Cottonho brought Mo Wuji to a building at the edge of a large field. It was a six-story stone building, but there were only a few people inside.

Mo Wuji thought that the Madam had asked Cottonho to bring him here and had told the Steward Guang to take care of him, so she should have some status. But after arriving here, Mo Wuji began to suspect that he was wrong.

None of the people inside greeted Cottonho when they saw her.

When Cottonho brought Mo Wuji to a large room on the top floor, and the person in the room didn't even stand up, he knew that this greeting was a bit of a sham.

"Steward Guang, Madam Mi asked me to send Mo Wuji here to work. Give him some good land and arrange a good place for him." Cottonho was very polite.

Only then did the man sitting in the room look up and glance at Cottonho, "Where in Little Lingxiao Village is there a place to work? There are no Divine Spirit Fields left. Go back and tell Mi Qianqian not to send just anyone here."

Mo Wuji's heart sank. He suspected that Madam Mi wasn't clear about his position here. Otherwise, how could this have happened?

Cottonho's face changed slightly. She directly took out a token and said, "Guang Zhi, I am now ordering you in the name of Xiaochi Peak to immediately arrange for Mo Wuji to plant Azure Dew Rice here."

Guang Zhi slowly stood up, glanced at Cottonho coldly, and then took out a book from the side. After flipping through it a few times, he grabbed a black token from the book and threw it to Mo Wuji, "This is your identity token. From now on, you are a Planting Cultivator in Little Lingxiao Village. Your field is one ridge, which is Ding Character Ninety-Seven Ridge. You must pay twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice every year. Since you are new here, I won't ask for any ranking from you."

Mo Wuji didn't know how much Azure Dew Rice a ridge could produce, but one ridge was definitely not much. Here, one ridge was actually equivalent to about one mu. But this Guang Zhi was definitely not a good bird. Just in case, Mo Wuji secretly recorded Guang Zhi's words.

"Steward Guang, are you bullying me for not having planted Azure Dew Rice before? Can one ridge of land produce twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice a year? And I heard that the minimum for planting Azure Dew Rice here is ten ridges. Why are you only giving Mo Wuji one ridge?" Cottonho said angrily.

Guang Zhi sneered, "I have already given one ridge of land according to the requirements of your Xiaochi Peak. What else do you want? I have done everything stipulated by the sect. If you are not satisfied, you can go to the sect to sue me. Others can produce thirty to fifty catties of Azure Dew Rice from one ridge of land. Is it too much to ask him to pay twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice?"

Cottonho was speechless. She didn't know if twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice from one ridge of land was considered a lot.

Guang Zhi sneered inwardly. One ridge of land producing thirty to fifty catties of Azure Dew Rice, that was Grade A land. Did a Grade D ridge of land think it could produce twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice? That would make Azure Dew Rice too easy.

Mo Wuji asked suspiciously, "If I produce more than twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice from one ridge of land, is the excess mine?"

Guang Zhi laughed, "Of course it's yours. Otherwise, do you think anyone else would be planting Azure Dew Rice here? Even if you produce two hundred catties more, you can distribute it yourself."

Cottonho still didn't understand, but she knew more about Azure Dew Rice than Mo Wuji. Hearing Guang Zhi's words, she quickly said to Mo Wuji, "Mo Wuji, you must never sell the excess Azure Dew Rice. You must eat it yourself. You must eat Azure Dew Rice when planting Azure Dew Rice, otherwise it will weaken your vitality and increase the burden on your spiritual meridians. It will not only affect your lifespan, but also your cultivation."

Mo Wuji completely understood why the spiritual energy here was so abundant, but those who planted Azure Dew Rice were mostly people with little or no spiritual root aptitude and mortals.

Guang Zhi sneered in his heart and didn't answer. Don't even think about paying twenty catties of Azure Dew Rice from a Grade D ridge of land. As for leaving it to eat for himself, ha, keep dreaming.

Mo Wuji put away the jade token and said, "Please give me the rice seeds, Steward Guang."

Guang Zhi squinted at Mo Wuji with his triangular eyes and said in a mocking tone, "Since you are here for the first time, let me tell you a rule. Anyone who comes here for rice seeds must buy them with Divine Crystals. I can give you one hundred rice seeds, but it will cost one hundred high-grade Divine Crystals."

"One hundred rice seeds for one hundred high-grade Divine Crystals?" Mo Wuji couldn't help but ask.

Wasn't this a bit too dark? Even though he hadn't seen the seeds of Azure Dew Rice, he knew that the rice seeds Guang Zhi was giving him wouldn't be of good quality. He would definitely give him the worst ones, and the price was definitely outrageously expensive.

"Are all rice seeds the same?" Guang Zhi said as if nothing had happened.

Seeing Cottonho looking at him, Mo Wuji could only shake his head and say, "I don't have a single Divine Crystal on me."

He was also helpless. He finally found a place to settle down, but he didn't have any Divine Crystals to buy seeds.

Cottonho took out sixty high-grade Divine Crystals and handed them to Mo Wuji, "I still have sixty high-grade Divine Crystals. Let me lend them to you first."

"Thank you, Sister Cottonho." Mo Wuji quickly took the Divine Crystals and thanked her.

"Sixty high-grade Divine Crystals for sixty Azure Dew Rice seeds." Guang Zhi took out a small cloth bag and threw it on the table.

Mo Wuji didn't immediately take the cloth bag. Instead, he calmly asked, "Steward Guang, if I grow mid-grade or even high-grade Azure Dew Rice from these seeds, do I still have to pay twenty catties?"

Guang Zhi looked at Mo Wuji disdainfully and said, "If you grow mid-grade Azure Dew Rice, you only need to pay eight catties. If you grow high-grade Azure Dew Rice, you only need to pay four catties. If you grow top-grade Azure Dew Rice, you only need to pay half a catty, as long as you have the ability to grow it."

Mo Wuji didn't care about Guang Zhi's mockery and asked again, "If I grow high-grade Azure Dew Rice, can I exchange it for some low-grade Azure Dew Rice to pay?"

"Haha..." Guang Zhi laughed loudly. After he finished laughing, he looked at Mo Wuji and said, "You can pay however you want. But if you can't even pay the most basic amount, don't blame me for being merciless. Please leave, I have things to do here."

Cottonho pulled Mo Wuji out of Guang Zhi's room with a livid face. Even after they left the room, Mo Wuji could still hear Guang Zhi's disdainful sneer.

"Mo Wuji, I won't take you to the field. I'll go back and talk to Madam to see if she can help you with anything." Cottonho had spent half a day with Mo Wuji and had a good impression of him.

Mo Wuji quickly said, "Sister Cottonho, please don't tell Madam about what happened here. Just say that I have been arranged for."

Cottonho fell silent. She understood what Mo Wuji meant. After a moment, she nodded, "You are very good. Madam didn't help the wrong person. I'm leaving. I might come to see you when I have time in the future."

After speaking, Cottonho directly summoned a flying ship and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

...

Half an hour later, Mo Wuji stood at the foot of a mountain covered in broken stones and weeds with a somewhat ugly expression. This was Ding Character Ninety-Seven Ridge.

Not only was this piece of land incredibly poor, but the location was also on the edge of the entire Little Lingxiao Village's Divine Spirit Array.

According to the information he had gathered, to grow good Azure Dew Rice, one also needed good spring water. Those who planted Azure Dew Rice basically hired some Divine Array Masters to set up spiritual arrays and then dig a well. These all cost Divine Crystals.

Fortunately, Mo Wuji himself was a Level Four Divine Array Master. His main purpose in coming here wasn't really to plant Azure Dew Rice, but to find out why he couldn't advance in cultivation. This place had Divine Spirit Veins and a Spirit Gathering Array, and the Divine Spirit energy was lush, making it extremely suitable for cultivation.

Thinking of this, Mo Wuji directly summoned a high-grade Immortal Artifact Cave Abode, and then called out Da Huang and Shuaiguo to help him level the field. He himself continued to absorb Divine Spirit energy in the Cave Abode to cultivate, while also searching for the reason why he couldn't advance.

The people who planted Azure Dew Rice here were all very busy. If they planted good Azure Dew Rice, the excess rice could not only be eaten by themselves, but also sold. Mo Wuji was focused on cultivation and finding the reason why he couldn't improve.

Half a month passed quickly. When Shuaiguo and Da Huang came to ask Mo Wuji for seeds, Mo Wuji had also given up on finding the reason for his cultivation stagnation in the short term.

During this half month, Mo Wuji had cultivated frantically, constantly using his Qi Dao Meridian to deduce the problems with his cosmic energy circulation. However, nothing worked. No matter how much Divine Spirit energy he absorbed, he couldn't make any progress in his cultivation.

"Shuaiguo, you and Da Huang should go to the Cave Abode to cultivate. I'll plant this Azure Dew Rice." Mo Wuji still decided to plant Azure Dew Rice honestly.

Back when he was dealing with dozens of cultivators from the Nine Evolution Divine Sect and the Luan Soul Divine Prefecture, he had swallowed a large number of pills. He wondered if he had been poisoned by pills at that time.

Logically speaking, he had a Poison Dissolving Meridian, so there shouldn't be any problem with poisoning. But pill poisoning was different from ordinary poison. Pill poisoning wouldn't affect anything else, it would only affect cultivation. Azure Dew Rice could dissolve pill poison, and he could also taste the Azure Dew Rice he grew in the future.

When crossing the Sea of Annihilation, Da Huang and Shuaiguo knew the importance of strength. Now that Mo Wuji was letting them cultivate, and the Divine Spirit energy here was abundant, the two fellows obediently went to cultivate.

Mo Wuji calmed himself down and began to level his ridge of land.

He had farmed on Earth before. Whether it was ordinary rice or Azure Dew Rice, it all came from the fields. Plus, he was a biologist and a Pill Emperor, so he didn't believe that he couldn't grow better Azure Dew Rice.

After Mo Wuji leveled the ridge of land, he set up a simple Rain Gathering Array. Then, he planted the seeds one by one, with a certain spacing.

At first, Mo Wuji wanted to finish it quickly. But when he really started planting Azure Dew Rice, he completely forgot that he was a cultivator. At this moment, he was just an ordinary farmer. An ordinary mortal working hard for food.

When Mo Wuji forgot that he was a cultivator, when he stopped cultivating, and when he bent down and carefully planted the seeds into the soil one by one, his cultivation actually broke through its shackles at this moment. His cultivation, which hadn't improved in years, began to skyrocket. In a short time, he broke through the early stage of the God Nourishing Realm Layer Three and entered the mid-stage of the God Nourishing Realm Layer Three.

"I understand, I am an Immortal Mortal." Mo Wuji slowly straightened his back. There was some surprise in his eyes, but this surprise quickly disappeared and turned back into an ordinary rice-planting mortal.

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