Step by Step Ascend to Immortality - Chapter 118 - 108 Tea Garden

Chapter 118: Chapter 108 Tea Garden

“Disciple!” Shen Yaqin persuaded earnestly. “Trying to do too many things at once leads to none being done well. Since you want to plant tea, don’t think about sword refining, alchemy, or talisman-making. Just focus on planting tea!”

Liu Suiyun quickly defended himself and said, “Teacher’s wife, what disciples want to learn is planting vegetables. No, it should be cultivating spiritual plants, not planting tea!”

“Isn’t planting tea and planting vegetables almost the same? Disciple, just focus on taking care of this seven thousand acres of tea plantation!” Shen Yaqin considered Liu Suiyun very much. “Of course, there is also an abandoned medicine field near the tea plantation. You can plant some small vegetables there. Teacher’s wife will teach you all methods and provide all conveniences. Just ask for whatever you need, whether it’s spirit stones, spiritual materials, or anything else. Even if you need teacher’s wife to directly help, just ask.”

Liu Suiyun could only change his approach. “But disciples want to plant tea. At the same time, disciples are also very interested in sword refining, alchemy, talisman-making, and natural history. Can teacher’s wife teach me two or three skills casually when you are convenient?”

This was finding the right direction. Shen Yaqin said very elegantly, “As long as you grow spiritual tea that satisfies teacher’s wife, teacher’s wife can teach you not only two or three skills but even ten or twenty skills. But the prerequisite is that you first take care of the tea plantation and grow tea leaves that satisfy this teacher.”

She was afraid that Liu Suiyun would have difficulty. “The requirements for our own tea plantation are different from those for outside tea plantations. Teacher’s wife doesn’t ask you to grow extremely good tea like Mengding Ganlu. As long as teacher’s wife feels it’s drinkable, it’s fine. You just take care of planting tea. The later picking and 炒制 will be left to teacher’s wife!”

Liu Suiyun didn’t expect teacher’s wife to be so generous. He immediately asked, “Really?”

“Absolutely true!” Teacher’s wife replied. “As long as you grow good tea leaves. Alright, let’s continue drinking tea!”

But now it was Chen Xingrui’s turn to protest. “Teacher’s wife, I just want to learn a few unique skills in talisman-making. Why don’t you agree? You are too partial and love your little disciple too much!”

After taking a sip of clear tea, teacher’s wife casually asked, “As long as you can also grow good tea. Or you can follow your junior brother and work hard in the tea plantation. As long as you grow tea leaves that satisfy teacher’s wife, you can learn anything you want. Even if you want to learn teacher’s wife’s unique skills that are kept at the bottom of the box…”

Chen Xingrui quickly shrank back his head. “Teacher’s wife, let me off!”

It seems that Senior Brother Chen has suffered losses in taking care of the tea plantation. Although Liu Suiyun felt that taking care of this seven thousand acres of spiritual tea plantation was an extremely difficult thing, after all, he was born in a peasant family. Even if he hadn’t eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. So he still had some confidence.

And now Shen Yaqin also had extraordinary concern for Liu Suiyun’s progress in cultivating spiritual plants. “By the way, after you go back, review the spiritual cultivation Taoist books I gave you carefully. I will test you in a few days. If you learn well, there will naturally be rewards. If you are half-hearted and not diligent, then there will be heavy punishments and even heavier punishments!”

Liu Suiyun also knew that he had no way out now. He unhesitatingly said, “Teacher’s wife, rest assured. Don’t say it’s seven thousand acres of tea plantation. Even if it’s seventy thousand acres of tea plantation, as long as teacher’s wife assigns it to me, disciples will definitely do it wholeheartedly!”

Shen Yaqin had extraordinary concern for this tea plantation. She said with a smile, “That’s good. As long as you pass the test then, teacher’s wife will first teach you a practical skill for self-defense!”

The group drank a lot of tea. Liu Suiyun only felt that his stomach was filled with nothing but tea leaves and tea. Fortunately, Guo Huijun had prepared in advance and brought a lot of snacks. But after the tea banquet ended, as soon as Liu Suiyun left Yaxin Pavilion, he met Fang Mingyue.

“Little junior brother!” Fang Mingyue gave a reminder. “Teacher’s wife attaches great importance to the tea plantation. You must be more diligent!”

Liu Suiyun immediately replied, “Thank you, senior brother, for reminding me. I will definitely be more diligent and more diligent! By the way, what’s the matter with that tea plantation? Why is it so abandoned?”

Fang Mingyue could be said to be the oldest person on Chonghua Peak. He told Liu Suiyun, “You also know that our teacher’s wife loves tasting tea the most. And she only likes good tea. But you also know that our Sky Dome Realm is a small place. It can’t compare with the Central Plains of the Great Tang. There are all kinds of tea leaves available for whatever you want to drink…”

“Even though our teacher’s wife is a great cultivator at the Golden Core stage, it is extremely difficult to get a few taels of good tea. The Mengding Ganlu that teacher’s wife took out last time was her collection from more than thirty years ago. It can be considered the second best tea in teacher’s wife’s hands.”

Fang Mingyue continued, “Even good tea leaves in our Sky Dome Realm are extremely hard to obtain. For example, the tea we drank tonight is the top-quality spiritual tea grown and picked by our sect. Although it is much worse than Mengding Ganlu…”

Guo Huijun interjected, “Senior brother, I think it’s very good. I have never drunk such good tea!”

“That’s because teacher’s wife’s tea art is good!” Fang Mingyue said bluntly. “Teacher’s wife’s good tea art is the key! And for this spiritual tea grown and picked by our sect, teacher’s wife can only get a dozen or so taels a year. Although everyone’s stomachs are filled with tea this year, teacher’s wife’s share for this year has also been used up!”

Liu Suiyun immediately said, “Teacher’s wife’s care and love, Liu Suiyun will never forget it for life!”

“Good junior brother!” Fang Mingyue gave a thumbs up. “Sure enough, you are the little disciple that our teacher’s wife loves the most. I will continue to talk about the tea plantation. Since good tea leaves are hard to obtain, then our teacher’s wife thought it would be better to have a small tea plantation of her own. Once she had this thought, she circled Tianwu Peak next to our Chonghua Peak. She even had a fight with several cultivators within the sect and then directly took over Tianwu Peak…”

“At that time, in our teacher’s wife’s eyes, Tianwu Peak is surrounded by clouds and fog all year round. It is extremely good for growing tea. Moreover, Tianwu Peak was originally a tea mountain left by the Supreme Demon Sect. She created seven thousand acres of tea fields on Tianwu Peak with the Fensheng Sword and then searched everywhere for good tea trees. Almost all the famous tea trees in our Sky Dome Realm were brought by teacher’s wife. There are even real immortal tea trees passed down from the Central Plains of the Great Tang…”

“That’s strange!”

In Liu Suiyun’s eyes, his teacher’s wife is simply omnipotent. “How could this tea plantation be abandoned…”

“Because these tea trees are really too difficult to grow!” Fang Mingyue complained. “In the first two years, as soon as teacher’s wife got up in the morning, she would fly directly to Tianwu Peak with her flying sword, make rain and clouds, turn over the soil and catch insects. She wouldn’t return from Tianwu Peak until the sun set in the west. But in those two years, not a single good tea leaf was produced. Instead, many tea trees died!”

“This kind of life lasted for a full three years. Teacher’s wife’s heart also cooled down. She no longer went to Tianwu Peak every day. Instead, she handed the matter over to me!” Fang Mingyue said with a wry smile. “I thought that although the tea plantation was large, as long as I was diligent, everything would be easy!”

“Only when I arrived at Tianwu Peak did I realize that taking care of a tea plantation is such a difficult thing that requires both mental effort and physical strength. Just pulling weeds and catching insects kept me extremely busy. Don’t say seven thousand acres. Even seventy acres or seventeen acres, I can’t take care of it!” Fang Mingyue said, “Don’t compare Tianwu Peak with ordinary tea plantations. Tianwu Peak is one of the places with the strongest spiritual energy in our entire Shenxiao Sect. It even surpasses our Chonghua Peak itself in many ways…”

After entering Chonghua Peak, the first benefit that Liu Suiyun felt was the astonishing spiritual energy on the peak. It could even be compared to the practice room that he rented in Jiazhou Market by spending spirit stones. Practicing here is at least thirty to forty percent faster than in the secular world.

And the spiritual energy on Tianwu Peak is even stronger than that on Chonghua Peak. Liu Suiyun couldn’t imagine what the climate on Tianwu Peak was like. Fang Mingyue said, “But in this way, this spiritual tea plantation on Tianwu Peak makes you exhausted. Sometimes there are swarms of insects. Sometimes the weeds grow faster than you can cut them. Sometimes there are storms. Sometimes there are even hailstorms. Sometimes when you finally wait until the tea leaves are almost ready to be picked, you find that the tea leaves have grown too fast and are already too old to be drinkable. Sometimes without sunlight, the tea trees never sprout. Anyway, these tea trees won’t give you any face at all…”

Liu Suiyun couldn’t help but feel a little bit of fear. And Fang Mingyue said, “I stayed on Tianwu Peak for half a year and then ran back. I almost dropped a realm. As for Junior Brother Chen, he is extremely clever. After going up for half a month, he directly pretended to be injured and ran back. Later, as the miscellaneous tasks of our Chonghua Peak, it was handed over to disciples to be responsible. But neither of us could do it. They are even less capable. No matter how high the conditions teacher’s wife offers, no one can stay on it for a month!”

Liu Suiyun already understood. “Since Tianwu Peak is so unpredictable, why not change to another place?”

“That should be the most suitable place for a tea plantation in our entire Shenxiao Mountain!” Fang Mingyue said with a wry smile. “Planting tea trees in other places either has insufficient spiritual energy or is not in touch with the earth’s energy. Although it’s rare to have rich spiritual energy and a place suitable for growing tea, in the end, tea leaves can be produced. But they are just some ordinary tea leaves. In the secular world, they are considered extremely good tea leaves. But in the cultivation world, they are nothing at all. Teacher’s wife thinks they are not drinkable…”

Liu Suiyun already understood. “Tianwu Peak was abandoned like this. It’s really a pity.”

Guo Huijun beside him was even more worried for Liu Suiyun. “Then will Suiyun be wasted on Tianwu Peak?”

Fang Mingyue replied, “Junior Brother Liu is different. Since he has made up his mind to plant tea, it shows that he is an expert in farm work at home. Whether it’s planting tea or growing tea, it’s as easy as turning over one’s palm. When teacher’s wife is happy, all the skills of sword refining, alchemy, talisman-making, and even natural history will be passed on to Junior Brother Liu!”

Guo Huijun felt that Liu Suiyun’s prospects for planting tea didn’t seem promising. But she quickly thought it through. Planting tea is more promising than planting vegetables. And now Fang Mingyue continued, “Junior brother, although I stayed on Tianwu Peak for half a year and then ran back, I still have some experience after all. I will tell you about it carefully later. And I left some things on Tianwu Peak that junior brother will find useful…”

But soon Fang Mingyue changed the topic. “But can junior brother help senior brother with a small favor then? For you, it’s the most convenient thing. It’s almost as easy as swatting a mosquito!”

Liu Suiyun immediately asked, “Senior brother, do you want me to leave a few catties of good tea for you? Senior brother, don’t worry. As long as I can grow good tea leaves on Tianwu Peak, I will definitely leave a share for you.”

Fang Mingyue shook his head and said, “Junior brother has misunderstood my meaning. As long as you can grow good tea leaves, they should all be given to teacher’s wife to avoid wasting them. What I want to say is another good thing. Since junior brother can plant vegetables, then…”

He lowered his voice.