By the second year, the level of the new students in Chen Mobai’s class had become quite clear.

Although they were all geniuses from the thirty-six heavens and seventy-two blessed lands of the Immortal Gate, there were still differences among these geniuses.

Most people originally thought that Chen Mobai, who came from a small blessed land and barely made the cut due to the expansion of the four Daoist academies, would be at the bottom. However, to their surprise, he managed to make a big name for himself among these geniuses.

In the second semester, apart from the talisman course, Chen Mobai ranked first in all other puppet farming courses.

Suddenly, the title of “Awakened Sleeper” echoed throughout their class, even reaching the ears of the senior students and teachers.

Apart from Chen Mobai, other students also shone brightly, showing their extraordinary talents and abilities.

For example, Ming Yihua, who ranked first in artifact refining, Yun Yangbing, who ranked first in formations, Wang Xingyu, who ranked first in pill refining, Lu Zixuan, who ranked first in beast taming, and Zhai Jianbai, who ranked first in sword practice, and so on…

Chen Mobai was also among them, being hailed as one of the “Ten Outstanding Talents” of the 5012th class of the Daoist Academy.

To this, Chen Mobai just smiled.

These were all empty titles, only Foundation Establishment was real.

Even the combined reputation of all the “Ten Outstanding Talents” was not as good as a single finger of Zhong Li Tianyu. In the entire Immortal Gate, as long as you say you are a classmate of Zhong Li Tianyu, most people would show understanding.

It was also in this year that Zhong Li Tianyu made another breakthrough, reaching the third level of Foundation Establishment.

The “Participation in the Same Contract” in his hands shone with an unprecedented brilliance. Some people even speculated that he might touch the threshold of forming a golden core before the age of sixty.

Some senior brothers and sisters who were in seclusion in the back mountain of Chicheng came out to witness this possibly most outstanding true Dao seed in the academy for the past hundred years.

While everyone’s attention was drawn to Zhong Li Tianyu’s entry into the back mountain, Chen Mobai quietly collected his final report card and left the academy.

He did not return to Danxia City.

His parents were traveling, and although he wanted to meet up with good friends like Lu Hongsheng, after not seeing them for two years, Chen Mobai felt that their images in his memory were gradually fading.

He made a call to Qing Nv, who he had been in contact with all along. Hearing that he would not return to Danxia City this year, Qing Nv was quite relaxed.

She was busy preparing for the second-level alchemist certification exam and needed to self-study more than a dozen related books during the holiday. After Chen Mobai decided not to return, she had no reason to go back to Danxia City, so she could focus on her studies.

“I wish you success and pass the exam.”

Chen Mobai ended the call with Qing Nv with a smile, but he couldn’t help but marvel at the rapid progress of the Heavenly Spiritual Root.

He had only passed the first-level talisman maker exam this year thanks to the effect of the Enlightenment Pill, but to pass the second level, he estimated that he would need to study for several more years, and he might even have to wait until after Foundation Establishment to be sure of passing.

However, compared to the strict exams for various cultivation arts titles in the Immortal Gate, the standards in the Tianhe Realm were quite lenient, almost without any threshold.

As long as you could refine any second-level talisman, you could call yourself a second-level talisman maker.

By this standard, Chen Mobai was already a second-level talisman maker.

But in the Tianhe Realm, he had suffered a lot and did not reveal this.

This year, Chen Mobai focused most of his energy and attention on the academy. However, thanks to the effect of the Enlightenment Pill, he saved a lot of study time and did not slack off in the Shenmu Sect.

He managed his two acres of medicinal fields and twenty-six acres of spiritual fields very well.

After all, if he wanted to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills in the future, contributions to the sect were essential. The contribution from these fields was ten times that of ordinary tasks. As long as he had enough time and energy, Chen Mobai would take this matter to heart.

It was impossible for one person to take care of so many spiritual fields, but Chen Mobai did not forget that he was part of the Spiritual Plant Department.

He issued a sect task through the Spiritual Plant Department at the Lingbao Pavilion to recruit three people to take care of the spiritual fields. Their cultivation level did not matter, as long as they had cultivated spiritual power and could activate the Green Light Formation to fend off birds and beasts.

After all, the main tasks of farming, sowing, fertilizing, raining, pest control, and harvesting were all done by him personally.

He offered a reward of 15 spirit stones for this task for a year, which was slightly low, but still, two disciples at the Qi Refining second level and one at the Qi Refining third level from the Shenmu Sect took it.

Chen Mobai took care of the two acres of medicinal fields and two acres of spiritual fields in Xiaoyangling himself, and the remaining twenty-four acres of spiritual fields were conveniently distributed in three places, with one disciple in charge of each.

He did not hoard his knowledge, and during the sowing, transplanting, and even the pest control process, he demonstrated his methods to the three Shenmu Sect disciples with the intention of teaching them.

However, the key fertilizer was brought over from the Immortal Gate, and he did not tell them about it.

“Junior Brother Chen, it’s another year of good harvest.”

Lu Jun and Teng Jie, under the guidance of Chen Mobai, harvested all the two acres of medicinal fields and nineteen acres of spiritual fields under the name of the Spiritual Plant Department. Due to the large yield, the two of them were busy for three days before they finished the task.

“You two have worked hard. Come, have a drink before you go.”

“Teng Junior Brother, this is the spiritual wine that Inspector Sun praised after drinking last time. We are in for a treat.”

The jar of wine that Lu Jun took from Chen Mobai last time was so amazing that he immediately gave it to his superior, Sun Gaochang, after tasting it. The latter was also a wine lover. After drinking it, he immediately sought Chen Mobai to buy all his stock.

However, Chen Mobai knew that scarcity makes things valuable. He only took out ten jars of wine and didn’t think about getting spirit stones. He just gave them to the inspector of the Spiritual Plant Department.

But Sun Gaochang was a very serious person. After taking the wine, he directly threw down a medium-grade spirit stone.

“We, who come from the Rewarding Virtue Hall, value clear accounts the most. If this account is not cleared at the beginning, it will become harder and harder to clear later. If it becomes a favor, it may even cost lives, so this spirit stone must be given by this inspector.”

After saying this, Sun Gaochang left with the ten jars of wine.It was precisely through this incident that Chen Mobai felt that Sun Gaochang, who appeared as amiable as a smiling tiger and was a Foundation Establishment elder, was a reliable ally to befriend.

In the Tianhe realm, spiritual wine had not been developed at all.

The Qing Mountain yeast from Chen Mobai’s hometown could at most brew second-grade spiritual wine.

When used on the Jade Bud Spirit Rice here in the Shenmu Sect, due to the latter’s abundant spiritual energy, even though the rice variety was average, the brewed spiritual wine was not inferior to the Qing Mountain wine by much.

The wine he served to Lu Jun and the other was the Jade Bud Spirit Wine he had brewed years ago.

After the two finished drinking, they opened a jar of Qing Mountain wine. After comparing, they found each had its own flavor.

The Jade Bud Spirit Wine was strong, while the Qing Mountain yellow wine was mellow.

After the hospitality, the three settled the yield of the spirit rice. Chen Mobai’s account had an additional 3000 points of sect contribution.

Among them, 2650 points were from the Jade Bud Spirit Rice, and 350 points were from the two acres of Condensation Dew Grass.

After comparison, it was indeed more profitable to cultivate spiritual herbs and medicines. No wonder that even though farming in the Shenmu Sect had ten times the contribution benefits, everyone flocked to the medicine fields, almost disregarding the spirit fields.