Chapter 63: Unexpected Surprise

After harvesting the new plant, each specimen can produce ten seeds; please check for them when harvesting.

Unexpected surprise!

Lin Manzhi has already seen it: the rare medicinal plant she cultivated will become a future mass‑production.

There's another big surprise: she discovered a plot of land where a second crop can be planted, so she immediately set aside half a packet of lettuce seeds and planted only one hundred fifty lettuce plants.

Of course, planting on half a plot of soil requires harvesting lettuce twice to count as one harvest, so the harvest frequency is now faster.

One half‑harvest can be done per day, plus another harvest about two and a half days later from the neighboring plot, bringing the goal of two hundred total harvests even closer.

The agave transplanted over there has sprouted leaves, indicating an age of roughly one and a half years, and for now cannot provide any harvests.

After reorganizing the three fields, Lin Manzhi cheerfully regained her awareness and realized she had somehow returned to the dirty, chaotic housing area outside the city, walking forward beside Mo Lie.

Mo Lie walked beside her.

He slightly furrowed his brows, his five fingers hanging at his side silently tightening, the knuckles paling from the pressure, his expression looking colder than usual:

"Lin Ling has already been taken by that male beast to the Wushen Temple; it seems we can only intercept them on the road."

Lin Manzhi herself has more than Lin Ling's Concentrated Spirit Dew.

Although it hasn't reached its maturation period for use, it's not as if she can stare hungrily at the sole plant of Concentrated Spirit Dew.

Now it only lacks time to mature before she can harvest it, and she thinks that given Mo Lie's current situation, there's no need to risk a raid.

The guards of the Wushen Temple are hand‑picked, and the male beast beside Lin Ling is formidable, clearly stronger than the beasts she had in the Rosanya tribe.

Since Mo Lie currently only has Hua Zheng available as manpower, attempting to seize the Concentrated Spirit Dew might succeed, but he can't guarantee returning unscathed.

She doesn't know why, but deep down she simply doesn't want to see Mo Lie get hurt again.

After careful thought, Lin Manzhi stopped, Mo Lie halted as well, and turned his head, looking over with a puzzled expression.

"Intercepting them on the road is too risky; if the Wushen Temple or other forces learn that we possess the Concentrated Spirit Dew, they will pursue us relentlessly."

She knows her influence over Mo Lie, shrugs and says, "Never mind, we already have it anyway."

Mo Lie slightly furrowed his brows, lowered his eyes, and gazed at Lin Manzhi beside him with a deep hue, his pupils harboring a fanatical resolve to achieve his goal at any cost.

He had never been one to change his mind before.

He locked eyes with the little female's black pupils for a few seconds, and the burning, inevitable drive in his heart silently extinguished.

While it is normal for a beast to pay a terrible price for something he wants, as a beast with a Wife Master, his relentless pursuit of a goal now quietly compromises; there is someone more important than himself in his heart.

When desire merges with his inner treasure, his actions no longer rely on instinctual, death‑defying impulses.

Though unwilling, Mo Lie knows that his current energy is insufficient to contend with the Wushen Temple and the other major forces of Kuangsha City.

It seems he must accelerate his cultivation to improve his strength.

Mo Lie lifted his hand and tugged the sun‑shielding cloth over Lin Manzhi's head; the setting sun bathed the girl, gilding her long lashes, tinting her jet‑black eyes a light orange, with a warm undertone just like herself.

The scar between his brows had vanished, and he said, "Alright, we won't pursue."

Changing his mind for a certain female feels novel, yet unexpectedly brings him a sense of peace.

If so, he'll just follow his heart.

Mo Lie stopped thinking about that Concentrated Spirit Dew plant, "The appointed time with the shopkeeper is approaching; let's return first to find Hua Zheng."

Lin Manzhi exhaled a long sigh, smiled lightly and nodded, "Mm‑mm, we're leaving tomorrow; let's buy food first."

The two returned to their temporary lodging, where Hua Zheng had already come back and was waiting at home; upon seeing them, he immediately walked out with them.

With Hua Zheng this time, Mo Lie and Lin Manzhi could ride atop the six‑meter‑tall Flower Leopard, reaching the market stall that sells meat jerky three times faster than before.

The shopkeeper stared at Hua Zheng in surprise, then resumed a beaming smile and said, "All fifteen hundred jin of meat jerky are here, six large bags in total, costing three hundred thousand Beast Coins."

Mo Lie and Hua Zheng opened the bags and inspected the quality of the jerky.

After a while, seeing Mo Lie give her a slight nod, Lin Manzhi handed over the pre‑prepared money pouch, "Here you go; it contains twenty‑four gold coins, the rest are Beast Coins."

The shopkeeper took it, counted the money, then let them take the meat jerky away; a malicious glint appeared in his otherwise smiling eyes.

Seeing the transaction end so quickly, Lin Manzhi thought about leaving and planned to stroll around the market a bit more.

Spending three hundred thousand at once left just over twenty thousand Beast Coins; rather than keep them idle, she thought they could become comfortable furniture.

Recalling the price of lettuce in the area, she spent the money without remorse, buying a set of cups and bowls with beautiful floral patterns and a carpet that looked sleek and icy.

By the time she had only three hundred Beast Coins left, unable to buy anything else, she stopped and followed Mo Lie back, riding on the Flower Leopard.

After returning home, Hua Zheng set down the goods on his back, recalled the information he had gathered that afternoon, glanced at Mo Lie, and said, "By the way, this afternoon I heard some news about a Lin family female in Ansen City."

While wrapping the tableware in cloth and placing it into the water tank she had brought back, Lin Manzhi stopped, looked up at Hua Zheng and asked, "Is it about Lin Ling?"

"Exactly." Hua Zheng went out, took the money, circled the Wushen Temple, found a gatekeeper to inquire, and now relayed the information he bought with the money.

"Lin Ling is a trainee among this year's batch of Shamaness apprentices; she has been assessed in various cities, traveled from Leitingcheng together to the Mountain Classic Beast Temple for study, and is now staying a day in Kuangsha City to rest."

Hua Zheng's intel was the commonly known news about the Shamaness assessment; Lin Manzhi nodded, "So Lin Ling actually took the Shamaness exam… This path is becoming more like the original heroine Fang Yue Dan's journey, huh?"

Hua Zheng: "I heard that ever since she arrived at the Shamaness Main Hall in Kuangsha City, she's been going out with her guards; we don't know what she's doing outside."

Oh, she went to dig up the Concentrated Spirit Dew.

Lin Manzhi roughly understood why Lin Ling was here; her curiosity receded a bit, and at least whatever Lin Ling does won't involve her, who has long been a background character in the story.

At this moment, Lin Ling, clutching the legendary medicinal plant back to the Wushen Temple, was exhilarated, declaring that this isn't a treasure belonging only to Fang Yue Dan; she'll take it all herself and see what happens!