Lower-Grade Spirit Spring Water?

"What do you know? Why would high-level cultivators help us? In their eyes, we're nothing more than ants. Would you care whether an ant lived or died? Or would you pay attention to how ants lived?" Old Li rolled his eyes. These blockheads really knew nothing.

In the cultivation world, if you weren't in the same realm, you weren't on the same wavelength. You simply couldn't fit into the circles of high-level cultivators.

It was like a farmer from the countryside going to the city. Their identities, classes, and status were all different. Who would think highly of you?

The hierarchy in the cultivation world was extremely strict. It was nothing like what Chen Huai'an and the others had imagined.

"Enough. This old man will take you through fetching water once. After that, the job will be yours. Don't you dare slack off on me, or you'll regret it." Old Li suddenly pulled a stern face and spoke coldly.

"Senior, what do you mean? You won't be fetching water with us from now on?" A sturdy, tiger-headed youth beside Chen Huai'an asked Old Li.

"Fetching water is your job. What the hell does it have to do with this old man? If you don't want a beating, get to work obediently. Otherwise, you'll regret it." Old Li abruptly changed his attitude.

This old man changed his face faster than turning a page.

Chen Huai'an had thought he was easy to talk to, but it turned out the old man wanted to use the four of them as free labor.

"Don't act rashly. He's a senior cultivator. None of us have reached the Body Tempering Realm, so we're no match for him." Chen Huai'an suddenly grabbed the other youth and said.

Old Li looked seventy or eighty, like he had one foot in the grave, but Chen Huai'an knew his strength was terrifying. Though he was only a servant disciple, he was even more formidable than Zhang Hu. If they offended him, they would definitely suffer.

Old Li was dead set on not fetching water, so they had no choice but to do it.

There were eight of them, but now only the four newcomers were fetching water.

"You're the sensible one, kid. Don't make pointless struggles. Let me tell you, we old men also came up step by step like this." Old Li gave Chen Huai'an a meaningful look.

Led by Old Li, they carried their buckets to the Spirit Spring Water pool near the sect.

This was an enormous spring source. Disciples from the Servant Peak and other peaks all came here to fetch water.

Because so many people lived there, the daily consumption was immense. There were dozens of people solely responsible for fetching water.

There were old and young among them, and every one of them looked like a wilted eggplant, listless and dispirited.

Fetching water was physically demanding. You had to keep your balance and have enough strength, or after just a few trips, you would be completely exhausted. How the hell were you supposed to keep working then?

The stronger you were, the easier this job became.

After Chen Huai'an made several trips, the other water carriers were drenched in sweat. Yet Chen Huai'an took two sips of Spirit Spring Water from the Purple-Skinned Gourd along the way, and all his fatigue vanished.

From what he observed, there were many people fetching water, but after going back and forth once, many of them could no longer keep up physically.

Whenever no one was around, Chen Huai'an placed the Purple-Skinned Gourd into the Spirit Spring pool. In just a short while, the water in the pool dropped by a small amount.

Just then, someone came to draw water, so Chen Huai'an immediately put away the Purple-Skinned Gourd filled with water.

The best benefit for water-fetching servants was actually the sect's Spirit Spring Water. Whenever they were thirsty, they could drink as much as they wanted.

The sect's Spirit Spring Water was not as effective as Chen Huai'an's, but long-term consumption could still strengthen the body and improve one's health.

Thus, whenever Chen Huai'an found an opportunity, he secretly filled the Purple-Skinned Gourd with Spirit Spring Water.

Since it was their first time fetching water, they were very slow. The four newcomers were exhausted like dead dogs, and Old Li and the others only helped out in the evening. Otherwise, they would never have filled all the water vats.

If the vats were not filled, it would not only be Chen Huai'an and the other newcomers who were punished. The four older men would also be punished. That was the only reason they were willing to help.

If I want to stop fetching water, all I need to do is make these old bastards behave. Then I won't have to fetch water in the future. I can just watch them work. Chen Huai'an frowned as he thought about Old Li and the others' actions.

In truth, wherever there were people, there was conflict. As long as one wanted to, there were always loopholes to exploit.

Why did Old Li and the other older men dare to exploit Chen Huai'an and the four newcomers? Because they were weak. The weak had no right to speak.

If Chen Huai'an could one day overpower them, he could naturally do whatever he wanted in the back kitchen as well.

For now, what he needed to do was find a way to cultivate.

Chen Huai'an's strength was what it was, and his cultivation speed could keep up. What he lacked was time to cultivate.

Old Li and the others were all at the peak of the middle stage of the Body Tempering Realm. They were only one step away from breaking through the sixth level of the middle stage and entering the late stage of the Body Tempering Realm. Chen Huai'an and the others were no match for them and could only keep their heads down.

Chen Huai'an did not know about the others' situations, but he understood his own very clearly. With high-grade Body Tempering Pills and Spirit Spring Water to assist his cultivation, he could even cultivate while working by taking a high-grade Body Tempering Pill.

It was just that doing so would divide his attention and prevent him from fully refining the medicine's effects, which was somewhat wasteful.

However, Chen Huai'an did not care about that bit of waste. After all, he had plenty of resources.

Since there was no solution, he could only accept the current situation. Chen Huai'an did not want to waste time, so he hurried to raise his cultivation. Once his cultivation was high enough, he could make them fetch water while he rested.

Chen Huai'an's greatest gain that day was secretly filling the Purple-Skinned Gourd with some genuine Spirit Spring Water. He was looking forward to seeing what it would become after a night.

The night passed without incident, and Chen Huai'an spent it cultivating.

"I've reached the peak of the first level of the early stage of the Body Tempering Realm. In another day or two, I'll be able to break through to the second level." Chen Huai'an stood up, sensed the state of his body, and smiled.

At this cultivation speed, these people would not be able to bully him for much longer.

I need to enter the space and see how the Spirit Spring Water evolved. Chen Huai'an had been thinking about the Spirit Spring Water he had put into the gourd.

Seeing no one around, Chen Huai'an willed it, and in an instant, he entered the space.

Once inside, he saw that the Spirit Spring Water at the location of the spatial spring was emitting astonishing spiritual energy fluctuations.

If Spirit Spring Water had grades, then the Spirit Spring Water in his space had likely reached the lower grade.

The previous Spirit Spring Water had also been called Spirit Spring Water, but it had possessed no grade.

The Spirit Spring Water in the Servant Peak cafeteria also had no grade. It was not as potent as the stream water that had evolved inside Chen Huai'an's space, and the current Spirit Spring Water was clearly no ordinary product.

That was right. This Spirit Spring Water should be lower-grade. There was not much of it, only enough to fill several jars. Since he had not collected much yesterday, there was not much left after it evolved and was purified.

"Eh? Something's not right. Isn't this space a little larger than before?" Chen Huai'an suddenly noticed that the Purple-Skinned Gourd's space had expanded by a small amount compared to a few days ago. The Spirit Spring had also grown larger and could hold more Spirit Spring Water.

"Could the size of the gourd space be related to my cultivation? The stronger my cultivation, the larger this space becomes?"

Chen Huai'an's guess was completely correct. As his cultivation improved, the gourd space unlocked more area.

A larger space had many benefits. The more things it could hold, the more spring water it could purify.

The previous space had looked large, but after dividing it into several areas, the usable space was actually very limited.

The area for storing Spirit Spring Water was especially small. In the future, he planned to cultivate a spiritual herb field in the space, so it could not be too small.

The area where Chen Huai'an and the other water-fetching disciples lived.

Bang.

The door was suddenly kicked open with brutal force.

"You trash, how long are you going to keep slacking off? Get the hell up and start working!" Curses rang out in the courtyard.