36 Underground Fores (1/2)
The entrance to the moon garden was located close to the centre of the sect grounds. Meaning both Sofie and Yang Meng had to walk quite far before getting there.
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Looking at the surrounding buildings passing by, Sofie increased her speed a little and started walking side by side with Yang Meng.
”So… Do you have any idea about where the moon flower is?” Sofie asked curiously, she got to know that Yang Meng seemed to know quite a bit about the moon garden, and he might know where to find the moon flower… If that was really the case, she could try and eat the so-called spirit fruits earlier than expected!
Thinking about it, Sofie felt like it was a good idea to go on a mission with Yang Meng as he seemed to know everything… Maybe not everything, but at least a lot of things.
”Hm… The moon flower and a low mortal ranked one… If I'm not wrong, we should be able to find one in the outer sections of the moon garden.” Yang Meng said after pondering over it for a few seconds.
”Great! That means it should be easy for us to get~” Sofie said in a slightly careless voice, almost seeing the spirit fruit from the reward in front of her.
”Not really. Herbs at the mortal rank and above are normally guarded by demon beasts… Even a low grade one!” Yang Meng said, shattering Sofie's fantasy at just going in and grabbing the moon flower before returning.
”A demon beast!? H-how are we going to deal with that?” Sofie said in a trembling voice. The only encounter she ever had with a demon beast was the fire bat inside of the fire cave, though it had quite a tragic ending at the hands of Ling Yue, Sofie still knew how strong it was.
”We are going to fight it and defeat it!” Yang Meng said as if stating the obvious.
Sofie could not help but tremble upon hearing what he said.
How am I going to ”fight” it?! I have only trained in fighting for a single day together with Xiao Yao and it was not really like I know how to fight all of a sudden… M-maybe Yang Meng knows how to fight already? I-if that is so, then I, as the rival, should also know how to f-fight…!
Not knowing what to do, Sofie convinced herself that she should be able to fight as well.
Yang Meng, who was her rival could fight. Why should she, as his rival not be able to fight?
Thinking about it, Sofie was fully convinced that she could fight as well.
Not knowing he had caused a certain someone to believe they were some sort of master in the art of fighting, Yang Meng continued to lead the way towards the moon garden, until they finally arrived.
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”T-this is the entrance to the moon garden!?” Sofie said as she starred at the entrance in front of her.
The entrance to the moon garden was more like a cave entrance with a few words engraved upon a giant rotten wooden sign hanging above the entrance saying [Moon Garden].
Not really what she expected after hearing what Yang Meng said about the place. The only thing special about the entrance was its size, being at least a hundred meters wide and a dozen or so meters high.
Disciples were constantly entering and exiting the giant rundown entrance, Sofie even saw a few of the disciples coming out with blood all over. Most likely some who had run into strong demon beasts.