"Oh?"
Lin Ke was rather pleased to hear this. "I originally meant to have you oversee Whitegrass Pond for three months, Brother Wu..."
"No matter." Wu Yu smiled and shook his head. "Brother Lin, I won't deceive you. At our sect's outpost in your sect, few people come to hire Spirit Planters. Most come to hire fighters."
"Your sect's cultivation methods mostly involve Spirit Insects, and the Poison Tempering Mountains are crawling with them, with no shortage of spirit herbs either. Few people therefore want to grow crops on a large scale."
"As a result, those who hire Spirit Planters are invariably your sect's elders or Grand Elders. Even their casual conversations revolve around origin-tier things, so I haven't been hired in two years."
As he spoke, Wu Yu sighed.
"Normally, my monthly stipend is only two hundred spirit stones. Every step is truly a struggle. Hiring me for three months this time has put out the fire burning at my brows, Brother Lin. Ten thousand spirit stones will last me a long while."
Hearing Wu Yu's sincere words, Lin Ke felt much the same.
How poor had he been before?
His monthly stipend had been a mere hundred and fifty spirit stones.
Previously, even when buying a Golden-Wing Envoy Nest to house his Spirit Beasts, he had needed to choose the smallest one. He had only gritted his teeth and bought it to conceal his Niwan Palace.
When buying spells, too, he had compared and deliberated over his choices again and again.
And how had he come into money later?
It had all depended on the Mysterious Bead opening his Niwan Palace, allowing him to fuse Spirit Insects.
Later, he had obtained the Mysterious Seed, which had combined with a Blackgold Silkworm and bee eggs to give birth to