Chapter 61 – Soul Rice Disease

Chapter 61 – Spirit Rice Disease
Last time half a spiritual field planted crescent moon spirit rice, but harvested 200 pounds, this half a year just to eat, Xu Chuniang consumed a whole 180 pounds.

Full count, her hands are left with only 50 pounds of crescent moon rice.

However, after planting this improved crescent moon rice, the yield had doubled!
This harvest alone was enough for her to eat for a whole year, and it could be said that she had realized the freedom of spiritual rice.

Xu Chuniang’s face carried the joy of the harvest, and after collecting the Spirit Rice and Lunar Crescent Rice, it was time to go look at those little ones that she had focused on cultivating.

Would the thirty-six tiny crescent moon rice bring her another surprise?
Xu Chuniang collected the spirit rice in the corner of the spirit field, almost 25 pounds, comparable to last year’s harvest.

After carefully examining it, Xu Chuniang realized that the size and yield of this batch of spirit rice was similar to that of the crescent moon rice, but the spirit qi contained in the spirit rice was even more plentiful.

The spiritual energy content in such a catty of spirit rice was probably comparable to the spiritual energy content in a catty and a half of crescent moon rice.

Xu Chuniang couldn’t help but be moved, if she were to replace the crescent moon rice and plant this kind of spirit rice instead, wouldn’t it be more profitable?
However, she soon realized that it might not be as easy as she thought.

During this planting, Xu Chuniang had a vague feeling that the 172nd Spirit Field had almost reached its peak when it could have such a harvest.

After all, this was only a lower-grade spirit field, and planting this new spirit rice on a small scale would be just fine, but if the planting was expanded, the spirit field simply wouldn’t be able to supply it.

Unless a batch of spirit soil was created in the spirit field to enhance the quality of the spirit field, there was still some possibility of successful cultivation.

After thinking about it, Xu Chuniang wasn’t disappointed, anyway, the crescent moon rice had sufficient spiritual power and high yield, it was completely enough to eat.

After collecting the spiritual rice, she didn’t go directly to hand in the spiritual rice as usual, but instead prepared to take a good rest, these few days were really tiring.

This business of Spirit Planting, it’s really not easy.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xu Chuniang ascended to the top of Spirit Plant Peak.

She had already thought about it, the 432 pounds of spirit rice harvested this time, excluding the 400 pounds of spirit rice that she had paid, all the extra spirit rice would be used to exchange for spirit stones.

Together with the two spirit stones she had left on her, it was just enough to buy two books of arts, an introductory book on rune seals, and a cooking fire bead.

While counting, Xu Chuniang sighed, she was truly poor.

Every single spirit stone had to be counted clearly in terms of where to spend it, and it was almost as if she was breaking it apart.

She shook her head breathlessly.

In the past, when she was in the mundane world, she had no choice, she was a child of a poor family at birth, and she couldn’t get enough to eat or wear.

But she didn’t expect to come to the Cultivation Realm and still be so poor after being clothed and fed.

Xu Chuniang arrived at the peak and found that Steward Sun was surrounded by many disciples in the middle, and without exception, all of them collapsed their faces as if they had suffered some major blow.

Several of them looked a bit familiar, as if they had visited her before.

She not only wondered in her heart, this season, was their harvest poor?

Xu Chuniang only took a cursory glance, then withdrew her gaze and peacefully stood in a much shorter line than usual.

She did not know at this moment that nearly a third of the entire Spirit Plant Peak’s spirit fields were infected with disease and had no harvest.

The people surrounding Steward Sun were all disciples whose spiritual fields had been damaged in this disaster.

Seeing Xu Chuniang begin to line up, those people immediately revealed complex expressions of both envy and jealousy, which turned into sorrow and helplessness.

There were even a few people, whose eyes revealed intense resentment and unwillingness. Unexpectedly, they had deliberately not informed Xu Chuniang of her illness, and she had escaped instead. They themselves, on the other hand, had been unlucky, and their spiritual fields had suffered from the infection and suffered heavy losses.

One by one, the people in the queue had a look of celebration on their faces, “It’s fortunate that our spirit fields aren’t in that area, or else we’d have suffered as well.”

“Yes, what luck, blessings from the Immortals!”

“I heard that Steward Sun has already gone to ask the inner sect’s Spiritual Pill Master Uncle, hoping to find out what’s wrong with these spiritual rice earlier. I have been so apprehensive for a while, I don’t even dare to close my eyes, for fear that I will wake up with a start and the spirit rice that I have worked so hard for half a year will be destroyed ……”

A disciple with greenish-black eyes, who looked like he hadn’t rested for a long time, spat out his grievances.

The more Xu Chuniang listened, the more strange it became, what were they talking about, how come she couldn’t understand a single word of it, had the spirit rice been infected with a disease?
Spirit rice contracting a disease was no small matter, her heart tightened and she couldn’t help but inquire, “What do you all mean by what you just said, there’s something wrong with the spirit rice?”

The few people who had spoken turned around and glanced at Xu Chuniang in surprise.

Up until now, there were actually people who didn’t know about this?

However, after seeing the iconic birthmark on Xu Chuniang’s face, the few people quickly exchanged a look.

It turned out to be the owner of Spirit Field 172, the one who disregarded everyone on the basis of having a bit of spiritual plant talent, arrogant and rude.

Several people had never dealt with Xu Chuniang before, and although they had previously heard rumors about her, this was the first time they had met her.

This Xu Chuniang didn’t seem as bad as Zhou Cang and the others had said.

“Haven’t you heard, at the beginning of the month, some Spirit Rice began to not bear ears, and this symptom infected all the surrounding Spirit Fields. Until now, this problem has not been solved.”

“All of the spirit rice infected with the disease have all failed to produce a harvest. We still have to wait for the inner sect’s Spirit Pill Master Uncle to come before we know exactly what the disease is.”

Xu Chuniang’s heart sank, and only then did she realize the seriousness of the matter.

No wonder so many disciples had sad faces and looked devastated, she thought they just had a poor harvest, but she didn’t realize that there was no harvest at all.

She was secretly thankful that her spirit field was far away from all the other spirit fields, which was why she didn’t contract the disease, or else she would have to be greatly injured by this huge loss.

Steward Sun tensed his face, obviously not in a good mood, a few people said a few words and then did not dare to say more, the atmosphere of the peak fell into a dull.

Until all the people’s spiritual rice were handed over, the expression on Steward Sun’s face was only slightly better, the loss was huge, but it was not all for naught after all.

Seeing that Steward Sun finally finished his work, the disciples who had been waiting on the side for a long time rushed up.

“Steward Sun, what should we do? Right now the Spirit Rice is still the same old thing, not a single grain of Spirit Rice can be taken out ah.

Deducting one point of contribution value for every ten pounds less, 400 pounds of spirit rice is forty points of contribution ah. In this way, not only are we doing nothing this year, we’re also losing a lot of money.”

“Yes, this kind of natural disaster, how can we people withstand it. Lord Steward, you have to make a decision for us.”

“Please also ask Steward Sun to intercede for us and exempt us from submitting the spiritual rice this time.”

The crowd of disciples surrounded Steward Sun, pouring out their grievances, hoping that the sect would be exempted from the 400 pounds of spiritual rice that needed to be turned in.

Steward Sun swept his gaze across the faces of the crowd and slowly spoke, “The inner sect master has already summoned me, and there will be a spiritual pharmacist coming over in the next few days to investigate the source of the illness. However – I’m afraid that this this loss can only be borne by yourselves.”

The crowd of disciples immediately turned ashen, even if they could find the source of the disease, what was the use, their losses had already been incurred!
A whole forty contribution degrees, not a small amount. This loss, they really couldn’t afford it.

(End of chapter)