Chapter 2238 - 2233: Using Fields for Experiments

Chapter 2238: Chapter 2233: Using Fields for Experiments

Sun Xiu’s Demon Hunting Team has been staying here for a while. Their main task is to cultivate and take care of the grain in the fields.

Seeing Tang Ming coming over, Sun Mei, who was in charge of the grain fields, walked over with a cheerful smile, "City Lord Tang Ming, Miss Mei’er, everyone, how do you have time to come here?"

"Big Sister Sun Mei, the grain field is the lifeline of the entire Fox Spirit Mountain Range. This is the most important place in the entire Fox Spirit Mountain Range, so of course, we must come and check it often. How is the spirit rice cultivation going?"

Tang Ming smiled at Sun Mei.

Sun Mei nodded and then said, "It’s going very well, especially thanks to the fertilization method you mentioned, Tang Ming. The fox demon friends from the Fox Spirit Mountain Range have been a great help to us."

Tang Ming’s gaze fell on the little foxes running through the fields, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Having the fox demons help with fertilization, accumulating manure to ferment into fertilizer was an idea proposed by Tang Ming. Previously, these fox demons never thought that manure could be so useful.

Fox Bachang even told Tang Ming that this fermentation method seems to have been used by the Fox Spirit Mountain Range all these years, just unknowingly. In the back mountain of the Fox Spirit Mountain Range, there is a small valley, which is where the demon foxes of the Fox Spirit Mountain Range dispose of garbage.

The leftover rotten food and excrement are all buried there.

Tang Ming simply had Fox Bachang open a cave mansion specifically to store those excrements and garbage, and then had people dig up the previously buried fertilized soil to spread in the planted fields.

"The talent of the Demon Clan is not something we humans can compare to. This piece of grain field was planted recently, wasn’t it?"

Tang Ming pointed to a piece of the grain field not far away.

Sun Mei nodded, "According to the guidance of Lord Tang Ming, our fields are planted in batches. This field was planted five days ago, just sprouting, and it is estimated to mature in about three months."

The West Desolation is warm all year round, and spirit rice can mature every three months, normally harvested four times a year.

But Tang Ming aimed to place a Gathering Spirit Array in the fields, so that the crops would mature every twenty days or so.

"Hmm, not bad. Uncle, let’s use this as an experimental field."

Tang Ming nodded and then pointed to a grain field ahead of them.

Hu Jiusheng looked at the field Tang Ming indicated, as it was very suitable for setting up the formation. That’s why Tang Ming chose this spot.

He also knew this was an experiment, so a place where it was convenient to set up the formation and easy to succeed quickly was chosen.

"Alright, I’ll set up the formation. If it doesn’t turn out as you expect, just let me know."

Hu Jiusheng picked up the materials and started quickly setting up the formation.

Tang Ming then turned to Fox Bachang, "Aunt Ba, we will still need your people to help transport more of the fertilized soil over. Once we activate the formation, the fertilized soil will become essential. I believe the fertilized soil here might not be enough to supply our needs in the future, so we should consider slaughtering some prey and letting their carcasses decay into fertilizer for use."

"Slaughtering prey, wouldn’t that be too wasteful?"

Fox Bachang was stunned, not expecting that cultivating spirit rice would require slaughtering prey as fertilizer.

Tang Ming shook his head and said, "Based on normal proportions, a sufficiently fat razor-tooth boar can become nearly five thousand catties of fertilizer, and five thousand catties of fertilizer can turn into fifty thousand catties of spirit rice. Do you think this trade is unprofitable?"

Fox Bachang stared blankly at Tang Ming, as razor-tooth boars were low-level demon beasts with strong reproductive power and could be found everywhere. A single one could turn into fifty thousand catties of spirit rice.

If someone else had told Fox Bachang this, she would definitely think they were crazy.

"I’ll have someone go hunt the razor-tooth boars right away."

Fox Bachang took a deep breath and turned to leave.

Tang Ming saw Fox Bachang seemed about to go personally and quickly stopped her, "The valley in the back can still hold out for a long time. I just proposed an idea. Don’t over-hunt the razor-tooth boars, as excessive hunting can lead to ecological imbalance. I remember, razor-tooth boars like eating a kind of immortal grass called horse mane grass, right?"

"Yes, horse mane grass can speed up the maturity of razor-tooth boars. Eating horse mane grass can make razor-tooth boars’ strength and bodies much stronger and larger. So, razor-tooth boars like to seek out horse mane grass to eat."

Fox Bachang nodded.

Standing beside Fox Bachang, Hu Jiuze coughed slightly, "You want to plant horse mane grass to breed razor-tooth boars. Although razor-tooth boars are not smart, their fertility is too strong. Using this land to plant horse mane grass and breed razor-tooth boars is too extravagant."

"Not extravagant at all." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Tang Ming shook his head.

He pointed to the land not far away and said, "We have settled in the West Desolation and will surely have large areas of land. Our goal is to rebuild West Continent City, and we should have a long-term vision. Razor-tooth boar meat is more nutritious for the Demon Fox Clan than spirit rice, and eating razor-tooth boars greatly benefits the fox clan friends of the Fox Spirit Mountain Range by enhancing their physical strength, right?"

"When you put it that way, it makes sense, and additionally, the bones, fur, and teeth of the razor-tooth boars are excellent materials for artifact refining."

Hu Jiuze was initially stunned, then nodded.

"Exactly. Aunt Ba, give everyone an order to help collect some spirit grass and spiritual medicine unique to the West Desolation and bring them back. I want to conduct some hybrid breeding experiments with spirit rice to see if it can increase the yield."

Tang Ming always had novel ideas. Just like how the Gathering Spirit Array designed by Tang Ming was useless to cultivators, but he still requested Hu Jiusheng to complicate the core array formation.

This could mystify the Gathering Spirit Array unique to the Fox Spirit Mountain Range, making it difficult for others to learn if they infiltrate the Fox Spirit Mountain Range.

Even with Hu Jiusheng’s expertise in formations, setting up the formation took a full two hours.

After the formation was successful, Hu Jiusheng’s expression was not very good, "Tang Ming, I just took a look at your ripening plan, and this formation consumes more than we thought."

"Are you referring to the fertilized soil in the fields?"

Tang Ming looked at Hu Jiusheng, as it was clear that during his conversation with Fox Bachang, Hu Jiusheng had also listened in.

Hu Jiusheng shook his head, "It’s not just about the fertilized fields. Razor-tooth boars reproduce very quickly, so if we breed them, fertilization is certainly not a problem. I’m referring to the rate at which the formation consumes spirit stones. I just calculated that once this formation is activated, it requires one spirit stone every ten days, equating to two spirit stones every twenty days. If you think about it, the amount of spirit rice two spirit stones can buy and the amount produced here, we are not actually gaining as much as expected."