Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 32 Management

Huangli Island was actually a miniature island with a large area. Although islands with a radius of about three miles were generally called miniature islands, Huangli Island couldn't be counted as one of them.

Huangli Island had a radius of more than six miles. In its center, there was a slightly towering hillside covered by a lush grove. Two small rivers rose in the hillside, one flowing northeast to the sea and the other flowing southeast to the sea.

The hillside was surrounded by relatively flat land. The soil there was fertile. The land there was the food planting area for ordinary people on the island. Especially in the east of the island, the land between the two rivers was the flattest. Because of sufficient water, a large number of farmlands had been opened up there.

The population in the west of the island was relatively small, and there were not many farmlands, but many fruit trees that were planted there. Moreover, there was also a natural harbor where the island's fishermen moored their fishing boats. The islanders also cut wood there and transported it down the mountain where it was made into fishing boats, so the annual harvest was good.

Lu Ping's arrival was only known to several leaders of the islanders. Then he settled down at the place where the Xuan Spirit Sect's disciples were stationed on the island before.

The islanders were very happy when they heard that Immortal Senior Lu, who helped them resist sea beasts and saved many fishermen, would be stationed on Huangli Island. They thought that Immortal Senior Lu was not as arrogant as other Immortal Seniors and was kind enough to guard them against disasters. On that day, many islanders made gifts of their own good things and filled Lu Ping's place with them.

Lu Ping was greatly moved. The simplicity and kindness of the islanders also set his mind on doing something good for the islanders in the next three years.

Lu Ping, who had settled down, started to manage his own small base for the next three years in addition to daily cultivation and routine inspections.

Lu Ping first checked the spiritual fields on the island. The one-acre spiritual fields were scattered in seven places on the island. They were quite fertile, and the scattered spiritual veins under the ground were also stable. Obviously, the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect took care of these things quite attentively. After all, the spiritual fields were the only cultivation resources on this island.

Spiritual grains were the main food for cultivators at the Blood Refining and Blood Dissolving who hadn't taken Qi as their food. The spiritual strength contained in spiritual grains was helpful for cultivating and transforming bodies. Such daily food could exert an imperceptible influence.

Lu Ping exerted Spirit-urging Skill on the spiritual grain seeds he bought, planted them in the spiritual fields, and covered them with a thin layer of soil. Then he took out a jade bottle, suspended it over the spiritual fields, and performed a spell. Then, misty spray came out of the jade bottle, which just shrouded the spiritual fields, as if there was a drizzle in them.

After being irrigated by diluted spiritual spring water, the spiritual fields immediately looked exuberant.

This jade bottle was really a good thing. Lu Ping got this low-grade magic weapon when he killed the cultivator of "Tongxiu League" in the woods of their academy. Although it had some defensive and attack functions, Lu Ping found that this magic weapon actually had spatial attributes. Its biggest advantage was that it could store a large amount of spiritual liquid in it to keep its spiritual Qi from evaporating.

Lu Ping diluted the spiritual spring water with fresh water and put it in the jade bottle. It was just enough for watering the one-acre spiritual fields, which saved him from using magic power to perform magic methods like Gathering Clouds and Making Rain.

Lu Ping clapped his hands with satisfaction and asked the nearby islanders to take care of these spiritual fields. The spiritual Qi contained in these spiritual fields had become thicker after being irrigated by the spiritual spring water. If these ordinary people often took care of these spiritual fields, they would be healthier and have fewer diseases under the influence of the spiritual Qi.

Amidst the gratitude of the surrounding ordinary people, Lu Ping finished planting the spiritual grains.

The second thing Lu Ping did was to set four sets of highest-grade Sub-root Early Warning Magic Figures at the places hundreds of meters around the place where he cultivated to monitor the safety of the island and provide a comfortable cultivation environment for himself.

It would be good if he could make magic circles, but he hadn't reached the Blood Dissolving stage and develop the Divine Mentality Coercion. Even if there were magic circles, he couldn't use them without Divine Mentality Coercion. If he managed to do that, they would only produce little effect. Moreover, a set of magic circles cost a lot of spiritual stones, and Lu Ping's spiritual stones might not be enough.

The third thing Lu Ping did was to release the Spirit-Seeking Mouse that had recognized him as its owner. It ran all over the mountains on Huangli Island. Lu Ping hoped it could find some spiritual lands that could be opened up to spiritual fields, and it would be better if it could find other resources.

After Lu Ping finished doing these three things, his life became regular. He cultivated at a fixed time every day. Then he made routine inspections and took care of the spiritual fields. He used the rest of the time to either refine Magic Figures or go out to sea with the fishermen. When he was in a good mood, he would kill sea beasts to satisfy his craving for meat. However, most of the time, he helped the fishermen increase the catch. With Lu Ping was around, the fishermen could be safe, so they were grateful to him and often sent their delicious food to him.

Lu Ping hadn't taken Qi as his food. Even if he had, he wouldn't stop eating food. Enjoying delicious food was a good thing. How could he abandon such an enjoyment? It was too insipid to eat those spiritual grains every day.

Unfortunately, sea beasts were not sea supernatural beasts. They didn't know how to cultivate. Otherwise, Lu Ping could hunt them and sold them for spiritual stones.

Sea supernatural beasts were just some sea beasts who knew how to refine blood but hadn't gained their spiritual intelligence. Only when they reached the Blood Dissolving stage and gained their spiritual intelligence could they be regarded as a member of the demon race which had equal status as human beings.

The quiet days always passed quickly. Three months almost soon passed. The Spirit-Seeking Mouse had run almost every corner of the island but didn't find any place where spiritual Qi gathered, which disappointed Lu Ping a little. He felt very bad about consuming without producing. It always gave him a sense of crisis.

The only thing that pleased Lu Ping was that his cultivation did not slow down because he was far away from the spirit veins of their academy. Perhaps because of the free life during this time that made Lu Ping's mind peaceful and calm and the sufficient supply of elixirs, Lu Ping's cultivation improved steadily.

On the harvest day of spiritual grains, Lu Ping was finally in a better mood. The good seeds which cost him twenty spiritual stones had a well-deserved reputation. Moreover, under the careful irrigation of Lu Ping's spiritual spring water, the output of spiritual grains reached 390 kg per acre.

No matter how many spiritual grains they harvested, the True Spirit Sect would collect a fixed amount of spiritual grains. Therefore, in addition to the fixed 200 kg of the spiritual grains of the one-acre spiritual fields, the dividends, the remaining 50 kg of spiritual grains and the 75 kg of extra harvest were Lu Ping's private property.

They could be sold for at least 80 spiritual stones. In the past three months, Lu Ping made low, medium, high-grade Magic Figures and sold them. Excluding the costs, he earned 200 hundred or so spiritual stones. With the subsidies, 60 spiritual stones every month, he got 450 spiritual stones in the past three months. In other cultivators' view, this was already a large wealth.

But in the cultivation in the past three months, he used up three bottles of thick blood elixirs, three bottles of muddy blood elixirs, and three bottles of fine blood elixirs that filled in the lack of those two elixirs. The total cost was nearly one thousand spiritual stones without the usual cultivation sundries.

Lu Ping thought about it and almost got a headache. Spiritual stones! He must find a way to get them. At this time, Lu Ping already didn't care what word he used to express his desire for spiritual stones.