Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning-Chapter 224 - Another Undercover Encounter

Chapter 224: Another Undercover Encounter

With a sour face, the Foundation Establishment late-stage disciple in the pill refiner’s robe led the way to the new Spiritual Medicine Garden.

Jiang Hao followed calmly behind.

He carefully observed the ten people ahead.

‘The one wearing the pill refiner’s robe should be from the Candlelight Alchemy Court lineage, the main person in charge this time, with a Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivation level. The others...’

He confirmed that they were all at the Foundation Establishment mid-stage.

However, one person was strange, with much stronger physical strength than the others and a faint aura of death about him.

It was unclear whether this was due to his cultivation technique or some other reason.

He walked in a middle position, chatting happily with the others.

He looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, but his actual age was probably not small.

After some hesitation, Jiang Hao decided to appraise him.

【Divine Corpse Du Yong: Originally an inner disciple of Tianyin Sect with a Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivation level. He was possessed by Qu Zhong of the Corpse God Sect, becoming one of his three Divine Corpse avatars. His purpose is to find the location of the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower. Currently, he only knows the general direction. He is planning to make contact with you, a disciple of Duanqing Cliff.】

‘What a coincidence, I’ve encountered an undercover agent.’

‘But what is the Corpse God Sect? I’ve never heard of it, nor of Divine Corpse avatars.’

‘According to the information, this Qu Zhong should have three avatars, plus one main body.’

‘Let’s not discuss the cultivation level of the main body for now. Whether their memories are shared is more important.’

Jiang Hao walked behind, pondering whether to take action.

There was some entanglement with the other party, and the Hall of Enforcement, once they took note of his name, would not let him go.

However, the origins of the Corpse God Sect needed to be clarified.

For now, he would wait.

When the other party made a move, there would be sufficient reason to act.

Because he had committed multiple crimes without being caught and had even killed a true disciple, the Hall of Enforcement has been keeping a close eye on him.

If anything similar happens again, they might resort to using the Tianyuan Shaping Divine Mirror.

Therefore, any act of murder must ensure that he does not implicate himself.

It was only then that he began to observe his surroundings, which was a planned field.

Calling it a Spiritual Medicine Garden would be a stretch; it was more like newly cultivated land.

Apart from the spiritual energy, nothing else here was suitable for growing spiritual herbs.

In other words, the soil needed to be enriched first.

This was a major project, no wonder it required the involvement of Nascent Soul-level individuals.

Unfortunately, just as the sect issued tasks, these individuals delegated the work to some peripheral disciples.

After all, the outer sect Spiritual Medicine Garden was a long-term project, while the sect tasks were urgent.

Listening to the people in front explaining, Jiang Hao understood the general task.

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Whichever meridian’s soil became more fertile would abandon the methods of the other meridians, and the best one would lead in establishing the spiritual field.

Jiang Hao glanced subconsciously at a Junior Sister representing the Hundred Bones Forest.

With Bai Ye there, the Hundred Bones Forest should win easily.

Whether it was the Candlelight Alchemy Court or Baiyue Lake...

Suddenly, Jiang Hao looked again at the group of eleven people gathered together and indeed did not see anyone from Baiyue Lake.

Logically, the person who should have come was Senior Sister Zhou Chan.

But upon closer observation, no one seemed particularly talented.

They were all ordinary inner disciples.

‘It must be that people from other meridians are helping out.’

Jiang Hao didn’t care much, as long as Bai Ye was involved, it was highly likely that no one could compete.

After all, the other party had done extensive research in this area, unless there were similar individuals in other meridians.

After the Candlelight Alchemy Court’s people divided the areas, Jiang Hao was assigned to the most barren spot.

“This place is handed over to you, Duanqing Cliff. Do well and don’t embarrass us,” Xia Cheng said with a smug look.

Jiang Hao didn’t say anything but instead started pondering over the area belonging to Duanqing Cliff.

After observing for a moment, he saw that his area was of average size but had the least spiritual energy and very few weeds.

It was clear that he had been targeted.

However, as long as he cultivated it well later on, everyone would not interfere with each other.

If others gave up on their seeds later on and he could take over here, that would be even better.

He would then be able to return to guarding the Duanqing Cliff Spiritual Medicine Garden.

“Senior Brother,” a young man approached Jiang Hao politely.

“I am Du Yong from Fenglei Sect, and I would like to discuss with Senior Brother how to enrich the spiritual field.”

(TLN: Fenglei Sect might be a mistake in the original raw here, not sure.)

“Duanqing Cliff’s Jiang Hao.”

Jiang Hao gave his name and then said, “I know very little about this, I need to go back and look up the information. Do you have any leads, Junior Brother Du?”

“Not at the moment, but I heard that the sect will provide some resources, which can be collected from the Wanling Tower,” Du Yong said.

After chatting for a bit more, Du Yong left, saying he would think of other methods.

If he had some ideas, he hoped to hear Jiang Hao’s opinion.

“This undercover agent is also very cautious; he probably doesn’t know about the flower at my place. If he knew, he would have more ideas,” Jiang Hao speculated as he watched the other’s retreating figure.

If the other party could take action secretly, that would be best.

He could deal with it directly.

After so many years, no one had tried to steal the flower, which surprised Jiang Hao.

It seemed easy to succeed, as he was often not in the courtyard.

However, there must be people who had left countermeasures, Elder Bai was one, and Hong Yuye should be another.

After all, they both considered the flower theirs.

Having determined his next task, Jiang Hao planned to leave and, on the way, asked Senior Sister Miao how to enrich the soil.

“Senior Brother Xia is an excellent disciple of the Candlelight Alchemy Court. This time the soil cultivation will surely be the most successful.”

“How could Senior Brother Xia not be excellent if he was appointed to handle everything?”

“Haha, you flatter me, it’s just that Senior Brother thinks highly of me, I’m not that excellent,” Xia Cheng said with a laugh, happy yet feigning modesty.

Such things were common, and Jiang Hao knew he couldn’t blend in.

So it was best to leave quietly and not disturb their enjoyment.

In the following days of soil cultivation, he would bring people over, but he couldn’t do it all himself.

Seven days later, Jiang Hao had Cheng Chou bring some people to renew the soil.

Then he got the simplest cultivation method from Senior Sister Miao.

That was to set up a spirit gathering array and then transplant some Blue Lotus flowers over to allow the soil to absorb spiritual energy.

These were still not enough; it also required some spiritual beast flesh and blood.

This was the simplest method, with average effectiveness and progress. But more difficult methods would be too costly, and the sect would not agree.

Miao Tinglian said that was all she could do because her research was on spiritual herbs, and she hadn’t studied how to enrich the soil much.

Jiang Hao didn’t press further; his intention this time was to participate, as he had reported to Senior Sister Ning Xuan before, and she just nodded without saying much.

So it was all up to Jiang Hao.

He aimed to keep a low profile, not to grab the spotlight but also not to ignore the sect’s orders.

However, the number of people in the Duanqing Cliff Spiritual Medicine Garden remained high, and they had yet to grow anything.

Jiang Hao was quite curious about what kind of seeds had stumped the entire sect.

He was handling spiritual herbs in the Spiritual Medicine Garden and was thinking about whether he could find a gap to go in and appraise them.

......

At this moment, in the outer sect Spiritual Medicine Garden, Cheng Chou led the outer disciples and some ordinary people in planting blue lotus flowers while also renovating the land.

They cleared out various weeds and rocks.

However, when they were nearly done, the weeds and broken stones from the surrounding spiritual fields were thrown into their area.

Cheng Chou frowned deeply and politely approached the few outer disciples who were working, saying, “Junior Brothers, this is our spiritual field’s boundary; have you perhaps disposed of things in the wrong place?”

“No, our Senior Brother told us to just deal with it nearby,” replied a man at the ninth level of Qi Refining, shrugging his shoulders.

This response irritated Cheng Chou.

After checking and seeing Xia Cheng ahead, he hesitated before approaching and respectfully said,

“Senior Brother Xia, the weeds and such from your side, have they been disposed of in the wrong place?”

“Is that so? Show me,” Xia Cheng feigned surprise.

After following Cheng Chou back, he realized and said,

“No mistake here. Aren’t you also transporting weeds? Since you’re closer to the outside, it’s convenient to take them out together. What’s wrong with that?”