Chapter 129: How People See Mo Wuji (2/2)

Mo Wuji chuckled, ”Senior exaggerates. I'm limited by my innate talent. For me to advance is far harder than others.”

”You're really in the Channel Opening Stage?” Qu Wan'Er finally retracted her gaze and focused her attention onto Mo Wuji.

Mo Wuji nodded and sighed, ”I'm really in the Channel Opening Stage, but my achievements today required me to exert painstaking effort and I had to go through countless life and death experiences.”

Mo Wuji wasn't kidding when he said that. To advance his cultivation, he needed to perforate new meridians, which was an extremely difficult process. He was not wrong about the life and death experiences, he had to constantly get shocked by lightning in order to open his meridians.

Yuan Zhenji’s gaze swept across Mo Wuji before he sighed. Standing so near to Mo Wuji, he could make a clear evaluation. His body did not emanate a hint of spirituality, but an aura of mortality. Mo Wuji truly did not have impressive spiritual roots, much less lightning affinity ones.

What a pity. He was still guessing whether Mo Wuji had unique affinity spiritual roots. If Mo Wuji did, coupled with his talent as a pill refiner, Yuan Zhenji might have tied Qu Wan’Er and Mo Wuji together.

Since Mo Wuji had typical spiritual roots, he was naturally not a match for Qu Wan’Er. He felt such a great pity that his alchemy talent was wasted by his poor innate roots.

Seeing that Qu Wan’Er remained silent for some time, Yuan Zhenji said, ”Pill Master Mo, Wan’Er and I are here today because…”

He did not wish to continue wasting anymore time, Yuan Zhenji intended to immediately ask about the jade bracelets and leave as soon as possible.

Mo Wuji had already predicted the reason for Qu Wan’Er’s visit. Before Yuan Zhenji even finished his sentence, Mo Wuji took the initiative to pass a bracelet over to Qu Wan’Er, ”Senior Qu, my luck is not bad, and I managed to obtain some placings. I’ll give this one to Senior Qu.”

”Many thanks Pill Master Mo. How many spirit stones is this worth? I will give…” Qu Wan’Er carefully accepted the bracelet. She was still unsure of how to pop the question, and she did not expect that Mo Wuji would simply pass it to her.

Mo Wuji laughed lightly, ”Senior Qu, you’ve helped me out before, and did not ask for anything in return. If I had to take Senior Qu’s spirit stones for a simple bracelet, I, Mo Wuji, would be far too ungrateful.”

Since Mo Wuji had put it that way, Qu Wan’Er no longer mentioned spirit stones, but embarrassedly expressed her gratitude.

Yuan Zhenji understood his own disciple, and knew that she definitely did not wish to stay there. He also did not expect for things to go so smoothly, so he simply stood up and said, ”Pill Master Mo, Wan’Er and I did come here for the bracelet. Since Pill Master Mo isn’t willing to accept spirit stones, if you meet with any difficulty, you can find me at the Heavenly Temple. We’ll no longer disturb Pill Master Mo.”

After sending Yuan Zhenji and Qu Wan’Er off, Mo Wuji shook his head. If that Yuan Zhenji truly intended to help him, he would not have simply said that sentence. At the very least, he could offer some sort of identification token for Mo Wuji.

However, Mo Wuji did not mind as he had never intended to look for Yuan Zhenji for help.

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”Master, you said that Pill Master Mo can always look for you, but why didn’t you leave behind your identity token?” After leaving the Nine Moons Pill House encampment, Qu Wan’Er regained her usual countenance.

Yuan Zhenji sighed before saying,”His spiritual roots should indeed be of low grade. It might even be the lowest of low grade spiritual roots. He must have encountered some luck to be able to cultivate to the late levels of the Channel Opening Stage. However, this is where it ends, so he definitely wouldn’t go to the Heavenly Temple.”

”Then, you…” Qu Wan’Er gave her master a baffled look.

Yuan Zhenji said directly, ”Those were just empty words. Even if he did go to the Heavenly Temple, what would I gain by helping him?

Even though his cultivation talent is horrible, he understands a bit about human relations. Didn’t you see him offer you the bracelet even before I opened my mouth? He is a pill refiner with little hopes of advancing his cultivation, but he was entitled by the Nine Moons Pill House to allocate one or two bracelets. This meant that he must have some capabilities. Naturally, he would understand the intention behind my words. He also offered the bracelet to repay your help. After this, the two of you will be clear from all your ties.”

Yuan Zhenji did not know that Mo Wuji did not merely get to allocate one or two bracelets; he could allocate all of his bracelets. If he did, he would not have been in such a rush to leave.

”But the help I offered and the help he returned are not on the same level…” Qu Wan’Er was still a little troubled.

Yuan Zhenji chuckled, ”That’s just from your perspective. Let’s stop thinking about such useless matters. Even though we already have a bracelet, we can still get some from the sect.”

The Heavenly Temple had a pill refiner who was at 84th place, so there were still 17 available bracelets.