Lin Mo naturally knew nothing of what had happened in the Southern Borderlands.
After returning from the Astrology Pavilion, he spent only a few days with his parents before immersing himself in cultivation, unwilling to waste even a moment.
Chen Li had been tending the spirit fields in the Gourd Space, faithfully watering the spirit plants with the prescribed amount of low-grade spirit spring water every day, just as Lin Mo had instructed.
The Spirit-Devouring Vine no longer needed watering. Its roots reached deep into the soil of the spirit fields to absorb spiritual energy, sustaining it and keeping its growth steady.
By comparison, the Gu-Devouring Bee was something of a headache.
Lin Mo normally kept it tucked in his sleeve, but after he underwent tribulation transcendence in the Forbidden Sword Mound, a black-and-white halo had actually appeared around the little creature as well. It had remained asleep ever since.
The Hundred Explanations of Spirit Insects contained no record of such a phenomenon. Lin Mo had also consulted other texts in the Scripture Pavilion, but found nothing there either.
Fortunately, although the Gu-Devouring Bee was asleep, its vital signs showed nothing unusual. After observing it for a while, Lin Mo simply left it alone, placing it atop the Spirit-Devouring Vine's root ball to let it sleep.
Everything seemed to be going fairly smoothly, but there was still a blemish in an otherwise flawless jade: the variety of spirit plants.
With his current status as an Inner Sect Elder, obtaining seeds for other spirit plants from the sect was hardly difficult. Still, the Azure Cloud Sect was only a third-rate sect, and the range of spirit plants it cultivated was extremely limited.
After several rounds of selection, Lin Mo ultimately kept his spirit fields largely as they were, merely adding another