Thinking back to how Yang Lingqing had flipped through the Spirit Plant Records before, the managers suddenly felt immense pressure weighing on their hearts.
If this female cultivator truly possessed such a reading ability, sweeping through texts like a gale scattering fallen leaves, then perhaps she really had gone through all those old accounts piled up in the chief manager's compound and turned Myriad Layer Forest's very foundations upside down!
Realizing Yang Lingqing's capability, the lead manager immediately made a decisive call and ordered everyone to begin preparing Spirit Crystals according to the contents recorded in the handwritten document.
They would deliver them to Manager Yang after this matter was over.
"Fifth Brother, are we really paying this amount? This covers thirty years!"
The Spirit Crystals had to come out of their own pockets, and after tallying it up, several of them pulled long faces.
Yet the leader saw things clearly. Opening his mouth, he barked, "How can you still not understand? They've given us a way to spend money and avert disaster—they're protecting our positions!"
"When has there ever been a change at the top without a reshuffling below? They only want these thirty years now. They haven't even demanded repayment starting from when you took office—that's already more than enough face! Don't be so blind to favor!"
After being shouted at like that, the others immediately came to their senses. They repeatedly agreed and obediently took out money from their pockets, no longer daring to voice a single complaint.
The same scene in this spirit plant garden was also repeated one after another in many gardens afterward.
Just like the earlier "Mother-Child Colorful Lotus," Yang Lingqing had casually found some irrelevant, seemingly harmless excuse to inspect the Spirit Plant Records.
During her previous seclusion, she had spent day