"Long Tianyuan withdrew! Lin Mo is the champion!"
"That's right! Senior Brother Lin won! Our Azure Cloud Sect won!"
"Shh... keep your voice down. The Sect Master hasn't announced the end of the competition yet. The final result is still uncertain..."
With Long Tianyuan's withdrawal, the Azure Cloud disciples around the square were beside themselves with excitement. Some even couldn't help cheering aloud.
However, Han Kang and Miao Yun were still watching the competition from the hall entrance, so no one dared make assumptions. Aside from a few Dragon Hall elders and disciples who quietly left, everyone remained where they was, waiting.
Lin Mo carried on as usual.
He had already buried the Purple-Patterned Rice Plant spirit seed in the spirit soil inside the Square Cauldron. Just as when tending the spirit plants in his own courtyard, he drew mountain spring water from the cauldron's handle and watered it, then gave it no further thought.
The circulation of his own aura would naturally spur the spirit plant's growth. Though it was less effective than genuine Gourd Spirit Spring water, it still made the plant grow hundreds or thousands of times faster than normal.
The sun and moon traded places, and time flew by.
As the first ray of dawn brightened the eastern sky, the final day of the Spirit Plant Grand Competition at last arrived.
Long Shengye, Long Tianyuan, and the others who had left earlier had returned to the square. The elders and disciples of the three sects, along with the sect masters and elders of the smaller sects, all gathered around it.
Not a single person made a sound.
Every gaze converged on the space before Lin Mo, on the Purple-Patterned Rice Plant at the center of the Square Cauldron.
Grain heads in three days!
In just three