The Moon Jade Tree was a Spiritwood born of heaven and earth, nourished by the essence of sun and moon. It was a renowned plant of Jiangnan.
In the Southern Wasteland Immortal Cultivation Realm, it grew in only a few areas and was exceedingly rare. A single sapling cost at least eight hundred Spirit Stones!
And how many trees could a thousand acres hold?
Senior Brother Jia's thoughts were a tangled mess. Born into a great agricultural clan descended from a forest cultivator, he made a rough calculation and arrived at a terrifying number.
Ten thousand trees!
Moon Jade Trees might need more room, so call it five thousand.
Five thousand trees. Four million Spirit Stones.
Senior Brother Jia had originally wanted to put on a show of wealth and declare that the Jia Household would cover whatever they planted.
But the moment he heard "Moon Jade Tree," he lost his nerve.
Four million Spirit Stones? Selling the entire Jia Household would not raise that much!
Only the Sword Gate held reserves of that size.
And those Spirit Stones were earmarked for distribution. They could not be spent lightly.
"Let's plant fifteen for now. Whatever goes in the rest doesn't matter."
Chen Zhuo added casually, "As for the Spirit Stones, deduct them from my monthly stipend. Sorry for the trouble, Senior Brother Jia."
Only then did Senior Brother Jia let out a heavy breath. "Daoist Child Chen, if you're planting just fifteen, the Jia Household has a share of spirit farmland around Heavenly Drum Peak. We can transfer it all to you and assign an old servant and fifty farmhands to tend the saplings day and night. Would that suit you?"
The old servant was a cultivator at the second or third level of Qi Refinement; the farmhands were mortal