Chapter Sixty-Nine: Rapid Growth
In the morning, Chen Jing inspected the planting area and came to the excavation site of the lotus pond, which is used to plant ice lotus and jade lotus, so it is smaller than the lotus pond where fish and shrimp are raised.
The whole pond is planned to be dug half a zhang deep, and then let the pine cones turn the stones half a zhang deep below into stone powder, spread two feet of dirt on top, and the water depth is two to three feet, and it should be enough to plant ice lotus lotus jade lotus.
Chen Jing plans to carefully build this lotus pond and make it a scene on Lingyan Mountain, so although the excavation at the bottom of the pond is simple, the other work should be very meticulous, the lotus pond is dug out of the stone mountain, and the natural beauty of the shore should be treated, and some beautiful boulders should be preserved.
Then it is to build a pavilion for appreciating flowers in the lotus pond, the pavilion should be close to the water surface, convenient for viewing lotus, and then considering that several small beasts in addition to the white, the others are big guys when they grow up, so this place should be more spacious, and as a small pavilion for appreciating flowers, it is also a little lighter.
Therefore, Chen Jing decided to dig out a platform supported by stone pillars in the center of the lotus pond against the water surface, the platform is designed to be nearly circular and dodecagonal, and a small single-eaves hexagonal pavilion is built in the center, the pavilion does not have a stool and a beauty to lean on, and the space in the pavilion can be extended to the entire platform, so that the pavilion is small and the space is large enough.
The pavilion and the shore can be dealt with later, now dig a part of the lotus pond first, Chen Jing dug the stones for an hour, and then finished the work.
He has a lot of things to do every day now, and he can only spare an hour to dig the lotus pond, and the more than a dozen ice lotus jade lotuses that sprout don't take up much space at first, so he can transplant these lotus flowers by digging out a part of the lotus pond first, and the rest of the work can be done slowly.
Along the path from the State Guest House to the Cave Mansion, Chen Jing walked slowly towards the Cave Mansion, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a big tree pointing straight to the blue sky among the boulders in front of him.
This big tree is the peach tree that grows in the cave, its crown branches and leaves are sparse, and the green leaves can't block the purple branches, and the purple branches and green leaves look pleasing to the eye.
The cave is carved out of the stone, lower than the surrounding rocks, from the side where Chen Jing is, it is almost impossible to see the palace in the cave, but in the past six months, the peach tree has grown very fast, and now it is far above the boulders around the cave, and it can be seen far away.
After cultivating the Blue Emperor Immortal Sutra with Chen Jing, this green peach tree absorbed the aura many times faster, and the growth rate was also jaw-dropping, growing from a thin sapling to a leafy tree in half a year.
The height of the peach tree has grown from four zhang to six zhang, the diameter of the crown has grown from less than one zhang to five zhang, and the main trunk has grown from half a foot to one and a half feet thick.
The current peach tree can be said to be the first giant tree in Lingyan Mountain, Chen Jing was worried that the soil layer in the courtyard was not deep enough, which affected the growth of the peach tree, but sensing the mood of the peach tree, it has been growing very well.
Later, Chen Jing also deliberately went down to the well to check it, and found that the roots of the peach tree had grown into the stones, but fortunately, Chen Jing also laid a ban on the wall of the well, and the roots of the peach tree did not penetrate the wall of the well.
Chen Jing was relieved that the growth of the peach tree was not affected, it was rooted in the stone, the foundation was very stable, and he was not worried about being blown down when it was windy and rainy.
Entered the courtyard, because of the rapid growth of the peach tree in the past six months, the courtyard has changed a lot, there is more crown of the peach tree on the head, the sun is sprinkled down, there are more mottled shadows on the ground, the crown of the peach tree is very large, but the branches and leaves are sparse, and it can't block much sunlight.
Now the trunk of the peach tree is thicker than the bucket, and some roots are exposed on the ground, the original stone fence around the peach tree has been removed, and some stone slabs on the ground have also been removed.
Lingzhi has always instinctively absorbed aura, when cultivating with Chen Jing, the speed of absorbing aura, the essence of the sun and the moon can be said to be dozens of times faster, Lingzhi cultivates with Chen Jing for three hours a day, and a small part of the aura will be fed back to Chen Jing, after being converted to practice with Chen Jing, the speed of Lingzhi absorbing aura and growth is about ten times faster.
Spiritual plants such as the Bi Peach Tree, Huanglonggui, Jinta Leaf, Blue Stone Lotus, and Wufeng Grass have been cultivated with Chen Jing for half a year, which is equivalent to five or six years of growth, and other spirit plants have already grown for a long time, and the change is not very big in five or six years, while the Bi Peach Tree is in a period of rapid growth, so it grows up rapidly, and the change is particularly big.
Because it has grown up, the aura that the green peach tree can give back when cultivating has increased several times, and now the aura provided by this spirit plant is more than the aura provided by the other seven spirit plants, including Huang Longgui combined, because of this powerful peach tree, Chen Jing's current cultivation speed may have surpassed that of his junior sister.
When Chen Jing bought these spirit plants, he mainly wanted to better cultivate the Ten Thousand Trees Concentric Technique through these spirit plants, and at the same time, because he was shy in his pocket, he chose spirit plants with strong spirituality and low prices.
After discovering the secret of the Qingdi Immortal Sutra, the spirit plant not only has to be spiritual, but also provides more aura, and has new requirements for the value of the spirit plant.
The growth rate of the spirit plant cultivated with Chen Jing could be increased by ten times, and the spirit plant used to grow for a thousand years, but now it only takes a hundred or ten years, so it has become a feasible thing to cultivate a thousand-year-old elixir and immortal seed spirit root with a long growth period.
From this point of view, it is not very suitable for many of the spirit plants that were originally bought. For example, the blue stone lotus, its use is very narrow, the value of a thousand-year-old blue stone lotus will not be particularly high, the black wind grass is a very common spirit grass, the price is not high, but it is widely used, the value of the thousand-year-old black wind grass is far more than the thousand-year-old blue stone lotus.
Chen Jing now has the possibility of cultivating a thousand-year-old spirit grass, but firstly, it will take hundreds of years, and secondly, due to the limitations of divine thoughts, the number of spiritual plants that can be cultivated together is limited, so the spiritual plants must be carefully selected, and if they choose the blue stone lotus, it will be a big loss.
Of course, the most ideal is the peach tree and the yellow dragon gui, but this kind of spirit seed is hard to find, and it may not be possible to buy it if there are spirit stones, and the rest of the spirit plant is more suitable for red cloud ginseng, and the value of the thousand-year-old red cloud ginseng is much greater than that of the thousand-year-old black wind grass.
From the aspect of providing aura, the spirit tree absorbs more aura, which is more suitable than the spirit grass, but the spirit tree occupies a large space, and the peach tree is estimated to have a crown diameter of at least ten zhang long, and the distance between the spirit trees will be relatively far when planting other spirit trees.
Chen Jing and Lingzhi cultivation must always maintain the connection of the Ten Thousand Trees Concentric Technique, and they must not be too far apart. Maybe when his divine thoughts are stronger in the future, he will be able to cultivate with a few spirit trees that are far away.
The most suitable is Huanglonggui, which provides a lot of spiritual energy, and occupies a small area, which can be planted under the peach tree, maybe some small shrubs and spiritual plants meet this condition, Chen Jing doesn't know much about this.
There are a small amount of spiritual grass to provide a lot of spiritual energy, such as a variety of spiritual bamboo, which is suitable for planting in the courtyard can also be considered.