Good Night

It was around the hour of Shen.

About three in the afternoon.

Li Sancai arrived with a deed for a Grade-Two Spirit Field and a five-man Earth Spirit Root team.

Xu Changqing swept his gaze over them and found that the people assigned to clear and expand the fields this time were unfamiliar faces.

They appeared to be another team from the Earth Vein.

He was somewhat disappointed that they were not Wu Guangman and the others.

After all, everyone had been highly satisfied with their previous cooperation.

Still, the arrangements would ultimately depend on Senior Brother Li.

Li Sancai handed over the field deed, then asked, "Junior Brother Xu, I heard you broke another record this time?"

Xu Changqing accepted it with both hands. As he lowered his head to inspect it, he replied, "It seems so."

Li Sancai said with deep regret, "What a pity. You can only take this year's assessment. If you could go every year, our Spirit Fields would surely be teeming with talent."

Xu Changqing put away the field deed and looked at him in confusion. "Why?"

Of course, it was not because he loved the Outer Spirit Fields so much.

He simply could not understand it.

By normal logic, shouldn't someone who performed better be allowed to continue?

Li Sancai explained, "Our Spirit Fields, especially the core areas, are mostly home to honest, dutiful Wood Spirit Root spirit farmers.

"But as time went on, Lineages and factions gradually emerged one after another."

Speaking of Lineages, the Spirit Fields were now led by the Rong Family.

The Zhang Family came second.

As for smaller families, there were even more of them.

Among the factions, the largest was the Farmer's Heart Society.

Beyond that, there were smaller factions like the Farmer Army.

They gathered in