First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 144: A Bountiful Harvest

"Senior Chen, I've used the Unified Harmony Code!"

"Did I save their lives? With such a great favor, asking for a few spirit stones and soul essence is not excessive."

Shen Mo said righteously.

"Taking their money for saving their lives, the favor is repaid, and no one owes anyone."

"As for the elixirs, it's just a small favor."

"A small favor is fine, but not repaying a life-saving favor can lead to troublesome karmic entanglements..."

Hearing this, Chen Mengze nodded thoughtfully.

Indeed.

In the cultivation world, grudges are hard to resolve, and favors are hard to repay!

Human hearts and heavenly calculations are both unpredictable.

Small grievances can escalate into life-and-death feuds, and life-saving favors can turn into one's own calamity.

"It seems that you have also made progress..."

Chen Mengze hadn't forgotten that Shen Mo had helped Guo Shixiong for a small benefit in the past.

"..."

Shen Mo felt embarrassed to continue the conversation.

He couldn't tell Chen Mengze that he was only interested in the spirit stones and soul essence in Li Sanming's hands.

Not charging a fee for saving someone would make him feel like he was at a loss!

As for the healing elixirs he generously gave out, in his eyes, they were just materials worth two spirit stones, and they were not difficult to refine.

"You lazy one, get up and start working." Shen Mo's mind moved, and he opened his spirit pet bag.

A red figure emerged.

"Ying! Ying!"

The Spirit Burrow Rat tugged at Shen Mo's robe and climbed onto his shoulder.

The dense gloomy aura in the Ghost Country Ruins made the little guy uncomfortable, and it expressed its desire to go back into the bag and sleep through divine consciousness.

Shen Mo directly stuffed a piece of jerky into its mouth.

With its intermediate second-stage demonic beast strength, it could almost ignore the erosion of the gloomy aura.

Not to mention, it also obtained the "Barbaric Demonic Body" from the Bull Venerable.

Even if the gloomy aura became as dense as water, it could swim back and forth hundreds of times without getting tired.

It was unrealistic to expect to find a treasure trove in the Ghost Country Ruins with just the information jade slips from the market.

At this moment, it was time for this little guy to show its abilities.

"You really made it your spirit pet?"

Seeing the Spirit Burrow Rat, Chen Mengze was somewhat surprised.

In the Xuanjing Mine Vein area, she saw Shen Mo feeding this fat rat, and later, he even left with it.

Then, she casually mentioned the matter of spirit pet contracts.

Unexpectedly, Shen Mo really established a master-servant relationship with this rat that had no potential.

Sensing Chen Mengze's disdain, the Spirit Burrow Rat looked at her blankly, then rubbed against Shen Mo's cheek with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

"Well, you better perform well." Shen Mo poked its fat belly.

With jerky as a reward and the provocation of Law Manifestation, the Spirit Burrow Rat eagerly sniffed for the scent of treasures.

"To the north, about five miles away, there's a treasure."

Immediately, Shen Mo called out to the confused Chen Mengze and flew north on his flying sword.

The direction of the north led deeper into the ruins.

It was not surprising that the outer areas were relatively safe, and any good treasures had already been plundered by treasure-hunting cultivators like locusts.

The deeper they went, the more treasures there would be.

Along the way, they encountered a large number of bloated starving ghosts, as well as drowned ghosts and hanging ghosts with similar strength.

Shen Mo was not stingy with his spiritual power and sent them all to meet the King of Hell.

As for the lower-grade, more numerous little ghosts, killing them would not leave any soul essence behind.

Whether it's Shen Mo or Chen Mengze, they have very few interests.

Before long, at the location pointed out by the Spirit-Hiding Rat, the two of them dug up a unique ore called Ghost Tears Black Crystal.

It's worth about twenty low-grade spirit stones.

"To be able to find treasures, it turns out this Spirit-Hiding Rat is not an ordinary Gold-Eating Rat!"

After witnessing the formidable talent of the Spirit-Hiding Rat, Chen Mengze couldn't help but feel a bit envious.

"Ying! Ying!"

The little guy stood with its paws on its waist, looking proud, as if it was showing off to me.

The next day.

Guided by the Spirit-Hiding Rat, the two of them searched everywhere.

Compared to the abundant herbs and spiritual fruits in the River Border Sect's Mountain and River Realm, the Ghost Nation ruins did not have much to offer in terms of spiritual medicine.

After all, the land here is barren, and there are a large number of starving ghosts and big and small ghosts. Even if there were wild spiritual medicines, they would have been eaten by them long ago.

However, there were plenty of unique ores from the Ghost Nation.

Even though the appearance of these ores and spiritual materials would cause their prices to drop for a period of time after being unearthed from the Ghost Nation ruins, the two of them still obtained a considerable income.

Shen Mo calculated that their daily earnings were worth about three hundred spirit stones.

Shen Mo's spiritual pet, the Spirit-Hiding Rat, played a huge role.

So, Chen Mengze didn't agree to split the income equally with Shen Mo. Instead, she only took thirty percent, while the remaining seventy percent belonged to Shen Mo.

Compared to what they obtained in the Mountain and River Realm, it was naturally far apart.

But it was still much more than what they could earn by constantly making talismans and refining pills to earn spirit stones.

With Shen Mo's current skills in pill-making and talisman-crafting, after deducting the cost of materials, he could earn about seventy to eighty spirit stones per day.

However, don't forget that there were also a large number of spiritual souls to account for in the Ghost Nation ruins.

He needed to cultivate the "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body" and had no intention of selling the spiritual souls. Instead, he used spirit stones to buy the spiritual souls Chen Mengze obtained after killing ghosts.

As a result, Chen Mengze's daily earnings reached around one hundred and fifty spirit stones.

This was not a small amount. In the previous task of guarding the Xuanjing Mine, they earned one hundred spirit stones per month.

Even so, the rewards for the task were considered generous.

Of course, guarding tasks were relatively safe and allowed for leisure time to cultivate.

Unlike exploring treasures in the ruins.

Not only were there ghosts lurking around, but they also had to be on guard against other cultivators.

They had to be extremely careful at all times and couldn't focus on cultivation in such an environment.

In any case, for Chen Mengze, the harvest was quite abundant.

She invited Shen Mo in order to mentor him a bit.

It was a way to repay Shen Mo for helping her father refine the Thunder-Transforming Pill.

Who would have thought that after entering the Ghost Nation ruins, she would end up being the one mentored instead.

This made Chen Mengze's mood somewhat complicated.

Shen Mo didn't feel like Chen Mengze had taken advantage of him.

After the Spirit-Hiding Rat informed them of the location of the treasures, they often split up to search for precious ores with maximum efficiency.

If he were alone, his harvest would definitely not be as abundant.

Moreover, he needed a large number of soul spirits, and with Chen Mengze's help in collecting them, it greatly improved his cultivation of the Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body.

The sky above the Ghost Nation ruins was covered in ghostly mist all year round.

It was hazy and had no distinction between day and night.

However, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze still took turns to be on guard and rest during certain periods of time to recover their energy.

During this time, Shen Mo refined all the spiritual souls he obtained using the "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body," and the experience bar on his panel increased by a few points.

Just as he finished cultivating, the Spirit-Hiding Rat climbed onto his shoulder and said, "Master, there is something of great value about seven miles to the north."

It wasn't that the Spirit-Hiding Rat had changed its nature.

It was because Shen Mo had drawn a more delicious pie to motivate it to work harder.

After taking out the map jade slip and looking at it, he found that the place it mentioned was the dangerous area that Li Sanming had informed them about, and the map also marked it as perilous.

(End of this chapter)