Living a peaceful life in the world of cultivation

What is this "Spirit Plant Practitioners Mutual Aid Association"?

Although he knew that the visitors were mostly ill-intentioned and had ulterior motives, Lü Ping could only get up and prepare to lead Zhou Yang into the courtyard.

The reason is simple: Zhou Yang is a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator who has already developed spiritual sense, allowing him to sense whether Lü Ping is at home even through the courtyard wall.

Pretending not to be home and trying to avoid it is unrealistic.

Furthermore, they established some ridiculous Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association, and Li Ren, the skinflint, is still involved. They may have escaped Zhou Yang today, but there will still be cultivators coming tomorrow.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, I've long admired you."

Lu Ping greeted him with a smile and led him into the courtyard.

On the surface, Zhou Yang was polite to Lü Ping, but in reality, he was secretly observing the situation of the spiritual soil in the courtyard.

Upon seeing that a gray-green orchid-leaf-type spiritual plant had sprouted from the spiritual soil in Lü Ping's courtyard, and that there were no other spiritual plants, leaving two large clumps of spiritual soil empty, he was greatly surprised.

Right now, in the market, whose spiritual soil isn't overrun with demonic insects? After getting rid of the insects, everyone wishes they could use one piece of spiritual soil as if it were two.

Even outside the market town, in the vast fields of spirit plants, there are many demonic insects.

After sitting down, Zhou Yang didn't even drink a sip of tea before getting straight to the point.

"Fellow Daoist Lü, have you ever heard of our Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association?"

Lu Ping had never heard of the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association. He shook his head and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you may not know this, but I have been staying at home to recuperate lately. A few days ago, traces of rove aphids reappeared in the spirit soil. Fortunately, the spirit seeds had not yet been planted at that time, and after killing the insects with the Frost Technique, there was no significant loss."

Zhou Yang secretly regretted that after using Frost Magic to kill the insects, there probably wouldn't be much profit to be made this time.

"In that case, I will introduce our Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association to you, fellow Daoist."

"The Spirit Plant Masters Mutual Aid Association is a mutual aid association established by the Li family stewards in the market, with spirit plant masters who are skilled in pest control forming the core members."

"The aim is to help fellow spiritual plant practitioners within the market, as well as spiritual farmers outside the market who rent spiritual fields, to eliminate demonic insects from the spiritual soil and fields."

"A few days ago, Deacon Li Ren and Gao Yi led us to clear pests from the spirit fields outside the market free of charge."

Looking at Zhou Yang's proud face and his sycophantic words towards Li Ren, Lü Ping felt disgusted.

Li Rengaoyi? He's so righteous!

If Lü Ping hadn't worked as a spiritual farmer for a few years, he would have been completely fooled.

The reason Li Ren took the lead in helping the spirit farmers clear the demonic insects from the spirit fields for free was most likely at the behest of the Yunzhu Li family.

The spiritual fields outside the market were designated by the Huayang Sect, the upper sect, as long as the market was established. They could only be used to grow green corn, because green corn could help mortals who had not cultivated to temper their bodies and expand their meridians. It was specially supplied to mortals with spiritual roots in the mortal Taoist academies.

Therefore, Huayang Sect has set quotas for green corn for all the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining level towns and cities within its jurisdiction.

The Yunzhu Li family failed to meet their targets and will be held accountable by the Huayang Sect. Otherwise, why would the Yunzhu Li family be so kind, and why would Li Ren, the skinflint, be so righteous?

On the surface, Lü Ping could only suppress his discomfort and feign praise, saying, "Steward Li Ren is of noble character, and Fellow Daoist Zhou Yang is of noble character."

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Lü, although your meridians are damaged, if you are proficient in insect-repelling spells, you can join our Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association and earn some extra money," Zhou Yang said with a smile, still not touching the tea in his cup.

The handsome fellow Daoist Zhou, dressed in a moon-white Daoist robe, implied that, apart from members of the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association, no other cultivators were allowed to privately help other cultivators clear out demonic insects and earn their share of spirit stones.

Ha, Lü Ping had expected this. Fortunately, he didn't act rashly this morning and take Zhao Xiaofan to other cultivators' homes to clean up the demonic insects. Didn't that just walk right into the line of fire for the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association?

"It's fortunate that there are no demonic insects in Fellow Daoist Lü's spiritual land," Zhou Yang congratulated him, then suddenly changed the subject: "But it's better to be safe than sorry."

"I will still examine Fellow Daoist Lü, after all, it is my duty as a member of the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association."

Zhou Yang, with a righteous and awe-inspiring air, stood up after speaking and used his spiritual sense to cover the three pieces of spiritual soil.

After checking it over, he earned a spirit stone from Lü Ping and then got up to leave.

Seeing that there was no more profit to be made, this righteous fellow Daoist Zhou, who was also responsible for the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association, left in a rather hurried manner.

After Zhou Yang left, Lü Ping lay down, and Zhao Xiaofan came over.

"Uncle Ping, you're amazing!" Zhao Xiaofan said, holding a piece of demon beast meat. He said that Xu Cui had asked him to bring it over. "It's a good thing that I didn't drag Uncle Ping to remove pests from other people's spirit soil today, otherwise we would have run into this Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association."

"He also said that my mother was in front of this person's stall yesterday, but she couldn't squeeze in."

"How come he joined the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association so suddenly today?"

Young Zhao Xiaofan was also completely bewildered, experiencing the dangers of the cultivation world for the first time.

Zhao Xiaofan chewed on a candied fruit, then thought of something else: "But he's a really nice person. He helped my mother check out the spirit land and didn't take a single spirit stone."

Upon hearing this, Lü Ping understood that Zhou Yang was simply playing favorites against him.

Is he a good person?

If Zhao Dashan were not a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator and had made a living by hunting demonic beasts, Zhou Yang would have taken pity on him and inspected the spiritual soil for free.

Kind people are often bullied, and weak people are also often bullied.

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Since that day when the financial loss was averted, no members of the Spirit Plant Practitioners Mutual Aid Association have come.

It is said that in the spirit fields outside the market, more and more demonic insects are appearing, and all members of the Spirit Plant Master Mutual Aid Association have been ordered to clean up the demonic insects.

Zhou Yang and his companions hadn't even earned enough extra money in ten days before they became free labor for the Yunzhu Li family.

As for Lü Ping, he stayed peacefully in the courtyard, practicing swordsmanship and sparring with Tie Jianlan to hone her skills; or perhaps he was refining his spiritual power to solidify his cultivation.

With the daily nourishment of the spiritual rain, the iron sword orchid's form grows taller and stronger. From its initial sprouting leaves, which were no more than half an inch long, it has now grown to more than an inch. The sharpness of its leaves has been honed to be even greater than before.

Outside the courtyard, the Spirit Plant Masters Mutual Aid Association was busily cleaning up pests; inside, Lü Ping practiced swordsmanship daily and cultivated iron sword orchids.

Separated by a wall, it's like two different worlds.

Time, however, flows by like water.

The beginning of next month.

Li Ren, the righteous steward, arrived as scheduled.

Even matters concerning the Spirit Plant Masters Mutual Aid Association could not prevent this Deacon Li from collecting the Immortal Abode Fee on time.

Li Ren's plump body squeezed in, his Taoist robe clean and tidy, completely unlike Zhou Yang and the others who ran to the spirit fields every day.

"Fellow Daoist Lü, how have you been lately?"

"According to Zhou Yang, Fellow Daoist, the spiritual land did not suffer from too much insect damage this time."

"It's truly a stroke of luck."

"However, Fellow Daoist Lü, you still need to pay the Immortal Abode Fee."

After collecting the fee for the immortal abode, Li Ren left hastily, saying that the matter of pest control still needed to be finished.

Thanks to the efforts of the Spirit Plant Practitioners Mutual Aid Association, the pest infestation has been contained.

It seems that this pest infestation really is just a regular pest infestation...