An unexpected windfall?
"Fellow Daoist Mo! Come to the deepest part of the cave!"
Gu Dongfeng could barely contain his delight as he hurriedly sent the message.
Mo Chen had never heard Gu Dongfeng sound so happy. He quickly put away what he was holding and followed the Voice Transmission Talisman's guidance toward the end of the cave.
"Have you found something new?"
"There are twenty Star-Eyed Tumorcap Mushrooms here!"
Once Mo Chen reached the depths of the cave, Gu Dongfeng beckoned him forward to take a look.
A sweep of his divine sense revealed a cluster of mushroom caps crowded behind a rock, the fine, star-shaped patterns on their surfaces glimmering in the dim light.
These were the sect's highest-priority harvest, which disciples were required to collect whenever they found them...
Star-Eyed Tumorcap Mushrooms!
There were actually twenty of them.
Back at the Returnless Cold Pool, they had only collected three.
According to the sect's accounting rules, one Star-Eyed Tumorcap Mushroom was worth five credits, equivalent to a moderately difficult assignment for a Qi Refining disciple.
If Mo Chen and Gu Dongfeng split these mushrooms evenly, each would gain an extra fifty credits.
Fifty credits were no small sum. Even if they simply left them untouched, they could spend ten months focusing on cultivation or their own affairs without having to accept any more sect assignments.
Freeing themselves from tedious, low-level chores to gain time for their own cultivation was, in truth, what cultivators at the bottom yearned for most.
Afterward, Mo Chen and Gu Dongfeng took ten Star-Eyed Tumorcap Mushrooms each, then packed up their formations and Restrictive Wards before leaving the Demon Beast's cave.
Morning light slanted down from the mountaintop. Before the mist in the mountain ravine had fully dispersed, two figures darted out of it.