"Young Master~ Young Master, lunch is ready, come and eat!"
"Coming."
Just as Yang Hong was imagining how he would enjoy life in the future, the palace maid Xiao Cao finally finished lunch.
"Neng Uncle, I'll deal with the rest this afternoon."
"Your Highness, it's fine, I'll finish smashing it later."
"Alright."
Yang Hong ignored the old eunuch and walked directly back to the living room in the middle courtyard. He washed his hands under Xiao Cao's service before starting to eat.
The imperial palace was a place of rules, and his identity as a prince meant that,
Although he, the palace maid Xiao Cao, and the old eunuch Zhou Neng ate the same meals, the two of them were absolutely forbidden to dine at the same table as him.
Otherwise~~
Yang Hong remembered that he used to have four palace maids and four eunuchs serving him, which was the basic retinue for a prince.
But…
The other six were all beaten to death in front of him by the Crown Prince with the excuse: "It is not in accordance with the rules to sit at the same table as a prince."
Yang Hong knew that the Crown Prince was imposing rules on him!
But the weak Yang Hong at the time could only endure it obediently.
'Only three more days, at most three days, and I can get revenge. I won't have to be so cowardly anymore.'
Yang Hong thought to himself, and his eating speed increased significantly.
After the meal, Yang Hong picked up his hoe again and went to the vegetable garden to begin his cultivation.
In the eyes of outsiders, Yang Hong was just randomly tilling the soil with his hoe.
However, this was his method of cultivation. He had been cultivating this way for the past five years.
And no one had suspected him.
This was also the magic of the cultivation reward system.
It's just that this Basic Body Forging Art was very different from the Yang Family Exercise Method he had practiced before. It was no longer as simple as tilling the soil to cultivate, but required him to cooperate with special movements.
Therefore, he only experimented with it briefly and then stopped.
"I need to find an opportunity to remove the eyes outside the [Wang Wen Ge] to begin formal cultivation."
He looked up at the west of the [Wang Wen Ge]. There was the [Zhi Ruo Ge], which was also one of the cold palaces, but it was now the residence of a group of imperial guards,
And also the place where he was being monitored.
"Your Highness, it is cold and freezing. I couldn't find peach saplings, only a few peach pits. See if you can plant them."
Seeing that Yang Hong had finished his tilling for the day, the old eunuch Zhou Neng immediately walked over.
"Peach pits? Oh."
Yang Hong was stunned for a moment, then he remembered the excuse he had casually made at noon and understood.
Zhou Neng always remembered every word he said and took it to heart.
"Leave them here. We'll plant them in the spring."
"Yes."
Zhou Neng placed a small bag of peach pits on the stone table and quietly retreated to the side, waiting.
Yang Hong opened the small cloth bag and found 9 oval peach pits inside. Judging by their appearance, they were the best red-fleshed honey peaches from the Great Sui Dynasty.
He weighed them in his hand. They felt good and should be good seeds.
However, he did not plant them immediately, as the season was not right.
Even though he had transformed the backyard into a simple greenhouse, he still could not defy the heavens and plant peach trees in the snow.
'Right, I just saw that my infusion count has become 3. I remember it was only once a day before.'
Yang Hong opened the system panel, which only he could see, again.
'Indeed, it's three times, and there are still three times today. With this cultivation increase, it seems the infusion system has also been upgraded.'
He looked at Zhou Neng by his side and said.
"Neng Uncle, please help me transport some soil from the Imperial Garden. Let's start with three sacks."
"Yes, this old servant will go now."
Zhou Neng left without any questions.
At this time, Yang Hong picked up a peach pit and began to infuse.
"Ding~ Infusion failed!
The host's current cultivation is too low to infuse seeds. Please change the target."
Hearing the familiar prompt, although he was mentally prepared, Yang Hong still felt a little regretful.
For 5 years, he still couldn't infuse seeds, not even trees.
His previous targets for infusion were only rice, wheat, vining fruits, and small vegetables.
Even slightly larger potted plants could not be infused, let alone fruit trees.
But the system had clearly upgraded today, and he needed to make some attempts.
'These grapes are also vining plants. I couldn't infuse them before, I wonder if I can infuse them now.'
He walked to the side of the vegetable garden, where there was a simple trellis formed by nine grapevines.
However, they had lost their leaves and were covered with black cloth strips, forming part of the simple greenhouse.
He grasped the thickest one.
"Ding~ Plant cultivation infusion begins. Please pay attention to the plant's endurance."
It actually worked! Yang Hong was overjoyed and his face lit up with excitement.
He immediately became solemn and began to carefully infuse the grapevines with his true qi.
One day~ two days~ three days…
Nine days!
"Hahaha~ It really upgraded! I could only infuse herbaceous plants before, and usually only for one day. Even better ones like cucumbers and other vegetables would only last for three days.
Now I can infuse for nine days!"
"Ding~ You infused 9 days of true qi into the grapevine, obtaining a 9x return, returning 72 days of true qi cultivation."
A warm current flowed from Yang Hong's dantian, circulated through his entire body, and then returned to his dantian.
"It doesn't seem like there's much change."
Yang Hong briefly felt his physical condition, and the increase in his cultivation was not obvious.
"That's true. Grandmaster is the pinnacle of martial cultivation. All that's left is to accumulate."
After thinking for a moment, he no longer cared about his cultivation. Although he was not invincible now, he was close.
He grasped another grapevine and began to infuse again. This grapevine was of slightly inferior quality and could only be infused for 7 days of cultivation, but it returned more.
"Ding~ You infused 7 days of true qi into the grapevine, obtaining a 15x return, returning 105 days of true qi cultivation."
This luck was truly wonderful.
There were still 5 grapevines left. Yang Hong thought about it and chose the thinnest one this time, which still had a few withered leaves on the vine.
This grapevine was indeed different and could be infused with more cultivation.
Huh~ It could still be infused with 9 days of cultivation,
20 days…
30 days…
33 days!
This last grapevine was infused with cultivation for 33 days before it could no longer be infused.
"Ding~ You infused 33 days of true qi into the grapevine, obtaining a 10x return, returning 300 days of true qi cultivation."
A more powerful warm current than the previous two flowed, further strengthening Yang Hong's body, and then returned to his dantian.
'My true qi cultivation over the past two years, why does it feel like it has only strengthened by less than half?'
Yang Hong thought with some dissatisfaction, then a new prompt sounded.
"Ding~ Ordinary grapevine received true qi tempering and began to evolve~ Evolution successful, congratulations to the host for obtaining a Grade 1 Lower-grade Spirit Plant: Azure Jade Grape."
"Spirit Plant? And Grade 1 Lower-grade?
Then how do I count my Grade 9 cucumbers from before?"
The plants he had infused before also had quality differences, from Grade 1 to Grade 9.
Grade 1 was the lowest, and Grade 9 was the highest.
Did he have to go through it all again now?
And originally Grade 1 was Grade 1, without the distinction of upper and lower grades.
Also…
Spirit Plant? What is this?
This is a wuxia world, why are there things from a xianxia world appearing here?
Yang Hong grumbled inwardly, but he couldn't see anything special about the Azure Jade Grape yet. He could only wait until next year to see the effect.
"Your Highness, the soil has been brought back. Where would you like it placed?"
At this moment, the old eunuch Zhou Neng pushed a flatbed cart and entered.
"Just sprinkle it along the west wall, about a foot above the ground."
"Got it."