Cultivation Room
Another half hour passed. Lin Dayou had long since finished washing the clothes and gone out to work, and Lin Yun had finished washing up and come to wake him before he finally woke again.
Lifting his eyelids and seeing that it was already light outside, Lin Xiao sprang out of bed with a carp's flip.
He quickly washed up, stuffed two pieces of dry rations into his clothes from the kitchen, and ran out.
Lin Yun was left behind to shut the door, taking on the chore without complaint.
When he reached the sect, Lin Xiao headed straight for the Spirit Field.
Seeing the Spirit Field he had filled with plants, Lin Xiao slapped his forehead.
He had been so sleepy he had forgotten there was already something growing in the whole field.
So he hurriedly started digging up mud.
The other sect members arrived on the mountain one after another. Seeing Lin Xiao huffing and puffing as he dug in the distance, they all went over to ask if he needed help.
Lin Xiao turned them all down, however.
He told everyone to hurry off and cultivate.
Now he only needed to dig up a few square meters of mud. For him, at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refinement, it was nothing at all.
Sure enough, not long after everyone had gone into the thatched shelter and begun cultivating, Lin Xiao finished digging.
This time, he planned to synthesize a larger Spirit Field in one go. He couldn't keep being so stingy, making them only a few square meters at a time.
So he spent five Spirit Stones and synthesized a Spirit Field of about fifty square meters in one go.
The level ground halfway up the mountain definitely couldn't be used to place this Spirit Field, or there would be no room for other buildings later.
So Lin Xiao placed the Spirit Field on the slope behind the halfway point of the mountain, in the form of a terrace.
It was about three hundred meters from the sect's main hall.
Lin Xiao felt it was far enough away.
It was all the way at the edge of the sect's defensive range.
With the Spirit Field in place, Lin Xiao rubbed his hands excitedly, took five Mo Mulberry seeds from his private storage, and planted them one by one in the field.
As soon as he finished planting, he eagerly pulled out five portions of Spirit Plant Growth-Accelerating Bone Meal and sprinkled them over the five little mounds of earth, one by one.
Before long, the Mo Mulberries in the Spirit Field, which hadn't even sprouted a moment ago, began to germinate and grow before his very eyes.
In the blink of an eye, they began to put out branches, followed by leaf buds. A little while later, the buds began to unfurl bit by bit, growing into large, plump Mo Mulberry leaves.
Seeing such a strange and wondrous sight for the first time, Lin Xiao was thrilled.
He hurriedly took ten spirit silkworm eggs from his private storage and placed them directly on the freshly grown Mo Mulberry leaves.
Then he waited and waited. After quite a while, he finally saw that the ten silkworm eggs had gnawed the tiniest marks into the Mo Mulberry leaves they rested on.
He was dumbfounded.
!
I'm done for.
Clearly, he had forgotten that although he had obtained bone meal to accelerate the growth of Spirit Plants, he had no way to make the spirit silkworms grow up quickly.
So, for all his impatience, he still had to wait for the spirit silkworms to grow up slowly and spin silk.
Only then could he start synthesizing the sect's initial-grade uniforms.
All Lin Xiao wanted now was to find a quiet place to be alone.
He went under the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, propped his chin in his hand, and sat in quiet contemplation.
He had actually gotten so carried away. He really shouldn't have!
He had clearly planned everything out before: first he would complete those three sect tasks. There were still two unfinished, so why was he in such a hurry to make uniforms?
Calming himself, Lin Xiao took another look at what he should be doing now.
Apart from him, the sect currently had only a few people at Qi Refining First Layer.
Jianghe and Tietou hadn't even reached Qi Refining First Layer yet.
He thought about how, in ten days-no, nine days now-that so-called Shangyang Sect would be coming to Emerald Peak Town to recruit people.
When that happened, they might very well notice this little sect of theirs in tiny Xiushui Village.
What if the newcomers took a dislike to them, or if the Immortal Cultivation Realm had some rule that left no room for their little sect, causing the newcomers to come after them? What would they do then?
A man who gives no thought to distant troubles will soon find worries close at hand.
Objectively speaking, Lin Xiao didn't think his makeshift outfit would actually attract anyone's attention, but he still had to guard against the possibility.
Granted, the sect did have a defensive function, but it only covered a three-hundred-meter radius.
What if everyone happened to be outside the range?
So the most urgent matter was still to raise the strength of everyone in the sect.
That way, if they really did run into danger, they could at least run a little faster. What if that extra bit of speed was just enough to get them into the sect's defensive range and save their lives?
Thinking this, Lin Xiao finally found his way back to his current first priority.
Build the cultivation room!
Although he still didn't know whether the cultivation room could actually speed up cultivation, Lin Xiao felt that since it was called a cultivation room, it couldn't just be an ordinary room with no function at all, could it?
He would do it right away!
There was still plenty of mud left in Lin Xiao's private storage from when he had built the sect's main hall, as well as plenty of wood.
So Lin Xiao didn't even need to look for materials now. He could synthesize it right on the spot!
First, though, Lin Xiao quietly entered the thatched shelter and took out the Initial-Grade Spirit Gathering Formation that had been placed there.
The people cultivating inside the thatched shelter all felt the flow of Spiritual Qi around them suddenly become sluggish, and its concentration abruptly dropped by a great deal.
But since it was difficult to stop in the middle of cultivation, none of them opened their eyes to check what was happening right away.
In any case, Brother Xiao was outside. Since he hadn't said anything, there surely wasn't a problem.
So, without anyone noticing, Lin Xiao quietly took the Initial-Grade Spirit Gathering Formation and ran behind the sect's main hall.
It seemed placing the cultivation room directly behind the sect's main hall wasn't quite appropriate?
After thinking it over, he ran toward the area behind and to the right of the sect's main hall.
After running about a hundred meters, Lin Xiao stopped and opened the Building Synthesizer.
As usual, he put in brick material-a pile of mud-and beam material-a pile of trees.
Then, for the third item, he put in the Initial-Grade Spirit Gathering Formation.
Lin Xiao hesitated, then added several straw mats for sitting on.
After some thought, he also took the odd four Spirit Stones from the 104 in his private storage and put them in.
Only then did he finally choose to begin synthesis.
[Beginning building synthesis-cultivation room. Please wait.]
It was the familiar wait once again.
Lin Xiao sat down on the ground, pulled up a stalk of sourgrass nearby, and held it in his mouth, chewing on it now and then.
Before long, the familiar, comforting system notification sounded.
[Ding-cultivation room synthesized successfully. Please select a location, host.]
With the experience of placing the sect's main hall, Lin Xiao had long since estimated the approximate position by eye.
When the finished cultivation room appeared before him, he calmly checked its floor area.
Mm, about thirty square meters, roughly what he had estimated.
Using the sect's main hall as a reference, Lin Xiao aligned it properly and placed the cultivation room without hesitation.
[Ding-congratulations, host, on building the sect's cultivation room. The task reward has been issued. Please check it.]
Compared with the sect's main hall, the cultivation room looked rather plain.
There wasn't even a naming step!