บท 76: Treasure
บรรณาธิการ: Misty Cloud Translations
"What else was strange?" Fatty Qu asked.
"Fatty, didn't you realise that the speed at which the person was running before he had reached us was around the same speed as the Wolf Pack, but once he had thrown the wolf cub to us, his speed increased manifold and disappeared so quickly. There's so much disparity between his speed before and after he met us. Don't you think that's strange?" Sima You Yue said, "Looking at his earlier actions, doesn't it seem like he deliberately drew the Wolf Pack to our location?"
"You, you're saying that the person intentionally drew the Wolf Pack to our location? That person wanted to hurt us?" Fatty Qu shouted out with surprise.
Sima You Yue gave him an appraising look.
"Damn, who's that person? Why would he want to hurt us?" Fatty Qu cried out.
"No matter who it is, we will find out eventually. There's no point guessing blindly right now." Ouyang Fei said.
"Right, there's no point thinking about it now. Since he's still within the mountain, we might be able to run into him." Wei Zi Qi said, "Everyone's tired out today; we're injured too. I think we should just set up camp and rest."
"Okay."
The five-man team rested for a day and during this period, many people passed by their camp.
"You Yue, look, yet another large group of children from the large clans." Fatty Qu sat beside Sima You Yue and said as he watched another group of people walk by.
Sima You Yue watched as that arrogant group of people walked past and she didn't have any good impression of them.
"However, speaking of which, Zi Qi is also someone from a large family clan. How come he doesn't walk around with his nose in the air like those people do?" Fatty Qu puzzled.
"Aren't you the same?" Wei Zi Qi laughed.
"How can my clan even compare to your Wei Clan." Fatty Qu shook his head, "Hey, now that we're on this topic, we still don't know about Ouyang and Bei Gong's Clans.
"Seems like it." Wei Zi Qi nodded his head in agreement.
When they first started to get to know each other, Ouyang Fei and Bei Gong Tang didn't really talk about themselves. However, at that time, they weren't close yet so they didn't pry much. After that, even after they had gotten close, they had forgotten to ask.
Ouyang Fei shrugged, "I don't have any relatives, I'm an orphan."
He said it very casually, but Sima You Yue could feel a hint of resentment within his tone.
"I only have a mother and a younger brother, however, they are in a place very far away." Bei Gong Tang said this with a distant look in her eyes as she looked towards the sky. She gave off an aura of hurt and resentment.
Sima You Yue looked at the two of them, whose eyes looked like they were holding something back. It looks like these two had stories that they did not want anyone to know about!
Wei Zi Qi patted Ouyang Fei's shoulder, saying, "It's okay, we'll be your family in the future."
"That's right, we're all housemates and we're also a team. In the future, we will be your family." Fatty Qu echoed.
Ouyang Fei turned his head and saw the sincerity in Wei Zi Qi and Fatty Qu's eyes, his biting cold eyes filling with warmth.
"Okay, we will be brothers from now on!"
"Right, brothers!" Fatty Qu stood up to walk beside Ouyang Fei to take a seat, as they gave each other a high five.
The camaraderie between these men had initially already been unadulterated. All it needed was recognition for them to become brothers.
Sima You Yue beamed towards the three of them, saying, "Hey hey hey, count me in!"
"Haha, how could we leave you out!" Fatty Qu grinned as he said.
Bei Gong Tang watched the few of them laughing and joking with each other as loneliness flashed in her eyes. As if she could not bear to watch this jovial scene in front of her eyes, she stood up to leave.
"What's up with Bei Gong?"
Everyone looked at each other with dismay, their eyes suffused with confusion.
"I'll go take a look at her." Sima You Yue stood up and walked towards the direction that Bei Gong Tang had left in.
Bei Gong Tang came to the little river bank and watched the river blankly. Hearing something behind her, she turned her head and saw Sima You Yue. She asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm the one who should be asking you, why did you run out on your own?" Sima You Yue walked beside Bei Gong Tang as she casually kicked a stone into the river, causing ripples on the water surface.
"I have something to do somewhere." Bei Gong Tang shook her head.
"You're intentionally distancing yourself from everyone." Sima You Yue said.
Bei Gong Tang looked blank and retorted, "I'm not."
"You are." Sima You Yue looked at Bei Gong Tang, "We've already known each other for a few months and you're always neither here nor there with everyone. You left just now because you saw the way Ouyang Fei and Wei Zi Qi were behaving, right?"
Bei Gong Tang didn't reply, she merely watched the river.
"You're worried, aren't you?" Sima You Yue continued, "Worried about your mother and younger brother."
Hearing what Sima You Yue had said, the aura exuding from Bei Gong Tang immediately changed. She watched him guardedly, asking coldly, "Who are you?"
However, Sima You Yue was not scared by her reaction, laughing, "You don't have to be so anxious. I don't know where you family is and don't know what you have experienced. I am even more uncertain why you are so sensitive. I merely noticed that your eyes reflected some traces of worry."
"Really?"
Sima You Yue shrugged, "I can pretty much be considered as someone who is very well known. Although my reputation can't be said to be too great, whatever I've done has never been any kind of secret."
Bei Gong Tang stared at Sima You Yue for quite a long time. After that, she appeared to have thought of something as she turned around to face the river. Although she didn't say anything, she no longer exuded the cold aura like before.
When Sima You Yue saw her acting this way, she knew that Bei Gong Tang was no longer as guarded against her. The corner of her mouth pulled up as she said, "Although I also used to be a lone wolf, I realised recently that it's not bad to have others with you. No matter what your past was like, if you encounter anything else in the future, during this period, we are all a team. Don't forget, we are comrades who have gone through battles together. Right now, we are people who can entrust our backs to one another. If you ever need someone to confide in, we are always here."
"Mm." Bei Gong Tang nodded, indicating that she understood.
"Alright then, let's go back. When they saw that you left without a word, they were all worried about you." Sima You Yue said as she patted Bei Gong Tang on the shoulder.
When they returned back to the campsite, Wei Zi Qi and the rest were able to heave a sigh of relief before they started to banter together.
Although Bei Gong Tang was the same as before, not really joining the conversation, however she would still have some replies to the things they said.
Sima You Yue watched this group of people and realised that the battle this time had caused their relationship to become more intimate. If one saw this as a team in the past, everyone who now be regarded as a group of comrades that have fought alongside each other.
When night came, everyone returned back to their own tents to rest. Bei Gong Tang lay on her own bed to take a nap when her eyes suddenly flew open, filling with unrestrained delight.
"Are you awake, Meng Ji?"
"Master, the wounds I sustained last time were too serious, I've only regained consciousness for a while." A female voice resonated within Bei Gong Tang's consciousness.
"Meng Ji, it was all because you helped me to escape that you would be wounded to this point. It's already been so many years but you still need to remain unconscious to heal your wounds." Bei Gong Tang blamed herself.
"Master, you do not need to blame yourself. Protecting you is something that I should do." Meng Ji said.
"Master, this time, I will not be able to stay awake for long so I will just straightforwardly tell you my reason for waking up. I feel that there is a kind of pill ingredient on this mountain that is about to mature. If I am able to eat it, I will be able to completely recover. Master, if it is possible…"
Meng Ji's voice became softer and softer. Finally, she was not even able to finish what she was saying before she drifted to deep sleep once again.
"Meng Ji, since that pill ingredient will be able to help you to heal your wounds, I will definitely seize it!" Thinking of Meng Ji who was in a coma, Bei Gong Tang tightened her clothes at the waist.
บท 77: Golden Snake Fruit
บรรณาธิการ: Misty Cloud Translations
Meanwhile, within Sima You Yue's tent, she stared at the newly emerged Mo Sha with surprise.
"How did you come out when I didn't call you?"
"I am able to enter and leave this Spirit Pearl freely, until the time comes when your strength is greater than mine."
"Okay then." Sima You Yue shrugged, saying, "What did you come out for this time?"
Mo Sha looked towards the inner areas and said, "I picked up on a scent."
"A scent? What kind of scent? How come I didn't smell anything?" Sima You Yue used all her effort to sniff around, but she didn't pick up on any particular scent.
"It's really far from here, how would the current you be able to smell it." Mo Sha said with a hint of disdain..
"What could it be, that it would actually be able to draw you out." Sima You Yue asked curiously.
"Golden Snake Fruit."
Huh?!
Once she heard about the Golden Snake Fruit, Sima You Yue's brain immediately thought of a fruit similar to the red apple from her previous life on earth. However, she knew what it would definitely not be something ordinary like that.
She had seen it once in a medical book the last time she was inside the Spirit Pearl; the Golden Snake fruit was a kind of golden colored fruit. It flowered for seven hundred years, bore fruit for seven hundred years, another seven hundred years to ripen. Each time, it would produce seven fruits.
The fruit could directly be used to increase one's cultivation rank, however, one could only eat a piece around the size of a fingernail at each time. If not, the energy would accumulate beyond what the body could stand and it would easily result in one's meridians exploding.
If one refined it into a pill, they would not end up with this kind of outcome, however, this kind of pills would cost at least thousands upon thousands of gold for a single pill. When compared to the pills that cost only a few tens of gold per piece, it was more than a few hundred times more precious.
Not only would this fruit be able to increase one's cultivation rank, its branch, leaves and roots were all precious. As a result, once the Golden Snake Fruit was noticed, everyone would fall over themselves to rush to the fruit.
However, this Golden Snake Fruit was not easy to obtain. It goes without saying that there would be many Spirit Beasts guarding it, but once that fruit ripened, its fragrance would spread for thousands of miles, attracting all the Spirit Beasts nearby. This was because the fruit was not only useful for people, it could also be used by Spirit Beasts to increase their rank.
"I never expected that this Golden Snake Fruit would be so attractive that even you would be moved by it." Sima You Yue teased.
"A precious treasure of Heaven and Earth is definitely not easy to encounter." Mo Sha did not deny it at all, "Furthermore, this item also benefits you."
"What benefits does it have? Will it increase my cultivation capacity?" Once she heard that it brought some benefits to her, Sima You Yue's enthusiasm surfaced again.
Mo Sha shook his head, "Some people only know that it will be able to increase their cultivation, however, very few people know that it something that can nourish and repair one's spirit. Your soul had once received a great deal of damage, which would have very large impacts on your future cultivation and alchemy. If you were able to obtain the Golden Snake Fruit to warm and nourish you, it would definitely be extremely useful for the recovery of your soul."
"Huh? It's also able to recover one's soul?" Sima You Yue looked at Mo Sha with shock.
"That's right. This Golden Snake Fruit has absorbed the moonlight, and after that, when it's transforming the inside of your body, will give off a milky white gas. This kind of gas is extremely beneficial for a person's soul." Mo Sha explained, "Even if your soul didn't receive any wounds, after being nourished by it for a long time, it would become much stronger."
"That's amazing! It really is a treasure! Hehe, I definitely have to obtain this item." Sima You Yue immediately sat up and saw that Mo Sha had turned his head around to look at her. She smiled and said, "I know, you want to use this item to recover your soul, if not, there would be no reason for a guy like you, who never wakes up early in the morning, to come out and say all these things to me."
"I am able to sense that there is at least one Divine Ranked Spirit Beast within the vicinity of the Golden Snake Fruit." Mo Sha said, "Furthermore, once that Golden Snake Fruit matures, it will draw large quantities of Spirit Beasts. Add that onto the people who will be drawn, it will definitely not be easy to seize."
"You will help me." Sima You Yue said with confidence.
"Oh? You are so confident of that." Mo Sha raised his eyebrows in question.
"Of course." Sima You Yue said self-assuredly, "If this item had nothing to do with you, you may not help out. However, it is unknown how for how many years your spirit has lingered outside your body and the wounds you sustained are no less than mine. Although the Spirit Pearl can nourish you, the process is not quick. If you were able to obtain the Golden Snake Fruit Tree, you would definitely recover at a quicker rate. And so, you definitely need to obtain this Golden Snake Fruit."
"I can't intervene rashly." Mo Sha said.
"I know, you just have to act when the time is right." Sima You Yue replied as she waved her hands.
"This Golden Snake fruit is very picky about its living environment. Who knows why it has grown for such a long time here in Yi Lin Continent, which is such a low leveled place." Mo Sha puzzled.
"Who knows, maybe it knows you and I need it, so it decided to grow." Sima You Yue joked.
Mo Sha's mouth curved into a slight smirk when he heard what she said, and was too lazy to reply her. He closed his eyes for a while to perceive something, then opened them to say, "The Golden Snake Fruit still needs twenty days to mature. You should go and check out the situation two days before that."
"I got it." Sima You Yue nodded in reply.
When he saw this, Mo Sha turned back into a wisp of black smoke and returned to the Spirit Pearl.
Sima You Yue lay on the bed once again and spoke to herself, "twenty days… we already have enough Spirit Beast bodies so we're just left with having to find some pill ingredients. In half a month, we should be done with them as well. However, it's so dangerous in the inner regions, at that time, it would be best for me to go by myself in order to avoid putting the others in danger. But how would I get them to let me go? Forget it, I won't think about it. I'll settle it when the time comes."
After thinking through it, Sima You Yue closed her eyes and recited the Secrets of Soul Refinement in her heart as she began to cultivate her soul.
After a day and night of recuperation, added on to the use of pills, Fatty Qu and the rest had pretty much tended to their wounds. At the very least, they would have no problems hurrying on with their mission. Thinking about how they still had a few different kinds of ingredients to find, they packed their things and got on the road on the morning of the second day.
In order to save time, Sima You Yue threw Little Roar out and let him look for a Spirit Beast who could talk, so they could ask it where the ingredients grew. After he told her, she brought everyone there to harvest it.
As a result, they used a total of twelve days before they managed to finish harvesting all the pill ingredients they needed.
Along the boundary of the middle and outer regions, Sima You Yue and the few of them kept the Fire Grass, that they had picked from the valley, into their interspatial rings.
"Hehe, I really never thought that this place would have so much Fire Grass." Fatty Qu laughed heartily, "Bei Gong, didn't you say that there would be a lot of danger surround the Fire Grass, how come we haven't seen a single Spirit Beast?"
Bei Gong Tang was also a bit puzzled, saying, "Normally, this place is where Spirit Beasts tend to gather, but how come there aren't any around?"
"They should have been drawn towards the activity within the inner regions." Sima You Yue said, "Haven't you guys realised that we rarely encounter Spirit Beasts recently. They say that when some treasure appears, it will cause a great commotion. I think that they have gone to join in the fun."
"So that's why." Fatty Qu pretended to nod his head earnestly.
After they had finished harvesting the Fire Grass that had matured for a certain number of years, their mission this time was considered to have been completed. Wei Zi Qi looked at Sima You Yue's figure from behind. He initially thought that bringing him would be a burden, however, he never expected that once they arrived at this place, his contribution to everyone would be the greatest.
"Since our mission has been completed, when shall we return?" Wei Zi Qi asked.
Hearing what he said, Sima You Yue and Bei Gong Tang's bodies stiffened.
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