17: Chapter 17 Su Wanqing

On Saturday morning, Shen Ye received a catalog sent by Su Wanqing.

It was not a text list, but a spiritual power projection file.

After opening it, three-dimensional images of dozens of types of spiritual plant seeds floated above his communicator, each labeled with its grade, attribute, growth cycle, suitable spiritual energy concentration, and reference price.

From the Mortal-grade low-tier spirit gathering grass to the Rare-grade low-tier moonlight vine, the variety was complete, and the labels were detailed.

Behind every label was a line of small text, which were notes written by Su Wanqing herself.

"spirit gathering grass, Mortal-grade low-tier, growth cycle three days."

Note: Sensitive to spiritual energy concentration; it will stop growing if it falls below 30% of the standard value, and it will grow wildly and then wither if it exceeds 50% of the standard value.

"I suggest beginners start practicing with this one."

"moonlight vine, Rare-grade low-tier, growth cycle sixty days."

Note: A silver-white seed navel is best; grayish-white is secondary. It needs to be soaked in spiritual spring water for one night before sowing; the germination rate is higher under moonlight.

Also: 80% of the moonlight vine seeds on the market are old seeds; the ones I am providing this time are new seeds from within the year, and the color of the seed navel can be verified.

"sword leaf orchid, Excellent-grade mid-tier, growth cycle fifteen days."

Note: The demand for Metal-attribute spiritual energy is five times that of ordinary spiritual plants; it is suitable for planting near the Five Elements Array Eye: Metal.

The leaves can be used as materials for tempering flying swords, the market demand is stable, and I suggest planting more.

There wasn't a single wasted word.

Every note was solid planting experience, and some of the content couldn't even be found in the spiritual plant textbooks at Wanxiang University.

Shen Ye read through them one by one and selected three types: spirit gathering grass, sword leaf orchid, and moonlight vine.

spirit gathering grass for practice, sword leaf orchid for market demand.

moonlight vine has a high grade, a long cycle, and high returns.

With a combination of the three, there would be output in the short, medium, and long term.

He sent the order to Su Wanqing.

A few minutes later, Su Wanqing replied: "spirit gathering grass and sword leaf orchid are in stock; the moonlight vine seeds need to be transferred, and they will arrive before Tuesday."

The price is as previously discussed, at cost.

"Send me the spiritual energy concentration data from your side, and I will help you calculate the planting density."

Shen Ye sent the spiritual energy concentration data of his Cultivation Divine Kingdom over.

Three Excellent-grade spiritual springs; the spiritual energy concentration was much higher than the standard value.

A moment later, Su Wanqing replied, her tone carrying a trace of rare surprise.

"The spiritual energy concentration in your Divine Kingdom is this high?"

Three Excellent-grade spiritual springs?

"Isn't there only one allocated by the school?"

"Principal Zhou invested two extra."

Shen Ye didn't tell the truth.

He couldn't mention things involving Gain Without Labor.

Su Wanqing didn't pursue the matter either.

She resent a planting density suggestion—it was much higher than the standard density.

"You have enough spiritual energy, you can plant them more densely."

The standard spacing for spirit gathering grass is one palm; you can reduce it to half a palm.

The standard spacing for sword leaf orchid is one step; you can reduce it to a large half-step.

"moonlight vine needs space for the vines to climb, so the spacing cannot be reduced, but you can intercrop spirit gathering grass in the lower layer of the vine trellis to utilize the spiritual energy in two layers."

Looking at this suggestion, Shen Ye suddenly realized that the value of Su Wanqing and the Su Family Chamber of Commerce lay not in the seeds themselves, but in this kind of "instruction manual."

Buying seeds on the black market is over once purchased; whether they grow well or poorly is your own business.

But getting seeds from Su Wanqing comes with the planting experience accumulated by the Su Family Chamber of Commerce over many years.

Every note and every suggestion was exchanged for countless failures.

He replied: "Received."

I'll try planting them when the seeds arrive, and I'll ask you if there are any problems.

Su Wanqing replied: "No problem."

Also, you said last time at the black market that your resources were insufficient.

What do you lack?

I can also help you ask about things other than spiritual plants.

The Su Family Chamber of Commerce's channels are not limited to spiritual plants.

Shen Ye thought for a moment and made a list: Excellent-grade building blueprints, Sword Intent Stone, foundation establishment pill, and faith crystals.

Su Wanqing replied quickly: She could find the blueprints, from Excellent-grade low-tier to Rare-grade low-tier, and the prices were lower than the black market.

There is a stable supply of Sword Intent Stones.

The foundation establishment pill needs to be pre-ordered.

Faith crystals—she asked Shen Ye what he would use to trade for them.

Shen Ye said: "Spiritual plants. When I grow them, I will trade with spiritual plants."

Su Wanqing replied with one word: "Good."

Clean and efficient.

She didn't ask why an S-rank Awakened would lack so many resources, didn't probe into his background, and didn't take the opportunity to lower prices or add conditions.

It was a simple "Good." Shen Ye stared at that word for a while, then put the communicator back into his pocket.

This person, Su Wanqing, is worth long-term cooperation.

On Tuesday afternoon, the seeds arrived.

It wasn't mailed; Su Wanqing delivered them personally.

She was wearing light gray casual clothes, carrying a spiritual silk package half a person's height, standing outside the visitor passage at the side gate of Nanjiang No. 7 High School.

When Shen Ye received the message and came out, she was negotiating with the security guard.

The security guard was a retired low-level Awakened, and he looked at the package on her back with a vigilant expression.

Su Wanqing handed over her City No. 1 High School student ID and the spiritual plant chamber of commerce's transport permit, and the guard checked them for a long time before letting her pass.

"The security guards at your school are much stricter than those at City No. 1 High School."

Su Wanqing unloaded the package and leaned it against the wall, "That old man at the side gate of City No. 1 High School lets anyone in as long as he recognizes their face."

Here, you still have to check the permit.

Shen Ye took the package.

It was very heavy; the spiritual silk had a built-in weight-reduction law, but the quantity of seeds inside was large, so the total weight was still heavy.

"One thousand spirit gathering grass seeds, two hundred sword leaf orchid seeds, fifty moonlight vine seeds."

Su Wanqing patted the surface of the package.

"The sword leaf orchid and spirit gathering grass are in-stock items from our warehouse, and the moonlight vine was transferred from the provincial capital."

They are new seeds; I checked the seed navels one by one, and they are all silver-white.

Shen Ye opened a corner of the package.

Inside were dozens of transparent spiritual silk bags neatly stacked, each bag labeled with its grade and harvest date.

On the bag of moonlight vine seeds, Su Wanqing had additionally used a spiritual power pen to draw a small silver-white dot on the back of the label—that was the mark of her verification.

"You said before that labels are unreliable, and only the seed navel will not deceive you."

Shen Ye turned the bag over and looked at the row of silver-white dots.

"That was for selling to others."

Su Wanqing said.

"For the ones sold to you, I checked them one by one."

Shen Ye put the bag back and resealed the package.

"How much?"

Su Wanqing stated a number.

It was lower than the black market price.

Shen Ye counted out the corresponding number of faith crystals from his resource bag and handed them to her.

Su Wanqing took them, didn't count them, and put them directly into her pocket.

"Aren't you going to count them?"

Shen Ye asked.

"I watched when you were counting just now. It's correct."

She leaned against the wall, her expression relaxing a bit.

"After the moonlight vine seeds are planted, the first three days are the most critical."

The spiritual energy concentration must be stable; it cannot fluctuate high and low.

If your spiritual springs are Excellent-grade, have the Water Spirit Root Kin add a steady-flow stone sluice in the irrigation canal.

"When the water flow speed is uniform, the spiritual energy release will be uniform."

Shen Ye noted it down.

A steady-flow stone sluice; the Water Spirit Root Kin had seen similar natural stone structures deep in the mine, and they could be used after some modifications.

Su Wanqing straightened up and patted the dust off her hands.

"Plant the first batch first. Tell me when they are grown, and I will help you find sales channels."

She turned and walked a few steps, then stopped.

Oh right.

That Cultivation Divine Kingdom of yours has a much higher spiritual energy concentration than the standard value.

"Your own spiritual fields can't use up that much spiritual energy, right?"

Shen Ye didn't deny it.

The coverage area of three Excellent-grade spiritual springs exceeded five hundred kilometers, and his spiritual fields were only one hundred and twenty mu; he really couldn't use it all.

"You can store the excess spiritual energy."

Su Wanqing said, "There is a wonder item called a Spirit Gathering Jar, Excellent-grade, that can compress excess spiritual energy into spiritual liquid for storage."

Spiritual liquid is easier to transport and easier to sell than spiritual plants.

"If you need it, I will help you find one."

"Good."

Su Wanqing waved her hand and left.

Shen Ye watched her back disappear at the end of the visitor passage.

From meeting to leaving, it wasn't long.

The transaction was completed, information was exchanged, and the direction for the next step of cooperation was determined.

There wasn't a single wasted word. He shouldered the package and walked towards the dormitory.

In the Divine Kingdom, Mu Sheng stood by the spiritual field, looking up at the sky.

He sensed it—new seeds were coming.