Xu Chunniang didn't pay much attention to the actions of these qi-training disciples, so she naturally didn't know these details.
After she returned to the cave, she entered the small world.
This time the winery shopkeeper placed an order for two thousand catties, one thousand catties each for Pearl Zui and Linglu Xiang.
She brewed some before and it was just enough. There was no need to brew anymore now.
Xu Chunniang walked to the vicinity of the spiritual fields and used her spiritual silk technique to explore six spiritual fields that were planted with apricots and flowers. After seeing that everything was as usual, she then used the Rain Transformation Technique to water the spiritual fields.
The days returned to calm, and in the blink of an eye, three months passed, and the day came when the spiritual rice matured again.
During this period, in addition to improving the quality of the seventh and eighth first-level spiritual fields and planting apricots and flowers, Xu Chunniang brewed wine twice more and sent it to the winery, and finally consumed all the pearl rice.
The spiritual wine brewed from these pearl rice brought equally astonishing profits. After excluding some of the costs of brewing, a full 170,000 spiritual stones were earned.
You know, this is only half a year’s income.
This does not include the benefits that Xingruhua can bring. After all, Xingruhua ripens once every two years and it takes at least one year to mature.
Xu Chunniang calculated in her mind that if the sales of spiritual wine continued, there would be 340,000 spiritual stones in a whole year.
Converted into contribution points, that's 170,000.
At this rate, it will only take more than eight years to pay off the debt.
Eight years is not too long.
Xu Chunniang came back to her senses, took out an inverted gourd-shaped spiritual weapon, and began to collect spiritual rice.
As her spiritual energy was activated, a large amount of spiritual rice was absorbed into this strange-looking spiritual weapon, which was then pocketed.
No more, no less, still one hundred and eighty bags.
After placing this batch of freshly harvested spiritual rice neatly, Xu Chunniang disappeared, appeared in the cave, and walked towards the spiritual field outside the cave.
Of the ten spiritual fields outside the cave, only one was originally a second-grade spiritual field, and the other nine were all first-grade low-grade ones.
Now, except for one of the spiritual fields that the disciples are taking care of is still of first-grade low-grade quality, the other eight have been upgraded to first-grade mid-grade ones.
When these qi training disciples gathered together, some looked calm and felt that they had tried their best.
Some of them looked worried, wondering whether Master Xu was satisfied with the current results.
The only fourth-level Qi training disciple present had a look of uneasiness on his face.
Her cultivation level is lower than others, so even after a year of hard work, she failed to improve the quality of the spiritual field.
I wonder if Master Xu will blame her for this...
Just when they were thinking about each other, they saw a green figure walking over, it was Xu Chunniang.
On the way, her consciousness swept across the spiritual field and she already understood the situation.
Overall, she was quite satisfied with the result.
Although the quality of one piece of spiritual field has not been improved, it is understandable considering the cultivation level of that disciple.
"Your commission has been completed very well this year. This is your reward for this year. I hope you can continue to work hard in the next few years."
As she spoke, she handed out the spiritual stones she had prepared.
"Thank you so much, Master Xu!"
The disciples breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to receive the spirit stones one by one, with relaxed expressions on their faces.
After distributing the spiritual stones, Xu Chunniang took out several gourds and distributed them one by one.
"This is some spiritual wine, an extra reward for your efforts in completing the commission."
The disciples who received the spiritual wine had expressions of surprise on their faces and thanked them one after another.
Those who were more impatient couldn't help but open the gourd, and their eyes lit up after smelling the fragrance.
"I have drunk this spiritual wine, and it smells like nectar!"
"What kind of wine is nectar? Why have I never heard of it?"
"You don't know if you don't drink. This is a new spiritual wine released in recent months. It's not cheap anyway. A gourd like this costs forty spiritual stones."
After learning the price of this spiritual wine, they could hardly hide the joy on their faces, and secretly made up their minds to work harder in the next few years.
The fourth-level qi-training disciple who failed to upgrade the spiritual field was still a little confused when she got the gourd. Did she also get a share of this reward?
Seeing that the spiritual wine was distributed, two disciples at the sixth level of Qi training did not get it.
They waited for a while and found that Uncle Xu had no intention of getting any more spiritual wine. They looked at each other in confusion and finally couldn't help but speak.
"Uncle Xu, um, our spiritual wine...isn't it?"
When they said this, they felt the gazes from others, their faces felt inexplicably burning, and they were unable to finish the sentence.
Although the words were not finished, everyone looked at their empty hands and quickly understood what they wanted to ask, and everyone had their own thoughts for a while.
Xu Chunniang glanced at the two of them with an indifferent expression.
"I just said that the spiritual wine is given out as an additional reward. But with the strength of the two of you, there is no reason why the spiritual energy content in the spiritual field should be less than that of several junior brothers and sisters at the fifth level of Qi training."
The current meaning is that there will be no punishment for the two of them completing the commission, but since there is no one else who is as dedicated as others, there is no additional reward.
Their faces turned pale, and a faint sense of guilt and regret rose in their hearts.
They have high self-cultivation and want to spend more time on cultivation, so when they usually take care of the spiritual field, they don't pay special attention to it.
Moreover, with their sixth-level Qi training, they couldn't see the subtle differences between the spiritual fields at all. They just felt that the progress was about the same as others.
Unexpectedly, Master Xu discovered this, but they were still a little unconvinced when they thought that Liu Yujiao, who was at the fourth level of Qi training, could get this spiritual wine.
"Junior sister Liu Yujiao clearly only has the fourth level of Qi training, and the spiritual field she looks after has not been upgraded. Why can she get this extra reward?"
As soon as these words came out, Liu Yujiao, who was secretly happy, suddenly trembled and subconsciously felt that she should not receive this award.
"With Liu Yujiao's cultivation level, it is good that her progress lags behind others, but with her cultivation level, she is already trying her best to achieve this. As for you and the other two, I just want to ask, are you trying your best?"
Facing Master Xu's straightforward explanations and questions, the two disciples at the sixth level of Qi training gradually broke into cold sweat, as if all their little thoughts were exposed.
"Disciple realizes his mistake."
Xu Chunniang looked away from the two of them.
"If you have merit, you will be rewarded, if you make mistakes, you will be punished. If you have no merit, there will be no rewards and punishments. Now that you have made a choice, you must accept the corresponding results."
Although these two disciples were not dedicated enough, they still did what they should do, so they did not reward or punish them.
The two of them obviously understood this, with a look of shame on their faces, and secretly made up their minds to work hard in the next few years.
After distributing the rewards, Xu Chunniang returned to the cave, still spending half of her mind meditating, and the other half entering the array to continue the final deduction.
There are a total of eight formations in the formation disk that Senior Brother Zhuo gave her, and she has cracked seven of them.
If nothing unexpected happens, this last layer of formation will be completely cracked soon.