As it turned out, Xu Chunniang's guess was not wrong.
As time went by, more and more disciples came to the top of the mountain, but without exception, they all looked greatly shocked.
Xu Chunniang's calmness was quite eye-catching among the sad faces of her disciples.
She lowered her head slightly and bit her lips hard. Her face turned pale in pain and tears welled up in her eyes. Finally, she looked somewhat pitiful.
"Shut up, everyone!"
Manager Sun was annoyed by the noise and couldn't help but shout loudly, which finally stopped the disciples' incessant complaints.
Although the disciples did not dare to complain anymore, their faces were full of pleading, which gave Manager Sun a headache.
The responsibility for the large-scale loss of spiritual rice this time cannot be placed on this group of disciples.
After all, when there was a problem with the spiritual rice before, it was investigated personally by the inner sect’s foundation-building master, who also provided a solution.
If we really want to find out who is responsible, I'm afraid the inner sect master uncle bears greater responsibility.
Even if Sun Eryong had a hundred times the courage, he would not dare to blame the uncle who built the foundation.
But the issue of spiritual rice must be resolved.
This time the entire Lingzhi Peak suffered heavy losses and gained nothing. As the manager of Lingzhi Peak, he must give an explanation to the sect.
After much deliberation, Manager Sun wrote down the whole story without any personal feelings and sent it to the inner gate.
After doing all this, Manager Sun turned around and looked at the disciples.
"I have informed the sect of the whole matter. As for whether the sect will waive this season's spiritual rice, I don't know. I can only wait for the sect to send people to deal with it."
When the disciples heard this, their faces showed mixed emotions.
They hoped that the situation would turn around, but they were also afraid that the sect's handling of the matter would be like last time, with the disciples having to bear the losses themselves.
Sun Eryong sent an expedited letter. This time, the people from the sect received the letter quickly and rushed over.
After all, there are nearly two hundred spiritual fields on and around Lingzhi Peak, and the fact that they suffered disasters and had no harvest is enough to attract attention.
The visitors were all spiritual pharmacists from Danfeng, three in total. In addition to the Uncle Zhao from last time, there was also a middle-aged man and an old woman.
"Meet the three uncles."
Manager Sun quickly greeted the three people.
The other disciples also followed suit and bowed to greet him.
The old woman shook her head and said, "No need to be polite, this is a serious matter, just take us directly to the spiritual field."
Manager Sun hurriedly led the way, leading the three uncles to the nearest spiritual field.
The disciples followed silently, and they also wanted to know what was wrong with the spiritual rice.
Next to the spiritual field, the old woman who was in the foundation-building stage looked at a field of green spiritual rice, pondering in silence.
Zhao Weiruo's face didn't look good. She used her spiritual sense to sense it again, but couldn't sense anything special.
It's obviously just a minor ailment, the medicine she prescribed cannot be ineffective.
But if the medicine is really effective, the spiritual rice should not be like this.
Is there some other place...that she hasn't explored clearly
Thinking of this, Zhao Weiruo's heart skipped a beat.
The middle-aged man also released his spiritual sense and carefully sensed the entire spiritual field. Suddenly, he seemed to sense something, his expression changed slightly, and he whispered a few words to the old woman.
The old woman turned around and gave him a look of approval, "Yes, it is a tick spirit insect."
Manager Sun was stunned. What was a tick insect? Why had he never heard of it
The disciples also heard the words of the old woman who was building the foundation, but like Manager Sun, they were confused and had no idea what the tick spirit insect was.
Xu Chunniang, who was mixed in the crowd, had a glimmer of realization in her eyes.
Are ticks the little green bugs that hide inside rice
When she used the spiritual silk technique to detect the spiritual rice, she did clean up several such small insects.
Hearing the three words "tick spirit insect", Zhao Weiruo's face suddenly turned ugly.
If these magical rice were really infested by ticks, then she would be responsible for failing to observe and misjudgment.
The old woman who was building the foundation was very cautious. After using several detection methods to confirm, she spoke in a calm voice.
"The tick is a kind of insect that likes to eat spiritual energy. It is very rare and has not appeared in the cultivation world for hundreds of years.
Ticks like wood spirit energy but hate fire spirit energy. You only need to use fire spirit energy to treat the spirit rice and spirit fields to kill these insects. "
As she spoke, she used a wisp of fire spiritual energy to easily force a small green insect out of a spiritual rice plant, and then burned it to death.
Seeing this, Manager Sun showed obvious joy on his face.
"So if we get rid of these ticks now, can these spiritual rice be saved?"
"No."
The old woman shook her head and said, "It's not that the spiritual rice that has been eaten by ticks will not produce ears, but that the ticks have already eaten all the ears.
Even if all the ticks were killed, it would be impossible to make the rice produce ears again."
Manager Sun smiled bitterly, it seemed that the losses of this season were ultimately irreparable.
The loss of nearly two hundred spiritual fields was not a small amount. If he didn't handle it properly, he might not even be able to keep his position as the manager.
He bowed deeply to the old woman who was building the foundation, and spoke earnestly.
"Uncle Master Yuan, this Lingzhi Peak disaster is truly a natural disaster. Our disciples suffered greatly from insect pests last year, and this year... the harvest is even worse. I hope that you, Uncle Master Yuan, will show some sympathy and exempt us from handing over the spiritual rice we need to hand over this season."
As soon as he finished speaking, Manager Sun felt a sharp gaze falling on him, which made him sweat profusely and unable to straighten his back.
He secretly groaned in his heart, fearing that his words had offended Uncle Zhao from last time.
After all, the fundamental reason why Lingzhi Peak suffered a second disaster was Uncle Zhao’s misdiagnosis and wrong judgment last time.
Before Yuan Hongxing could say anything, Zhao Weiruo could no longer bear it and his face was filled with anger and frost.
"Sun Eryong, are you blaming me?"
Manager Sun was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he kept saying, "Disciple doesn't dare."
Yuan Hongxing frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Junior Sister Weiruo, the spiritual rice disaster this time was caused by your poor skills and misdiagnosis. How can you vent your anger on the outer sect manager for no reason?"
Zhao Weiruo pursed her lips and clenched her fists unwillingly.
In front of Senior Sister Yuan, she didn't dare to be as casual as she was with Sun Eryong.
Yuan Hongxing pondered, those who planted the spiritual fields here were all ordinary outer disciples.
Having suffered such a heavy blow, their faces were filled with sorrow and grief, but the way they looked at her was filled with admiration and hope.
Yuan Hongxing made up her mind and spoke in a calm voice.
"The disaster at Lingzhi Peak this time is the fault of the inner sect spiritual medicine master Zhao Weiruo, so I will exempt all the disciples from handing in the spiritual rice this time."
Hearing this, all the disciples felt like they had been saved from a desperate situation. They were so excited that they bowed deeply to Yuan Hongxing and said, "Thank you, Uncle Yuan, for your understanding."
"Sister, why do you have to do this? If you do this, how will these outer disciples look at me in the future?"
Zhao Weiruo was filled with shame and indignation, but she did not dare to openly disobey Yuan Hongxing, so she had to send a message to her privately.
Yuan Hongxing raised her head, glanced at Zhao Weiruo, and said in a voice transmission, "Junior Sister Zhao, the facts and evidence are obvious, and you were indeed wrong in this matter."
Zhao Weiruo was very unwilling, "I was just careless for a moment... Besides, I have never seen this tick spirit insect before."
Zhao Weiruo admitted that she had done something wrong, but this matter couldn't be blamed entirely on her!
After all, who could have expected that such a rare insect pest would appear in a small outer gate spiritual plant peak.