Chapter 278: Sis, Buy Me A Car?
When the Tiger Demon finished handling everything and decided to return, it left the White Deer in the Cave Dwelling and descended the stairs alone.
Upon reaching the edge of the Cold Pond, after its tiger claws were wetted by the chilly pond water, it checked the time displayed in the Boss Template.
At this point, it was already 7:12 PM. Its heart was immediately filled with guilt for standing up Senior Student.
Unfortunately, this ‘guilt’ had just arisen when it was immediately crushed by the beauty brought by the ‘beautiful mountains and waters’ scenery before its eyes, as well as the sense of achievement from finding the top Domain site and successfully completing Phase 0 construction, establishing a subtle connection with Yin Mountain!
Seeing these future continuous mountain peaks, waterfalls, Cold Pond, dense forests… that would soon belong to itself, he felt an indescribable excitement and exhilaration in his heart.
Just like Celestial Dynasty cattle and horses, who work hard for decades to mortgage a bare shell house, gaining a sense of security, satisfaction, and achievement. A mere house can give humans the confidence to stand in the city.
At this moment, it had forcibly occupied a large mountain head, a pond of water, a stream, a waterfall, countless forests… and the ownerless Undead wandering in the mountains!
It was just like buying a large piece of land, about to build a ‘Residential Area’ as a dirt boss, personally arriving at the construction site, participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, appreciating the future ‘real estate’ that would belong to itself—that kind of confidence was ten thousand times stronger than cattle and horses mortgaging a bare shell house!
Standing someone up was nothing! I have super abundant confidence!
The Tiger Demon roared in the mountain stream: “My mentality is freaking so inflated!”
The Snake Tail followed with a roar: “I’m super inflated too!”
After reluctantly looking back once more at the ‘Cold Pond, waterfall, and wondrous Yin Mountain’, the Tiger Demon turned away with tears in its eyes, merged into the shadows, and disappeared.
As it continuously moved away from Yin Mountain, the Tiger Demon’s connection with the Magic Array grew weaker and weaker.
Until it left the mountains encircling the Cold Pond and arrived at the outer perimeter of the Yin Fiend Land, its connection with Yin Mountain was left with only a vague link.
Just like after moving away from WiFi, the mobile phone signal shows connected, but there’s no data speed left.
After completely leaving this Yin Fiend Land and re-entering the normal Misty Area, its connection with Yin Mountain was completely severed, leaving only the ‘guide function’ that came with the Boss Template itself.
The Tiger Demon still acted like a ‘compass’, no matter where it was, it could precisely point to its own ‘territory’, allowing it to follow the guidance to find its Home.
Similarly, in Human Stance, Yuan Zhu could also use the sensing of Anti-Law to vaguely perceive the location of the White Deer within the range of the Misty Mountains.
Now there was no need to worry about getting lost.
After completely severing the connection, the Tiger Demon experienced a brief discomfort. That vague yet imminent ‘feeling’ of being in Yin Mountain and establishing a connection with the mountains and waters through the Magic Array completely hibernated.
But that intense ‘Desire’ always affected the Tiger Demon, making it particularly sad and empty, eager to return and immediately complete 36 and 72 (Worm Pillar), to construct a complete Domain.
That was the Desire to refine the entire Yin Mountain, completely occupy the Yin Fiend Land, and become the Mountain Lord.
Snake Snake: “I’m so looking forward to coming back next time. What kind of changes will happen after we completely refine the entire Mountain Head?”
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Shaking off the temptation of Yin Mountain, the Tiger Demon merged into the shadows under the night curtain.
Using Nie Yin’s Anti-Law perception for positioning, it shadow-shifted wildly all the way, sparking with lightning… and finally arrived at the still night-construction Frog Factory Site around 7:40.
At this time, the self-isolated Frog Killer Girl was still sitting stably in the temporary Room, quietly meditating with eyes closed, and replaying, reviewing, and previewing the ‘Frog-Type Modification surgery’ in her mind.
On the contrary, the stood-up Senior Student transitioned from anxiety to anger, gritting her teeth as she flipped through a construction materials quote document.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t get home that made her irritable, but more out of worry for Yuan Zhu. She feared that this milk-dog little brother, whose appearance suited her taste so well, would inexplicably die in the Misty Mountains.
This would cause her investment in the Frog Factory to completely go down the drain, causing losses to the family, and indirectly proving her own lack of talent. She would be completely denied by the family, and probably never find another chance to prove herself afterward.
“Bang bang bang!”
After a series of polite knocks, Candle, pretending to be ‘panting’, pushed the door open, wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, and hypocritically said full of apology: “Sorry, Sister Chen, I came back late and kept you waiting.”
Senior Student’s self-control was very strong, and she didn’t seize the chance to vent explosively. Instead, she suppressed her irritable emotions and still asked with slight displeasure: “Being a bit late is fine, but where exactly did you go? This remote area is already at the foothills of the Misty Mountains, surrounded by wilderness. Where could you possibly go? And it took so long?”
Although questioning, anyone with a normal brain could guess that the other party had gone into the mountains.
With Yuan Zhu’s current Holy Light attainment, the Soul Crystal’s super strong resistance and restraint against Mental Pollution, he could indeed traverse the outer perimeter of the Misty Mountains for a short time without being affected by the greater environment.
But even so, the Misty Mountains were still full of dangers for him. Not to mention the endless ‘Pollution Life’, powerful Demonic Creatures would frequently spawn randomly in the depths of the mountains, approaching or even entering the influence range of Running City, and in extreme cases, they would break out from the mountains to assault the city.
In addition, inside the Misty Mountains, there were still many strange and inexplicable dangerous phenomena that couldn’t be rationally explained. Even well-educated superhumans were not advised by the Academy to rashly venture into the mountains. The best choice was to form teams of multiple people and hire experienced Guides.
At this moment, she seemed to be questioning, but was actually venting emotions, expressing her dissatisfaction and worry.
Yuan Zhu also sensed this at the moment, so he hemmed and hawed for a long time, making a bitter face as if he had difficulties, unwilling to explain, but absolutely safe.
This instead made Senior Student wildly speculate, suddenly thinking of a possibility, and probed: “You went into the mountains to use the unique shielding property of the deep mountain Mist to meet with some underground gang for illegal Transaction?!”
Thinking of those strange Plant School Spirit Medicine Seeds provided by Yuan Zhu, with super strong ‘Pollution attributes’.
Especially since the Nightmare Bubble Layer Pollution on those paper packages hadn’t been washed off, it showed this little brother had wild channels; the source wasn’t the Spirit Layer, but higher-risk taboo class risks (Bubble Layer) explicitly prohibited by the Security Bureau from contact.
Suppliers who could provide such ‘high-risk Resources’ obviously had no legal identity and couldn’t openly set up stalls or shops in ‘Running Urban Area’. The best meeting and transaction spot was naturally the vast Misty Mountains.
As long as going more than 10 kilometers deep into the Mist Zone, the Mist’s inherent Mental Pollution, mental interference, and mental shielding were enough to make a person completely lost/disappear. Hard for the outside world to detect or monitor.
Of course, ordinary people were not advised to attempt this. Ability users entering the Mist Zone still had a high survival chance; Mortals rashly entering would mostly get lost + Death.
Hearing this guess, Yuan Zhu’s heart stirred. He still made an ambiguous expression, as if he had bitterness in his heart he couldn’t directly answer, and then suddenly made an ‘Ah! I have an idea’ surprised expression.
Then he took out the last Star Realm Pumpkin Head Spiritual Seed from the Soul Space and handed it to Senior Student: “Sister Chen, look at this thing, does it open doors?”
Senior Student, who hadn’t watched treasure appraisal videos, looked confused, but she recognized this Spiritual Seed and asked puzzledly with a hint of excitement: “Open doors? Do you mean the Gate Realm? This Star Realm Seed’s Energy Fluctuation is very weak; the breeder didn’t even reach Seed Tier before death, it can’t open a Gate.”
Yuan Zhu was stunned: “Uh… I mean, is it valuable?”
“You want to sell it to me?”
Senior Student took the Spiritual Seed, played with it for a moment, and said: “Well, for the entire Du Ling Star, the number of settled Star Realm Plant Race is huge; on average, each adult Plant Race’s head will nurture 3-7 Star Realm Plant Spiritual Seeds. Theoretically, not rare.”
“But the problem is, the Star Realm Plant Race itself is a powerful ethnic force, and they have the habit of recycling Spiritual Seeds from the dead. Secondly, this kind of thing is ultimately a body Organ of ‘Intelligent Species’, not suitable for open circulation. Finally, they (Spiritual Seeds) are closely related to Rogue Immortal forces, heavily acquired and monopolized, hard to circulate on the market.”
“Therefore, for an ordinary University student like me, this kind of Spiritual Seed is still rare and valuable. But if I choose a System and succeed in Cultivation, contacting the corresponding circle and mastering the relevant transaction channels, then the value of this Spiritual Seed would be greatly discounted.”
While Senior Student was explaining, under Candle’s deliberate misguidance, she guessed that the other party had indeed gone into the mountains for illegal transactions, which delayed the time.
Otherwise, why didn’t he take out this Spiritual Seed earlier to show off, but suddenly hand it over now as compensation?
“Then…”
Yuan Zhu looked hesitant, as if engaged in an inner struggle, forcing the interested Senior Student to speak first: “You want to sell it to me, as a personal favor?”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “Yeah! But not just that, I also have some intentions.”
“Say it, I can agree to any reasonable conditions. This thing (Spiritual Seed) is already quite outdated for Rogue Immortal Path entry. But it must be mentioned that Star Realm Spiritual Seeds are the origin of all Rogue Immortals in this world. Even though contemporary Rogue Immortals’ ‘entry Spiritual Seeds’ have iterated multiple times, long detached from the ‘Star Realm Seed’ category, it still has important experimental research value for studying the Rogue Immortal System! I really need it.”
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To put it this way, the first batch of Rogue Immortals on Du Ling Star were Qi Refiners who betrayed the Kunlun Immortal Path and refused to be enslaved by Kunlun Mother. After countless trials and errors, they accidentally succeeded in using ‘Alien Plant Starman’ brain cores (Star Realm Seeds) as brand new Spiritual Roots, Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, spreading throughout the body, successfully recultivating Kunlun Immortal Method without interference from the Kunlun System.
But as the Rogue Immortal System rapidly grew, the pioneers (Rogue Immortals) who controlled the Star Realm Spiritual Seeds one by one became new factions, low-spec ‘Pollution Roots’, quickly monopolizing the Rogue Immortal System under Star Realm Spiritual Seeds, and began enslaving newcomers.
Other successive ‘new Rogue Immortals’ immediately gave up the already full-slot Star Realm Seeds, turning to develop other ‘herbal Spiritual Seeds’ as substitutes, becoming new unconstrained ‘free Rogue Immortals’.
But the status of the ‘Star Realm Spiritual Seeds’ as the foundation of the Rogue Immortal System has never been shaken.
A core requirement of the School of Dangerous Botany, where Senior Student is, in nurturing ‘Dangerous Plant Seeds’ is to conduct massive hybridization experiments so that various ‘Dangerous Plants (Pollution Plants)’ from different sources can successfully inherit the bloodline attributes of ‘Star Realm Species’, able to accept and absorb Starlight.
The Cultivation foundation of the Kunlun Immortal Path lies in using one’s own Woody Spiritual Root for Breathing and Exhaling the ‘Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy’ released by Kunlun Mother Plant.
Then the Cultivation foundation of Rogue Immortals is to secretly breathe ‘Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy’ with the Herbal Spiritual Root in the body; similarly able to absorb ‘Starlight’ from Sun and Moon Essence as Cultivation Energy source! (Buddha Tomato: I am a Buddha cultivator + Rogue Immortal!)
Therefore, Star Realm Plant Race Spiritual Seeds always have extremely high research value.
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Senior Student: “Can I ask, what kind of ‘Plant Race’ does this Spiritual Seed belong to?”
Immigrants from one of the eight Outer Universes, the Plant Universe, are incredibly diverse in species.
If the Aliens from the Magic Universe are mainly humans, elves, Dwarves, Orcs…, then the Plant Universe completely explodes: Pumpkin Head, Watermelon Head, Loofah Head, Tomato Head, Corn Head… races numbering as many as Plants vs. Zombies.
From this, it’s known that the initial batch of Human Rogue Immortals actually had plenty of slots. But among so many Star Realm Spiritual Seeds, there are also high and low grades. The highest value belongs to the Pumpkin Spiritual Seed.
After all, the symbol of the Star Realm Bank is the Pumpkin.
The second-to-last of the Twelve Mandates, Melon Year, refers to the Pumpkin Ancestor among Aliens, symbolizing Starlight, Star Realm, Wealth (Bank)… In the understanding of Earth Hometown, the Pumpkin Mandate has identities like God of Wealth, Star Official.
Yuan Zhu suddenly recalled his encounter at the Taixi City Star Realm Bank.
That Star Core that theoretically shouldn’t appear in Taixi City suddenly appearing in the Star Realm Bank, could it be related to the Pumpkin Mandate?
For example, the Star Realm Bank’s higher-ups attempting to artificially shape certain strong Plant Race members into future era Star Constellation Gods, solidifying the Star Lord identity?
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Amid the wild brainstorming, Yuan Zhu answered: “This is the most common but also most value-preserving Pumpkin Seed. Dug out from a Sword Cultivator Pumpkin Head’s brain, three in total, this is one of them.”
“Sword Cultivator? The Military also starting to recruit Aliens? Or Star Realm Bank security?”
Senior Student looked curious but didn’t probe too deeply. She was very accustomed to this kind of ‘cherished Wild Animals material illegal trade’, only caring about quality, never asking about the ‘source’.
“Good stuff, I’ll take it. Tell me your purpose?”
“Uh…” Yuan Zhu thought about what he currently lacked and urgently needed, but couldn’t ask for too much. After all, this Star Realm Plant Spiritual Seed wasn’t that precious, just a casual giveaway from Future People.
Its greatest value was actually from the deceased ‘Pumpkin Head’. This kind of ‘Alien’, comparable to foreign friends in the previous life Celestial Dynasty, was legally protected daily; couldn’t be casually killed without reason, let alone head dug for seeds.
Because the source was restricted and protected, it had some value. Otherwise, if the world decayed and everyone treated ‘Alien Plant folks’ like North American natives, the Spiritual Seed price would inevitably plummet.
For something that seemed valuable but wasn’t really upon scrutiny, Yuan Zhu didn’t feel right asking a high price, or it would be troubling Senior Student.
“Sister, can you buy me a car? No, two cars!”
