After finishing planting about half an acre, Chu Ning went ashore, ready to return to the courtyard.
At this time, someone in the neighboring field also got up and walked onto the road.
"Are you the new Junior Brother?"
Before Chu Ning could take a good look at the other person, they had already spoken first. He quickly cupped his fists in greeting:
"Chu Ning greets Senior Brother."
The person smiled and similarly cupped his fists, saying:
"Junior Brother Chu, no need to be formal. My name is Qi Chongmao. I'm in charge of the spirit field next door and I also live next to you, so I guess we're neighbors."
"I hope Senior Brother Qi can guide me in the future." Chu Ning cupped his fists again, also taking the opportunity to size up the other person.
This Qi Chongmao looked about forty or fifty years old.
However, considering that the Cyan Wood Evergreen Technique, a wood technique, has a certain anti-aging effect, it's hard to judge his age accurately.
At the moment, he was wearing a set of coarse cloth clothes, with the legs casually rolled up, appearing very much like a farmer, which slightly surprised Chu Ning.
After all, most cultivators use spells for farming, and even servant disciples rarely dress like this.
As they walked in the direction of the courtyards, the two chatted casually for a while, generally understanding each other's situation.
Arriving outside the courtyard, watching Qi Chongmao walk into his own courtyard, Chu Ning also smiled and returned to his own courtyard.
This Qi Chongmao was indeed different from Cao Dongxin.
Although he wasn't as talkative and enthusiastic as Shang Zhaoxiang, he gave Chu Ning a rather amiable feeling, not difficult to get along with.
This made Chu Ning feel quite at ease.
Although everyone farms their own land, Chu Ning didn't intend to make deep connections with others.
But since they lived so close, it was always better to have someone easy to get along with than a reclusive person.
In the following days, Chu Ning spent his time in the middle level spirit field of Zone D, continuously triggering the Spirit Rice grains.
Since each seed needed to use the Accelerating Technique to grow, even though Chu Ning was always there, the speed was still not fast.
Of course, Chu Ning also intentionally controlled the speed.
After all, although not many people passed by his few acres of spirit field, his neighbor was Qi Chongmao's planting field.
If he planted the entire spirit field suddenly, anyone would know he was hiding his cultivation.
Therefore, what originally took about seven days to plant, Chu Ning took until the afternoon of the tenth day to finish planting the five acres of Spirit Rice grains.
At this time, Chu Ning finally understood the sect's arrangement regarding the acres of spirit fields.
With his Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer and proficient Accelerating Technique, it took seven or eight days.
For someone with Qiu Shunyi's strength, it would take at least half a month.
If they were given more spirit fields, they really wouldn't be able to finish planting.
Of course, Chu Ning was planting Spirit Rice, a staple for cultivators, which is more advanced than the Red Spirit Rice that Qiu Shunyi was growing.
After nearly nonstop cultivation of the Accelerating Technique for ten days, Chu Ning became more proficient with this spell and decided it was time to plant Ink Spirit Bamboo!
The place for planting Ink Spirit Bamboo was in the high level spirit field in Zone D, which was relatively more isolated.
After all, large-scale planting, and having various spirit plants too close to each other would affect their growth.
So, any high-level spirit field and above in Zone D has either 5-acre or 10-acre independent plots.
The 5-acre high-level spirit field assigned to Chu Ning was in a valley not far from his residence.
Early in the morning, Chu Ning went out with the bamboo rice of the Ink Spirit Bamboo.
Upon arriving in the field, unlike when planting Spirit Rice, he didn't grab them all at once but first tried with 5 seeds.
The bamboo rice of the Ink Spirit Bamboo, heard to be specially cultivated by someone in the sect, required a considerable amount of time, making it very precious to Chu Ning right now.
Moreover, the Accelerating Technique for Ink Spirit Bamboo is different from that for Spirit Rice.
Using the Exorcism Technique, Chu Ning spread the 5 seeds evenly in the field and buried them in the soil.
He then sat cross-legged in the middle, forming hand formulas, and cast the Accelerating Technique on those seeds.
After a while, 5 sharp bamboo shoots broke through the soil, indicating the successful triggering of the Ink Spirit Bamboo seeds.
Chu Ning did not dare to stop, continued the Accelerating Technique, until the bamboo shoots were about half an inch above the ground, when he finally stopped and nodded in satisfaction.
More proficient in the Accelerating Technique made a difference. If it had been 10 days ago, achieving this effect might have taken more time.
At this moment, Chu Ning could clearly feel he was taking less time to cast the spell.
"If I can plant these 5 acres of Ink Spirit Bamboo, maybe I can transform the Accelerating Technique into an innate talent technique for instant casting."
This thought popped into Chu Ning's mind, but he didn't stop and took out 10 more bamboo rice, intending to try accelerating 10 grains.
In this spirit field, because hardly anyone would come to check, Chu Ning could fully exert his spellcasting without worrying about being discovered.
Perhaps the Accelerating Technique had truly reached a certain level, as Chu Ning still managed to complete the acceleration fairly easily this time.
Continuing with these attempts, Chu Ning found that his current limit was simultaneously accelerating 16 bamboo rice grains of the Ink Spirit Bamboo.
However, to be safe, Chu Ning chose to accelerate 10 grains each time.
After all, there's ample time to plant right now, so he's not in a rush.
He avoided any unforeseen events that could damage the seeds by casting too many at once.
The planting density of Ink Spirit Bamboo is lower than that of Spirit Rice.
But because Chu Ning could accelerate fewer seeds each time and took longer for each acceleration.
His planting progress was slower than when he planted Spirit Rice.
After spending an entire day, Chu Ning only finished planting less than half an acre.
It took Chu Ning six full days to barely finish a half of the spirit field planting.
"It's a bit slow!"
For Chu Ning, who was eager to finish planting the Ink Spirit Bamboo to continue his Cyan Wood Spring Blossom Skill cultivation.
He was not very satisfied with this speed.
However, for Chu Ning, the only good news was that, with his constant use over the last few days, his proficiency with the Accelerating Technique improved further.
Now he could easily accelerate 20 bamboo rice grains of the Ink Spirit Bamboo, so the remaining half of the field should be quicker to plant.
At this moment, Chu Ning spread out 20 bamboo rice grains, quickly forming hand formulas as he cast the Accelerating Technique onto the ground.
Meanwhile, a very subtle feeling surged within Chu Ning's mind.
Although no one had prompted him, a thought inexplicably emerged in Chu Ning's mind.
The Accelerating Technique had reached a new realm.
He could cast it instantly!
This thought flashed through Chu Ning's mind, which slightly excited him, and he immediately took 20 more Spirit Rice grains to cast.
In the next moment, magical power flowed with just a thought!
Instant cast!
Chu Ning did not form any hand formulas, yet the Accelerating Technique directly manifested.
The bamboo rice sprouted more quickly than before, soon showing pointed bamboo shoots on the ground.
After the Accelerating Technique transformed into a divine technique for instant cast, its power even increased!
Also, Chu Ning could feel that the magical power consumption of the recent cast was about one-fifth less than before.
"So this is what happens when a spell is cultivated to a certain realm and transforms into an innate talent technique?"
Chu Ning revealed a smile.
If the Accelerating Technique could be instant cast, what about other spells?
The Yin Wood Spirit Body was effective for all wood techniques.
Clearing Technique, Cyan Wood Spring Blossom Skill, and even the Thorn Technique and Vine Armor Technique he planned to cultivate later.
With this in mind, Chu Ning grew even more expectant.
With the Accelerating Technique now instant cast, Chu Ning's planting speed immediately increased significantly.
On one hand, he no longer needed to form hand formulas; on the other, acceleration times were faster.
Moreover, a more critical factor was the lesser magical power consumption.
This allowed Chu Ning to use the Accelerating Technique 20% more frequently at the same cultivation level.
Overall, this speed almost doubled.
Having only completed half of the 5-acre field in the first 6 days.
The remaining half was fully planted by Chu Ning in just three and a half days.
Altogether, planting the 5 acres took only 10 days, speed that was no less than when planting Spirit Rice, which delighted Chu Ning.
With the Ink Spirit Bamboo planting completed, the real benefit for Chu Ning was that he had another way to speed up his cultivation.
Knowing that for the past month, he didn't have many good opportunities to rely on the Cyan Wood Spring Blossom Skill for practice.
Now, he could finally use this method to speed up his cultivation again.