The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 741 - 413: Rescue
In the northwest direction was where the Jialuo Tree had fallen. She simply gestured with her hand, and the seven Pill Masters followed her, swiftly passing by. At that moment, Lin Wei and others reached out with vines, coiling around and moving the fallen tree to free the half-crushed Spiritual Medicines underneath. Just as the Pill Masters were about to step forward, she raised her hand to stop them. Amid everyone’s puzzled looks, she swept with her Divine Thought a few times before finally pointing out individually and said:
"You, take care of the Qingming Grass."
"You, are in charge of the Purple Gold Peach Blossom."
"The dozens of three-leaf mushrooms in the east were crushed; go gather all their seeds, only the mature purple ones."
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She was articulate, and within a few breaths, she had assigned everyone their tasks, then clapped her hands: "Start working, quickly!"
The area that their small team was responsible for covered approximately seventy meters squared, primarily where the Jialuo Tree’s fall had caused the most damage. As is well-known, most herbs are planted in clusters by species. With her assignments, she managed to distribute the eight of them, including herself, to different positions, each person in charge of a small area with no overlap between them, ensuring responsibility down to the last detail.
The Pill Masters were surprised by her quick wits, all giving her a stunned glance before each busied themselves with their tasks. Generally, Spirit Grass has a weaker life force compared to common weeds, just looking at how troublesome it is to grow crops like rice and wheat; they require pest control, support against lodging, and still often experience shortfalls due to floods or droughts, but who ever hears about these issues in wild grass? The same went for the spiritual materials here, with tons of weight from the fallen Jialuo Tree’s trunk crushing endless medicinal herbs, their bodies twisted in tortured shapes, making every Mortal Master wince in sympathetic pain. Each was a crystallization of everyone’s hard work!
Alas, saving these treasures was a technical task, only manageable by Pill Masters and demon children. Countless guards from the Hidden Stream rushed over, only to be sent away by Elder He with a darkened face: "What do you know, and what can you do? Get out, don’t tread on my precious Spiritual Medicines and create more chaos!"
At this time, the Defensive Array inside the Immortal Plant Garden had already started operating, with gentle rainwater falling from the sky to extinguish the great fire; demons skilled in Water Element Divine Power stepped up, herding the floodwater that had poured into the medicine fields like sheep back into the lakes, then used Earth Control to build enclosures, repairing the lakes’ edges. This magic technique was quite novel, and Ning Xiaoxian watched intently.
The finer the division of labor, the higher the efficiency, a common understanding for anyone living in a modern industrial society. Thus, one hour later, while the other groups assigned by Elder He were still chaotic and busy, her area had basically finished the work. Spirit Grass that were barely alive received proper care—take the Pill Master specifically tending to Qingming Grass, for example; he managed to care for over ninety severely damaged Qingming Grasses, becoming more skilled and efficient as he went, almost achieving a flowing rhythm, how could his efficiency not be high?—those that were already smashed were pulled out by the Pill Masters, sorted and laid in front of her for review. Immortal Plant Garden doesn’t grow ordinary Spirit Grass; even these dead herbs, after being properly arranged and dried, were precious reserves.
In the area her small team was responsible for, a total of twelve types of herbs were planted. She ran her hand over each collected herb, murmuring as if tallying numbers. This action immediately made those with a guilty conscience uneasy: "What does her counting mean? Could it be that she knows how many Spirit Grass have died in this area? How is that possible?"
As she continued to count, she indeed sneered shortly, stretching her hand towards the Pill Master responsible for the Purple Gold Peach Blossom and said: "Take them out."
This person stuttered: "What?"
"In your storage bag, you’ve hidden three dead Purple Gold Peach Blossoms, and on the way here, I saw you casually take a vine of Hundred Kudzu Vine into your embrace," she said calmly, "If all the Pharmacists were filling their pockets like you, then what the Immortal Plant Garden is facing is not just a disaster, but also being robbed amidst the chaos."
As soon as these words came out, the other Pill Masters immediately looked at this person with anger, disdain, and schadenfreude. The full-time Pill Masters of the Immortal Plant Garden didn’t have the right to casually use Spiritual Medicines; usually, they also had to exchange them for Contribution points. This person’s action was akin to digging into the organization’s corner amidst the chaos. It doesn’t matter if it looks ugly, but it’s crucial that it was witnessed! Qingluan dividing everyone into groups to act wasn’t just to improve efficiency but also to make the members within each group supervise each other, reducing the occurrence of such opportunistic actions. This person immediately blushed with rebuttal: "Nonsense, which eye of yours saw me stealing?"
