Bab 20: Chapter 19 Withered Little Tree
"What are you trying to do?"
Chu Mo asked warily, looking at the girl in the blue skirt.
The annoyed girl in a blue skirt replied, "I am just trying to help. You're so clumsy and weak, how long will it take for you to finish this?"
"Uh..."
Chu Mo grinned and then passed the short blade in his hand to her.
The girl in the blue skirt, once prim and proper, now moved with deftness and grace, despite the ghastly task in hand. Her poise carried an odd sense of beauty.
"Did you do this often in the past?" Chu Mo asked, his voice laced with surprise.
The girl in the blue dress hesitated for a moment and then furrowed her thin eyebrows, a puzzled look on her face, "Yes...why did I know how to do this?"
"…" Black lines formed on Chu Mo's forehead as he replied, "You didn't really lose your memory, did you?"
"Memory loss?" The blue skirt girl considered this seriously before nodding, "It seems so!"
"How can you be so sure?" Chu Mo was struggling to believe her.
"Of course! I can't remember anything, and I'm so good at things. It has to be amnesia!" the girl said, a haughty look on her face.
"Then... what is your name?" Chu Mo asked as he watched her expertly dissect the red-eyed cold ice python.
"My name... let me think..." The girl pondered for a while, then said: "My name... seems to be... Qi Xiaoyu."
"Seems?" Chu Mo's forehead creased further, as he looked at the lively girl in front of him, "Can you be a little more reliable?"
Looking a bit wronged, the girl retorted, "It's already a great feat that I can remember my name, okay?"
"I had to think so hard and long just to remember it!"
"Okay then, Qi Xiaoyu it is..." Chu Mo muttered, then asked, "Besides your name, you don't remember anything?"
Miss Xiaoyu nodded. "All I remember is that I came here to do something and it seems to be related to you somehow. I can't remember anything else."
"Related to me?" Chu Mo was surprised. "Can we not joke about this? We don't even know each other. How can your matter be related to me?"
Miss Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, "Brother! I'm being truthful. Why don't you believe me?"
"I hope it's not." Chu Mo grumbled to himself.
Later, Chu Mo stoked the fire until only red embers were left. He then held the skewered snake meat over it and seasoned it thoroughly.
The meat of this fourth-order elemental beast was extremely fatty and caused the fire to crackle as its oil dripped onto it.
After a while, the aroma of grilled meat wafted through the air.
The girl, who had been acting dismissive, couldn't resist the enticing smell and watched Chu Mo eagerly with watering mouth.
"You can actually grill?" She asked absent-mindedly, her eyes fixed on the meat.
"You can't?" Chu Mo replied with a glance in her direction.
"How would a girl like me know how to do such a thing?" She asked, appearing puzzled.
"…" Chu Mo was at a loss for words. He thought to himself about how skilled she was at dissecting the beast, which was almost to the level of his master. She even claimed she couldn't grill; who would believe her?
Afterwards, Chu Mo handed her a skewered roast, and asked, "What have you been eating these past few days then?"
"Me?" Ms. Xiaoyu thought a bit before answering, "I don't need to eat!"
"Don't need to eat? Aren't you hungry? Who are you trying to fool?" Chu Mo rolled his eyes, wondering if the girl was joking.
"Of course I'm not hungry!"
"Then why are you eating this?"
"Because it smells so good!"
"Fine, you win."
In the ensuing time, Qi Xiaoyu, who claimed not to be hungry and not needing any food, had devoured almost all the skewers, leaving Chu Mo only a few bites.
Chu Mo looked at her unchanged belly and couldn't help but wonder if she had secretly stored the meat somewhere else.
Finally——
She stopped eating.
Patting her round little belly, full of satisfaction, she said, "Thank you, this is the best thing I've ever eaten!"
She then turned to Chu Mo in surprise, "Eh? Why didn't you eat?"
Chu Mo was on the verge of tears, looking at her expressionlessly. He decided to ignore her.
Only turning back silently to continue roasting.
"Hehe, I'm going to play now. I'll come back to find you again later!" As she finished speaking, Qi Xiaoyu disappeared from Chu Mo's sight in the blink of an eye.
Chu Mo twitched the corners of his mouth, muttering, "Eat up and leave... what kind of manner is that?"
But when he saw the neatly arranged snake bones, tendons, neatly stacked snake skin next to him, Chu Mo thought, though this little girl seems to be a bit on the dim side and clearly a foodie; she still serves a purpose.
After his feast, Chu Mo bundled the snake bones, tendons, and skin, carrying them on his back.
Initially, he wanted to store these things in his jade token, but refrained from revealing his storage space to the outside world.
The jade token was his biggest secret.
When he comprehended that footwork skill in a life-and-death situation just a moment ago, Chu Mo was very pleased. He had finally learned another skill.
Speaking of his path of cultivation, it had certainly been a rough road. Some skills that other disciples could learn effortlessly, Chu Mo had to learn from practice, gradually.
A skill that could take a disciple from a major sect an hour to master, would take Chu Mo many days, or even longer to master.
However, there was one thing they couldn't compare to Chu Mo.
The experience that Chu Mo gained from his relentless efforts was thorough and solid. Other disciples of the major sects paled in comparison.
The experience of actual combat was also countless times richer than theirs!
Of course, Chu Mo was unable to see it that way now. All he knew was that learning real skills wasn't easy!
So, whenever he learned a new skill, he would be overjoyed.
"Unfortunately, other than Heaven's Will and me, master never told me the names of those other skills!"
"Even the mundane families and small sects out there have those grandly named skills!"
"Like the Five Tigers Beheading Sabre or the Meteor Sunset Sword... how imposing! Just hearing the name tells you it's a formidable skill!"
"What should I name the ones I'm learning?"
Chu Mo pondered for a long while, but couldn't think of a unique and imposing name.
Deflated, he muttered, "For this fist technique, I have only three moves. Might as well call it the First Punch, Second Punch, Third Punch!"
"If my master gets embarrassed by it later, I'll have an explanation."
"Who told you not to give these techniques names before?"
Chu Mo only agonized over the names of the techniques for a while because, after all, the name is not important, as long as the technique is strong enough, then it's a powerful technique.
In the following days, Chu Mo didn't see Qi Xiaoyu, the girl in the blue skirt. He enjoyed the solitude, wandering in these mountains, continuously understanding new techniques, although it was laborious, it was also carefree and leisurely.
At the back of Heaven's Will, there were still no words. Chu Mo had tried many times to place Heaven's Will inside the jade space and then take it out, then put it back in, and after a few days, take it out again.
However, no change occurred.
Luckily, for Chu Mo's current status, the beginning part of Heaven 's Will scroll is enough for him to use.
Therefore, he wasn't particularly anxious.
Being anxious would be useless anyway.
Who knows what on Earth is going on?
One day, Chu Mo arrived at an open space, a prairie spanning dozens of miles. In the midst of towering mountains and steep cliffs teeming with life, was a rare different sight.
At the end of the prairie, there towered a vast mountain.
Rising from the ground, piercing the clouds.
To continue onward from here, either one had to climb over this mountain, or... take a detour of hundreds of miles around it.
For Chu Mo, obviously, he didn't want to take a detour.
So, Chu Mo headed towards the mountain directly.
However, just as Chu Mo was about to step out onto the prairie, he suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest.
Chu Mo instantly froze.
The last time he had this feeling was when he had just obtained Heaven's Will!
Then, Heaven's Will was absorbed into the jade space, and then... a few more words appeared on the first page, completing this top-tier mental cultivation method.
The words on the back... all disappeared.
Since then, nothing had happened to this jade piece.
Unexpectedly, here it started to heat up again.
"What's going on?" Chu Mo felt something strange, he furrowed his brow, stood still and began to slowly spin around in circles.
Being chosen by the Demon Lord at a glance meant his spiritually sensitivity was top-notch without question.
Though he could not directly ascertain that the jade would only heat up when it detects a treasure, Chu Mo was almost certain it was the case.
Indeed, when Chu Mo's body slowly turned to a certain direction, the jade on his chest emitted another warmth as if to remind Chu Mo.
Chu Mo, headed in that direction, took a big step.
The sensation of burning heat got stronger by the moment, and it even started to scald a bit!
Chu Mo's heartbeat also kept speeding up from the deep curiosity a teenager has toward unknown things.
Eventually, just as the burning heat on Chu Mo's chest almost became unbearable, the feeling abruptly disappeared.
At that moment, Chu Mo saw a strange plant.
It was strange because it stood out from the rest of the nearby plants, easily noticeable once you approach it.
But almost anyone who saw it wouldn't hold any interest in it!
Because it's a small tree with a peculiar shape, its branches like a chimeric dragon, but the tree itself was withered.
The small tree was just over three feet tall, with gray-brown color, no leaves, and showed no signs of life.
Chu Mo was dumbfounded, he whispered to himself, "Are you interested in this thing?"
A sudden heat from the jade touching his chest gave him a jolt.
"Oh? Can you understand me?"
"Scald me again if you can hear me?"
"Quickly, scald me again!"
But the jade in his chest offered no reaction.
Chu Mo gave a wry smile, walked up to the small tree, stretched out his hand and tried to snap a tree branch while mumbling, "Does such a withered tree really have any value?"
"Hmm?"
While mumbling, Chu Mo froze on the spot, motionless.
Because he couldn't snap off the thin branch!
The branch had been completely bent by him, but it wasn't broken!
Chu Mo found it hard to accept and continued to bend it... until he completely bent the branch into a circle, yet it didn't break!
This time, Chu Mo was completely stunned.
He was a warrior at the third level of Yellow Rank and who has stepped into the Primordial Pass!
Could it be that he couldn't even snap off a tree branch?
"How is this possible?"
Chu Mo let go of the branch, grabbed the trunk of the small tree, and gave it a hard pull upward—
Thump!
The little tree was directly pulled out from the ground, and due to Chu Mo's excessive force, he fell on his butt.
Then, a powerful force of suction came, and the little tree disappeared from Chu Mo's hand.
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Regarding the heroine's name, the surname is Qi and the name is Xiaoyu. The surname is a bit unusual, but it does exist among the hundreds of family names. I won't make this up. Also, the new book may need some modifications, so there may be deletions and adjustments. I hope you temporarily switch to the PC version of Qidian Chinese web. This will avoid the issue of repeated chapters. Since you are reading on Qidian Chinese web, isn't it reasonable to cast a vote?
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