Chapter 13: Cultivating Everyday Life

Closing the door and opening the protective formation, Ding Zhengyi carefully put the jade box on the bamboo couch, looking at the jade box with warm aura, although he was still excited in his heart, he still took the futon on the side and sat down cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, adjusting his state.

After half a pillar of incense, Ding Zhengyi opened his eyes, his eyes were calm, and the ancient well was not wavering.

Looking at the jade box containing the hundred-year-old spirit peach again, although he was still very happy, his emotional fluctuations had been suppressed, and his perennial cultivation had made Ding Zhengyi's control over his emotions quite powerful, because great joy and great compassion were harmful to cultivation.

The Hundred Years Spirit Peach was given to him by the patriarch himself, it seems that he is unwilling to let others know, after all, this spirit object is difficult to obtain even if it is an elder in the family, Ding Zhengyi decided not to tell anyone first, to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

There is no rush to take it, whether it is to dredge the spiritual network or refine the body, it is a long-term process, and then polishing and polishing may make the Hundred Years Spirit Peach play a greater effect.

The main task at the moment is to draw as many spirit runes as possible in addition to cultivation, whether it is to complete the task of the patriarch or to improve his talisman making skills.

Thinking of this, Ding Zhengyi stretched out his hand and took the jade box to the bottom of the bamboo couch, placed the rune paper and rune ink on the table respectively, took out the rune pen, and began to devote himself to the production of the "Fireball Fu".

According to the steps on weekdays, the vitality in the dantian is slowly injected into the pen barrel through the right hand holding the pen, and then the tip of the pen is dipped in a little rune ink and drawn on a piece of rune paper.

The mana imprint slowly appeared on the rune paper with the movement of the rune pen, and the aura of heaven and earth was also slowly injected under the guidance of Ding Zhengyi according to a unique rhythm.

Ding Zhengyi was not surprised, and without thinking, he threw out the spirit rune he was drawing, and with a "thud", the unfinished fireball talisman spontaneously ignited in the air, turning into a small ball of fireball, burning completely.

Talisman making failures are too frequent, Ding Zhengyi is already familiar with dealing with it, although he is a little frustrated, but his confidence is still firm, and after closing his eyes and thinking about it, he continues to start a new round of drawing.

After a cup of tea, Ding Zhengyi straightened up with joy, rubbed his somewhat sore waist, and looked at the silver and aura fireball talisman on the table, feeling quite proud in his heart.

Picking up the freshly baked spirit talisman, Ding Zhengyi carefully observed the flame-like mana imprint composed of countless lines on the rune paper, and found that there was no flaw, it was a standard low-level fireball talisman, and then casually placed it in a wooden box on the edge of the bamboo couch.

In this way, in the next two hours, Ding Zhengyi drew one fireball talisman after another, and most of the drawings would spontaneously combust or the aura collapsed and failed, and the probability of success remained at about thirty percent.

When Ding Zhengyi finished the drawing of the last spirit rune, he carefully pondered the various failures of this talisman making and found some small details that could be corrected.

Looking at the more than ten spirit runes in the wooden box, Ding Zhengyi suddenly felt a little hungry, and hurriedly went downstairs to the dining hall to eat some food, and then continued to rush back to the cultivation meditation room.

After opening the formation, before starting to cultivate, Ding Zhengyi couldn't help but think about the talisman for a while. It has been almost two years since I practiced talisman making, and I have drawn thousands of fireball talismans before and after, and the success rate has gradually increased to about thirty percent, according to the records in the classics, this talisman talent belongs to the lower middle, and if you want to increase the success rate of fireball talisman drawing to more than fifty percent, it is impossible to practice it without tens of thousands of times.

This is just a special drawing of fireball talismans, if you change to another kind of talisman, the failure rate at the beginning will definitely be amazingly high, the primary talisman is like this, the production of intermediate talismans is even more difficult, the loss of materials makes Ding Zhengyi feel a headache when he thinks about it, after all, the more high-level talismans, the more expensive the talisman materials used.

It's really a long way to go, and with a sigh of emotion, he ended Ding Zhengyi's reverie and began the day's qi cultivation, after all, cultivation is the foundation of a monk, and it is obvious that cultivation has improved the help of talisman making.

In this way, Ding Zhengyi spent most of his time in the cultivation retreat in the days to come, either meditating and cultivating Qingyuan Decision, or drawing fireball talismans, of course, the formation and body refining also maintained the most basic cultivation, but the spiritual field cultivation piece was temporarily put down.

After nearly two months of hard work, Ding Zhengyi not only successfully completed the task of drawing a thousand low-level fireball talismans, but also added more than two hundred copies, and the three thousand materials received from the family were also consumed, but thousands of exercises finally increased the success rate of the fireball talisman to more than forty percent, which made him quite gratified.

After thinking about it briefly, Ding Zhengyi left more than 100 of these low-level fireball talismans, and handed over the remaining 1,100 to the family, because the raw materials were all supplied by the clan, so according to the clan rules, he only got 110 family contribution points.

After handing over the task, Ding Zhengyi was relaxed, not long after the next batch of spiritual rice sowing in Lingtian ended, and the task of taking care of Lingtian could not be left to his father, and he still had to take over and continue last year's work.

It was lunch time again, because he was too busy some time ago and often couldn't catch up with the meal, so his mother always left a meal for Ding Zhengyi, so as not to disturb his cultivation.

Finally free, Ding Zhengyi was about to go to the dining hall to eat with his parents, but when he entered the door, he found that the food on the table had been set, and his parents and Xiaoqiu were sitting and preparing to eat.

"Hey, why does Yi'er have time to eat today?" Wu looked up and saw Ding Zhengyi, a little surprised.

"Sit down and eat," his father Ding Zhongyuan said as concisely as ever.

"The task assigned by the patriarch has finally been completed, and normal cultivation will resume in the future. Ding Zhengyi replied while moving a stool and sitting down, and Xiaoqiu had already gotten up to serve him dinner.

"That's good, this time the clan has just notified that the elder will lead fifty people to search for spiritual objects in the shallow sea in the south, and all family monks can voluntarily sign up, and some materials will be distributed first, and the family contribution points will be distributed according to the harvest obtained, I originally wanted to sign up, but the spiritual field cultivation is a little worried, now it's okay, I don't have to worry about it with you." The father said a lot unusually, and it was rare to show excitement, and stood up and looked at Ding Zhengyi.

"Why are you taking this risk, isn't it good to cultivate the spiritual field at home? Besides, there is no shortage of cultivation resources in Yi'er now" Wu glanced at Ding Zhongyuan, his face a little ugly.

"The cultivation realm is not very peaceful, there are few people and it is too risky to go out, this time it is rare to have the opportunity for dozens of clansmen to move together, and there is a response when encountering danger, I just want to go outside and have a look" Ding Zhongyuan rarely insisted on his own opinion and did not compromise.

Ding Zhengyi watched his parents put down the dishes and chopsticks, staring at each other with big eyes, and was speechless, Xiaoqiu blinked on the side and didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the dining hall was instantly depressed.

"It's a bit dangerous to go to the shallow sea to search for spiritual objects", Ding Zhengyi thought about it before he said, and saw Ding Zhongyuan staring at him with a tiger face.

"However, there should be sufficient preparations within the clan, and there are elders leading the team, and the safety is still guaranteed" At this time, Wu's face became even more gloomy.

"I still have more than a hundred fireball talismans here, as long as the luck is not too bad, the danger is basically negligible," Ding Zhengyi deliberately made a playful expression to his parents after speaking.

"Really?" Wu was skeptical.

"Of course, I'll go upstairs to get it after eating, eat first, eat first" Seeing that the atmosphere had eased somewhat, Ding Zhengyi didn't say more, picked up the bowl and pulled it up.

After eating, without waiting for the order, Ding Zhengyi went upstairs and took down a stack of more than 100 spirit runes and handed them to his father, Wu's face eased a lot, Ding Zhongyuan did not refuse, any accident may be encountered in the area infested by demon beasts, and it is also safe to bring more spirit runes.

"Actually, I also want to go out to see, I haven't gone out since I got married," Wu also said a little longing at this time.

"I heard my father say that this activity gives priority to cultivating above the middle stage of Qi training, after all, there are still some risks, and besides, you still have to take care of Yi'er and Xiaoqiu" Ding Zhongyuan touched his head at this time and hesitated.

"How much stronger can you be than me, don't be reckless when you go out, be careful, low-level demon beasts are much stronger than monks of the same level" Wu glanced at him, and his tone finally returned to normal.

The father didn't answer, just nodded in a whisper.

"Yi'er, you take Xiaoqiu to take care of Lingtian first, and I'll go to the family registration office with your father to have a look, and I'll come later." Wu turned his head to Ding Zhengyi again.

"Got it" Ding Zhengyi didn't say anything, beckoned to Xiaoqiu and walked out.

During the two-month retreat, Ding Zhengyi was also a little panicked, the arbor in the family's spiritual vein grew in a verdant place, and in that environment, his mood was estimated to be more relaxed.

Not long after, the spiritual field cultivated by the family appeared in front of the two, and in the spiritual field not long after sowing, the spiritual rice plant had just revealed emerald green shoots.

"Xiaoqiu, you try to put a spiritual rain technique first" Xiaoqiu's spiritual rain technique has been practiced for almost a year, but he is still not very proficient.

"Okay" Xiaoqiu squinted his eyes as he spoke, brewed for a while, raised his right hand and pointed to the Lingtian on the side, after half a cup of tea, a cloud and mist slowly gathered out of the middle of the air, and it was a few feet from the ground, slowly absorbing the aura around him, and after a while, the spiritual rain began to fall, and the clouds and mist lasted for half a stick of incense before gradually dissipating, and the Lingtian was only a little moist on the surface.

"The practice is not bad, but there are places where you can do a little better" Ding Zhengyi said while performing the spiritual rain technique, explaining to Xiaoqiu how to control the vitality more effortlessly, how to portray the mana mark more effectively, and after a while, a fog mass with a radius of three zhang was gathered, and the time for a stick of incense to disperse was dissipated, and the spiritual rain completely watered the spiritual field within the enveloping range.

"Do you understand, you can continue to practice the spiritual rain technique in front of the Lingtian" Ding Zhengyi and Xiaoqiu explained, and walked straight to the place where the arbor grew outside the Lingtian.

As soon as he walked into the lush arbor forest, he saw all kinds of wildflowers blooming on the grass in the forest, and a fresh and ethereal aura rushed towards him, making Ding Zhengyi refreshed, and the fatigue of a long time suddenly dissipated.

Quietly enjoyed for a while, Ding Zhengyi did not forget the business, came to a place where the grass and trees were most luxuriant, and used the Rongmu technique to absorb the essence of plants and trees, and only after the body was faintly swollen and painful will he stop the spell, and quickly ran to the location of Lingtian, and immediately released all the essence of plants and trees he absorbed after coming to Lingtian, and the seedlings hanging with water droplets suddenly became a lot more energetic, and the whole process of transferring the essence of plants and trees took less than a stick of incense.

Cycle after cycle, Ding Zhengyi ran back and forth more than 20 times, and the Rongmu technique had consumed most of the vitality in the dantian, at this time he was panting, sweating profusely, and exhausted.

During this period, his mother Wu also came to Lingtian, and saw that Ding Zhengyi was practicing, so she said hello and chatted with Xiaoqiu while releasing the spiritual rain technique to water the spiritual field, and when Ding Zhengyi completed the forging body cultivation, he also joined it, until the remaining vitality was consumed by the spiritual rain technique, and the three of them were able to complete the watering task of all four acres of spiritual fields at home.