At dusk, Yellow Sand Mountain looked even more golden.
At the foot of Yellow Sand Mountain lay a vast field of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice. Each grain was plump and full, and the harvest season was just around the corner.
Several Heavenly Sand Sect cultivators carefully drove away spirit insects that had appeared from who knew where, already imagining the yield of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice.
"This time, we'll probably harvest nearly a thousand jin of spirit rice!" one of the cultivators remarked with a sigh.
Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice was a mid-grade first-rank spirit rice, exceptionally beneficial to earth-attribute cultivators' cultivation. In Xiao Mountain Marketplace, a single jin of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice could sell for fifteen spirit stones.
A thousand jin would amount to at least fifteen thousand spirit stones.
And that did not even include the Heavenly Sand Sect's spirit mountain nearby.
"That's all thanks to the Supreme Elder. Without him, who knows whether our Heavenly Sand Sect would even still exist? The Supreme Elder raised the spirit vein and helped us open shops too. Now, throughout Xiao Mountain Prefecture, how many cultivators don't feel a chill when they see the robes you and I wear?" A cultivator beside him nodded repeatedly, his face full of pride.
Though they were only mid-stage Qi Refinement cultivators now, considered the lowest-ranking cultivators of the Heavenly Sand Sect, if they went out at this moment, there would probably be quite a few late-stage Qi Refinement cultivators calling them Dao Brother.
Naturally, they were in exceptionally high spirits.
"I heard the sect has already adjusted its recruitment standards. In the future, anyone wishing to join must either have dual spirit roots or better, or be admitted into the sect from childhood, with no worse than four spirit roots."
The two went