Li Chuan found Gong Er and Pang San at the entrance of the lecture hall.
The two little demons stood face to face, as if they had encountered some problem, both looking sad. After seeing Li Chuan, Gong Er jumped over and said, "Brother, my third brother and I want to go to Xieyang County to plant spiritual rice for a year."
Xieyang County? Lingmi?
Li Chuan thought of the sermon he listened to in the afternoon. It was said that the place with a very suitable climate and soil was in Xieyang County. So he quickly asked: "Are you short of spiritual rice?"
Spiritual rice is not a rare thing in Xuanmen. It is a kind of spiritual plant, and the harvested fruits are similar to rice. Cooked directly and eaten as rice, it can replenish qi and prolong life; it can also be used to refine elixirs and medicinal wines. It is more popular among low-level monks who still need food.
If you buy it with secular money, one pound costs three taels of silver, which is really expensive. But if you barter or buy it with spiritual stones, it will be quite a lot of money.
This time Pang San was the first to speak and answered Li Chuan's question. He said: "We are not short of spiritual rice. Today we went to listen to a sermon from a goose demon. It took him five hundred years as a demon to learn to transform into a human form. After successfully transforming, He studied for another hundred years why it was so difficult for birds and demon cultivators to transform into human forms, and finally summed up a method. As long as he needed a hundred spirit stones, he would teach one-on-one, and said that if a hundred years later If you still can’t transform into a human form, you can ask him to refund the money.”
It turns out that what is missing is the spiritual stone.
"So you want to farm to earn spiritual stones?" Li Chuan asked.
Gong Er nodded, "Yes, yes, it is still cost-effective to earn a hundred spirit stones in one year."
The third person added: "We have studied many methods. Everything else has risks. Farming is the safest."
You have to earn it.
Li Chuan was not very optimistic about this matter. He had never farmed before, but he had cut pigweed when he was a child, and it was too painful. So after traveling here, he never thought about farming himself.
When it comes to farming, even if everything is perfect, if a heavy rain comes, everything may be gone. The same goes for monks farming. A monk who can manage hundreds of acres of land doesn't need to go to the Buling Formation in Xieyang County to grow spiritual rice.
He also understood Gong Er's mood very well.
Pang San can transform into a human being, and he also wants to become a human being.
Li Chuan said: "When your senior brother comes out of confinement, I will go to him directly to ask for it; or if you wait for a few days, I will write a letter to Qin Tian Prison and ask if I can give you some spiritual stones as a benefit."
But Gong Er sternly refused, saying: "Brother, you have helped us get started. From now on, we have to walk this path of cultivation on our own. We cannot rely on you for everything."
If planting spiritual rice for a year without harvesting it is considered spiritual practice... Li Chuan thought for a while and said, "It takes three quarters from sowing to harvesting spiritual rice, and it has to be converted into money... Are you sure that goose demon, after one Will you still be here after the new year?"
Gong Er had obviously done his homework. He said, "Yes, he has lived in Tianju Mountain for more than 20 years and has a good reputation."
"Will he still talk tomorrow?" Li Chuan asked.
"I'm going to talk for three days in a row. Brother, are you going to listen?" Gong Er asked.
Li Chuan nodded, "I listened to one today. It was very interesting. I will listen to it with you tomorrow."
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The next day, Li Chuan followed Gong Er and Pang San to listen to Goose Demon's sermon. After the goose demon transformed into a human form, he turned out to be a middle-aged man with a naive appearance, calling himself Lord Goose. When he spoke, he spoke in such detail that even Li Chuan understood it.
There are many books on transformation in the library of Sishen Palace. Before Li Chuan came, he flipped through a few pages. The explanations were quite mysterious, requiring understanding and emphasizing the spiritual movement.
And what Mr. Goose said is more maneuverable.
First, draw a line for your cultivation level. If you cross the line, you can transform. If you can't, you can't. Then talk about which parts of the wings will become arms, which parts will become fingers, and what to do with the extra feathers.
The two men and others listened mesmerizedly; Li Chuan also added a lot of useless knowledge.
The charge of one hundred spirit stones is still reasonable.
When he was about to finish speaking, Mr. Goose once again promoted his one-to-one transformation service, which was tailor-made for different birds. After the end, he saw many demon cultivators looking for him.
Li Chuan also went to find him.
Seeing Li Chuan, Mr. Ge showed great enthusiasm.
When Li Chuan came in to listen to the lecture, he showed the Skylark Knot and was a distinguished guest of the Four Gods Palace.
Mr. Ge looked Li Chuan up and down, "Do you have any questions about the transformation? I think you've done a good job transforming, but your temperament is a little bit unhuman..."
Li Chuan said with a wooden face: "I am just a human being."
"Oh..." Mr. Goose apologized quickly, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake. Then, why did you come to see me?"
Li Chuan said: "I have a friend who also turned into a monster from a bird."
"Has he transformed?" the goose demon asked.
"Not yet," Li Chuan then said the reason for his visit, "He hasn't accumulated enough spiritual stones yet. I want to ask Master Goose, how long will you stay here?"
"My home is here. If you save enough spiritual stones, you can come here at any time," Master Goe confessed to Li Chuan: "I don't have a good understanding. I have stepped on almost all the pitfalls in my cultivation, so I have accumulated a lot of experience. . Originally I just wanted to help everyone avoid pitfalls and avoid detours, but I have had some difficulties recently and need spiritual stones."
Li Chuan said, "Can you tell me what the difficulty is?"
Mr. Ge looked a little shy and said, "My Taoist companion, we have known each other for many years, and she finally has an egg."
"Congratulations." Li Chuan congratulated subconsciously.
"But after hatching for several years, there is still no movement at all. We asked a medical practitioner to take a look, and they said that it requires continuous input of spiritual power to hatch. So these years, my wife has been hatching eggs at home."
Spiritual power? Li Chuan was thoughtful.
Mr. Goose added: "The further you get to the back, the more spiritual power you need, and gradually my wife's spiritual power is not enough, so I try to find ways to earn some spiritual stones, buy some elixirs, and go back to replenish him."
"If the spiritual stones are not enough, there are Qi-replenishing elixirs and the like, which are also acceptable."
Li Chuan understood and said, "I want to talk to my friend."
When Li Chuan walked out of the lecture hall, he found that Gong Er and Pang San were still on the steps, one pecking at the grass and the other looking at the sky.
"Second brother and third brother." He shouted.
They all turned around: "Brother!"
Li Chuan walked up to them and said, "I have talked with Master Goose. He is a reliable monk."
Gong Er also agreed and said: "Other demon cultivators, many of whom are higher than him, can't explain it as clearly as he does. They all like to hide things."
Then Li Chuan told Mr. Goose why he wanted the spirit stone, and said, "I'm thinking that if I lend him our pot for a while, he can probably hatch the eggs."
The second male and the third male also breathed a sigh of relief.
Gong Er said: "So, if he had told us earlier, we wouldn't have been so entangled."
Third person: “I don’t have to farm, that’s great!”
It turns out that they don’t want to farm either.
Li Chuan laughed: "Okay, I'll go in and talk to him."
(End of chapter)
