"Stop, stop, stop! I'll borrow it, I'll borrow it, okay?" Just then, the fiery tree, which had been so majestic before, suddenly shrank a bit.
It had indeed shrunk considerably; its trunk suddenly softened, as if it were kneeling and crawling, while the two thickest strips of paper clasped together above its head like human hands, looking as if begging for mercy.
Zuan: "..."
Yu Yanluo: "..."
It's one thing for a tree to be able to talk, but it can even beg for mercy?
The problem is this shamelessness; I wonder who he learned it from.
Zuan said calmly, "Why are you willing to lend it now?"
The fiery tree and silver flowers replied, "I can't beat you, there's no point in continuing."
Zu An said in a deep voice, "If my cultivation had been slightly weaker just now, I'm afraid I would have been burned to ashes by now. How dare you beg for mercy?"
Huoshu Yinhua exclaimed in surprise, "If you're not as skilled as others, the strong prey on the weak. You should just accept your fate. Isn't that the ultimate truth of the world?"
Zuan: "..."
What this guy said actually makes some sense.
Yu Yanluo then spoke up: "Why can you speak?"
"Why can't I speak?" the fiery tree retorted.
Yu Yanluo: "..."
Zu An laughed: "You don't seem to have a clear understanding of your current situation."
As he spoke, he brandished his Tai'a sword, as if to strike.
"Don't cut me! Don't cut me! Your sword is very powerful, it hurts me a lot." Huo Shu Yin Hua hurriedly leaned back, as if to avoid it, and then hurriedly explained, "At first, I couldn't speak either. Later, after staying here for a long time, I often heard the miners chatting, and then I learned how to speak."
"How long have you been here?" Zuan asked curiously.
“Five hundred years… or a thousand years… it’s been a very, very long time, I don’t even know how many years it has been. Time has no meaning for me,” the fiery tree and silver flowers replied.
Zuan and Yu Yanluo exchanged a glance; this thing had truly become sentient.
Yu Yanluo deliberately put on a stern face and said, "Since you know that the law of the jungle is the ultimate truth, why should we let you go?"
The fiery tree replied, "I allow you to take these things; they seem to be very valuable to you humans."
Zu An sneered, "I can take it now without your permission, so why should I spare your life?"
Yu Yanlu felt a sweet warmth in her heart, thinking that Ah Zu was indeed in sync with her, and the two of them had a feeling of being a harmonious couple.
“Oh, this is a bit troublesome,” the fiery tree scratched the flower crown on its head with a branch. “By the way, if you let me go, I can produce these jade stones for you here indefinitely. These mines must grow next to me to form this shape.”
Zu An thought to himself that Daji would need more Wuyang Jade for each breakthrough, and the more she needed it, the more she would need. Looking around, he only had a dozen or so pieces of Wuyang Jade, which was definitely not enough.
"How long does it take to form this kind of Wuyang jade?" Yu Yanluo, who was standing to the side, quickly realized the key point.
"About a hundred years," Huoshu Yinhua replied.
"A hundred years?" Zuan sneered. "Are you playing me?"
Although human lifespan is generally long in this world, a hundred years is still too long; by then, it will be too late.
“If you prepare some high-quality jade stones in advance and place them beside me, I will work hard to nurture them. It should take ten years…” The fiery silver flower seemed to be observing his expression as she spoke. Noticing that he frowned, she hurriedly changed her words, “No, one year, one year, no less. I should be able to nurture them in one year.”
Zuan thought a year was acceptable, but he still wanted to take the opportunity to bluff it: "Do you have any stock hidden there? Take it all out."
"I'm just a tree, how could I hide anything?" The fiery tree and silver flowers tilted their large crowns, seemingly looking at him sideways, wondering how he could ask such an idiotic question.
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