"How is your little lotus project going?" Miaoxue asked after having talked about the clan matters.
"Just so-so. According to my calculations, I will lose around 55% of the first harvest, but by the second, it should only be 10 to 15%. As for the third, I might start earning more than the average!"
"So high?!" Miaoxue asked in surprise, then she remembered… this guy, even when he had just started farming, he had achieved the lowest requirement (although her brother helped him at that time). In just a few years, his harvest boosted rapidly. He likely didn't brag but really thought this would be his harvest.
"Well this amount should bring you a lot of profit. Have you thought of what you want to buy?"
"Well, I'm mostly saving to gain a few materials for my inspiration. It shouldn't be too difficult, I hope…" although he said so, in fact, he was very sure to get one even without all these. After all, he had a space where he could experience a whole different state of matter!
Seeing he didn't want to talk more about it, Miaoxue didn't force it and talked about the previous matter "As for the clan meeting, it'll be held in seven days on the seventh step. The current family head, Patriarch Maoyi, will be leading the meeting.
This should be his last meeting. As you know, every twenty years, we change the head. We have over thirty origin light elders anyways, swapping every twenty years will ensure no elder is bothered for too long.
Still, most elders are of the older generations.
Elder Maoyi is the second oldest origin light elder in our family, this is likely his last time taking over the position, so… we should be prepared a bit."
Jia Yi nodded, understanding her concern. It's nothing more than once a person doesn't feel the pain of consequences, they'll be a bit more courageous. Fortunately, even then, it's still a family and there are people above, so the elder will at most ask for a few more benefits for his lineage.
The four chatted a bit more before Miaoxue left.
In fact, she had come mainly to talk about the matter of the elixir distribution, but since that was discussed rather fast, she just chatted a bit more about other things.
As a water alchemist, she had a lot more time than other creation art cultivators. She mainly had to prepare in the initial phase, then regularly check and regulate the various spiritual essences in the spiritual water. In between, she had a lot of time to cultivate, go around, and do many things.
Wine brewing, a creation art born from water alchemy, has the famous reputation of brewing for ten days and waiting for thousand days. It has even less involvement than water alchemy!
But, it's also because of this that water alchemists are stronger the older they are.
An new water alchemist might not have any elixirs for the first ten to twenty years, but after crossing this slow stage, they enter the stage of abundant elixirs. Without pill poison, you can take an elixir after the other. Liquid is also consumed faster and thereby the medical effect usually kicks in instantly and is soon absorbed, allowing for a fast cultivation.
These alchemists have to stop themselves from over consuming and slowly steadying their foundation.
Jia Yi thought of a sentence he heard in his past life "Some people take a break because they can't work anymore, other people take a break because they are forced to!"
This perfectly described the difference between pills and elixirs.
The more Jia Yi thought about it, the more he wanted to drink it… but unfortunately, he really planned to take a natural approach to awaken a natural inspiration, so he had to be patient.
The day passed and soon it was evening. Jia Yi casted the Cloud Summoning spell for a last time before going to a hut in the centre of his seven-acre field.
Although he liked sleeping in the field, this didn't mean he wanted to sleep on the wet earth. Rather, he wanted to sleep by the field, close to it and able to observe it at all times.
He went to sleep.
A moment later, he woke up once more, in a temple made of stone, looking over a vast field below.
Since the last time, he had moved his temple a bit higher, to allow him to see the field directly.
Smiling at the view, he looked at the field closer.
In fact, it was rather bare, only the silhouette of many plants visible.
It had been like this when he cultivated a field for the first time – the dream had to slowly adapt to a new field. Every place where he grew a plant for a full cycle counted as an available field, which he could later transform into a territory.
Still, even though he couldn't give the many benefits to these plants, he could see their wishes.
This way, he is able to locate insects better, and see what the plants require. Maybe the spiritual power was too low, too high, or maybe the temperature was a bit too cold, maybe the felt too wet…
There were various complaints, and because he couldn't eliminate or fulfil these "wishes", he could only do his best in the real world.
If it wasn't for this, he wouldn't be able to have such abundant harvest the first time he planted the lotus.
For most the harvest would be 10%, in his estimation, his own harvest without the seeing these wishes would be 20-30% because he was had gained a deeper understanding of plants after so many years of planting them.
With the cheat, he was able to boost this chance by another 20%.
As he thought of the lotus, he looked over to the rice. Compared to the lotus, his rice was growing well, and he had estimated he would get around 160kg in the first harvest, 60kg more than required!
Fortunately the Jia family had a long heritage an managed to have similar harvest per acre across the low-grade to high-grade rice variants. If they couldn't even achieve this, they wouldn't be called the leader of the rice and corn lineage!
Jia Yi continued wandering around his dream, looking at the lotuses.
What delighted him was that from the ponds, little blue particles appeared, hovering over the pond and gathering together in the sky, finally forming a small cloud above.
Unlike the other green clouds, this one had a natural colour of blue-ish white.
This was a spell construct he had integrated into the dream! After some experimenting, he realised he could construct a spell fully in the dream, visually, something low-stage cultivators couldn't do!
Though it was just visually appealing, at least currently, he couldn't see the effect.
What really astounded him was the proof that he could, indeed, influence the elemental power of the dream, and use water-type spells!
Although it was very low and he could barely do so after gathering the power for six months, this was enough to convince him!
Anyways, since the water energy produced from this lotus was weak, he could just look for higher-grade plants!
"The future is bright! Once I'm able to practice all spells I have in here, even creation arts… then won't I basically have a supreme learning space?
In the real world my spiritual power is limited, and I have various tasks. But here, I have as much spiritual power as I can generate, and can experiment with many functions!
Wait, spell constructs… could they be used like that…?" he suddenly had an idea…