After being busy for an hour, Jiang Yuebai felt dizzy, and the five elements cyclone in his dantian was dim.
She felt her spiritual energy was running out, and she couldn't interrupt the Herbal Technique that she was performing. She subconsciously increased the speed of her ten fingers to squeeze out the spiritual energy in her body.
His ten fingers trembled suddenly, and the desire to complete the secret drove the new spiritual consciousness, suddenly transforming the internal pressure into external suction.
Strands of emerald green light emerged from the surrounding seedlings. Jiang Yuebai felt that he could not stop. His ten fingers stirred up a vortex of spiritual energy and madly absorbed the green light.
The green light accumulated more and more, forming a green bead the size of a peanut in her palm.
boom!
A vortex of spiritual energy exploded from his fingertips. Jiang Yuebai staggered a step. Within a thirty-foot area around him, the seedlings dried up and turned to ashes when the wind blew.
The few people who were chatting around were horrified and stared at Jiang Yuebai as if they had seen a ghost.
Zheng Li, the owner of the spiritual field here, looked as pale as death and threw himself into the spiritual field in grief.
"Oh my seedlings, what have you done to you? I asked you to repair my seedlings, not to rob them of their vitality!"
Jiang Yuebai was at a loss holding the plant essence bead. She didn't do it on purpose. She was just under pressure from exhaustion of spiritual power and accidentally changed the spell, thus robbing the vitality of the plants in the seedlings.
When she was learning the Art of Plants and Trees, Tao Fengnian told her that the Art of Plants and Trees had two uses.
One, it can absorb the wood spiritual energy in the air to nourish spiritual plants.
One, you can plunder the vitality of plants and use it to weed, and use the grass ash as fertilizer. In addition to feeding back to spiritual plants, the plundered plant essence beads can also be used as materials for refining healing pills.
"So many seedlings can produce more than 100 kilograms of wheat. If you don't compensate me with spirit stones today, you can't leave!"
Zheng Li was aggressive and stretched out his hand to demand compensation.
Jiang Yuebai was indignant, "My spiritual power was exhausted because I helped you repair the seedlings. I never asked you for money for my hard work, but you want to blackmail me?"
"Why do you ask me to blackmail you? Didn't you also help other people repair seedlings for free? Why do you want to charge me? Are you targeting me on purpose? Have I offended you in some way? Or are you relying on Mr. Tao's support to make things difficult for me?"
"You are unreasonable!"
Jiang Yuebai was furious. She turned around and looked at the people she had helped, and they all dispersed.
"You should have said earlier that you are not proficient in the Herbal Art at such a young age. You are trying to be rich but ended up hurting me. I won't ask for more from you. Just return the spirit stone I gave you to get rid of the insects and I won't hold it against you."
"Don't bully my Senior Sister Jiang, you rascal!"
Shi Xiaowu rushed over, grabbed the mud and threw it at Zheng Li. Zheng Li's spiritual energy shook, and the mud bounced back and knocked Shi Xiaowu to the ground.
Shi Xiaowu wailed and Jiang Yuebai was angry.
"Are you looking for death?"
Guo Zhen suddenly appeared behind Zheng Li and kicked him to the ground, making him fall flat on his face.
"Guo Laohei, I'm not done with you!"
Zheng Li got up and started to practice magic. Tao Fengnian and Song Pei'er came over and Zheng Li stopped in disappointment.
Song Pei'er glanced at Jiang Yuebai, pursed her lips and shook her head, walked over to pull Shi Xiaowu up, and used the Dust Purification Technique to clear the mud off his body.
Shi Xiaowu was so angry that he pointed at Zheng Li and shouted, "He bullied Senior Sister Jiang."
Seeing the large crowd, Zheng Li quickly put on a smile and said, "It's not a misunderstanding. I was just... just joking with Junior Sister Jiang."
Song Pei'er sneered, and Guo Zhen directly exposed his thoughts.
"Don't think I don't know. If you want to extort Junior Sister Jiang's spirit stones and run away, then Master Tao won't be able to do anything to you."
"No, no, really not."
Jiang Yuebai bit her lip, and under Tao Fengnian's calm gaze, she realized that she had made a big mistake, and she pinched the corner of her clothes and lowered her head.
Tao Fengnian sighed, "Come back when you're done."
"Wait a moment."
Guo Zhen called Tao Fengnian and handed Jiang Yuebai ten spirit stones.
"We should not be ungrateful. Junior Sister Jiang just helped me repair the seedlings in my field. I saw that she did a great job. We should harvest at least 10% more spiritual wheat next year. We should not let Junior Sister Jiang suffer injustice after all her efforts. We should give her the spiritual stones she deserves."
Tao Fengnian reached out to take it, and Guo Zhenli glanced at the other people who had been helped by Jiang Yuebai.
Those people were unhappy, but they did not dare to act presumptuously. They could only reluctantly take out the spirit stones and hand them to Tao Fengnian.
Tao Fengnian took the spirit stone and walked in front. Jiang Yuebai nodded to Guo Zhen and Song Peier and quickly followed.
Along the way, Tao Fengnian said nothing and breathed a heavy breath. Jiang Yuebai followed him from a distance and did not dare to get close.
After returning to the yard and closing the door, Jiang Yuebai walked up to Tao Fengnian.
"Grandpa, I was wrong."
Tao Fengnian coughed a few times and sat down, pounding his knees without raising his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Yuebai hung his head and recited listlessly.
"A grain of rice brings up a benefactor, a peck of rice brings up an enemy. It is difficult to send charcoal in the snow, but it is easy to add flowers to the brocade. A drop of water is like nectar when you are thirsty, but adding a cup after you are drunk is worse than nothing. Treating people with endless kindness can maintain their endless kindness, and keeping it when you are in trouble..."
"Okay, now that you know everything, why are you doing that today?"
Jiang Yuebai raised his head and said, "I was so angry at Lu Ying that I lost my mind!"
Tao Fengnian frowned, "Lü Ying?"
Jiang Yuebai nodded and talked about the quarrel with Lu Ying, and he began to feel aggrieved again.
"I did lie to her about when I made the breakthrough, but I reached the third level of Qi training yesterday. I never lied to her before that, and I never laughed at her. Why does she hate me and call me a liar?"
Tao Fengnian took his time and asked, "Then why does Lu Ying have to like you?"
Jiang Yuebai choked.
"Girl, it's Lu Ying's freedom to hate you. If you can't change it, you have to accept it."
"Grandpa, how could you do this? Can't you just say it's Lu Ying's loss that she doesn't want to be friends with me?"
"Whether she suffers a loss or not is her business. You can't have such thoughts, otherwise you will become obsessed and indulge in the gap between you and her. If she can't surpass you, you will feel superior. If she surpasses you one day, your faith will collapse in an instant."
Jiang Yuebai nodded in a daze. It seemed like that was the case. When she was busy working in the fields before, all she thought about were the ways in which Lu Ying was inferior to her. She wondered what right Lu Ying had and what qualifications she had to hate her.
The more I think about it, the angrier I get!
"You can't make everyone like you, and others are not obligated to like you. Just like you did so many things in the field just now, some people still don't appreciate you, so don't care about other people's likes and dislikes and how they look at you."
"Even if others hate you, you are still you. You don't need to change to please others or yourself. You can be satisfied and happy every day. Do you understand?"
"Well, I understand, but Lu Ying... I was the one who concealed it first, and I said some very harsh words to her today, so I was also wrong."
Jiang Yuebai felt bad when she thought about the last time Lu Ying got injured while protecting her.
Tao Fengnian rubbed Jiang Yuebai's head and said, "If you think she is worthy of your sincerity, then go for her. You don't have to look back and forth. Follow your heart. No matter what the result is, you have to accept it calmly."
Jiang Yuebai nodded rapidly, the depression in his heart dissipated, the corners of his mouth rose again, and he walked forward, grabbed Tao Fengnian's sleeve and shook it twice.
"Grandpa, since I know I was wrong, can you return the spirit stones to me? I want to buy some things. First, I want to apologize to Lu Ying, and second, I want to thank Elder Li. If it weren't for his guidance, my cultivation wouldn't have improved so quickly."
"No place for grandpa?"
"Yes, of course there are."
Tao Fengnian laughed and put a bag of spirit stones into Jiang Yuebai's arms. The little girl's face brightened up instantly.
"Go and get some rest. We'll go to Nangu Market tomorrow morning."
(End of this chapter)