"Junior Brother Lu, are you there?"
Just as Lu Xuan was savoring the joy of a bountiful harvest, a gentle voice came from outside the mountain peak's talisman formation.
"Shen Shixiong, I'm here."
Lu Xuan instantly recognized the owner of the voice as Shen Ye, the Hall Master of Si Nong Hall and one of the higher-ups of Sword Hall. He hurriedly opened the talisman formation and went out to greet him.
At the foot of the mountain, a cultivator with a black sword case on his back, gentle and refined as jade, was looking at him with a smile.
"Junior Brother Lu, it's been many days. Have you been well recently?"
"Thanks to Shixiong's concern, everything is well."
Lu Xuan welcomed Shen Ye into the Small Courtyard, took out Spirit Fruits such as Flame Fruit and Jade Scale Fruit, and poured a full cup of Hundred Fruit Spirit Nectar.
"Was this Flame Fruit personally cultivated by you, Junior Brother? It tastes much better than the ones I ate before. Its quality should be quite good."
Shen Ye closed his eyes, sensing the changes the Flame Fruit brought about inside his body, and praised him aloud.
"That's right. I usually have nothing to do, so I planted a few kinds of Spirit Fruits to use for entertaining guests after they matured."
Lu Xuan said with a smile.
"By the way, Junior Brother Lu, how are the ten Sword Grass Spirit Seeds you obtained from Sword Hall last time growing now?"
Shen Ye suddenly asked.
"All ten Sword Grass Spirit Seeds survived. During the planting process, I tried guiding them toward mutation, but I haven't seen any results for the time being."
Lu Xuan said, half true and half false.
With the help of the Yangxuan Sword Sheath, although he had