Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 58 It's not that simple to give someone a hard time.

the next day.

While Liu He was patrolling the forest area, he encountered Su Miao, who had come looking for him.

Su Miao came to borrow spirit stones.

She had just received her first month's spirit stipend from the Spirit Wood Garden a few days ago and couldn't wait to buy the Yuntian Pill.

Her cultivation level of the second stage of Qi Refining was the lowest under Commander Fu, even lower than Liu He, who entered the Spirit Wood Garden at the same time.

So she spent all the spirit stones she had saved up to buy the Qi Refining Pill and broke through to the third level of Qi Refining in one fell swoop.

Normally, she would save some spirit stones for future use.

She happened to use up all her spirit stones this time and learned that it was Marshal Fu's birthday, so she needed to buy him a gift.

Of all the spirit plants on the entire peak, the only person she dared to ask for spirit stones from was Liu He.

"Liu He, if it's convenient for you, just lend me three spirit stones."

I just spent all my spirit stones on elixirs when I learned about Senior Brother Fu's situation. Sigh~

Su Miao wanted to complain, but in the end she didn't say anything, only letting out a helpless sigh.

"Okay. No need to say more, I understand."

Liu He deeply sympathized with her.

As for spirit stones, Liu He didn't spend any spirit stones for six months after buying the Expansion Pill, and saved up eighteen spirit stones in the outer mountain forest.

I received another month's worth of spirit stipend at the Spiritwood Garden, totaling twenty-three spirit stones.

As he spoke, he took out three spirit stones and handed them to Su Miao.

"Thank you. I'll return it to you next month after I receive my funeral allowance."

Su Miao accepted the spirit stones and thanked them verbally. She didn't have the habit of not repaying debts; on the contrary, she felt very uncomfortable and resentful when she owed others something.

She will definitely return the spirit stones to Liu He as soon as possible next month.

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On the day of Fu Shuai's 48th birthday.

Liu He went to the spirit fruit shop in Zongnei Market and bought a pound of spirit mandarin oranges worth three spirit stones, which were packaged in an exquisite sandalwood box.

He personally delivered the gift to Marshal Fu's residence to congratulate him on his birthday.

A spirit fruit worth three spirit stones might not be worth much to Fu Shuai.

But for Liu He, this was quite "sincere," considering his monthly salary was only five spirit stones, yet he spent three spirit stones on the gift.

Judging from Fu Shuai's reaction, he was fairly satisfied with his gift, at least he did not show any dislike.

It's worth mentioning that he encountered other people who gave gifts to Fu Shuai.

Not only were there Fu Shuai's men, but also other strangers.

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A few more days passed.

It was the day for our routine morning meeting.

Commander Fu and his men gathered together.

He was in a good mood, having received many gifts on his birthday.

In his view, this was perfectly normal.

Which inner disciple of Lingzhi Peak doesn't want to find a way to collect some gifts and earn some extra money?

If you don't find a way to make money, how can you maintain the cultivation required for the later stages of Qi Refining?

The higher one's cultivation level, the more difficult it becomes to improve, and the more resources are required.

Commander Fu is at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and receives a fixed monthly spiritual stipend of thirty. Thirty a month, that's only three hundred and sixty a year.

What can 360 spirit stones do? They can't even buy a single high-grade spirit pill.

He not only needed to buy elixirs to maintain his cultivation speed, but also needed to save up spirit stones to buy foundation-building pills in preparation for breaking through to the foundation-building stage.

The major bottleneck from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment is not easy to overcome; many cultivators are stuck at this bottleneck for their entire lives.

Therefore, it was only natural for Marshal Fu to celebrate his birthday and receive gifts.

It was just an excuse; he was used to it because he had done the same when he first came to Lingzhi Peak and was still an outer disciple, giving gifts to the outer disciple who was in charge of him.

The outcome for that outer sect senior brother back then was not good: he failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, his cultivation was almost completely ruined, his dantian and qi sea were severely damaged, and he fell to the early stage of Qi Refining and could not make any progress. He left the sect in dejection.

"I'll arrange the recent tasks."

"The Talisman Peak needs a spirit pine tree that is thirty to fifty years old to make talisman brushes, and the Spirit Pill Peak needs a spirit tree that is over eighty years old to repair the alchemy room of the Fire Phoenix Hall..."

"Wanqi Peak needs a serpentine spirit sandalwood tree that's over a hundred years old. Zhao Jianlei, you're in charge of that. Also, go and get five spirit wood saplings to plant in your forest area to supplement your spirit wood supply."

A single yew seedling with cloud-patterned veins should be at least three years old to ensure its survival after transplanting.

I need another two-year-old camphor tree seedling with copper bark...

Fu Shuai assigned Zhao Jianlei a lot of tasks.

The most troublesome item is the serpentine sandalwood that Wanqi Peak requires, which is over a hundred years old.

Among the various peaks of the Qian Yuan Holy Sect, Wanqi Peak has the strictest and most demanding requirements, and serpentine sandalwood is a very difficult spiritual wood to process.

Zhao Jianlei is already overwhelmed with this task, and now he also needs to collect five more spirit tree saplings.

Everyone could see that Fu Shuai was clearly targeting Zhao Jianlei.

This is indeed the case.

On Fu Shuai's birthday, only Zhao Jianlei among his ten subordinates did not offer any congratulations.

This made Fu Shuai dissatisfied with him.

If we don't target him, how can we win over the masses and manage our subordinates?

Fu Shuai has plenty of ways to make things difficult for Zhao Jianlei, and this is just the beginning.

Zhao Jianlei didn't care much about this.

He has been at the sixth level of Qi Refining for many years, and it is estimated that he will be able to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining in another year or two, and become an inner disciple in the late stage of Qi Refining.

At that time, he will no longer need to serve under Commander Fu.

Zhao Jianlei was unwilling to give Fu Shuai a gift. Given his circumstances, it was impossible for him to give a worthless little thing worth three or five spirit stones. Giving something too cheap was worse than not giving anything at all.

He couldn't bear to give expensive gifts.

He wanted to see what Fu Shuai could do to him.

It's just a routine of assigning some troublesome tasks.

There weren't many tasks at the Spirit Wood Garden; the most troublesome part was dealing with people from various peaks who came to select spirit wood.

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A few days later.

Liu He's forest area.

Someone came carrying a talisman to select and cut down an eighty-year-old crimson eucalyptus tree.

This crimson eucalyptus tree was not intended for internal use within the sect, but was sold to outsiders.

The man quickly selected the tree, cut it down, and dug up the roots as well.

Liu He didn't do much work throughout the process; all he had to do was level the land after Liu He left.

"Land preparation techniques!"

He used his magic to quickly level the pit and the mess of rubble into solid ground, making it impossible to tell that a large tree, as thick as two people could hug, had stood there not long ago.

The spiritual plants in the Spirit Tree Garden are quite precious, most of which need to grow for more than fifty years, and many need to grow for more than a hundred years before they can be considered mature.

They are rarely cut down.

Liu He's twenty-acre forest area only requires the felling of one tree per month on average, so he has a very leisurely life.

"Senior Brother Fu also told me to go and get another Crimson Eucalyptus tree to plant."

This was a normal task that Coach Fu had assigned to him.

There was neither targeting nor special treatment. Unlike Huang Shideng's side, who was favored by Marshal Fu and had almost no work.

Liu He took the token for receiving the spirit tree seedlings and headed to the place in the spirit tree garden where the spirit tree seedlings were cultivated.

An area of ​​about 180 acres.

A large number of saplings were planted in dense, neat rows.

These spirit tree saplings are only one or two feet tall and as thick as a thumb.

Even the larger saplings are no more than a person tall, and their trunks are thinner than a wrist.

Like the Flower and Herb Garden, the cultivation of spirit tree seedlings in the Spirit Tree Garden must be carried out uniformly under the arrangement of the Spirit Plant Peak, and others are not allowed to plant them privately.

"Liu He?"

Meng Kaizhou was performing root-nourishing techniques on a sapling when he saw a familiar figure.

"Meng Kaizhou, what a coincidence, you're on duty today?"

Liu He knew that Meng Kaizhou had been assigned here.