Chapter 121 – The Spirit Rice Plan: Benefiting All of Humanity?
by spirapiraSu Xing could feel the terrifying extent of his own power.
His current strength was countless times greater than when he had first entered Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection.
But compared to those terrifying demon beasts at Demon-Sealing Pass, he was still far too weak.
“The most urgent priority is to increase my strength as quickly as possible!”
Su Xing already had a plan in mind.
Barring any surprises, breaking through to Divine Power Realm, First Layer would require ten million energy.
And he didn’t have enough energy to extract a large amount of cultivation in a short period of time.
Therefore, it was time to consider breaking through his Qi Refinement cultivation to Spirit Transformation.
“I’ll accumulate energy on one side and raise my Body Tempering cultivation to Divine Power Realm, Grand Perfection… while simultaneously tracking down the whereabouts of the other material, Snow Bone Jade Ginseng!”
“Sigh, but before all that, I still need to make more money and earn energy!”
Su Xing let out a sigh, then began his daily alchemy routine.
Unfortunately, the Body Tempering cultivation breakthrough didn’t help his alchemy at all. In truth, compared to breaking through to Divine Power Realm, he would have preferred reaching Spirit Transformation stage first, since that would give him more spiritual energy and let him refine pills faster!
Over the next week, Su Xing once again fell into the busy rhythm of alchemy.
In one week’s time, Su Xing refined another five thousand pills.
“Whew~ Finally done. Counting the days, it’s about time to go see Jin Congxue!”
Su Xing checked the time and headed toward the villa.
Soon, Su Xing arrived at the villa outside Jiangnan Vocational Academy, where Jin Congxue had been waiting for quite some time.
It was May, and the weather was growing warmer. Jin Congxue wore a cool, short skirt today, which earned Su Xing’s silent admiration.
Jin Congxue shot Su Xing a glare and pouted coyly:
“Where are you looking? Get over here and eat!”
Su Xing chuckled and sat down across from Jin Congxue, digging into the food before him with gusto.
Ever since Su Xing broke through to Divine Power Realm, he noticed his demands for food growing ever higher, and he ate more with every meal.
Although Su Xing was a Nascent Soul cultivator who could already abstain from food, his Body Tempering cultivation was even stronger. The energy consumption of Divine Power Realm meant that without sufficient food to replenish himself, it would significantly impact his strength.
Though the ordinary food before him wasn’t of much use to Su Xing, he still ate with great satisfaction.
“Mmm~ These dishes taste wonderful! It’s just the rice that’s not great…”
Having grown accustomed to spirit rice, even the finest Northeastern rice tasted like chewing wax to Su Xing.
“Oh right, I have spirit rice… From now on, just cook with spirit rice!”
Su Xing retrieved several hundred jin of spirit rice from his storage ring and handed it to Jin Congxue.
Jin Congxue had seen spirit rice before. After emerging from the Blessed Spirit Field dungeon, she too had obtained some spirit rice, but had never been willing to eat it!
Seeing Su Xing pull out so much spirit rice, Jin Congxue was startled and asked:
“Good heavens, how much spirit rice do you have? How can you take out so much at once?”
Su Xing thought about it briefly after hearing her question.
He had cultivated ten mu of spirit fields in the blessed land. With the spirit-gathering formation plus Su Xing using spiritual energy to accelerate growth… and if he later mastered the Earth Dragon Art, a yield of five thousand jin per mu wouldn’t be a problem…
The Blessed Spirit Field enjoyed spring-like weather year-round with abundant spiritual energy, and the spirit grain could be harvested twice a year…
Calculating it all…
“Not that much, I suppose… Only about a hundred thousand jin a year. Barely enough for me to eat.”
A hundred thousand jin of rice, barely enough for you alone? Listen to yourself!
Jin Congxue rolled her eyes after hearing this, clearly thinking Su Xing was bragging.
“A hundred thousand jin of rice would be enough to feed several hundred people for a year, wouldn’t it? And you’re telling me you eat it all yourself?”
Su Xing nodded earnestly and replied:
“That’s right! I have a big appetite… and this spirit rice tastes so good… so I can eat that much!”
Seeing Su Xing produce so much spirit rice, Jin Congxue had already formed a guess about where it came from.
Obviously, this spirit rice came from the spirit field dungeon. And if he could obtain a hundred thousand jin of spirit rice per year… assuming Su Xing wasn’t exaggerating… then he had probably inherited the entire Blessed Spirit Field dungeon.
Jin Congxue gazed deeply at Su Xing, her mind racing with thoughts. She was beginning to guess where Su Xing had learned his Alchemy Art and spirit rice cultivation.
Such things weren’t unheard of. Some lucky individuals stumbled into certain dungeons and ended up inheriting the treasures within—or even the entire dungeon itself—eventually becoming powerhouses.
In Great Xia, one such person appeared every few decades.
But Jin Congxue had never seen a dungeon of such immense value!
Whether it was the pills Su Xing had produced or the spirit rice before her, the benefit to any single person was enormous. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that these things alone could rival the wealth of an entire nation!
And such a monumental secret—Su Xing hadn’t even tried to hide it from her.
Thinking of this, Jin Congxue felt a warmth in her heart, and her gaze toward Su Xing grew ever more tender.
“Hm?”
Su Xing noticed Jin Congxue suddenly gazing at him with deep affection and was utterly bewildered. “What the… Why are you suddenly looking at me like that? It’s just some spirit rice… Is it really worth all that?”
Su Xing thought to himself, clearly not reading into the situation.
After all, he and Jin Congxue had been partners for half a year now, and barring any surprises, they would continue working together for a long time.
These secrets couldn’t be kept from Jin Congxue forever, so letting her know was no big deal!
The most critical thing was that Su Xing had broken through to Divine Power Realm and now possessed combat power truly comparable to a Martial Emperor!
Guarding a single dungeon would be effortless.
After all, Su Xing’s greatest secret wasn’t the Blessed Spirit Field, but the simulator he carried with him—that was the true foundation of his growth!
Jin Congxue called a servant over to cook some of the spirit rice. After tasting a bite, her eyes lit up and she couldn’t help but exclaim:
“Your spirit rice really does taste incredible, and it’s tremendously beneficial for enhancing the constitution of low-level Class Users. If sold as a commodity, it could fetch an extremely high price!”
After hearing this, Su Xing shoveled rice into his mouth while asking casually:
“It’s just rice. How much could it sell for?”
In Su Xing’s mind, rice was something everyone should be able to afford. It shouldn’t be worth much.
How could it compare to the speed of earning money through alchemy?
Jin Congxue thought for a moment and said seriously:
“This spirit rice is highly beneficial for Class Users at Gold rank, even those below Master rank… If it were me, I’d pay a hundred thousand yuan per jin without hesitation!”
“This spirit rice is packed with energy. An ordinary Gold-stage Class User would be full after eating just one liang per meal, and strength-type Class Users would eat at most two liang… So one jin of rice would last them three or four days!”
“Moreover, the nourishing effect of spirit rice on one’s constitution is long-term. If a Silver-stage Class User consumed spirit rice regularly, their physical constitution would definitely surpass others of the same rank by a wide margin, and their chances of breaking through to Gold-stage would be significantly higher! It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it can indirectly boost one’s strength!”
After hearing Jin Congxue’s words, Su Xing froze.
What he cared about wasn’t how much the spirit rice could sell for, but what Jin Congxue had said about it helping low-level Class Users enhance their potential!
This meant that perhaps low-level Class Users, or even children, could consume spirit rice over a long period to improve their physical constitution, making them even stronger in the future!
If they did this, the short-term returns might not be visible…
But in ten years, twenty years… humanity’s overall strength would rise by two whole tiers!
A Class User who originally only had the potential to reach Silver-stage might be able to advance to Gold-stage!
And Gold-stage users might even be able to advance to Master-stage!
The more Master-stage Class Users there were, the more Grandmaster-stage Class Users would emerge…
Then Heavenly King-stage…
Following this logic…
“Hiss—”
Su Xing drew in a sharp breath. Thinking about it this way, this idea really had potential!
But the problem now was that Su Xing simply couldn’t produce enough spirit rice to supply all the low-level Class Users—or even children—across the entire nation!
Great Xia had billions of people. Even if just a hundred million of them consumed spirit rice, the numbers would be staggering…
And Su Xing’s Blessed Spirit Field totaled only about five hundred mu. After subtracting the fields used for growing spirit herbs, the annual yield was only around five million jin…
By that calculation, it was nowhere near enough!
Su Xing sank into deep thought, then suddenly remembered something.
“Wait… If I’m not mistaken, by using spirit stones to set up a spirit-gathering formation, ordinary soil can be converted into spirit fields!”
He wouldn’t even need a full spirit-gathering formation—just transplanting two Spirit-Gathering Flowers and spending one or two spirit stones. As long as the spiritual energy absorbed by the spirit rice didn’t exceed what the Spirit-Gathering Flowers produced, a single mu of ordinary farmland could be transformed into a spirit field capable of growing spirit rice!
“This… this really could work!”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up, and he turned to ask Jin Congxue:
“If I had you sell the spirit rice, what price do you think you could get?”
Jin Congxue thought for a moment and said:
“The actual value of this spirit rice is probably around a hundred thousand per jin… But with proper commercial packaging—marketing it as something like ‘Genius Rice’ or ‘Rice Specially Formulated for Class Users’—selling it for three to five hundred thousand per jin wouldn’t be a problem!”
After hearing Jin Congxue’s words, Su Xing nodded and said:
“I’ll give this serious consideration. If we do decide to have the Tarot Society specifically sell spirit rice, I’ll need your help!”
Jin Congxue nodded and said confidently:
“Don’t worry! If you really have enough spirit rice to sell, leave it to me. This is our exclusive supply—we’re the only ones in the entire world selling it. No matter how high the price, are you worried it won’t sell?”
After their meal, Su Xing and Jin Congxue chatted for a while longer before he returned to the Blessed Spirit Field.
Su Xing first converted the new batch of goods Jin Congxue had given him into energy.
It came to over eleven million simulation energy in total. As the Tarot Trading Company grew larger and larger, the energy Su Xing received also kept increasing.
Afterward, Su Xing didn’t rush into a simulation. Instead, he carefully considered the feasibility of selling spirit rice.
“If I really wanted to grow spirit rice, I could just bring back more Spirit-Gathering Flowers from the simulator. Casually planting a few thousand mu wouldn’t be much of a problem. But the issue is…”
“Large-scale spirit rice cultivation would easily attract attention. Most people might not matter, but Old Dog Zong keeps an extremely tight watch on anything related to cultivation!”
Su Xing pondered for a moment and realized he still needed to deal with Old Dog Zong. This was one of the few cultivators he knew of, and a Spirit Transformation stage powerhouse at that. If he could take him down, the benefits would be enormous!
“So be it. Let me try in the simulation first to see whether large-scale spirit rice cultivation is feasible!”
With a thought, Su Xing summoned the simulation panel and silently intoned:
“Begin simulation!”