On Purple Sun Mountain, the main residents are cultivators and their families.
There’s no need for servants or attendants.
The clan annually distributes Clothes Cleaning Talismans, Dust Avoidance Talismans, and Fire Talismans. If your clothes get dirty, just flick a talisman over yourself and you’ll be cleaner than taking ten baths. The clan’s large dining hall serves high-grade spirit medicine feasts better than the imperial palace banquets.
Mortal bodies lack spiritual qi and cannot cultivate spirit fields; only cultivators with spirit fields can do so.
Cultivators are the productivity; even though Lu Xuanji is only at the first layer of Qi Refining, he can cultivate a thousand acres of spirit fields in ten days.
Meticulously caring for and protecting against pests and diseases.
Cultivating the fields while cultivating oneself.
The spirit fields could continue to expand, but there is no need, as it would delay cultivation time.
He cultivates for two hours every day, and if he goes beyond that, the meridians start to hurt, forcing him to stop, as continuing would injure the meridians.
When he stops, he practices some magical techniques.
The first technique is the Small Spirit Rain Skill, mainly for farming.
The second technique is the Fireball Technique, mainly for attack.
The third technique is the Fire Shield Skill, mainly for defense.
The fourth technique is the Wind Escape Technique, mainly for escaping.
There is no need to learn other techniques for now. His cultivation level is too low to support powerful magical attacks.
Three months later, the spirit fields are full of ripe grains, and the White Sun Rice has matured.
Lu Xuanji takes out a sickle to harvest the rice, storing it in the granary.
Spirit fields can only be cultivated by cultivators; mortals cannot.
In the blink of an eye, five years have passed.
In the cave mansion, Lu Xuanji opens his eyes, a gleam of light flashing in them.
He has reached the second layer of Qi Refining.
At this moment, his mother senses something and curiously asks, "Son, have you reached the second layer of Qi Refining?"
"Yes." Lu Xuanji replies, "It took me five years to advance one layer; it’s especially slow."
"Slow? Not slow at all."
His mother, Ye Xinlan, laughs and says, "At this rate, you will reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining by the age of fifty, and that’s without any auxiliary spirit pills. With some spirit medicine assistance, the cultivation speed would be faster. Barely in your forties, and you’ll be at the ninth layer of Qi Refining... Your cultivation speed is comparable to some weak dual spirit roots."
Ye Xinlan is quite pleased with her son’s cultivation speed, but there is also a faint hint of disappointment.
If he joined the Dan Yang Sect, the speed would be faster, maybe just in his twenties reaching the ninth layer of Qi Refining.
The Dan Yang Sect has a Fourth Grade Spirit Vein, cultivating in such a high-grade spirit vein, even a disciple living as a servant can quickly upgrade; the Lu Family only has a Third Level Spirit Vein, seemingly just one grade lower, but the difference is huge.
"But it’s still too slow."
"My son, do not aim too high." His mother comforts him.
A moment later, Lu Xuanji goes back to farming.
He has been farming for five years and still needs to continue for over twenty years until he reaches the late stage of Qi Refining to end his farming life and engage in other family matters.
Not only him, but his father, mother, and many foundation establishment cultivators, even the clan’s Purple Mansion ancestors, have experienced decades of farming life.
For low-level cultivators, planting spirit rice is the most cost-effective.
As for escorting goods, maintaining a presence, or engaging in other matters, the strength is too weak and insecure.
Another day goes by, lying in bed, Lu Xuanji feels a bit bored.
"Cultivation is really boring..."
"If only there were a smartphone, how great that would be."
Thinking of the smartphone, Lu Xuanji feels an itch in his heart.
[The phone’s battery is fully charged and ready for use.]
At this moment, Lu Xuanji senses something.
The next moment, a Xiaomi phone appears in his hand.
It was a Xiaomi phone he bought for fifteen hundred in his previous life and used for three years.
"My novels and dear teachers, I’m back."
Pressing the power button, the screen quickly lights up, and the phone boots up successfully.
Browsing through the phone, many functions have disappeared, downloaded novels are gone, QQ has vanished, teachers have disappeared, weather apps are gone, mobile banking has vanished, and the calendar is missing.
[A phone malfunction has occurred, rebooting the phone.]
At this moment, a line of words appears on the screen.
The screen then goes black.
The phone undergoes slight changes, absorbing the spiritual qi from the environment and undergoing an astonishing transformation.
As it absorbs the spiritual qi, the spiritual qi in the spiritual cavity is drained.
Still not enough, Lu Xuanji takes out ten spirit stones and places them there.
With a loud noise, the spirit stones crumble to dust.
Lu Xuanji looks on in distress.
His annual income is only about ten spirit stones; five years of income is just fifty spirit stones.
After consuming ten, the phone stops absorbing spiritual qi.
The phone buzzes, a voice message is heard.
The screen lights up, rebooting.
About five minutes later, as Lu Xuanji grows impatient with waiting, the phone finally reboots and reaches the home screen.
But upon looking again, something seems off.
On the screen, a fully blossomed lotus appears, with a battery icon in the upper right corner, and nothing else, no QQ, no WeChat, no novels, all basic tools are gone.
Lu Xuanji is speechless.
The battery juices up, while Lu Xuanji feels his spiritual power being consumed, indicating the phone draws spiritual qi instead of power.
The battery shows just five percent; it will take at least three hours to fully charge.
The speed is a bit slow.
Lu Xuanji feels bored and continues to wait.
About three hours later, the phone is fully charged.
Lu Xuanji examines the Xiaomi phone, which, under the influence of the cultivation world’s laws, undergoes a strange transformation, turning into a magical treasure.
However, the grade is somewhat low, merely a first-grade spiritual artifact.
[Global connection, yes or no?]
"Connect? What network can possibly exist in the cultivation world?"
Lu Xuanji is puzzled,
but he still presses [yes].
At this moment, Lu Xuanji feels the phone undergo an odd change, seemingly connected to some great existence in the void.
At this moment, the Lu Family’s ancestor opens his eyes.
"Who is it? Which Nascent Soul True Monarch has descended?"
The Lu Family’s ancestor looks toward the sky, seemingly dreading something.
Just now, he sensed the heavens’ laws were stirring.
It seems an incomparable presence has shifted the heaven and earth laws, which only a Nascent Soul True Monarch could achieve.
But moments later, the laws subdued, as if all returned to calm.
"Could it be a Nascent Soul True Monarch merely passing by?"
The Lu Family’s ancestor falls silent, resuming cultivation, as if nothing ever occurred.
[Connection succeeded. Congratulations on enjoying a wonderful life]
At this moment, a line of text appears on the phone.
Soon, the screen changes, revealing two icons.
One icon is [File Management]
The other icon is [Destiny Calculation].
"Only two functions, rubbish?"
Lu Xuanji teases by opening the phone.
[File Management can download images, download software, and collect vast amounts of information.]
[Destiny Calculation can utilize collected information for calculations.]
Lu Xuanji asks, "Calculate how many years I can live?"
[Host, during the Qi Refining Stage, you can live to be one hundred ten years and nine months.]
This answer isn’t perfect but not bad either.
Living to one hundred twenty during the Qi Refining Stage is merely an ideal state. In reality, many Qi Refining cultivators perish at a hundred or so, never reaching their limits.
If injured in battle, life expectancy is even shorter.
"In how many years can I reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining?"
Lu Xuanji asks again.
[Host will reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining at fifty-three.]
[Considering the host may use some elixirs for cultivation assistance, it would be forty-two.]
"What is the probability of me reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage?"
[The permission exceeds the Destiny Calculation limit, unable to answer.]
"Can the cultivation technique be perfected?"
[It can only perfect the Qi Refining Stage, needing a vast amount of Qi Refining techniques as knowledge reserves and some time cost.]
Lu Xuanji continues inquiring.
He verifies the two functions on the phone.
File Management can store books, up to a hundred thousand volumes.
Destiny Calculation can compute some matters and techniques but needs a huge amount of information support, and the content only applies to the Qi Refining Stage, requiring some time.
Lu Xuanji strokes his chin, analyzing.
A smartphone is originally a microcomputer, endowed with vast computational power.
After crossing over, it mutated into a magical treasure, but its core vast computational power still exists.
All functions unfold through this massive computational power.