Su Ming quickly picked up the wine pot, filled the other party's wine glass with spiritual wine, and said with a smile, "Brother Luo, please teach me."
Luo Xiao picked up the wine glass, drank it down in one gulp, took a breath, and continued: "Although the cultivation of spiritual fields does not require high requirements for the island's soil environment, the growth of spiritual rice is inseparable from spiritual energy.
Therefore, since you want to choose to develop a fairy island, it is best to choose an island with abundant spiritual energy, but it is a pity that most of these spiritual islands are in the chart I gave Brother Su."
Luo Xiao shook his head and said, "Besides that, there is another way, which is to open up desert islands with thin spiritual energy."
"Desolate island?"
Su Ming frowned.
Seeing Su Ming's puzzled look, Luo Xiao grinned: "Brother Su, you don't think that Tianshu Island is so full of spiritual energy because you are born with it, right?"
Hearing this, Su Ming's eyes lit up: "Brother Luo, you mean the formation?"
"Yes, it's the formation!"
Luo Xiao nodded, "If you want to change the thin spiritual energy environment of the desert island, you must set up a large-scale spirit gathering array around the island.
Although the materials for setting up the formation are expensive, it is much cheaper than purchasing the Spirit Island from the Xianxia Sect, and more importantly, it is sufficiently concealed and safe."
The last characteristic mentioned by Luo Xiao instantly hit Su Ming's heart.
In the future, when he develops an army of paper man farming, the environment he needs most is one that is sufficiently concealed.
Although the spiritual island purchased from the Xianxia Sect is full of spiritual energy, it is marked on the chart of Yaoyuan Water Realm.
Any monk can find the location of the island based on this chart.
For example, the Jiling Island purchased by the Zhang family from the Xianxia Sect is a typical example.
Only half a year after the Zhang family purchased and developed Jiling Island, pirated repairmen from Lanyu Island came to visit.
Su Ming was not afraid of pirates in the Yaoyuan Water Realm, but he was worried that the secret of paper puppet farming would be leaked.
By then, if Su Ming does not have enough strength to protect this industry, it will inevitably cause the jealousy of high-level monks.
Su Ming had to guard against this.
The concealment and safety that Luo Xiao considers are from the perspective of preventing stolen repairs.
Rogue cultivators like Su Ming, who had some spiritual stones in their hands and low cultivation level, developed fairy islands that were the favorite targets of rogue cultivators.
And large fairy islands like Xingluo Island, Yaoguang Island, and Tianshu Island give the pirate cultivators a hundred courages, and they don't dare to have the slightest idea.
It can also be seen from this that ordinary spiritual farmers who want to cultivate spiritual fields can only rent the fairy island opened by the Xianxia Sect or a certain immortal cultivating family.
Because planting a spiritual field does not mean finding a deserted island and scattering a handful of spiritual rice seeds to grow spiritual rice.
Follow-up care such as gathering clouds and spreading rain, weeding and killing insects, harvesting and shelling are only one aspect. The first condition is to have an aura environment suitable for the growth of spiritual rice.
And if you want to achieve this, there are only two ways Luo Xiao said.
Su Ming obviously prefers the second method.
Luo Xiao said, and then sighed: "But even if we find a deserted island and set up a large spiritual gathering formation, it will be difficult to cultivate spiritual fields on a large scale."
Su Ming's heart moved slightly: "Why do you say that?"
Luo Xiao spread his hands and said with a smile: "Because you can't recruit anyone."
Hearing this, Su Ming fell silent.
Indeed, in Lanzhou, there are far fewer monks who are willing to be spiritual cultivators than cultivators, even if these spiritual cultivators want to choose to rent spiritual fields.
They will definitely not rent the fairy island developed by Su Ming.
In Luo Xiao's opinion, even if Su Ming's fairy island is developed, it will definitely be desolate.
I am afraid that except for the spiritual field, this fairy island does not have any other entertainment and consumption places such as restaurants, shops, brothels, teahouses and other places in the large fairy island city.
In this case, why do these spirit planters go to the fairy island opened by Su Ming to plant spirit fields?
Unless Su Ming lowers the price of leasing spiritual fields, Su Ming may not be able to recover even the cost of developing the fairy island.
This is also the reason why Luo Xiao is not optimistic about Su Ming's development of Immortal Island.
Because he knew that with Su Ming's financial resources, he could only develop a small fairy island at most, and the spiritual fields on the island could cover thousands of acres.
Calculated this way, Su Ming would charge 10% of the rent for one acre of spiritual land.
After a year, you can only earn a few hundred spirit stones at most.
Instead of running this kind of industry, it is better to continue to refine weapons and earn spiritual stones.
Of course, Su Ming can't say that he has a group of people who don't want to eat or drink, and don't want the free labor of Lingshi.
Seeing Luo Xiao analyzing the pros and cons for him, he just smiled and said nothing.
Seeing his appearance, Luo Xiao knew that Su Ming had made up his mind to give it a try, so he simply kept his mouth shut and stopped saying disappointing words.
"Anyway, Brother Luo's words today opened Su's eyes!"
With that said, Su Ming picked up the wine glass and said, "Come on, Brother Luo, I respect you."
"Dry!"
Luo Xiao also picked up the wine glass and drank the spirit wine in one gulp.
After talking about the business, the two talked about the interesting things that happened in the Taoist temple.
Su Ming is a monk who is full of homely attributes. On weekdays, he not only has to study the knowledge of spells seriously, but also tinker with his paper puppetry. He also has to find time to complete the necessary daily practice.
He wished he could break the twelve hours a day into twenty-four hours, so he would have no time to pay attention to the situation in the academy.
However, during this meal, Luo Xiao learned a lot about things that he usually didn't care much about.
For example, Luo Xiao is also one of the three seed students who entered the Xianxia Sect as mentioned by Professor Qin.
And Luo Xiao also knew that Su Ming was favored by Qin Jiaoxi just like him.
This is another reason why Luo Xiao is willing to associate with Su Ming.
Otherwise, Su Ming is just an ordinary casual cultivator who is destined to be dismissed by the Taoist Academy in three years. There is no need for Luo Xiao to continue to associate with Su Ming.
After all, for monks, time is precious.
It is simply foolish to invest your limited time in communicating with insignificant people.
Farewell to Luo Xiao.
The next day.
Su Ming once again set off from the harbor in his spiritual boat, wanting to search for islands in the outside world.
He was sitting on the deck of the spirit boat.
His consciousness sank into the sea map of Yaoyuan Water Realm, and he controlled the search range to about five thousand miles away from Yaoyuan Taoist Temple on Tianshu Island.
The distance is not too far, but not close either.
The reason why he chose this distance is that in the future he only needs to place one Sword Immortal puppet on the fairy island he opened.
Su Ming can understand and master the situation of this fairy island through the Sword Immortal Puppet in Yaoyuan Taoist Academy.
After searching at sea for four days, Su Ming finally used the Sword Immortal Puppet to roughly select a deserted island.
The desert island selected by Su Ming is about the same size as Jiling Island and only slightly smaller than Xingluo Island. It can barely be regarded as a large island.
Moreover, the island has a flat terrain, with rivers and plains.
Judging from the geographical conditions in its previous life, this island was a habitable island.
But in the world of immortality, in addition to these factors, another most important factor is whether the island has sufficient spiritual energy.
Unfortunately, the spiritual energy of this island is very thin. Not to mention compared to Yaoyuan Taoist Temple, even the spiritual energy of Jiling Island Mountain purchased by the Zhang family far exceeds it.
Su Ming didn't care much about this.
Anyway, what he was interested in was not the aura on the island, but its hidden geographical location and the size of the island.
Although compared with Tianshu Island, which is like a continent, the island Su Ming chose is like a sesame in front of a watermelon.
However, through rough inspection by the Sword Immortal Puppet, the shape of this island exposed on the sea surface is similar to a rectangular island about two hundred miles long and one hundred and fifty miles wide.
In other words, the area of this island is seven to eight thousand square kilometers.
You must know that the treasure island in the country where Su Ming lived in his previous life was only over 30,000 square kilometers.
In the Yaoyuan Water Realm, desert islands of this level are everywhere, and if you want to rely on monks to develop them, you simply cannot develop them.
Speaking of this, I have to mention Lingbao Mountain.
In fact, the geographical conditions of Lizhou, where Lingbaoshan Mountain is located, are no worse than those of Yaoyuanshui, but it has been managed like that.
No wonder Gonglao would rather take Gong Xiaocai to Lanzhou, which is more than 100,000 miles away, rather than join Lingbao Mountain nearby.
Since there is no port built on this deserted island, Su Ming's spirit boat cannot anchor nearby.
Su Ming simply controlled the Sword Immortal puppet to fly in the air and keep checking.
Next, while Su Ming controlled the Sword Immortal puppet to inspect the island, he used jade slips to draw all the maps on the island with his spiritual consciousness.
After the drawing was completely completed, Su Ming marked the location of the island on the chart and returned in the spirit boat.
According to the nautical chart recorded by Su Ming's jade slips, this desert island with an area of more than 7,000 square kilometers and nearly 5,000 miles away from Tianshu Island was named Guangyuan Fairy Island by Su Ming.
Before leaving, Su Ming also left a Sword Immortal puppet on this island.
Return to Yaoyuan Taoist Temple.
Su Ming began the second step of his plan, creating a paper puppet to plant the spiritual field.
For a qualified spiritual husband.
One technique that must be mastered is the Spiritual Rain Technique.
Because the growth of spiritual rice requires both rain and spiritual energy, the spiritual rain technique perfectly meets the two conditions for the growth of spiritual rice.
Of course, besides that.
Removing weeds and killing spiritual insects are essential daily tasks.
Otherwise, if you scatter the spiritual rice seeds and rely on the gods to eat them, you will often have no harvest after a year.
Because spiritual rice is not only beneficial to monks’ practice, but also attracts a large number of spiritual insects to eat it.
Once the monks leave it alone, with the reproduction speed of these spiritual insects, they will eat up all the spiritual rice in the spiritual field in just a few days.
This is also the reason why spiritual fields must be cultivated by monks and cannot be done by mortals.
For monks, spiritual insects may be easily killed, but for mortals, they are life-threatening and impermanent.
Not to mention that mortals don't know how to use the spirit rain technique. Even if the spirit rice in the spirit field matures, they can't even harvest and shell it.
The courtyard of dormitory No. 18 B.
Su Ming was sitting on a futon with a mini fairy palace beside him.
He was closing his eyes and thinking about what spells and blood spells were needed for the new paper puppet.
First of all, the spirit puppet technique is definitely an indispensable core technique, the blood curse. In addition, there is also the spirit rain technique, which is necessary for cultivating spiritual fields.
As for the magic to expel spiritual insects, Su Ming had no idea of adding it to this new type of paper puppet.
Because in Su Ming's mind, he positioned this new type of paper puppet as a paper puppet used in agricultural production.
He will not rush to increase his force.
In fact, Su Ming only planned to invest a few strengthening points in him so that he could barely reach the fourth level of Qi training.
The fourth level of Qi training is considered to be the beginning of the middle stage of Qi training. It is not strong, but it is not too weak. At least it has no problem in dealing with the spiritual insects in the spiritual field.
In addition to the spirit puppet blood spell and the spirit rain blood spell, Su Ming also wanted to add some perception ability to the new paper puppet.
When Su Ming controlled the paper puppet through the Hall of Immortals, he once put his thoughts into the body of the paper puppet.
To be honest, that feeling is not very wonderful.
Although he can control the paper puppets freely, he feels like he is trapped in a closed room, viewing the outside world through a monotonous lens.
As for the surroundings, there was nothing but darkness and silence.
Su Mingdao was determined, and the time he spent controlling the paper puppets was short, so he could endure the pain.
But if he wants to let the soul of a mortal enter the paper puppet, he has to consider the other person's feelings.
Otherwise, people will go crazy before the fields are planted.
"Perception."
Su Ming nodded.
In fact, not only the new paper puppets need sentience, but Su Ming's combat-type paper puppets also need it.
After all, Su Ming is not a masochist. Why would he abuse himself when he can have a more comfortable environment to control paper puppets?
"Generally, the five-sense perception spells are only at the Qi training level, but if you want to add the perception spells similar to divine consciousness, it must be at least a foundation-building level spell."
Su Ming shook his head.
It's not cost-effective to add a foundation-level magic blood curse to a paper puppet who is farming.
Most importantly, even if a foundation-building level spell is engraved on it, the power of the foundation-building spell cannot be exerted unless strengthening points are used to strengthen it to the second level.
Thinking of this, Su Ming immediately gave up the idea of adding a blood spell to this new type of paper puppet.
However, farming paper puppets cannot add this kind of spiritual perception spell, which does not mean that fighting paper puppets cannot add it either.
His Sword Immortal Puppet has a powerful attack power, but in fact, its perception ability is not strong.
If the enemy discovers this flaw, they may target it from this aspect.
Shaking his head and not thinking about the transformation of the Sword Immortal Puppet, Su Ming continued to focus on the Farming Puppet.
After finalizing the Spirit Puppet Technique, Spirit Rain Technique, and Perception Technique, only the most important technique is left, which is the technique to accommodate the soul and use it to control the paper puppet.
Moreover, Su Ming also left a secret door on this basis, which could kill the soul in the paper puppet at any time.
This is to prevent traitors from appearing in the future when the team of paper puppets grows.
In fact, any force cannot eliminate the problem of traitors as long as the individuals in the force have spiritual intelligence.
Even in the case of artificial intelligence in previous lives, there are theories that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity.
It would be really stupid to stop moving forward because you are afraid of betrayal.
As long as he has enough backup, Su Ming has nothing to fear from others' betrayal.
After thinking about everything in his mind, Su Ming finally settled on two techniques that needed to be deduced separately - "Perception Technique" and "Spirit Puppet Reincarnation Technique".