I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 1124: Chapter 618: Third Generation Eldest Disciple_2 Chapter 1124: Chapter 618: Third Generation Eldest Disciple_2 And next, it was up to Liu Wenbo to collect tea trees from various places in the Eastern Wilderness that were not yet found on Xiao Nanshan through the Little Nan Mountain Shop.

Since each tea tree would differ due to variations in soil, climate, and Earth energy, and Zhuo Ming was just one person who ordinarily couldn’t leave Little Nan Mountain, it was necessary to find someone specifically skilled to be in charge of this task.

“The Little Nan Mountain Shop recruits some clever and capable disciples from the Spirit Treasure Pavilion in the sect every year, I’ll see if there’s anyone worth training,” Liu Wenbo said, familiar with the routine.

The Little Nan Mountain Shop had now truly spread throughout the nineteen nations of the Eastern Wilderness.

Even the Five Elements Sect, Back to Sky Valley, and Yun Meng Ze had branch stores established.

Obviously, Liu Wenbo couldn’t personally manage each and every shop. As the largest enterprise under Chen Mobai’s name, many disciples from the Divine Wood Sect were eager to join the Little Nan Mountain Shop and become a store manager of one of the branches.

In this, influenced by Chen Mobai, the store managers Liu Wenbo recruited were not the ones with the highest cultivation level but those who were quick-witted.

After all, who in the entire Eastern Wilderness didn’t know that the Little Nan Mountain Shop was an enterprise of Sect Master Chen of the Divine Wood Sect? Moreover, they were basically situated in the busiest centers of the Fang Markets in various nations, where security was guaranteed, and there was no need for people with very high cultivation to be in charge.

Of course, there were still many bold individuals in the Eastern Wilderness.

The Little Nan Mountain Shop, because of its prominence, had also been the target of a few thefts over the years.

Among these, only one occurred within the territory under the Divine Wood Sect, in Sky Country. The aftermath had the local Town Guard, King Zhou, scared to death, leading his cultivators to turn Sky Country upside-down for half a month straight without rest.

The major families in Sky Country were also in a state of anxiety, each conducting internal investigations and assisting King Zhou willingly.

Eventually, after a month, the group of rogue cultivators responsible for the theft was found by King Zhou, and they were all executed without exception.

When Liu Wenbo went to deal with the incident afterward, King Zhou personally apologized and compensated with several times the value of the stolen talisman paper and ink in spirit stones.

Liu Wenbo felt that those rogue cultivators who had been wiped out weren’t the ones who had stolen from the Little Nan Mountain Shop, but he gave face to King Zhou and let bygones be bygones.

At least after this incident, no one dared to steal from the Little Nan Mountain Shop in the six nations under the Divine Wood Sect’s control.

Because if anything happened, it was best if the thief were found, but if not, a group of rogue cultivators would be executed in their stead. This had led to the rogue cultivator groups in the Eastern Wilderness to issue a clandestine warrant that anyone daring to plunder the Little Nan Mountain Shop’s possessions would be collectively executed along with three generations of their family.

Over the years in business, Liu Wenbo had indeed come to appreciate the benefits of a high-profile backing.

Wherever he went, he was treated as an honored guest.

Recruiting various talents only required an announcement to be made through the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, and immediately many Qi Cultivating Disciples would come forward, allowing him to choose at will.

Indeed, just after Liu Wenbo had posted the job for a cultivator skilled in tea tree spirit plants, more than thirty qualified candidates were promptly presented to him by the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s staff.

Although Liu Wenbo also had some understanding of spirit plants, he meticulously invited Zhuo Ming to evaluate the ability of these candidates.

That day, thirty-six Qi Cultivating Disciples from the Divine Wood Sect arrived at the foot of Little Nan Mountain.

They were clearly there for the three new employee slots at the Little Nan Mountain Shop.

Many of them appeared restrained, standing in groups here and there, while some looked at the lush spirit fields not far away, with their heavy ears of grain hanging down, showing great admiration.

These were all Rank-2 Green Jade Spirit Rice, which, since Chen Mobai became the Sect Leader, had been distributed every year, sixty jin each, to Qi Cultivating Disciples.

In addition to this Rank-2 spirit rice, the biannual Fire Spirit Rice was now able to be consumed daily by every disciple.

Eating spirit rice every day was something that a decade ago, all disciples of the Divine Wood Sect didn’t even dare to dream of.

And thanks to the abundant supply of spirit rice, the disciples of the Divine Wood Sect also found that breaking through realms seemed indeed to be easier than before.

With the benefit of spirit rice, Chen Mobai’s prestige had completely surpassed that of any other person in the Divine Wood Sect in the eyes of its lower-ranking disciples.

“Elder Wenbo has arrived!”

As some people admired the various types of spirit rice on Little Nan Mountain, Liu Wenbo’s Escaping Light descended, and everyone immediately greeted him with a bow.

“Hmm, now that everyone is here, take this wooden token. Soon, you will accompany me and Zhuo Shimei to the tea plantation halfway up the mountain to test your spirit planting skills,”

Liu Wenbo distributed wooden tokens carved with “Little Nan” to the thirty-six Qi Cultivating Disciples who had passed the initial selection of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, enabling them to pass through the Cloud Mist Array.

“Yes, Elder Liu, do we wait here for Elder Zhuo?”

One of the disciples, who seemed to know Liu Wenbo, took the token and stood beside him, asking politely.

“Isn’t Zhuo Shimei already here? She arrived even earlier than I did.”

Liu Wenbo frowned as he said this, then shouted toward a village girl not far off, wearing a straw hat and observing an acre of newly hybrid spiritual rice in the spirit field.

Upon hearing his call, Zhuo Ming immediately flew over.

The crowd couldn’t help but look shocked; they hadn’t expected such an inconspicuous person in the field to be the number one spirit planter from Divine Wood Sect.

Some of the Qi Cultivating Disciples who had just been pointing at the spirit rice in the field turned pale.

“Everyone is here, let’s go then.”

Zhuo Ming didn’t care about anyone’s opinion, and took the lead towards the tea plantation on the mountainside.

Liu Wenbo waved his hand, signaling everyone to follow, with him bringing up the rear.

“Why are you here?”

Within the group, Han Zhiling looked at Song Huangdae beside her with surprise and suspicion. Hearing this, Song Huangdae also furrowed his eyebrows, looking troubled.

“You, as the valedictorian from the Longevity Academy, are you still lacking spirit stones?”

Song Huangdae couldn’t help but retort, truly by coincidence.

He had received a mission to infiltrate Little Nan Mountain Shop and steal some core secrets.

Therefore, after joining Divine Wood Sect, he had been taking odd jobs to shorten the process, eagerly waiting until the news of Liu Wenbo hiring came up from Spirit Treasure Pavilion, and he immediately made his way there.

He mainly studied the Earth Master expertise, but in the Eastern Wilderness, Earth Master and spirit planting were inseparable, so he crammed some knowledge about tea trees and, after slipping a couple of spirit stones to the steward handling the initial selection at Spirit Treasure Pavilion, he came here with a nervous heart.

Little did he know that upon arrival, he would see Han Zhiling as well.

Although he tried his best to hide, when the two Foundation Establishment Practitioners asked them to take turns, he was still spotted by Han Zhiling.

“I want to apprentice under Elder Zhuo.”

Han Zhiling hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth.

“And I want to apprentice under Elder Liu.”

Song Huangdae rolled his eyes and came up with an excuse following her statement.

But within the entire Divine Wood Sect, who wouldn’t want to join Little Nan Mountain?

After Chen Mobai stopped taking in Qi Cultivating Disciples following his Core Formation, they focused their attention on Liu Wenbo and Zhuo Ming.

Becoming the eldest disciple of the third generation is also a decent choice!

“Then good luck to you!”

Han Zhiling actually believed what Song Huangdae said, encouraging this fellow student and classmate from Longevity Academy who had also graduated and joined Divine Wood Sect.

“Mm-hmm!”

Song Huangdae responded noncommittally.

At this time, their group had already entered the tea plantation.