Immortal Life Blessed Land Placement and Tips

Basics

The Blessed Land unlocks once Xie Wentian awakens. By following the main story a little further, and building the North Misty Valley Bridge, you can reach a small cave that leads to the Blessed Land. You will be asked to obtain rare seeds and grow them here, but it isn't like other farmable areas.

The Blessed Land is a 9 by 9 section of land, best considered as 3 by 3 sections. The center 3 x 3 section is where you will place your rare seed, the remaining eight 3 by 3 sections are where you plant crops and place other items.

Farming in the Blessed Land is weird, and growing rare seeds works much more similarly to obtaining honey than growing any one crop. It adds a certain amount of points each day to various progress bars; once all of the bars are full the seed progresses to it's next stage of growth, which has it's own requirements.

At the time of writing this guide, I have only grown one seed... the Sovereign Cactus seed... but I feel that I have gained some crucial insights into how the system works that are worth sharing with others. I was literally about to quit the game forever until user Red Mantis helped me figure some things out.

Here are some basics you should know before beginning:

- You don't have to water the rare crop at the center of the Blessed Land

- There are five principal elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, and Metal

- Each crop type is associated with one element as dictated by their bag color:

Red - Fire

Blue - Water

Brown - Earth

Wood - Green

Yellow - Metal

- Only seeds that are currently growing and watered contribute to energy accumulation. Seeds planted in tilled soil but are not watered are not considered to be growing. Crops ready for harvest are not considered to be growing.

- On Lianyun Peak, Lin Wanxi will open a shop that allows you to upgrade tools. The Superior Hoe will allow you to remove spiritual crops. This is incredibly useful in the Blessed Land.

- When growing a rare seed, particular flag arrangements are required for growth. You can look ahead and see the requirements of all stages. Try to place flags so that they do not need to be rearranged once growing begins.

- Flags will have an indicator when requirements are met. Going OVER the requirement does not affect growth. Having seeds of elements that are not needed does not affect growth. (This confused me at first, I saw a green flag with 0 / 1 and assumed 1 was the max I could place. That is incorrect)

- Crops have different lengths of growth. Because we want crops to be in the growing phase to contribute energy, pick crops that take the longest to grow.

- Harvest Talismans don't seem to affect Blessed Land when used outside it

- The Jade Pendant ability Reap the Profits will water plants in the Blessed Land for you

Seed Selection

Ideally we would pick one of the longest growing seed per element. However not all elements have crops that take 7 days to grow (looking at you, Winter Melon Seed!). The lowest common denominator, the amount of days available in each category, is five because there are no metal element seeds that take longer than 5 days to grow.

Why keep them all the same growing length when there are longer lengths available? Well, it allows you to have a repeatable cycle where seeds need to be added all at the same time. In that sense it just seems easier to me.

Here are my recommendations for the cheapest 5 day seeds of each element:

WOOD: Cabbage Seed - 5 days

WATER: Purple Sugarcane Seed - 5 days

EARTH: Potato Seedling - 5 days

FIRE: Tomato Seed - 5 days

METAL: Persimmon Seed - 5 days

Tools

When you have unlocked the Lianyun Peak and gotten Lin Wanxi to join the sect, you will know that you are close to being able to farm the Blessed Land. Lin Wanxi can help by making several implements that are required for growing rare crops.

There are two main types: pots and everything else.

Pots

Pots gather the elemental energy of growing crops adjacent to them. They only gather energy when the flag placement is correct. Each pot will gather the same amount of energy from an adjacent seed and both will add to the total collected.

Everything Else

These are the Flags, Statues, and Stones. I'm going to refer to them as boosters. Like the pots, these only have an effective range of one square adjacent to them. They come in each element, and you can only ever possess two of each element. As of writing this, I have two of every flag and two of every statue, meaning I have 10 total boosting items.

Each type of booster has a unique effect relating to crop growing, but the ONLY aspect of them that is relevant to growing Blessed Land crops is that they increase the energy provided by the seeds. These effects stack, and each one multiplies the amount collected by three.

Energy Collection

The space is best considered as 3 by 3 squares, as I previously mentioned.

Each seed requires one tilled soil square. It now has 8 adjacent squares. Without an adjacent pot, the growing seed will not generate energy.

Since energy collection pots must be adjacent to seeds, that is one square that will always be occupied. If you only have a pot next to a seed, it will generate 10 energy of the corresponding element. This is true of all seeds. If you add another pot, it will count as the energy being generated twice. A growing seed and two pots will yield 20 energy, instead of just 10.

Placing a booster (flag and statue I'm sure of, I haven't made a stone) next to a seed increases the elemental energy yield by three times. The boosters DO NOT need to match the type of seed to provide this bonus. These bonuses stack.

The following table shows energy yield per adjacent booster.

Number of Boosters Yield 0 10 1 30 2 90 3 270 4 810 5 2430 6 7290 7 21870

As you can see, having more seeds will never compensate for having fewer seeds with higher multipliers on them. Since pots only double the energy, and boosters triple it, the goal now is to surround as few seeds as possible with the highest multipliers possible.

Energy collected in one phase does not carry over to the next. No matter how efficient you are, these crops take a minimum number of days to grow as the number of stages they have.

Sovereign Cactus Example

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This will be the first seed and Blessed Land crop you will acquire. You obtain the seed from the Blazing Sands region (I think the lizard boss had it).

This seed has four energy gathering phases, so it will take at least four days to grow. The highest energy requirement for any one element is 550 energy (stage 3, wood and earth elements). It will eventually require energy from all five elements.

My goal, in most things, is to do labor up front and then take it easy. I crafted all of the flags and statues, got some seeds, and went to work. Thanks again for user Red Mantis who helped me understand some key points in how this system works!

Here is an array which will work for every stage of the Sovereign Cactus:

KEY:

Till - soil where you would place a growing seed

Pot - energy collection pot

Flag - if it just says flag, any color will do.

Bl - Blue, Y - Yellow, R - Red, Br - Brown, Gr - green

Boost- any booster

** - these are places where I would put the Stone Boosters, if I had any

Till* - this seed will get the most energy, for this seed it is irrelevant

R Flag* - this flag is only positioned here for a stage requirement and does not contribute to energy gathering

This set up will produce 4 seeds that generate 2430 energy each and one that makes 21870 energy. For the Sovereign Cactus, it doesn't matter which seed goes where since all positions meet the maximum energy requirement for all stages.

If you use this set up and rest for four days, so long as you have Reap the Profits active, you should have your Sovereign Cactus Fruit.

Conclusion

Hopefully this was useful to other people butting up against the Blessed Land crops!

When I got to this stage, I was exhausted and really hating the grind. I had no idea the underlying mechanics of how the various items worked, why I wanted them, or where to place them. I was really exhausted and about to quit the game.

With any luck, this guide will help someone else on the verge of throwing up their hands and quitting to power through and get over the hump. My experience is limited, this might not work for all the rare crops, but it is enough to give you a foundation and hopefully a solid understanding of the underlying mechanics.

Good luck with your future cultivation!

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Blessed Land Placement and Tips