Chapter 137: Harvested

Since the Fierce Sand Escort Bureau appeared on the West City commercial street, a craze for hiring escort masters swept Kuangsha City; now the bureau has two Deputy Escort Heads, a total of six hundred escort masters, and clients come daily to request their services.

The other four factions wanted to deal with Xicheng Qu, but because their leaders were not united, after that unpleasant meeting they did not form an alliance against Xicheng Qu; each waited in the shadows for the other side to act, hoping to reap the benefits later.

Thus, Xicheng Qu and the Fierce Sand Escort Bureau have almost no large‑scale fights.

This is good news for Mo Lie and Lin Manzhi.

After all, if the other four factions in Kuangsha City united against him it would be a big trouble; now Mo Lie has a chance to ease the situation.

By now, the originally ragtag crowd of Xicheng Qu, after countless training and suppression, has seen the twenty thousand warriors he raised greatly increase in combat power.

Compared with the start, two thousand Beast Form males are gone; those two thousand who tried to betray him were cut down, and this has instilled fear of the leader in the remaining warriors, who no longer dare to provoke the leader and are willing to obey Mo Lie's orders.

Lin Manzhi has also become much more relaxed during this period, checking daily the ledgers and the money and food the bureau sends over.

The lettuce greenhouse is managed by Mu Qiao and Mu Qian; she adds river water from the space into the water tower every few days, and each morning she goes to the greenhouse to check on the lettuce.

When Hua Zheng delivered lettuce again, he successfully retrieved a share from Su Li: six hundred doses of medicine, and Lin Manzhi received 142.2 million Beast Coins.

As for the practice of refining elixir, Lin Manzhi has switched entirely to the vegetables and fruits she grows in her space; now she cannot show her space's produce to Huang Cai, so she practices refining the elixir at home.

Everything just needs a solid foundation first; once she has leveled up her proficiency in refining elixir, she will go to Huang Cai to learn how to synthesize potions.

This time Lin Manzhi followed Mo Lie to Kuangsha City and has been busy nonstop—conquering Xicheng Qu and establishing the Fierce Sand Escort Bureau; ninety‑something days, just over a month, passed in the blink of an eye.

Of course, the most important thing for her is the Space Spiritual Field; midway through handling bureau affairs, after the space harvest reached level four with 3,000 plantings, the Spiritual Field in her space expanded to ten plots.

One plot that yields ten thousand days per day, two plots that yield a thousand days per day, three plots that yield a hundred days per day, and four plots that yield ten days per day.

When she first raised the Spiritual Field to level four, she set other things aside and first planted Concentrated Spirit Dew and Sky Divine Stone in the one plot that yields ten thousand days per day.

Twenty‑some days later, Lin Manzhi is squatting by the space's Spiritual Field; in the plot before her, the Concentrated Spirit Dew has become transparent—if you look closely, it looks like a transparent fruit jelly growing on the soil.

This indicates the Concentrated Spirit Dew is over a thousand years old; Lin Manzhi smiles, stretches a fingertip to touch its leaf, feeling ecstatic.

She also looks at the Sky Divine Fruit in the same plot; it is three hundred years younger than the Concentrated Spirit Dew, yet within these few days it has become the legendary thousand‑year‑old medicinal plant.

Among the six medicinal plants that heal the Spirit Core, she now holds two.

When Concentrated Spirit Dew reaches a thousand years its effect stabilizes; Lin Manzhi knows further planting is of little use, so she carefully uproots the eight plants with roots.

When the roots left the Spiritual Field, the soil before Lin Manzhi scattered seeds the size of rapeseed, tiny emerald‑green grains.

Lin Manzhi stored the Concentrated Spirit Dew in the warehouse, then lifted her hand to pick up the seeds, counting eighty seeds.

Since the Concentrated Spirit Dew's growth cycle is a thousand years, obtaining so many seeds at once, Lin Manzhi immediately replanted ten in the Wan Ri Ling Tian, now there are ten newly planted Concentrated Spirit Dew plus six Sky Divine Fruits in the Wan Ri Ling Tian.

She has the Space Spiritual Field acceleration—a great tool; using Wan Ri and Qian Ri Spiritual Fields to grow ordinary vegetables and fruits is wasteful; they should be used for rare medicinal plants like Concentrated Spirit Dew.

A Beast Form's power is greater than a human‑shaped one's, and maintaining Beast Transformation requires energy from the Spirit Core; when the Spirit Core is overloaded, it develops problems.

Usually it leads to uncontrollable rage, losing human reason, like a noncontagious rabies, wanting to destroy everything, and the outcome is naturally being dealt with.

For someone like Mo Lie whose Spirit Core is fractured, it directly shortens lifespan, causes chronic severe pain, even preventing the use of external force, and Beast Transformation is almost unusable.

One Concentrated Spirit Dew can produce several doses of medicine, but for all the Beast Forms in this world, that is still too few.

Lin Manzhi planted another 32 in each of two Qian Ri Spiritual Fields, bringing the total Concentrated Spirit Dew to 42 plants.

In the Bai Ri field, Lin Manzhi moved the Agave over, and in the other two plots she decided to plant Cherry Tomato, also known as Holy Maiden Fruit, bright red like a gem, small and sweet‑tart.

In short, it has great commercial value here.

Lettuce has signed an exclusive supply contract with Su Li; now that Lin Manzhi's bureau can travel elsewhere, she also wants to expand the bureau to other territories on the continent.

If she holds food that no one else has, it will surely attract merchant caravans from everywhere; a caravan that can be raised here implies a strong backing, which would likely approach the Fierce Sand Escort Bureau.

This is also what she learned from Su Li: sit safely at home and wait for people to bite.

In four Ten‑Day Spiritual Fields she planted wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops; she hasn't had staple food for a long time, so she stockpiled food for herself.

Lin Manzhi spent a few hours tidying the Space Spiritual Field, walked around it in high spirits; the newly planted crops and medicinal plants in the Spiritual Field already look ready for a bountiful harvest.

After finishing these, Lin Manzhi finally looked at the future upgrades of the space.

Regarding the level‑four Spiritual Field in the space, it has reached the maximum; next she can upgrade other parts of the space, such as her house, the opposite mountain and the grassland.

The condition to unlock other areas is to harvest 1,000 times.

She isn't in a hurry to unlock other places in the space,

All the lettuce grown early in the Spiritual Field was sold to the Mall, yielding a balance of over nine hundred thousand; now she isn't short of gift coins, and she spent sixteen thousand gift coins from the Mall at once to buy eight small mechanical puppet vegetable farmers, bought over twenty brand‑new warehouse slots, bringing the total to thirty slots, then upgraded all slots to hold two thousand jin of goods.

Everything in the space is in order; Lin Manzhi took a Concentrated Spirit Grass from the warehouse back to reality, looked outside, and the sun had risen to its proper height.

Seeing that lunchtime is near, Lin Manzhi is a bit impatient.

Alright, now she quickly tries to refine the essence of Concentrated Spirit Dew.