The warm spring breeze brushed against Wang Nannan's face, reminding him that spring had arrived.
The spirit rice seedlings had already been planted, neatly arranged in the spirit water fields, swaying with the breeze.
Once the spirit rice seedlings had taken root, spirit loach seedlings could be released. This was experience accumulated over many years, and Wang Nannan had now learned it!
The spirit loach seedlings were naturally bred by the family in the spirit fish ponds not far away. Besides spirit loach, there were also several kinds of spirit fish, which were the family's main source of income.
The mulberry leaves had all been replaced with tender green ones, full of juice, making it a good time to raise silkworms.
Wang Nannan's cousin, Wang Xiangxiu, was the granddaughter of the late Wang Mingzhu, the clan leader's younger sister. As the only insect cultivator in the clan, she was extremely skilled at controlling spirit insects.
She was responsible for raising the silkworms on the mulberry trees every year, and she also completed the work of breeding silkworms, reeling silk, and pulling cocoons.
The silk of the spirit silkworms was a good material for refining tools, and the clan was usually reluctant to sell it, instead keeping it for the clansmen to exchange.
Wang Nannan watched his cousin tend to the spirit silkworms, looking like a curious baby as he stood beside her to observe.
After all, the number of insect cultivators was extremely small, and it was not easy to encounter one.
"Are you interested, kid?" Wang Xiangxiu's smile was as bright as a flower. Her cultivation was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, but she gave Wang Nannan a sense of danger.
"Get back in there, don't scare my nephew." Wang Xiangxiu shouted, and a palm-sized black beetle slowly crawled from Wang Xiangxiu's shoulder into the spirit beast bag.
Wang Nannan's pupils shook, and when he looked at the black beetle, his body trembled slightly, as if in fear.
Wang Xiangxiu did not explain, and continued to ask, "Do you want to become an insect cultivator?"
Wang Nannan nodded, then shook his head.
"Cousin, I haven't even learned to be a spirit plant farmer yet. As for insect cultivation, I'll think about it later."
Wang Xiangxiu didn't mind, and only thought that Wang Nannan was frightened by the black beetle.
"By the way, cousin, what kind of species is that black beetle?" Wang Nannan couldn't help but ask, but he didn't ask about its realm.
"Black Armor King Beetle, I bought it at the market when I was out on a mission." Wang Xiangxiu replied, while tightening the spirit beast bag to prevent other spirit insects from running out.
Wang Nannan swallowed, found an excuse, and left!
Sitting next to the spirit water field, leaning against Sixi, who was lying down, Wang Nannan happened to look up and saw many clansmen going out on spirit boats.
There were also many clansmen driving ox carts, leaving by land.
Wang Nannan thought for a while before remembering.
March was the time for the clan to test spirit roots. A year ago, Wang Nannan had stayed in the clan land because of this.
The Wang clan was widespread, so it made sense to send out several cultivators.
"I wonder how many lucky ones there will be this year." Wang Nannan sighed. The reason they were called lucky ones was not only because they had the qualifications to cultivate immortality, but also because the Wang family was harmonious internally. If they were rogue cultivators, they might not be so lucky!
Just as everyone was busy, an old man had quietly entered the Wang family's mountain top, put away the puppets in the cave, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He sat cross-legged on the futon and sent a voice transmission to Wang Minghui in the Book Collection Pavilion.
"Finally back!" Elder Wang Minghui's mouth turned up, and he closed the Book Collection Pavilion, bypassed the clansmen, and hurried to the clan leader's cave.
"How is it?" Wang Minghui asked, activating the formation of the clan leader's cave, while looking at the two people inside the cave.
One old man was the clan leader, and the other old woman was the one who had left with the clan leader before. If an older generation clan member came in, they would know that this woman was Wang Mingzhu, the clan leader's younger sister who had been "fallen" for a long time.
"One was auctioned, and Mingzhu snatched one on the way back." Clan leader Wang Mingai smiled knowingly.
"What are you laughing at? I almost lost my old life for this Foundation Establishment Pill." Wang Mingzhu said dissatisfied.
This time, the two of them left the family to participate in the Shennong Sect's auction house. The ten Foundation Establishment Pills auctioned there attracted many families and Qi Refining peak rogue cultivators, and the competition was very fierce.
The family's spiritual stones accumulated over many years barely managed to auction one, but on the way back, they were followed by many bandits.
As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wang Mingai was naturally not afraid. Instead, he pretended to be a pig to eat a tiger, led this group of people into the wilderness, ambushed them, and made a lot of money by touching corpses.
Wang Mingzhu was a bit miserable. As a backup to secretly protect the Foundation Establishment Pill, she encountered three Foundation Establishment cultivators one after another, seriously injured one, killed one, and scared one away. Her record was remarkable.
However, the counterattack of the Foundation Establishment cultivator before his death caused Wang Mingzhu to be seriously injured.
"You go back to heal your injuries first. In a few days, I will go to the Shennong Sect again to ask for some second-grade healing pills for you." Clan leader Wang Mingai comforted her. This time, his sister's contribution was not small for his smooth return.
Wang Mingzhu snorted coldly and went to the secret room underground.
"Is Second Sister's injury okay!" Wang Minghui was a little worried.
"It's okay, it didn't hurt the foundation, otherwise your Second Sister would be so calm?" Clan leader Wang Mingai waved his hand.
At the same time, he took out three Foundation Establishment Pills.
Wang Minghui's eyes widened and he looked at Wang Mingai in confusion, and said: "Didn't you buy one and snatch one? Where did the extra one come from?"
Wang Mingai smiled slightly, "Shennong Sect gave it on credit!"
"On credit? What a joke." Wang Minghui obviously didn't believe it. Who are you kidding? The Shennong Sect is very stingy, especially for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Their vassal families can only rely on auctions to obtain it.
"It is indeed on credit." Wang Mingai said seriously, "In a while, the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm will open in Niangniang Mountain. The Shennong Sect requires our Wang family to send at least five Qi Refining late-stage cultivators to help find the main ingredients for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill."
"If we can find it, the Foundation Establishment Pill will be sold for three thousand spiritual stones each, and I have already paid this fee."
"If we can't find it, we need to pay another eight thousand spiritual stones."
"Moreover, they are not responsible for the life and death of our Wang family's cultivators in the secret realm. As for the other spiritual herbs collected, they occupy 50%."
"The Shennong Sect has a good plan!" Wang Minghui said dissatisfied.
Normal second-grade pills are only worth dozens of spiritual stones. Compared with daily necessities that only need spiritual sand to buy, they are already very expensive, but expensive has its reasons, after all, second-grade spiritual herbs are not easy to encounter.
But the Foundation Establishment Pill, a necessity for the upward channel, is an exception. The current price is at least five thousand spiritual stones, and it is normal for auctions to be炒to eight or nine thousand spiritual stones, a hundred times the premium.
The reason is that the main ingredients for the Foundation Establishment Pill are not easy to obtain in the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm, and the cultivators who can refine the Foundation Establishment Pill are all in the Golden Core Sect, and the market is firmly controlled by them, harvesting ordinary cultivators.
"No matter how you calculate it, the Shennong Sect will not lose!" Wang Minghui continued to complain. If the Wang family cultivators bring out the main ingredients, the Shennong Sect can continue to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill. Even if they can't bring it out, the Wang family will compensate thousands of spiritual stones.
"Knowing that we are being slaughtered, we have to accept it." Wang Mingai sighed, and took out five tokens again.
"These are the tokens to enter the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm. I plan to ask you to lead the clansmen to go there in person."
"You know, only Qi Refining stage can enter the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm."
"Our family didn't have the opportunity to enter before, but this time..." Wang Mingai smiled evilly, and another map appeared in his hand, which recorded the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm.
"I didn't expect that I, a waste who couldn't break through Foundation Establishment and instead cultivated to the twenty-first level of Qi Refining, would now have a use."
"Don't say that, you are not a waste." Wang Mingai patted Wang Minghui and said.
"I will let the other four clansmen who go with you find you these days, and then prepare and set off!"
"We have to go to the Shennong Sect first to help Second Sister buy some second-grade healing pills."
"As for who to give these three Foundation Establishment Pills to? It depends on the performance of the four of them in the Spirit Treasure Secret Realm."