Chapter 1755

There are many factors that affect crop growth, including sunlight, fertile soil, water, and temperature. In the past, when the life force was strong, crops only needed minimal management. But now, with the decline of the natural world, these crops have become weak and vulnerable to damage.

While this can be improved with better management, other issues, such as various crop diseases, require specific solutions, which requires the study of many scholars.

Seeds also need to be improved. In the current situation of the world, it is possible that conditions may worsen, so better seeds are needed to survive the increasing difficulty in their environments.

These are the two main areas of research, but achieving them in the short term is difficult and requires long-term research.

Because there are too many types of crops, each with different seeds and different diseases, each one requires individual research. Even improving one type of crop is not easy and requires countless experiments, which all require time.

Zhao Fu understands the difficulties of research in crop improvement and the enormity of the project. Thus he is employing a massive number of talented people to join the research, but he knows that even then it will still take a fair bit of time to find a comprehensive solution to their new problem.

However, the current situation needs to be resolved temporarily to prevent it from worsening.

Zhao Fu now understands that the main reason for the crop problems is the decline of the natural world's life force. If there is something that can provide strong life force to them, those problems will disappear. Strong life force can also immunize crops against diseases and other issues.

But the key now is what can provide life force to such a large number of crops. There are many things that can provide life force, such as the Spring of Life, which can give a large amount of life force. But the problem is that the farmland in Great Qin is too vast, and the Spring of Life is not enough to meet the demand of feeding billions of people. So, it is impossible to use the Spring of Life to irrigate farmland.

Zhao Fu is pondering about the solution, but it seems that there is nothing that can be used on such a large scale of crops. If this issue is not resolved soon, it will be too late when the scholars finally find a solution.

Suddenly, Zhao Fu senses the spiritual energy around him. Although the natural world's life force has declined, it seems that spiritual energy has not diminished.

Zhao Fu immediately understands the reason for this. Spiritual energy is the foundation of cultivation. If spiritual energy is gone, what is the point of cultivating? If the natural world also weakens spiritual energy, it will undoubtedly cause chaos on a colossal scale.

And without spiritual power, there is no strength. Faced with the alchemy world and the chaos world, what resistance is there? Therefore, spiritual energy is unlikely to be greatly affected, unless it is the end of the world.

Spiritual energy is a magical power that can bestow powerful strength and vitality upon people. It exists everywhere and its quantity may very well be close to infinite. It can also be used to enhance the vitality of crops.

Zhao Fu quickly called upon a formation master to use the simplest and quickest method of using spiritual power, which is to build a gathering formation. The spiritual energy around it will gather within the formation, and crops grown within the formation will be constantly nourished by spiritual energy, and will gain powerful vitality.

As long as the crops have some vitality, they will be immune to many diseases, of course it would still fall short compared to how it was previously.

To test his idea, Zhao Fu brought a formation master to a farmland and had them create a simple gathering formation to envelop the crops.

The formation master obeyed and quickly created a gathering formation, which was then activated. Spiritual energy from all around poured into the formation, and the ordinary rice absorbed the spiritual energy and became verdant and glossy.

Zhao Fu looked at the rice that had already shown some symptoms of illness, which were quickly recovering and the symptoms gradually disappearing.

It was evident that Zhao Fu's method was feasible, but he thought of giving up this approach.

Because there are countless counties and villages in Great Qin, and the area of each farmland is not small. If counted together, it is impossible to even count them all. The materials needed would also be beyond imagination, and using formations would not be practical.

Unless a super large formation is made to envelop the nine worlds and gather spiritual energy from other worlds, the whole Great Qin can directly benefit, and there is no need to build countless gathering formations.

However, this is just a thought. Such an incredibly huge formation is not something that can be easily deployed. The larger the formation, the more complex it becomes. Great Qin simply does not have the ability to build such a massive formation.

For now, it would be a purely theoretical project that many formation masters would research. who knows, it may play an important role in the future.

The question now is how to give crops vitality to resist illnesses and problems?

Zhao Fu thought for a long time and finally came up with a solution, which is to create a special item to increase the vitality of crops.

Firstly, they must build gathering formations to turn countless water into spiritual water. The effect does not need to be strong, but there needs to be enough quantity. If the effect is too strong, it will naturally take more time, and the quantity will be less.