Over two thousand pieces of Red Sun firewood were piled up at the entrance, immediately attracting the attention of all the disciples in the New Sprout Hall.

Chen Mobai saw Zhuo Ming, Yu Lian, and the Luo siblings all come out of their rooms, all of them looking at the scene in disbelief.

Yuan Chiyi was also a bit stunned.

Even if he were to do it himself, he wouldn’t be able to chop so much firewood in one night.

This speed and efficiency, perhaps only the elders at the Foundation Establishment level, and those who have practiced spells specifically for chopping firewood, could achieve it.

Did he spend spirit stones to buy them from the sect market?

But Yuan Chiyi quickly shook his head, why should he care about these things? As long as he received enough Red Sun firewood, that was enough.

After confirming the quantity was correct, Yuan Chiyi immediately approved Chen Mobai’s request to seclude himself again.

“Junior Brother Chen, can you share your method?”

Chen Mobai, who was about to disappear, was suddenly stopped by the Luo siblings on his way back to his room. Luo Yixiu asked seriously.

“What method?”

Chen Mobai was very confused.

“If Junior Brother Chen doesn’t want to share, then forget it.”

Luo Yixiu’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, expressing his dissatisfaction with Chen Mobai’s pretentious behavior.

This noble son is annoying!

Just as Chen Mobai was about to leave in a huff, Liu Wenbo suddenly came over with a few people.

“Senior Brother Luo, don’t you have your own channel to buy Red Sun firewood? Why are you asking Junior Brother Chen?”

“What do you mean by that?”

Luo Yixiu’s face darkened slightly at Liu Wenbo’s words.

“Senior Brother Luo, some things don’t need to be said too clearly, so as not to make it difficult for Senior Brother Yuan.”

Liu Wenbo spoke calmly, and Yuan Chiyi, who was listening, looked over with approval.

“Very good!”

Although Luo Yixiu considered himself capable of becoming a true disciple in the future, he was still just a newcomer, and he didn’t dare to be too presumptuous in front of Yuan Chiyi.

After the Luo siblings left, Zhuo Ming and the others who had been watching from the side also came over, expressing their belief in standing with Chen Mobai and Liu Wenbo.

Chen Mobai didn’t expect much from them, but his impression of Liu Wenbo greatly improved.

“Can we buy Red Sun firewood ourselves to meet the quota?”

To express his gratitude, Chen Mobai invited Liu Wenbo in for tea as he spoke, and Zhuo Ming and the others also shamelessly followed.

“Yes, both the Luo siblings and I have bought firewood from the sect market and given it to Senior Brother Yuan…”

Liu Wenbo didn’t hide anything and nodded in acknowledgment.

“At what price?”

Zhuo Ming couldn’t help but ask. She had recently switched to practicing the Longevity Sutra, her realm had not yet recovered, and her efficiency in chopping firewood was a bit unsatisfactory, still owing a few hundred pieces.

“500 pieces of firewood for one low-grade spirit stone.”

After hearing this, Zhuo Ming’s face showed pain.

She decided to work harder herself, getting up early and going to bed late to chop firewood.

She cursed inwardly, these noble sons and daughters have so many spirit stones, they don’t even want to chop firewood, and actually use spirit stones to buy it.

“Senior Brother Chen, when we go to the market to buy Red Sun firewood, we can only buy enough for two days at most. How did you manage to buy so much at once?”

Liu Wenbo couldn’t help his curiosity and asked Chen Mobai.

【I chopped it myself!】

But no one would believe him if he said that, and if he wanted to prove it, he would have to bring out the chainsaw and other mechanical artifacts that might expose the Earth Star.

Chen Mobai could only pretend to be mysterious.

“I have my own channels, but I can’t tell you.”

“In that case, could Brother Chen help me buy some? I don’t need much, just enough for seven days.”

As he spoke, Liu Wenbo took out five spirit stones and placed them on the table.

Chen Mobai was silent.

In other words, if he helped chop firewood for one night, he could get five spirit stones.

One night, five stones!

This wage seems pretty good!

But Chen Mobai quickly sobered up, he didn’t immediately agree, but he didn’t refuse either. After all, Liu Wenbo had given him a handwritten copy of the Longevity Sutra, and he remembered this favor.

“I will contact them for you, but whether it can be done depends on their decision. However, I will do my best to help you.”

Chen Mobai’s words were watertight, as if there really was a seller who could provide him with Red Sun firewood.

“In that case, I’ll have to trouble Senior Brother Chen.”

Chen Mobai said it was his duty, returned the five spirit stones on the table to Liu Wenbo, then left the room, as if he was really going to do business.

“You follow him and see who he’s in contact with.”

Seeing Chen Mobai leave, Luo Yixiu instructed his junior brother.

“He’s in the late stage of Qi Refining, if you follow him, you’re likely to be discovered.”Luo Yixuan stopped her junior brother who was about to leave, then took out an invisibility talisman from her storage bag.

“Take this with you.”

“Understood.”

Chen Mobai walked around in the forest, quietly activated a spirit-seeking talisman. This was a first-order talisman used by the Immortal Gate specifically for locating creatures. It was targeted at the creature’s magnetic field, and invisibility was ineffective in front of this talisman.

He immediately discovered that there were three people nearby.

Although he didn’t know if these three people were all following him, he assumed they were.

After leading them around for half an hour, Chen Mobai returned to the New Sprout Hall, apologizing to Liu Wenbo with a regretful face.

He indicated that he had bought all the stock from the seller, and there would be no Red Sun Firewood available recently.

Although Liu Wenbo looked disappointed, he expressed his gratitude gracefully.

“What, you didn’t see who he was in contact with?”

Upon hearing the report from the person in front of her, Luo Yixuan’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Alright, you can go now.”

Luo Yixuan waved her hand, signaling the person to leave. When only the siblings were left, Luo Yixuan no longer hid her emotions.

“What a waste, it’s a pity that the family-born disciples from our clan can’t be brought here, otherwise why would we accommodate these useless loose cultivators.”

“After all, those who can enter the Shenmu Sect are people who desire Foundation Establishment. How could they be like those family-born disciples, allowing us to order them around.”

Luo Yixuan also looked helpless.

“Where did this Chen Guixian get so much Red Sun Firewood? Didn’t that person say that the Earth Fire Hall can only lose about a thousand pieces a day?”

Earth Fire Hall!

The place where the Shenmu Sect specifically refines pills and artifacts. The Red Sun Firewood they collected every day was sent there by Yuan Chiyi.

The consumption of Red Sun Firewood during the refining process fluctuated, which would result in some deficits. Then these pieces of Red Sun Firewood, which should have been burned according to the books, would circulate to the market of the Shenmu Sect through internal channels.

Some cultivators who studied refining on their own would buy some.

But Luo Yixuan learned about this in advance through the elders of her family in the Shenmu Sect, and spent spirit stones to buy these extra Red Sun Firewood, allowing her and her brother to have more time to cultivate.

“The key is, how did Liu Wenbo find out?”

“After all, he is from the Liu family, it’s normal for him to have some channels.”

While the Luo siblings were discussing, Liu Wenbo also shared his accidental discovery.

“You’re saying, the Red Sun Firewood that the Luo siblings handed over to Senior Brother Yuan that day had the mark you made when you were chopping wood?”

“Exactly, it was from that moment that I knew Senior Brother Yuan was also aware. Later, I secretly got in touch with them, but it’s a pity that the brother who was in contact with me at the Earth Fire Hall said that the quota they could get out every day was just that much.”

After hearing this, Chen Mobai couldn’t help but marvel.

Even the Immortal Gate couldn’t prevent corruption, let alone the Shenmu Sect.

“By the way, Brother Chen, which of the three halls and twelve departments of the sect do you plan to go to after you finish chopping wood?”

Liu Wenbo suddenly asked a question.

“I plan to cultivate spiritual fields.”

Without any hesitation, Chen Mobai made a surprising choice.

They didn’t know that Chen Mobai had only one goal left after infiltrating the Shenmu Sect, which was the Foundation Establishment Pill. Next, he just hoped that no one would disturb him.

“I really envy Brother Chen’s carefreeness. Unfortunately, I have a family mission and need to struggle in the halls of the sect to pave the way for the future generations of my family.”

Liu Wenbo gave a bitter smile, bid farewell to Chen Mobai, and left.

When night fell.

Chen Mobai quietly left the New Sprout Hall again, but when he was about to go to the Red Sun Forest to chop wood, he found someone following him.

He frowned, circled around, and came back.

About a quarter of an hour later, Chen Mobai saw Yu Lian walking in from outside. The latter hesitated for a moment, then walked straight towards him.

“If there is extra Red Sun Firewood, I am willing to buy it at double the market price.”

After saying this, Yu Lian turned around and walked into his room.

Why does it feel like chopping wood is quite profitable?

Chen Mobai found that his investment of more than eight hundred Good Deeds could potentially generate a huge return of tens of times.

He went out again, and this time, finally, no one followed him.

The Giant Tree Ridge was vast and sparsely populated. There were not many things, but there were many trees, so many that every year the Shenmu Sect had to launch sect tasks to cut down various kinds of spiritual wood to cultivate spiritual fields.

And the Red Sun Tree was the most numerous and fastest-growing spiritual wood.

Yuan Chiyi didn’t restrict these new disciples on where to chop, as long as they handed in enough quota.

Previously, Chen Mobai chose the place closest to the New Sprout Hall, but now, in order to avoid attracting attention, he had to go a bit further.The place he chose for chopping wood was twice as far out as the usual range of Zhuo Ming and the others’ activities, all to avoid being discovered by familiar faces.

However, this made transportation inconvenient.

But Chen Mobai had already thought of a solution.

With the motivation to earn spirit stones, his drive to operate the chainsaw was even stronger.

For two full days and nights, he worked tirelessly, wood chips flying everywhere.

That evening.

Liu Wenbo received Chen Mobai’s voice transmission talisman and guiding talisman, and hurried over with a few junior disciples. Seeing the mountain-like pile of tens of thousands of Red Sun wood logs, he couldn’t help but open his mouth wide.

“When I was chopping wood in this forest, I happened to encounter a senior practicing his swordsmanship with Red Sun wood…”

Chen Mobai made up a very reasonable explanation.

After hearing this, Liu Wenbo looked at the nearby tree stumps neatly cut by the chainsaw, and then at each super-standard log that seemed to have been measured with a ruler before being cut. He immediately believed Chen Mobai’s words without a doubt.

The swordsmanship of this wood-chopping senior was truly amazing.