CHAPTER 347: HARVEST 1

"I will do it." Zhen Yuan offered, and before the double could react, he reached for a red-striped golden carrot and sent it into the space.

Seeing this, everyone held their breath, but nothing happened.

"Nothing happened." Yang Shi stated the obvious.

"Could it be that we are thinking too much?" Li Wenqiang asked with a confused expression.

However, Shen Xu disagreed and shook his head.

"There has to be something strange about this place." He said and quickly continued.

"Do you really think that such a place can naturally exist in the Tianqi continent? Not even the forbidden zone can explain this abnormality."

"It could be the soil." Zhen Yuan suddenly said, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Soil? Ayuan, do you know something?"

"I am not sure." Zhen Yuan said.

He saw many law pillars when they first entered the formation.

However, he chalked it up to the precious ingredients, but he was no longer so sure.

"We will know after we transplant all the crops to the space." He said.

With that, the five began working.

However, some crops were too old and required special care when removing them from the ground.

As a result, the five spent six years transplanting crops from the farm, but this time was not wasted.

On this day, Zhen Yuan held Shen Xu’s hand and smiled.

"It’s the living soil." He said.

"Living soil? One of the three primordial earth-element treasures?" The double asked in an excited voice.

Living soil was a treasure for growing crops.

It could grow any plant and, most importantly, it moved around the ground, eliminating poisons and nourishing the soil.

"Let’s collect it quickly." Shen Xu said, but Zhen Yuan held him back.

"Xiaoxu, the primordial living soil is a priceless treasure. The space will definitely begin upgrading if we send the living soil inside."

Hearing this, Shen Xu calmed down with a thoughtful expression.

They would leave the Tianqi continent in the near future.

Considering that, the double didn’t dare to upgrade the space since he didn’t know how long the upgrade would take.

"Put it together with the space core?" He asked, and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.

"Let’s set them aside for the time being. It won’t be too late to use them when we arrive in the Tianxuan continent." He said.

The farm was more than one thousand acres.

However, most of the soil was ordinary, and only a small amount was living soil.

"Ayuan, where is it?" Shen Xu asked.

"Let’s go." Zhen Yuan said and pulled the double towards the south.

When they were almost at the formation’s boundary, the man stopped and pointed.

"Xiaoxu, give me a box. I will personally collect it." He said.

The living soil was indistinguishable from ordinary soil.

Fortunately, Zhen Yuan could see its laws and collecting it was only a matter of scooping.

In the end, he collected all the living soil, but it amounted to a mere one hundred kilograms.

"It’s hard to imagine that a mere one hundred kilograms can nourish one thousand acres of farmland." Shen Xu sighed, marvelling at the wonders of the living soil.

"It should be able to nourish more." Zhen Yuan said.

"I can’t wait." The double said, imagining all the good things that would eventually be growing in the Chaos Flame Space.

"Do we want to collect the other soil?" He suddenly asked.

After all, the farm was nourished by the living soul for countless years and should be a treasure in its own right.

"It’s not necessary." Zhen Yuan said and began explaining.

"This soil is not as good as the space soil."

"Aw." The double nodded, losing interest in the farm soil.

"Xiaoxu, I want to dismantle the five elements array and take the formation materials. Are you up to it?"

"Anytime."

"Okay."

For the next three years, Zhen Yuan borrowed Shen Xu’s soul power and slowly dismantled the five elements formation.

In the end, he got five sets of level nine formation flags and five hundred and forty pieces of level nine formation materials.

Unfortunately, some of the formation materials had deteriorated, which caused the five elements formation to decline from peak level nine to peak level eight.

"We didn’t waste our ten years." Shen Xu said after Zhen Yuan collected all the formation materials.

"True." Zhen Yuan nodded.

Even in the Tianxuan continent, level eight and level nine treasures were rare.

After collecting so many, Zhen Yuan was naturally happy even though he couldn’t use the materials for the time being.

"We still have a little under fifty years. Where do you want to go next?" The man asked, looking at Shen Xu with questioning eyes.

"I don’t know why, but I still want to head southwest." The double said.

"Okay." Zhen Yuan agreed.

The five walked for one and a half days before arriving at a flower field.

At a glance, the flowers in the field were sunflowers.

However, they were not ordinary sunflowers.

Each sunflower was one metre tall, two metres wide, had golden petals and a red disk.

Seeing them, Shen Xu gasped with a happy expression.

"Red-disk golden sunflowers." He exclaimed.

Golden sunflowers were not rare.

However, red-disk golden sunflowers were not only rare but also precious.

"I didn’t expect our luck to be so good." Feng Xue muttered.

From her inherited memory, she knew that red-disk golden sunflowers had countless uses, but six were the most important.

The first was the stalk.

Like the seven-leaf fir grass, the stalk of the red-disk golden sunflower could be used to refine rune paper.

However, rune paper refined from this stalk was more versatile than that refined from the seven-leaf fir grass.

Excluding the stalk, sunflower seeds could be eaten or refined to extract cooking oil. Additionally, the flower petals could be used to make a delicious tea or to refine a colourful dye.

Finally, honey bees loved the red-disk golden sunflowers.

Thinking of the impure ten-element honey bees in the space, Feng Xue couldn’t help but look forward to their future honey.

"This flower field is directly behind the five elements formation. It’s only because other cultivators couldn’t make it past the formation that we were lucky enough to find these sunflowers." Li Wenqiang said, and the others agreed.

If the five elements formation was not there, the red-disk golden sunflowers would long have been taken away by other cultivators.