Wood turned to her with a thousand questions in his eyes, but he didn’t voice them. Lin Haihai patted him on the shoulder with a warm smile. He would know what her goals were one day.

With big strides, she went up to the working disciples and shouted, “Stop! All of you, stop!”

The youths obliged and ran up to Lin Haihai, treating her like their closest family. She smiled in satisfaction. Behind her, Wood watched the scene play out with a dawning realization.

“Listen up! From now on, you aren’t allowed to work under the noonday sun! Go back inside to shade yourself from the heat, or go for a swim in the dam in the back. You have a strong voice, Wood. Raise it and call the disciples in the other mountains back!”

Circulating his dantian, Wood boomed with inner energy, “Come back, working disciples! Your master has matters to announce!”

His penetrating voice rang through the mountains with lingering echoes. Xiao Jueran cast a shocked glance at him. She didn’t expect an unassuming man from the rural area to have such impressive inner energy. The Sixth Princess Consort has chanced upon a great asset! What a waste to order a martial art expert around like a simple worker!

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