Chapter 045: Senluo Seed
“You old hag, are you still enjoying the show?” Qin Gou glared, his eyes filled with rage.
The old guard with missing teeth looked like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water. He smiled and gazed at Qin Gou, then pointed at Gu Feiyan, saying, “If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. Everyone else can go in now, but she’s not allowed. Because I suspect she’s the Demonic Path demoness, Gu Feiyan.”
“Ridiculous! I think you’re just abusing your power!” Qin Gou’s eyes widened as he reprimanded the guard with righteous indignation, though he secretly thought, ‘This old timer is truly steady.’
“What evidence do you have to slander someone’s reputation out of thin air? Young man, you shouldn’t speak such nonsense.” The old guard scoffed, “I’m giving you a chance to prove yourself because I’m saving you. I didn’t expect you to not only be ungrateful but also to slander me. How pitiful.”
“Fine, you old crow, you’ve got guts. This young master is like a tiger fallen to the plains today.” Qin Gou tossed aside the folding fan in his hand, then pulled Gu Feiyan’s fragrant and delicate body into his embrace. He pecked her fair cheek with a kiss like a dragonfly touching water.
Throughout the entire process, Gu Feiyan didn’t resist at all, but her pretty face quickly flushed crimson. Her swan-like, long, and snow-white neck was also tinged with pink.
“Are you satisfied now?” Qin Gou asked fiercely.
Seeing that the profligate finally succumbed to his lust, the old guard secretly rejoiced and nodded slightly. He then looked confused, asking, “Why has this little maid kept her eyes shut the entire time?”
“She was born like this. This young master saw that she couldn’t lift a shoulder pole, couldn’t see, and was pitiful, so I bestowed her upon myself as a concubine. What about it? Do you think this young master has the bearing of a gentleman?” Qin Gou said with self-satisfied pride.
“Tch.” The old guard rolled his eyes disdainfully. “This is the first time I’ve seen a lecher praise himself so shamelessly. If you want to enter the city, hurry up. You disgust me.”
“Alright, you just wait. This young master remembers you. Next time I don’t have my father deal with you, I won’t be the eldest young master of Little Qin Money House.” Qin Gou, while letting Hu Le drive the carriage, swore and grumbled.
“It’s no use looking for your father. In this small patch of land that is Luomu City, he probably doesn’t have much say. You’d better let your mother handle it.” The old guard grinned broadly and laughed.
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“Senior Sister Liu, thank you just now.” Qin Gou said gratefully, with a hint of awkwardness.
Liu Ying’s face flushed. She shook her head, “It’s nothing. I did it for the sect and Senior Sister Gu. Junior Brother Qin, you must not overthink it.”
“Okay.” Qin Gou smiled knowingly and looked at the even more difficult challenge beside him… Gu Feiyan.
“Just now, that was for…”
“Enough.”
Gu Feiyan suddenly opened her beautiful eyes, which had regained their luster. “I’ve already said it before. All personal feelings and grievances are set aside for now. You don’t need to explain anything to me, nor do you need to feel embarrassed. As for what just happened, I’ll just consider it as being licked by a dog!”
“Alright… have your eyes recovered?” Qin Gou asked.
“Just now,” Gu Feiyan’s tone grew cold. She turned her head away, hiding a hint of deep, imperceptible shyness in her eyes.
Outside the quiet room.
Gu Feiyan, Liu Ying, the Hu brothers, and others sat solemnly, guarding strictly, not letting go of any sign of movement.
Indoors, Qin Gou thought to himself, “Infuse 1000 Merit points into the Azure Emperor Painting Scroll.”
“Ding. Infusion successful. Host has 50 Merit points remaining.”
Qin Gou felt an invisible shackle within his body instantly break. His entire aura rapidly climbed at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally reaching the Hidden Weapon Realm.
Outside, Gu Feiyan and the others sensed the change in Qin Gou’s aura and couldn’t help but be shocked.
“So fast?”
A drop of verdant water spun rapidly before Qin Gou’s eyes. The green light swirling around the water droplet gradually faded, revealing its true form bit by bit.
Time flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, Qin Gou had been sitting in meditation for three hours.
“Ding. Congratulations to the host for successfully deriving the Natal Spirit Tool ‘Senluo Seed’.”
Qin Gou was overjoyed. He gazed gently at the green seed covered in complex patterns in his hand. The names of all Natal Spirit Tools were not chosen by their masters. Instead, as soon as the master looked at their Natal Spirit Tool, its name would naturally ring out in their minds, as if they were communicating with their master.
“Analyze the main abilities of the Senluo Seed,” Qin Gou said calmly.
Originally, the peculiar abilities that each Natal Spirit Tool possessed would be naturally understood by its master within a few days of its birth. However, Qin Gou now saved himself a lot of effort.
Natal Spirit Tool: Senluo Seed (Yellow Tier, Growable)
Effect 1: ‘Anthem of Three Hundred and Sixty Million’, can perfectly simulate any plant of Yellow Tier or below. Its form, characteristics, and efficacy are exactly the same as the original.
Effect 2: ‘Agile Stance’, as long as the host’s spiritual power is sufficient, the size and length of the plant simulated in Effect 1 can be freely changed.
Effect 3: ‘Peach and Plum’, summon two Senluo Seed clones that can use Effects 1 and 2, but they cannot move after detaching from the host’s true body.
Qin Gou’s gaze burned as he looked at the Senluo Seed in his hand.
A small seed rapidly transformed in his palm, becoming an orchid, a small tea tree, a foxtail grass… a ‘Zombie Grass’ that could originally only control small insects like ants, but when enlarged under Qin Gou’s spiritual power, could invade a cultivator’s brain.
A ‘Dragon Saliva Grass’ that could cause a hundred snakes to attack and a python disaster even before being magnified.
A ‘Lover’s Smile’ that could naturally emit a mist of desire.
A ‘Snow Heart Flower’ that produced a few drops of healing spirit liquid, but which was now large enough to bathe in before Qin Gou.
A ‘Living Dead Vine’ whose toughness was such that even a cultivator in the Hidden Weapon Realm would find it difficult to break free if entangled.
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Finally, Qin Gou looked at a small purple mushroom and fell silent. This little fellow, which could automatically emit colorless and odorless poisonous mist, was called ‘Ghost Crying Mushroom’. Qin Gou discovered that if he exhausted all his spiritual power, he could seemingly enlarge it to be taller than the city gate, and then, in a flash, turn an entire city into a dead grave.
Could other cultivators in the Hidden Weapon Realm do this?
Although he didn’t know how different the ‘Heavenly Demon Seed’ derived by the founding ancestor of the Seed Demon Sacred Cult was from his own ‘Senluo Seed’, Qin Gou was already completely satisfied.
“Xiao Yan, Liu Ying, Da Hu, Er Hu, come in for some tea.”
Gu Feiyan pushed open the door and asked nervously, “Xiao Qin, I heard a lot of commotion from inside just now, but I didn’t dare to disturb you. How are you?”
Qin Gou’s palm now held a lush green Yellow Tier Enlightenment Tea tree. He placed a few leaves into a teacup and smiled, saying, “The breakthrough was very smooth. I couldn’t be better.”
