The Celestial Race of Destiny: Starting with Farming and Fish Raising

Chapter 34 Red Ginseng Cultivation Plan

After some exploration, Su Qingyan discovered that the Xuan Shui catfish fry's favorite food was actually spirit stone fragments, but not the used ones; they had to be spirit stone fragments with abundant spiritual energy.

If they continue feeding them like this, the Su family will go bankrupt in just a few days.

Therefore, Su Qingyan did not indulge these little guys. He cut off their supply of spirit stones and instead fed them pork and ordinary fish.

The juvenile blackwater catfish eat meat with gusto, but they won't touch any vegetarian food.

After several days of work, Su Qingyan gradually figured out the habits and tastes of these little guys.

Seeing that they were gradually growing, and considering that the small incubation room required spirit stone fragments to maintain the concentration of spiritual energy, which consumed a lot of energy, Su Qingyan transferred the Xuan Shui catfish fry to the fish pond for breeding.

The spiritual energy concentration here is higher, and recovery is faster, which can significantly reduce expenses.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to transfer the fish fry, Su Qingyan carefully counted them and found that a total of 57 black water catfish fry were successfully cultivated.

Overjoyed, Su Qingyan didn't rest. He compiled the process of successfully hatching the Xuan Shui catfish eggs and various data into a notebook.

Then, this section was given a title: The Catfish Farming Manual * Hatching Chapter.

The juvenile catfish have developed basic self-care abilities by this stage, so Su Qingyan no longer needs to monitor them every day.

So Su Qingyan also entrusted the task of feeding the Xuan Shui catfish fry every day to the servants in his household, and he would only come over every now and then to check on the growth and development of the Xuan Shui catfish.

Record data.

After arranging the relevant matters for cultivating Xuan Shui catfish seedlings, Su Qingyan began to plan the planting of red ginseng in the forest during his spare time from cultivation.

Since the Black Mist Miasma incident, there are very few young red ginsengs left in the forest, while older red ginsengs are used to cultivate into Red Blood Yang Ginseng, and they will become increasingly scarce after harvesting.

If the subsequent planting and cultivation of red ginseng do not keep up, there will be a shortage of new red ginseng, and ultimately no high-aged red ginseng will be available.

Noticing this, Su Qingyan naturally wanted to plan ahead for this matter.

According to the notes of the Spirit Plant Master, when planting red ginseng, spreading spirit stone powder under the roots of the plant can greatly increase the speed at which the red ginseng accumulates medicinal properties and shorten the growth time of the red ginseng.

If cultivated properly using this method, red ginseng that normally takes forty to fifty years to accumulate sufficient medicinal properties can be achieved in four to five years by using spirit stone powder to accelerate the process.

Significantly shorten the cultivation time of red sea cucumber.

Previously, we didn't have the means, but now that we're a little better off and have some spirit stones saved up, we definitely want to give it a try and see how it goes.

Besides spirit stones, watering the red ginseng with spiritually rich water from the spirit spring for a long time can also accelerate the accumulation of medicinal properties in the red ginseng.

However, the effect is much worse than using spirit stone powder as a base.

If you run out of spirit stones, using the spiritually rich water from the spirit spring as a substitute is also a very good option.

Now, Su Qingyan is preparing to use both spirit stone powder and spirit spring water.

If doing this still doesn't have enough time and there are no high-aged red ginseng available, it's not a big deal.

It may be impossible to successfully cultivate ginseng with a medicinal age of forty or fifty years in a short period of time, but it is certain that ginseng with a medicinal age of twenty or thirty years can be successfully cultivated in one or two years.

According to the notes of the spiritual plant master, using red ginseng that is forty or fifty years old to cultivate red blood ginseng is the most cost-effective method.

The success rate of cultivating red ginseng at this stage is already very high. Although the success rate is even higher for red ginseng with a higher medicinal age, it seems a bit of a waste. Moreover, it becomes less effective to continue accumulating medicinal properties after red ginseng has been cultivated for forty or fifty years.

In ordinary forests, ginseng that has been used for 40 to 50 years to develop medicinal properties needs to grow for another 5 to 6 years to increase its medicinal properties by 1 to 2 years; the accumulation is very slow.

Red ginseng with medicinal properties less than forty or fifty years old will increase its medicinal properties year by year in ordinary forests.

The cost is much lower.

If there are no ginseng roots that are 40 or 50 years old available, ginseng roots that are 20 or 30 years old can be used to cultivate red blood ginseng, but the success rate will be much lower.

But it will definitely succeed.

Because the manual for spiritual plant practitioners contains relevant records and data.

Next, Su Qingyan spent about half a month leading Mei Dong and her brother, along with several other servants and guards, to plant ginseng seedlings on all 100 acres of nearby woodland.

Having cultivated the Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng for so long, Su Qingyan has a very high level of understanding of it. After a period of observation, the survival rate of this batch of seedlings is as high as 99%.

In addition, Su Qingyan received good news: during this period, he harvested two Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng that had successfully undergone metamorphosis.

"Hui'er and I have both used the two low-grade Crimson Sun Pills we bought from the market, and the effect is indeed quite good. One pill is equivalent to about a month and a half of hard training. This shortcut is really enjoyable."

"It's a pity that there's too much poison in the low-grade Crimson Sun Pill. It won't be completely eliminated without half a year of recuperation, and I won't be able to use a second pill of the same type."

"Besides... I definitely don't want to go to the market again anytime soon. I'm too afraid to even go out without the means to do so, it's unpleasant."

"In that case, why not try to be self-reliant and try refining some pills?" Su Qingyan pondered to himself, deciding to learn how to refine pills.

In the world of cultivation, alchemists are undoubtedly one of the noblest professions among all the arts of cultivation.

There isn't even one of them.

Training an alchemist requires not only that the candidate has talent, but also that a huge amount of spirit stones be invested in the early stages to purchase a large number of spiritual herbs for practice and to accumulate experience.

Therefore, the profession of alchemist only appears in sects or immortal cultivation families.

This profession is almost never seen among independent cultivators.

Even with talent, independent cultivators cannot afford the resources needed for an alchemist to grow.

However, once an alchemist grows up, supporting a small cultivation family is no problem at all, and the results are very gratifying.

After carefully studying the "Alchemy Manual" seized from the demonic cultivators, Su Qingyan did some calculations.

Take the refining of the Crimson Sun Pill as an example.

Its main ingredient is Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng, and the auxiliary ingredients are all common high-aged medicinal herbs. The cost of one batch of pills is about 16 spirit stones.

In other words, as long as two low-grade Crimson Sun Pills or one mid-grade Crimson Sun Pill can be refined from a batch of pills, there will be no loss, and there may even be a small profit.

"The Crimson Blood Yang Ginseng is grown by ourselves, and the auxiliary materials can be purchased from the village with silver."

"For me, there's basically no cost in spirit stones. As long as I happen to be able to refine a Crimson Sun Pill, I'll make a profit."

"Coincidentally, the alchemy furnace, which is necessary for refining pills, is also in that demonic cultivator's storage bag."

"Everything is ready; we just need to take action."

With this in mind, Su Qingyan immediately took out his "Alchemy Notes" and devoted himself to the theoretical research on refining the Crimson Sun Pill.

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