From the Carp that Brings Children to the Celestial Officials

Chapter 140 What a pile of junk!

Youming mainly wanted to test the new cheat code, "Yinyuan Shunqu".

This feature is used by the plant gatherer in the game, allowing them to harvest some treasures while picking mature crops.

Of course, that evergreen wheat was just the lowest grade of spiritual plant, and he knew perfectly well that nothing powerful would grow from it.

Even if it's all junk inside, the feeling of opening a blind box is still very enjoyable.

The thought had barely crossed You Ming's mind when he pulled a broken shoe from the clutter in front of him. The shoe was rotten, and there were faint traces of lightning strikes on the sole.

His smile froze instantly.

Even if you don't get anything good, it shouldn't be anything junk.

Who wants these old shoes?

You Ming's gaze shifted downwards. If he wasn't mistaken, this thing should be a manhole cover... no, a lid for an alchemy furnace. However, judging from the pitch-black color and the explosive cracks on the lid, its owner was probably in grave danger.

He casually tossed the thing aside; compared to that smelly shoe, this manhole cover was probably worth a few coins.

"Snapped."

You Ming casually lifted a pile of trash, and a letter with a pink cover fell out.

Yu Xiuying received the true teachings of the Xuanxiao Heavenly Sect.

You Ming casually opened the letter, only to find that it was written by Zhao Yiru, a disciple of the Beiming Sect, to this person named Yu Xiuying. He initially thought there was some important secret, but the whole letter was full of mushy words, more like a love letter.

"My heart is clear, my thoughts of you remain as yesterday. Since parting from the Western Ridge and returning from Lingxu, through countless seasons, I still see your smile in my dreams. I have broken off three thousand branches for you, painted a hundred alchemical furnaces, and refined incense pills nine times, yet none of these can compare to the faint fragrance emanating from your hair..."

“I know your heart is set on the Dao, not bound by mere romantic love, yet you hold a deep and unwavering devotion to me, and I will never regret it. The path is long and arduous, but if you are at peace, I will be at peace myself… You cultivate the Wood Magic, often seeking precious woods. When I traveled through the broken pass of the Kunxu Realm, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a piece of divine wood…”

You Ming only read a few sentences before he got goosebumps.

You Ming casually threw the letter away. He had no interest in reading love letters, especially one that was so cheesy.

He continued rummaging through the pile of garbage.

That's right, he initially referred to this pile of stuff as "miscellaneous items," but now he's changed it to "garbage."

"An expired disciple's badge had a note attached that read: 'Disciple is deceased, do not pursue debts any further...'"

"A market coupon, but unfortunately it's expired."

"A contract announcing the annulment of an engagement, signed by the second son of a cultivation family and the disciple of the Flying Star Sect."

You Ming flipped through them one by one, and the further he went, the more certain he became that the stuff inside was truly garbage.

Although they are all related to cultivators, they are all unusable and completely broken.

It probably came out from deep within some garbage dump or storage room.

"So, people shouldn't take chances; they can only wait for the more precious spiritual plants to mature."

You Ming shook his head, realizing that his expectations were too high.

He was about to clean up the trash when he suddenly noticed that the love letter he had thrown at his feet had some kind of word like "Kun" or "Xu" on it.

How could such content appear in such a perfectly good love letter? He couldn't help but read the second half.

"...When I was traveling through the Kunxu border, I was fortunate enough to see a section of divine tree. Its roots hung in the air, drawing spiritual energy even before entering the soil, and it was full of life from the void. It exhaled once every nine days, and the spiritual mist never dissipated. I temporarily sealed the place under Lifeng Ridge, and used broken stones to form an array to temporarily block its energy, in order to await your arrival."

"It is not to urge you, but it is difficult to keep it hidden for long. If you seek the Dao to this extent, you may give it a try."

You Ming read the entire love letter and fell silent.

Zhao Yiru's secret crush is Yu Xiuying from the Xuanxiao Heavenly Sect. From the letters, it can be inferred that this woman named Yu Xiuying cultivates a wood-attribute technique and needs to constantly find some rare wood-attribute spiritual plants in order to increase her cultivation speed.

This person named Zhao Yiru happened to discover a fragment of an ancient sacred tree. Although the sacred tree had died, the fragment still harbored vitality. If carefully nurtured, it might still be possible to grow a second generation of sacred tree seedlings.

Even a seedling can greatly enhance Yu Xiuying's cultivation.

Zhao Yiru was overjoyed, thinking that this move would earn him the gratitude of the beauty, but You Ming guessed that this woman named Yu Xiuying probably didn't even read the letter and just threw it away.

You Mingke saw that the love letter hadn't been opened at all.

"It's a pity, this is like throwing a flirtatious glance at a blind man. If this really doesn't work, come to my temple and pray, maybe it will bless you with a good marriage."

You Ming couldn't help but think mischievously to himself.

This guy will say anything to pick up girls. He even said that the sacred tree hangs from the sky, generating life from nothingness, and can produce spiritual energy out of thin air. Wouldn't that be even more magical than a spiritual vein?

You Ming was still laughing in his heart, but when his gaze swept over the second half of the love letter again, the smile on his face gradually faded.

If, I mean if.

If the news about this sacred tree is true...

Does that mean that as long as I plant this divine tree on Yuanling Mountain, it can generate spiritual energy on its own and achieve the same effect as a spiritual vein?
You Ming admitted that he was now very tempted.

Spiritual veins are something that might go three to five years without any news. Although many powerful forces may have surplus ones, getting them to sell them to you would probably be extremely difficult.

After all, these forces are mostly cultivators, and right now, Little Carp's reputation among the cultivation sects isn't very good.

"I read in the letter that the seal might not last long, and that the spiritual energy would leak out and become known to the outside world."

You Ming pondered this in his mind. This at least shows that the spiritual energy concentration produced by this fragment of divine wood is very high.

"The location is Lifeng Ridge, but where is Lifeng Ridge?"

You Ming had never heard of this name before. He simply reached out and swept his hand across the air, and a geomantic map shimmering with a dark blue light appeared.

Only the gods could create such a geomantic map, which meticulously marked the cities, mountains, rivers, and even villages of Kyushu, and was modified according to the gods' periodic reports.

For example, if a village relocates, the original village location will be marked as gone.

If a river changes course, the location of the river will also change on the feng shui map.

“Lifeng Ridge…Lifeng Ridge is here.”

You Ming quickly found the location, which was within Bingzhou, but situated at the border between Bingzhou and Liangzhou.

(End of this chapter)