Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen returned to his residence, took out the spiritual stone and practiced cross-legged. A stream of spiritual energy flowed through his body, along the eight extraordinary meridians, and continued to gather in Dantian. Zhang Chen was immersed in this feeling. The injury in his abdomen was also slowly alleviated by the repair of the spiritual energy.

"With these spirit stones, my cultivation can be further improved."

After this challenge, Zhang Chen now wanted to improve his cultivation urgently. Thinking of Lu Jun and the others, who were always a hidden danger, Zhang Chen felt even more depressed.

The next morning, Zhang Chen woke up from his practice. He had absorbed the spiritual energy of two spirit stones last night and felt the amount of spiritual energy stored in his dantian.

"After one night of practice, I should be able to enter the second level of Qi Condensation." Feeling the changes in his body, Zhang Chen was very satisfied. With the continuous accumulation of spiritual energy, his strength and speed had been significantly improved.

Zhang Chen looked outside and saw that it was almost time, so he stood up, tidied himself up, and went out to the place where the tasks were assigned.

When Zhang Chen arrived at the location, many people had already arrived, and Zhou Pi was sitting in the front. In a short while, the time was up and almost everyone had arrived.

Zhou Pi stood up and started to make arrangements for everyone.

……

Zhang Chen.

Zhao Yu.

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After the arrangements were made, everyone received a jade token and went to their work place.

Zhang Chen’s mission was to go to the eastern area of ​​the spiritual plant garden to dig 500 kilograms of spiritual bamboo shoots.

Zhao Yu’s task was to go to the northern area of ​​the spiritual plant garden and irrigate ten acres of land with spiritual spring water.

Zhang Chen and Zhao Yu were on their way to their mission, so they walked towards the spiritual plant garden together.

"Senior Brother Zhao, are you healed?" Zhang Chen asked when he saw that Zhao Yu was walking normally.

"It's almost done. I guess it must be very tiring to work today. I've never worked in the fields before. I didn't expect that I would have to water the fields here." Zhao Yu looked helpless.

"What did Senior Brother Zhao do before he came to cultivate immortality?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.

"My family does business in the city. We sell silk and some cloth. How about your family, Junior Brother Zhang?" Zhao Yu recalled his previous life.

"Everyone in my family does farm work. We work in the fields every day." Zhang Chen said as he walked.

"You don't have to worry about that, Junior Brother Zhang. I have the experience." Zhao Yu said.

"Speaking of which, my parents are also doing farm work at this time, right? I wonder when we can go back to see them?" Zhang Chen suddenly thought of his parents. He wondered how they were doing now.

"I've inquired about this matter. It says that we can leave the sect after we cultivate to the fourth level of Qi Condensation or above." Zhao Yu said to Zhang Chen.

"Really?" Zhang Chen asked quickly.

"I also heard from those senior brothers that once we reach the fourth level of Qi Condensation, we can learn some basic spells. Then we can protect ourselves when we go out of the sect and won't be without the strength to fight back when we encounter wild beasts." Zhao Yu was looking forward to learning spells.

"The fourth level of Qi Condensation? Without the supply of spirit stones, it will probably take me a long time." Zhang Chen thought silently.

"Senior Brother Zhao, do we have to go to work every day now?" Zhang Chen continued to ask his doubts.

"Yes, those senior brothers said that this is the sect's rule. Everyone has to work. Unless we reach the fourth level of Qi Condensation, we have to do these miscellaneous tasks every day." Zhao Yu also told everything he knew.

“Moreover, the sect will not waste resources in training us. When our cultivation level is high, we will have to complete the tasks assigned by the sect every month. If we fail to complete them, our monthly salary will be deducted, or we may even be punished.” Zhao Yu was a little worried after he finished speaking.

"So that's how it is?" Zhang Chen suddenly realized. If they only practiced and didn't work, the sect would be exhausted sooner or later. Zhang Chen still agreed with this point.

When they arrived at the spiritual garden, they went their separate ways because they were not in the same place.

Zhang Chen arrived at the east gate of the Lingzhi Garden and saw his senior brother on duty.

"Brother, this is my work jade token." Zhang Chen handed over the jade token.

The brother on duty checked it and nodded. He opened the door.

“Go straight along the path on the right, and you will see a purple bamboo forest. Put the spiritual bamboo shoots you dug into this storage bag and give them to me when you come out.” After the senior brother said this, he handed Zhang Chen a storage bag.

Zhang Chen took the storage bag, bowed to his senior brother and walked in.

After walking along the path on the right for about 20 minutes, he finally saw a bamboo forest. A breeze blew over, making a rustling sound. The wind was filled with a faint bamboo fragrance, fresh and pleasant. Zhang Chen felt a sense of peace and relaxation.

Zhang Chen walked closer and found that these bamboos were tall and big. Some were bigger than Zhang Chen's head and more than ten feet tall. Zhang Chen was stunned. These bamboos were thicker than some trees in his hometown. Among these big bamboos, many bamboo shoots were exposed. The black hard shells looked extremely cold. Some of them were taller than Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen was troubled by the bamboo shoots.

"How do I dig this?" Zhang Chen scratched his head.

Suddenly, he remembered the storage bag given by the senior brother, and quickly took it out and input spiritual power into it. Sure enough, he found a hoe inside. Zhang Chen took it out, and it looked similar to the hoe he used to dig soil in his hometown, but the material felt different.

Zhang Chen picked up the hoe and gently dug at a bamboo shoot. With a bang, the hoe bounced back. Zhang Chen was a little surprised, "So hard?"

Zhang Chen shook his hands, feeling a little numb from the shock.

He walked forward to take a look and saw a deep mark on the bamboo shoot. Zhang Chen grasped the hoe handle with both hands again and dug hard towards the bottom of the bamboo shoot. With a "puff", he had only dug one-tenth of it. Zhang Chen shook it left and right and pulled the hoe out with force.

"These bamboo shoots are not easy to dig. How long will it take me to dig these 500 kilograms?" Zhang Chen was a little surprised. He was a little annoyed looking at the bamboo shoots in front of him.

After an hour, Zhang Chen was panting and sweating. He counted the bamboo shoots in the storage bag and found that he had only dug ten. It was estimated that they weighed less than 100 kilograms. He felt a little pain in his abdomen. It was probably because the injury from last time had not healed yet. He pulled the wound too hard when digging bamboo shoots today.

"That damn Zhou Paopi, I thought he had changed his character, but I didn't expect him to assign difficult tasks to him." Zhang Chen cursed as he dug. He also heard this nickname from his fellow disciples, and it immediately felt very appropriate.

Another two hours passed, and Zhang Chen was so tired that he looked at the storage bag and found only 25 bamboo shoots, which probably weighed more than 200 kilograms.

"No, I need to rest for a while."

Zhang Chen sat down on the ground and lay down. He couldn't help but think of what Sima Feng said.

“When the body is in pain, it is time to practice”

"Yes, I regard this as a way to train my body and temper my will."

Zhang Chen got up, picked up the hoe and walked to a newly sprouted bamboo shoot, trying to control his every effort so that he could dig in the same place every time. Although he was still very tired, he was motivated. Since I couldn't change the current situation, I would adapt to it, use it, and finally make myself stronger.