Spiritual Field

As night fell.

A small oil lamp was lit in the Lin family's courtyard.

Lin Dayou sat on a small wooden stool, wiping the farm tools used today one by one with an oil-stained rag to prevent them from rusting.

Lin Yun was weaving a bamboo basket by the dim light.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao was off to the side, using the Dust Removal Technique on a pile of clothes, socks, and shoes.

Having cleaned the clothes and shoes, Lin Xiao looked at the busy father and son, stroked his chin, and suddenly asked,

"Dad, Big Brother, do you want to cultivate together with me?"

Lin Dayou glanced up at him and then lowered his head to continue his work.

"Hmph, I don't have the patience to play this immortal cultivation house game with you. If your brother is willing to play with you, you two go cultivate together. Don't bother me."

Lin Yun looked at his dad, then at Lin Xiao, paused, and said,

"I... When I finish my work every day and have free time, I'll go up the mountain to take a look."

Lin Dayou then said,

"Alright, Dalang, from now on, you will go up the mountain with your brother every morning, and go to your grandfather's to learn carpentry in the afternoon."

Lin Yun immediately said,

"Dad, that won't do. Then you'll be the only one working in the fields..."

Lin Dayou immediately interrupted him and made the final decision:

"Enough! It's settled! The matters in the fields are not for a little kid like you to worry about. Once you become powerful in cultivation, you can come back and help me just the same."

Lin Yun lowered his head, feeling somewhat ashamed.

However, he could not resist the temptation of immortal cultivation.

Watching Erlang cast spells with just a wave of his hand, his heart was filled with envy and longing.

He could only make up his mind that once he achieved some results in his cultivation, he would definitely lessen his father's burden!

At this time, Lin Xiao said to Lin Dayou,

"Dad, you also have to cultivate with us! Immortal cultivation can extend lifespan and even achieve immortality! You can't let Big Brother and me just focus on increasing our own lifespans and watch you grow old like this, can you? That would be such a huge hurt to us!"

Lin Dayou looked at him with great disdain and said,

"Shoo, shoo, shoo. Your dad doesn't want to be immortal. Wouldn't I become an old monster then? Besides, if I become immortal, wouldn't your mother be waiting down there forever without me to keep her company?"

Lin Xiao immediately retorted,

"Dad, I'm not trying to criticize you, but who said my mother is still waiting for you down there? Keep dreaming! My mother was such a good person, King Yama must have arranged for her to reincarnate a long time ago!"

Hearing this, the veins on Lin Dayou's temples bulged and throbbed.

"Hey! You little brat! Your skin is itching for a beating after going a day without one, right?"

And so.

Early the next morning.

Lin Xiao left the house limping behind Lin Yun.

Jiang Youfu was already accustomed to seeing him look like this.

Growing up, Brother Xiao had been beaten by Uncle Lin quite a lot, and he was used to seeing it.

The three of them arrived halfway up the mountain together.

Lin Yun then saw that on the halfway point of the mountain, where there used to be only a thatched shed and a peach tree, there was now an extra small plot of land.

He asked,

"What is this piece of land for?"

He walked over, squatted down, and pinched the dark soil with his hand.

It was actually top-grade fertile land.

Jiang Youfu also just noticed the extra piece of land. Yesterday evening, the sky was dark, and plus he was hungry and only thinking about hurrying home to eat, so he didn't pay attention to anything else at all.

He let out a Wow, walked forward, and circled the piece of land.

"Brother Xiao, you are really amazing. You actually managed to clear out such a piece of land in just that little bit of time in the afternoon!"

Lin Xiao lay down on the straw mat under the peach tree and shouted to the two people not far away:

"When you guys have time later, water it! I planted spirit grass in there—"

There were no buckets on the mountain, so Lin Yun and Jiang Youfu took their own bamboo tubes used for carrying water to fetch water from the small mountain spring and brought it over to water the land.

Fortunately, the land wasn't big, and it was watered in no time.

Lin Xiao walked over to Lin Yun's side.

"Brother, come, let's go through a formality."

Lin Yun still didn't know what he meant, and then he saw him speak:

"Lin Yun, are you willing to join my Lingxian Sect, become a member of the sect, and devote yourself to cultivation?"

Hearing his younger brother ask him this, Lin Yun smiled sincerely and said,

"I am willing."

[Ding—Congratulations to the host for successfully recruiting a sect member. The member's details can be viewed in the sect member panel.]

Lin Xiao decisively checked it.

[Name: Lin Yun]

[Gender: Male]

[Bone Age: 15 years old]

[Aptitude: Outstanding]

[Cultivation: Mortal]

[Sect Status: Outer Sect Disciple (Changeable)]

[Sect Position: None (Changeable)]

After talking with his own brother, Lin Xiao changed Lin Yun's sect status and sect position to Personal Disciple and Sect Elder respectively.

So the current Lingxian Sect had a total of three people.

Among them, one Sect Master and two Elders.

Perfect.

At this time, a system prompt sounded in Lin Xiao's mind.

[Ding—The three-day novice period has passed. In order to urge the host to speed up the progress of sect construction, the system will increase the issuance of sect construction quests. Please pay attention to checking and completing the sect construction quests as soon as possible.]

Immediately after, a series of prompt sounds rang out in Lin Xiao's mind.

[Sect Construction—Recruit Sect Members (2): For an excellent sect, merely having basic infrastructure is far from enough. The most important thing for a sect is, of course, to have many excellent members. Please recruit ten members for the sect as soon as possible. Current progress: 3/10]

[Sect Construction—Sect Main Hall: An excellent sect must indispensably have a Sect Main Hall that provides members and disciples with a sense of belonging and a place for discussion. Please upgrade the sect residence as soon as possible. After a successful upgrade, the sect residence will be changed to the Sect Main Hall.]

[Sect Construction—Sect Facilities (1): An excellent sect naturally cannot do without various venues with clear divisions of labor. The most basic of these is the cultivation venue. Please construct a cultivation room as soon as possible to provide a place for members to cultivate.]

Good heavens, three quests came in a row.

Lin Xiao instantly felt a mountain of pressure.

One recruitment quest, and two building construction quests.

Lin Xiao was a bit worried.

Setting aside recruiting people for a moment.

Just building houses alone was something that cost money.

And right now, his pockets were cleaner than his face; he didn't even have a single copper coin.

Lin Xiao first entered the thatched shed together with Jiang Youfu and Lin Yun.

Using paper mulberry bark and a portion of pine soot ink, he copied a simplified version of the Peach Blossom Spring Ten Thousand Void Art for Lin Yun.

Speaking of which, this synthesizer was still very convenient. It had a copying function; one only needed to provide the original mental cultivation method, paper material, and ink, without needing to spend any other materials.

Lin Xiao patiently taught the Qi Condensation Chapter to Lin Yun bit by bit, and then left the thatched shed to crouch under the peach blossom tree and worry.

He was considering the possibility of building the house himself.

Now that his cultivation had reached the third level of Qi Condensation, he could clearly feel that his physique had been greatly enhanced.

Chopping trees shouldn't be a problem.

Ramming earth bricks shouldn't be a problem either.

The problem was, he didn't know how to build a house.

But this was too much of a waste of time.

If he were to do it all by himself bit by bit every time he encountered such a quest in the future, then he shouldn't be called the Sect Master; he should be called the Lingxian Sect's long-term hired hand.