The person who came to stop the fight seemed to be at the third level of Qi Refining. He was a newly promoted outer sect disciple. The aura he revealed and the unique clothing on his body immediately startled Lin Hao, who then stopped beating Yan Heng violently.
"Although the sect encourages competition among disciples," the outer sect disciple said coldly, "it doesn't want to see that one is beaten so badly that he can't work. With his injuries like this, he probably won't be able to mine for quite some time. You'll have to make up for the missing spirit iron."
"Yes, senior brother," Lin Hao didn't dare to refuse. He clasped his hands in salute and nodded respectfully towards the outer sect disciple.
"Humph, all of you, disperse! Hurry up and go have lunch. It won't be good if you delay work in the afternoon," the outer sect disciple snorted and quickly left with the blood-covered Yan Heng.
"Boss, you're really amazing! You could actually defeat Yan Heng," Wang Fu, who had been forced to kneel by Yan Heng, got up from the ground and asked with concern, "Boss, you weren't injured just now, were you?"
"Just some minor injuries. Let's go and have lunch," Lin Hao was covered in blood all over, looking rather terrifying. However, his injuries weren't serious. Only the hand he used to punch had some scratches during the fight, and most of the blood on him was Yan Heng's.
He took a step forward and walked towards the cafeteria under the awed expressions of the other miscellaneous disciples around.
"Yes, boss," Wang Fu nodded respectfully and excitedly followed behind Lin Hao, straightening his back a bit. The chubby guy thought that since he had recognized such a powerful person as his boss, he wouldn't be bullied at least in the first half of the year in the newcomer area.
"Excuse me, senior brother. I'd like two bowls of spirit porridge," Lin Hao exchanged two meal vouchers for two big steaming bowls of porridge and, to Wang Fu's great gratitude, gave him one bowl.
"Thank you, boss," Wang Fu took the spirit porridge excitedly.
"You've helped me a lot in the past half month. You deserve this porridge," Lin Hao always believed in repaying kindness and avenging grudges. He smiled and said.
"Actually, I... didn't help that much," Wang Fu felt a bit embarrassed.
The two found an empty seat and started gobbling up the porridge.
Before long, Lin Hao had finished the whole bowl of spirit porridge. He habitually licked the bottom of the bowl for a while before reluctantly putting it down, still feeling like he hadn't had enough.
In today's cafeteria, since Yan Heng, who usually snatched spirit porridge, was injured and didn't show up, several miscellaneous disciples in the newcomer area got their spirit porridge but didn't dare to start eating right away.
These new miscellaneous disciples in the mining area had their spirit porridge snatched away every day before. Today, suddenly no one was snatching their porridge, which made them feel a bit uncomfortable and restless.
"Senior Brother Lin, I... I'd like to give you half of my spirit porridge," a tall new miscellaneous disciple thought of Lin Hao's fierce appearance when he beat up Yan Heng not long ago. He suddenly gritted his teeth, stood up, carried his spirit porridge, and walked over, saying respectfully.
Lin Hao's eyes fell on this person, and he hesitated. Taking others' spirit porridge seemed immoral.
However, in the area of miscellaneous disciples in the Xuanyue Sect, the most important resource was the spirit porridge containing spiritual energy. The more spirit porridge one ate, the faster their cultivation speed would be.
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Cultivating immortals was about fighting against fate, and it was all about techniques, wealth, companions, and cultivation places. Spirit porridge was also a kind of wealth!
"With my five-element spiritual root for cultivation, I need a large amount of spiritual energy to break through. Now that I've already offended Yan Heng, he will surely find another chance to take revenge on me later," Lin Hao thought to himself. "In the Xuanyue Sect, or even in the entire cultivation world, if I don't want to be bullied, I have to be strong enough."
"He offered to give me the spirit porridge himself. It's not considered snatching," Lin Hao thought for a moment and then decided to follow the previous rules in the new miscellaneous disciple area and accept the spirit porridge from this miscellaneous disciple.
However, he didn't act as extreme as Yan Heng did. He smiled and said, "Junior brother, you just need to give me thirty percent of your spirit porridge."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Lin," the tall new miscellaneous disciple was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly said.
Compared to Yan Heng, who used to dominate the new mining area and took fifty percent of the spirit porridge ruthlessly, Lin Hao only asking for thirty percent was already quite reasonable.
Soon, the tall new miscellaneous disciple gratefully poured the agreed amount of spirit porridge into Lin Hao's bowl.
"Gulp! Gulp!"
Lin Hao didn't stand on ceremony either. He directly drank it up in big gulps and finished it in no time, with a look of longing still on his face.
He did the heavy work of mining every day. He could easily drink not just one bowl of spirit porridge but even seven or eight bowls for each meal.
The other several miscellaneous disciples in the newcomer area saw that the tall one gave thirty percent of his spirit porridge to Lin Hao. They hesitated a bit, afraid that if they didn't give their porridge, Lin Hao would beat them up later. So they also stood up and said, "Senior Brother Lin, we'd like to give you some of our spirit porridge too."
"Just give thirty percent of one bowl," Lin Hao said indifferently.
All six miscellaneous disciples in the newcomer area took the initiative to share their porridge with him. Each giving thirty percent added up to nearly two bowls of porridge.
Lin Hao ate almost three bowls of spirit porridge in this meal and immediately felt spiritual energy constantly emerging in his stomach and flowing into his meridians.
He took some time at noon to go back to the small wooden house, sat cross-legged, and started operating the Five Elements Longevity Art.
Soon, a look of joy appeared on Lin Hao's face. With the spirit porridge given by others and the spirit porridge he earned from mining, plus the assistance of the Eternal Longevity Tower, which enabled him to absorb the spiritual energy of the spirit porridge without any loss, his cultivation speed had increased significantly.
He estimated that with his current cultivation speed, although it couldn't compare to Liu Qinghan, the closed-door disciple of the Xuanyue Sect's sect leader, who had a fifth-grade single-attribute wood spiritual root and was extremely talented, it was at least faster than Wang Fu's second-grade single-attribute metal spiritual root.
"Earn more spirit porridge and strive to break through to the third level of Qi Refining as soon as possible and become an outer sect disciple of the Xuanyue Sect," Lin Hao thought. Once he became an outer sect disciple of the Xuanyue Sect, he could receive two low-grade spirit stones every month. Just thinking about it filled him with fighting spirit.
With low-grade spirit stones, he could use the function of the Eternal Longevity Tower to turn waste into treasure and improve the quality of weapons, pills, and so on.
He tried the current cultivation speed on the bed in the small wooden house for a while and then went out in a good mood and entered the mine cave to start working.
In the following few days, Yan Heng, who had wanted to bully Lin Hao but was instead beaten up by him, didn't show up in the mining area.
Lin Hao, who was afraid of Yan Heng's revenge, had been keeping an eye on Yan Heng's situation. It wasn't until more than ten days later that he learned that Yan Heng had been so frightened by almost being beaten to death by him that day that he was scared out of his wits.
So he didn't dare to stay in the new disciple mining area anymore and took the initiative to apply for an early transfer to the old miscellaneous disciple mining area.
In this way, Lin Hao firmly established himself as the boss among the miscellaneous disciples in Team Ten of the Ding area in the mining area. No one dared to challenge his position, and he was really on a roll.
Every day, he had a large amount of spirit porridge to drink, and his originally somewhat thin body started to gain weight visibly.
His physique was not much different from that of the chubby Wang Fu.
However, during this period, there were also a lot of rumors spreading among the miscellaneous disciples.
Some said that Lin Hao, with his useless five-element spiritual root, was wasting the sect's cultivation resources by eating so much spirit porridge every day.