All sects work

Chapter 219 Assimilation (1)

The two men discussed until late at night to finalize most of the plan, and in the second half of the night they went out to look for a suitable well for making "medicine".

Generally, wells are located in densely populated areas such as towns and villages. It is not easy to find a well or spring in a suitable area.

However, there are many water veins underground in Huazhou. The two searched for more than an hour but failed to find a suitable spring. Finally, they decided to dig a well themselves.

Just do it!

A large hole about five feet wide was dug at the foot of the dark mountain. Looking down from the hole, it was about six feet deep.

Shi Xuanying was digging the soil with a shovel in the dark night, sighing: "I don't know how many years it has been since I last did this kind of work!"

Yan Cui tied his sleeves with his arms and said with an experienced tone: "If you want to save spirit stones, you will inevitably have to spend more effort."

"It sounds like you've done a lot of work?" Shi Xuanying asked.

"That's... not much to do." Yan Cui quickly changed the subject.

They both breathed a sigh of relief.

Yan Cui thought to himself: That was a close call! I am also a Sword Sect disciple after all, representing the image of the Sword Sect, so I still have to be careful about my words and actions.

Shi Xuanying thought to herself: How scary! I almost thought that Jian Zong was so poor that Jian Zi had to tighten his belt.

"There's water." Yan Cui rubbed his feet and heard the faint sound of water.

The two men immediately perked up and dug hard for another half an hour. The water below was seeping out faster and faster, and soon it reached their waists.

"It's okay!" Shi Xuanying put away the shovel and jumped out of the well.

Her lower body was soaked and sticking to her body, making her feel very uncomfortable. She was about to use her spiritual energy to clean it, but when she looked up, she saw Yan Cui climbing up with just his strength, without using a single bit of spiritual energy.

"Be patient and go back to change clothes." Yan Cui said.

"Well... there's no need to save money to this extent, right?" Shi Xuanying was speechless as she looked at his expression.

Yan Cui grabbed the hem of his clothes and wrung out the water: "These inconspicuous places often consume the most spiritual stones. If you don't believe me, you can do the math."

"Okay." Shi Xuanying was too lazy to count, so she just wrung the hem of the clothes a few times and gave up. It wouldn't make any difference if there was more or less water anyway because it couldn't be wrung dry.

Yan Cui looked at the entrance of the cave: "Isn't it a bit sloppy?"

"I have a way!" Shi Xuanying thought of the well in Lu Xi's home. She dug out the well mouth and placed it above the cave entrance, then performed a birth-inducing spell to make the surrounding destroyed grass and trees grow again.

The bluestone wellhead was covered with moss and surrounded by grass and trees, as if it had been hidden here for decades or even hundreds of years.

Shi Xuanying turned around and saw Yan Cui frowning, and couldn't help but ask, "You're not going to save even this little spiritual energy, are you?"

You cannot save money because a newly dug well by hand will leave traces no matter how you disguise it, and you can only mobilize the power of nature itself.

Yan Cui shook his head: "Your divine palace is really... on par with Miss Zhuang's storage bag."

"What a vicious comment!" Shi Xuanying had to defend herself. "How can the corpse of High Priest Youchun and the dust core wrapped in the Heavenly Dao be compared with needles and thread? Even if it is Lu Xi's house, there is still a depleted mineral vein underneath! A depleted mineral vein is still a mineral vein!"

Yan Cui said, "You probably took all the pots and pans away." Shi Xuanying embellished it a little: "The person has passed away, so I leave a little memory."

Which cultivator who explores the secret realm does not pursue the spiritual treasure? What's more, everything in the dust is the past. No matter whether it is Xiao Hongfan or Lu Xi, they have probably turned into a handful of dirt. It would be a waste not to take the things, but he even picks up broken pots and bowls. Isn't that the same as Zhuang Qiqi?
However, Yan Cui just mentioned it casually and was too lazy to meddle in other people's business.

The two carefully checked the surroundings and confirmed that there were no obvious loopholes, so they embedded a piece of phantom stone into the well and arranged a formation around it. As long as a martial artist approached, the formation would be activated and pull him into the phantom stone.

This was the method they had discussed before they came. They used telekinesis to create illusions in the phantom stone in advance. This saved both spiritual energy and telekinesis, and could be triggered repeatedly. The phantom stone could also be recovered afterwards. It could be said to be an extreme way of saving.

After everything was arranged, the two went to Huazhou to investigate the situation and found that sporadic symptoms of the epidemic had appeared in the Xu State army.

The disease spreads extremely quickly in such a densely populated place. Shi Xuanying speculated that if nothing unexpected happened, the Xu army would be in big trouble in three to five days at the least, or ten days to half a month at the most.

She delivered the letter to General Li of the Southwest Army without anyone noticing, and then left quietly.

It was already getting light in the sky, so she went straight to the county government office to work.

When the officials below saw the county magistrate coming back, they all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they were finally free. However, they did not expect that the real nightmare had just begun!
It was indeed very busy working under Yan Cui, but he would also do the work himself, and one person could be worth a hundred people. At that time, they were tired because they had to work hard to keep up with his pace. Later, after they had gotten used to each other's tacit understanding, they were able to do things quite well, and many people had already adapted to this rapid efficiency.

Shi Xuanying is different. She really makes use of everyone to the fullest.

It doesn't seem to be exploitation...

County Magistrate Cao looked at his face in the mirror, which looked ten years younger. He had been up for three nights straight and was still full of energy. If he shouted "tired" after leaving the yamen, no one would believe him!
He just felt that his soul was about to leave his body.

Yan Cui would plan everything, and the people under him would be ordered around in circles. It would be physically tiring but worry-free.

Shi Xuanying would directly issue the tasks and then let them handle them on their own, which was both mentally and physically tiring. But if you complain that you are tired, they will deliver spiritual fruits and delicious food and drinks, and you will be guaranteed to be full of energy and able to fight for another eight days after eating.

A few days later, several county officials finally realized that the two men had different styles of doing things, but both were equally deadly.

For a moment, the yamen was filled with an atmosphere of despair, while the people outside were all smiling.

Compared with officials, they are more adapted to this kind of life.

In the past, they were busy working for their livelihood and had few days of free time throughout the year. Even so, many people would still go hungry after trying their best. But now, seeing workshops being built one after another, there is a shortage of people everywhere, and opportunities are everywhere. As long as they work, they can earn money, have food to eat, and even have some extra money. It is an unimaginable good life.

Shi Xuanying flipped through the official documents in her hand page by page.

Just as Yan Cui said, once you start saving spiritual energy, many things will become time-consuming and troublesome.

These tasks are trivial and complicated. The more you do them, the more restless and irritable you become, and the speed at which you are assimilated into the world is unknowingly accelerated.

Jiang Chuixing held his knife and sat cross-legged on the top of Linxi County. Looking at the busy crowd below, his brows furrowed more and more.

In one night, he was the only idle person left in the whole world?

"How could this be..." Jiang Chuixing had an inexplicable feeling, as if he was excluded by everyone, and as if he couldn't fit in. In short, the more he looked at it, the weirder it seemed...

"What are you doing squatting on the wall?" Dongfang Zhentian threw a shoe over. "Don't you see that everyone over there is so busy that their brains are about to fly?"

Jiang Chuixing floated down and asked, "Do you still remember who you are?"

Dongfang Zhentian was stunned for a moment, thinking he was provoking him, so he rolled up his sleeves and said in a loud voice: "I will not change my name, my surname is Dong Si!"