[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-can-travel-between-two-worlds":3,"chapter-i-can-travel-between-two-worlds-i-can-travel-between-two-worlds-chapter-129":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Can Travel between Two Worlds",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1084165,1411,"Chapter 129 - 107: Puppet’s First Test, a Blundered Foundation Establishment Celebration!","i-can-travel-between-two-worlds-chapter-129",129,"\u003Cp>\"What’s the matter? Let’s talk inside!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen revealed a reassuring smile and gestured toward the shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once inside the shop, he poured a cup of tea for Huang Xin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Huang Xin’s nervous expression gradually eased, Lin Chen asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why don’t you start by telling me what’s going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, Huang Xin was quite tense, but under Lin Chen’s influence, he couldn’t help but relax a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior Brother Lin, it’s like this... Didn’t you previously ask me to find Sect disciples for the medicine garden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Recently, quite a few outer disciples have contacted me, but...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than a year ago, when Lin’s Small Pavilion first opened, Lin Chen contemplated establishing some medicine gardens to provide Spiritual Medicines for Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he gradually recruited dozens of outer disciples, contracting a mountain and a medicine garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, Huang Xin was in charge of managing the dozens of disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the range of the Great Xia Spirit Gathering Array expanded, it trained thousands of cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there was no longer a need to rely on the medicine garden for Spiritual Medicine supply, and thus Lin Chen hadn’t paid much attention to it since.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply distributed Spirit Stones regularly, and Huang Xin would hand over the medicinal herbs to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the past six months, due to the unrest in the Yanlai Realm...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Changchun Sect and the Wild Wolf Sect were almost on the verge of open war, and Inner Sect disciples, with their strong skills, naturally enjoyed certain privileges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the outer disciples found themselves in a pitiful situation...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, many of them gathered at the shops at the base of the mountain doing odd jobs, or mined, or occasionally went up the mountain to pick herbs for a living.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, with the unstable situation, many disciples have found themselves \"unemployed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, they didn’t dare to stray too far from Changchun Mountain, fearing attacks from Tribulation Cultivators and the Wild Wolf Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, many loose cultivators left the marketplace at Changchun Mountain, resulting in declining business for the shops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some outer disciples even lacked the supply to continue their cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, over the past one or two months, more than a hundred outer disciples approached Huang Xin, hoping to secure a livelihood in the medicine garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outer disciples had heard of the good welfare in Lin Chen’s medicine garden, and with Lin Chen, a Foundation Establishment Expert, overseeing, they were eager to join.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even tried to bribe Huang Xin with Spirit Stones and pills to gain favor through the back door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Xin had never encountered such a scene before, and after contemplating in the medicine garden for about a fortnight, he still couldn’t make a decision, so he hurriedly sought out Lin Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Huang Xin’s account, Lin Chen smiled and calmly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that’s what it is!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is actually a good thing, I can always use more hands in the medicine garden... How about this, you take me to see those people first?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Huang Xin’s eyes lit up, and his previously worried demeanor relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior Brother, I’ll take you there right away...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen spent the afternoon following Huang Xin to meet those over one hundred outer disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them were at the second and third layers of Qi Refining, and would likely only be at the mercy of Tribulation Cultivators if encountered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these disciples had some skills, able to expedite the maturation of Spiritual Medicine or mine on the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen assigned these disciples according to their specific skills to the medicine garden and the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this way, the number of disciples under his wing reached two hundred and thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wages for these two hundred and thirty disciples were no less than one hundred Spirit Stones daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet at the same time, they brought Lin Chen significant benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen estimated the monthly extraction of Cold Iron Stone would approach ten thousand pounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, they could provide Lin Chen with nearly a thousand low-tier herbs monthly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By evening, after dealing with the day’s trivial matters, Lin Chen returned to the shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reflected on the day’s events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From Huang Xin’s perspective, these more than one hundred disciples are a burden for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But in reality, that’s not the case...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen thought silently in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not difficult to imagine, in these wartime circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human lives are cheap, and the labor of low-tier cultivators even cheaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the three to four thousand Spirit Stones expense each month is very real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone Lin Chen, even the Changchun Sect couldn’t possibly support that many useless low-tier disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After months of inflation, the price of Cold Iron Stone gradually receded, even dropping lower than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, sects and cultivation forces had previously purchased enormous quantities of Cold Iron Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led many later-reacting loose cultivators and small forces to hire people to mine Cold Iron Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flood of Cold Iron Stone entered the market...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the number of Artifact Refiners is limited, and even if they worked day and night, such a huge amount of ore was bound to exceed demand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Artifact Refiners in the cultivation realm are not like those on Blue Star, mass-producing Magical Artifacts with full machinery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, low-tier herbs face the same situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From an economic perspective, this surplus of Cold Iron Stone and herbs makes the labor of low-tier cultivators even cheaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, the businesses run by loose cultivators in Changchun Sect were declining, with many fleeing to seek refuge outside the Yanlai Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Huang Xin’s viewpoint, Lin Chen was his benefactor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t watch so many useless cultivators work under Lin Chen, earning Lin Chen’s money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in his view, Lin’s Small Pavilion couldn’t possibly sustain such a large number of low-tier cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from Lin Chen’s perspective, it was a different story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted as much low-tier labor and raw materials as possible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as there were materials, Lin Chen wasn’t worried about transforming them into Magical Artifacts or pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that several thousand Spirit Stone monthly expenditure was insignificant to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now, it does feel like the beginnings of a small power...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Chen thought silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, those outer disciples are still just hired workers, a disorganized bunch... They can manage to grow herbs and mine usually.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But when real issues arise... I’m afraid Huang Xin is the only one I can trust.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even mosquitoes are meat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, a monthly yield of ten thousand pounds of Cold Iron Stone is quite a feast for Blue Star!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems that later, if there’s a chance, I’ll need to contract two more mountains... With my current Foundation Establishment Cultivator status, I should be able to protect these industries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1137,"2026-06-03T10:50:41.488Z",1,"novelbin.me","86522677ae19240487a769ad50e5c815ac6743a76c09ca81fc579b0da99e1991","i-can-travel-between-two-worlds-chapter-130","i-can-travel-between-two-worlds-chapter-128",422,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-can-travel-between-two-worlds-cover.jpg"]