Spirit Spring of the Barren Hill Mao Di

In the eyes of outsiders like Elder Chu, Qin Haoxuan walked and stopped, stood around everywhere, and even feigned exhaustion.

"Look at Qin Haoxuan's appearance. If we didn't know that Eight Trigrams Numerology and Feng Shui deduction weren't his methods, outsiders would really be fooled by him."

"Hmph, isn't that right? When Xu Yu finds the Spirit Land, he'll quietly mark it and then call him over to claim it. He can then openly declare that he found the Spirit Land."

Qin Haoxuan, who was currently using his Spiritual Sense to survey the Spirit Land beneath his feet, was expending a great deal of energy and had no mind to bicker with these people. He walked further and further off the beaten path, eventually arriving at a barren patch of land covered in waist-high weeds.

Stepping on this land felt not soft, but rather hard, like walking on flagstones. It was uneven and even a bit painful to his feet. This patch of land was located in a corner of the entire area. Because of the dense weeds and poor soil quality, the disciples who had walked by here quickly left. In the end, only Xu Yu, who had followed Qin Haoxuan, and Murong Chao, who had also walked along, remained.

Using some of the methods taught by Elder Chu, Xu Yu checked the soil quality and then performed some deductions using Eight Trigrams Numerology and Feng Shui knowledge. He said with a slight difficulty, "Brother Haoxuan, is this land likely to be inferior land?"

At this moment, Qin Haoxuan was fully focused on covering the land beneath his feet with his Spiritual Sense. He had a hunch that there must be a Spirit Land within this weedy, barren patch!

Seeing that Qin Haoxuan was not responding to him, Xu Yu stopped talking and began to deduce the probability of a Spirit Land appearing here again. However, his deductions indicated a zero probability.

Elder Chu, seeing Xu Yu still wasting time on this barren land, felt a pang of anxiety. According to his own deductions, all twenty-odd plots of land here were the worst possible inferior land.

After ruling out about ten plots of inferior land, Qin Haoxuan walked to the three plots on the very edge.

If those ten-odd plots were considered inferior land, then these three plots couldn't even be called that. At least those inferior plots had some weeds growing on them. These few plots, apart from dark, hard clods of earth, didn't even have a single blade of grass. In the eyes of Elder Chu and the others, they were simply as barren as could be, and planting Spirit Medicine here would surely yield nothing.

Standing on this patch of land, Qin Haoxuan, whose Spiritual Sense was nearly depleted, sent out a beam of golden light to cover the land beneath his feet!

He extended his Spiritual Sense one meter underground. Nothing.

Two meters underground, still no spiritual energy. It was even worse than the most inferior land.

Could his intuition be wrong? Just as Qin Haoxuan was about to give up, he suddenly sensed a faint flow of water two meters underground. This water seemed to contain a trace of extremely pure spiritual power, undetectable without careful attention.

Instantly, he perked up!

He probed his Spiritual Sense a few more inches deeper. His face paled slightly from the overuse of his Spiritual Sense. A clear sound of flowing water transmitted to his mind. This water carried a strong spiritual energy fluctuation, like the pulse of a robust adult. The thumping sound of spiritual energy made his blood boil! The gurgling water echoed in Qin Haoxuan's mind, sounding more pleasant than ever before!

There was a Spirit Spring beneath these three plots of land!

Before, Qin Haoxuan had also quietly used his Spiritual Sense to survey the Spirit Lands found by Zhang Kuang and Li Jing. He could clearly sense the extremely dense spiritual energy hidden beneath their Spirit Lands. However, the three Spirit Lands he found, which looked extremely poor, had no spiritual energy underground, but rather a Spirit Spring as thick as an infant's arm. He recalled from Elder Chu's lecture, as retold by Xu Yu, that Spirit Springs were extremely rare. Every Spirit Land with a Spirit Spring beneath it yielded abundant harvests year after year, because with the irrigation from the Spirit Spring, whatever was planted would grow, and the harvest amount would not depend on the whims of fate.

These three Spirit Springs were hidden very deeply. Without Spiritual Sense, they could not be found at all using simple deduction.

Even Qin Haoxuan, with his steady temperament, couldn't help but feel a surge of joy. After all, having a Spirit Spring underground was entirely different from having spiritual energy.

Immediately, he said to Xu Yu, who was still surveying, in an undeniable tone, "Junior Sister, I'll choose this plot."

He paused and added, "You choose one of these two plots too. I think the one on the right is better!"

Seeing Qin Haoxuan unhesitatingly plant the wooden marker with his name on it, Xu Yu also unhesitatingly followed Qin Haoxuan's guidance and planted the wooden marker with her name on the plot to the right.

Not far from them, Murong Chao, who had also become interested in these three barren plots of land that grew nothing, gazed at Qin Haoxuan for a moment, then shifted his gaze to Xu Yu. Finally, he planted the wooden marker with his name on the plot to the left.

This scene made Elder Chu anxious to death. Qin Haoxuan was just a Weak Seed, so choosing an inferior plot of land was in line with his status. However, Xu Yu and Murong Chao were special Immortal Seeds! They were the future hope of the Taichu Sect. If they were misled by Qin Haoxuan into choosing an inferior plot of land, it would have a significant impact on their future.

He hurried over, silently took out a compass from his robe, and his eyes, flashing with sharp light, scanned the surroundings, examining the mountain formations and water flow, deducing the trend of Dayu Mountain's spiritual veins, and deducing with great enthusiasm.

After calculating for a while, Elder Chu glared fiercely at Qin Haoxuan with a stern face, then changed his expression to a genial one as he addressed Xu Yu and Murong Chao. "If you choose this land, don't even think about filling your stomachs next year. You won't even be able to pay your sect contribution! I'm giving you a chance to change your land now. It's not too late to regret it!"

As soon as Elder Chu finished speaking, Qin Haoxuan said to Xu Yu in a firm tone, "Trust me, you won't be wrong!"

So Xu Yu glanced at Qin Haoxuan's face and then, without hesitation, shook her head and refused, "Elder, I won't change it."

Seeing Xu Yu unhesitatingly refuse Elder Chu's good intentions, Murong Chao, who had been wavering, also decided to take a gamble! At worst, he would starve to death along with the Purple Seed disciples; it wouldn't be shameful.

While Qin Haoxuan was choosing his plot, Murong Chao, who was not far from him, could feel a strange aura emanating from him, which he couldn't fathom or understand. The back that appeared eccentric to others seemed profound and unfathomable to him.

In Murong Chao's private opinion, although Qin Haoxuan was only a Weak Seed, the surprises he had brought to others during this time were beyond the reach of even the Purple Seed disciples Zhang Kuang and Li Jing. Perhaps he had indeed chosen a Spirit Land this time!

Elder Chu's personal deductions attracted the attention of other disciples. They also happened to see Xu Yu and Murong Chao, instigated by Qin Haoxuan, each choose a plot of land that was as rotten as it could be. Immediately, there were bursts of laughter.

"These plots of land don't even grow weeds. They're dry and hard. Even Elder Chu frowned after looking at them. They're clearly extremely poor!"

"Heh! I was just envious that Elder Chu was giving them special treatment and letting them choose again. I didn't expect them to be like rocks in a latrine, stinking and hard. They truly won't shed tears until they see the coffin!"

"This Qin Haoxuan is really something. He's dragging Xu Yu and Murong Chao to their deaths along with him!"

"Junior Sister Xu can be said to be naive and innocent, deceived by Qin Haoxuan. Could it be that Murong Chao's brain is also fried?"

"If they can't pay their sect contribution next year, it'll be a huge joke!"

Listening to the whispers, Zhang Kuang looked at Li Jing and sneered, "To win over Xu Yu, you even sent Murong Chao to appease Qin Haoxuan. Be careful you don't end up losing your own chickens while trying to steal theirs. Next year, you'll have to subsidize his sect contribution, a complete waste of a Gray Seed subordinate."

Li Jing smiled slightly, ignoring Zhang Kuang's mockery. However, his heart was in turmoil. Zhang Kuang thought Murong Chao was sent by him, but didn't he know himself? He had only told Murong Chao to temporarily put aside his hatred for Qin Haoxuan so as not to affect his grand plan of winning over Xu Yu, but he hadn't told him to actively approach him!

The determination of Xu Yu and Murong Chao left Elder Chu helpless. He secretly pondered that he must find a way to separate Qin Haoxuan and Xu Yu, lest he corrupt a Supreme Purple Seed with Qin Haoxuan's influence. If the Sect Master were to blame him, he wouldn't be able to bear it.

With a displeased expression, Elder Chu, seeing that he couldn't persuade Xu Yu and Murong Chao, glared fiercely at Qin Haoxuan again and then gathered all the new disciples to begin a practical planting lesson.

Under Elder Chu's instruction, several handyman senior brothers brought over several bags of seeds, including millet, corn, wheat, and sweet potatoes, common crops. Planting Spirit Medicine had high requirements for the planting environment and was also more difficult to plant. These new disciples couldn't even perform the Spirit Infusion Technique. Except for those few Spirit Lands, even if other lands were planted, it would be difficult to yield a harvest.

"The farmland here is relatively barren. I suggest you start by planting corn and sweet potatoes, which are easier to grow. After they mature, besides your own food, you can exchange the rest with senior brothers who raise Spirit Beasts for manure," Elder Chu said, looking at the surprised eyes of the disciples. He continued, "Even a barren piece of land can be cultivated into a Spirit Land, as long as you are willing to spend effort irrigating it with Spirit Springs and exchanging mature crops with senior brothers who raise Spirit Beasts for manure."

When Elder Chu mentioned Spirit Beast manure, Li Jing and the others showed expressions of disgust. These pampered young masters were unwilling to even wash their clothes, let alone handle something as disgusting as manure.

Among these two hundred new disciples, many came from poor backgrounds and had done their fair share of farm work. Hearing that irrigating with Spirit Springs and fertilizing could cultivate barren land into Spirit Land, they immediately rolled up their sleeves, eager to try. Their initial dejection turned into full-blown enthusiasm.

Xu Yu looked at the hard ground beneath her feet with concern. Her unhesitating obedience to Qin Haoxuan's words in choosing this plot did not mean she fully agreed with his viewpoint that this was a Spirit Land.

Although appearances could be deceiving, and seemingly fertile, loose soil did not necessarily mean good land, this soil was black and hard. Even Elder Chu had shaken his head after his deductions, making it difficult to say it was good land.

The reason she chose this plot was more to save face for Qin Haoxuan! Murong Chao's reason for choosing this plot was even simpler: firstly, Xu Yu had chosen it, and secondly, despite the previous animosity between him and Qin Haoxuan, after spending these few days together, Qin Haoxuan's constant surprises had made him subconsciously trust Qin Haoxuan deeply.

With a wave of Elder Chu's hand, the disciples got busy. Some went to fetch water from the Spirit Spring, others loosened the soil and sowed seeds, all engrossed in their work.

Seeing his fellow disciples bustling about, Xu Yu turned to Qin Haoxuan with a serious expression and said, "Brother Haoxuan, we need to water diligently and grow more fruits to exchange for spirit beast manure. Then, we can plant a large patch of Spirit Medicine on this land, letting them know that the land you chose is no worse than theirs!"

Qin Haoxuan, slightly fatigued from the immense consumption of his Spiritual Sense, simply smiled and offered no further explanation. Picking up the hoe from the ground, he said, "Let's loosen the soil first."

As the hoe dug into the dry, hard earth, Qin Haoxuan felt a sense of contentment. Having shouldered the responsibility of supporting his family since childhood, he used to fight ferocious beasts on the mountain daily. Back then, his greatest wish was to have a piece of land like this to till for food.

An acre of land isn't that large; half an hour was enough to loosen the soil once.

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