Chapter 129: Are Flying Swords Free Like Cabbages?
Chapter 129: Chapter 129: Are Flying Swords Free Like Cabbages?
"They were bought by someone..."
Chen Mo subconsciously swallowed hard.
Back then, that Pentagonal Heavy Lizard, which hadn’t even reached the Qi Refining First Layer, provided him with a piece of Spiritual Qi-rich cheek meat and a bowl of braised brains. Now, these wild ones, which had absorbed Spiritual Qi their whole lives and even reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, had actually been snatched up by someone else first!
"Alas!"
He sighed. It seemed that if it wasn’t meant to be, it wasn’t meant to be. It wasn’t his turn to enjoy such good things yet!
"Brother Chen, what do you want the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard for? Are you really planning to raise them?" Song Yunxi teased.
"I originally wanted to make a pot of delicacy for Brother Song, but it looks like there’s no hope for that now."
Chen Mo shook his head, having already summoned the Long Sword Yun Qing. However, one shouldn’t be greedy. He had already bought a few pieces of important Companion Ore on this trip, which could be considered a bountiful harvest. The Pentagonal Heavy Lizards were just an unexpected bonus anyway!
"Delicacy? Don’t tell me you eat that thing... Ugh!" Saying this, Song Yunxi recalled the foul stench in the mine shaft and couldn’t help but gag.
Chen Mo shrugged and didn’t explain. After all, without the real thing in front of them, saying anything was meaningless.
The two returned via Sword Control. More than an hour later, they arrived at the Song Mansion.
Returning to the courtyard, Song Yunxi took out a palm-sized stone from his Storage Ring. Though called a stone, it looked a bit like an ox horn, just with a greater curve and covered in rings of dark brown patterns.
"This thing is not easy to find!"
"Dragon Horn Stone?"
"What did you think!"
Song Yunxi casually tossed it over.
"How many Spirit Stones did you buy it for?"
"You don’t need to worry about that."
Chen Mo smoothly caught it. After carefully examining it, he placed it into his Storage Ring.
"As for the other two Flying Swords, I’ll figure out a way to get them for you before spring, but this time you’ll have to spend your own Spirit Stones!"
Chen Mo spread his hands and joked, "I don’t have any money. How about I work for you off the books?"
"Haha!" Song Yunxi laughed loudly. "I had the exact same thought! I won’t pay you your wages this year, which will perfectly offset the cost of your two Flying Swords!"
"Sure! It’s a deal!"
Forty-five Spirit Stones in exchange for two Flying Swords. This deal was definitely not a loss for Chen Mo, but perhaps it wasn’t quite worth it!
There wasn’t much difference between having one Flying Sword and two. With his current strength, he could at most act as a Spirit Binder for one at a time. To simultaneously control two Flying Swords, he would need to reach the Qi Refining Late Stage at the very least.
As for three?
That would probably be a matter for the Foundation Establishment Realm!
The reason he needed three was perhaps just his obsession with the Seven Miles Killing Array.
Chen Mo didn’t truly want to take Yu Yun as his master, but with such a powerful Array set before him, once he learned it—even if he couldn’t achieve impromptu Array Formation—he could at least protect his own little piece of land. That way, he would gain a tremendous amount of self-preservation capability!
After all, it was a terrifying Array that could even slay those at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer!
"Since that’s the case, there’s no time like the present. Let’s do it today."
Before coming here, Chen Mo had already arranged the feeding tasks for the Spiritual Beasts and Spiritual Birds. If it was only for seven days, Kang could still handle it, and the Cyan Leaf Orchids and Yellow Spirit Grass Flowers piled outside wouldn’t rot.
"Wait a moment, I’ll go prepare!" Song Yunxi turned and went back into the house. He attached great importance to the matter of Breeding. Even he could not underestimate such a massive amount of income, not to mention it was 3,000 catties of Spirit Seed!
Half an hour later, with everything properly prepared, Chen Mo walked alone into the dim Breeding Room once again.
At this moment, at Chen Mo’s home not too far away, a figure dressed in snow-white clothes arrived. The cold wind brushed against Yu Yun’s hair. Like a person stepping out of a painting, she approached the door with a graceful, lotus-like gait.
Just as she was about to knock, she knit her delicate brows.
"He’s not here?"
Yu Yun tightened her half-raised hand and turned to leave.
As the master of Purple Cloud Peak’s Array Hall and one of the few Elders, she naturally had her own pride. Although she really wanted to know why the Giant Bone Spirit Rice she had eaten here back then was far more than just a little bit better than what she usually bought, and she also wanted to know exactly how to prepare the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard’s head so it could be eaten, for her—a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator—to ask a Qi Cultivation Realm Spirit Plant Cultivator? It was still somewhat embarrassing for her.
Therefore, she had specifically sent someone to buy all the recently discovered Pentagonal Heavy Lizards, intending to use them as an exchange. Of course, she couldn’t possibly admit that she just wanted a bite!
The next day, Yu Yun came again, but there was still no sign of Chen Mo.
The third day, the fourth day.
In all these years, she had never wanted to see someone as badly as she did now! Perhaps this was a case of wanting something more the harder it was to get!
Finally, after coming for five consecutive days, Yu Yun gave up.
Seven days later, when Chen Mo returned home, Kang, who had been hiding in the corner, immediately rushed up to him, continuously clucking, "CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK."
"Someone was here?"
"Who?"
Chen Mo was startled. Judging from Kang’s reaction, it must have been an acquaintance. Moreover, it was an acquaintance that the bird feared. But exactly who it was, this Spirit Chicken that could only cluck couldn’t say! Helplessly, Chen Mo had no choice but to let it go.
In those seven days, he completed the Breeding task for 3,000 catties of seeds. However, this time, he only took away 6,000 catties of Spirit Yellow Rice.
The large sum of Spirit Stones from last year had been spent here and there, and now only twenty-three remained. Chen Mo figured that if he lived frugally, it would be enough for a year.
However, in another half a year, he would be about to break through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer. Chen Mo still didn’t know what his Spirit Stone consumption would reach by then.
The episode at the Ore Vein had passed, and his year-end matters were already concluded. Next, this winter would be another period of staying cooped up at home.
Outside, the bleak autumn transitioned into the freezing winter, until the land was blanketed in white snow... Inside the house, it was like spring all year round.
If he didn’t occasionally open the window to gaze out, Chen Mo might not have even known that winter had arrived.
His Cultivation Technique progressed day by day, and his proficiency with the Setting Sun Sword Technique improved bit by bit.
He originally thought that this winter would pass uneventfully, but the appearance of a certain figure interrupted his routine. When that familiar and powerful aura suddenly appeared before Chen Mo without any warning once again, he still couldn’t help but shiver.
"I-Immortal Yu?!"
"How is your Cultivation of the Seven Miles Killing Array going?" Yu Yun asked calmly.
After all, she was an Elder of the Foundation Establishment Realm. She couldn’t just toss out a Pentagonal Heavy Lizard the moment they met and demand that he cook it for her, right? That would be too humiliating.
"Uhm... well..." Chen Mo scratched his head awkwardly. "I haven’t gathered all the materials yet."
"Materials?"
Yu Yun froze for a moment, but a second later, she came to a sudden realization! The person in front of her was nothing but a Spirit Plant Cultivator. Even if he was on good terms with Song Yunxi, it was impossible for him to easily obtain Flying Swords!
From her Storage Ring, she casually took out three Flying Swords, effortlessly erased the marks on them, and tossed them over.
"Figure out a way to get the ores yourself!"
CLANG CLANG CLANG!
Catching the three Flying Swords, Chen Mo was dumbfounded...
At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind... Should he ask for those forty-five Low Grade Spirit Stones back?