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Aside from saplings, there were expenses for forging and purchasing all kinds of cultivation spiritual tools and placing custom orders with the Puppet Division for the large puppet farming machines designed by Chen Mobai, among other expenditures.
Liu Wenbo only reserved the basic spirit stones necessary to maintain the operation of Little Nan Mountain Shop's branches across the nineteen countries of the Eastern Wilderness; he invested the rest according to his judgment in equipment and materials, which he sent to Rock Country.
For this, Chen Mobai gave him high praise.
He said that Liu Wenbo had lived up to his responsibilities and stature as the second-generation eldest apprentice brother of Little Nan Mountain.
"Master is overpraising. I merely followed your instructions," Liu Wenbo humbly replied. He then mentioned that Zhuo Ming had given him the additional spirit rice and spirit meat from the Eastern Desolation Plateau to sell to countries beyond the plateau.
