Chapter 4270 — Pulling Weeds
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Yet Wei Zhao was somewhat disappointed all the same. With the Tiandan Pavilion, that money-making machine, as his backing, he had no shortage of spirit jade at all; he could buy herbs like these whenever he wished.
As for the matter of quality, he had the jade pendant space, and the quality of herbs cultivated there from seeds was in no way inferior to what lay before him.
Even so, Wei Zhao nonetheless pulled Huang Xiaotao along, and the two of them set to pulling weeds around the ring of spirit herbs before them, sweeping through them like wind scattering the clouds.
"Uh... Wei Zhao, isn't it a bit much to just yank them out like this?" Even Huang Xiaotao, who had followed Wei Zhao long enough to be inured to all manner of wondrous things, could not help the corner of her mouth twitching at the sight.
"A bit much? There's nothing much about it. They're ownerless things anyway—finders keepers. And even if we left them unpicked, others may not necessarily come to this place." Wei Zhao saw nothing improper in it at all.
"That's not what I meant... I was trying to say..." Watching Wei Zhao's ruthlessly efficient technique, Huang Xiaotao said weakly, "Spirit herbs don't seem to be harvested like this..."
More than sixty percent of the trial missions Huang Xiaotao had taken on in the past had involved gathering spirit herbs, so she had a fair bit of experience with the process—enough to count as half an expert.
Spirit herbs were beings that absorbed the essence of heaven and earth; their requirements for growing conditions were far stricter than those of ordinary plants, and correspondingly, their vitality was far more fragile. Whether gathered in the wild or cultivated oneself, a considerable degree of professional knowledge was required.
Even by the most amateurish method, one still had to be gentle and careful during gathering, meticulously clean off the soil, and then store them in special spirit jade boxes for preservation—only thus could the herbs' vitality and freshness be preserved to the greatest extent.
Yet Wei Zhao's method before her showed no hint of care whatsoever. This was plainly the posture of pulling up wild weeds; he had not even prepared any special spirit jade boxes, just yanking them out bare-handed on the spot. Huang Xiaotao watched with cold sweat on her brow, and four words could not help rising in her mind: a wanton waste of heaven's bounty.
"Oh, that's fine." Wei Zhao shook his head dismissively, his hands not pausing for an instant.
"Um... actually, a lot of spirit herbs will wither once they've been out of the soil for long. Without special spirit jade boxes to preserve them, pulling up however many is useless..." Huang Xiaotao reminded him meekly.
"Heh, I know that. Don't worry, Xiaotao, I have my own methods. Just do as I say." Wei Zhao laughed at once.
Others indeed had to be careful when gathering spirit herbs, but he had the jade pendant space. However many herbs he pulled up from the ground, he need only plant them inside the jade pendant space and there would be no problem at all; within it was natural, boundless heaven-and-earth spiritual energy to sustain the herbs' continued growth.
Whenever he needed them in the future, he could simply fetch them from the jade pendant space, and their quality would be guaranteed to be only better than when gathered, never worse—an effect no amount of preparation by others could ever achieve.
"Oh, all right then." Seeing how certain Wei Zhao was, Huang Xiaotao nodded obediently and asked no more. She too took up Wei Zhao's example and began "pulling weeds" in this unprecedented, rough-and-ready style. (Summoning mobile phones and monthly reading votes~! Readers on mobile, please show your support! Qidian readers can cast some
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