Chapter 126: Seed That Increases Comprehension, Photographic Memory!
Chapter 126: Chapter 126: Seed That Increases Comprehension, Photographic Memory!
Yi Tingsheng was sitting in the Fragrance Pavilion, drinking Spirit Wine, when he vaguely heard someone calling his name.
He abruptly turned his head, only to see a familiar figure.
The momentary joy that flashed across his face was instantly suppressed.
Chen Mo didn’t know why the other party had such an expression. He took the initiative to step forward, pulled out a stool, and sat down.
"Yu Rou, a pot of Immortal Peak. Put Fellow Daoist Yi’s expenses for today on my tab."
Yi Tingsheng looked at the plain-looking Chen Mo and asked in return, "Really?"
"It seems you don’t believe me. Forget it, then."
He shrugged, indicating he didn’t care.
"No, no, I believe you! I believe you!" the other party said eagerly.
He wasn’t stupid. Someone was treating him to drinks and women—why would he refuse? Was that a joke?!
"Fellow Daoist Yi, it’s been two years since we last met, hasn’t it?"
Yi Tingsheng pondered for a moment before replying, "Seems like it, though I did go looking for you a little over a year ago."
"Looking for me?" Chen Mo asked, slightly puzzled. "Then you should know I went to White Snake Marketplace, right?"
The commotion he caused when he left wasn’t small. Even Master Niu had been alerted, so the news probably spread easily.
"More than that! I even went to your door." Yi Tingsheng shook his head. "But I heard from others that you stopped farming."
"Stopped? Why would I stop?"
"What? Didn’t you leave with the Pavilion Master of White Snake Marketplace?"
"That doesn’t stop me from farming!" Chen Mo was baffled, wondering who was spreading such blind rumors. "By the way, have you managed to get any new seeds?"
His sudden whim to return to Ancient Dust Marketplace was exactly for this proper business!
"Sigh!" Yi Tingsheng sighed at this moment, picking up his wine cup and draining it in one gulp.
After a moment, he continued.
"It was about three years ago, I think. For some unknown reason, the people sent by Purple Cloud Peak either died or withdrew, and the area around that mysterious cave of mine was finally free of Cultivators guarding it. I figured that since Fellow Daoist Chen had personally asked to buy Spirit Seeds, I’d risk my life once more to enter the cave."
Beside him, Chen Mo listened to his vivid description—it sounded as if he had really been near the Secret Realm!
"I remember telling you a few years ago that I had painstakingly cleared a narrow passage just wide enough for one person to squeeze through, right?"
Chen Mo nodded. There was indeed such a thing.
"But when I went back two years ago, the path was completely sealed off by vines again!" A look of helplessness appeared on Yi Tingsheng’s face. "However, thinking of what Fellow Daoist Chen had said back then, I bit the bullet and spent half a year carefully carving out a path. And guess what?"
"You found new seeds?"
"Yes!" Yi Tingsheng’s tone became excited. "This time, they were actual seeds! They seemed to be the fruit borne after a golden flower bloomed. There were about seventy or eighty seeds on a single flower."
"Where are they now?"
"Listen to me first!"
"..."
Yi Tingsheng seemingly didn’t like others interrupting him while he was spinning a tale.
"I collected over two hundred seeds in total. I wanted to venture deeper, but after taking just a few steps, I sensed a terrifying aura. Based on my intuition, if I had gone seven or eight more steps inward, I would have been attacked by some unknown monster inside, so I retreated."
"What about the seeds?"
"Don’t be so impatient! I’m getting to that! Later, I withdrew from the mysterious cave in fear and trepidation. The first person who came to mind was you, Fellow Daoist Chen, so I immediately went looking for you. But when I heard that you had left and stopped farming, I was instantly disheartened."
"..." Chen Mo was rendered speechless. Why spout all this nonsense? "You can give them to me now."
"And then..." The other party completely ignored him and continued speaking on his own, "I took the seeds to the Marketplace to sell them. Not long after I set up my stall, a Spirit Plant Cultivator pointed at my nose and cursed me for being a swindler! He claimed the seeds I was selling didn’t even have a breath of life in them and were just fakes!"
A breath of life? Had they not undergone Breeding yet? This was Chen Mo’s first reaction.
"Take them out and let me have a look?"
"I ate them."
"What?!" Chen Mo was dumbfounded. So all this rambling was just a bunch of nonsense! There were no seeds at all!
"They wouldn’t sell, and others falsely accused me of selling fake seeds, so why wouldn’t I eat them?"
"..." Chen Mo was utterly speechless.
After all these years, aside from a slight improvement in his strength, this guy was just as unreliable as before!
"Fellow Daoist Chen, do you still want them? If you do, I’ll go find some more for you!" Yi Tingsheng acted like he had met a big patron, his expression becoming animated again. "Let me tell you, those seeds were incredible. After eating them, I felt my Comprehension grow stronger. Now, I even have a photographic memory."
"A photographic memory?"
"That’s right!"
With that, he took out a Travelogue from his Storage Ring, flipped to the third page, and started reciting it.
Chen Mo stared at the contents for a while. Sure enough, he didn’t miss a single word!
Therefore, he brought out his Spirit Plant Atlas, flipped to the page about Giant Bone Spirit Rice, and said, "Take a look at this."
Yi Tingsheng took it and looked at it for about two or three breaths of time. Before he could even react, Chen Mo snatched the book back.
"Recite it."
"Giant Bone Spirit Rice, Tier One Spirit Rice..."
A total of over three hundred words, and he recited them without missing a single one!
Chen Mo’s eyes widened in slight disbelief.
"How about it? I didn’t lie to you, did I?" Yi Tingsheng said triumphantly. "If you want them, support me a bit. I’ll set out tomorrow, and when I get the seeds, I’ll go find you!"
"Support? Support you how?"
"Give me some travel expenses for a round trip."
Chen Mo’s expression became slightly complicated. So this guy still loved swindling people out of their money! He didn’t even know if what the other party said was true or false!
As for this so-called photographic memory, perhaps it was just an innate Talent he always possessed!
"How much?"
"One Low Grade Spirit Stone?"
"I didn’t hear you clearly. How much?"
"Fifty taels of Spiritual Sand would do too."
"What?"
"Then twenty taels. No less than that."
Before Chen Mo could even react, Yi Tingsheng had already slashed his own price to the bone.
At fifty taels of Spiritual Sand, he was already prepared to agree. After all, Spiritual Sand was nothing to him now. Even if he was just taking a gamble, he could afford to lose such a small sum.
"Fifteen taels! If you haggle any further, I simply won’t go."
Haggle? When did he ever haggle?
Chen Mo found it rather amusing, but he nodded anyway, taking out fifteen taels of Spiritual Sand from his Storage Ring and placing them on the table.
"If you really find the seeds from the mysterious cave, I’ll buy them with Spirit Stones then. How about that?"
Looking sly, Yi Tingsheng swept the Spiritual Sand on the table into his Storage Ring. Without even looking at him, he kept saying, "Good! Good!"
This suddenly gave Chen Mo the feeling that he had been duped!
But on second thought, he treated it as giving financial aid to an old friend.
If it weren’t for the other party’s Mysterious Red Fruit, he wouldn’t have awakened his Spirit Root.
Now that the proper business was concluded, the two sat in the Fragrance Pavilion and chatted for a while longer. It wasn’t until Yi Tingsheng wrapped his arm around a Female Cultivator and entered a guest room that Chen Mo finally paid the bill, stood up, and left.