Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

"Stop, who asked you to leave? Did you just pass the external examination?"

Li Mugang was about to leave the outer gate station when he was suddenly stopped by a deacon disciple.

"Yes, senior brother, why do you want me to stay?" Li Mu asked sheepishly.

"You can leave after receiving the things? No duties can be assigned next. Every outer disciple has to do something. How can anyone just receive benefits and not do something? Come on, follow me to the Contribution Hall. Senior Brother Guo has been waiting for you. !" The deacon disciple glared at Li Mu angrily, turned around and left.

Li Mu quickly followed.

Soon, we came to the Contribution Hall

In the main hall, a steward disciple who was about thirty years old was looking through the account books and checking something.

"Senior Brother Guo, we brought him here. This kid was wandering around and even went to the Dharma Transmission Hall to make it easier for me to find him." The deacon disciple brought Li Mu into the Contribution Hall and complained.

"Well, thanks for your hard work, Junior Brother Lin, you go and do your work!" Guo Changming smiled and nodded, comforting.

The deacon disciple nodded and left as ordered.

"Senior Brother Guo, I'm sorry, I didn't know that after the assessment, I would still have to take the sect's position!" Li Mu apologized quickly as he watched the deacon disciple who had sued him leave.

"It's okay. It's your first time here. It's excusable. Just don't do it again in the future. There are many courtyards in the station that strictly prohibit other outer disciples from entering, such as: the Royal Beast Academy, the Weapon Refining Hall, the Alchemy Workshop, the Royal Boat Academy,... , these places belong to the important areas of the sect, and the disciples of this hall are not allowed to enter and exit at will. If you go to the Dharma transmission hall, it will not be a big deal," Guo Changming smiled and introduced.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Guo for your advice, I'll remember it." Li Mu nodded and thanked him gratefully.

"You used to be a spirit planter, and you mainly planted spiritual fields for the sect. Now that you have passed the examination as an outer disciple, do you have the intention to change your responsibilities? During the martial arts examination, I saw that you are quite skilled in sword control and have great fighting talent. Excellent, I would like to join the outer hunting team! Just right..." Guo Changming looked at Li Mu and said with great concern.

"To be honest, Senior Brother Guo, I also tried to be a hunting cultivator. However, when I met a monster, I felt timid and nervous to the point where I couldn't fight. I tried many times but still couldn't overcome this mental illness. I had no choice but to I am worthy of being Lingzhi's husband, otherwise, how could I be willing to dig for food in the fields!" After hearing Guo Changming's words, Li Mu quickly made up an excuse and interrupted.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Guo, for your consideration. However, I have a heart disease and am not suitable to be a hunting cultivator. I'd better continue farming! Please help Senior Brother Guo arrange some farming-related positions for me!" After saying that, Li Mu looked at Guo Changming with a grateful face and imploredly explain.

"How could this be? I saw you fighting swords with Junior Brother Fan. You were particularly outstanding and calm. You don't look like you have a heart disease!" Guo Changming frowned and looked at Li Mu carefully.

"Senior Brother Guo, because that is a normal fighting method, and Senior Brother Fan is not a monster, I can treat it with a normal heart. However, this heart disease is related to the injury I suffered from a monster when I was young. If I fight against a monster, this heart disease will Symptoms will appear." Li Mu quickly explained.

"I see, there's no other way! I have to arrange Zhiji-related tasks for you. Zhisi has quite a few tasks. Which town do you want to go to?" Guo Changming looked at an animal skin map on the table.

The animal skin map depicts the geographical information of hundreds of spiritual mountains and more than a dozen small towns near Gangyang City.

"Senior Brother Guo, I am quite familiar with Qing'an Town. Do you have a position in Qing'an Town?" Li Mu quickly asked for instructions.

"Qing'an Town has no mission. Wang Feng, Lin Qiuwan and the others have just gone on duty. I want to change a place for you. You can go to Qingshui Town! This town is sixty miles away from Qing'an Town. It is next to the Taimo River and close to the sky. Lingshan, this mountain range contains a large spiritual vein, rich in spiritual resources, and the terrain is relatively gentle. Many spiritual fields have been newly opened, so here it is! There happens to be a vacancy in this town. You can definitely make some achievements if you go down there. Come." Guo Changming pointed at the map of Qingshui Town and praised gushingly.

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Looking at the geographical location of Qingshui Town, Li Mu frowned, feeling like he was being cheated.

Qingshui Town is indeed surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the terrain is extremely suitable for farming and large-scale planting. However, this town is located at the southernmost end of Gangyang City. Going further south, there is no town ruled by Qingxuan Sect, but a vast expanse of monsters. Once a monster crosses the mountain range, Qingshui Town will undoubtedly be the first to suffer. Instead, it will become a natural police sentry town for other small towns and Gangyang City.

"Senior Brother Guo, can you change the place?" Li Mu took out two middle-grade spiritual stones and pushed them to Guo Changming from under the table.

"Junior brother, what are you doing? Put it away quickly, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!" Guo Changming's face darkened, he glared at Li Mu and scolded him angrily.

Seeing that Guo Changming was not pretending to be angry, Li Mu was slightly startled and put away the spirit stone with some confusion. Are there any disciples who are not 'greedy'?

"Junior brother, what are you afraid of? Is there a problem in Qingshui Town? Are you worried about monsters attacking Qingshui Town? You can rest assured about this!" Guo Changming looked at Li Mu with a smile and reassured: "The demon hunting team in Gangyang City often The town will enter the mountain from here, and the nearby monsters will be cleaned up regularly. There are also inner sect disciples who come to this town to enter the mountain to experience. In addition, Tianyan Sect, Yuling Sect, Tianhe Sect, Bailian Sect, and our Qingxuan Sect, five sects jointly develop The Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range is now on the line,... Qingshui Town is protected by the Taimo River, so this town will not be in danger! You can rest assured to take office!"

"Senior Brother Guo, is there no other place to change?" Li Mu frowned and tried to ask.

"Change? How to change? If everyone is like you, how can we continue to arrange this job? Besides, you are responsible for the work of the plant department. You only need to complete the sect's collection of spiritual plants in this town. That's it. You have done your duty faithfully, and if you can exceed the task limit, you will be rewarded for your contribution, and the sect has not asked you to guard Qingshui Town, why do you need to be so worried?" Guo Changming comforted him again.

"I understand, Senior Brother Guo, I wonder how many acres of spiritual land there are in Qingshui Town and how many spiritual plant materials need to be collected?" Li Mu nodded in understanding and looked at Guo Changming and asked.

I'm afraid it's not that Guo Changming doesn't want to accept bribes, but that this task arrangement may be more difficult than imagined. He refused his request to join the hunting team. Now he must have offended him. He would rather not accept bribes than to take bribes. This task is arranged, otherwise, how difficult it would be to find a safe town within his responsibilities.

Li Mu was a little angry, but also a little helpless.

Fortunately, he is not at the seventh level of Qi Refining. He will be able to build the foundation soon. He must build the foundation as soon as possible so that he will not be so passive.

"Qingshui Town was built thirteen years ago. There are 4,750 servant disciples. There are foundation-building families: Chen Family, Ling Family, and Wang Family. There are nearly 10,000 casual cultivators developing in this town. The development momentum is good, but it is still waiting for nothing. The task of recruiting spiritual plants is not difficult. A total of 1,136 acres of lower-grade spiritual fields and 265 acres of medium-grade spiritual fields have been cultivated in this town. The lower-grade spiritual fields mainly plant: spiritual corn, lark grass, water spirit flowers,..., middle-grade spiritual fields. Planted in the field: red sunflower, blood salvia,..." Guo Changming looked through the account books and introduced them to Li Mu.

After almost explaining it, Guo Changming took out another account book, handed it to Li Mu, and introduced: "This is the spiritual plant book of Qingshui Town. It records all the information about the spiritual fields. Some of these spiritual fields are leased to the sect servants. Disciple, part of it is leased to the Jiji family,...and the amount of rent collected, as well as the matters you are responsible for, please take a look!"

Li Mu took the account book and looked through it carefully, and couldn't help but feel a headache.

Oh shit!

His purpose in taking the exam as an outside disciple was that he just wanted to farm with peace of mind, so why did he have to worry about collecting rent from the handyman disciples?

However, after Li Mu looked through it for a while, his heart suddenly became excited.