Chen Mobai managed to find time to visit Sun Gaochang, the inspector of the Spirit Plant Division. Both belonged to Chu Zuoshu's lineage, and they communicated frankly.
"Harvesting thousands of acres of Spirit Fields each year is a tremendous burden on the workforce of the Spirit Plant Division. Furthermore, because the sect is preparing for war, all the Spirit Stones are used in the four major departments of Sword Training, Artifact Refining, Formation, and Body Forging. This year, our Spirit Plant Division budget has also been cut and allocated to them. Shi Fengping is merely using your situation as an excuse to cry poverty to the Sect Leader."
After hearing Sun Gaochang's explanation, Chen Mobai finally understood why Shi Fengping had such an attitude.
If he did cultivate a thousand acres of Spirit Fields, and harvested two rounds of Fire Spirit Rice each year, the Spirit Plant Division would need to spend thirty thousand Spirit Stones even at market price.
