Planting Failure!

"Damn, it stinks so badly. They deliberately assigned us here just to disgust us."

Huoran could not help cursing.

Wei Zhongqian wrinkled his nose and snorted. "Enough nonsense. Start planting. I'm going over there."

With that said,

he went to the paddy field at the very edge. Yet instead of entering it to read the planting Jade Slip, he turned and slipped into the small house beside the field, closed his eyes, and began resting.

It was not as if he had truly come here to farm.

What status did Wei Zhongqian have? Sitting here was already beneath him, and they expected him to wade into a paddy field and plant crops?

He would never do such filthy work.

Besides, he had not actually done anything wrong. Sooner or later, the Pavilion Master would summon him back. There was no need to truly farm here.

Seeing Wei Zhongqian hide in the small house and refuse to come out, Huoran also slipped into the neighboring house.

He thought exactly the same way as Wei Zhongqian.

He had come here to avoid the Alchemy Pavilion's traitor, not to farm. There was absolutely no need to enter the paddy fields.

If a dignified Pure Lotus Alchemist truly went out to plant Spirit Rice, and word got out, his colleagues in the Alchemy Pavilion would laugh at him in the future.

While the two hid in their rooms to rest, Zhang Lingshan sat cross-legged on the ground. With a grasp of his right hand, he pulled the planting Jade Slip from the paddy field into his hand and began studying how to plant Spirit Rice.

The first step in planting Spirit Rice was raising seedlings.

How were seedlings raised?

There were three steps: sun-drying the seeds, soaking the seeds, and germination.

Sun-drying the seeds