Chapter 66 – Tick infestation
Chapter 66 – Tick Spirit Insect Plague
As it turned out, Xu Chuniang’s suspicions were not wrong.
As time passed, more and more disciples came to the top of the mountain, but they were all, without exception, all with a look of a great shock.
Xu Chuniang’s calmness, amidst the weepy faces of the disciples, was in turn somewhat eye-catching.
She slightly lowered her head, biting her lip with force, her face turning white with pain, tears rolling in her eyes, finally having a few pathetic looks.
“All shut up!”
Steward Sun was overwhelmed by the noise and couldn’t help but shout loudly, finally stopping the chattering complaints of the disciples.
It was just that although the disciples didn’t dare to complain anymore, they all had pleading written all over their faces, causing Steward Sun to have a bit of a headache.
This time, when there was a large-scale loss of Spirit Rice, it was true that the responsibility could not be put on this group of disciples.
After all, the previous problem with the spirit rice was personally probed by the inner sect’s Foundation Establishment Master Uncle, who had given a solution.
To really pursue the responsibility, I’m afraid that inner sect master uncle’s responsibility, on the contrary, was even greater.
Just give Sun Eryong a hundred guts, he would not dare to accuse that foundation-building master uncle ah.
But the matter of the spirit rice must be resolved.
This time the entire Spirit Plant Peak suffered heavy losses and no harvest, as the steward of the Spirit Plant Peak, he must give the clan an explanation.
After thinking twice, Steward Sun wrote down the circumstances of all this without any personal feelings and sent it to the inner sect.
Only after doing all this did Steward Sun turn his head to look at the disciples.
“I have already informed the sect of the entire matter, as to whether the sect will waive this season’s spirit rice, I am not sure, I can only wait for the sect to come and deal with it.”
When the crowd of disciples heard this, their faces were mixed.
In their hearts, they were expecting that this matter would usher in a turnaround, yet they were afraid that the result of the sect’s handling would be like the last time, where the disciples would bear the losses themselves.
Sun Er Yong sent out an expedited letter, this time, the sect’s people quickly received the letter and rushed over.
After all, Spirit Plant Peak up and down nearly two hundred spiritual fields, suffered a disaster without harvest, enough to cause attention.
The people who came are all spirit pill masters of the Dan Peak, a total of three came, in addition to the last time that Zhao uncle, there is a middle-aged man and a crone.
“Greetings to the three master uncles.”
Steward Sun hurriedly greeted the three.
The other disciples similarly followed suit and saluted.
The old woman shook her head and said, “There is no need to be polite, the matter is important, take us directly to the spirit field.”
Steward Sun hurriedly led the way in front, guiding the three master uncles to the nearest spirit field.
The disciples followed in silence, and in the bottom of their hearts, they were also curious to know what had gone wrong with the spirit rice.
Next to the spirit field, the Foundation Establishment crone looked at a piece of verdant spirit rice and murmured.
Zhao Weiruo’s face didn’t look too good, she re-perceived it once with her divine sense and didn’t perceive anything special at all.
It was clearly just a small problem, it was impossible for the medicine she had dispensed to be ineffective.
However, if the medicine was really effective, the spirit rice should not be so.
Could it be that there is still somewhere …… she did not explore clearly?
Thinking of this, Zhao Weiruo’s heart snapped.
The middle-aged man similarly released his Divine Sense and carefully sensed the entire spiritual field, suddenly, he seemed to sense something, his face slightly moved, and he transmitted a few words to the old crone.
The old crone turned back and gave him an approving look, “Not bad, it is precisely the Tick Spirit Worm.”
Steward Sun froze, what was a Tick Spirit Worm, how come he had never heard of it?
The disciples had also heard the words of the Foundation Building Crone, but they were just as puzzled as Steward Sun, not knowing what a Tick Spirit Worm was.
Xu Chuniang, who was mixed in the crowd, had a flash of realization in her eyes. Tick Spirit Insects, were they the kind of small, green bugs that hid inside the Spirit Rice?
She had indeed cleared several of these little bugs when she used the Spirit Silk Technique to probe the spirit rice.
Hearing the words tick spirit bugs, Zhao Weiruo’s face instantly turned ugly.
If these spirit rice were really infested with tick spirit worms, then she would be responsible for failing to observe and misjudging.
The Foundation Establishment crone was very cautious and used several detection means to confirm before speaking in a faint voice.
“Tick Spirit Worm is a kind of insect that likes to eat spiritual qi, it is very rare, in the cultivation world, it hasn’t appeared for hundreds of years.
Tick Spirit Bugs prefer wood aura and detest fire aura, so they can kill these bugs by simply treating the Spirit Rice and Spirit Field with fire aura.”
Saying that, she used a strand of fire aura to easily force out a small green insect from a spiritual rice plant, and then burned it to death.
Seeing this, Steward Sun’s face showed obvious joy.
“Then if we remove these tick spirit insects now, will these spirit rice be saved?”
“Nonetheless.”
The old woman shook her head, “The spirit rice that has been delightfully eaten by the tick spirit worms is not that they do not bear spikes, but rather, the tick spirit worms have long since eaten away all the spikes that have been borne.
Even if you kill all the tick spirit worms, you will not be able to make these spirit rice bear spikes again.”
Steward Sun smiled helplessly and bitterly, it seemed that this season’s losses could not be recovered after all.
The loss of nearly two hundred spirit fields was not a small number. One bad disposition, he was afraid that he wouldn’t even be able to keep his position as a steward.
He made a deep bow to the Foundation Building Crone, his words earnest.
“Master Yuan, this Spirit Plant Peak is really a natural disaster, all the disciples suffered greatly from pests last year, and this year is even more …… disastrous harvest, I also hope that you, Master Yuan, your old man will be sympathetic to the situation, and exempt the spiritual rice that needs to be surrendered this season.”
The words just fell, Sun steward only felt a stern line of sight fall on his body, pressure him cold sweat, waist can not straighten up.
In the bottom of his heart, he secretly cried out in pain, only fearing that with these words, he had offended that Master Zhao from last time to death.
After all, the root cause of the second disaster of Spirit Plant Peak was still caused by the misdiagnosis and misjudgment of Master Zhao last time.
Yuan Hongxeng has not yet spoken, Zhao Weiruo is unable to hold back, face with anger with frost.
“Sun Er Yong, are you blaming me?”
Steward Sun’s face went white with fear, and he said repeatedly, “Disciple wouldn’t dare.”
Yuan Hongxing frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, “Senior sister Weiruo, this time the spiritual rice disaster was originally caused by a wrong diagnosis due to your lack of skill, so how can you be angry at the outer gate steward for no reason?”
Zhao Weiruo pursed her lips and clenched her fists unwillingly.
In front of Senior Sister Yuan, she didn’t dare to be as casual as she was with Sun Er Yong.
Yuan Hongxing mused that those who planted spirit fields here were the most ordinary outer disciples.
Now that they had been dealt such a heavy blow, their faces were all sad and sorrowful, but the gazes they greeted her with were filled with admiration and hope.
Yuan Hongxing had a decision in her heart and spoke in a faint voice.
“This time, the damage to Spirit Plant Peak is the responsibility of the Inner Sect Spirit Pill Master, Zhao Weiruo, so we will exempt all the disciples from having to pay up the spirit rice this time.”
Upon hearing this, the disciples only felt that they had found a new life in a desperate situation, each of them were so excited that they couldn’t help themselves, and made a deep salute towards Yuan Hongxeng, “Many thanks for Uncle Yuan’s understanding.”
“Senior sister why do you need to be like this, if you are like this, how will you let these outer disciples look at me in the future?”
Zhao Wei Ruo was furious with shame, but she didn’t dare to openly disobey Yuan Hong Xing, so she had no choice but to send a voice message to her alone.
Yuan Hongxing lifted her head, glanced at Zhao Weiruo, and transmitted her voice, “Senior Sister Zhao, the factual evidence is all plainly visible, and it’s true that this matter is something you did wrong.”
Zhao Weiruo was very reluctant, “I was just careless for a moment …… Besides, what is this tick spirit bug, I have never seen it at all ah.”
Zhao Weiruo admitted that she had done something wrong, but this matter couldn’t be blamed entirely on her!
After all, who could have expected that a small Outer Sect Spirit Plant Peak would have this rare pest.
(End of chapter)