Spirit Herb Soil Synthesis

Practice revealed true knowledge!

He might as well give it a try. If it failed, he wouldn't lose anything.

But if it worked, it would provide confirmation both ways.

It would let him find out whether his Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree was really a Spirit Plant or merely an ordinary peach tree.

Unfortunately, he hadn't brought a hoe up the mountain, so Lin Xiao had to run home to fetch one and bring it back up to dig.

In any case, the sect grounds had a defensive function, so Jiang Youfu was perfectly safe staying alone in the grass shelter.

Lin Xiao raced down the mountain.

After fetching the hoe from home, he raced back up again.

He was so fast that Sun Changfu, who had just sent the spirit medium away and returned home, had barely thought to call out to him before he was already far away. Sun Changfu had heard from his son how Lin Xiao had successfully saved someone and had just been about to go to Lin Xiao's house to thank him.

Sun Changfu couldn't help marveling at how hardworking the Lin family's boy was, still carrying a hoe up the mountain at this hour.

Back halfway up the mountain, Lin Xiao picked a spot about seven or eight meters from the grass shelter, marked out a square roughly two meters on each side, and started digging.

The soil on the mountain wasn't very deep, but fortunately, rain had washed over the spot Lin Xiao had chosen halfway up the mountain year after year, depositing soil there, so it was fairly deep.

It was just a little hard.

Lin Xiao spent more than half a shichen before he managed to dig a pit half a meter deep.

All the soil he dug out came up in hard clumps.

Even with the back of the hoe, Lin Xiao had trouble breaking them apart.

So he stopped worrying about it and stuffed the hard clumps straight into the first slot of the Soil Synthesizer.

Then he ran to a small mountain spring not far from the grounds and filled the second slot with plenty of spring water.

Finally came the third slot.

Lin Xiao went beneath the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, swept all the fallen peach blossoms into a pile, and scooped them into the third slot.

It turned green!

Lin Xiao was thrilled.

[Materials required for spirit herb soil synthesis have been entered. Synthesis commencing, please wait.]

To make it easier to pour the soil out later, Lin Xiao deliberately sat down beside the two-by-two-meter square pit he had just dug and waited.

The synthesis was quick.

[Spirit herb soil synthesis successful. It has been placed in your private storage. Please check it, host.]

Lin Xiao opened his private storage and poured all the soil into the pit in front of him.

[Ding-congratulations, host, on obtaining a sect primary spirit field (2m*2m). Reward obtained: Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds *10. They have been sent to your private storage. Please check them, host.]

Well, how about that! He'd developed a spirit field for the sect himself, and there was even a reward.

But he only had four square meters of land. He didn't know whether he could plant all five Mist Spring Grass seeds in his private storage and the ten Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds he'd just received.

Still, if he couldn't plant them all, so be it. He could always clear more land later.

Lin Xiao began dividing the four square meters of land into furrows.

The newly synthesized soil was soft and springy. One look was enough to tell it was good soil.

Lin Xiao divided the plot into three furrows in total, planting three seeds in each.

He planted four Mist Spring Grass seeds and five Spirit-Gathering Grass seeds.

If any failed to sprout, he could use the remaining seeds to fill the gaps.

If none of them sprouted... he'd trick a skilled farmer into joining the sect!

And so, after a literacy teacher, Lin Xiao had another profession he needed to trick into joining the sect.

Finally, he watered the plot, and the day's work was successfully completed!

Thoroughly satisfied, Lin Xiao went to the mountain spring, washed his face, and then used a Dust Removal Technique on his filthy body.

That would save him from a whipping when he got home.

Then, feeling refreshed, he went beneath the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, took out two grass mats and laid them side by side, then lay down for a lovely afternoon nap.

Green mountains and clear waters, peach blossoms and a spring breeze.

Such ease called for nothing but sweet dreams.

When Lin Xiao opened his eyes again, the sun was already setting.

Jiang Youfu was watching him with an eager look.

"Brother Xiao, it's getting dark. Are we going down the mountain? I'm hungry..."

He'd slept that long! Lin Xiao sprang to his feet with a carp flip and rubbed his cheeks.

"Come on, let's go home, let's go home."

By the time the two got home, it was completely dark outside.

At the Lin family's dinner table, Lin Xiao held his bowl and glanced this way and that.

Then Lin Dayou slapped his chopsticks down on the table and glared at him.

"You silly brat! Hurry up and eat! What are you looking around for? If you've got something to say, say it. Stop sitting there looking like a fool!"

Lin Xiao sat up straight and cleared his throat.

"Dad, Brother, didn't you hear anything in the village this afternoon?"

Lin Yun shook his head.

Lin Dayou said,

"What happened in our village? What, is there gossip going around Widow Liu's door again? Hey! You're not so young anymore. Can't you stop watching that unsavory business all day?"

Hearing that, Lin Xiao cried out that he'd been wronged.

"Oh, come on, Dad! When have I ever concerned myself with that stuff? I'm talking about Landlord Sun's family!"

Lin Dayou asked,

"Landlord Sun's family? You mean his wife being possessed?"

On their way home today, they'd heard plenty of villagers discussing it. It would have been hard not to know.

Lin Xiao nodded quickly.

Lin Dayou picked up his chopsticks and went back to eating.

"What does his wife being possessed have to do with you?"

Lin Yun looked at Lin Xiao and suddenly said in alarm,

"Erlang, don't tell me you-"

"Stop, stop, stop! Brother, what are you thinking?!" Lin Xiao immediately stuffed a steamed bun into Lin Yun's mouth to shut him up. "How could I possibly hurt someone? I was the one who saved her!"

Lin Dayou looked at his youngest son in surprise.

"You saved her?"

"Mm-hmm."

"Really cured her? Drove the evil spirit out completely?"

"Mm-hmm." Lin Xiao finished his last mouthful of rice and began describing exactly what had happened to the two of them in vivid-and exaggerated-detail.

When he finished, Lin Yun looked at him with shining eyes and said,

"Erlang, is that Dust Removal Technique really so useful?"

Lin Xiao nodded.

"Of course! I just waved my hand like this, and Sun Yigao's clothes..."

"Erlang, Erlang, hurry and try that Dust Removal Technique on our floor!" Lin Yun nudged him.

Lin Xiao patted his chest.

"No problem! Watch me."

With that, he used a Dust Removal Technique on the floor of their main room.

In a flash, the main room's floor looked as good as new. Only the firmly packed earth remained; the dust that was always there on ordinary days had completely vanished.

Lin Dayou was delighted and hurriedly said to Lin Xiao,

"Erlang, we'll leave the housecleaning to you from now on! Every morning, before you go up the mountain to cultivate, just wave your hand a few times and clean our rooms before you leave."

"Huh?" Lin Xiao was dumbfounded.

"What do you mean, huh? You've got this technique, so cleaning the house is easy for you. It'll save your brother and me from spending so much time sweeping every day. It's settled!" Lin Dayou felt that his youngest son becoming an immortal cultivator was quite useful after all.

Lin Xiao had only cried out like that; of course he wouldn't refuse.

On ordinary days, it was his father and elder brother who did all the work around the house.

Now he finally had a way to help shoulder some of their burden without them refusing him.

Lin Xiao immediately used a Dust Removal Technique on both of them as well.

"Dad, Brother, I've cleaned you both up. Does that mean I don't have to heat bathwater tonight?"