Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

With a "thud," the ant colony's corpses fell to the ground.

Great, another batch of excellent fertilizer.

Song Chuan looked around the Spirit Garden, finally having resolved this first problem.

As for the green honey aphids, a small portion can be kept for now, as a fundamental part of the future cemetery.

Next, he will officially begin to manage this abandoned garden.

He walked towards the wooden house by the pond, where he saw that the house was full of dust, but it was equipped with a table, chairs and a bed.

He tidied himself up a bit, changed into his sect's robes, and left Canxiang Garden directly for the Beekeeping Hall.

After leaving the beekeeping hall, he went to several other places, including the spirit seed hall and the soil cultivation hall, before finally returning to the wooden house after most of the day.

When he returned this time, he had two extra storage bags on his waist, one of which resembled a sachet and looked rather strange.

He sat cross-legged on the couch, shaking his head and smiling bitterly. This trip had cost him a fortune!

With a sigh, he took out the earth-cultivating hoe magic tool issued by the sect and began to refine it.

This hoe is a beginner-level magical artifact, standard equipment for spirit plant masters in Vine Flower Valley. It can only be used to manage the spirit garden and cannot be used for magical combat.

After he finished refining, he went to the Radiant Fragrance Garden and first threw a low-grade first-level fireball talisman, burning the weeds to ashes.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a hoe, made a hand seal to direct the hoe, and dug out the top layer of soil.

He then took the sachet-shaped storage bag from his waist, patted it, and as soon as the opening moved, two earthworms poked their heads out.

They were entirely brown, and after emerging from the sachet, they rapidly grew to seven or eight feet long.

Both of these earth dragons were actually at the early stage of the first tier.

They have all been domesticated by the disciples of the Beekeeping Hall who raise spirit insects.

Song Chuan took out the two spirit beast pills given to him by the disciples of the Beekeeping Hall and flicked them with his finger.

The two earth dragons each swallowed one, then plunged into the ground and disappeared.

The sachet in Song Chuan's hand is a special sachet for holding spirit insects, and it must be returned after use.

Both of these first-tier earth dragons have the ability to turn over and loosen the soil, and their excrement can greatly improve the soil quality.

The price is outrageously high; renting two bikes costs six spirit stones for three days!

If you want to buy it, it costs about a hundred spirit stones!

Iron-needle ants and golden-spotted ground beetles would probably be more valuable.

The people at the beekeeping shop even gave us some of the insect's droppings as a gift.

Besides these two earth dragons, he also purchased refined high-mountain yang soil, irrigation water, spirit plant seeds, and wood ash from several other places.

It cost a total of thirty spirit stones.

In other words, he received no salary from the first season.

Fortunately, the land in this spirit garden wasn't completely abandoned; there was still more than an acre of normal land. Otherwise, the salary for the first season wouldn't have been enough.

The other disciples certainly wouldn't immediately pay out of their own pockets, but I did.

Thirty spirit stones would take a considerable amount of time for a Qi Refining cultivator, even in Vine Flower Valley, after deducting expenses.

However, upon further reflection, he realized that in the long run, it would be worthwhile to manage the garden well and cultivate here alone.

Having the Spirit Pearl Acceleration Technique, I've temporarily saved myself the expense of buying pills to improve my cultivation.

This expense is actually the bulk of the cost for many cultivators!

Song Chuan comforted himself, picked up his hoe again, and started turning over the soil.

With these two earthworms working together, turning over the soil becomes much easier.

Once the soil turning is finished, after removing the dead roots, insect eggs, and other debris, he can fill it with sunny mountain soil to suppress and harmonize the turbid air in the soil.

Next, spread fertilizers such as wood ash, earthworm excrement, and iron ant corpses into layers of soil, and water it with soil-enriching water. That completes the initial soil conditioning work.

……

Three months later.

A streak of light descended outside the wooden gate of Canxiang Garden.

Cheng Tu put away the flying sword at his feet, glanced at the Spirit Garden, and slowly walked in with his hands behind his back.

There were only a few scattered spiritual plants in the garden, while the rest of the area was bare, but the spiritual energy was fresh and the soil was soft, showing signs of burgeoning growth.

"Senior Cheng, this junior greets you." Song Chuan, who hurriedly came out of the wooden house, bowed and said.

"Well done, kid. Your senior brother definitely made the right choice."

"You flatter me, senior."

Cheng Tu tossed Song Chuan a storage bag and said, "Transplant all the first-tier spiritual plants inside. For a few special ones, I've left jade slips with the transplantation instructions."

"This junior obeys." Song Chuan took the storage bag and said.

"Also, there are a few first-tier spiritual plants here that are useless to Foundation Establishment cultivators. I've marked them, so you can deal with them yourself," Cheng Tu suddenly said with a smile.

"Thank you, senior!" Song Chuan said with great joy.

He had thought Xuan He and Cheng Tu were going to take his salary for free, but it turned out there was compensation.

"After these spiritual plants are planted, you can plant some other spiritual plants as well. You can decide for yourself."

"I have already purchased some spiritual plant seeds in advance, but I am afraid that you have brought too many spiritual plants, so I have not planted them yet."

"You're quite clever. Once you've saved up enough spirit stones, go to Yuewei Hall and exchange them for the 'Spirit Cultivation Secret Technique'," Cheng Tu said.

"The Spirit Cultivation Secret Technique?" Song Chuan asked in confusion.

"It can accelerate the growth rate of low-level spiritual plants; it belongs to a sect's secret technique."

"Thank you for the reminder, senior," Song Chuan said, somewhat shocked.

However, this kind of secret method is certainly very valuable, and I definitely can't afford it right now.

"Oh right, there's also a set of Tier 1 array flags in the storage bag, and the jade slip also has instructions on their placement."

"I understand."

"I won't be coming here often, so you'd better watch yourself."

After Cheng Tu finished speaking, he stepped onto his flying sword and soared into the sky.

Song Chuan watched Cheng Tu leave and breathed a sigh of relief.

He opened the storage bag, first took out the jade slip and read it through, then transplanted the spiritual plants inside one by one into the garden.

Then he looked at the seven palm-sized flags in his hand: three black, three yellow, and one blue.

"Water and Soil Dual Formation," Song Chuan murmured.

Following the instructions on the jade slip, he buried three small black flags near the pond and three small yellow flags on the three ley lines. The remaining flag was the main flag, which he carried with him.

As expected, array masters all understand the distribution of earth veins.

His eyes flickered slightly; perhaps he could study formations in the future.

But now that everything is settled, the most urgent task is to focus on cultivation!

He returned to the cabin, took out the bead, and wanted to try it out, to see what would happen if he used his divine sense to probe into the bead.

Even if I suffer a backlash, I can rest and recuperate peacefully here all by myself.

What if there were no backlash, and one could control this pearl with their divine sense?

He gritted his teeth, extended a wisp of his divine sense, and cautiously probed inside.

He felt the overwhelming earth elemental power again, but to his surprise, the vast earth elemental power did not impact this wisp of divine consciousness.

On the contrary, his divine consciousness felt warm and extremely comfortable.

Immediately afterwards, everything in the soil within a radius of thirty feet was revealed to him in great detail, including the intricate network of ley lines.

Within these thirty feet, whether on the ground or underground, you could hear a pin drop!

Thirty zhang is the limit of a Qi Refining cultivator's spiritual sense. He, a Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator, can only reach seven or eight zhang.

Enhance your divine sense and see through the earth's veins! And you no longer need to use magic power for only a few breaths like before.

No, that's not all!

A thought struck him, and he excitedly ran out of the wooden house, used earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique in Chinese fantasy novels) to disappear directly underground.