Chapter 113

"Here." Mo Lie's gaze glanced at the ground.

As someone who often stays with him, Lin Manzhi naturally understood: this place referred not to the Iron Claw Gang but to the whole Xicheng Qu.

Mo Lie hid nothing from her; back when they were at home he had told her they would take Xicheng Qu, and now it really is being passed down like that, right?

Lin Manzhi frowned worriedly: "Xiang Sa and his two companions are powerful beastfolk; just their underlings of vigorous adult males exceed ten thousand, and they can mobilize all the mid‑small forces in Xicheng Qu, while we have only six hundred plus… be careful."

"According to the information Hua Zheng gathered this period, I have already deployed: first take down the surrounding forces, then deal with Xiang Sa." Mo Lie's eyes turned cold: "I will go myself."

Lin Manzhi blinked slightly.

……Go personally?

She saw that in the original book, Mo Lie indeed relied on himself leading his followers, emerging from the sea of blood to confirm himself as the sole underground king of Kuangsha City.

At that time, although his Spirit Core had not recovered, his human appearance plus that long blade weapon could easily pierce the skin of shield‑armored male beasts; surely this time won't be too difficult either?

From now on, the Mo Lie I have raised is far better than his state in the original book.

Lin Manzhi relaxed a bit, quickened her steps under the big sun, and asked: "I also believe this is simple for you."

She thought about the benefits of lettuce for male beasts' Spirit Cores, then continued: "Do you need to take out some lettuce for them to eat?"

Mo Lie said: "Not needed now; after each competition ends, I'll take it out as a reward."

Lin Manzhi nodded.

She unconsciously took Mo Lie's hand and returned to the highest point of this area.

Now Mo Lie is busy subduing his own forces; she found Huang Cai, and now she has things to do in Kuangsha City, studying potions with Huang Cai, and this time she brought a lot of Exotic Beast Skin, needing to find a safe, hidden courtyard to build a lettuce greenhouse.

She walked into the room, pulled her hand from Mo Lie's, raised her hand to take off the scarf draped over her body and placed it on her shoulder.

Mo Lie also took off the black shark‑skin cloth on his head, walked to the low table in the room, and set down the small box he had been carrying all along that held money.

He lifted his pair of blue eyes, as if suddenly thinking of something, his gaze falling on Lin Manzhi:

"But I really do need your help, Zhizhi, with something right now."

Lin Manzhi turned her head dubiously and asked: "What?"

Mo Lie said unhurriedly: "Help me think of a name; I don't like the name Iron Claw Gang, we need a new one."

"Thinking of a new name……" Lin Manzhi blinked.

She never expected that Mo Lie would ask her for this; in the original book, after subduing his forces he had no interest in naming them, while other territories' beastfolk called him a tyrant.

Upon learning his nickname, Mo Lie didn't care what he was called, nor did he like the names given by insignificant factions; anyway he is the master of this land, the first lord of Kuangsha City.

Lin Manzhi went along with the flow: "Isn't this place called Kuangsha City?"

"Oh?" Mo Lie raised his eyebrows slightly, curled his lips: "Kuangsha City—Zhizhi and I thought of the same thing; our ideas match well."

Lin Manzhi turned back.

"Of course, I've read the original; following your line of thought I couldn't be wrong."

She gave a faint smile, sat on the soft cushion beside the low table, then reached out to bring the small money‑holding box before her, opened the lid, and counted her wealth.

Besides expenses, after the previous trip and this one delivering lettuce, 1401 gold coins remain—equivalent to over fourteen million Beast Coins!

In this world, the richest are surely none other than the Shamanesses.

Besides receiving her first profit share from Su Li today, in her space, after clearing the Hundred‑Day Spiritual Field twenty days ago and planting lettuce everywhere, she has now harvested two hundred times.

After Mo Lie brought up lunch from below and finished eating it, Lin Manzhi went to rest on the soft platform, and her consciousness directly entered her own space.

The lettuce in the Hundred‑Day Spiritual Field was harvested once more, and Lin Manzhi's spirit could not contain its excitement.

She first replanted the lettuce seeds, tied her black long hair with a black cloth band behind her head, her eyes widened slightly from excitement, clear and lustrous, sparkling as she watched the lettuce leaves push through the soil, bit by bit beginning to grow.

After her adjustment several tens of days ago, the Hundred‑Day Spiritual Field now only grows lettuce, yielding four harvests per day; she has already done 199 harvests, and one more will trigger an upgrade.

Under Lin Manzhi's eager anticipation, a few hours felt longer than days; fortunately, whether anxious or not, time always moves forward.

Lin Manzhi crouched by the field, waiting for the lettuce heads to show the maturity sign, then immediately picked up a sickle and began harvesting the lettuce.

As she harvested the last lettuce plant, the gray patch beside the river.

A flash of white light.

Immediately the field and river seemed to come alive, shifting from grayish to black soil and clear, transparent water, appearing vividly real before her eyes.

Lin Manzhi saw that she now had three additional plots; then the original three plots also flashed with white light, and all the land upgraded.

Having played games before, she knew what a third‑level field looked like; facing six farmlands now, she couldn't help but walk to the edge between river and field to have a look.

Sure enough, she now has one plot that yields a day's worth equal to a thousand days of Spiritual Field, two plots equal to a hundred days, and the newly opened riverside Spiritual Field has three plots each equal to ten days.

Lin Manzhi was very happy.

Her Spiritual Field is now level three!!

Even seeing that upgrading to level four requires harvesting crops 3000 times did not change her good mood.

However, next time besides needing three thousand harvests, she also needs the Mall to reach level two; these are not difficult for Lin Manzhi.

Now she is considering whether to plant Concentrated Spirit Dew and Qiong Shen Shi in the One‑Thousand‑Day Spiritual Field, or to keep planting them in the Ten‑Day Spiritual Field.

If planted in the One‑Thousand‑Day Spiritual Field, 350‑year Concentrated Spirit Dew takes 238 days to mature; twelve‑year Qiong Shen Shi takes about a year to mature and become usable.

If the medicinal herbs are planted in the Ten‑Day Spiritual Field, freeing the One‑Thousand‑Day and Hundred‑Day plots, each time she plants the fastest‑maturing lettuce to rack up harvests, she can harvest 48 times a day, and after 63 days she can reach level four.

By then she will have a plot that yields a day's worth equal to ten thousand days of Spiritual Field; planting Concentrated Spirit Dew and Qiong Shen Shi there will let them mature in twenty to thirty days.

After calculating in her mind, Lin Manzhi decided to upgrade first; after upgrading, the medicinal plants will mature a bit faster.

She moved the two precious medicinal herbs into the Ten‑Day Spiritual Field, also moved the nearly three‑year‑old agave into the Ten‑Day Spiritual Field, and planted lettuce in the One‑Thousand‑Day Spiritual Field, the two Hundred‑Day Spiritual Fields, and the one Ten‑Day Spiritual Field.

With many more Spiritual Field plots in her space, she can't guard them day and night to harvest lettuce the moment it matures; Lin Manzhi now greatly desires a level‑two Mall.