Chapter 28: Planting Colorful Spiritual Flowers in the Yard

Chapter 28: Planting Various Spiritual Flowers in the Yard

But Jiang Yingxue was an obedient child who listened to her family. She readily accepted her grandfather's suggestion. "Grandpa, there's no need to hire anyone. I've been eating a lot of Spirit Bone Marrow lately and feel full of strength. I'll do it myself."

"Hahaha," Jiang Xianzheng laughed heartily, thinking of how his granddaughter ate the Spirit Bone Marrow by washing it clean and biting into it directly, while he ground it into powder to drink with water. He knew his granddaughter was very strong. "Alright, let's go together, just us grandpa and granddaughter."

"Okay."

After the meal, Jiang Yingxue first went to the woodshed to cook a pot of rice porridge, then went to the yard to pick some cabbage leaves. She chopped the cabbage leaves finely and mixed them with the porridge—this would be the food for the chickens and ducks in the Space.

Both the chicks and ducklings needed water. The ducklings could go to the pond to drink by themselves, but the chicks couldn't. She remembered that the family had raised chickens before, so she went to the tool room to see if there was anything for the chicks to drink from. To her surprise, there was, and it was perfect to put in the Space.

The tool room not only had waterers for the chicks but also seeds for various types of vegetables and food.

Jiang Yingxue selected six kinds: cucumber, carrot, cabbage, green onions, sweet potato, and string beans. These were all to be planted in the Space.

After feeding the chicks and ducklings in the Space, she began planting. Standing on the ridge of the field, she waved her hand towards the fertile soil. A wave of spiritual power fell onto the soil, and the next second, small holes formed all over it. Then, grabbing a handful of seeds, she scattered them towards the soil. The seeds landed steadily in the holes, one seed per hole.

Jiang Yingxue finished sowing these vegetable seeds without any effort.

The next day.

After lunch, the three members of the Jiang family prepared to plant flowers in the yard.

Jiang Yingxue tossed her storage bag onto the ground, and Crimson Spirit Soil piled up like a small hill in one corner of the yard.

Jiang Xianzheng took a breath, and the air, carrying a faint, cool spiritual energy, entered his body. "As soon as this soil came out, I felt the air in our yard became better than before."

Hearing this, Lu Caiyun squatted in front of the Crimson Spirit Soil. She scooped up a handful and brought it to her nose to smell. She couldn't detect any particular scent, but she felt quite comfortable squatting beside it.

Jiang Yingxue explained, "This is Crimson Spirit Soil. It contains nutrients and spiritual energy that help plants grow healthily and quickly. Using this soil to plant Spiritual Plants and other crops yields better results than using the ordinary soil in our yard. Grandpa, Grandma, we don't need this much Crimson Spirit Soil just for the flowers. Why don't we mix the rest with the soil in the vegetable garden?"

"Alright," Lu Caiyun nodded happily, but then thought of the special properties of the Crimson Spirit Soil. "Will the vegetables grown in this soil be different from ordinary vegetables?"

Actually, Jiang Yingxue hadn't planted with it before, so she wasn't sure. "There might be some differences. They might be a bit bigger or smaller, more nutritious, or fresher. Probably just those kinds of differences."

In the cultivation world, aside from genuine Spirit Food, the spiritual food she knew were upgraded and improved versions of mortal fruits, vegetables, and food. Some foods looked the same, just fresher; some grew larger; some even shrank in size. Regardless of how they changed, they all shared one common trait: their taste became fresher and more tender.

Jiang Xianzheng, holding a shovel and three buckets, said, "I think we should replace half. Half Crimson Spirit Soil, half the original soil from the yard. Let's plant a batch first and see."

"That works too." Lu Caiyun thought this method was reliable. They would plant half first. If the yield was high and tasted good, they could gradually introduce it to her vegetable-selling stall.

The night before, Jiang Yingxue had already used stones to simply mark out the shape of a flower garden in the yard. Today, they just needed to fill it with soil and sow the seeds.

Lu Caiyun and her husband were not pleased that Jiang Yingxue did all this heavy and tiring work alone, but they understood she did it overnight because she didn't want the two elders to toil. They felt touched, pained, and gratified.

The three of them divided the tasks. Jiang Xianzheng and Lu Caiyun used tools to fill the buckets with Crimson Spirit Soil, while Jiang Yingxue poured the soil from the buckets into the stone flower beds and along the corners of the walls.

Jiang Xianzheng and Lu Caiyun had been consistently taking herbal baths and drinking Spirit Guzhi Powder water during this period. Combined with their recent diet, their bodies were as robust as in their middle age, and they had a lot of strength. Tasks like shoveling soil were not hard for them at all.

In less than half an hour, they finished the front yard. The backyard was larger, taking about an hour to complete.

Next came planting the flowers. The flowers to be planted were all Spiritual Flowers, not only beautiful but also quite useful.

There were seven types of Spiritual Flowers in total: Water Mist Flower, Spirit Thorn Flower, Dream Butterfly Flower, Beipu Crystal Flower, Shatang Flower, Xunlan Flower, and Dantang Flower.

The Water Mist Flower was semi-transparent in color. Grinding it into juice and applying it to teeth could make them strong and sharp. The Spirit Thorn Flower bloomed purple, tasted sweet, and had nectar between its receptacle and pedicel. It had the effect of a cooling tea to relieve summer heat. The Dream Butterfly Flower bloomed pink and was beneficial for sleep. The Beipu Crystal Flower bloomed yellow. Grinding the flower into powder and applying it to wounds could stop bleeding and promote rapid healing.

The Shatang Flower bloomed yellow and bore red fruit. Consuming its fruit granted water resistance, allowing one to move freely in water like a fish. Xunlan Grass was a common lawn spiritual grass in the cultivation world, with the function of purifying the air. The Dantang Flower bloomed yellow and bore red fruit. Eating its fruit would keep you from feeling hungry for a week. Dantang Fruit was also one of the materials for refining Fasting Pills.

After hearing Jiang Yingxue's introduction to these Spiritual Flower seeds, the expressions on the faces of the elderly couple, Lu Caiyun and her husband, turned excited. Although they had been excited several times before, encountering new spiritual plants still stirred their hearts.

"Ying Xue, how long will it take for these flowers to bloom?" Lu Caiyun held the Spiritual Flower seeds, examining them carefully. The thought of the yard soon being filled with various beautiful Spiritual Flowers made her happy.

"Grandma, how soon would you like them to bloom?" If she used spiritual power to accelerate growth, Jiang Yingxue could make them bloom right now.

Lu Caiyun was surprised. "You mean I can decide when they bloom?"

Jiang Yingxue smiled. "Yes. If you want them to bloom now, I can make them bloom now."

Jiang Xianzheng was somewhat puzzled by the idea of planting and blooming immediately, but he quickly thought of the key point: vital energy and spiritual power. He asked Jiang Yingxue, "Would blooming right now have any impact on your body?"

Jiang Yingxue replied, "It would just use up some spiritual power. No real impact." With so many seeds, if she truly cast a spell to make them bloom and bear fruit immediately, her spiritual power would be depleted, and she would briefly fall into a coma.

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Xianzheng and Lu Caiyun simultaneously waved their hands in refusal. "No, no! Let nature take its course." Although Jiang Yingxue said it wouldn't affect her, they also knew cultivation was not easy. Spiritual power was like the blood of a cultivator. They couldn't bear to let Jiang Yingxue 'bleed'.