Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 60 Absence
It was still the familiar old place. Gu Mo, Chu Feifei, Hu Hai and Wu Jinfei were chatting about what happened in the past year. It had been three years since they joined the various peaks. They had basically passed the novice period and gradually had some resources at hand.

For example, at this moment Wu Jinfei is showing off a magic sword of low grade. This is a magic sword he forged himself using the materials he saved up over the past few years.

Although it is a low-level magical weapon, Wu Jinfei is still very satisfied with it. He also believes that in the near future, he will be able to forge a real magical weapon.

"When we ask you to make a magic weapon, you have to give us some discounts." Chu Feifei said with a smile.

"That's for sure."

Wu Jinfei's chest was pounding.

"Why hasn't Boss Yao come yet?" Hu Hai couldn't help but ask. They had been here for a while, but still hadn't seen Yao Shifeng.

"Did something delay him?" Wu Jinfei guessed. He was so busy showing off that he didn't notice it. Only when Yao Shifeng was not around could Wu Jinfei show off in front of Gu Mo and the others. When Yao Shifeng was around, the other party's brilliance completely suppressed him.

Of course, Wu Jinfei didn’t know the true background of Gu Mo and Chu Feifei, otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to show off.

"Then let's wait a little longer." Gu Mo said.

Now they no longer needed to rush back to complete the mission, so it was no problem to wait a little longer. However, as time passed, there was still no sign of Yao Shifeng, which made them a little impatient.

"Boom boom boom!"

Just at this moment, someone knocked on the door of the private room, but the person who came was not Yao Shifeng, but a errand disciple of Fu Feng. "Are you friends of Brother Yao?" the errand disciple of Fu Feng asked.

After confirming everyone's identity, the other party took out a letter. The letter was written by Yao Shifeng, which several people could confirm. After all, they had received letters from Yao Shifeng before and were familiar with his handwriting.

The content of the letter was not long. Yao Shifeng explained to everyone the reason for his absence. It was because he had reached a critical moment in his cultivation and was unable to come.

So he asked Fu Feng's junior fellow apprentice to deliver the letter and inform him.

"Practice to the critical moment!" When Wu Jinfei saw these words, his heart moved. What situation would be considered a critical moment? At least it would take some effort to improve one's cultivation to be considered a critical moment.

This means that Yao Shifeng's strength has improved compared to a year ago. With this in mind, Wu Jinfei proposed to ask Junior Brother Fu Feng to bring this year's investment to Yao Shifeng.

The stronger Yao Shifeng becomes, the more he cannot stop the investment. If it weren't for the fact that he was creating the low-level magic weapon in his hand, which resulted in him being short of money, Wu Jinfei would have wanted to propose increasing the investment.

Everyone had no objection to Wu Jinfei's proposal, and they were all prepared for the investment. He took out a box and put 100 spirit stones into it. Then Chu Feifei engraved a basic anti-theft array pattern on it and handed it to the Fufeng disciple.

If Yao Shifeng didn't come, then this party would almost be over. Of course, Chu Feifei waited until the end as usual.

"Here, this is your reward."

Gu Mo handed a bag to Chu Feifei, which contained thirty kilograms of water spirit rice. The value of this bag was obviously more than the price Chu Feifei paid to repair the formation plate.

But in addition to the reward for repairing the array plate, there was also some investment from Gu Mo. From the way Chu Feifei skillfully engraved the array pattern on the box just now, Gu Mo knew that Chu Feifei had made a new breakthrough in the attainment of the array, and Chu Feifei's cultivation had not fallen behind much.

Giving her thirty kilograms of Shuiling rice would definitely give her another push. Anyway, Gu Mo didn't need Shuiling rice to increase his cultivation speed, so he kept twenty kilograms for himself to taste. In addition, the new season of Shuiling rice would be harvested in half a year. "So much!"

Looking at the thirty kilograms of Shuiling rice in the bag, Chu Feifei's face showed surprise. She obviously did not expect Gu Mo to give her so much.

Let's put it this way, the amount of Water Spirit Rice that some ordinary inner disciples can get is probably just this much. Of course, inner disciples don't only have Water Spirit Rice, they also have other resources. However, due to the small quantity of Water Spirit Rice and the large number of people who want it, even the inner disciples only get a small amount of Water Spirit Rice.

Now Gu Mo is giving Chu Feifei the treatment of an inner disciple. How can this not shock Chu Feifei?

"Not much. I can harvest 300 kilograms a year." Gu Mo waved his hand.

Gu Mo's words made Chu Feifei swallow the words that were about to come out of her mouth. It was too abominable to show off wealth like this.

Since the other party was a rich man, Chu Feifei accepted it without hesitation. At most, if Gu Mo asked her to set up a formation in the future, she would not charge him for his hard work.

"By the way, Gu Mo, I have already reached the second level of Qi Refining." Chu Feifei suddenly said. Gu Mo's behavior of showing off his wealth made Chu Feifei despise him, so she planned to use her own cultivation to suppress Gu Mo, and by the way, show her own strength to tell Gu Mo that his investment would not be in vain.

"Unfortunately, I'm also at the second level of Qi Refining." Gu Mo, who had known Chu Feifei's cultivation level for a long time, was not at all panicked and also told the other party about his apparent cultivation level.

Yao Shifeng and Chu Feifei had already reached the second level of Qi Refining a year ago, and Gu Mo has now successfully grown Water Spirit Rice. With such top-notch cultivation resources as Water Spirit Rice, it is absolutely reasonable for him to now demonstrate the cultivation level of the second level of Qi Refining.

"I will be able to reach the third level of Qi Refining soon." Having understood this, Chu Feifei quickly added the goal. The second level of Qi Refining was her level a year ago. With the help of her special physique, Chu Feifei's progress was not slow. It would not be a problem for her to reach the third level of Qi Refining within two or three years.

If the proficiency in cleaning skills can be further improved, then this time will be shorter.

Seeing that Chu Feifei was determined to compete with him, Gu Mo also showed a shocked expression. He couldn't tell the other party that he was actually in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

After successfully defeating Gu Mo, Chu Feifei left contentedly.

Fu Feng.

Yao Shifeng sat on the bed with a listless look. He told others that he was in seclusion, but the truth was that he was injured. Taking powerful elixirs for a long time had put Yao Shifeng's meridians in a very dangerous state. But in order to be one step ahead, Yao Shifeng never stopped.

Until a few days ago, during a practice, his meridians could not withstand the impact of the violent drug power and completely collapsed. In an instant, spiritual power rushed out and directly dealt a heavy blow to Yao Shifeng.

In the past few days, Yao Shifeng tried hard to calm the spiritual energy running wild in his body, and barely survived the danger, but the rupture of his tendons and veins meant that his future was cut short unless he could get elixir to repair his meridians.

Perhaps the elixir that could repair the meridians was too expensive for Yao Shifeng to afford. At that moment, Yao Shifeng felt deep despair.

He was still fantasizing about rising step by step, from a menial disciple to an outer disciple, and finally an inner disciple, but now everything was over.

"No, it's not over yet!" Yao Shifeng gritted his teeth. He was unwilling to let it end like this. A tiny hope flashed through his mind.

(End of this chapter)