I Cultivate Longevity in the Cultivation Realm

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"Finally, the Spirit Gathering Grass has matured."

Early the next morning, Zhou Changwang stood in the backyard of the Spirit Field, a slight smile of satisfaction on his face.

The mark of the Spirit Gathering Grass being ready for harvest is when their originally green leaves turn blue-purple, having absorbed enough Spiritual Qi.

The deeper the purple, the better their quality.

However, it doesn’t mean that once the Spirit Gathering Grass starts turning blue-purple, it can be left to grow purple indefinitely.

Spirit Gathering Grass has a very short period of maturity, usually only three days from when the green leaves begin turning purple; after three days, the purple leaves start to turn black.

Once the purple leaves turn black, the original Spirit Gathering Grass immediately turns into Poison Spirit Grass, only useful for refining Poison Pills, poisons, and its value greatly diminishes.

Therefore, generally speaking, to prevent any accidents, Spirit Farmers usually choose to harvest the Spirit Gathering Grass on the first day it begins turning purple.

In fact, Zhou Changwang noticed some Spirit Gathering Grass starting to turn purple just yesterday.

Now, it has finally started to spread on a large scale, with almost all Spirit Gathering Grass beginning to turn purple and reach maturity.

In response, Zhou Changwang naturally didn’t want to delay and hurriedly began harvesting.

Zhou Changwang directly took some baskets and started pulling them out one by one.

If the purple was slightly pale or hadn’t turned purple, Zhou Changwang would use the Fertilization Technique to speed up their maturation.

Each stalk of Spirit Gathering Grass was thus uprooted by him.

One stalk, two stalks, three stalks...

At the beginning, he was careful, fearing to damage the roots of the Spirit Gathering Grass and affect their medicinal power, but later became more skilled, along with the Spirit Eye Technique that clearly observed the root trajectory, his digging speed began to increase.

Just within two short hours.

From a five-acre Spirit Field, a total of two thousand nine hundred and more stalks of Spirit Gathering Grass were harvested by him.

"Two thousand nine hundred seventy-eight stalks.

Priced at one Lower-Grade Spirit Stone per stalk, amounts to two thousand nine hundred eighty-seven Lower-Grade Spirit Stones.

Just in less than two and a half months, harvesting this much Spirit Gathering Grass.

Abundant harvest!

This definitely counts as a bountiful harvest."

Zhou Changwang was truly excited inside.

Although, after slaying Insect King Xue Tong, his wealth had thickened considerably, not only harvesting over a thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones but also possessing the Spirit Turtle Shell and Qiankun Tripod, two Top-Grade Magical Artifacts, invaluable.

But that was the windfall income.

Not the usual norm.

Where could it compare to the sense of accomplishment brought by this plot he had meticulously tended to step by step, from seed cultivation, to germination, growth, maturation?

Especially looking at the thirty baskets full, each packed with at least a hundred stalks of Spirit Gathering Grass, his heart was truly satisfied and happy.

He then seemed to remember something and hurriedly left the house.

With the Spirit Gathering Grass all harvested, he naturally needed to find a buyer and sell them quickly.

Zhou Changwang first arrived at the rear of Hexagonal Pavilion, at Qian Xiaoyue’s former residence.

Just before entering, he remembered Qian Xiaoyue had mentioned that she had not only relocated her work to Shuiyun Pavilion but seemed to have also been arranged to live in the backyard of Shuiyun Pavilion.

Then, he immediately turned around and headed toward Shuiyun Pavilion.

However, just as he turned, he saw a graceful woman walking over and beside her a man in his thirties or forties with a slightly robust build.

The woman was Qian Xiaoyue’s friend working at Hexagonal Pavilion, Lu Wei’Er.

But seeing the man next to Lu Wei’Er made Zhou Changwang’s heart leap, though his face remained calm.

Seeing him, Lu Wei’Er was also a bit surprised and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou... are you here looking for Qian Xiaoyue? Didn’t she tell you she has already moved to Shuiyun Pavilion?"

"She did mention it.

Just remembered after arriving here that she had moved, and was planning to leave when I ran into you returning."

Zhou Changwang replied, but his gaze fell on the man next to her.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, long time no see."

The man smiled and said as he spoke.

"You two know each other?"

Lu Wei’Er was also surprised and said, "Fellow Daoist Fang, haven’t you just moved recently? Before you were always in Divine Wind Valley Marketplace, how did you know Fellow Daoist Zhou?"

"I was indeed always at Divine Wind Valley Marketplace.

However, a few months ago, I followed a merchant convoy, visiting Fengming Dock Marketplace once.

And because of that visit, noticing that Fengming Dock Marketplace, whether in training environment or resources, far exceeded the Divine Wind Valley Marketplace where I previously resided, led to my decision to move here this time.

As for knowing Fellow Daoist Zhou, it was actually during my last visit to Fengming Dock Marketplace, when coincidentally, I stayed right next door to Fellow Daoist Zhou."

This person said, smiling and looking at Zhou Changwang, "Right? Fellow Daoist Zhou."

Zhou Changwang was at a complicated time, not knowing how to respond.

This person, he indeed knew.

It was the night before the chaos several months ago, staying right next door to him, which is adjacent to Qian Xiaoyue’s residence, the ’Senior Brother.’

And his identity, which Qian Xiaoyue had reminded him of long ago, was a Tribulation Cultivator.

It was also precisely because of this, plus considering safety, that he used every means to move from the outskirts of the marketplace to live in the South District of the inner marketplace.