No wonder Chen Zining had doubts. This stone forest covers a huge area, with stones everywhere and no soil at all. Only some vines survive tenaciously in the rock crevices.
Chen Daochong did not answer. After looking around, he walked towards the center of the stone forest. The stone pillars inside were all similar and arranged in a disorderly manner, like a maze. It was easy to get lost if you went deeper.
After walking around in the stone forest for two-quarters of an hour, climbing up and down vertical cliffs several times, finally arriving at the foot of a rock wall, Chen Daochong let out several bird calls, and a nimble figure emerged from the cliff.
He jumped out of the crack in the stone and said in surprise when he saw the two of them: "Chief, why are you here?"
Chen Zining said: "Uncle Wu, I will be going down the mountain in a few days. I asked grandpa to take me to see the orchard."
Chen Guangwu nodded and said: "Come up here, follow your grandfather carefully and don't run into the trap."
The two climbed up the cliff of more than 20 feet, walked a few steps, and saw a strange terrain. A huge stone with a radius of hundreds of feet was hollowed out to form a circular stone wall, with an area of occupancy opened in the middle.
The land of about two acres looks like a washbasin from a high place, and the land in the middle of the washbasin is covered with more than 40 Xuanyu fruit trees. If you are not standing in this place or at a high place,
From the air, no one would have imagined that this boulder was actually hollow, with spiritual fruit trees planted inside it.
The Xuanyu fruit tree is only one foot high, with a round crown and evergreen leaves all year round. At this time, there are already small flower buds on the fruit tree, and there is a faint floral fragrance in the air.
Xuanyu Fruit has an extremely high yield among second-grade spiritual fruits, and can be said to be one of the best. Because it has special requirements for the growth environment, it is rarely cultivated artificially. It generally only grows on specific spiritual lands in deep mountains and wild ridges. The so-called
It is possible that the spiritual land is only as big as a human foothold and can only accommodate a fruit tree. According to legend, the largest spiritual land is a mountain. However, most of these spiritual lands are in the hands of major forces, such as the seven major sects and the four major sects.
Holy lands all take the best cave heaven and blessed land in the world as their foundation. The next level, such as the royal families of various countries, thousand-year-old families, etc., also occupy the spiritual veins of spiritual mountains in various places.
After a brief exploration with his spiritual sense, Chen Zining understood that the spiritual land here is a small intersection point of the spiritual veins of Yunjieling. It is also the so-called spiritual eye in the world of cultivation. It can supply the spiritual energy needed by the spiritual fruit tree. This is almost natural.
The spirit gathering formation.
Cultivators can use formations to completely simulate the effects of spiritual eyes, and can open up spiritual fields such as medicine gardens at will.
Chen Daochong pointed to this small piece of fruit forest and said: "Since ancestor Dekang discovered this spiritual land three hundred years ago, after decades of repairs, this spiritual land was opened up, and after hundreds of years of exploration and experimentation,
, the ancestors tried every means to find spiritual cores and selected more than twenty kinds of spiritual fruits. It turned out that the third-grade spiritual fruit trees either bear less fruit or only bear fruit once every three or four years. Only the second-grade Xuanyu fruit is the most suitable.
This place can bear fruit once a year, which is why we have the current scale. What we have today is the legacy of our ancestors who went through untold hardships. Therefore, every one of us in Chenjia Village must protect it to the death.
This spiritual fruit forest.”
There are three main ways to grow spiritual fruits, spiritual grains and elixirs. One is to plant them directly on natural spiritual lands like Chenjia Village. However, there are too few natural spiritual lands, and they are all in sparsely populated mountainous areas.
, it is difficult to find without mentioning it, and it is difficult to protect it once it is found.
The second is to use formations to gather spiritual energy and form an artificial spiritual field. However, accomplished formation masters are even rarer than the emperors on Shenglan Continent. Even some large sects that have been passed down for thousands of years cannot train a single formation master.
, it would be great to have a piece of spiritual land passed down from our ancestors.
The third method is to use spiritual soil bacon, then water it with spiritual springs from time to time, and plant spiritual gathering grass around it to gather spiritual energy. This method is the most widely used, but of course it also has its shortcomings. First, the environment requires strong spiritual energy, and secondly,
The spacing between rows is particularly wide and cannot compete with other plants for aura. The third is that the maturity period is lengthened. It can bear fruit once a year in the spiritual land, but it may take two or three years to bear fruit outside. Moreover, this method is only suitable for four-year-old plants.
Taste the following spiritual fruits.
Chen Zining nodded and asked: "Grandpa, how many people usually guard here?"
"Usually there are only eight. Once it bears fruit, more manpower will be added. When it is about to mature, nearly one-third of the village's strength will be guarding here."
Chen Daochong smiled and said with emotion: "More than fifty years ago, after the secret of Chenjiacun's spiritual land was accidentally leaked, our biggest worry was naturally the fear of being looked down upon by others. Fortunately, the patriarch of our Chenjiacun at that time, your
Your great-grandfather is a once-in-a-hundred-year-old genius in the clan. He has the third level of martial arts cultivation and has shocked the surrounding forces. More than 20 years ago, after your great-grandfather passed away, our Chenjia Village has not been able to produce another martial arts master.
, although we sell half of the spiritual fruits every year to seek peace, this approach is not reliable. After all, it costs money to buy them, so it is better to grab the spiritual fruit grove. "
Speaking of this, Chen Daochong stroked his beard and said: "To be honest, I have not been able to sleep well for more than 20 years. If I hadn't had a comrade-in-arms relationship with Meng Tang, the current lord of Taichang City, when I was young, Taichang City would have become a comrade-in-arms."
The influence of the aristocratic families in Changcheng has never interfered here, and we may not be able to keep this spiritual place. Now, even if Meng Tang retires this year and changes to a city lord, with our strength, we can guarantee that this place will be preserved and spread to Chen
The next generation of the family.”
Since Chen Daochong broke through the realm of martial arts, he seems to be ten years younger. He is as energetic and full of motivation as a young man. He thought for a while and said: "There are two red eagles on Qingfeng Cliff. They come every year when the spiritual fruits are ripe."
At the beginning, we wanted to drive them away when they were pecking at spiritual fruits, but the weakest Red Eagles were all first-level spiritual birds. Even our best archers could not do anything to them, and we were afraid of making too much noise and causing others to panic.
Be careful, you have to let them go, they will eat about twenty spiritual fruits every year when they mature."
"oh!"
Chen Zining couldn't help but be a little surprised after hearing this, and he became interested. He was trying to tame some birds for communication and reconnaissance. This kind of red hawk has superb eyesight, fast speed, and is extremely alert. It is not afraid of being hunted by others.
Communication couldn't be better.
"What is the annual production of Xuanyu fruit?"
"These forty-eight Xuanyu fruit trees are all mature and can produce about 2,800 fruits every year. However, the yield of each tree is different. The one in the center can produce fifty or sixty, and the one on the edge can only produce three.
Forty."
Chen Zining nodded thoughtfully. These fruit trees make a living by absorbing the spiritual energy from the underground spiritual veins. The closer they are to the spiritual eye, the higher the yield.