Si Qinghe was startled, "Who's speaking?"

"Who? Didn't you wake me up? Your blood seeped in and bound me!"

"My blood?" He suddenly remembered, hadn't a bronze fragment with a plant pattern scratched his finger in the lab earlier?

"You're that bronze fragment?"

"That fragment is a remnant page of the Spiritual Plant Heavenly Book, and I am its tool spirit. The Heavenly Book is incomplete, so my abilities are also very limited!"

"What is the Spiritual Plant Heavenly Book used for?"

"Some tips about planting!"

Si Qinghe was dumbfounded!

Damn it! This damned heaven! Are you saying I haven't farmed enough?

Before Transmigration, I had to farm and deal with all kinds of plants. After Transmigration, I still have to farm!

Even the Golden Finger I got is related to farming!

Am I destined to be a farmer?

Looking at the drooping spiritual rice in front of him, Si Qinghe tentatively asked, "What kind of techniques does this Spiritual Plant Heavenly Book have? For my spiritual rice, can you tell what's wrong with it?"

"Yours is clearly suffering from a depleted Spiritual Vein below; without Spiritual Qi supply, the rice definitely won't grow well!"

Si Qinghe looked at his own spiritual soil, then at the spiritual soil of other Senior Brothers in the distance. He decided to go check out other people's spiritual soil.

The spiritual rice on the neighboring hilltop was thriving, with lush green leaves and drooping rice ears. The spiritual rice swayed gently in the wind, promising a bountiful harvest.

Looking at such spiritual rice, Si Qinghe felt a sense of ease and joy, unlike standing by his own spiritual soil, which always gave him a heavy feeling.

Si Qinghe walked a few steps along the edge of the spiritual soil, taking several deep breaths. The Spiritual Qi that assailed him was refreshing.

Indeed, there wasn't such a dense Spiritual Qi feeling near his own spiritual soil!

Si Qinghe was on the verge of tears.

It seemed the small branch Spiritual Vein beneath this hilltop was truly depleted!

Sects are built in places with Spiritual Veins. The Immortal Caves of powerful Cultivators within the Sect are all built on the main vein. These powerful Cultivators' Immortal Caves occupy vast areas, and the high-grade spiritual soil around them is used to Cultivate medicinal herbs, not spiritual rice or Spiritual Plant.

Areas with small branch Spiritual Veins, besides being used for cultivation by lower-level Cultivators, must be cultivated into spiritual soil for planting spiritual grain and Spiritual Plant.

Spiritual Veins, used over long periods, will slowly deplete. Large Spiritual Veins are fine, but the depletion of small branch Spiritual Veins is a common occurrence.

The original owner was too stubborn; when problems arose with the spiritual soil he had managed for two years, he thought someone was trying to harm him. He investigated from that angle, constantly checking if anyone had visited his spiritual soil, annoying his fellow disciples.

If a Spiritual Vein depletes, reporting it to the Sect won't get you a new spiritual soil. Each spiritual soil plot is assigned, and every plot has someone tending to it.

Si Qinghe didn't have Spirit Stones to bribe people for another position. If he couldn't deliver enough spiritual grain this season, he would definitely be kicked off the mountain!

With the Spiritual Vein beneath the spiritual soil depleted, the spiritual rice couldn't absorb enough Spiritual Qi, naturally leading to poor growth.

The reason it didn't immediately wither and die was that there was still some Spiritual Qi in the air. spiritual rice primarily absorbs Spiritual Qi through its roots; the Spiritual Qi in the air can only be absorbed by the leaves, and the leaves absorb too little to keep up with the grain filling and ear formation, which is why it looked withered.

At this time, setting up a Spirit Gathering Array would be feasible, but setting up an array isn't something that can be done empty-handed. The Spirit Stones needed to set up a Spirit Gathering Array would be enough to directly buy spiritual grain to meet the quota, making it a redundant effort.

Seeing that he could identify the problem at a glance, Si Qinghe felt a glimmer of hope, "Can you find a way to solve this?"

"Without Spiritual Qi, you need to find Spiritual Qi. Do you have many Spirit Stones? If you have many Spirit Stones, just crush them and sprinkle them on the field!"

"I don't have a single Spirit Stone! If I had Spirit Stones, I wouldn't directly buy spiritual grain to meet the quota. Would I still need to crush them and throw them in the field?"

"No Spirit Stones, no solution!"

For this kind of thing, that old man apparently disdains to think of a solution; he still has to solve it himself!

"Go to the abandoned Spirit Stone mine and see if you can find some spiritual soil with a higher concentration of Spiritual Qi."

Si Qinghe could only come up with this emergency plan: first, get through this grain-filling period. Once the grain is plump, there will be some harvest, no matter how small.

All areas within the Sect with small Spiritual Veins have been cultivated into spiritual soil and are all claimed. He couldn't go digging up spiritual soil from others' plots. The abandoned Spirit Stone mine was unmanaged, so he could dig freely!

The abandoned Spirit Stone mine wasn't within the Sect. Two hundred li outside the Sect gate, there was a small Spiritual Vein. The Sect dug there for a while, and once the Spiritual Vein was exhausted, no one managed it anymore.

Nine Heavens Talisman Palace is a Talisman Cultivator School. Having studied there for two years, Si Qinghe still knew the basic Divine Movement Talisman. He slapped two Divine Movement Talismans on his legs, and it still took him an hour to reach the two hundred li distance.

Without resting, Si Qinghe plunged into the mine shaft.

The mine shaft hadn't been visited in a long time. It was covered in cobwebs, and many places had already collapsed. The Spiritual Vein was at the very end, and the soil at the entrance was useless.

He moved forward, clearing the way, and some areas even needed slight reinforcement. Fortunately, the spherical talisman lamp for illumination could last for several hours. After another hour, Si Qinghe finally sensed Spiritual Qi within the mine shaft.

He advanced another few hundred meters, reaching the deepest part of the mine shaft. There was no path ahead, only earth. Si Qinghe dug up some soil and felt it; it wasn't bad, the residual Spiritual Qi was basically comparable to that of other people's spiritual soil.

The soil here, due to direct contact with the Spirit Stone mine, contained relatively abundant Spiritual Qi, and being deep underground, not much had dissipated.

Si Qinghe took out his Flying Sword, activated his sword technique, and dug up a lot of spiritual soil, putting it into his Storage Pouch as he dug.

He had five mu of land, and scattering a layer of soil over all of it would require a lot. Fortunately, his Storage Pouch had dozens of cubic meters, so filling it should be enough!

Suddenly, with a 'ding', he felt his Flying Sword hit something. Si Qinghe stopped and quickly checked his Flying Sword. Thankfully, the sword wasn't broken. He let out a long sigh of relief.

This sword was just the lowest-grade spiritual sword, standard issue upon entering the School. He was very poor now; if it broke, he would have to dig with his hands.

There seemed to be a stone in the spiritual soil. Si Qinghe activated his Flying Sword, intending to dig from the side, but then thought about it and dug away all the spiritual soil on top of the stone.

It really was a stone. He had been hoping there might still be some Spirit Stones inside, which would have made him rich. Unfortunately, it was just a tabletop-sized stone, slanted in the soil, not a Spirit Stone.

Seeing his Storage Pouch almost full, Si Qinghe stopped and wiped his sweat. This continuous digging had exhausted him, completely depleting his internal Spiritual Qi.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that stone again. Why did it always feel out of place?

After thinking for a moment, he dug away all the soil around the stone and, using his last bit of spiritual power, pushed the stone aside.

There was indeed something fishy underneath!

There was a tattered Storage Pouch there!

The Storage Pouch was externally damaged, and the space inside was very small, containing a pile of miscellaneous items.

A wooden box containing some seeds; a standard Flying Sword, already broken; a few low-grade talisman papers, and some Spiritual Plant tools.

No Spirit Stones, no valuable items, and nothing to prove identity!

It's roughly like this.

He could use these things, so he collected them. The Storage Pouch was broken, so he didn't dare put anything into it; once it broke, nothing would be left of the contents!

The Spiritual Qi here was denser than at his residence, so he decided to Cultivate here for a while, recover his Spiritual Qi, and then return.

His Qi Refining second layer cultivation was lower than that of his Senior Brothers who entered at the same time; some of them had already reached Qi Refining fifth layer!

It wasn't that his Aptitude was poor; it was entirely due to his reclusive personality. If he had any problems with cultivation, he wouldn't communicate with others, only diligently researched on his own.

Since he wasn't a Genius, how could he research it out? One step slow, every step slow. In this world where cultivation is respected, it's no wonder people looked down on him.