“It’s all paid off. Piaotian,” the girl said in a thin voice with her head lowered.
Ye Mo didn’t ask any more questions, since the debts were owed must be owed by the girl’s grandfather. This little girl was only a teenager, there was no way she could have owed so much. Just how could her grandfather, a spiritual elixir master, be poor? Even if he was in debt, he wouldn’t have gotten a storage ring, right? Ye Mo shook his head and couldn’t figure it out.
Ye Mo followed the girl all the way and learned a lot about her.
Her grandfather’s name was Jin Xiangui. When he became an adult, he went out to make his way in the world, and then by chance, he studied with a spiritual elixir master in Dan City. When he became a master himself, he settled in Dan City.
Fifteen years ago, Houng brought back Jin Zhihui and settled in Dancheng. At that time, Houng Zhi Chang was still young and all the information she received came from Jin Xian Gui.
When Ye Mo heard this, he had a suspicion that perhaps this Jin Zhi Zhi was not Houng Xian Gui’s granddaughter, because this granddaughter of his had come too suddenly. Of course, this kind of thing was just a casual thought in Ye Mo’s mind, but he didn’t think about it carefully.
When Jin Xiangui died six years ago, he left behind an eleven-year-old Jin Zhihui. It was a good thing that he had also left a place for him to live and some of his possessions.
Just as Ye Mo was about to ask how all these possessions had been paid off, he heard Houng Zhi Zhi say, “We’ve arrived.”
The courtyard was somewhat old, and although it was not a busy area in Dancheng, it was not too remote either. There was a simple three-pole defence formation and a formation to shield divine sense on the outside of the courtyard. Ye Mo couldn’t imagine that Chang’s grandfather had left such a nice place for Chang in Dan City.
Ye Mo nodded, this was much better than he had expected, as long as Hou Jin had a place like this, in another ten years or so after she advanced to Jindan, her future would still be good.
“Senior, please come in.” Jin Zhi Hou carefully took out the formation jade token and opened the formation door, saying to Ye Mo.
Ye Mo followed Houng Zhi Hou into the small courtyard, but found that there were two huge spirit-attracting trees in the middle of the courtyard. Because of these two spirit-attracting trees, the spirit energy of the whole courtyard was also abundant, even if Houng Zhi Hou didn’t go to set up a stall, as long as she cultivated under these two trees, she should still be fine.
There were six rooms in the courtyard, and when Ye Mo’s divine sense swept through them, he found that all of them were occupied, except for the smallest room furthest away from the spirit tree, which was empty. Could it be that this Jin Zhi Chang also relied exclusively on renting rooms to collect spirit stones? If so, she wouldn’t have to set up a stall.
But there was only one room here, so if she rented it to herself, where would she live?
Sure enough Jin Zhi Chang led Ye Mo to the smallest room and said, “Senior, you can stay here.”
Ye Mo looked at Houng Jin in confusion, “This is the last empty room here, I’ll stay here, what about you?”
Jin Zhi Chang did not expect Ye Mo to have already swept through with his divine sense, her face blushed slightly and she said, “I will just rest inside the courtyard at night.”
Ye Mo frowned, it was obvious that the place where Houlihan told him to stay was where she would rest. For him even if he couldn’t find a place to stay, he could still go outside the city and deal with it, there was no need to occupy Jin Zhi Chang’s place.
Seeing that Ye Mo did not say anything but frowned, Jin Zhi Zhi became worried and she looked at Ye Mo a little nervously, afraid that this business would not work out. She could see that Ye Mo was a nice person and was very kind to her, otherwise he wouldn’t have bought one of her magic treasure fragments.
After a few moments of contemplation Ye Mo suddenly asked, “Zhi Zhi, did your grandfather leave you this courtyard?”
Jin Zhi Chang nodded and looked at Ye Mo in confusion and said, “Yes, it was left to me by my grandfather.”
“Then why did you go and set up a stall when you have someone with five rooms to rent?” Ye Mo asked, once again puzzled.
Jin Zhi Chang lowered her head and said, “Those rooms are not rented out, it’s because grandpa owes someone else and has temporarily mortgaged them to someone else. If I don’t pay off the debt in ten years, the home will have to be given to someone else. It’s been six years now and almost all the spirit stones I’ve earned have paid off the debt.”
“Just how many spirit stones did your grandfather owe in debt?” Ye Mo asked in a deep voice, before he heard Hou Jin Zhi Zhi say that she owed a large amount of debt causing her poverty, but didn’t care, after all it was a matter of the past. But now, it seemed that this debt problem had not been solved until now.
“It’s a long story.” Jin Zhi Chang sighed and looked at a few other rooms, with some worry in her eyes.
Ye Mo also felt several divine senses sweeping over at the same time, the highest cultivation level was at the fifth level of Jindan, and the lowest one was only at the first level of Jindan.
“Alright then, you and I will go to the room and talk.” Immediately after Ye Mo and Zhang Zhi Zhi entered the room, they set up a forbidden system, and several divine senses were immediately unable to sweep into this room. The divine senses seemed to know that someone high up was coming, so they hurriedly withdrew their divine senses, not daring to continue sweeping in.
When Jin Zhi Chang saw that Ye Mo had casually laid down an extremely strong forbidden system, even more powerful than the formation of the small courtyard, she was surprised and looked at Ye Mo again, she felt that Ye Mo was much more powerful than she had thought.
“Say it.” Ye Mo got up to help Houng Zhi Zhi, and asked immediately after he finished setting up the forbidden system.
Jin Zhi Chang nodded, Ye Mo gave her a somewhat cordial feeling and didn’t disdain low level cultivators just because he had a very high cultivation level.
“Six years ago, one of my grandfather’s friends came to him and said that he had discovered an ancient relic in the Great Casting Mountain and asked my grandfather to go along. My grandfather didn’t think much of it and asked a few friends to go to that relic with him. Only after a few days, he came back with a few friends. He used them to buy many magic treasures and medicinal materials in Dancheng, and he made many more pills before he left Dancheng again. ……” Jin began to recall what happened to her grandfather back then, except that she was still young, and she only knew that many things were so. But did not know why that way.
He said he thought the cultivators who lived in this courtyard had taken over Houng Zhi Zhi’s territory, but now it seems that Houng Zhi’s grandfather really owed a lot of spirit stones.
She had never thought about whether someone was setting up her grandfather. She just continued, “After my grandfather went, he never came back, and the few friends who went with him never came back either.”
Ye Mo nodded and asked, “Then who are the people living inside this courtyard?”
“They were all people who used to seek out my grandfather’s alchemy. At that time, my grandfather went around borrowing spirit stones, and all these people had been borrowed by my grandfather. Some of them didn’t come for their debts after my grandfather left because they were grateful to him for helping them refine pills, but there are still some who want me to repay them. I don’t have any spirit stones, so I have to mortgage this courtyard.” Jin Zhi Chang replied.
“Then how many spirit stones do you still owe these people?”
“A total of seven hundred thousand is still owed.”
Ye Mo was a bit speechless, he knew that in Nan’an Continent they were generally talking about upper grade spirit stones. Seven hundred thousand upper grade spirit stones was just a little bit to himself, but to Hou Zhi Jin, even if she set up a stall for a generation, she wouldn’t be able to pay it back.
“What is the Great Casting Mountain? What kind of ancient ruins did your grandfather go to?” Ye Mo felt that the mountain sounded a bit strange.
Jin Zhi Chang shook her head and said, “I don’t know, I’ve never been out of Dan City. When my grandfather left, he said he would definitely come back, but instructed me not to leave Dan City to look for him until he returned. That relic I only happened to hear my grandfather mention it when talking to his friends, it seems to be some kind of ‘Pill King Spirit Vein’.”
A spiritual vein? Ye Mo’s heart twitched, could this ‘Pill King Spiritual Vein’ that Jin Zhiqiang was talking about be an ordinary spiritual vein?
His ‘Bitter Bamboo’ happened to need a spirit vein, and if it really was a spirit vein, he even wanted to go to the Great Casting Mountain to take a look at it before.
“Zhi Hou, do you know how to make pills?” Ye Mo thought that Houng Zhi Zhi’s grandfather was an alchemist, so she should know more or less about alchemy.
Unexpectedly, Houng Zhi Hou shook her head and said, “I don’t know how to make pills, my grandfather never taught me how to make pills.”
Although Ye Mo was puzzled, he didn’t think much of it. Many alchemists and dan kings did not want their descendants to continue to refine pills, after all, refining pills would waste too much time and cost too much. The average alchemist’s cultivation level was not very high just because they wasted a lot of time refining pills. This leaves relatively little time for cultivation.
Of course there are some genius cultivators who are not only very good at alchemy, but also very good at cultivation. It was just that relatively speaking, there were far fewer such cultivators.
“What kind of spiritual root are you?” Ye Mo had already moved to accept Jin Zhi Zhang as his disciple. He had a few disciples, but there was only one disciple in alchemy, Yu Qi Yang, and Yu Qi Yang was still in the North Watch Continent.
“I have three spiritual roots of water, wood and gold.” Jin Zhi Chang seemed to sense Ye Mo’s affectionate intentions towards her and immediately replied.
To be exact, Hou Jin’s spiritual root was not good, and it was also not suitable for alchemy. However, Ye Mo did not care, he believed that his alchemy heritage was not very strict on the spiritual root requirements. What’s more, he also had two water-attribute strange fires. In the future, if Houng Zhiqiang had achieved something, he could even give a water attribute fire to Houng Zhiqiang.
As for poor and impure spiritual roots, Ye Mo didn’t care, he still had a ‘Five-coloured Lian’ inside his Golden Page world, and now he was using the same pool of water that had raised the ‘Nine Coloured Lotus’, who could be sure that he wouldn’t be able to raise the ‘Nine Coloured Lotus ‘?
Thinking of this, Ye Mo suddenly asked, ”I am an alchemist because you remind me of another person close to me. I would like to take you as my disciple now, are you willing?”
“Ah …… senior is here for the Dan City Dan King Competition?”
Jin Zhi Chang just said that before she remembered what Ye Mo said afterwards, she immediately cursed herself for being confused, she didn’t even think before she fell to her knees and said, “Zhi Chang is willing to worship senior as her master.”
At the same time she understood in her heart why this senior had always been gentle and kind to her, it turned out that she was very much like one of his kind people, she just didn’t know what kind of person that person was to him
