October 23rd, early morning.

After another retreat, Meng Zhou came out of the quiet room, but instead of having a hurried liver removal experience, he wandered around leisurely in the courtyard.

Looking at the gratifyingly growing seedlings and plants in the courtyard, I felt calm and happy.

It has been nearly four months since I arrived at Sanchuan Plateau at the end of June. Looking at my cultivation alone, it seems that there has not been much change. Moving from the second level of foundation building to the third level of foundation building is just a step forward in the early stage of foundation building.

But overall, from the most basic qi-refining magic power, to the body-refining qi-blood, to the soul-refining soul, he has completely surpassed himself at that time.

The cultivation of mana requires accumulation step by step, but the mana of the Master Spring Water Sutra, rich in vitality, already has a magical effect that is not inferior to the second-level high-grade special spiritual materials.

For beings whose life levels are lower than his, especially for Qi-training monks or mortals, this magic power alone can be called an immortal technique.

After practicing the soul refining method to a small degree, the strength of his soul is already comparable to that of an ordinary sixth-level foundation-building monk.

As the cultivation progresses further, especially the soul refining method is promoted from minor to dacheng, it has steadily crossed the steps from the middle stage of foundation building to the late stage of foundation building.

Before leaving the quiet room, Meng Zhou tried the first second-level high-grade spell, the River Burning Technique.

Although the difficulty of acquiring it is much higher than that of the second-level mid-level spell, the entire spell has no real barrier that can stop him.

As long as he puts in more effort, Meng Zhou is confident that he can overcome it.

However, after a brief try, Meng Zhou stopped spending time on it.

He now finds it extremely difficult to cast second-level mid-level spells. Even if he spent a lot of effort to learn this spell, it is still useless to him now.

Whether it is the Burning River Technique or the Thunder Drop Technique, in order to have great power, it must be supported by majestic and matching powerful mana.

Meng Zhou has briefly studied the four second-level high-grade spells, which are very interesting. According to their order, the easiest one to learn is the River Burning Technique, followed by the Thunder Drop Technique.

Moving on to the subsequent Qi-gazing Technique and Soul-Shocking Technique, the difficulty of practice increases in sequence.

But Meng Zhou felt that he would probably master the two spells of Wangqi and Soul Shock before Fenjiang and the Thunderbolt.

Because the two techniques of Burning Jiang and Falling Thunder require the soul level to be met by ordinary monks at the seventh or eighth level of foundation building.

Their power is mainly reflected in the fact that they can make the majestic mana of the monks in the late stage of foundation building pour out like a flood, or like a volcanic eruption.

As for the two techniques of Wangqi and Soul Shock, the requirements for mana are getting lower and lower. Soul Shock can even be regarded as a complete soul spell.

Its real difficulty lies in its strict requirements on the level of the soul, which may not be possible for ordinary ninth-level foundation-building monks.

But for Meng Zhou, his soul level must reach the peak of the second level before his cultivation.

Therefore, compared to the two techniques of Burning Jiang and Falling Thunder, Meng Zhou had stronger expectations for the two techniques of Wangqi and Soul Shock.

The body training has stretched my hips a little due to the technique, but now I am firmly in the mid-to-late second stage.

At the same time, there are many spells that have been cultivated to perfection, and there are even more methods at the master level, covering various aspects such as attack, defense, escape, stealth, and concealment.

In addition, there are also fully strengthened "Qi and Blood Domain" and "Qi and Blood Defense".

It can be said that the current self can easily crush ten of the self from four months ago at the same time - when the gap is so large, it is no longer possible to establish any advantage simply by relying on quantity.

"Second-level low-grade spells, flight escape, armor and shield, object control, shape-shifting, and stealth techniques have all been perfected."

"Second-level mid-level spells, transformation techniques, and invisibility techniques have all been perfected.

Only three middle-level spells, namely wall penetration, cloud and rain, and wind, have not been perfected."

"In addition, there are eight medicine master's spells, muscle growth, flying knowledge, inch step, and rope knotting."

Meng Zhou stood in the pavilion in the middle of the lake. Two huge Xuanling turtles floated on the water. Their two heads flexibly stretched and retracted, and they caught the two beast pellets that Meng Zhou threw to them.

Along with the beast pellets, what they swallowed into their stomachs was also mana that was rich in vitality.

Along with the beast pills, they merged into the limbs and bones of the Xuanling Turtle.

After handling all this, Meng Zhou sent a message to Yaya, a grasshopper lying on a bamboo leaf: "Look after your home."

Then, he dodged an inch and appeared in the spiritual field.

Counting from the time he first arrived, he has been diligently cultivating this spiritual field for nearly four months.

Including the original 220 acres of mature spiritual fields, and more than 300 acres of wild spiritual fields that were later developed using the chemical technology.

After this retreat, Meng Zhou did not busy practicing other spells, but decided to continue to open up wasteland.

He no longer used stealth, invisibility and other spells, but continued to use the transformation spell to break apart the hard earth piece by piece.

Compared with the former Grandmaster-level Transformation Technique, the power of the Perfection-level Transformation Technique has more than doubled.

While the power increases, the mana consumption becomes lower.

At the same time, the cultivation level has been upgraded from the second level of foundation building to the third level of foundation building, and the quality and quantity of mana have been greatly improved.

Under these many factors, the efficiency of land reclamation is also very impressive, and nearly 60 acres of new land can be reclaimed in one day.

When he showed up undisguisedly for the first time to open up wasteland in the Lingtian area, not even half a day had passed before Yang Chong and his wife came quickly to pay their respects.

Meng Zhou didn't say much to them and quickly sent them away.

The two of them also knew that they really couldn't help, so they left after a while.

Because the qi-regulating technique must be used frequently, the pharmacist can earn three to four hundred experience points per day.

I had just calmed down and started clearing wasteland for two days when I saw two figures flying past from the sky in the distance.

It seemed that Meng Zhou was found working in the spiritual field. The figure leading the way turned around, and the two figures changed their planned route and soon came to the sky above the spiritual field.

The first person was none other than Governor Li.

What fell with him was a middle-aged male cultivator with an elegant appearance.

Seeing Meng Zhou's curious look, he nodded and smiled at him.

Governor Li smiled and said: "Fellow Taoist Zhuang, it's so rare to finally see you in person in this spiritual field."

Meng Zhou pretended to be puzzled and asked: "How do you say this?"

Governor Li said: "In the past few months, I have passed by this place many times, and I have also paid attention to it out of curiosity.

I can see the changes in Lingtian every time, but I just don’t see you."

Meng Zhou thought to himself, I didn't want you to see it on purpose.

Several times, Meng Zhou was actually right under Governor Li's nose.

However, neither the advanced stealth skills nor the invisibility skills could be seen through by Governor Li who was in the early stages of foundation building.

The reason why I didn't show up to see him in person was because I didn't want to disrupt the rhythm of my practice with meaningless pleasantries.

Seeing that there is no one here, Governor Li will naturally not stay any longer and will leave soon.

The second is that he doesn't want to talk to him about the specific matter of land reclamation. He doesn't want to talk nonsense or make up random things about this kind of thing, but it's also impossible for him to tell the other party the real situation.

In this case, just let the other party know a rough result, and just go through the specific process of land reclamation.

Therefore, when Governor Li mentioned this matter, he just smiled and said, "That's really bad luck."

Then he looked at the elegant middle-aged male cultivator next to him and asked curiously: "Who is this fellow Taoist?"

Governor Li hurriedly said: "Oh, I forgot to introduce you. This is fellow Taoist Lu Quan. I am currently accompanying him to choose a suitable place to take root.

Fellow Taoist Lu, this is Fellow Taoist Zhuang Shengzhuang. If you choose to take root here, you must get close to him in the future."

"Fellow Daoist Lu!" Meng Zhou cupped his hands and said.

Lu Quan smiled and returned the greeting with his hands raised: "Fellow Taoist Zhuang, I'm new here. Please give me your advice in the future."

"It's easy to talk about."

"I just saw you clearing land here and came over to take a look out of curiosity. I won't disturb you anymore."

Governor Li bowed his hand to Meng Zhou and fled away.

But suddenly he remembered something, stopped and turned to look at Meng Zhou.

"Fellow Daoist Zhuang, do you plan to plant some seeds together after we open up the wasteland?"

Meng Zhou nodded and said, "Well, yes."

Governor Li reminded:

"In newly opened spiritual fields, the earth's spiritual energy is inherently lazy. If the land is not planted quickly after the land is opened, it will easily be re-deposited and hardened, requiring a second time to clear the land.

Even those mature spiritual fields, which have been plowed for a long time but cannot be planted, also need to be cleared again.

Therefore, don’t leave it idle for too long after you open up the wasteland.”

Having said this, Governor Li paused and said:

"One more thing, I think I need to remind you that when opening up wasteland and spiritual land, don't be greedy for more and seek perfection.

In the past, there were new Taoist friends who wanted to open up thousands of acres of spiritual fields at once, but they ignored that maintaining spiritual fields is more difficult than opening up wasteland.

For some Taoist friends, after several months of hard work, they are indeed able to open up a large number of spiritual fields.

But after planting, they discovered that the real difficulty was ensuring a constant supply of spiritual water to such a large spiritual field.

Given the special circumstances of Sanchuan Plateau, to maintain such a large spiritual field, spending twelve hours a day in the spiritual field is not enough.

There was simply no time to do anything else. After persisting for a while, they had to abandon a large number of spiritual fields that had been cleared and planted in order to balance other aspects of their time arrangements."
To be continued...