"Awake?" Zhou Yanzhi slowed down his flying speed.
Xiao Yu got up from the man's arms: "What happened?"
"Maybe we have entered some mysterious area of Gust Lake."
“…The water here flows so slowly.”
"Yeah, the spiritual energy is much richer than that of Gust of Wind Lake."
"It seems like this place is full of wood spirit energy."
"You can let the small gourd and the seal of the land god absorb more."
"Splash!" A faint sound of water came from above the head. It was Little Red Lotus indicating that it could also absorb wood spiritual power.
Xiao Yu belatedly realized that he had a big red flower on his head. He reached out and touched it. "You really know how to find a place." As he spoke, he suddenly realized, "Is Ghost Month over?"
"Probably not yet. The black fog was sucked into the whirlpool along with us. We were dragged here by some water plants. The black fog is still in that whirlpool."
Xiao Yu thought of something and forced Ao Kun to turn on the computer.
Ao Kun was also a little confused when he woke up. He was also unfamiliar with this environment. "I have lived here for more than 5,000 years. This is the first time I know there is such a place under the Gust of Wind Lake."
"Do you just sleep in your lair when you have nothing to do?" Xiao Yu asked. Could he be even more of a homebody than him?
Ao Kun: "...That's not the normal operation of a demon beast?" How can he practice without sleep? He is a diligent demon.
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The lakebed was silent, the vegetation lush, and devoid of any aquatic animals, not even ordinary fish, shrimp, snails, or clams. Under these circumstances, Ao Kun, the coward, didn't dare to leave his master.
He has the attributes of water and wood. If he is treated as a 'snack' by these plants, he probably won't be able to escape.
The two of them and the demon walked around and found that the area here didn't seem very large. It seemed to be a huge circle.
"Brother, do you think we are in an environment similar to a formation?" Xiao Yu wandered around for a while and didn't find anything useful, so he began to study the environment they were in.
Zhou Yanzhi raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean?"
"It's Ghost Moon now. The vortex over there is able to stir up all the black fog and trap it. But there is no black fog here at all. Do you think this looks like a Ghost Moon shelter specially prepared by someone?"
Zhou Yanzhi smiled: "...That's a good idea."
"If it's true, then we will be teleported out when the Ghost Month ends."
Ao Kun was surprised: "Is it true?"
"Do you want to get out of the whirlpool?"
"That's impossible." The vortex light looked difficult to move backwards, so why should he bother when he could take a shortcut.
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Xiao Yu had the water power he borrowed from the Dragon King Temple, so he could handle this environment with ease. Zhou Yanzhi didn't have it, but he could borrow the power of the contract and use it from his own children.
If the environment wasn't so strange, they could just practice in seclusion.
However, after listening to the child's guess and the previous experience of being blown away when cutting "wild vegetables", the two men and the demon did not dare to practice. They could only wander around bored and stay away from the "kelp".
"Brother, do you think this is edible?" It was really boring. Xiao Yu found something similar to ground mustard at the edge of the 'formation'. This thing was much bigger than the ground mustard, in pieces, like yellow-green wood ear or white fungus, and it didn't smell weird.
Zhou Yanzhi felt relieved when he saw the child wearing plastic gloves. "Is it poisonous?"
"Isn't there a 'system'?" Xiao Yu said, pulling out a few mid-grade spirit stones and summoning the seal of the Earth God. Soon, their spacetime livestream selling showroom appeared. The screen was still black, clearly not active. However, the functions within were still usable, as long as he was willing to 'top up'.
So, a moment later, a message popped up on the shelf's verification system: Third-grade Kunling Grass (advanced), price: 10 million low-grade spirit stones.
"Eh, isn't that right? The previous fifth-grade meridian fruit was only ten million low-grade spirit stones, and this Kunling grass is only third-grade, and it costs ten million low-grade spirit stones?"
Zhou Yanzhi raised his eyebrows: "If it's Kunling grass, it might be worth it."
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"Kunling Grass is a legendary spiritual herb in this world. It is said to be a sacred product that can enhance soul power and can be used to refine Soul-Replenishing Pills, which are elixirs that can repair soul injuries. Although it is said to be only of the third-grade high-level grade, it is extremely precious."
Xiao Yu looked at the thick Kunling grass on the ground and took out a few buckets, one for each person. Even though Ao Kun didn't want to transform at all at the moment, he had to transform into a human form - to work.
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Seeing that the interface was open, Zhou Yanzhi took out a piece of the 'fern head' he had collected earlier. It showed: Fifth-grade Kunqing Silk (high-grade), price: 50 million low-grade spirit stones.
"Kun Qingsi?" Xiao Yu took a moment to glance at it while busying himself. "Dadi's hair?"
Zhou Yanzhi: ^_^!
"Ahem, that's understandable. It's also a spiritual herb that's extinct in this world. It's said that eating it regularly can prolong life, but it's very cold. For women, eating it can beautify their skin, even make them radiant and beautiful forever, but it can... make them infertile."
When Xiao Yu heard the last two words, he didn't know what expression to show.
"This, this is too cruel! They're even selective about gender. What if a girl accidentally eats it?"
"Monks don't place much importance on offspring, so there's no such thing as accidental consumption."
"What if?"
"Well, there is no antidote for this yet."
"Since it's called Kunqingsi, is there also Tianqingsi?"
"Yes, I saw it recorded on the jade slip, but it is said to be a thing from the divine realm."
"I hope that unlucky guy didn't eat it by mistake! Otherwise, if you want to have children in this life, you'll have to wait until you become an immortal."
Ao Kun felt that the Contract Master was so funny that he couldn't help but say, "Even though I haven't been out much for five thousand years, it seems that nothing has changed outside, right? I remember that in this world, many female cultivators believe that pregnancy will delay their cultivation and will cause the loss of their innate spirit. For this reason, many female cultivators take sterilizing drugs all year round in order to avoid infertility and avoid losing their innate spirit." Of course, if they knew how to replenish their innate spiritual power by boiling an egg like the Contract Master did.
"Aren't they afraid of having no successors?"
Ao Kun: "Big families still have so many concubines, and not all of them are willing to be infertile. Sometimes those with poor aptitude or lack of cultivation materials can give birth to a child and gain rich resources. Why not?"
Xiao Yu thought about it and realized that there are still people living for money in this modern world, and nodded in agreement.
Ao Kun's eyes swept over the contract master and his wife nakedly: "You two don't have to worry about this matter. Your contract should not even allow you to have children through surrogacy, right?"
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