I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World-Chapter 198 - 170: One Hundred
"Elder Moh, if I wanted to kill you, wouldn’t it have been better to do it while you were unconscious just now?" Jiang Yuebai asked with a smile.
Moh Baichun withdrew her gaze, "Then you should be glad I didn’t take action while you were unconscious."
Jiang Yuebai was taken aback.
Moh Baichun looked outside and said casually, "For a loose cultivator, how could one dare to let themselves fall unconscious before strangers without some life-preserving methods? Where are you planning to go?"
Jiang Yuebai replied, "At this time, everyone knows that fighting is forbidden inside Chaotian Palace, making it appear safe, but around Chaotian Palace is actually unsafe. I intend to go to Spiritual Mist Mountain, where it’s relatively safer with low-level cultivators growing spiritual tea."
Moh Baichun nodded, secretly observing Jiang Yuebai. Ten years had passed, and the once lively and proud little girl had grown calm and restrained, truly making her unrecognizable.
The main point is her pure heart, which hasn’t been worn down by the cruelty of the Cultivation Realm.
In that situation earlier, even Moh Baichun herself would have found it hard to resist the urge to kill and steal treasure.
"Are you a disciple of the Heavenly Interference Sect?" Moh Baichun asked.
Jiang Yuebai did not deny it, nodding, "Heavenly Interference Sect, Jiang Yuebai."
"Judging by your cultivation level now, your aptitude must not be bad, at least an Inner Sect disciple. No wonder you didn’t agree to follow me back then. What about your grandfather?"
"Passed away," Jiang Yuebai said flatly.
From the change in Jiang Yuebai’s expression, Moh Baichun knew there must be bittersweet stories and didn’t press further, just looked outside.
The cabin fell silent, and after some thought, Jiang Yuebai broke the silence.
"Elder Moh, in fact, I’m specially here to thank you this time."
"I didn’t help you with anything; there’s nothing to thank me for," Moh Baichun replied.
Jiang Yuebai shook her head, "No, the Divine Mechanism Stone Method and Puppet Wooden Doll you left me helped me through the toughest times. Back then, I was young and reckless, and I offended the elder."
"Really?" Moh Baichun raised an eyebrow, "In that case, by saving me this time, we’re even."
Her words of thanks were completely blocked, and seeing Moh Baichun’s empty lower body, Jiang Yuebai hurriedly took out various puppets she had made from her Storage Bracelet.
"Elder Moh, I have some puppets here. Could you see if they can be dismantled and reassembled to help with your leg... to facilitate your movement?"
Cultivators only reach Nascent Soul Stage can they reshape their bodies; before that, Moh Baichun could only rely on puppets for movement.
Moh Baichun turned over and examined some puppets, "Are these for mining? It seems you’ve put in a lot of thought over these years; breaking convention is quite commendable. You have some talent as a puppet master."
Moh Baichun started to dismantle the puppets, modifying parts with techniques that left Jiang Yuebai mesmerized.
"Elder Moh, I didn’t see clearly just now. How did you connect this part, allowing it to rotate in eight directions without affecting it?"
"Want to know?" Moh Baichun asked with a smile.
Jiang Yuebai nodded vigorously, her eyes bright.
Moh Baichun extended a hand, "One hundred Mid-Grade Spiritual Stones."
"Cough!" Jiang Yuebai choked on her saliva.
Moh Baichun chuckled softly, "We loose cultivators are not like you sect cultivators who are well-provided for and compassionate. When I wanted to take you under my wing back then, naturally, I had to bait some. Now knowing you won’t be my disciple, why should I teach you for free?"
Jiang Yuebai: ......
"In view of our somewhat fated connection, I can teach you a couple of tricks, but it’s priced clearly, understand, little girl?"
Jiang Yuebai nodded with a bitter face, feeling that although Moh Baichun was very realistic, she also made sense and could find no rebuttal.
"Then I won’t ask you about puppet mechanism technique. I want to know what you used in the end to control those two Foundation Establishment cultivators?"
"Ten Mid-Grade Spiritual Stones."
Jiang Yuebai widened her eyes, "This costs money too? Then I should charge you for these puppets!!"
Moh Baichun laughed, "Just teasing you; it’s a secret puppet master technique ’Silk Control Technique,’ Divine Sense Silk, allowing more precise control of puppet combat."
"I see, a secret technique... must be more expensive?"
"One hundred... Top-Grade Spiritual Stones!"
Jiang Yuebai widened her eyes, just as she expected!
Moh Baichun continued her busy work, with Jiang Yuebai looking on eagerly as she dismantled, modified, and reassembled.
"Elder Moh, what’s this part for..."
"One hundred Mid-Grade Spiritual Stones."
"..."
"Elder Moh, you this..."
"One hundred."
"..."
"Moh, cough~ I didn’t want to ask anything, please continue, continue."
Jiang Yuebai scratched her head in frustration.
She had yet to collect her half-year earnings from Huaxi Valley, and with only four hundred Mid-Grade Spiritual Stones on her, she could only ask four questions.
Jiang Yuebai covered her face, feeling the high cost of knowledge for the first time.
With the simple prosthetic legs installed, Moh Baichun slowly walked out of the cabin to stretch her muscles outside, looking back toward the Ten Thousand Poison Forest, where the great battle had largely subsided, and the world returned to stillness.
"This time, I really lost a lot; my realm fell, over a decade’s worth of puppets used up, and many good things taken by those two brats from the Hundred Yang Sect."
"Unfortunately, I almost died too, but surely, they fared no better. Who would have known the greatest treasure buried beneath that Heavenly Demon Sect ruin was actually a Tai Sui!"
"Tai Sui?" Jiang Yuebai, walking out, asked curiously, "Is it a Meat Ganoderma?"
Meat Ganoderma seemed to be similar to Cloud Mushroom Grass.
"That’s a true Tai Sui, gathering the world’s filth and muddy qi, buried uncorrupted underground for tens of thousands of years. Just a touch brings bad luck."
"So you all dug it out?"
Moh Baichun nodded, "Exactly, got sprayed all over with its filthy mire, then the ruin exploded."
Jiang Yuebai suddenly thought of the baby doll she encountered, feeling a chill down her spine.
"What does that Tai Sui look like?"
Moh Baichun frowned, "Something really disgusting; anyway, the next time you encounter it, make sure not to get touched by it."
Jiang Yuebai silently took note, though the description was different, she felt that the baby doll was indeed a Tai Sui.
"Although touching a Tai Sui brings misfortune, it’s a rare wood spirit of the world, its medicinal property a hundred times stronger than a Lifespan Extension Pill. It’s just about who dares to use a Tai Sui as medicine. Consume a Tai Sui, gain eternal life, but suffer bad luck for ten thousand years, quite amusing to think about~"
At the mention of ’wood spirit of the world,’ Jiang Yuebai’s eyes brightened, but upon hearing the rest, her gaze grew unfocused, filled with refusal.
"Little girl," Moh Baichun looked back at Jiang Yuebai, "my injury can be treated by someone, but right now I have no way of getting there myself. If you escort me, I’ll thank you with the Silk Control Technique and a Sword Sky Puppet, how about it?"
Jiang Yuebai didn’t rush to agree, asking instead, "Where is this person?"
"Broken Soul Ridge, Poison Doctor Xue Liuzhi."
Jiang Yuebai’s expression subtly changed; she often heard people at Chaotian Palace talking about this person.
He’s reputed as an eccentric, an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, living alone in the depths of Broken Soul Ridge.
Broken Soul Ridge is steeped with toxic flowers and poisonous creatures, more dangerous than even the Ten Thousand Poison Forest, and only those passing through his Hundred Poison Mystery Pond are qualified to seek his healing.
Yet of those who visit, half never return, while the remaining half speak of his supreme, unrivaled medical skill upon return.
However...
Jiang Yuebai frowned, "Elder Moh, have you heard that only male cultivators have a chance to leave Xue Liuzhi unharmed?"
Moh Baichun sighed, "I’m aware, but I have no other means right now. If you’re unwilling, that’s fine too. I still need some time to recover, consider it at your leisure."
