I proved immortality with thunder magic.

After returning to his residence from Wang Fengying's place, Zhou Tai pondered the matter of sperm donation again.

In fact, the reason he readily agreed to the sperm donation was not only because he wanted to earn some spirit stones as start-up capital and to preserve his bloodline, but also because he did not want to offend the Wang family.

He knew very well that since Wang Fengying and the Wang family had their eyes on his seed, they would not give up so easily.

If he firmly refuses, who knows what other tricks await him next.

He was already thirty years behind other cultivators in his cultivation, and every day from now on was precious. He had no time to scheme against the Wang family.

"I don't think I did anything wrong, because even if I didn't agree to the Wang family's request today, there's no guarantee that a Li family or a Zhang family won't appear later."

"Now that I've agreed to the Wang family's request, other families probably won't bother me anymore. After all, if two families have my bloodline, it probably won't be a good thing for them!"

Thinking of this, Zhou Tai immediately calmed his mind and stopped thinking about it.

Two days later, the children of Young Eagle Peak successfully graduated and went to the library to choose their cultivation techniques.

Wang Fengying then summoned Zhou Tai and explained the arrangements for him.

"Junior Brother Zhou, you will be assigned to Jinhua Ranch as a shepherd. This appointment will not change for at least three years. What happens after that is none of my Wang family's business."

"As for the matter of borrowing sperm, once Junior Brother Zhou has settled down at the ranch, my Wang family will gradually arrange for people to come over."

Upon hearing that he was going to be a shepherd, Zhou Tai raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but ask, "May I ask, Senior Sister Wang, what kind of demonic beasts does the Golden Flower Ranch mainly raise?"

He had a reason for asking that question.

The Spirit Beast Mountain sect, as its name suggests, is skilled in taming demonic beasts, and indeed, various demonic beasts are raised within its gates.

The vulture-like demon bird that carried Zhou Tai and the others to the Spirit Beast Mountain was one of them.

Different kinds of monsters have different temperaments and habits, some good and some bad.

Many of the daily chores of the disciples on Spirit Beast Mountain involve taking care of these demonic beasts.

In this situation, taking care of those gentle and kind-hearted monsters would naturally be a pleasant task, saving a lot of trouble and effort.

Taking care of those violent and evil monsters is a terrible job, and may even be fatal!

Although Zhou Tai felt that the Wang family would not allow him to raise second-class demonic beasts, he still hoped to find out the details first.

Wang Fengying clearly understood the purpose of his question, and immediately reassured him, "Don't worry, the monsters raised at Jinhua Ranch are all herbivorous monsters such as cattle, sheep, horses, and deer, so there won't be any danger."

"That's good then. In that case, I thank Senior Sister Wang very much."

Zhou Tai felt relieved and thanked him with a big smile.

The next morning, Jin Hua Ranch arranged for a handyman disciple to come and pick up Zhou Tai.

It is worth mentioning that this handyman disciple rode over on a magnificent blue horse. The horse was exceptionally tall and spirited, and could traverse mountains and valleys as if walking on flat ground. It was the Wind Chaser, a type of mythical beast that Golden Flower Ranch mainly raised.

Zhou Tai rode alongside the servant disciple, traversing dozens of miles of mountains and valleys within the gates of Spirit Beast Mountain, before finally arriving at a basin valley where Golden Flower Ranch was located.

Upon arriving at Jinhua Ranch, the servant disciple went about his work. The person who greeted Zhou Tai was a rather beautiful woman in red, who appeared to be only a few years older than him.

After looking Zhou Tai up and down, she smiled and said, "You must be Junior Brother Zhou Tai. I am Lin Yan, the manager of Jin Hua Ranch. Senior Sister Wang has already spoken to me, and you will be working under me from now on."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tai quickly bowed and said, "Junior Brother Zhou Tai greets Senior Sister Lin. I hope Senior Sister Lin will take good care of me in the future."

"No problem, no problem. Junior Brother Zhou, you're new here today, so get familiar with the ranch first. We'll assign you tasks after you're settled in."

After Lin Yan finished speaking, she summoned a female servant disciple named Liu Ling and asked her to take Zhou Tai to his residence and explain the ranch to him.

"Good, Junior Brother Zhou, do you know that our Golden Flower Ranch raises a total of five kinds of demonic beasts: the Wind Chaser Steed, the Golden Horned Rock Sheep, the Azure-Eyed Water Buffalo, the One-Horned Green Ox, and the Crimson Blood Deer. Each of these demonic beasts lives in groups and has different habits."

"The real person in charge of Golden Flower Ranch is a Foundation Establishment Master Uncle, whom we all call Master Jiang. He doesn't usually show his face easily, but if a beast riot occurs, he will definitely come out quickly to suppress it."

"Below Uncle-Master Jiang, there are two outer disciples in charge: Senior Sister Lin Yan and Senior Brother Li Yang. They are each in charge of five miscellaneous disciples."

The female cultivator named Liu Ling was quite talkative. On the way to Zhou Tai's residence, she took the initiative to introduce him to the situation of Jin Hua Ranch without him having to ask any questions.

Zhou Tai guessed that she must have received special instructions from Lin Yan, otherwise, given the characteristic of most cultivators who would not act without self-interest, she would not have been so warm and polite to him, a new handyman disciple.

He listened attentively to the other person's introduction while also asking some questions he wanted to know.

By the time he arrived at his lodgings, he had a general understanding of the ranch's basic situation.

Perhaps because the Golden Flower Ranch was large enough, Zhou Tai's residence, as a menial disciple, was actually a separate courtyard with four rooms, and all the necessary items such as pots, pans, quilts, and pillows were provided, so he could move in immediately with just his bags.

However, Zhou Tai arrived at Spirit Beast Mountain empty-handed, and he didn't bring any luggage to Golden Flower Ranch either; he didn't even have a package.

After inspecting the accommodations, he warmly invited Liu Ling, his senior, to stay for half an hour to inquire about more information about the ranch.

Only after Liu Ling revealed almost all the information she knew about the ranch was she able to successfully escape from Zhou Tai's residence.

After seeing Liu Ling off, Zhou Tai returned to his room and, recalling the information he had learned from her, muttered to himself, "If Senior Sister Liu Ling wasn't lying, as long as Senior Sister Lin Yan takes care of me a little, I should have an easy time for at least the next three years."

Three days later, on a lush, grassy riverbank, Zhou Tai walked in carrying a large basket and holding an iron shovel.

After walking along the river for a while, he stopped next to a huge pile of dark blue cow dung. He then unloaded the basket and used an iron shovel to scoop up all the cow dung and pour it into the basket.

This is the job Lin Yan arranged for him at Jinhua Ranch—collecting manure.

Yes, picking up feces!

The various types of demonic beasts raised at Jinhua Ranch eat spiritual herbs and tree branches and leaves on a daily basis. Their excrement is quite useful, as it can be used to make spiritual fertilizer that is beneficial to the growth of spiritual herbs and trees, and it can also serve as food for some dung-eating demonic beasts, such as many fish-type demonic beasts that like to eat the excrement of vegetarian demonic beasts.

Therefore, Zhou Tai's task was to patrol the activity area of ​​the blue-eyed water buffalo and the one-horned blue ox every day, collect the scattered dung, and send it to one place.

When Zhou Tai first heard about this, he was somewhat stunned that a dignified cultivator was now forced to become a dung collector.

However, he soon realized that although the job sounded unseemly, it was actually an easy job.

Because collecting manure doesn't require direct contact with monsters, it poses almost no danger and carries almost no responsibility. Furthermore, the time spent collecting manure can be fixed at a certain stage.

These are the most important things for him, given his current low level of cultivation.

After thinking it through, Zhou Tai readily accepted the job.

While Zhou Tai was content to work as a manure collector, the Wang family began to work on the matter of sperm donation.

A month after Zhou Tai arrived at Jinhua Ranch, two female cultivators from the Wang family were sent to the gate of Ling Shou Mountain under the guise of visiting relatives and moved into his residence.

As he had expected, the two female cultivators from the Wang family who were sent over were not virgins, but rather two plump mature women in their thirties or forties.

Zhou Tai didn't inquire about the two women's backgrounds; he simply had sex with them once in the morning and once in the evening each day, hoping to help them conceive as soon as possible.

Less than two months later, both women became pregnant.

After confirming the pregnancy, the two women quietly left Spirit Beast Mountain, while Zhou Tai received sixty low-grade spirit stones.

As a merchant, Zhou Tai had long been interested in the spirit stone currency used by cultivators, but unfortunately he had never had the opportunity to obtain it before.

Now that he has obtained the spirit stone, he is very interested and has started to study it.

These spirit stones are mainly divided into three shapes: cylindrical, rectangular, and triangular. Regardless of the shape, the weight of each stone is roughly the same, indicating that they have a uniform standard.

They look like colorful quartz, vibrant and smooth to the touch.

The main color of each spirit stone indicates its attribute.

For example, a spirit stone whose main color is yellow means that the spiritual power it contains is mainly earth-attribute spiritual power, so it is an earth-attribute spirit stone.

It is said that the purer the main color of a spirit stone, the higher its quality.

Generally speaking, the main color of a low-grade spirit stone will not exceed 60%, that of a mid-grade spirit stone will not exceed 90%, and that of a high-grade spirit stone will be almost entirely free of impurities.

Of course, color is only one of the criteria for judging the quality of spirit stones, not the only one. Otherwise, a mid-grade spirit stone could never be exchanged for a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"The ancient texts say that low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones contain mixed spiritual energy and usually contain impurities that are difficult to detect. They should never be used for cultivation. Even if they are used to restore mana, they should be used with caution and should not be used frequently."

"Therefore, besides serving as currency, the main purpose of low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones is to provide energy for fixed formations and large-scale mechanical artifacts."

After studying it for a while, Zhou Tai put away all the spirit stones, packed them in a bag, and carried them with him.

These spirit stones were hard-earned money from selling his descendants, and they would be of great use in the future, so he didn't trust them to leave his side.

At this moment, he was very envious of the outer disciples, because in the Spirit Beast Mountain, only the outer disciples could receive various welfare supplies distributed by the sect.

For example, outer disciples can receive a storage bag for free, which can hold a lot of supplies, while menial disciples have to buy it themselves.

If he also had a storage bag, he could store all these spirit stones inside, and he wouldn't have to worry about them being lost or stolen.