Chapter 40 (2/2)

Or the piece of Feiyun fire copper Lin Xun once showed Shiao Tianren, small as a thumb, it could exchange for 30 copper coins in Green Sun Tribe which was equal to 2500g of spiritual grains.

However, Lin Xun wasn’t yet very clear about the exchange value of every object in the empire, thus he couldn’t possibly understand the great purchasing power of 1500 copper coins.

Besides the coins, Lin Xun got a bag of seeds of spiritual herbs, mostly of little value but a necessity of cultivation.

He had no intention of planting them, for the whole process was too complicated which would require a specialized planting master. Moreover, it often took three to five years for the herbs to ripen, or even centuries for some rare kinds.

It might well be true that among those people coming with Wu Henshui, there should be one or two planting masters.

But none of that made any sense to Lin Xun now. What really mattered was to sell the seeds and make some real money.

Besides, there were still some ripe herbs in the ring which were all highly valuable, some for tempering the body, some for refining cultivation, and some bottles for curing the wounds.

For someone like Wu who was already at the eighth level of Martial Realm, his collections would certainly be out of the ordinary.

So Lin Xun cleared up everything in the ring, then threw his Sky Breacher right in it seeing there was still space left.

“With this ring, it’ll be so much easier for me to go to Green Sun Tribe for trading. At least I don’t need to worry about being robbed”, Lin Xun wondered.

He put the ring away carefully. It would draw too much unwanted attention if he wore it since Wu Henshui’s status in Green Sun Tribe as the chief of Wu’s Drugstore made it quite recognizable.

Then he took out the boots he ripped off from Lian Rufeng again and pondered, “These look a bit crappy, but they are a piece of spiritual equipment anyway. Too bad they aren’t fit for me. I’ll just sell them someday”. With this thought, he left them in the ring too.

After all this, Lin Xun gave himself a long stretch, feeling quite relieved.

Now the top priority for him was to continue his cultivation. As for the fire copper mine, he could just leave it to the village head Shiao Tianren.

After some calculation, he figured there was less than half a month left for him to start the second test of the Heaven-Accessing Palace. He dared not to have the slightest negligence towards this. After all, he got Meditating Magic which was prerequisite to refining his body and soul when he finished the first test, who knows what would come out of the second one? Lin Xun was quite excited.

In the late afternoon, Shia Zhi woke up, sitting in front of the stone table. Soon Lin Xun brought her the food he prepared long ago.

Recently, the villagers got a bumper harvest of spiritual grains which were yet to be sold. Lin Xun got bags of grains from them, plus the flesh and blood of nearly 30 beasts, he didn’t need to worry about food for some time to come.

The only thing troubling him was that Shia’s appetite increased day by day. Like a bottomless pit, her stomach needed to be filled with more and more grains and meat everyday. If things kept going like this, Lin Xun really couldn’t be sure how much longer before they ran out of food.

But anyway, he didn’t need to worry about it for now.

While eating, Lin Xun asked, “Shia Zhi, where are your parents?”

Shia Zhi shook her head, chewing on a piece of delicious meat.

“Then what about your home? You remember anything about that?”

Shai Zhi thought for a while, shaking her head again, “I’ve lived with Uncle Bear since I could remember”.

Looking at her being all tranquil and serious, Lin Xun felt strange somehow. It never occurred to him that this little girl in front could live in the mountains from childhood.

“Who’s Uncle Bear?”

“You already met him the other day.”

Reminded of the big barbaric bear he saw in the mountains the other day, Lin Xun got shocked again, then asked, “Are you talking about the beast killed by the barbarian that day?”

These words got Shia Zhi frown a bit. She raised her head and replied with a serious face, “Don’t talk about it like that.”

“Sorry, I meant no disrespect”, Lin apologized immediately.

He still felt strange though. No wonder the language Shia Zhi spoke was so hard for him to understand. How could he ever imagine that she was raised by a big bear!

But something still didn’t add up. That was not a kind of speech for beasts, but an entirely different language.

“I don’t know nothing about barbarians or whatsoever, but I will kill him one day to avenge Uncle Bear”, Shia Zhi uttered these words, full of steadiness in her clear and onyx-like eyes. Then she continued hunching over her plate again.

Being interrupted, Lin Xun forgot to ask where she learnt about her old language before and started to recall the duel between those two mighty spiritual practitioners in Spirit Sea Realm the other day.

One in a jade robe flying on sword, obviously a tough figure from Ziyao Empire; the other called Voodoo-barbarian, shouldn’t be someone strong from the empire.

He could still remember that the real target of the barbarian then was not him, but Shia Zhi.

With the strange and complicated language she was speaking, Lin Xun couldn’t help but think, maybe she came from somewhere outside the empire?