High Yield of Linggu

Not long after scattering the Spirit Plant Growth Bone Meal, Lin Xiao watched the sixteen spiritual rice seedlings in the field grow at a visible rate.

Before long, they began to sprout ears of grain.

To his pleasant surprise, he found that the yield of this spiritual rice was extremely high!

A single stalk actually produced a whole cluster of ears!

A moment later, the grains on these ears began to grow and plump up. With just a rough estimate, Lin Xiao knew that the yield of this spiritual rice was absolutely outrageous.

Waiting for the spiritual rice to fully mature, Lin Xiao decided that he would clear more fields to plant this spiritual rice in the future!

Feeling the large handful of plump rice ears in his hands, Lin Xiao was extremely satisfied. The future food and clothing problem of his sect was about to be solved.

Taking out his sickle, Lin Xiao began to harvest.

Harvesting sixteen stalks of spiritual rice was the work of mere moments.

When all the spiritual rice was harvested, Lin Xiao packed it into sacks, stored it in his private inventory, and brought it home.

After returning home, he husked all the spiritual rice and put it on the scale. Good heavens, sixteen catties!

In other words, a single stalk of spiritual rice yielded a net weight of one catty of rice!

Lin Dayou and Lin Yun watched from the side in utter shock, especially Lin Dayou, a professional farmer who had been tilling the land for over twenty years.

He hurriedly asked Lin Xiao,

"Erlang, did you save any seeds from this grain?"

Lin Xiao was dumbfounded by the question. Oh no, he hadn't thought of that.

Seeing his blank expression, Lin Dayou didn't even need to think to know that this hapless child definitely hadn't saved any. He glared at Lin Xiao angrily,

"You child! Harvesting without saving seeds! I should have made you do more farm work normally!"

Lin Xiao scratched his head in great embarrassment.

"I just wanted to husk it quickly so we could taste it tomorrow..."

Seeing that Lin Dayou was about to lose his temper again, he immediately took out the remaining four spiritual rice seeds from his private inventory to show him.

"Dad, look! I have some left over from before!"

Seeing the four seeds in his hand, Lin Dayou said in annoyance,

"What are four seeds enough for? They might even be duds."

Lin Xiao leaned close to his ear and whispered,

"No, Dad, this spiritual rice is planted in a spiritual field. Every single seed planted survives, without any loss. Really, I planted sixteen seeds before, and they all lived!"

Hearing this, Lin Dayou was greatly alarmed, his eyes widening as he looked at Lin Xiao.

"Is what you say true?"

Lin Xiao nodded.

Lin Dayou tightly grabbed the seeds in his hand and said,

"Give these seeds to me. I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to plant them in your spiritual field! It'll save you from being careless and not taking it seriously!"

Lin Xiao thought this was perfect, so he simply said to his father,

"Why don't you and my brother just move up there? Anyway, our sect has a defensive barrier, so no wild beasts from the mountain can break in. It's very safe. Plus, with you watching over things, my brother won't have to worry about taking care of those spiritual fields, and he can focus more on his cultivation."

Lin Dayou rolled his eyes at him.

"Our family doesn't only have your four grains of rice. We still have several acres of fields to tend to."

Lin Yun also chimed in,

"It's just that little bit of land, not even an acre. I can easily finish it in passing. There's no need for Dad to go up and watch it."

Lin Xiao could only sigh. He gave the teleportation talisman and the positioning talisman to Lin Dayou, and informed him about his upcoming entry into a secret realm.

Hearing his words, Lin Dayou frowned and asked,

"Do you absolutely have to go to this secret realm?"

Lin Xiao replied,

"Not exactly, but going there might be more beneficial for the development of my sect. But don't worry, Dad, I'll definitely prioritize my own life. If things look bad, I'll come right out."

Hearing him say this, although Lin Dayou was very worried in his heart, he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Even if he was worried, he couldn't really stop his child from doing something he was serious about, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to achieve anything in the future.

But he still had to give the necessary warnings:

"Let me tell you, scholars always say that one's body, hair, and skin come from one's parents. Your whole body was carefully raised by your mother and me. If you go to that whatever secret realm, don't go getting yourself hurt all over, otherwise you'll be unfilial to your mother and me, understand?"

Lin Xiao immediately promised,

"Dad, rest assured! If there's danger, I'll absolutely run faster than anyone else!"

Lin Yun also nodded from the side and said,

"If you ask me, Erlang, you don't really have to go to that secret realm. Our sect is doing pretty well right now, what more development do we need?"

Lin Xiao had to say to him,

"Brother, with the current scale of our sect, if we were placed in the real cultivation world, we wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps between their teeth. We need to take advantage of the fact that we haven't truly entered that circle yet to quickly strengthen ourselves and the sect. Only then will we not have to fear being casually wiped out by others in the future."

Hearing him say this, Lin Dayou became uneasy again:

"If this cultivation is so dangerous, I say you should stop cultivating as soon as possible. Just living a good, normal life is enough."

Lin Xiao scratched his cheek. How did this conversation end up going backward?

"Dad, sometimes, whether it's dangerous or not, it's not like trouble won't come knocking just because we don't cultivate. Now that we are in this environment, trouble and danger will find us regardless of whether we have strength or not. On the contrary, if we have the opportunity to improve ourselves, of course we have to seize it! That way, when we really encounter problems, we'll have the ability to deal with them. Don't you think that makes sense?"

And so, the father and sons chattered for a long time before Lin Xiao finally managed to get Lin Dayou to reach a preliminary agreement with his ideas.

Then, the three of them went to the old family house together to distribute the teleportation talismans to everyone.

Of course, this inevitably required another round of explanations.

By the time the three came out of the old house, the moon was already high in the sky.

But Lin Xiao still felt a bit uneasy in his heart.

So, on the way home, Lin Xiao stopped in his tracks and said to Lin Dayou and Lin Yun,

"Dad, Brother, you guys go back first. I just remembered I have a little something to take care of. I'll be home in a bit."

Lin Dayou glanced at him and nodded:

"Alright, keep an eye on the time and come back early." He then pulled Lin Yun along and left.

Lin Xiao turned around and walked toward another direction in the village.

The villagers' daily routine was very regular, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

Now, with the deep night having set in, most of the villagers had long since gone to rest.

Du Liushui was no exception.

As the village chief, villagers constantly came to him during the day to solve matters big and small, and he was increasingly feeling that his energy was failing him.

Being advanced in years, he actually really wanted to hand over the position of village chief. Unfortunately, his son was somewhat dim-witted, and he could never find a suitable candidate among the other young men in the village.

Therefore, he always went to sleep very early at night.

Even if he couldn't sleep, he just wanted to lie down and rest; even staring blankly could relieve a lot of fatigue.

Lin Xiao silently slipped into Village Chief Du's room.

He didn't alert anyone in the Du household. Even the Du family's dog remained completely oblivious, sleeping soundly in the courtyard.