"So that's how it is …"
Lin Buzheng was enlightened.
Twenty percent more spring water could be sold for at least a hundred silvers.
Splitting it evenly, each person would get twenty silvers. That would be six to seven hundred silvers a month.
One had to know that a qi path expert in the Lin clan would only receive a hundred taels of silver from the clan every month.
Six to seven hundred silvers was a huge sum of money!
"Get out of here!"
"If you dare to say a word, you will die!"
Lin Buzheng threatened the bald man and the others, then signaled them to leave.
"We don't dare, we don't dare!"
The bald man and the other three immediately scrambled and ran far away.
They were not idiots. If they reported this secret to the family, not only would they not get any benefits, the silver they had earned over the past few months would also be taken back by the family.
After weighing the pros and cons, they finally decided to keep this secret to themselves.
Most importantly, they were frightened by the strength that Lin Buzheng had displayed.
He was only at the seventh stage of body path, and he was extremely young, no more than seventeen years old. Yet, he was able to fight against four martial artists at the eighth stage of body path in one move.
No matter how they looked at it, Lin Buzheng was the rising star of the family, a genius that the family had spent all their resources to nurture!
Even if he was not as good as Lin Liuliu and Lin Tianze, he was definitely not far off!
Therefore, even if the bald man and the others had ten times the courage, they would not dare to offend Lin Buzheng again, fearing that he would take revenge on them in the future.
"Great!"
"I never thought that the spiritual spring would have such a strange change!"
After the bald man and the others left, Lin Buzheng's expression became extremely excited.
All this while, Lin Buzheng had wanted to buy the pills from the Danding Pavilion to break through.
Unfortunately, even the lowest quality Body Breakthrough Pill was worth three thousand silvers. With Lin Buzheng's current wealth, he could only afford one.
The medicinal effects of the Inferior Grade Body Breaking Pill were tyrannical and harmful. Even if it could help a cultivator break through, it would leave many hidden injuries in the cultivator's body, affecting their future cultivation.
Therefore, Lin Buzheng's goal was to purchase the Top Grade Body Breaking Elixir that cost five thousand taels of silver.
The high-grade Body Breaking Pill was refined from hundred-year-old ginseng, lingzhi, and the blood essence of a vicious beast king. It could nourish the body of a martial artist, allowing the martial artist to achieve a breakthrough without any hidden dangers!
The only downside was that the High Grade Body Breaking Pill was too expensive, costing five thousand taels of silver each. Even if Lin Buzheng were to sell his entire fortune, he still wouldn't be able to afford it.
But now, everything was different.
With the treasure trove that was the Spirit Spring, Lin Buzheng would be able to purchase a high-grade Body Breaking Pill in no time and break through to the Eighth Stage of Body Dao!
"Hmm?"
"Why haven't you left?"
At that moment, Lin Buzheng furrowed his brows.
Among the four of them, the bald man and the others had long since disappeared. Only the little fatty, who had a funny expression on his face, was running at the back of the group.
In the end, Fatty stopped running. Instead, he turned and ran toward Lin Buzheng, huffing and puffing.
"Big Brother, this is the wilderness. Won't it be too lonely for you to guard the spirit spring alone?"
"Why don't you let me accompany you?"
The fatty was clearly much older than Lin Buzheng, but he called him Big Brother without any hesitation. His face was not red, and he was not out of breath. With a single glance, one could tell that he was a shrewd person.
"What are you trying to do?"
Lin Buzheng frowned. Although the fatty had a jovial expression, he was actually as slippery as a loach.
Lin Buzheng always felt that a person like him could be killed with a single slap.
The truth was, when Lin Buzheng attacked the four of them just a moment ago, the fatty had already knelt down before Lin Buzheng. Even Lin Buzheng felt deeply humiliated by having a fellow clansman like him.
"Well, I don't really want to do anything."
"That's … Big Brother, can you leave me here so I can run an errand for you?"
The short fatty smiled. His small eyes were about to sink into the fat on his face. He stood beside Lin Buzheng as if he was very familiar with him. Lin Buzheng could not chase him away.
"What, your name is Fatty Lin, and you're the grandson of the third elder?"
"You do have a big appetite."
Lin Buzheng was shocked. According to the short fatty's introduction, his name was Lin Nengchi, and he was the grandson of the third elder.
However, because he was rather chubby, no one called him by his real name, but Fatty Lin.
The fatty introduced himself as a quick-witted person who could help Lin Buzheng sell the spiritual spring water.
For the past few months, he had been in charge of selling the extra spring water.
If anything happened, as the grandson of the third elder, he could suppress the matter.
If the spring water was exchanged for silver, as long as Lin Buzheng split it 80/20 with him, he could accept it.
"Alright, you can stay!"
Lin Buzheng had to make the most of his time to cultivate, and indeed did not have the time to deal with these trivial matters. In the end, after some thought, he still let Fatty Lin stay.
"Thank you, Big Brother!"
Fatty Lin gave Lin Buzheng a wretched smile, and then followed closely behind Lin Buzheng like a shadow. This time, he really could not be chased away.
"Let's go take a look at the spiritual spring."
Lin Buzheng walked up the moss-covered stone steps, and after a while, he arrived at the spiritual spring surrounded by wooden houses.
"Endless vitality is being emitted from this spiritual spring."
Lin Buzheng was surprised. Long before entering this forest, he had already felt that the vitality here was extremely dense.
It was a kind of intuition that came from life.
At this moment, as Lin Buzheng gradually approached the spiritual spring, this feeling became stronger.
In the next moment, Lin Buzheng stopped at the edge of the spiritual spring.
The so-called spiritual spring was like a well, in a deep and narrow hole.
The walls of the hole seemed to be carved out of unknown jade, warm and smooth. The reflection of the spring water below was extremely beautiful.
"I wonder where the other end of the spring water connects to."
Lin Buzheng muttered to himself, instinctively feeling that this spiritual spring was not simple.
"I'm not sure."
"According to my grandfather, many years ago, there was an expert of the family that tried to swim to the other end of the spiritual spring."
"It's a pity that this Spirit Spring is too deep. That clan's expert almost drowned, but he still couldn't swim to the end."
"However, according to the speculation of the experts, the other end of the spiritual spring should be connected to the Desolate Moon Lake."
Fatty Lin's grandfather was the third elder of the family.
Thus, when Fatty Lin was young, he had heard his grandfather talk about these family legends.
The more Lin Buzheng looked at the spiritual spring, the more he felt that it was not simple. In the end, he sat cross-legged at the side of the spiritual spring and started cultivating.
Fatty Lin returned to his house and slept soundly.
Ding dong!
Not long after, a crisp bell rang. The family's water carriage arrived on time, and only left after fetching a full carriage of spring water.
The water carriage would come to the spiritual spring twice a day at a fixed time, and the amount of spring water collected each time was limited.
There was an obvious mark on the jade-like stone wall. After the carriage was done, the water level of the spiritual spring would drop by a large margin, but it would slowly rise again.
The next time the carriage came to fetch water, the water level of the spiritual spring would return to the marked position.
Thus, be it the disciples guarding the spiritual spring or escorting the spring water, they would not be able to embezzle or tamper with it.
The sun set, the moon rose, and the sky was filled with stars. It was already late at night.
Unknowingly, Lin Buzheng had already sat beside the spiritual spring for a full ten hours.
At this time, Lin Buzheng discovered that not only had the spring water recovered, it had even exceeded the marked position by a large margin!
Lin Buzheng's breathing became heavy.
This undoubtedly meant that what the bald man said was true.
Recently, the water level of the spiritual spring had indeed skyrocketed.
The extra spring water would undoubtedly belong to Lin Buzheng!
Ding dong!
At that moment, the crisp sound of bells rang out in the night sky in the distance.
On the rugged mountain road, there was a water carriage approaching the spiritual spring.
Lin Buzheng frowned.
What's going on? It's not time yet, why is the family's water carriage here?
"This is not the family's water carriage."
"It's here to cooperate with us to buy the spring water!"
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