My master gave me a death mission: to go down the mountain and retrieve his granddaughter.

The next morning, before Liu Zihao got up, Liu Ziyan left Su Muchen's bedroom with a guilty conscience, which felt somewhat like an affair.

After having breakfast at Liu Ziyan's house, Su Muchen took his meager luggage and drove to his new residence.

Villa No. 3 is located right next to the only road leading to Villa No. 1. Aunt Lan's illness has subsided and she has fully recovered. She woke up early and was doing stretching exercises on the villa's balcony, breathing in the fresh morning air.

When their gaze turned to the direction of the road, they immediately recognized the luxury car slowly speeding towards them in the distance; it was Su Muchen's vehicle.

Aunt Lan originally thought Su Muchen was coming to see her, but the car drove straight past the intersection of Villa No. 3 and headed directly towards the magnificent and imposing villa halfway up the mountain.

Aunt Lan immediately summoned the housekeeper to inquire, only to find out that the villa halfway up the mountain was the most upscale and luxurious villa number one in the entire villa area.

Moreover, the housekeeper revealed that the owner of this villa was a mysterious figure, and even the behind-the-scenes boss of the development, who was also the richest man in Nanjiang City, had to treat him with respect.

Another strange phenomenon is that there are no servants in Villa No. 1. The butler was trained by the company and was prepared to be the butler of Villa No. 1.

However, the owner of Villa No. 1 refused the servants arranged by the company, so she was left with no choice but to be assigned to be the housekeeper of Villa No. 3.

Aunt Lan's mind started racing. According to the housekeeper, only the owner lived in Villa No. 1, and it was obvious to anyone that the owner was Su Muchen.

This is truly a case of being in a good position to get close to someone. I should let my daughter get closer to Su Muchen more often in the future. Maybe I can snag a rich husband like Su Muchen soon.

This isn't because Aunt Lan has a dirty mind; it's because every parent wants their daughter to find a good man to entrust her life to.

Su Muchen is just such a good man—handsome, rich, and highly skilled. He's the kind of son-in-law that every mother-in-law dreams of, and she definitely can't let him go.

Su Muchen was unaware of Aunt Lan's thoughts. When he drove past Villa No. 3, he spotted Aunt Lan, but he didn't stop to greet her and drove straight back to the villa.

At this moment, Su Muchen only had one thing on his mind: to clear the land and build a garden. He wanted to create a vegetable garden in the yard of the villa, set up a spirit-gathering array in the garden, and then start planting spiritual herbs.

In the few days since entering the mortal world, he has found that his cultivation has not improved at all, and he has also spent a lot of spiritual energy on healing.

At this moment, his spiritual energy was in a state of depletion, and he was only able to replenish it by absorbing the spiritual energy contained in the air. He didn't know when he would be able to recover.

Su Muchen's biggest wish right now is to quickly grow spiritual herbs and use them to recover his condition. These spiritual herbs contain a vast amount of spiritual energy. The reason he has such a high level of cultivation at this age is entirely due to the spiritual herbs that his master, the old man, grows in the secret realm.

Without hesitation, Su Muchen parked the car and immediately took out a hoe and pickaxe from the trunk, which he had bought on the way back.

Next, Su Muchen worked up a sweat, like a farmer clearing land in the villa's yard.

With his formidable strength, Su Muchen didn't expend much effort and finished digging a vegetable garden in the yard in just half an hour.

The next step is crucial: setting up the spirit-gathering array. To achieve better results, Su Muchen decided to reduce the array's coverage area to just the vegetable garden.

They unloaded all the raw stones from the car, dug several holes around the vegetable garden, and used the Dragon Stone and two Imperial Green stones as the foundation, with the other raw stones as support, burying them in the holes one by one.

Finally, the replica of the Donghuang Bell was buried in the center of the vegetable garden.

Immediately afterwards, Su Muchen sat cross-legged in front of the vegetable garden. Next, he set up the formation. Su Muchen was chanting incantations and constantly making hand seals, with spiritual energy circulating around his hands.

As hand seals were cast, a nearly transparent semi-circular dome appeared above the vegetable garden, gradually becoming clearer. Inside the dome, white mist slowly flowed, which was the spiritual energy gathered from the surrounding area.

Soon, Su Muchen's hands moved at an accelerated speed, so fast that afterimages appeared.

"Spirit Gathering Array, activate..."

As Su Muchen uttered those words, thunder rumbled in the villa's courtyard, and a white aura first appeared above the vegetable garden in front of him, before slowly disappearing completely.

No longer visible to the naked eye, the vegetable garden was shrouded in an invisible dome, with only some white mist floating above it, making the garden seem like a fairyland.

"Phew... The Spirit Gathering Array is finally complete. Not bad. With the blessing of Ying'er's family heirloom, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy has increased by more than double."

Su Muchen used his divine sense to sense the speed at which the Spirit Gathering Array absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy. He found that the speed far exceeded his expectations, even surpassing the Spirit Gathering Array set up by his master in the secret realm. He was extremely satisfied with this.

All that's left is to plant the spiritual herbs. When Su Muchen left the secret realm this time, he brought out quite a few spiritual herb seeds. In order to speed up the growth of the spiritual herbs, he even stole the spirit crystal that his master treasured.

Spirit crystals—as the name suggests, are solid objects formed from condensed spiritual energy. This is something that cultivators dream of. In this era where spiritual energy is almost exhausted, it is undoubtedly a pipe dream to condense spirit crystals.

The old master only had two spirit crystals, which he had obtained by chance in a cave where a predecessor had cultivated during his travels. He had always regarded them as treasures.

The old master had two spirit crystals. One was used in the herb garden of the secret realm to accelerate the growth of spiritual herbs. The other one was the one in Su Muchen's hand.

"You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub." Although Su Muchen was also reluctant to part with this only spirit crystal, in order to accelerate the growth of the spiritual herb, he gritted his teeth and crushed the spirit crystal.

In an instant, the spirit crystal turned into white water vapor and scattered in the vegetable garden, while the spirit herb seeds that Su Muchen had just planted broke through the soil and sprouted tender shoots in the next moment.

This scene filled Su Muchen with joy. At this rate, he believed that these spiritual herbs would be fully mature in just a few days.

Moreover, with the nourishment of the spirit crystal rain, this vegetable garden will undoubtedly become the best place to grow spirit herbs in the future, and will definitely accelerate the growth rate of spirit herbs.

In fact, spirit crystals can also be used as an aid to cultivation, and their effects are much better than those of spirit medicines. However, since spirit crystals are disposable items, it would be a waste to use them directly for cultivation.