An Unexpected Surprise

Two days later, the Yellow Barley Malt Grass in the five mu spirit field of the mansion had all matured, turning the entire area a golden yellow, shimmering brilliantly.

Under the sunlight, the entire mansion complex was resplendent.

Seeing such a stunning scene, Lu Wanyuan finally understood why Chu Tianxing had him plant the Yellow Barley Malt Grass here.

He guessed that this place was meant to complement the architecture, not for growing crops.

While beautiful scenery could be pleasing to the eye, it couldn't fill Lu Wanyuan's stomach at this moment.

He still needed to harvest the Yellow Barley Malt Grass to cover his and Baili Qiuyue's expenses.

With no other choice, he took out the Mysterious Ice Iron Sickle and injected Spiritual Power into it. The sickle suddenly grew to a length of ten feet, and his Spiritual Power rapidly flowed into it.

Sensing this change, he knew exactly what was happening. The sickle had indeed grown longer and become more efficient!

The problem was that this came at the cost of Spiritual Power. Fortunately, he was already a cultivator at the Qi Refining third layer. If he were still at the Qi Refining Level 1, it would be good enough to make the sickle longer, let alone use it to harvest Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass!

The ten-foot-long spirit sickle, before even touching the roots of the Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass, was sliced off by the sickle's sharp radiance, leaving a perfectly smooth cut.

There was no sense of stagnation at all!

It seemed this item was worth the price. In less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, half a mu of the spirit field's Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass was harvested.

The reason it only took a cup of tea's worth of time was that the Spiritual Power in his Dantian wasn't enough, and he could only sustain it for that long before having to stop and cultivate to recover his Spiritual Power.

If he had enough Spiritual Power, the sickle could probably have grown even longer. He wondered if he could have covered all five mu of the spirit field with a single swing.

That would certainly not have taken a cup of tea's worth of time to harvest everything.

It seemed that no matter what one did, it was impossible to get away from Spiritual Power!

The higher one's cultivation realm, the more powerful they truly became. No wonder so many cultivators dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to improving their cultivation, willing to do anything else!

After resting for two hours, Lu Wanyuan felt his Dantian's Spiritual Power had recovered. He immediately injected Spiritual Power into the Mysterious Ice Iron Sickle again and quickly began harvesting the Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass.

He toiled for most of the day, repeating this process. After one day, he finally finished harvesting the Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass from the five mu spirit field.

It took another two days to meticulously pluck the golden leaves from the five mu of Yellow Barley Malt Spirit Grass. Fortunately, these golden leaves did not change their shape or color after being harvested.

Even after being harvested, the golden leaves showed no significant changes.

Of course, they would change over time, but Lu Wanyuan immediately stored all the harvested golden leaves.

After doing so, he sold the golden leaves to Laiyun Zhai, obtaining 3450 spirit stones. He then bought some flower seeds, intending to plant them in the flowerbeds.

Next, he went to the Spirit Bird Market and bought several Silver Moon Spirit Carp, the same kind he had bought before, spending 500 spirit stones. After eating one of them, he released the remaining six into the spirit fish pond at the mansion.

Time passed by unknowingly, and in the blink of an eye, over a month had gone by.

Lu Wanyuan looked at the group of spirit fish in the pond before him with mixed emotions. He had only wanted to decorate the environment initially. When he bought them a month ago, he hadn't paid much attention and had ended up buying several female Silver Moon Spirit Carp. Now, the spirit fish pond was teeming with over a hundred thousand spirit fish fry.

He didn't know when these spirit fish fry had suddenly appeared.

Seeing so many fry, he felt both excited and worried. While the sudden appearance of so many fry was incredibly thrilling, he was also deeply concerned. After all, so many spirit fish fry would definitely require a lot of food to grow.

Furthermore, he still didn't know what these spirit fish ate, which was his biggest worry.

If he couldn't resolve this issue, all these spirit fish fry would be for nothing, a complete waste, which would be a terrible pity!

The past few days had been extremely frustrating for him because of this. He had bought many books related to spirit birds to research how to raise Silver Moon Spirit Carp, but he couldn't find any information about them in these books.

This made him lose confidence, and he just wanted the Silver Moon Spirit Carp to fend for themselves!

However, watching the Silver Moon Spirit Carp swim leisurely in the spirit fish pond, looking so carefree, was truly endearing. If he could raise all these fry to adulthood, what a spectacular sight that would be.

The fish pond would surely be completely covered by these silvery-white Silver Moon Spirit Carp, a whole pond full, truly a dazzling spectacle of pure white silver light.

"Huh, it's a Silver Moon Spirit Carp!"

Just as he was gazing at the school of Silver Moon Spirit Carp in the pond, a surprised voice suddenly rang out.

Hearing the voice, Lu Wanyuan was startled. Generally, no one entered this mansion, as it had restrictions. The only reason he could enter was that the mansion's owner, Chu Tianxing, had given him a restriction token.

Following the sound, Lu Wanyuan saw Chu Tianxing standing at the nearby rain pavilion, gazing at the school of Silver Moon Spirit Carp in the pond.

He didn't know when Chu Tianxing had returned to the mansion.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, when did you return?"

"Not long ago. Just when you were engrossed in watching the Silver Moon Spirit Carp. Did you do all this?"

Chu Tianxing pointed to the transformed environment before him and asked with a smile.

"I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Chu. I cleaned up the surrounding environment without your permission. Please forgive me!"

Lu Wanyuan said with some concern. Honestly, he was currently just a tenant here, and he worried the owner might be displeased that he had altered the place without permission, as some people disliked others casually changing the original layout and environment.

"Haha, it's fine! Especially the Silver Moon Spirit Carp in this pond. There were originally Silver Moon Spirit Carp in this pond, but later, no one managed them, and they all disappeared."

"No way, there were Silver Moon Spirit Carp here before? Is that true?"

"Of course. These Silver Moon Spirit Carp are ornamental spirit fish!"

"Oh, may I ask, Fellow Daoist Chu, what do these Silver Moon Spirit Carp eat?"

"You want to raise these Silver Moon Spirit Carp?"

"Yeah, I couldn't bear to see so many Silver Moon Spirit Carp… The pond was so deserted before. I bought some Silver Moon Spirit Carp from outside this time."

"I had no idea this pond had ever raised Silver Moon Spirit Carp before. It turns out I got lucky! The female Silver Moon Spirit Carp actually hatched so many fry. Seeing so many fry here, if I didn't know how to care for them, they'd all surely die. I've been worried about this for days," Lu Wanyuan said to Chu Tianxing with emotion.

"Oh, so that's how it is. I see you've cleaned up the area around the mansion, Fellow Daoist Lu. It seems you really care about this place."

"This mansion was originally a place for my family to develop. Later, due to the expansion of our family's scale, my Chu Family developed in larger cities. Yangmei Market is a remote place, basically no longer suitable for our family's development scale!"

"Most members of my Chu Family don't have time to come back here. Only I occasionally return, so it gradually became deserted. However, I probably won't have time to come back in the future either!"

"I see you genuinely cherish everything here. How about this? I can make the decision to sell this mansion to you. If you and your companion can gather 3,500 spirit stones, I'll give you the deed. What do you say?"

After speaking, Chu Tianxing looked at Lu Wanyuan.