A Little Local Specialty Gift, and Northern Dipper Star Sect's Little Scheme

Passing through the Eastern Border, it would have been hard to justify Qin Yang not stopping by Five Elements Mountain for a while. And since he was going, he could hardly show up with nothing but a head perched on his shoulders and empty hands. So he brought some local specialties from the Netherworld Ship and had his cheap Senior Brother, the sect master, distribute them as benefits to the body refiners of Five Elements Mountain.

Those fellows possessed formidable vitality and blood. During the stage of tempering the body, dietary supplements were extremely important. Ordinary grains contained too many impurities. Those burly brutes might have astonishing digestion, but if they truly ate without restraint, they would be squatting in the latrine and unable to pull their pants back up.

Spirit grain was the foundation and the mildest form of dietary supplement. Cultivators at any stage could eat it.

Qin Yang truly had nothing else suitable as a gift, so he sent over three million jin of jade rice and other spirit grains.

They were family; there was no need to care whether it looked impressive. Practicality was what mattered most.

Chang Qiuyu found it both amusing and exasperating, but he accepted it nonetheless.

Five Elements Mountain's consumption of spirit grain was indeed rather enormous. The spirit fields they cultivated themselves were never enough, and they were reluctant to use better spirit fields to grow jade rice.

Yet just from the quality of the spirit grain Qin Yang had sent, Chang Qiuyu knew it could never have come from the lowest-grade spirit fields. Who knew where that spendthrift had found so many spirit fields that he could squander them all on growing spirit grain?

Chang Qiuyu had also heard a little about how the Netherworld Ship had monopolized seventy to