Chapter 215 - 182: Harvest, Spirit Plant 5 Meridians

Chapter 215: Chapter 182: Harvest, Spirit Plant 5 Meridians

Li Changsheng touched the slightly raised mark between his brows and shook his head with a smile.

"You flatter me, Brother. The sect is full of geniuses; I can’t possibly compare."

The man in the profound robe looked at his surprisingly young face and said flatteringly, "If Steward Li isn’t a genius, then no one else would dare claim the title."

He chuckled. "Steward Li, you can just call me Dong Peng. I’m not worthy of being called Brother."

"Brother Dong Peng." Li Changsheng smiled and clasped his hands. Seeing that Dong Peng was about to return the gesture, he quickly waved a hand and said, "No need for such formalities, Brother. I’d like to trouble you to tell me about the sect’s Spirit Plant Masters, and the situation with the Spirit Plant Grandmasters."

Lan Cai Shen and Tan Hu had told him a few things, but the circle of Spirit Plant Masters seemed very exclusive. Much of the information they provided was vague and incomplete, so he still didn’t really understand the situation with the Spirit Plant Masters in the sect.

Dong Peng nodded. After a few moments of contemplation, he began to explain, piece by piece.

For years, nearly all the missions he’d taken involved guarding Spirit Plant Masters, so he knew far more than Lan Cai Shen and the others.

For example, the sect only had five Spirit Plant Grandmasters, whose status was even more venerable than that of ordinary Dao Foundation Elders.

Furthermore, the skills of Spirit Plant Masters were almost always passed down from master to disciple.

The relationships were tangled and complex, vaguely forming five factions, yet they all maintained close ties with one another.

People like Yan Shaoyuan, who had only formed a partial Spirit Plant Mark, or Hao Yuegui, who hadn’t formed one at all, were strictly forbidden from being called Spirit Plant Masters within the sect. Naturally, they had no access to any master-disciple lineage.

However, once Yan Shaoyuan managed to fully form a complete Spirit Plant Mark, he would be able to join one of the lineages.

As for someone like Hao Yuegui, who hadn’t even formed a partial mark, it was completely out of the question.

Throughout the conversation, Li Changsheng would occasionally interject with questions.

As they talked, it suddenly dawned on Dong Peng.

’So this Steward Li didn’t actually come from within the sect!’

Though shocked by the revelation, he didn’t press for details.

’Whether Li Changsheng’s skills were passed down from within the sect has little to do with me.’

’What’s important is that this Steward Li is an undeniable genius.’

Previously, he had kept his distance, wary of the trouble Yan Shaoyuan and the others had caused and uncertain of Li Changsheng’s temperament. He didn’t want to get involved.

But several months had now passed.

Through his interactions with Hao Yuegui and his own daily observations, he’d found that this Steward Li was not a cold or tyrannical person. In fact, compared to the other Spirit Plant Masters he had guarded, he was remarkably mild-mannered.

Naturally, he didn’t want to miss the opportunity to get on good terms with him, so he began to divulge information he had previously withheld.

It wasn’t truly secret information, to be fair.

Just gossip about the squabbles over Spiritual Land and the infighting among the five factions.

It was peppered with some of the Cyan Yang Sect’s dirty laundry as well.

Li Changsheng listened intently. This was the first time he had learned about the Cyan Yang Sect in such detail.

They talked for a full hour.

Yan Shaoyuan and Hao Yuegui woke up one after the other. Feeling the Spiritual Power surging within them, their faces lit up with joy. All they needed to do was go back and consolidate this power, and they would be able to break through to the next realm. How could they not be ecstatic?

"Ahem..."

Just then, a light cough sounded from nearby.

The two of them looked up.

They saw Li Changsheng looking at them with a wide smile.

Yan Shaoyuan and Hao Yuegui’s faces stiffened. Forgetting their happiness, they scrambled to their feet and bowed hastily. "Greetings, Sir. Your subordinates took the liberty of absorbing the Spiritual Qi dissipating from the Spirit Field. We beg for your forgiveness."

Li Changsheng glanced at the two of them and chuckled. "It’s fine. That Spiritual Qi was going to dissipate back into the world anyway. It’s not a waste for you to refine it."

"Thank you, Sir." Joy returned to Yan Shaoyuan and Hao Yuegui’s faces as they bowed in thanks once more.

Li Changsheng looked at them, puzzled. "Isn’t Xu Li with you?"

Hao Yuegui shook her head.

Yan Shaoyuan’s gaze flickered. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "When I was heading out, I saw him go down the mountain."

"Oh."

A look of understanding crossed Li Changsheng’s face.

He knew Xu Li had a lover who was a Loose Cultivator. ’I just wonder if that Loose Cultivator practices some kind of draining technique,’ he thought. ’Xu Li has been looking thinner and thinner...’

Li Changsheng shook his head, clearing his mind of such thoughts.

’No one’s going to die over it here in the Ring Mountain Spiritual Land, and Xu Li isn’t an idiot. Even if that Loose Cultivator is using a draining technique, it must be consensual.’

’It’s not my business, and I can’t interfere anyway.’

He exchanged a few more pleasantries with the three of them.

Looking at the three mu of Concentration Flowers, a thought suddenly struck Li Changsheng. He turned to Yan Shaoyuan and Hao Yuegui and asked, "Do you two know how many Spirit Stones a single Concentration Flower sells for?"

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Ma Rong. He just wanted to estimate their value so he could have Ma Rong purchase some Spiritual Objects and medicinal pills for his cultivation after selling the Spirit Plants.

Hearing this, Hao Yuegui looked over at Yan Shaoyuan.

Yan Shaoyuan stared at the silvery-gray blossoms of the Concentration Flowers. After a few moments of thought, he said, "The sect’s acquisition price is two thousand Spirit Stones per plant." He hesitated, then added in a low voice, "But if you sell them to the Immortal Cities or Marketplaces outside the sect, the price is closer to twenty-one hundred Spirit Stones per plant."

’Twenty-one hundred Spirit Stones...’

Li Changsheng calculated the harvest from the three mu of Spirit Fields in his head.

He had planted six hundred plants in each mu of the Spirit Field, making for a total of eighteen hundred plants. At twenty-one hundred Spirit Stones per plant...

’Three million seven hundred and eighty thousand?’

Li Changsheng was stunned. When he came to his senses, he couldn’t contain his excitement. ’Good heavens! I knew they’d be worth a lot of Spirit Stones, but I never imagined it would be this much.’

Fearing he had misheard, Li Changsheng asked Yan Shaoyuan to confirm the price one more time. Once it was verified, he could no longer contain his excitement. He called out a quick farewell to the three of them, summoned his Magical Artifact, the Golden Needle, and shot off into the sky.

The three of them looked at each other, bewildered, as they watched his rapidly retreating figure.

After looking at the Concentration Flowers for a moment, Yan Shaoyuan and Hao Yuegui turned and left to get back to the busy work of tending the Spirit Fields.