Chapter 144: The Eerie Chirping

"So life is always full of surprises. Who could have imagined you would get injured by accident! You should have called me when you got hurt. After all, the rice fields are under our joint watch. And if we just hold on for one more day, this mission will be over."

"Rather than failing the mission, you might as well have called me to watch for a while longer."

"I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry. If I were a bit stronger, I wouldn't have gotten injured," Su Qingniao said.

"Even I, without using my trump cards, cannot kill a wild boar. So you don't need to be sad. Go get yourself some better trump cards later," Su Jin said.

Pfft, hearing this, Su Qingniao burst out laughing directly.

Su Qingniao was feeling extremely guilty, yet Su Jin held no blame against her. This feeling of being trusted and supported was truly wonderful.

No wonder Mother, despite her many concerns, did not completely reject Uncle Zhang's advances.

Anyway, Father has already divorced and remarried. After I return home, I should encourage Mother to remarry.

At worst, I can just visit Grandpa a few more times.

The heavy thing named anxiety that had been pressing on Su Qingniao's heart seemed to suddenly begin to crumble.

"You should hurry back. Although you treated your wound, your arm cannot support combat for now. You might as well go back and rest for half an afternoon. Once your arm injury is a bit better by evening, you can come over to help then."

"After all, by then, the two of us will only need to hold out for one night," Su Jin said.

Tonight, the spirit rice will mature!

Once a swarm of insects or beasts erupts, regardless of size, it will attract the attention of adult cultivators. So, blatantly asking Blood Xue Chiluo to help cheat is definitely not an option.

It is better to use Busatan directly.

After all, Busatan is carried directly on her person; with a mere thought, she can command it.

It is far more concealed than Blood Xue Chiluo.

So it won't matter if Su Qingniao participates then.

If she can't help, standing there to make up the numbers is fine too.

"Alright, then I'll come over at dinner time and bring you dinner as well."

"Hurry and go," Su Jin urged her.

As soon as Su Qingniao left, a green light escaped from Su Jin's sleeve and sank into the spirit field. Not long after, the entire spirit field fell silent once more.

Su Jin walked to the damaged spirit rice Su Qingniao had cleared and counted them. In half a day, despite Su Qingniao's immobility, there were only twenty-something stalks.

So, Su Qingniao really did a good job. She had chosen another very good partner.

She stored the stalks into Little Wu Tian, leaving the rice ears and the spoils for Su Qingniao. Su Jin patrolled the six mu of rice fields she was guarding; indeed, the damage was only on the side near the forest.

With Blood Xue Chiluo in the rice field, she wasn't needed. Having nothing to do, Su Jin simply sat on the cushion to cultivate.

After cultivating, she simply sat with her eyes closed to sleep.

When it was almost dinner time, she summoned Blood Xue Chiluo back into her sleeve.

Not long after Blood Xue Chiluo left, the surrounding insects, birds, and beasts began running toward this place.

Su Jin took out the gourd vine and whipped them.

When Su Qingniao arrived with dinner to find her, she saw Su Jin whoosh-whooshing a large guinea pig until it fainted, then tossing it into her "storage ring."

"I was wondering why I never saw you throwing spoils to the field edge; turns out you put them all in the storage ring?" Su Qingniao said in surprise. "But the skins and flesh of these small prey aren't worth much. You still throw them directly into the storage ring to suffocate to death; what's the point? Use them as flower fertilizer?"

"Yes, it is exactly compost that needs to be dead. Birds, beasts, and snakes are all composted. Insects and spirit plant roots can feed the chickens. They are all very useful."

Hearing this, Su Qingniao was completely convinced.

"I'll watch for a while; you eat first."

Hearing this, Su Jin looked at her arm.

"Rest assured, after resting this afternoon, my arm is much better."

This afternoon, Su Qingniao had borrowed the best external medicine from Su Cheng.

Except for not being able to use too much force, basically this arm of hers no longer affected her movement.

"Alright then, be careful. If you can't handle it, call me."

"Rest assured."

Now, only insects and small-sized wild beasts were running over.

After Su Jin finished eating, Su Qingniao was still clearing insects with ease. However, Su Jin also noticed that Su Qingniao must have practiced martial arts since childhood.

Her footwork and hidden weapon attack methods must both be some kind of martial art.

Her foundation was stronger than Su Jin's. Su Jin had only learned one set of body-refining techniques accompanying the Ice Skin Snow Bone Art.

This set of body-refining techniques included palm strikes, fist strikes, and footwork.

But none were very exquisite; they were simply for exercising the body.

She herself didn't care; her main attack spell was the Gourd Vine Entanglement Technique. Her entanglement technique could already manipulate four gourd vines simultaneously. But it was not as effortless as when manipulating three gourd vines.

However, in normal use, one gourd vine was enough.

Su Jin packed up the lunch box and joined the insect killing.

With two people working, it was indeed much easier.

But as soon as night fell, birds, beasts, insects, and snakes rushed out of the great mountain like they had gone mad.

At this time, the five adult cultivators began to appear.

They took away the large wild beasts, such as the big wild boars.

Large insect swarms were also scattered by them. Most were killed, and the remaining small waves of insect swarms scattered to various places were left for the junior cultivators behind to handle.

Although Su Jin could still hold on, Su Qingniao could not.

Su Jin quickly told her to go sit in meditation behind the spirit field to recover.

Su Qingniao knew what was what; at this time, she must recover herself immediately.

After all, it wasn't even Zi hour yet, yet birds, beasts, fish, and insects were increasing; obviously, tonight was the time for the spirit rice to fully mature.

Su Qingniao went to the back to recover, while Su Jin simply conjured two gourd vines to work.

The twin gourd vines slaughtered the visiting little creatures, sending beasts rearing and snakes flipping, while insects hissed and rained down like a storm.

As for the reptiles on and beneath the ground, did that even need managing?

Blood-Xue Chiluo opened its mouth, waiting for them.

Su Jin gathered the massive piles of corpses and tossed them into Little Wu Tian.

Little Wu Tian digested whatever it saw.

Whether insects or birds and beasts, they vanished silently the moment they entered.

She felt that Little Wu Tian, which had been motionless before, seemed to emit a sinister chittering sound; was it eating quite happily?

Su Jin took a spare moment to rub her brow. Why did she have such a feeling?

Never mind, let it be whatever it is!

Whether Little Wu Tian was a small animal or simply a small space, she would make do and raise it.

After all, it had followed her since she was young; it would be wrong to let it down!

By the time Su Qingniao recovered her magic power and stamina, opened her eyes, and looked over, the battle situation on Su Jin's side had become unprecedentedly fierce.

Su Jin had to face not only birds, snakes, and insects, but also quite a few small wild beasts; even three wild dogs had appeared not far from Su Jin.

They seemed to be planning a sneak attack.

Just as Su Qingniao rose to rush over and help, the three wild dogs moved simultaneously, launching a sneak attack on Su Jin from three directions at once.