Incredible Sect Simulator
Chapter 58: Sect’s Frugal and Diligent Style, Cultivation Acceleration

Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Sect’s Frugal and Diligent Style, Cultivation Acceleration

As a sect that has been cultivating spirit medicines for over a decade, the sect is well-versed in handling spirit medicines like Clear Heart Grass and Purple Cloud Reishi, not only knowing how to harvest them but doing so with remarkable efficiency.

Lu Yuanshan is already a veteran, personally participating in the medicinal garden’s harvest each year, his techniques so adept that even She Qingqing cannot find fault.

Nearby, Lu Ping watched as this large, small, and young girl busied themselves in the medicine field, even feeling tempted to join in.

It’s been over thirty years since he last harvested spirit medicines, yet he still knows how to do it, with his knowledge far surpassing that of She Qingqing.

After all, he rose from overseeing the medicinal garden to an alchemy apprentice, gradually achieving the level of a Tier Three Alchemist.

Unfortunately, he is only a consciousness body, powerless to help, merely observing from the side.

The three worked efficiently, taking just a day to gather all the matured spirit medicines, storing them in prepared jade boxes for safekeeping.

These jade boxes, also known as spirit medicine boxes, are specifically used for storing spirit medicines. They contain spiritual energy and have a simple spirit gathering array, preserving the spirit charm of the medicines.

After being placed in the jade boxes, the spirit medicines have a shelf life of about one year. Selling them all would bring around one hundred and fifty spirit stones in revenue to the sect.

The revenue isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing. This has always been the yield from the old medicine fields.

As for the three mu of new spirit fields nearby, Lu Yuanshan took a look and saw they were growing well, knowing it was far from harvest time. He instructed She Qingqing to meticulously care for them before taking the spirit medicines and leaving.

The task of selling these spirit medicines naturally fell to Lu Changfeng.

Every year, it’s Lu Changfeng who is responsible for transporting the sect’s spirit rice and spirit medicines to Qinghe Market, and this year is no exception.

Unlike transporting spirit rice, this batch of spirit medicines is not very valuable and is easy to carry. A couple more storage bags would suffice, and there’s no need to bring disciples along.

Therefore, after obtaining the spirit medicines, Lu Changfeng embarked on the journey alone.

Without a Cloud Stepping Beast to ride, by the time Lu Changfeng reached Qinghe Market, half a month had passed.

Like previous years, he stayed at the sect’s shop, Cyan Mountain Residence, for a few days, selling some spirit medicines. He also spent over twenty spirit stones to purchase seeds of Purple Cloud Reishi and Orchid Vine before heading back to the sect.

Most spirit medicines in the medicinal garden don’t require annual seed collection, like Clear Heart Grass which regrows the following year.

This trip to and from Qinghe Market took Lu Changfeng more than forty days in total.

Upon returning to the sect, he handed the spirit medicine seeds to She Qingqing, allowing her to plant them and giving himself a period to rest and focus on cultivation.

With Li Weixiao’s assistance, She Qingqing found planting the spirit medicines much easier than before, giving her ample time to study alchemy knowledge.

The sect is on an upward trajectory of development.

Noting that the medicinal garden has been expanded and this year’s spirit medicines have been planted, Lu Ping decided to contribute to the medicinal garden.

He brought up the system panel.

[Sect Simulator]

[Host: Lu Ping]

[Sect: Cyan Mountain Sect]

[Identity: Cyan Mountain Sect Ancestor]

[Level: Qi Cultivation Sect]

[Reputation: 404]

[Reputation: Significantly decreased, undecided between good and evil]

[Members: 32]

[Buildings: Sect Hall, Library Pavilion, Alchemy Room, Artifact Refining Room, others omitted]

[Resources: Cyan Lotus Mountain Spiritual Vein (Tier Two), Small Mist Concealment Sword Array (Tier Two), Medicine Field Six Mu (Tier One), Spiritual Field Twenty-five Mu (Tier Two), Marketplace Shop one, Spiritual Peach Tree (Tier One), Cyan-tailed Spirit Fish (Tier One)]

[Income: 810 Spirit Stones/year]

[Expenditure: 1260 Spirit Stones/year]

[Net Income: -450 Spirit Stones/year]

[Savings: 293 Spirit Stones]

[Map: Lushan County (49%)]

[Message: In the vast rivers and lakes, demons devour the heavens. Your presence is insignificant among the multitude, a mundane individual, but even a small character can achieve great deeds]

[Objective: The Cyan Mountain Sect faces internal and external troubles, with many challenges ahead. As the founding ancestor, strive to revive your sect]

...

During this time, Lu Ping conducted various operations to assist the sect.

The data on the panel didn’t change much.

There was only an increase in reputation points and spirit stone reserves compared to the starting point, with a slight increase in sect members.

Additionally, the income and expenditure of the sect showed subtle changes.

To be precise, when Lu Ping awoke, Cyan Mountain Sect’s annual income was 730 spirit stones per year.

Expenditure was 1260 spirit stones per year.

Subtracting the two, the sect had an annual deficit of 530 spirit stones.

Now?

With expenditure unchanged, income increased to 810 spirit stones per year, reducing the deficit to 450 spirit stones per year.

Although still negative, it’s less so than before.

More importantly, don’t forget, the resource section saw significant enhancement.

With the expansion of the spiritual field, under Lu Ping’s operations, it has been optimized to Tier Two, greatly boosting the production of spirit rice for the sect, yielding Tier Two Jade Crystal Rice.

Furthermore, with the Spiritual Peach Tree, Cyan-tailed Spirit Fish, and Moon Grass, these new resources will see a significant production increase next year.

This means the sect’s revenue will significantly rise, reaching a promising growth trend.

Current data shows little change, merely due to it being early days.

The sect’s economic matters can be set aside for a while, as the blossoms yield fruits next year, leading to expected profits.

With economics aside, Lu Ping focused on the reputation points.

At present, reputation points stand at 404, a substantial amount.

"404 reputation points could be used to refresh the mall to see if a resource optimization might appear to enhance the medicinal garden."

Currently, the mall holds nothing that offers substantive benefits to the sect, and Lu Ping isn’t too interested.

What he desires most is [Resource Optimization].

Alternatively, a refresh might bring forth a high-tier ice attribute technique.

How about a few mall refreshes? Maybe something good will appear.

Acting on the thought, Lu Ping spent 30 reputation points for three refresh attempts.

The mall interface flickered, and in addition to the unchanged original items, twelve new items appeared.

[One-Star - Healing], [One-Star - Sect’s Frugal and Diligent Style], [One-Star - Boosting Morale], [Two-Star - Cultivation Acceleration], [Two-Star - Exorcism Divine Thunder Talisman]...

Among the twelve new items, the ones that interested Lu Ping were these.

Somewhat regrettably, none of the three refreshes revealed [Resource Optimization] or an ice attribute technique.

The rest were five elements attribute Qi cultivation techniques and low-tier spiritual grass seeds, which weren’t noteworthy.

After carefully reviewing the new items, Lu Ping was pleased to see that [Healing] appeared twice.