167: Seeking cooperation, the second princess's request

He warmly patted Luo Fan's shoulder.

The identity of the person Luo Fan replaced was his cousin.

Luo Fan remained silent, a look of arrogance on his face.

He didn't know how strong the expert Shen Mo had defeated was.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

After all, how could the natives here compare to his inheritance?

Luo Fan and the others left, while the people from other families gathered around the crowd were secretly astonished.

"Shen Mo's strength has become so formidable."

"When he returns to the Feng Family, won't he be like a tiger with wings?"

"Especially us? Won't we be out of luck?"

Among those present, many were vassals of the Liang Family, not to mention some scattered individuals from the Liang Family's periphery.

There were also some who had looked down on Shen Mo, and they were even more terrified.

While their hearts remained unsettled, Shen Mo had already returned to his courtyard.

He had absorbed his fill and showed faint signs of wanting to advance, but very quickly, those heavenly lightning bolts in his body disappeared!

Shen Mo scratched his head, somewhat bewildered.

Within his body, the colossal figure wielding a massive axe became even clearer.

Countless lightning bolts coiled around it, filling its surroundings, and even the Open Heaven Divine Axe was much more solidified than before.

At this moment, the little grass also secretly absorbed some lightning, becoming quite bloated, and quietly sprouted a new shoot.

When it saw the illusory figure's gaze, vaguely looking this way, its form instantly contracted further, almost curling into a ball.

The illusory figure ignored it, self-absorbedly absorbing the power of the lightning.

Through its absorption, the spiritual power sea in Shen Mo's mind became increasingly vast.

Not only that, his physique also grew stronger and stronger!

However, Shen Mo was completely unaware of all of this.

Without the lightning, his strength still increased!

Shen Mo could feel that the speed at which he cast Dao arts seemed to become faster, and their power grew stronger.

He was quite at a loss.

Could it be that power enhances Dao arts?

Unable to figure it out, he stopped thinking about it.

This incident contributed nearly 30,000 Soft Rice Value to him, which made Shen Mo exclaim, it truly feels great to harvest leeks!

See, one time is enough to eat your fill!

The Soft Rice System really did something useful!

Shen Mo used the 30,000 Soft Rice Value to exchange for a pile of things.

This time, he exchanged for both the Qi-Gazing Art and the Fortune Appraisal Canon.

No choice, he's rich and powerful!

His current total of nearly 50,000 Soft Rice Value was all from harvesting leeks during this period.

However, the leeks below wouldn't be so easy to harvest!

After one harvest, the next batch of leeks would know to grow a bit shorter!

It's truly too troublesome!

Sigh, that's why he didn't want to make a move!

Tsk, not making a move until the critical moment is a huge loss!

Shen Mo thought about it, after he returns, he still needs to harvest a wave at the Feng Family and the Imperial Capital, otherwise, he wouldn't live up to his title as the King of Soft Rice.

How could he miss such a good opportunity to fleece them?

As Shen Mo was thinking this, Nangong Mingyue arrived on the other side.

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"Young Master Shen."

Nangong Mingyue smiled gently, her snake-like waist swaying slightly as she approached Shen Mo and said, "Aren't you going to invite me in for a seat?"

As her words came out, Shen Mo fell silent.

Invite her in for a seat?

Tsk tsk, this woman probably wants more than just to sit down, right?

Where exactly did she want to sit?

As Shen Mo thought this, he slammed the door shut, "Second Princess, isn't this inappropriate?"

"We are a man and a woman, alone in a room. I'm afraid it might be hard to explain later."

This vixen wanted to cast a spell of enchantment on him!

"Young Master Shen is joking."

Nangong Mingyue's voice chuckled softly, revealing Nangong Lingyu behind her, "I want to discuss something with you."

As she spoke, Shen Mo clicked his tongue softly.

In the end, he had been mistaken!

However, Shen Mo wasn't surprised.

After all, if Nangong Lingyu hadn't received news of Nangong Mingyue coming to his room, he would truly suspect if she was blind or had sold him off for money.

It seemed neither was the case.

Shen Mo moved away from the doorway.

Nangong Lingyu's expression was somewhat displeased, but she still entered with Nangong Mingyue.

"I don't know what Second Imperial Sister wants to discuss with you," she explained, afraid that Shen Mo would misunderstand.

Her Second Imperial Sister simply didn't play by the rules.

She really suspected that the other party was doing this on purpose, deliberately creating a rift between her and Shen Mo, so she could snatch him away.

However, Shen Mo's unyielding stance just now did save her some face. Otherwise, if Shen Mo had let her in as soon as her Second Imperial Sister spoke, Nangong Lingyu would truly have lost all face.

Unable to even keep her own pretty boy in check...

And he was even colluding with her Second Imperial Sister...

No matter how you heard it, it sounded bad.

"Oh," Shen Mo responded casually, not caring much.

Whatever this family did was none of his business; he was just here to harvest leeks and develop the secret realm.

Speaking of which, none of these people knew he was from Blue Star.

Shen Mo had a profound and inscrutable expression.

He wondered if this current situation had anything to do with the people from Blue Star.

These people had gathered all the Blue Star individuals in the capital city; did they have no other intentions?

He tried asking, "What do you want from me?"

"Let me state first, I can't handle two people at once!"

"I can only be one person's expert!"

So, don't try to tempt me with beauty!

Nangong Lingyu glared at him exasperatedly, he wished!

"It has nothing to do with that, it's mainly Imperial Sister..."

As she spoke, she looked at Nangong Mingyue and said, "Imperial Sister, you tell him yourself."

"What kind of thing do you want him to agree to?"

Nangong Lingyu truly didn't know why Nangong Mingyue came to find Shen Mo. To ask him to agree to two women serving one man? She absolutely didn't believe Nangong Mingyue was here for that reason.

As her voice rang out, Nangong Mingyue's voice chuckled softly and said, "I want you to help me enter the Royal Forbidden Ground and retrieve an item."

Shen Mo: "?"

He raised an eyebrow, looking at Nangong Lingyu, whose brows were also slightly furrowed as she looked at Nangong Mingyue and said, "Imperial Sister, you should know that entering the Royal Forbidden Ground is a matter of personal fortune. Your request is excessive!"

Retrieve an item?

Wouldn't Shen Mo entering the Royal Forbidden Ground be working for Nangong Mingyue for free?

If she had known Nangong Mingyue was going to make this request, Nangong Lingyu would definitely not have come with her. Now it looked like she was here to pressure Shen Mo with the other party.

Nangong Lingyu felt extremely frustrated and angry.

She was so angry, not out of consideration for Shen Mo's interests, but because she felt that Nangong Mingyue was deliberately trying to sow discord between her and Shen Mo.

As she spoke, Nangong Mingyue's expression slowly—