Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 14: Boss Zhong Cang must have his own reasons for doing this!

Seeing that after Zhong Cang subdued them and others, he did nothing else but ran to plant trees first, all the Taoist children frowned.

In any case, they had no idea what the point was for them, as spiritual plant husbands, to plant ordinary trees.

Li Yan and Yan Yanyan didn't understand either. Even when they were planting trees yesterday, they were complaining in their hearts.

But yesterday is yesterday, and today is today.

Due to Zhong Cang's orders, they have transformed from ordinary little Taoist boys to captains in charge of more than ten people.

Such a rise in status made them excited.

The two of them understood why they were able to hold on to this position. Therefore, they are now extremely grateful to Zhong Cang and admire him very much. They will not tolerate anyone saying anything bad about Zhong Cang.

At this moment, even though the two of them didn't understand why Zhong Cang wanted to plant trees, they immediately responded, "Just plant trees when I tell you to. Why think so much? Boss Zhong Cang must have a deep meaning behind this."

Yan Yanyan: "Exactly. Think about the boss's achievements. He was the first one to sense spiritual energy before those with first-class spiritual roots. Can you do that? If you can't, then just shut up and obey the boss's orders... This tree might be able to help you understand the wonders of sensing."

After Li Yan and Yan Yanyan finished their words, the Taoist children who followed Zhong Cang instantly changed their mood from reluctance to full enthusiasm.

——These people believed what Li Yan and Yan Yanyan said, and thought that Zhong Cang, a genius, suddenly did some strange things, and there must be a deep meaning behind it.

Full of motivation, these Taoist children didn't need Zhong Cang's orders. They took the initiative to run to the Huangni Village warehouse, found the iron cattails and buckets, and took some fresh saplings and ran towards the mountain.

This scene also made Zhong Cang nod his head.

However, planting trees more densely is not necessarily better. The depth and spacing of the holes, the softness and hardness of the covering soil, and even the amount of watering all need to be considered.

In order to plant the trees better, Zhong Cang went to the barren mountain first and prepared to plan the area on the mountain.

In this way, under the instruction of Zhong Cang, the tree planting team of Huangni Village started up. Some people took catalpas, some took buckets of water, and some carried saplings, and they quickly became busy.

However, the fact that they were busy planting trees for Zhong Cang made some people dissatisfied.

Yesterday, many Taoist children chose to follow the senior brothers from Huangni Village to study. This behavior reduced the farming work of those senior brothers a lot.

In this situation, all the Taoist children withdrew, and the senior brothers were naturally unhappy.

For this reason, some people stopped some Taoist children and asked them the reason, and some people wanted to take action and force those Taoist children back.

This matter...still does not require Zhong Cang to step in.

"Why follow Senior Brother Zhong Cang to farm? Of course, only by following Senior Brother Zhong Cang can you have a bright future. Senior Brother sensed the spiritual energy within the time it took to stick up an incense stick, which is faster than some geniuses with first-class spiritual roots."

"Hehe, with a senior brother like this around, who else should we follow if not him?"

"You want to stop us? Are you sure you've made up your mind? Senior Brother Zhong Cang has a second-class spiritual root and was able to sense spiritual energy within the time it takes to stick up an incense stick. That senior brother is bound to become a powerful cultivator. Are you really going to stop us from working for him?"

Relying on Zhong Cang's good talent, Li Yan was not polite at all to his senior brother Ling Zhifu who tried to stop him. He angrily scolded him and threatened him, and the effect was very good.

Having poor talent to begin with and having been belittled by students from other Taoist academies for over a year, the spiritual plant cultivators in Huangni Village had long lost their edge.

People like them naturally did not dare to go against the extremely talented Zhong Cang.

Even though they were unwilling, in the end, they could only watch the others leave.

Just like that, without any obstruction, everyone came to the barren mountain under the leadership of Li Yan and Yan Yanyan, and planted trees according to Zhong Cang's instructions.

"Far away, farther apart. If the trees are too close together, they will compete with each other for sunlight and nutrients."

"Dig the pit deeper..." "Don't put so much water..."

Because they were novices, there were many mistakes and omissions when they first started planting trees.

To this end, Zhong Cang had to shuttle among the crowd, using the language of plants to sense the status of the saplings, and then make fine adjustments to the soil and watering based on the condition and comfort of the saplings.

During this process, Li Yan and Yan Yanyan no longer had to do hard work such as digging holes and watering trees. Zhong Cang took them with him and let them learn how to plant trees better.

After making sure they remembered everything clearly, Zhong Cang gave them an order: "I need to practice later, you just stay here and watch them plant trees..."

After saying this and hesitating for a moment, Zhong Cang decided to give some reward as an incentive.

"This is also a test. You will be divided into two teams to plant trees. Whoever plants the most trees and whose seedlings are in the best condition will be the winner. Winners, I have some rewards for you."

"Also, tell the others to concentrate on helping me plant trees. They will gain merit points. If they have enough merit points, I will use some means to help them sense spiritual energy!"

"Help us sense the spiritual energy!" As soon as these words were spoken, Li Yan and Yan Yanyan were immediately shocked.

The expressions of the other Taoist children were also a little dull.

"This, this, helps us sense spiritual energy? This can't be true, right?"

"Of course it's true. Boss Zhong Cang is such a great man, how could he possibly lie to us?"

"Hiss... I made a fortune. I originally joined Boss Zhong Cang because I didn't want to be bullied. I didn't expect that there would be such benefits!"

"Feng Sheng, why are you running?"

"What else can I do? Plant trees. The sooner I accumulate enough merits, the sooner I can receive the boss's help!"

"Yes, go plant some trees... Hehe, Cao Wenxing was assigned to the Law Cultivation Academy because of his good fortune, and he actually dared to mock me for that. Humph, wait until I sense the spiritual energy before him, and I'll see if he still dares to mock me."

After hearing that Zhong Cang had the ability to help them sense spiritual energy, the Taoist children who enrolled at the same time as him were no longer just full of enthusiasm, but worked desperately like crazy.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Cang was a little worried at first.

After all, he is not a black-hearted capitalist and does not want to exhaust his classmates.

However, he soon remembered that he had the Godberry Technique, and the Godberry had the ability to heal the body and recover from injuries.

"...Since it can be cured, then it's fine. Working a little more will actually be good for them and help strengthen their bodies."

After making sure that the other Taoist children were working hard and that Li Yan and Yan Yanyan could manage everything, Zhong Cang left this place and went to other places in this barren mountain. Although it was a barren mountain, there were still some trees around Huangni Village.

After walking a few steps, he saw some green trees.

Just like in Yunmo Heart Lake, after discovering these trees, Zhong Cang sat cross-legged under the trees, started meditating and communicating with the trees using the language of plants.

Because of his affinity with nature, Zhong Cang easily made the trees recognize him and let them transfer their accumulated wood-type spiritual energy into his body.

But what made Zhong Cang helpless was that this ordinary tree was not an 800-meter-tall ginkgo tree. There was wood-type spiritual energy in its body, but it was very little. He didn't dare to absorb it before he had absorbed it for a while.

——If all the wood spiritual energy from the trees is absorbed, these big trees will most likely die. Zhong Cang is a guardian of nature, not an exploiter, so he only absorbed a tiny bit and then stopped.

"No, ordinary trees can help me, but not much. A large tree can only increase my cultivation progress slightly. Moreover, in order to prevent the trees from being damaged, I have to change them frequently, which wastes a lot of time... It's not cost-effective to cultivate outside of Yunmo Heart Lake."

(End of this chapter)