109: Chapter 109 Elder Liuyun's Compensation

Actually, what Zhao Mo said wasn't entirely correct; even if the price of nine breaths fruit dropped, the ones harvested from his mother tree wouldn't decrease much in value.

What Zhao Mo didn't know was that the waves caused by the appearance of the nine breaths fruit were impossible to stop in a short period of time.

Even if the Xuan Sect stopped, the other Sects surrounding the Xuan Sect would not.

There would even be a large number of Cultivators from outside the Sect coming to beg for the nine breaths fruit.

For those Cultivators stuck at the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, the nine breaths fruit could be said to give them another chance at a Breakthrough.

For a Nascent Soul Ancestor, it was also a very good supplement; ordinary spirit seeds of the Deity Transformation Realm were no longer very effective, and they required higher-level Spiritual Roots to be useful.

And the nine breaths fruit happened to be one of the few useful spiritual fruits for the Deity Transformation Realm.

"Three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones."

Zhao Mo looked at the Spirit Stones in his hand; this was quite an unexpected windfall.

"Do you want them?"

Ding Xin shook her head.

The Spirit Stones she got from selling the Pill Formula were enough to catch up to Zhao Mo's cultivation; hoarding more was useless.

Zhao Mo put the Spirit Stones back into Tong Weiping's hands.

"I have a matter I need to trouble Senior Brother Tong with."

"Oh? It's rare for you to ask for something."

"What is it?"

Tong Weiping became interested.

Zhao Mo paused, thinking about his phrasing.

"I need a large number of Nascent Soul-level Five Elements Demonic Creatures."

"These Spirit Stones will be my purchase fund, to be used until they are gone."

"Of course, considering that some Golden Core True Persons and Foundation Establishment Cultivators have too low a cultivation to deal with Nascent Soul-level demonic creatures, confirmed information will also count."

Tong Weiping looked at Zhao Mo, dumbfounded.

"This is three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones. Junior Brother Zhao is truly..."

"With such magnanimity, I am ashamed to say I cannot compare."

Zhao Mo's face was full of question marks. What magnanimity? Senior Brother Tong, don't go adding extra drama.

Of course, these were his inner thoughts; he couldn't say them out loud.

Anyway, he just wanted Nascent Soul-level Five Elements Demonic Creatures; Zhao Mo couldn't control what others thought.

"Just Five Elements Demonic Creatures?"

"Are there any other requirements?"

Tong Weiping had, after all, cultivated for many years and was much more thorough in his considerations than Zhao Mo.

Zhao Mo thought for a moment before saying, "It's best if the Five Elements are balanced."

"If they are all Earth-attribute or missing a certain type, even if I buy them back, they'll be useless to me."

"Understood."

"Anything else?"

Tong Weiping asked again.

Zhao Mo said, "Let me give some examples: metal-attribute Golden-Winged Eagles or Silver-Armored Armadillos; wood-attribute Forest Spirit Rabbits or Green Leaf Apes; water-attribute Wave Shadow Flood Dragons or Vortex Carps; fire-attribute Flame-Tailed Foxes or Fire-Feathered Sparrows; and earth-attribute Rock-Armored Turtles or Earth-Walking Rats, and so on."

"Yes, that's it."

Tong Weiping then said, "Alright, leave it to me. I guarantee it will be handled beautifully."

The next day, the Cultivators of the Xuan Sect were shocked by a piece of big news.

Immortal Master Mo of Tianfeng Valley, whose cultivation had dropped, brought out three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to purchase Nascent Soul-level Five Elements Demonic Creatures.

"Immortal Master Mo, truly... I'm moved to tears!"

"Did he take out all the Spirit Stones from selling the nine breaths fruit?"

"He didn't keep a single Spirit Stone and gave it all to subsidize us. He is truly too righteous."

In an instant, the Cultivators of the Xuan Sect were all discussing Zhao Mo, and everyone unanimously agreed that Immortal Master Mo was subsidizing the Xuan Sect's Cultivators.

Otherwise, who would take out Spirit Stones to buy Five Elements Demonic Creatures?

The most crucial thing was the quantity. Three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones didn't look like much, but converted into Low-Grade Spirit Stones, it was three billion; converted into purple gold coins, it was an astronomical figure.

Those Nascent Soul True Lords who originally had issues with Zhao Mo chose to shut their mouths one after another upon seeing Zhao Mo's grand gesture.

Zhao Mo, who was being discussed by everyone, was currently wearing a straw hat with one pant leg rolled up, hands on his hips, watching the busy Iron Shovel in the spiritual field.

"Be quick about it and perform well. The matter from last time will be considered settled."

Before Zhao Mo went into seclusion, it had already been confirmed that Iron Shovel working in the spiritual field provided experience points.

In that case, if Zhao Mo didn't make it work, who would he make work?

It was only because the Nascent Soul Realm could only nurture one Spiritual Artifact; otherwise, Zhao Mo would have gotten eight or ten Spiritual Artifacts. Then he could just lie flat and be responsible for collecting experience points—why bother planting spiritual fields himself?

[You have completed pest control in the spiritual field, experience +20.]

Iron Shovel worked all day, and Zhao Mo gained experience points.

Perfect.

Unfortunately, the flowering period of the golden marrow fruit was only eighteen or nineteen days; Zhao Mo could only lie flat for these dozen or so days.

Next was harvesting the golden marrow fruit.

...

[You have completed harvesting the spiritual field, experience +20.]

[Reward: After one hundred and eighty-one days of meticulous care, your spiritual field has yielded a bumper harvest, experience +2000.]

Hearing the System reward, Zhao Mo was already unperturbed; after all, planting golden marrow fruit for so many years, it had always been a two-thousand-point reward.

"Here, take them all."

Zhao Mo transferred all the golden marrow fruit to Ding Xin and let her go find Cheng Xiao for the Spirit Awakening.

As for why Zhao Mo didn't go, he was really afraid he would annoy Cheng Xiao to death; Zhao Mo truly couldn't bring himself to perform that set of rituals.

Not long after Ding Xin left, a streak of light stopped outside Tianfeng Valley.

"Is Immortal Master Mo here?"

As soon as Zhao Mo heard this voice, he quickly opened the Valley's Formation.

"Elder Liu Yun, what brings you to Tianfeng Valley?"

Elder Liu Yun said, "I should have come five years ago, but I didn't expect you to be in seclusion. I even less expected that this seclusion would last for five years, making me wait for quite a while."

Zhao Mo quickly said, "Please don't blame me, Elder. I also didn't expect that a sudden insight would lead to such a long seclusion..."

Elder Liu Yun waved his hand.

"These are all normal occurrences."

"How is your cultivation?"

Zhao Mo didn't know what to say. To an Elder like Elder Liu Yun, he couldn't bring himself to speak lies.

But he also didn't want to tell the truth, so he could only say vaguely, "A slight Breakthrough."

Having used the Face-Changing Heart-Swapping Art, the cultivation Zhao Mo currently displayed was the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment at Great Perfection.

However, among the Nascent Soul True Lords and Deity Transformation Ancestors of the Xuan Sect, few believed Zhao Mo was at this level of cultivation.

So, everyone just fooled each other.

Who told the Face-Changing Heart-Swapping Art passed on by Ding Xin to be so abnormal?

"I know all about what you've been doing lately."

"I'm afraid the most righteous Cultivator in the Xuan Sect is none other than you, Immortal Master Mo."

"A pity. If all the Cultivators of the Xuan Sect had your magnanimity, why would we worry about the Sect not flourishing?"

"Sigh, I'm getting off track."

"This is the reward the Xuan Sect is giving you."

Zhao Mo looked at the Jade Slip in Elder Liu Yun's hand.

Pink.

This was the color that only Heaven-Grade Cultivation Techniques had.

Could it be?

Zhao Mo had a guess in his heart and quickly took it. His Divine Sense entered it, and as expected, it was just as he thought.

Five Elements Art: Deity Transformation Chapter.

Five Elements Art: Body Integration Chapter.

Five Elements Art: Mahayana Chapter.

Five Elements Art: Undergoing Tribulation Chapter.

This was actually the remaining four Realms of the Five Elements Art that Zhao Mo was cultivating.

"There's also these, all of which are the insights of predecessors who cultivated the Five Elements Art. I've brought them all to you as well."

After giving him the items, Elder Liu Yun patted Zhao Mo's hand and said, "It's shameful to say, but the Xuan Sect did not arrange a master for you; your cultivation can be said to have been attained by yourself."

"These shall be considered the Xuan Sect's compensation."

When saying these words, Elder Liu Yun seemed a bit dejected.

Feeling that Elder Liu Yun's mood was a bit off,

Zhao Mo quickly changed the subject and said, "Elder, have you heard of the avatar fruit?"

"avatar fruit? Yes, I know of it."

Zhao Mo was overjoyed. His original intention was to bring this up to change the subject, but he didn't expect Elder Liu Yun to actually know about the avatar fruit.