Ye Hao answered truthfully.
“Uh...”
Hearing Ye Hao’s response, Wan Bao instantly realized he had overthought things.
It turned out the kid didn’t care at all whether he had fallen; he was only worried about his white spirit rice getting damaged.
“By the way, Junior Brother Ye, do you still have some secret tricks you haven’t shown?”
“How does your white spirit rice seem to be growing so quickly?”
Wan Bao snapped back to his senses, hurriedly looking at Ye Hao and asking.
His face was filled with urgency.
As a spirit farmer, the higher the yield of the white spirit rice he cultivated, the better.
The additional profits he obtained would naturally be greater.
“What layer have you practiced your Lesser Spirit Rain Technique to?”
Ye Hao did not rush to answer, instead asking in return.
“The Third Layer.”
Wan Bao was slightly stunned, but responded nonetheless.
In truth, he had only cultivated the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique to the Second Layer. To save face, he could only lie and claim he had reached the Third Layer.
That way, he wouldn’t lose face as a veteran spirit farmer.
Then he looked back at Ye Hao, waiting for the other party’s astonishment.
After all, being able to cultivate a First-Tier technique to the Third Layer this quickly was already considered exceptionally gifted.
Little did he expect Ye Hao to merely shake his head. “No wonder. With only a Third-Layer Lesser Spirit Rain Technique, it naturally can’t compare to mine.”
“Even if my Lesser Spirit Rain Technique is only at the Third Layer, I still have the Spirit Rain Technique at great perfection. How could I possibly be worse than you?”
Wan Bao retorted indignantly.
Ye Hao originally wanted to speak the truth, but thought that doing so might crush Senior Brother Wan Bao and leave him demoralized.
After weighing his words carefully, Ye Hao finally replied, “My Lesser Spirit Rain Technique has already reached the Fifth Layer, and my Spirit Rain Technique has reached minor accomplishment.”
“If you can also cultivate the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique to the Sixth Layer, coupled with the Spirit Rain Technique at great perfection, you’ll be able to surpass me.”
After saying that, Ye Hao looked calmly at Wan Bao.
This shouldn’t be enough to crush Senior Brother Wan Bao, right?
After all, he had already been extremely tactful.
Surely no one’s comprehension could be so poor as to take this poorly.
Yet when Wan Bao finished listening to what Ye Hao said, his vision suddenly turned dark.
The only reason he had been able to reach the Second Layer of the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique so quickly was that he had spent a fortune in spirit stones renting a sect cultivation room.
Otherwise, he would have had to spend time grinding away.
He never imagined the gap between him and Ye Hao would actually be this massive.
No wonder the white spirit rice in the other party’s spirit field had caught up to his own despite being sown a week later.
“Senior Brother, why aren’t you speaking?”
Seeing no response from him for a long time, Ye Hao reached out and gently waved his hand before his eyes.
Only then did Wan Bao slowly come to his senses. Looking at Ye Hao, he smiled bitterly. “It’s nothing. I was thinking about something else and got lost in thought for a moment.”
“Whew, I thought you were crushed by what I said.”
“I knew it. You’re already so old, Senior Brother Wan; you must have let go of such things long ago.”
“How could you possibly be driven to despair by me?”
Hearing him say that, Ye Hao patted his chest and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
“It’s fine.”
Wan Bao gritted his teeth, clenching his fists tightly.
He was terrified that if he failed to restrain himself, he would send Ye Hao flying with a punch.
“By the way, Senior Brother Wan Bao, if someone discovers a spirit plant in the wild and wants to report it to the sect, who should I look for?”
Ye Hao suddenly remembered the Dew Condensation Grass still growing all alone on that cliff face.
Although the Dew Condensation Fruits on it had already been picked by him,
even an ant had meat, no matter how small.
Reporting it to the sect would at least net him some rewards.
“You don’t plan to harvest it yourself?”
“Harvesting and selling it yourself is far more worthwhile than reporting it to the sect.”
Wan Bao couldn’t help asking.
“Its location makes it hard to harvest, and I’m also worried I won’t be able to keep it alive once picked. It’s better to report it to the sect.”
“I heard the sect gives spirit stones as a reward, but I just don’t know who to look for.”
“That’s why I’m asking you, Senior Brother Wan Bao.”
Ye Hao answered truthfully.
“What spirit plant?”
Wan Bao’s interest was suddenly piqued, his eyes burning as he looked at Ye Hao.
“Dew Condensation Grass.”
Ye Hao noticed the unusual look in Wan Bao’s eyes, but chose not to conceal it.
“It’s actually Dew Condensation Grass! That’s a First-Tier high-grade spirit plant.”
“Even if you just took it out to sell, it could fetch several hundred spirit stones.”
“However, Dew Condensation Grass basically only grows on steep cliffs, making it extremely difficult to harvest. It’s completely normal for you to think that way.”
Wan Bao grew increasingly excited upon hearing that it was Dew Condensation Grass.
“Why, do you have an idea, Senior Brother Wan Bao?”
Ye Hao looked at Wan Bao with a smile.
The smile on the other man’s face wasn’t hidden in the least.
It was obvious that Wan Bao was tempted.
Wan Bao nodded heavily. “While that Dew Condensation Grass is difficult to harvest, as luck would have it, I have a method to pick it completely intact.”
“If you report this Dew Condensation Grass to the sect, they’ll give you a few dozen low-grade spirit stones as a reward at most. It’s far better to sell it ourselves.”
“How about this: tell me where the Dew Condensation Grass is located.”
“When the time comes, I’ll harvest it, and we’ll split the spirit stones from selling it fifty-fifty.”
Ye Hao looked at Wan Bao, likewise tempted. “A fifty-fifty split—how much can we get?”
“A while back, I saw a stalk of Dew Condensation Grass in the market priced at 430 low-grade spirit stones. Two medicine refiners fought over it, and in the end, it was purchased for 500 low-grade spirit stones.”
“If we split it fifty-fifty, each of us can get at least two hundred-some low-grade spirit stones.”
Wan Bao looked at Ye Hao with excitement written all over his face.
Such an opportunity was hard to come by.
Even just 200 low-grade spirit stones was equivalent to 6,000 jin of white spirit rice.
Previously, the annual yield of his three mu of spirit fields was less than 2,000 jin.
This alone was worth over three years of his income.
“A fifty-fifty split works.”
“However, you must agree to another condition on top of that.”
Ye Hao looked at Wan Bao and said with a smile.
“What condition? Tell me first.”
Wan Bao did not rush to agree. After all, he didn’t know what condition the kid would propose; he had to hear it first before considering.
“A First-Tier high-grade Dew Condensation Grass is a natural treasure, after all. If a natural treasure like this has even a bit of its skin damaged or loses a bit of its root system during harvesting, its value will drop drastically.”
“Senior Brother Wan Bao, since you’re confident you can harvest it and sell it for such a high price, you must have the proper means.“
“So this harvesting technique is something I’d like to learn.”
Ye Hao said with a smile.
If he had such a harvesting technique himself, he wouldn’t need to ask Wan Bao for help; he could harvest it on his own.
“You rascal, you even have your eyes on that!”
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