Lin Zizheng sat on Qin Mo’s flying fan, stealing glances at Qin Mo beside him. He was somewhat baffled, not expecting the Senior Martial Brother to really believe his words, more so on accompanying him to that mysterious cavern.
Qin Mo didn’t know this, but due to his previous injury, Lin Zizheng didn’t take the Heavenly Path, and since then, he had lived a completely different life from the original novel.
Since entering the outer sect, he had been bullied by other outer sect disciples, and even the spirit stones and medicinal pills distributed by the sect have been snatched away by others due to various excuses. Lin Zizheng’s spiritual roots were already extremely poor, and now without any assistance from medicinal pills, in these few months, his cultivation level had made no progress.
A few days ago, he heard about the story of Dense Fog Ridge by chance from other disciples. He made up his mind and came here to try his luck.
Perhaps from how unlucky he was, as soon as he entered the Dense Fog Ridge, he was chased after by a powerful demonic beast. During his hasty escape, he unintentionally entered a hidden cavern.
What was even more surprising was just how much spirit grass was growing inside this cavern. Although he didn’t know the value of the spirit grass, he felt the overwhelming spiritual energy just by standing there.
Just as he was filled with joy inside, he heard distant commotion from outside of the cavern. Thinking of the faces of the disciples in the sect, he resentfully clenched his teeth before quickly leaving the cave, leading them away from the cavern.
Originally, he only wanted to use the spirit grass on hand to send them away, but he didn’t expect to meet Jin Ling’er and her group, as well as the Senior Martial Brother afterward.
Thinking of that, Lin Zizheng’s gaze turned heated. He didn’t know why he had told Qin Mo about the cavern, but he didn’t regret it. Maybe it was because Qin Mo had given him such a wonderful impression during their first meeting. The graceful movement, being detached from all the filthy human emotions.
Moreover, he grasped tightly the silk handkerchief and jade bottle in his hands. The Senior Martial Brother was the first person who didn’t look at him with contempt.
Qin Mo sat beside him, looking like he was meditating, but in reality, he was spacing out.
When Lin Zizheng first brought up the strange cavern, he didn’t want to go. He understood that as the the protagonist of this world, Lin Zizheng would inevitably encounter his unique opportunity, and this mysterious cavern might be one of them.
Qin Mo is a proud individual with his own perseverance. Even if he was forced into this world, he wouldn’t lower himself in seizing others’ opportunities, even if the said person was the protagonist, who had opportunities as numerous as the hairs of a cow.
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But as he saw Lin Zizheng biting his lower lip uneasily, traces of nervousness appeared in the kid’s eyes, and when he felt the tight tugging on his white sleeves. For some reason, all of these factors softened his heart as he agreed to come.
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Hearing these words, Qin Mo steered the flying fan under them to land next to a stretch of hills. Without seeing any traces of the cavern, he shifted his gaze to Lin Zizheng.
Lin Zizheng was taken aback, and speed walked to one of the shorter hills, reaching out and pushing away a handful of dense, drooping vines. Only then was the secluded cavern entrance revealed.
The entrance wasn’t large, just enough for one adult to enter at a time. Lin Zizheng turned back to look at Qin Mo, before taking the lead in going inside. Without hesitation, Qin Mo followed closely after him into the cavern.
Not long after they entered the cavern, Qin Mo first saw his vision go dark, before a hint of green, fluorescent light flickering in front of him. With the spiritual energy in this body, Qin Mo was able to see clearly even in low visibility like inside of this cavern.
This underground chamber was about the size of a room, and it was filled with spirit grass. Qin Mo’s eyes sparkled as he remembered there was a jade slip in his cosmic bag that contained a guide on refining pills.
However, when Qin Mo caught a glance of Lin Zizheng’s exciting expression, he instantly settled down. He recalled how the boy seemed to become a divine-like alchemist later on. Could that be the reason for this fortunate discovery? Qin Mo pulled back his restless hands as it was best to let the boy gather first.
After Lin Zizheng picked about ten bunches of spirit grass, he stood up straight. Only then did he turn to the side and look at Qin Mo beside him, who hadn’t taken any action. With confusion on his face, he walked up to Qin Mo and asked, “Da Shixiong, why are you…”
“You gather first.” Qin Mo remained where he was, keeping his body motionless. Then a few green lights hovered before him, only then did Qin Mo get a good look at the light source. They were beings similar to fireflies.
Lin Zizheng gawked at that response. Being smart, he instantly understood what Qin Mo had in mind. Only collect once he gathered enough spirit grass for himself.
With that in mind, a brilliant smile appeared on his face, looking extremely lovely when both of his large eyes squinted with joy as well. Even the frustration of not being able to collect any more spirit grass from before was tossed to the back of his head. “I’ve already got all I wanted.” He paused before continuing, “Even if I gather more, I don’t have a means to carry them.”
Qin Mo frowned at this. He remembered that on the first day of entering the Yueqing Sect, whether they are outer or inner sect disciples, they will receive a cosmic bag from the sect. Why would Lin Zizheng not have one? Was this an oversight from the sect?
Coming to that conclusion, he reached for the purse-shaped cosmic bag tied around his waist and handed it to Lin Zizheng, saying calmly, “Take it.”
Although he didn’t have many spirit stones on him, he possessed many cultivation items, such as cosmic bags, spirit swords, and medicinal pills. Jin Linfeng doted on him, so he was naturally quite generous in this aspect.
Actually, Lin Zizheng received a cosmic bag, but it was snatched away by other disciples afterward. Now looking at the cosmic bag embroidered with green bamboo that Qin Mo was holding, it was clearly a higher quality than the one issued by the sect. For a moment, he was frozen in place, before he finally reacted by pushing the offer back in a fluster.
“Da Shixiong, I…can’t take your things.”
Seeing Lin Zizheng reject the cosmic bag, Qin Mo flattened his thin lips tightly.
Sensing the aura around Qin Mo dropped by a few degrees, Lin Zizheng thought he was angry which made him more flustered. He hurriedly said, “Da Shixiong, it’s too valuable.”
If it was a gift from anyone else, Lin Zizheng would have long accepted it, since he was really in need of a cosmic bag right now; however, the person in front of him was the Senior Martial Brother. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t want the other party to look down on him.
“Take it, I’ll gather some spirit grass as well.” Qin Mo furrowed his brow as he glanced at Lin Zizheng in front of him, then scanned at the spirit grass on the side.
Against Qin Mo’s resolute appearance, Lin Zizheng bit his lower lip and accepted the cosmic bag, while secretly searing in his heart that in the future, he would… What will he do in the future? He carried some confusion inside, but when he saw that Senior Martial Brother, who had bent down to the ground on the side, remained as dazzling as before. He swore he must be good to the Senior Martial Brother in the future.
With their combined efforts, the spirit grass in this cavern dwindled by a great deal. Even though the expression on Qin Mo’s face remained the same, he was over the moon inside, for this harvest was indeed quite abundant.
This was when he suddenly felt a chill down his back that made all of his hair stand up, as if something was eyeing him. He made a split-second decision and sidestepped to the side.
As soon as he changed his position, he saw a large tail suddenly emerge from mid-air as it struck a heavy blow on that spot.
This single attack sent debris flying. By the time Qin Mo could see the scene clearly, he unconsciously took a sharp breath. A large crater had appeared where he was standing, and the thick tail continued to squirm inside.
Moving his gaze along the tail, his eyes were blown wide by what he saw. There was a huge python in front of the cavern entrance. Looking from a distance, he could estimate the python’s length was one hundred meters at least, with a radius of one meter, enough to tightly block the entrance.
At this moment, it was flickering its scarlet forked tongue with its glossy green eyes fixed at him in a greedy stare.
What made matters worse was his inability to tell the python’s cultivation level. With his current Ninth-Level Qi Refining, he could distinguish the cultivation level below Foundation Building. All this meant that his enemy’s cultivation level was Foundation Building at least.
As he felt tight in his chest, Biyou instantly appeared in his hand. For his next moment, he came to the front of Lin Zizheng. Taking in the boy’s young body, he grabbed the smaller hand and reassured in a whisper, “Don’t be afraid.”
When Lin Zizheng saw the appearance of the python, he gave up all hope. At that moment, his heart was filled with resentment. It wasn’t fair how other people’s lives were smooth sailing while his life was full of bumps.
First it was the death of his loving parents under the hands of demonic cultivators, then the constant bullying after arriving at the Yueqing Sect because he was a waste with five spiritual roots, and now, he met his doom so soon after he stumbled upon one good fortune.
Rage filled his vision as an eerie black color surfaced in his eyes. He thought, since he was going to die, he would self-destruct his Dantian to take this giant python with him to death.
Then, a cool hand wrapped around his hand, before reassuring him.
—Don’t be afraid.
Lin Zizheng felt something warm his heart at this moment. He gave a gentle affirmative reply and squeezed Qin Mo’s hand back.
Qin Mo didn’t pick up the change in Lin Zizheng at all. He tightly kept the boy in his arms while keeping his wary eyes on the python before them.
The python fixed its eyes on them, occasionally flickering its long tongue like it was licking its lips. Qin Mo could even read the smug expression in its eyes.
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Lin Zizheng is starting to blacken..
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