While harvesting the Spirit Rice, Zonghao clearly felt that his mastery of spell techniques fell short of Sister Yunxi's. Especially when using divine sense to thresh the grain, Sister Yunxi could control ten stalks of Spirit Rice at once, while he could barely manage five.
"Sister Yunxi, you're amazing!"
Yunxi smiled faintly and said:
"It is nothing but skill born of practice!"
Zonghao nodded, silently deciding that he too would practice more in the future. This time, he had also confirmed that Yunxi's cultivation was definitely above his own, at least at the eighth level of Qi Refining. That realization thoroughly crushed the pride he had felt from just advancing to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
The two worked for an entire afternoon and harvested all the Spirit Rice from Yunxi's three mu of land. Looking at their bulging Storage Pouch, they exchanged knowing smiles.
"Sister Yunxi, time waits for no one. Let's hand in the mission now! Otherwise, someone might set their sights on it and intercept us halfway."
Other than Fan Si, no one yet knew that these two novices had spent spirit stones so lavishly to hasten the ripening of Spirit Rice, so they had to make a swift decision.
Yunxi agreed as well. The activated protective barrier could only confuse the other side for a short while; it could not solve the problem once and for all.
Thus, like Zonghao, Yunxi kept her protective barrier activated and went to the Mission Handover Point to find Senior Brother Wang.
Seeing the siblings again after three months, Senior Brother Wang was somewhat surprised. After all, it was not yet time to harvest Spirit Rice. Still, since the two had been generous, he asked with a smile:
"What brings you two to see me?"
Zonghao stepped forward, cupped