Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 601 - Chapter 601 601. Spiritual Energy Formation_1

Chapter 601: 601. Spiritual Energy Formation!_1 Chapter 601: 601. Spiritual Energy Formation!_1 But this was ultimately too fast.

Song Tan thought for a moment, then called out, “Dad, there’s not much down here, just a bit dirty. I’ll clean it up first, wait a moment.”

Her voice echoed in the cellar, then muffled as it traveled upward. Song Sancheng quickly responded and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Song Tan looked around the sweet potato cellar, unable to find any small stones in the underground walls. She simply reached into her pocket, where there were eight glass beads that Qiaoqiao had given her that morning.

These weren’t ordinary glass beads, but ones sealed with various colors and shapes of beautiful glass–when Song Tan played with marbles as a child, one of these could be traded for five ordinary ones!

But now they were very much like something you’d find at a roadside stall. In fact, nobody even played with marbles at roadside stalls anymore. Qiaoqiao had gotten them by accident when he bought checkers and clicked “bring one with you,” and he really liked them.

In total, there were nine beads. He kept only one for himself and gave the rest to Song Tan.

At this moment, those glass beads lay cradled in Song Tan’s palm.

She took a deep breath and focused her mind on the glass beads. Slowly, she saw them gradually being wrapped and enveloped by the spiritual energy rising from her palm…

…

It had been over five months since she returned home, and also over five months since she picked up cultivation again.

Although the spiritual energy in the mountains was scarce, because she had kept cultivating non-stop, releasing all of it every night by secretly casting spells, there hadn’t been much accumulation of spiritual energy, yet her progress in cultivation was still considerable.

To this day, she had finally managed to imbue spiritual energy into inanimate objects–

Like the glass beads before her.

Although it was still difficult, and the effect was very different from before, it was at least usable now.

Glass was far inferior to jade.

Jade contained a spirit and could nourish spiritual energy. When imbued with spiritual energy, it not only could enhance the quality of the jade but would also retain the energy indefinitely if left undamaged, ready for later use.

As for these glass beads…

They could only serve as a rough vessel, trapping the spiritual energy with difficulty and extending its duration as long as possible.

At least for now, when the spiritual energy bathed them, the glass beads did not appear to change at all.

But there was no helping it because the jade that could hold spiritual energy also had to be of a certain quality. To do all this just for a cellar–truly not worth it!

Song Tan found the right spot and finally managed, with difficulty, to bury the glass beads in the ground and walls. Then, with spiritual energy moving throughout her body, she breathed slowly, and it seemed as if there was a gradual response with the eight glass beads.

Song Sancheng did not come down. If he had, he would have noticed that the air in the cellar was fresher and more pleasant than outside.

Song Tan then wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve and sighed again at the arduous nature of cultivation.

After all, her Sect from her past life was in the Upper Realm, rich in spiritual energy like morning dew dripping, and one realm could govern 900 Middle Realms.

And each Middle Realm, in turn, could govern 3,000 Lower Realms…

This boundless universe was the world of the cultivators.

The mustard seed contains Mount Meru, the mountains and seas nurture immortals and spirits.

And the spiritual energy she encountered now…

emmm…

Was just a little bit short of a Lower Realm.

Luckily, she had a good spiritual root and had already experienced cultivation. Now she had a peaceful mindset without any expectations, which allowed her this progress.

But for now, Song Tan would not dwell on these things.

She simply looked at the mud on her palm and decisively untied the rope, calling out loudly:

“Dad, I’m done cleaning! Tell them to move the jars of wine over here.”

“Can you move it by yourself later? Why don’t Qiaoqiao and I come down and help you?”

It’s just over a hundred pounds, even with the jar it’s not over two hundred. Song Tan declined: “I can lift heavier baskets than you usually.”

Song Sancheng: … He just wanted to pamper his daughter a bit!

Feeling somewhat sullen, he pulled out his phone to send a message, intending to return to the yard to move it with Qiaoqiao, when he got a call from Zhou Maozhu:

“Sancheng, I’m bringing Tianyu and Qiaoqiao with me to move the jar over!”

The jar was sealed airtight, with several loops of hemp rope crisscrossing around it and then threaded through a carrying pole.

Zhou Maozhu, worried his son would be unreliable, instructed him, “You carry the middle. Bend your back if you can’t handle it. I’ll take the back, Qiaoqiao at the front.”

He had seen Qiaoqiao’s strength, carrying a basket full of cucumbers without even huffing for breath, much more capable than his son.

Zhou Tianyu took the middle, ready to bend at the waist, which was safer than being at the back.

However, Zhou Tianyu, eyeing the not-so-large jar, thought to himself that he had endured hardships too. But the moment the pole pressed against his shoulder bones, he grimaced in pain!

So much pain, pain, pain, pain!

Before he could even cry out, he felt the weight lift off his shoulders, only to see the jar already hoisted up by Qiaoqiao and Zhou Maozhu, with him awkwardly sandwiched in the middle, barely keeping up for two steps before emerging dust-covered and disheveled.

Zhou Maozhu was still saying to Qiaoqiao, “Just over a hundred pounds, the two of us will do.”

“Yeah!” Qiaoqiao was very strong: “It’s very light, Tianyu brother doesn’t need to help.”

Zhou Tianyu, rubbing his shoulder: … Very light?! Then why does it hurt my bones so much?!

To go to the rear slope, there was no need to go up the mountain behind. One just had to walk around the houses and then up the slope a bit. Zhou Tianyu trudged behind the two, appearing even more useless.

It wasn’t until he saw Song Sancheng, who still made polite remarks, “Ah, Tianyu also came to help, thanks for your hard work.”

His shame turned his face even redder.

Not until he watched Song Sancheng re-tie the jar, and everyone started lowering it bit by bit with the ropes, all the while shouting:

“Tantan, the wine jar is coming down, get ready to catch it!”

“Okay!” A muffled voice echoed from below.

His eyes bulged: “Is it just Song Tan alone down there?”

This was too reckless, letting a girl catch such a heavy thing underneath…

In his mind, he pictured a weighty wine jar being lowered from high up, with a slender girl below struggling to catch it single-handedly, straining with effort…

But the reality was–

“What’s wrong with that?”

Song Sancheng was puzzled: “Aren’t we holding onto the ropes? Once it lands in the cellar, she just has to untie the ropes and shift it a bit, right?”

Shifting it might be a bit strenuous, but Tantan could definitely handle it. If there was an issue, she’d just need to shout, and someone would come down to help move it!

As he was speaking, everyone felt the rope slacken, and indeed, Song Tan’s voice came, “It’s landed. I’m untying the ropes. Call me when you’re ready to pull me up.”

Zhou Tianyu: …

Oh, right, he realized belatedly: the jar can simply be lowered to the ground in the cellar, it doesn’t need anyone to support it…

Damn! Did he forget his brain today? Why does he keep embarrassing himself?!

Meanwhile, down in the cellar, Song Tan released the rope. She straight away wrapped her arms around the jar, effortlessly placing it in the cellar’s corner.

Looking around, she picked up the hemp rope to slip over herself, pondering: With a simple array of glass beads, the cellar would preserve things for much longer. Storing vegetables in fall and winter will be a breeze!

After all, there are only so many greenhouses available in the winter. Nowadays, to be safe (mainly because of the many mouths to feed at home), drying vegetables for storage is quite troublesome!