The Xu family did not return to Chishi Village, and the trade of farming tools and magical artifacts naturally ceased. When Chen Xiaohu went to inquire, Xu Ruojing, kindly enough, gave him 100 spirit stones, which was considered the payment for the "Little Hammer Forty" secret manual.
For this, Chen Xiaohu grumbled in the blacksmith shop for several days.
"Alright, stop your incessant grumbling. If you have the guts, go kill your way to the Xu family. If not, just live your life honestly."
"Heh heh~ I wouldn't dare. I'm just venting my frustrations."
Yang Hong rolled his eyes and said, "I want to dig a well. Go and inform the villagers. As long as they help me dig it well, each person will get a bowl of water every day from now on."
"Really? Great, I'll go notify them immediately!"
Hearing that Yang Hong was willing to provide water, Chen Xiaohu was also exceptionally surprised.
Chishi Village could be said to not lack food, but it was severely lacking in water. Each person only had a few catties of drinking water per year, which was obtained by two Qi Condensation cultivators risking their lives.
If Yang Hong could truly dig a well, Chishi Village would have a true foundation for survival and development.
"It's definitely possible!"
Yang Hong had a hundred percent certainty. His divine sense could penetrate deep underground and locate underground water veins.
With Yang Hong's guarantee, everyone in Chishi Village, from the elders to the young children, worked with great effort. Old Man Liu, over a hundred years old, and the seven-year-old kids all came to participate in digging the well.
Yang Hong couldn't be called a good person, but he always had a heartfelt desire to protect humanity.
This feeling had been present since he transmigrated, seemingly appearing along with his [Grand Induction Plant Ten Thousandfold Cultivation Return System].
After over 200 years of ups and downs, he felt that his cheat system seemed to be urging him to benefit humanity. However, the Heavenly Dao of this world had undergone two changes, and the will of the Heavenly Dao and the system had continuously conflicted, making the system's will not as strong as it was at the beginning.
This conflict of wills had also caused many changes in Yang Hong's personality.
For instance, when he accidentally drifted to the Myriad Monster Sea Domain, he harbored extreme hostility towards the demon race, even wishing to kill them all. Later, when he returned to the Great Sui Dynasty, he only wanted to be a slacker, indifferent to whether humans or demons lived or died.
When Buddhism stirred the heavenly secrets and drew the entire Taiyuan Continent into the Buddhist domain, Yang Hong was greatly affected, leading to his somewhat changeable personality.
And within the seal of the Great Snow Mountain, Pujie Bodhisattva's Buddhist teachings had been constantly influencing Yang Hong. He had noticed it and had been resisting, but he was still somewhat affected.
By now, Yang Hong had realized that his personality was a bit peculiar. Although not evil, it was difficult for him to be a good person.
Despite understanding his own issues, Yang Hong felt that this was quite good, much better than his previous self who only wanted to be a slacker.
The adults and children with some strength in Chishi Village went to dig the well. Seeing that there was no one to look after the village children, Yang Hong had his seven wives take care of them.
This greatly excited the seven women who were bored to death. All 41 children in the village under the age of ten were taken by them to start a kindergarten.
It was truly a kindergarten.
Yang Hong shared knowledge related to kindergartens from his previous life with Zhu Yuyan and the others. He also used the [Sand Accumulation into Pagoda] spell to refine the ubiquitous sand in the village into various playground equipment.
Seesaws, slides, swings, small castles, and other children's recreational facilities that Yang Hong could remember were all created.
He even used the [Shen Lian Bao Qi] technique to refine a combination magical artifact, a carousel.
However, this amusement artifact became a toy for his seven wives.
They spent all day playing with the carousel with those children.
When the villagers saw these facilities, they were dumbfounded. Then, many adults came and vied with the children to play.
Yang Hong didn't interfere. As long as these adults didn't beat the children, he let them have their fun. Sometimes, unruly children needed their parents to discipline them.
Moreover, watching parents spank their children was quite amusing.
The simple joys of family life in an ordinary mountain village gradually dispelled the gloom Yang Hong had felt during his thirty-plus years of confinement, and his mental cultivation unexpectedly began to slowly improve.
[This must be an unexpected joy.]
In a great mood, Yang Hong decided to return to his old profession—
Farming!
To the east of Chishi Village, near the Zikun Mountain Range, was a flat area that served as Chishi Village's farmland. It was now deep autumn, and the earth melons were nearing maturity.
Arriving at the farmland, Yang Hong released his divine sense.
"This earth melon is truly magical. In this arid desert environment, it can grow with little water and even store a certain amount of moisture.
It can be considered a miracle in botany."
Looking at the earth melon vines hidden amongst the sand dunes, even with Yang Hong's vast knowledge, he couldn't help but praise it.
Then, it was time to get to work!
He directly extended his hand and pressed it onto an earth melon vine, channeling his magic power, and initiating the grand induction.
"Ding~ You grandly inducted 300 days of cultivation into the earth melon and received tenfold cultivation return, gaining 3000 days of cultivation."
As the prompt sounded, Yang Hong was stunned again.
The amount of cultivation he had outputted this time had changed. Before, it was only 200 days of cultivation, and even yesterday, he could only input 200 days of cultivation for output.
"Has the system changed again?"
Thinking this, Yang Hong took out a ninth-grade spirit plant.
"Ding~ You grandly inducted 2700 days of cultivation into the ninth-grade Guangyou Gourd and received a hundredfold cultivation return, gaining 270,000 days of cultivation."
Indeed, the grand induction system had undergone new changes.
However, one test wasn't enough. Yang Hong directly used all 20 grand induction opportunities.
The cultivation limit for seventh and eighth-grade spirit plants was in multiples of 300 days, proving his guess was correct.
But Yang Hong couldn't be happy. He was a seventh-tier Integration Realm powerhouse, yet he was sealed at the fourth-tier Golden Core Realm.
The cultivation returned daily from grand induction was all wasted.
Thinking of the vast amounts of cultivation wasted, enough for dozens of cultivators to reach the Golden Core Realm, he was still stuck in the Golden Core Realm.
Now that the base number of cultivated power inducted had changed, his cultivation seal would likely be broken before long.
With a slightly excited mood, he put away the three high-quality spirit plants and re-entered the farmland, grandly inducting the earth melons he had previously marked with his divine sense.
This time, he discovered the second change in the system.
Logically, inducting 300 days of Golden Core magic power into an ordinary plant should cause it to evolve.
But this time, none of the earth melons advanced to the first-grade lower-rank spirit plant.
Without exception, their quality was all ordinary ninth-grade, with no direct advancement.
Only when Yang Hong performed his second grand induction could ordinary ninth-grade earth melons advance to first-grade spirit plants, and their name remained "earth melon" with no change.
"Ordinary ninth-grade? This ninth-grade is perfect for mortals to plant, serving the vast populace. I wonder what it tastes like?"
The biggest problem with earth melons was their poor taste and even worse texture, making them difficult to swallow even for cultivators.
Thinking this, Yang Hong picked one earth melon each from the best and worst-looking ones.
Mentally preparing himself, he cut open an earth melon, and a faint fruity aroma entered his nostrils.
"Huh~ This aroma, it's a bit like sweet potato now."
Smelling the fragrance, Yang Hong was pleasantly surprised. The familiar feeling even made him dazed. Without further thought, he immediately peeled and cut it into pieces to taste.
"Oh~ This taste, it's still as refreshingly sour! Ptooey~ Ptooey~"
Although the aroma had improved, the taste was still worlds apart from the sweet potatoes of his previous life.
The earth melons that had evolved to ordinary ninth-grade were still sour, astringent, bitter, and pungent, and now they also had salty and sweet flavors.
To be honest, with the addition of sweet and salty flavors, the earth melon's taste had indeed improved quite a bit, but it was still a long way from being edible.
"This is simply a spice jar, a cultivable biological condiment."
Yang Hong said with a wry smile, not stopping his planting experiments. Instead, he began to use the [Sweet Rain Transformation Technique] to ripen these ordinary ninth-grade earth melons and harvest their seeds.
"Next is a new experiment. I wonder what the effect will be."