Chapter 139: The Blood Red Luo's New Branches

Early the next morning, Instructor Liu came to the individual cultivation rooms. While everyone was washing up and getting out of bed, she gathered the Wood Class students together and told them: "This afternoon, at the end of the Shen hour, all students are to gather at the main gate of the Medicine Worker's lodging area. We're changing locations for the task. If any student fails to complete their task on time, they will stay behind to finish it. I'll come back to pick them up tomorrow."

Instructor Liu's words immediately struck a nerve with certain young students.

Especially those who had to toil until pitch-dark every day just to finish their picking tasks.

They either dawdled at work, or didn't take it seriously and goofed off; or because they had rented Medicine Worker equipment, they had to pick an extra thirty jin every day.

This had led to them working deep into the night for the past two days!

The moment Instructor Liu spoke, they got nervous.

Oh no—finishing a three-hundred-jin picking task before the end of the Shen hour wasn't something everyone could handle.

So right then and there, a few young students were scared to tears.

Instructor Liu didn't even glance at them.

Just turned and left.

The other students: "..."

"Hurry up and get to work, we need to try to finish the task early." Someone shouted, and immediately more people chimed in.

After putting on their equipment, they didn't even eat breakfast and rushed straight to the herb fields.

Once they left, the other students also started getting restless.

Of course, there were also those who finished washing up and went to eat breakfast.

For example, Su Jin and Su Wuji.

While Su Jin was eating breakfast, Qi Yi came over in a hesitant manner, lowered her voice, and said to her: "Help me pick thirty jin of fruit, and I'll give you thirty spirit stones, how about it? I'm really worried I won't finish the task before the end of the Shen hour."

"Hand over the thirty spirit stones first. Once I finish my own task, I'll help you pick an extra thirty jin." Su Jin didn't beat around the bush. Earning spirit stones—no shame in that.

Qi Yi was stunned for a moment, then gritted her teeth and secretly handed her thirty spirit stones.

Su Jin immediately said: "Come on, let's add each other with our Thousand-Mile Messaging Talismans."

"Okay." Qi Yi nodded quickly.

"I'll contact you once I've finished picking." Su Jin said.

"Thank you." Qi Yi's feelings at this moment were especially complicated.

Asking Su Jin for help felt psychologically awkward, as if she was beneath Su Jin.

But if she didn't ask for help, she might be left behind, which would be even more embarrassing.

The key was that she'd been attending the clan school for quite some time now, yet still hadn't made a single close friend. Sigh!

After Qi Yi left, Su Qingniao quietly sidled over. "What shady deal are you two making?"

"She paid spirit stones to have me help her pick thirty jin of fruit. I agreed, but only after I finish my own picking task." Su Jin said.

"How much per jin to hire you to pick?" Su Qingniao asked, eyes wide with surprise: "I didn't expect someone in the top three of the class to get in on this too?"

"One spirit stone per jin of fruit." Su Jin said calmly.

"That expensive?" Su Qingniao was shocked. "Qi Yi is really something—that's breaking market rules. Yesterday everyone was hiring other classmates to help pick fruit at five jin per spirit stone.

I even helped Su Cheng connect with two other classmates for jobs!"

"I'm top three in the class, so hiring me naturally costs this price." Su Jin said proudly, puffing out her small chest.

Su Qingniao just gave her a "you're amazing" hand gesture!

To speed up the fruit picking, Su Jin simply cheated this time—she brought Blood Red Luo along.

The two of them—one person, one Luo—chose a remote, unoccupied herb field.

Then they each started picking.

Su Jin didn't notice what was happening on Blood Red Luo's side at first. She'd brought Blood Red Luo along thinking that picking even one more fruit was better than none.

But after she'd picked half a basket of Crimson Fruit, she suddenly turned her head.

And was immediately stunned!

At some unknown point, Blood Red Luo had grown four pitch-black, slender branches that looked like snake tails.

These branches had no leaves, only a stem that could sway like a snake's tail. Moreover, these branches had even grown taller than Blood Red Luo's main body.

A small basket hung on Blood Red Luo's main body. The four strange branches, like arms, plucked the ripe Crimson Fruit from the surroundings and put them into the basket.

And it could search for and pick four fruits at the same time, doing a better job than any Four-Armed Puppet.

Blood Red Luo only needed to shift slightly to keep finding ripe fruit nearby and dropping them into the basket.

Much faster than she was picking.

No wonder the ancient great shamans liked to keep Blood Red Luo in captivity.

Truly a model worker!

"Blood Red Luo, how did you grow these strange branches? And four of them all at once?" Su Jin ran back curiously, walked up to Blood Red Luo, and asked while touching its new branches.

The surface of these branches was actually covered in diamond-shaped scales resembling snake scales.

No matter how you looked at it, this kind of thing shouldn't grow on a Blood Red Luo, right?

A Blood Red Luo should count as a plant?!

Su Jin wasn't even quite sure anymore this time.

"Last time when humans surrounded and killed that big bug, I took advantage of no one noticing me and secretly raided its nest. I found a piece of black soft meat inside, really really fragrant. I ate it, and then these new branches grew."

"So you secretly ate something delicious, that's why you grew new branches. Huh? Wait, that's not right—when we went to that place together yesterday, I didn't see these new branches on you?" Su Jin asked suspiciously.

Blood Red Luo shook its four new branches.

The new branches vanished right before Su Jin's eyes.

What the heck? They can turn invisible too?

What kind of skill is this?

It left Su Jin dumbfounded.

"You can actually make the branches invisible?"

"I can only make these new branches invisible; the rest of my body cannot be hidden," Xue Chiluo said.

"That is still impressive," Su Jin said in amazement. "It seems the insects and the treasures hidden in their nest are extremely useful to you. In the future, when I join the sect, I must take on more missions of this kind."

"Xue Chiluo helps Zu Zu with missions."

"Good."

Thanks to the existence of Xue Chiluo, this super little hard worker, Su Jin harvested three hundred jin of Crimson Fruits before noon.

She also picked an extra thirty jin for Qi Yi.

Su Jin hid the shrunken miniature Xue Chiluo in her left sleeve, while a small basket hung from her right arm.

Then, while walking toward the young lady who managed the medicinal fields, she took out a Thousand-Mile Message Talisman to contact Qi Yi.

Upon receiving the message, Qi Yi felt she had gone mad.

She felt she had been working herself to death today, hadn't even eaten breakfast, and didn't plan to eat lunch either, determined to persist in picking more fruits; yet, after exhausting herself until now, she had only finished picking one hundred and fifty jin. And the result? It wasn't even noon yet, and Su Jin had already finished picking three hundred jin, plus the thirty fruits she had promised her.

How could she differ so much from Su Jin?