บท 8: School of Life

Acacia gave Lucius simple tools like a plough, sickle and a three pronged cultivator. She then presented him with a platter of seeds of various shapes, sizes and colours. Lucius was then taught about the various plants and the conditions for their growth and then began exploring the room and realised that the room went from hot to cold. The side near the entrance was the cold side and as he moved towards the wall opposite the entrance it got hotter and hotter. He began to plan out which crops would go where and divided up the hall of agriculture, as his mother had called it, into sections of various crops. Towards the entrance were crops like potatoes, carrots, broccoli and cabbages. In the middle were various fruit trees like apple, plum, peach and pear. Towards the hot end were bananas, bamboo and a special section for rice that he would fill with water later. He began to sift through the seeds, selecting higher quality seeds and began to plough the land and plant the seeds. Although the farmland was 90 metres wide by 45 metres long it only took him a few hours as his body was now far beyond the scope of a humans. He was powerful, fast and with the guidance from his mother he got used to the planting before long and easily filled the hall with seeds. Overall it had taken him around 3 and a half hours. He then watered the plants with spirit water since because the Garden had such a high ambient qi density all normal water became spirit water after only an hour of being there. After 2 hours of waiting, that he spent reading books about herbs his mother gave him, after the 30 mins he spent watering, the plants had already all grown to completion and became ripe. Lucius then spent another half an hour collecting the ripe plants and in the end he had filled 3 baskets with ingredients. His mother then guided him to the room he saw on the right side of the farm that he saw at the beginning.