Xu Changqing and Miao Huayu were traveling aboard Shattered Moon, Falling Frost.
Miao Huayu said helplessly, "Senior Brother Xu, demand for these kinds of spirit plants has been enormous lately. Everyone's planting and cultivating them, yet who knows what madness seized them—they insist we deliberately disrupted market prices."
Xu Changqing nodded slightly. "Clearly, they want to monopolize the market."
Miao Huayu said indignantly, "This is far too unfair. The Immortal Sect hasn't even said anything, so what gives them the right to decide everything?"
Xu Changqing waved a hand. "What you think isn't important. What matters is what the Farmer's Heart Society thinks."
Wasn't the Farmer's Heart Society the greatest force in the Spirit Fields?
At first, it had merely been founded by a group of independent cultivators unwilling to be bullied by the lineages. As time passed, its numbers grew, its influence gradually expanded, and it gained recognition from the Immortal Sect.
In the end, even the Rong Family, the foremost lineage, and the Zhang Family, the second foremost lineage, had to give it a wide berth.
Now, it held a firm grip over the direction of spirit plant prices. When prices rose and when they fell were entirely up to the Farmer's Heart Society.
If Ji Mingxuan and the others had the Farmer's Heart Society backing them, then this was no longer simply a conflict of interests between two mutual aid societies.
Miao Huayu continued to speak to himself. "The Thousand Sects Dharma Assembly is about to begin. The Immortal Sect is keeping an extremely tight rein on the market right now, yet they still dare to stir up trouble at a time like this."
Xu Changqing remained expressionless upon hearing that, appearing exceptionally calm.
In truth, he understood everything perfectly well.
With the Grain Master absent, the