Several days had passed since Dapan was retaken, on Colorful Cloud Peak.
Wen Si'an sat in Clear Thought Hall beside a woman in green whose brows and eyes carried a heroic air. It was Shi Yuanyu.
She was the daughter of Rejuvenation Mountain's sect leader. Now at the fourth level of Qi Refining, she had spent years overseeing the spirit fields in Longbright.
Shi Yuanyu only handled Spirit Planting and took no part in magical combat. Though called an Attendant, she was really more like a spirit farmer hired by the monastery, keeping her involvement shallow. Shi Mingsong had likely instructed her to do so.
"Attendant Shi, how do you think we should arrange things in Dapan now?"
Wen Si'an pointed to a survey map on the table, outlining Dapan's spirit fields with a vermilion brush, a faint worry in her expression.
Shi Yuanyu studied it for a while, then said quietly:
"Dapan has a vast number of spirit fields, almost ten times as many as Longbright. Green Wood Qi is abundant here, and the fields are of considerably better quality."
"Though the Lotus Temple developed them over the years, their methods were crude. They knew nothing of the soil's nature and planted indiscriminately, wasting its fertility."
Wen Si'an looked at the survey map and sighed:
"Dapan's spirit fields are a complete tangle now. We must sort them out from scratch. I'm afraid the few hands we have in Longbright won't be enough."
Shi Yuanyu agreed and added:
"To restore Dapan's spirit fields, we need plenty of disciples who understand Spirit Planting. Even ordinary mortals will have to lend a hand if we're to manage it."
"Training more disciples in Spirit Planting and deploying them together would be the lasting solution."
At those words, Wen Si'an's thoughts shifted. She remembered