when he saw Yanglin asking for permission to come inside.

"Village chief, this junior wished to get a job to support himself while practicing. Are there any odd jobs suitable for this junior?" Yanglin politely spoke to the Village Chief as he somewhat owed the senior a favor.

"Odd jobs... There are a few, but I'm not sure that you're fit enough to complete them. Based on your strength, it might take you more than a day to get them done. Are you sure you want to do it?" the village chief took a stack of paper out and flipped the page until it arrived at a page with a medicinal plant.

"This junior is willing to try." Yanglin nodded at the Village Chief. Having a job is much better than not having one. Furthermore, he's yet to listen to what the job requirement is.

"Good lad. Try to at least hand over one as a starter. This might be a tiresome task, but it could help the newly awakened cultivator consolidate its foundation. You will gradually feel easier the more you do it." the Village Chief said.

Although he had spoken out what's in his mind, the Village Chief is yet to explain what kind of job he will give Yanglin.

The page with a specific medicinal plant drawn on it was torn off and given to Yanglin. Since he had no problem reading the content, the Village Chief decided to skip those tedious explanations and went straight to the rewards.

"You will be paid with two Foundation Pills as long you can get the Ten-Years Foundation Grass to form a fruit. The method for getting the Foundation Grass to grow faster is written on the paper I just gave you."

"It will be up to you to see how much you want to bring back at once. This box here can keep ten Foundation Fruits and preventing them from losing the medicinal efficiency." the Village Chief continued and took a box out from the shelf behind his seat.

From the look of it, there are plenty of cultivators working on this farm.

"You'll be allocated with one to two plants for a starter. Take this token with you while going to the village southern outside. The farm manager would handle the rest. Remember to bring some food with you. You won't know if the process might take more than a day for you to complete." he added.

"Junior Yanglin will remember Village Chief's word. I'll make my way there as soon as possible," Yanglin replied and left the office in a hurry.

Yanglin then pays the nearby general store a visit while reading the paper the Village Chief gave him. Using two Blood Foundation Pills he had inside his Realm Vessel, Yanglin purchased ten flour cakes as his two days' worth of food.

'Hmm... Looks like the Foundation Grass is differentiate into One-Year, Ten-Year, Hundred-Year, and Thousand-Year. Each required a specific amount of Spiritual Energy to grow the fruit, but the older the plant is, the longer it takes the fruit to grow.'

'And because the absorption rate of a Foundation Grass is lengthy, they have to rely on a cultivator's help to grow. For each fruit cultivated from the plant, a stalk of grass will grow along with it. Each blade of the grass would represent a year to the plant's age.'

'Each time a fruit matured on the Foundation Grass, it would gain a year to its age. The first fruit from a young Foundation Grass would always be replanted from the paper's record.'

'This was done to prevent any sickness or disease from breaking out from those fruits that were grown using a cultivator's spiritual energy.'

'From the record, it seems that except for the sprout where it barely has a blade of grass on, all the Foundation Grass grown in this village were between ten years to fifty years. Even the oldest plant was merely a hundred and ten years old.'

Yanglin arrived at the Foundation Grass Farm just minutes after reading what was written on the paper. He was brought to the two Foundation Grass under his care after showing the token given by the Village Chief.

"Look at me properly as I show you how to help the plant to grow faster," said the farm manager. He swiftly activates the Spiritual Gathering Technique to help the plant gathering Spiritual Energy faster.

This was a tiresome task, just like what the Village Chief said. He would have to keep supplying the Foundation Grass with Spiritual Energy so it could slowly grow. Although the older grass would have an easier time to develop the fruit, it would only last until the 99th year old.

The difficulty would definitely change when the plant turned a hundred years old.

Furthermore, even if the cultivator can supply more Spiritual Energy to the plant, it would still follow its own regular pace to grow the Foundation Fruit.

Perhaps, this was a reason why the cultivators hardly put too much effort here. There is a need for this ingredient, but hardly worth the time used to grow them.

And this was just for the people outside of a sect. For those accepted as an Outer Disciple, the requirement to get some contribution points was to grow a hundred-years Foundation Fruit.

After remembering the requirement on how to take care of the medicinal plant, Yanglin started. While everyone knew that he was yet to become a proper Early-Layer Foundation Cultivator, nobody knew that Yanglin possessed two different Spirit of Mountain.

He could comfortably support two plants at once without putting too much pressure on himself. And without using the unique traits of his Spirit of Mountain, it would be hard for the others to notice the face he had control over two elements at once.

But even with two Spirit of Mountain was working together, only one fruit was fully matured on the morning of the third day.

Yanglin immediately plucked the fruit and placed it inside the box given to him by the Village Chief.

'Let's get the second fruit ready before I return to the grocery store for more food.' Yanglin smiled.