Chapter 344 A Visit (Exchange of Money)
Ji Rong patted Niu Fen's hoof with her wing claws and said, "He is only at the Profound Spirit Realm. It is enough that he has already learned to respect the strong."
"Xi Tong, if you waste his best years farming, and he dies of old age before his cultivation improves, where will you find such a capable ox to keep you company?"
Xi Tong's warm, golden eyes darted around as she said, "Don't worry, Lord Ji. I had Niu Fen create farmland so that he could follow the ancient path and unleash the potential of his physical body."
Now that Niu Fen's physical body has been tempered sufficiently, he can continue his cultivation.
If he were already at the King level, he would only be facing three mountains, and wouldn't be so tired.
"Lord Ji, I will take good care of him so he can focus on his cultivation and advance in rank as soon as possible."
The two birds met eyes and immediately began to laugh at each other.
Xi Tong then cupped his hands in a gesture of respect to Ji Rong and said with a smile, "Who knows, in the future, Lord Ji's lands will be spread throughout the Nine Provinces, and he might even have Niu Fen guide farming everywhere, becoming a god of farming."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong became interested. She took out a small portion of spirit herbs from the large spirit sack hanging around Xi Tong's neck, and then took a handful from Niu Fen's sack. After comparing them, she said with satisfaction, "Niu Fen is following you, and even though he is just plowing the fields, he can still eat so many high-quality spirit herbs. It's clear that he's doing well."
She grabbed a handful of grass and fed it to Niu Fen, then solemnly said to him, "Niu Fen, we don't have time to guide your cultivation right now."
Since you are eating so well and Xi Tong is willing to teach you, you should work hard to cultivate and treat Xi Tong with the respect due to a teacher. You must not be as disrespectful as you were in the past.
"How about this, Xitong, once he advances to the Supreme Realm, you can give him a break and let him stay at the Guardian Palace for a month, what do you say?"
Xi Tong nodded and said "Okay".
Niu Fen could only nod with tears in his eyes, and then Xi Tong led him back by the nose.
After eating and drinking their fill, Ji Rong and Qing Guanzi continued their journey, going upstream against the current. Finally, at the end of the following year, they successfully traversed the main underground water vein of the Danxue Mountains.
Once the underground water veins were opened, Qing Guanzi took out the half-bottle of Origin Flow that Ji Rong had given him earlier and drank it all in one gulp.
Then, he opened his mouth wide and said, "Junior sister, do you have the supernatural ability to frolic in the water?"
If so, quickly shrink your body. Your senior brother will push through this water vein, then we can take you for a ride!
Ji Rong immediately nodded. She lowered her mind, summoned the pale golden sphere within her body, then made a hand seal and chanted an incantation, shrinking herself into a tiny form and entering the sphere.
The caterpillar picked up the ball, put it in its mouth, and burrowed into the soil.
Once underground, Ji Rong poked her tiny head out of the ball.
The yellow skin of Qingguanzi shone like a lamp. Through the pale yellow sphere, Ji Rong looked at the rushing underground river ahead, felt the warm and humid air, and touched the sandy soil, feeling a sense of déjà vu.
As Qing Guanzi moved through the soil in the underground river, all sorts of insects and beasts living underground rushed over and bowed down to him.
Qing Guanzi looked at them impatiently and shouted, "You idiots, get out of here! If you block my waterway, I'll wash you all into the Tianjiang River."
Upon hearing this, the creatures quickly got up and went back through the hole they had made, also using their hind claws to fill the hole.
Ji Rong laughed and said, "Why is Senior Brother so fierce? They came to pay their respects to you, which shows how much they admire you."
Qing Guanzi shook his head and said, "What's the point of worshipping them? If they get pushed down by the water and lose their lives, it will also affect the taste of the water downstream."
Ji Rong seemed to understand, and said, "That's true."
Qing Guanzi swiftly traversed the underground water veins, a look of reminiscence appearing in his eyes. He shook his head and said, "Junior Sister, once this water vein is cleared, I will return."
"Call me over to visit again once this place is fixed."
Ji Rong asked anxiously, "Why?"
Qing Guanzi stretched out a claw and placed Ji Rong on her head, saying, "Because I've figured it out."
Junior sister, Master used to use his fists to subdue his disciples and make us do this and that.
You're even worse than her. When words fail, you resort to money; when money doesn't work, you resort to your claws; and when claws don't work, you call on your senior brothers and sisters.
Ji Rong declared confidently, "Isn't this good?"
Qing Guanzi snorted, "This is good for you, but not for me, because you always make me do chores, and you often leave me hungry, always trying to fool me with grass."
Ji Rong grabbed Qing Guanzi's wrinkled neck with her claws, turned around and got down. She stared at Qing Guanzi for a while, then grinned and said confidently, "Senior brother, you wish! You've already come out, and you still want to go back? Absolutely not!"
"If you dare to go back through the mountains, I'll fly back right after and wail to all my fellow disciples, saying you were very bad, leaving me alone in the Danxue Mountains and running away on your own."
Qing Guanzi laughed and said, "Why didn't you keep Senior Brother Dongxu with you? He loves to work."
With the underground water veins now open, Ji Rong looked at the jade fragments and ore slag washed down by the water, and felt the treasure no longer heavy under her wings. A lucrative idea for amassing wealth came to her mind.
She quickly calculated in her mind, and also took a moment to feel smug about her king-like bird head. With higher cultivation, she was indeed more insightful and could plan without any effort.
After refining the plan in her mind, Ji Rong said, "Senior brother, it's just spirit flesh, junior sister will find it for you."
Now that we're poor, Senior Brother, do you think about going back to cleverly obtain some treasures and attract some spiritual beings?
"Take advantage of it cleverly? How so?"
Ji Rong then whispered to him, "Senior Brother Guanshan, we will prepare some specialties from the Danxue Mountain Range and visit them one by one when we return to the Yuxu Mountain Range."
As she spoke, Ji Rong explained the essentials of the visit to Qing Guanzi in detail.
Qing Guanzi's eyes lit up as he listened, and he exclaimed "Exciting!" before happily agreeing.
So the two libertines dug and mined all over the mountains, and then, quite ostentatiously, headed towards the Jade Void Mountain Range with a string of storage rings hanging around their necks.
Ji Rong first went to Yunya and served as Qingpingzi's patron for three months, allowing him to deduce magical techniques.
Ji Rong originally intended to plant the large tree on the cliff and leave, but when she thought of Qing Pingzi's obsession with knowledge, she immediately gave up the idea.
On ordinary days, Qingpingzi would deduce under the tree trunk, while Ji Rong would read the book Qingpingzi was writing.
She would often look at the book and, in front of Qingpingzi, exclaim, "What a good book! Senior brother, please give it to me!" before openly putting it into her storage ring.
Qingpingzi, engrossed in the vast ocean of knowledge, had no interest in listening to Ji Rong. The moment Ji Rong opened her mouth…
Without even glancing at it, he casually agreed, "Okay, junior sister."
"Whatever makes you happy."
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Occasionally, Ji Rong would find some treasures among the clouds. She would weigh them in her hand, and if she felt she couldn't take them, she would put them back in their place; if she felt she could take them, she would do the same and put them into her possession.
So, three months later, Ji Rong not only obtained treasures but also books.
After descending from the cliff, Ji Rong bid farewell to Qing Pingzi and went to the mountain gate to find Qing Guanzi to make a fortune together.
These two shamelessly divided the raw ore "specialty" of the Danxue Mountains into portions and visited each of their senior brothers and sisters, as well as their famous and wealthy junior disciples, making a fortune.
When they returned to the Jade Void Mountain Range, Ji Rong and Qing Guanzi each carried only one storage ring containing raw ore; however, when they went to the Danxue Mountain Range, they each wore two colorful storage rings around their necks.
That's right, there are two!
They continued to wear the storage rings around their necks as they slowly walked from the Jade Void Mountains towards the Danxue Mountains, drawing envy and jealousy from every cultivator who encountered them along the way.
Some cultivators even followed behind them, their faces showing they were racking their brains to get close to them.
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