Ye Ju never liked to force others. After discussing how to handle the spirit stone veins, Ye Ju changed the topic and curiously asked Xiangzi how he arrived in this uninhabited deep-sea area.
Zhao Xiangzi's face showed a slight embarrassment as he recounted that while passing through a certain sea area, he was knocked unconscious by an unknown creature. His flying boat was also sent flying. When he woke up, he was in this sea area, with his flying boat damaged and his direction lost for several days.
By chance, he sensed a strong spiritual energy fluctuation in this sea area and put away his flying boat to explore the seabed. Later, he encountered fellow Daoist Ye and the others.
When Ye Ju heard that Zhao Xiangzi had been knocked unconscious by an unknown creature, the method felt very familiar. Yu Shou also liked to do that. Could it be…
Uh…
Zhao Xiangzi appeared near her island and was knocked away by Yu Shou, right?
Ye Ju suddenly lost the courage to investigate the truth with Yu Shou.
Looking at the unlucky Zhao Xiangzi, she felt inexplicably guilty. It turned out that his encounter with the sea monster was somewhat related to her…
The sky was getting late, probably around the morning hours. Ye Ju decided to quickly acquire the spirit stone veins from the seabed. After preparing, she asked Yu Shou to create an invisible barrier to protect the Purple Bamboo Boat and prepared to dive in.
After drinking the spiritual spring water, Zhao Xiangzi meditated and recuperated for half an hour. His internal injuries were mostly healed, and he felt even more grateful to Ye Ju. He knew that the spiritual spring water in the Purple Bamboo Pot was the best healing treasure in the world. As for the remaining hidden injuries, they would require long-term cultivation to recover. However, the most urgent matter now was to help fellow Daoist Ye.
He took out a water-repelling bead from another ring space and created a spiritual energy bubble for himself. The water-repelling bead only allowed him to breathe autonomously in water and could dive thousands of meters deep. However, the water pressure, even for cultivators, could cause harm, requiring spiritual energy protection. Unless one was a body cultivator with a powerful physique, they would not fear being crushed by the water pressure. But such body cultivators were rare!
Ye Ju stepped onto the surface of the water. Little Mo's body rapidly expanded. After Ye Ju and Xiaobai rode on it, the seawater suddenly parted, and Little Mo dived down. Zhao Xiangzi watched this series of actions with wide eyes. By the time he snapped back to reality, Ye Ju and her companions were nowhere to be seen. He quickly cast a spell to follow them.
Zhao Xiangzi was indeed a proud talent of the Chao Tian Sect, with proficient magical skills. He rapidly dove down. Soon, he saw Ye Ju, riding on a giant electric eel resembling a swimming dragon, several hundred meters below him in the deep sea.
He saw fellow Daoist Ye without any protection and was secretly alarmed. Fellow Daoist Ye definitely possessed a water-controlling spiritual item. She was truly a proud descendant of an reclusive master, with profound heritage. One could only befriend her, not oppose her!
Arriving at the great trench of the spirit stone veins, it was dark on the seabed, making it impossible to see. Fortunately, neither of the two people nor the two beasts were restricted.
Fellow Daoist Zhao had already told Ye Ju how to collect the spirit stones. The veins spanned thousands of miles. The two of them cooperated, quickly using their spells to collect all of them directly into their ring spaces.
Little Mo and Xiaobai went directly to the enormous corpse of the sea monster. Last time, they discovered that the sea monster's body also contained demonic energy, and they wanted to take some meat back. However, they discovered that another part of the sea monster's body had already been gnawed away by some unknown creature.
Xiaobai and Little Mo immediately became vigilant and patrolled the surrounding hundred-mile radius, but found nothing.
“Sister, the sea monster’s body was half eaten by an unknown creature. We need to return to the surface as soon as possible.” Xiaobai’s alertness had increased significantly after several battles. Her current strength was not enough to protect her master sister, so she tried to stay away from danger as much as possible.
The sea monster’s body was huge, and the fact that it was half eaten indicated the immense size of this unknown creature. And living in this water area and daring to come to the sea monster’s territory meant its strength was not to be underestimated!
Upon receiving Xiaobai’s telepathic message, Ye Ju immediately released her divine sense to investigate, but found nothing. Either the opponent was stronger than her and could hide their form, making them undiscoverable, or another possibility was that it had already left…
Regardless of the reason, Ye Ju did not want to confront powerful creatures in the water. The water still restricted her strength.
Ye Ju summoned Yu Shou. Yu Shou had returned to its stick form. Now Ye Ju knew that her natal magical treasure could change as she wished. She controlled Yu Shou to lengthen tens of meters.
With a clear shout, she channeled her divine power and smashed it towards the spirit stone veins, stripping away the outer layer of the entire vein to expose the spirit stones, and then used her spiritual energy to absorb them into her spiritual ring. The previous method using Zhao Xiangzi’s technique was too slow. The advantage was that it wouldn’t damage the surface of the veins, but Ye Ju was now using her own method, which was fast and convenient. She couldn’t worry about anything else. Compared to the unknown dangers, this was more time and effort saving. Xiaobai also collected quite a bit into her spiritual space.
Then, they quickly swam upwards, returning to the surface.
Upon reaching the deck, Ye Ju and the others breathed a sigh of relief. The sun was approaching noon, and they decided not to have lunch, but to leave this sea area first. Little Mo voluntarily went to the front to pull the boat.
Taking out spiritual fruits to fill their stomachs, Ye Ju watched Zhao Xiangzi staring blankly at the spiritual fruit in her hand. She muttered to herself, “What’s wrong again? This ancient cultivator’s ignorant look is really annoying. I’m the one who’s a cultivation newbie, okay!”
“Fellow Daoist Zhao, what’s wrong? These fruits are not poisonous and can be eaten.”
“Oh, no, fellow Daoist Ye misunderstood. This—this—this is an Ice Spirit Fruit. It blooms once every thousand years and bears fruit once every thousand years. This is too precious! Please take it back.” Zhao Xiangzi hastily explained, feeling that fellow Daoist Ye was kind and sincere, but he couldn’t take advantage of her.
Ye Ju…
Does this fruit tree take so long to bear fruit? After watering it with spiritual spring water, it bloomed and bore fruit in the blink of an eye! It seems that the spiritual spring water from her home is truly heaven-defying! And is this Ice Spirit Fruit like the legendary Ginseng Fruit? Blooming once every thousand years and bearing fruit once every thousand years.
Thinking about how she and Xiaobai ate it as casual fruit, she suddenly felt it was too luxurious!
“Fellow Daoist Zhao, there’s no need to be polite. I have a lot more here. I encountered a tree by chance before and picked all of them.” Ye Ju said casually.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, how about this? I’ll trade you other treasures or cultivation techniques. I have a sister at home who has an Ice Spirit Root and needs this spiritual fruit. Please trade a few with me.”
“Cultivation techniques? Treasures?” Ye Ju’s interest was piqued.
“Tell me about it.” Ye Ju suppressed her impatience and remained composed.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, I see that your Purple Bamboo Boat is propelled by your spiritual pet. I happen to have a Form-Concealing Array that can travel a thousand miles a day. I also have a Qiankun Bag that can hold living creatures for exchange. Would you be willing to trade two Ice Spirit Fruits for it?”
“Feasible, of course, it’s feasible!”
Ye Ju was delighted. She already felt sorry for Little Mo pulling the boat every day. This was great. With the array, Little Mo could rest. She could also store them in the Qiankun Bag, as Little Mo’s body shape was too conspicuous, even when its size was reduced to five or six meters long.
Ye Ju immediately took out two Ice Spirit Fruits and gave them to Zhao Xiangzi. After Zhao Xiangzi helped her inscribe the Form-Concealing Array and explained its usage in detail, she mentioned that it could be activated automatically by embedding spirit stones into the array eye.
Furthermore, it could automatically identify directions and be controlled by the heart of the person who inscribed the array. It was simply more convenient than cars and ships from Earth’s China. She had just acquired an entire vein of spirit stones, and according to fellow Daoist Zhao, they were top-grade spirit stones. She had truly struck it rich!
After everything was done, Ye Ju felt that she had benefited more and insisted on giving him two more spiritual fruits.
Zhao Xiangzi felt even more deeply that fellow Daoist Ye had noble character and was only inexperienced. He vowed to protect her if he had the chance in the future!