609 Nine Dragon Mountain (1/2)
Flowy Spring Valley was one of the many rank 6 institutions in the Sky Martial Region.
The leader of the place was a rare female warrior named Hua Yingmei. Her actual power was not weak at all, as she was a Sea of Souls Realm master warrior as well. As a part of a historical rank 6 martial institution in the Sky Martial Region, Hua Yingmei did not have a reason not to know about Ye Chen. Therefore, she seemed very friendly and welcoming toward Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng.
After chitchatting for a short while, Ye Chen jumped to explain the reason for their visit.
After hearing him, Hua Yingmei frowned and said with a forced smile, ”If you guys were here a couple of months early, I would definitely give the Phoenix Tail Fruit to you for an exchange/ But unfortunately, this is a bad time. The only fruit we have in our martial school had been made into pellets with the other ingredients.”
Ye Chen said, ”I heard that there is a phoenix tail tree inside the Flowy Spring Valley. Is there only one phoenix tail fruit on that tree?”
Hua Yingmei knew that Ye Chen was suspecting her for lying about what she had just said, so she explained, ”Of course, there would be more than one fruit on this thousand years old phoenix tail tree, but our one is only nine hundred years old. It grows flowers every three years, and then another three years for fruits. Each time, it only grows one fruit. If you two do not believe me still, I can lead you two there to have a look. I believe you can tell the tree's age with your eyes.
”That would not be necessary.” Ye Chen also knew that the quantity of the fruit had a lot to do with the tree's age. Since she had already told them everything, then it would be disrespectful if he continued to doubt her.
”Warrior Ye is desperately in need of Phoenix Tail Fruit?” Hua Yingmei asked.
He nodded, ”I need it to make an antidote. It is for saving a life.”
Hua Yingmei said, ”Perhaps warrior Ye could go check in the Ruin Fire region inside the southern regions. Our tree is indeed moved from that region. Although I do not know if there is another tree, but I think it is better than no hope, right?”
”Ruin Fire Region?”
It was the Savage Race's territory. Two-thirds of the whole south region was taken over by then, and the remaining one-third was with the other races. There were rarely any pure humans there.
”Where exactly in Ruin Fire Region?” A whole region was just too big; it would be impossible for even a Life and Death King warrior to look into every inch of a whole region within his or her lifetime.
”Our tree was found in the west side of the Savage Mountain. I have a map here, which I can give to warrior Ye.” Hua Yingmei took out an old map to hand it over to Ye Chen. Since this map was of no use to her anyway, she thought she might as well give it out as a kind favor.
Ye Chen took over the map and opened it. It only had the detailed picture for Savage Mountain, while the rest of them were only drawn out with simple lines.
Putting away the map, Ye Chen said slightly emotionally, ”They all say that leader Hua is very friendly and welcoming. After seeing you today, I can confirm that you are indeed just like your reputation. I think leader Hua is at peak level Late Seas of Souls Realm, so you must be at the stage of trying to accumulate Zhen yuan and preparing for breaking through to Life and Death Realm. Here, I have a couple of medicinal plants which I would like to give to you as a thank you gift.”
Hua Yingmei was trying to politely reject him, saying, ”It would not be that easy to break through to the Life and Death Realm, and I can only try my best. As for the thank you gift, it is really unnecessary. I did not help you that much after all.”
Ye Chen laughed. ”Leader Hua, please do not reject my gift. What I am offering is the necessary ingredient to make extreme rank Sky Spirit Pellets. After you find the other ingredients, you will be able to cultivate a whole tripod of pellets, which could save you more than ten years of hard work.”
As he spoke, he took out a couple of plants with heavy spirit qi.
”Ah!” The leader made a noise. She needed to accumulate too much Zhen yuan for reaching Life and Death Realm, although she was still rather far away from the realm. She might not even be able to do so in her lifetime; but, who in this world could guarantee it anyway? If she did not prepare for it, then she would definitely not reach there. If she really managed to cultivate a whole pod of Sky Spirit Pellet, then she could indeed save ten years of hard work. Plus, even if she could not make it to the Life and Death Realm in the future, she would be able to try to make it to the half step king warrior stage.
”This!” Hua Yingmei was a bit embarrassed. She had actually kind of rejected the gift, and she was considering taking it again now.
”Here, leader Hua!” Ye Chen handed over the medical plants to her. These plants might be valuable, but he indeed had quite a lot of them, which he had obtained from the Treasure River Island and Savage Ruin Ancient Place. Most of them were from the former; but unfortunately, the island was no longer there. Otherwise, he would love to go there again.
Leader Hua took over the plants and said seriously. ”I had just helped brother Ye a little bit, but you have just given me such precious presents. In the future, if you are ever in need, just tell me. I know some people in the valley after all.”
”Alright! Then we will excuse ourselves now.” Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng stood up to leave.
After leaving the palace, the two walked toward the valley entrance.
”This leader is really friendly.” Murong Qingcheng chuckled as she said.
Ye Chen nodded. ”As the leader of a martial institution, the tolerance of this leader is indeed impressive. Perhaps she would even have a chance of reaching the Life and Death Realm.”
As they talked, the two arrived at the entrance. They then hopped onto their flying puppet and flew toward the Nine Dragon Mountain.
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The Nine Dragon Mountain was one of the famous mountains inside Sky Martial Region. It took over a huge area that was almost as vast as an entire middle sized mountain range.
All the way, Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng could see powerful Sea of Souls Realm warriors flying toward the Nine Dragon Mountain. Some of them were alone, while the others are flying in groups. The latter were obviously from big martial institutions—some of them were riding on evil-looking flying beasts, looking rather classy. All of a sudden, the Nine Dragon Mountain seemed to have become one of the most popular places on this land.
”Haha, brother Ye! What a coincidence!”
On the right side, Hai Wuya and his brother and sister disciples approached on a water-element flying beast.
Ye Chen chuckled. ”It is brother Hai after all!”
The two chatted for a while before introducing each other's company to each other.