Number of spiritual plants
Finally, the district chief supervisor chose Jiang Baizhi.
What was important was not the answer, but the fact that the nine supervisors had already obtained the result as soon as they entered the void space.
The white-robed figure's voice was cold and gloomy, like a venomous snake pinching everyone's necks: "The issue of the District Chief of District Six has been resolved. Let's talk about recent events."
The red-robed man from District Two gloated, "The District Chief's soul lamp in the Lower Three Districts has gone out, yet no one noticed that a few flies had appeared from the impenetrable walls."
The red-robed man from District 3 looked at the red-robed man from District 3 below and sneered, "Why are you still trembling?"
The three red-robed men from the lower three districts trembled in their voices, "Your Excellency, we have been deceived. As long as the Soul Lantern remains intact, the District Chief will be safe. Since discovering the Soul Lantern fraud last time, we have investigated the staff within the Soul Lantern Room and reviewed the surveillance footage. I believe we will have results soon!"
"Your Excellency, please spare my life!"
The three red-robed men had the lowest cultivation among them. They couldn't help but cry out for mercy, their hearts beating like drums. They didn't dare to look up, waiting for the white-robed men to give orders.
The man in white robes only spoke: "Since the chief of the Lower Three Districts is gone, then you have no value in existing."
As soon as he finished speaking, the souls of the three red-robed men let out a scream and were eaten by the possessed statue without any warning before they could beg for mercy. Their real bodies gradually aged in the retreat room, their muscles atrophied, their hair turned white, and finally their bones and flesh disappeared, leaving only a set of clothes.
"Your Excellency, this..."
"Why? Do you have any objection to my punishment?"
"I naturally have no objection to your punishment, but are you going to ignore those flies? And what is the current situation in the lower three districts? Is there no need to appoint another district chief?"
The white-robed statue flickered, its voice echoing in the void: "The lower three districts are naturally under the care of someone."
"She is my most proud child. No one is allowed to touch her."
The last sentence no longer had a mechanical sound, but was instead the most real voice, low and hoarse, and it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman. It only made my ears feel tingling, gentle and tender.
It's like a loving parent showing off his or her most precious child.
The red-robed man could only respond in a low voice: "Yes!"
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Qian Luo walked in the corridor. With her sharp ears and eyes, she could hear the whispers of all the cultivators in the Lan family's old house. They were excitedly discussing Wei Chao's death.
"Wei Chao's body was found in the wilderness, and his storage bag is missing?"
"Yeah, I heard that Wei Wuji was so angry that he vomited blood and almost went crazy!"
"Although Wei Chao is absurd, he is Wei Wuji's grandson after all. He must be sad!"
"Hey, compared to the Wei family, I still like the Jiang family more and hope that the Jiang family will win! But if the Jiang family wins, our Lan family will not have a good life."
"Ever since Senior Siyu took out the Condensing Gold Pill last time, our Lan family has received orders for spiritual plants from the Jiang and Wei families. The main problem now is the number of mid- and high-level spiritual plants."
"The number of spiritual plants is decreasing year by year. It's really a headache!"
"Yes, originally the Great Elder should have practiced in seclusion until he reached the Core Formation stage. The appearance of a Core Formation cultivator in the Lan family would have deterred others from looking down on him. However, due to the shortage of spiritual plants, he has been unable to practice in seclusion for a long time. The Great Elder and the Second Elder sighed every day in the Spirit Plant Garden."
"Luckily, Master Lan recently sent over a box of spiritual tea. I heard it can relieve anxiety and strengthen the spirit and soul. Otherwise, the two elders would have had gray hair!"
Are there really so few spiritual plant gardens? Why isn't the Great Elder practicing in seclusion?
Qianluo, who has been practicing in seclusion for a month, has reached the great perfection of foundation building and is only one step away from forming a pill. However, she is anxious and has not been able to form a pill yet.
She had simulated dozens of times, but none of them could simulate what would happen after she reached the Jindan stage. In the future, she would either be killed by a strong person or die of old age. In the end, she would die.
Seeing that there were only 20 simulation opportunities left, she decided to come out for some fresh air, take a walk, and see if there were any adventures near the Qionghua Valley. As a result, she heard the news of Wei Chao's death and the Spirit Plant Garden.
In that case, let's see what's wrong with the spiritual plants in the Spiritual Plant Garden. The Spiritual Plant Garden is behind the old house, and access requires a guide. Entrance and exit are strictly controlled, requiring soul recognition. After all, in the world of immortal cultivation, disguises are possible, and fingerprint and facial recognition are useless. Only the cultivator's unique soul can do the job.
Lan Xianghan took Qianluo to the spiritual plant garden. Two wooden doors and a large house appeared in front of them. Before they entered, they could feel the rich spiritual energy.
There was a groove on the right side of the door, used to hold the Lan family jade pendant. After Lan Xianghan placed the jade pendant down, the groove rose and a purple orchid jade statue appeared, its petals soft and lifelike.
Lan Xianghan closed her eyes and drew out a white soul. The soul was like an elusive spring breeze, blowing towards the orchid jade statue. The jade statue glowed, and with a "boom", the door opened.
What came into view was the busy female cultivators of the Lan family, shuttling through a vast ocean of flower gardens. The flower gardens were even larger than Grandma Butterfly's Herb Garden. Unexpectedly, there was a hidden world inside, with no end in sight, as if one had arrived in a fantasy world of a sea of flowers.
The sky was filled with flowing clouds, a riot of color, dazzling and dazzling, like the softest silk, flowing freely. The endless grassland was planted with densely packed spiritual plants, countless in number, many of which Qianluo didn't recognize.
"The number of nourishing spiritual herbs, Bixuan vine, Yuxu flower, Qiongyanzhi... these spiritual plants are getting smaller again!"
"Especially the soul-replenishing herbs, the survival rate is only 20%! The Jiang family wants to refine a large number of soul-replenishing pills, but the amount of soul-replenishing herbs is far from enough! What should we do?"
The Lan sisters were seen sighing in the spiritual plant garden, especially Lan Qianhua, who looked very worried. As the eldest elder of the Lan family, she was responsible for business dealings. If the Jiang family's business could not be done, even with the threat of Ningjindan, the Lan family would lose big customers like the Jiang family.
After all, the Ningjindan belongs to someone else. Their Lan family is famous for cultivating spiritual plants. If the number of spiritual plants is far from meeting the customer's requirements, it will be of no use even if their family has a Nascent Soul ancestor.
"Grand Elder!" Lan Xianghan shouted. The Lan sisters looked up and saw two girls walking towards them. They looked at each other and calmed down.
"Why are you two here?" Lan Baicao gave Lan Xianghan a look. She wanted to ask why Qianluo was brought to the Lingzhi Garden. Although Qianluo was a distinguished guest of their Lan family, the Lingzhi Garden was related to spiritual plants and there could not be any mistakes.
Qianluo took the initiative to explain: "Don't blame Xianghan, I came here on my own initiative. I heard the cultivators outside were saying that the Great Elder was worried about the Spirit Plant Garden and hadn't practiced in seclusion."
When Lan Qianhua heard this, she thought she was being blamed for not practicing in seclusion and wasting the Golden Core, so she stood up and apologized, "I'm so sorry. I will definitely not let you down and will practice hard. However, business at our Spirit Plant Garden is bleak right now, so we must address this issue immediately."
"If you don't mind, let me take a look." Qianluo said, then squatted down to examine the soil and water in the spiritual garden. She had previously cultivated spiritual plants at Butterfly Granny's, and knew that soil and water were particularly important. Butterfly Granny's place was blessed with unique conditions, with a spirit gathering array, spirit jade bricks, and a spirit spring. The abundant spiritual energy was perfect for the growth of spiritual plants.
Lan Baicao suddenly remembered that she had heard Lan Xianghan's parents say that she could speed up the growth of spiritual plants, but she did not admit it at that time.
Qianluo stopped at a cultivation base for spiritual herbs and squatted down. Most of the spiritual herbs in the fence had died, and the leaves were withered and yellow, without any moisture, and looked dead.
Just at this time, the monk came to water the plants. She tasted the water and found that it was similar to the spiritual spring water she drank in the hotel: "This is the spiritual spring water of the Shui family."
Lan Baicao smiled at her: "That's right, the Jiang Shuilan and the other three families are inseparable. We have a contract and have been cooperating for many years."
She sighed, "We're using spiritual spring water, which is full of spiritual energy, but the spiritual herbs keep dying, as if they haven't been watered. We checked the soil again, and it's all top-notch soil, very fertile. We've been using it for decades and it never happened before, but it only started happening recently."
Qianluo smelled it carefully but didn't smell anything special. She cast a spell and picked up a piece of soil. It was clean and there were no bad insects. It was full of spiritual energy and was definitely suitable for the growth of spiritual plants.
"Have most of the other spiritual plants also died like the spiritual nourishing herbs?"
Lan Baicao: "Other spiritual plants will also wither and die, but not as many as the Buling Grass. And the more water they are given, the faster they die."
This situation is indeed a bit strange. The more water is given, the faster it dies. There are no insects in the soil, and the spiritual plants are also good seeds.
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Qianluo took the kettle from the monk and poured water down onto the fragile, withered Buling Grass. Nourished by the spiritual spring, the withered grass regained its vitality, its leaves stretching out. After stopping the watering, a minute later, the leaves of the Buling Grass turned dull and yellow, lacking any luster.
Qianluo felt somewhat familiar with this kind of thing, because she had encountered a similar situation at Butterfly Grandma's place before. Once, she was watering the Tianling Fruit in the Baicao Garden. The Tianling Fruit was the most important spiritual plant for the Foundation Establishment Pill. It took a hundred years for the Tianling Fruit to bear fruit.
She found that no matter how many times she watered the Tianling Fruit, it remained dull and lifeless, and the fruit became smaller and smaller. She was terrified at the time, thinking that she had destroyed the Tianling Fruit, which took a hundred years to bear fruit, and she panicked.
Grandma Butterfly smiled and said, "Is it just such a small matter?"
"How can this be a small matter? The fruits of the Tianling Fruit are getting smaller and smaller, and are about to shrink. These fruits only grow once every 100 years. I've ruined them..." His voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke, and he felt more and more guilty and apologetic.
But Grandma Butterfly didn't take it seriously. A flame flashed in her hand and she headed straight for the Tianling Fruit in the Baicao Garden. Qianluo didn't understand what was going on. Was she going to burn down the Baicao Garden?
She hurried to the Baicao Garden to put out the fire and found that the Tianling Fruit was burning in the flames and the soil began to surge, as if there was something under the soil.
Qianluo held her breath and prepared herself mentally. Fat white worms rolled out from under the soil. They were bigger than ordinary worms, about one finger long.
Logically speaking, such a big insect would be found under the soil, and Qianluo would definitely find it when she turned the soil. However, every time she turned the soil, the soil was safe and sound, and she never turned out such a big insect.
As soon as the white fat worms touched the flames, they began to burn all over, rolling and tumbling on the soil. Some were not even on the soil, but on the leaves and fruits of the Tianling Fruit. As soon as they encountered the flames, they began to appear, slowly increasing in number until the entire soil and the Tianling Fruit were completely white.
There was a vast expanse of snow. If it weren't for the trembling of the fat white worms, someone would have thought it was snowing.
She looked at the scene and felt so sick that she didn't cook for Butterfly Granny for several days and nights. Whenever she processed the meat, she would think of the white, greasy appearance.
Later, Butterfly Grandma told her that it was a water-hiding insect.
"Water-hiding insects come from spiritual herbs. Their seeds contain insect eggs. They usually like spiritual spring water and spiritual plants the most because they can hide in water and are difficult to be detected. So after absorbing spiritual energy and spiritual spring water, the spiritual plants gradually wither and become dull."
This kind of insect will only become visible when exposed to fire, and only fire can completely eradicate it.
"Carrot, study more!" Grandma Butterfly tapped her forehead, and her rough fingers scratched her delicate skin, making people tremble all over.
But she saw the Butterfly Grandma's amiable smile, sparkling in the sun. She was waving a palm-leaf fan in her hand, with her eyes closed, looking so comfortable and leisurely.
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Thinking of the incident with Grandma Butterfly, Qianluo couldn't help but smile. Lan Baicao glanced at her smile and raised an eyebrow: "Do you have a solution?"
Qianluo coughed a few times, releasing a silver-red butterfly fire. Amidst the crowd's exclamations, the flames headed straight for the spiritual-boosting grass. Amid their confusion, Qianluo explained, "There are water-hiding insects beneath the soil. These insects become visible when exposed to fire and invisible when exposed to water. Because the soil hasn't been changed for years, the water-hiding insects have slowly grown larger, sucking away the spiritual energy and causing the spiritual plant to wither."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the monk scream loudly: "Ah, how disgusting! It's full of bugs, white bugs!"
"There are so many bugs in the Soul-Boosting Grass! How come I didn't realize before that these bugs really become invisible when in water?"
Lan Baicao prided herself on being the best at cultivating spiritual plants in the Lan family, but she had never encountered such a situation. She was stunned. She had been cultivating spiritual plants for at least fifty years, and this was the first time she had heard such a statement.
"Then where did this bug come from? From the spiritual spring or the soil?"
Qianluo: "It's the spirit-replenishing herb. The seeds of the spirit-replenishing herb contain insect eggs. Therefore, the spirit-replenishing herb suffers the most damage and has the lowest survival rate."
"If you don't change the soil frequently and don't burn it, you'll encounter this situation. Once the bugs spread from underground to other places, the surrounding soil will be contaminated, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual plants will be absorbed by the bugs. No matter how many times you water it, it won't help, because the water-hiding bugs love to drink spiritual spring water the most."
Lan Xianghan was puzzled: "Our Lan family has been cultivating spiritual plants for a hundred years. Why did this happen only recently?"
Lan Qianhua frowned. "This spiritual plant was newly planted in the last few decades. It was originally in the back mountain, but now it's all planted together and turned into a cultivation base. The soil hasn't been replaced either, and it's all top-quality soil."
Lan Baicao: "Yes, yes, it was written in the cultivation manual that if you get the seeds of the spirit-boosting grass, you should burn them with fire first. We didn't understand why at the time, so we skipped this step."
At Lan Baicao's command, all the cultivators used fireball magic, dropping flames on the spiritual plants one after another, and the colorful spiritual plant garden turned into a sea of white.
After a while, all the water insects were wiped out.
Qianluo looked around and found that the spiritual plants had regained their vitality, stretching out their leaves and looking lush and green. Spiritual spring rain was falling from the sky, moistening the dry land.
"Okay, okay, now this matter is finally over. Siyu, thank you so much!" Lan Qianhua was convinced that Wen Siyu was the benefactor of their Lan family. On the one hand, she resolved the difficulties raised by the Wei and Jiang families, and on the other hand, she solved the problem of the number of their spiritual plant gardens.
"Come on, I'll treat you to dinner at our Qianjin Restaurant today!"
Lan Baicao looked at Qianluo with eyes full of trust. She didn't expect that it was this little girl who resolved the embarrassing situation in the Lingzhi Garden. She didn't trust her at first, but it seemed that she had been judging others by her own standards.
Lan Xianghan took Qianluo's hand and said happily: "Siyu, let's go, let's make the first and second elders bleed!"
She knew that Siyu was not to be judged by appearances. Although she was young, she could see through everything and was meticulous. She discovered the problem of the spiritual plant garden after only one visit and solved the elder's problem.
She decided to take Siyu to Linglong to meet her master next time!
"Wow, Elder, we want to go too!"
When the monks saw that the problem of the spiritual plant garden had been solved, they immediately started to act coquettishly.
Lan Qianhua said with a stern face: "Why are you leaving? If you all leave, who will take care of the spiritual plants? Who will cultivate them?"
Lan Baicao smiled and said, "Sister, don't say that. They have also made contributions and have worked hard. I'll order takeout and you can eat at the old house! Everyone will have a share!"
Upon hearing this, the female cultivators of the Lan family applauded, "Elder, you are so kind! Fellow Daoist Siyu is also very kind! Thank you, Elder, and thank you, Fellow Daoist Siyu!"
Amid the cheers of the crowd, Qianluo left the spiritual plant garden, but she looked back at the spiritual grass and found that the spiritual grass in this area was growing better than those in other places and was almost ripe.
Considering all the previous events, she suddenly had an idea in her mind. It turned out that this was the key to speeding up the maturity of spiritual plants!
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