THE CULTIVATION OF BESIDE DEVIL CULTIVATOR
81: Abusing the Honest
The spirit beast was sniffing the area around the fence. When he saw Jiang Hao, he ran towards him. “Master, this area has the same problem as the last one!”
Jiang Hao nodded. He crouched down to check the ground. The area is severely malnourished. If this continues, it will take two or three years for the park to recover.
“Where is the Bone Flower?” asked Jiang Hao
The spirit beast took the lead, and Jiang Hao followed after him. After a while, he stood in front of a white flower. Even the stems and leaves are entirely white.
Bone Flowers are used to strengthen bones and or refine energy. It was an important spirit herb that came from the Hundred Bone Forest.
Usually Bone Flowers need a very specific place to grow. Sometimes, people plant Bone Flowers in the Spirit Potion Garden to raise them until they are ready to harvest. There was no problem before.
After examining the area closely, he realized that the flower was the cause of depletion of nutrients.
Jiang Hao used the Daily Valuation on that flower.
[Mutated Bone Flower: The Mutated Bone Flower has lost all the usual characteristics of Bone Flower. Mercilessly absorbing the nutrients around it. Bai Ye's Masterpiece. It was planted here to make it difficult for the guardians of the Spirit Potion Garden. This is done to get benefits while obtaining nutrients simultaneously.]
Jiang Hao felt helpless. How could one benefit by destroying the Spirit Potion Garden?
He did not know who Bai Ye was. He had never heard that name before. “How many Bone Flowers are there in the whole park?” Jiang Hao asked.
“About 500,” says Cheng Chou.
Bone Flowers are not very valuable. However, 500 of them can get a decent price.
“Tell the people in the Hundred Bones Forest. Tell them that we have a problem,” said Jiang Hao.
"All right." Cheng Chou did not hesitate.
After Cheng Chou left, Jiang Hao went to the market.
He sold his 12 Hundred Thousand Sword Talismans. It gave him about 300 spirit stones.
The side effects of the fight with Azure Mountain had passed. Prices and demand for goods have returned to normal. The price of some things even went down.
Jiang Hao barely managed to make a total of 600 spirit stones. He was worried about the Bone Flower and the problems associated with it.
Jiang Hao returned to the Spirit Potion Garden after that, but Cheng Chou was nowhere to be seen. So, he went back to his house.
Jiang Hao thought he could meet Cheng Chou tomorrow, or he would definitely come looking for Jiang Hao if something went wrong.
The next day, Jiang Hao still did not see Cheng Chou in the garden. That night, Jiang Hao could not sleep so he cleaned his sword.
The next day, Jiang Hao doused the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower and headed to the Spirit Potion Garden.
He finally saw Cheng Chou there.
“Senior Brother Jiang, I went looking for the people from the Hundred Bones Forest yesterday. They said all other things had to wait because they were caught up in an urgent matter. We should wait at least five days.”.
Cheng Chou lowered his head in a guilty feeling. “I also learned that other Spirit Herb Gardens faced the same problem.”
Jiang Hao was worried. He did not want to tell his master about it. Once he is accused, it will be troublesome.
Jiang Hao wanted to solve the problem without attracting any attention. If the Spirit Herb Garden is irreversible, there will be consequences.
'It seems like the Hundred Bone Forest Sect is so fearless that they even try to destroy the entire Spirit Potion Garden for profit!'
“Tick the Bone Flower and place it away from the Spirit Potion Garden,” said Jiang Hao.
“Alright,” says Cheng Chou.
Cheng Chou did not mind. He feels responsible for this problem.
Jiang Hao waited for five days, but the people from the Hundred Bone Forest Sect did not come.
“What about the other Spirit Herb Gardens?” asked Jiang Hao. “How was their fate?”
“They have not moved the Bone Flower to another area,” Cheng said
Chous. “They feel that plucking the Bone Flower will lead to. consequences.”.
The bone-plugged flower almost withered. Cheng Chou was worried, but he did not dare to break Jiang Hao's orders.
The thing about the demon sect was that the strong harassed the weak. So, the other guards of the Spirit Potion Garden would not dare to start any disputes, no matter how much they had to suffer because of it.
White Moon Lake also had a Spirit Potion Garden, but the Hundred Bones Forest would never dare to plant a mutated flower there. Zhou Chan was a formidable guardian. They are afraid to offend him.
They only dared to persecute weaker guardians.
“Then let's wait for them even longer,” said Jiang Hao.
The Bone Flower had been moved to an area far away from the Spirit Potion Garden, so there was nothing to worry about.
He was withered and almost dead.
If they delayed it any longer, things would get worse, and this matter would be impossible to settle peacefully.
Jiang Hao was willing to compensate the dying Bone Flower. He didn't care if Bone Flowers died.
Normally ordinary Bone Flowers were extremely tough. They don't just wither away. This version of the mutation can only survive if it can absorb nutrients from other spirit plants.
Seeing Jiang Hao calm down made Cheng Chou feel at ease. The other few Spirit Herb Garden guards were already panicking. They did not want to move the flowers to an area outside the garden, so they watched their garden suffer severe damage.
Jiang Hao instructed the spirit beasts to watch over the garden, and he worked on the spirit herbs.
After finishing his work, Jiang Hao did not remain silent. He patrolled the park to make sure there were no other problems.
Jiang Hao could only sigh. He feels burdened. He not only had to be wary of traitors and spies in the sect but also had to be careful of his fellow disciples.
Two days later, Jiang Hao inspected the seed he planted beside the Heavenly Fragrant Dao Flower. He surrounded her with 99 spirit stones. He then doused it.
'Now, I have to wait another nine days…'
After nine days, the seed should have taken root and sprouted. At that time, bubbles will begin to appear.
Jiang Hao knew that the purple-gold and gold bubbles were impossible to obtain for now. The seed could not yet grow into a god tree.
Over the past few days, Jiang Hao spent most of his time selling talismans and studying other forms of techniques from the Seven Heavenly Sword Forms.
He studied the first and second forms very closely. Jiang Hao wanted to further strengthen those two forms. He mostly used ordinary swords to train them but sometimes switched to Primordial Heavenly Sword.
He still did not know who Bai Ye was. He did not dare to wonder as he did not want to arouse suspicion.
Three days passed in an instant, and Jiang Hao finally saw someone from the Hundred Bones Forest Sect arrive at the Spirit Potion Garden. The one who came was a disciple at the late stage of the Natural Establishment Foundation.
His name is Li Kai. Jiang Hao had spoken to him in passing.
“Male brother Jiang, you are not too good!” li Kai said as Jiang Hao approached.
Li Kai's domineering aura radiated around him.
“Why did you say that, Senior Sister Li?”
Jiang Hao ignored his aura. They were in the Spirit Herb Garden. The sect does not tolerate fights in the park.
“I'm only a few days late, but you plucked the Bone Flower and let it die?”