Chapter 723: Seeing Yun Ziyi
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
Ye Mo caught things quickly. The moment he heard about the Jia Lan Flower and his expression had slightly changed, he realized that Yun Ziyi was watching him.
Thinking about this, Ye Mo scanned his spirit sense out. He saw that 150m away in a room Yun Ziyi was holding a telescope.
Ye Mo sneered. She had gotten quite some advanced products from the outside world.
The reason he felt something was off when she mentioned the Jia Lan Flower was because he knew Yun Ziyi was testing him. If he was the big-bearded man from the auction, he would care about the Jia Lan Flower.
Although Ye Mo didn't know what use it had in the ancient martial arts world, he knew it was very important there too. Otherwise, Yun Ziyi wouldn't be testing him with it.
Ye Mo knew after this series of events Yun Ziyi had started suspecting him of being the big-bearded man from the auction, so she decided to test him with that precious herb.
But when Ye Mo went over everything that had happened, he didn't believe he had made any mistakes. He should be the least suspected person. Why did Yun Ziyi suspect him, going so far as to test him?
The Jia Lan Flower was one of the three main ingredients for the foundation establishment pill, but how did she know he was desperate for it?
Seeing Ye Mo stop and frown, the green-clothed girl said, "Young Master Mo-"
"Lead the way," Ye Mo said plainly.
Since Yun Ziyi was already suspecting him, he might as well face her and choose where to expose himself. Also, there was another important reason for him to go - Ye Mo really wanted the Jia Lan Flower.
For their future cultivation path, he had to get the Jia Lan Flower. Without it, he wouldn't be able to get the foundation establishment pill. He didn't know any other recipe, and his required the Jia Lan Flower.
Seeing Ye Mo come over with Xiao Ling, Yun Ziyi had a smile on her face and was determined.
"If I'm not wrong, it should be him. I'm sure he has a lot of secrets," Yun Ziyi murmured to herself and put the telescope away.
"Young Miss, Young Master Mo is here," the girl dressed in green called out from the door.
Yun Ziyi pushed open the door and showed a sweet smile as she said using a very polite and soft voice, "Young Master Mo, it's an honour to be able to see you. Please come in. Xiao Ling, pour a cup of tea for Young Master Mo."
"Yes, Miss," the girl quickly left.
"Young Master Mo, it was rude of me to invite you over like this. Please have a seat." Yun Ziyi treated Ye Mo as though he was a very strong Qianbei.
Ye Mo studied the room. The layout was high-class yet simplistic.
He stared at Yun Ziyi. He had to admit she was a beauty no lesser than Mu Xiaoyun. She was tall and her beautiful hair hung on her shoulders. He could barely see any makeup on her face but Ye Mo knew she had put on very light makeup.
Looking at her protruding chest, Ye Mo could tell that she didn't restrain it at all, making it seem natural and elegant. She also had a smile on her face all the time, which made her seem amicable.
But Ye Mo had a strange feeling about her. She looked amicable but it wasn't that natural.
Xia Ling brought over two cups of green tea and left the room.
"Yun Du Mountain, Mist Peak's mist tea. Young Master Mo, please have a taste." Yun Ziyi's face blushed a little after being stared at by Ye Mo for so long. However, she couldn't get angry, so she raised her cup and said this to Ye Mo.
Then, she said, "Yun Du Mountain belongs to Du Yun sect, Mist Peak is the highest peak. Although I've been managing business for the Magical Merchant Association, I'm actually a member of the Du Yun sect."
Ye Mo already knew that Yun Ziyi was from the Du Tian sect, that was no secret.
Ye Mo nodded and drank from the cup. He said, "It certainly quenches one's thirst."
Although it wasn't spirit chi, the tea had a special flavor to it. In the cultivation realm, a good cup of spirit chi could cost a few hundred spirit stones. Even Ye Mo hadn't been able to afford it before.
Hearing this, Yun Ziyi opened her mouth speechless, but she soon smiled sweetly. "Mr Mo's critique is quite unique."
Then, Yun Ziyi said again, "Mr Mo's wife is really a beauty out of this world. You are so fortunate."
Ye Mo had decided to keep acting dumb, seeing that Yun Ziyi wasn't saying anything meaningful.
Ye Mo smiled, "You're not bad either."
Yun Ziyi heard this and her eyes sparkled with anger, but she quickly calmed down. She smiled sweetly again, "I heard that Mr Mo was told to have no talent after being tested, but I feel your temperament isn't ordinary. How can you have no talent?"
Seeing that Ye Mo didn't say anything, Yun Ziyi suddenly added, "Mr Mo, I have a testing device here. If you're willing, I can test you again. Mine is more accurate than the ones out there."
Ye Mo heard this and thought. He really wanted to know what his talent was and why he was cultivating so slow.
Seeing that Ye Mo was interested, Yun Ziyi took out a device from the closet.
Ye Mo was shocked when she placed it on the table. It wasn't much different from the device used in the cultivation realm. It had eight balls.
"In the past, the founder of Du Tian's test results said he had no talent, but he reached the highest state in the magical continent. Hence, he believed that the device wasn't reliable and went around looking for new ones. He found this in an ancient cultivation realm. Our founder used this and found out that not only did he have talent, it was also level one talent," Yun Ziyi explained.
Ye Mo thought about it. If Du Tian sect could have such a special device, why didn't the other sects have it?
Yun Ziyi explained, "This isn't much more useful than the devices outside because people with talent like our founder are quite rare, almost non-existent."
Ye Mo nodded. If mutant spirit roots were everywhere, it would be strange.
"If you have inner qi, you can try putting your hand on this device and insert it," Yun Ziyi said. She didn't doubt whether Ye Mo had inner qi. It was as though she knew Ye Mo had it.
Chapter 724: Eight Element Mixed Spirit Root
Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter
Ye Mo knew that since Yun Ziyi was suspecting him, she had to have some kind of evidence. But if she was intent on blowing his cover, she wouldn't be calling him there. Instead, she would just go tell the Gemini Sword Sect and Forgery Hall.
So Ye Mo straightforwardly put his hand on the device and inserted some chi into it. The device buzzed, and all eight balls lit up! They wasn't as bright as when Mu Xiaoyun did it, but it was still shocking.
He had an Eight Element Spirit Root? Ye Mo had never heard of such a spirit root. He had only heard of a Five Element Mixed Spirit Root, but never of an Eight Element Mixed Spirit Root. That was simply unheard of.
Ye Mo quickly took his hand back and didn't know what was going on. In the cultivation realm, spirit roots were divided into metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, lightning and wind. There was also a spirit root called the dark spirit root, but that was usually born from a specific cultivation method. So it shouldn't be counted as a spirit root technically speaking.
Usually, one only had one mutated spirit root at most. And normally none of the Five Element Spirit Roots would co-exist with a mutated spirit root.
Yet on him, all eight existed. It would be weird if he could cultivate fast like that. To have a Five Element Mixed Spirit Root was already trash talent, but Eight Element Mixed was trash amongst trash.
Ye Mo didn't understand it, and Yun Ziyi didn't understand even more. His talent was absurdly bad, no wonder other places tested that he had no talent.
It was almost impossible to cultivate with such talent. Yun Ziyi started doubting her guess now. If someone told her that a person with that kind of talent could kill a great heaven and injure a half step great heaven, even she wouldn't believe it.
Had she guessed wrongly? She believed that if Ye Mo was the person she had suspected him to be, then his talent should be the same as that of the founder of the Du Tian Sect.
What confused her, though, was that if this Mo Ying wasn't the big-bearded man, why was his back so similar to that man's? And when he heard the Jia Lan Flower, why did he act strangely? Were those just coincidences?
As Ye Mo saw her face now, he immediately knew that although she still suspected him, but she wasn't too sure anymore.
Thinking about this, he laughed at himself, "It's the worst talent indeed, I knew it."
Perhaps because Ye Mo turned out not to be the person she was looking for, Yun Ziyi didn't want to keep talking to him, and she was about to send Ye Mo away.
But since Ye Mo came l, he had to ask about the Jia Lan Flower.
"Goddess Zihua, why did you call for me? Was it just to test my talent for me? I already knew my talent, though." Ye Mo saw her disinterest and felt contempt. This woman was really 'practical', calling him over when she suspected him and kicking him away when she didn't need him anymore.
Yun Ziyi smiled, "Mr Mo, I am sorry, but to be honest I thought you were someone I knew, but now it has been proven that you're not. However, I wonder, why did you seem shocked when you heard about the Jia Lan Flower?"
Ye Mo sneered and said, "It's because the flower can indeed recover my face. A qianbei once told me so, but he said that the flower was very precious. When your maid told me I can recover my face, I didn't believe it at first, but after hearing it was the Jia Lan Flower, I believed her."
Yun Ziyi realized that she had indeed mistaken Mo Ying for the wrong person.
Yun Ziyi smiled and said slowly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Mo, I admit that I used that as a reason for you to come, but the Jia Lan Flower isn't something normal people can get. It's said that those who get it can reach great heaven with a 100% certainty. It's even a spiritual item used to reach above greater heaven, so I don't have this flower."
Ye Mo knew she didn't have the flower of course. If she did, he would've sensed it with his spirit sense immediately. Ye Mo wasn't going to be happy about having been tricked over by her, though, so his face sunk.
Yun Ziyi noticed it and said plainly, "Although I understand the flower is really important for you, my advice is that even if you got it, you wouldn't be able to keep it. Instead, you might only lose out. Also, although I'm not super pretty, I'm not ugly, so I don't think you lost out much coming here, right?"
Ye Mo sneered, "Goddess Zihua, you're very pretty, but in my eyes my wife is the prettiest. To be honest, I would rather choose to stay at home with my wife."
Seeing that Ye Mo had no intentions of leaving and his words were contemptuous, Yun Ziyi spoke with annoyance, "Jia Lan Flower is said to be in the depth of Wu Wen Mountain. I have a map of the mountain here - it's yours, good luck."
Then she just dumped the map in front of Ye Mo.
Ye Mo picked it up and saw that it was marked clearly where each herb was found. But this was just the outskirts, it had no information on the inner mountain, but this was already enough for Ye Mo.
Ye Mo put the map away and said, "Thank you, how much for the map?"
Yun Ziyi's mouth curled up, and she said with a sliver of contempt, "I don't need money, it's for free. And although you have some inner qi, I suggest you don't go there. Uh, never mind, goodbye then."
"Okay, I owe you one, goodbye." Ye Mo didn't want to talk anymore and just left.
"Young Miss?" the green-dressed girl walked in and looked at Yun Ziyi in wonder.
Yun Ziyi rubbed her head and said strangely, "He is strange, but he's probably not that guy."
…
Meanwhile, Ye Mo felt very good. Not only did he find out where the Jia Lan Flower was, he also managed to erase that crazy b*tch's suspicions of him.
Ye Mo pushed open the door, and Mu Xiaoyun who was talking to Ji Yilan got up and sweetly called out, "Husband."
"Brother Mo is back I see," Ji Yilan turned to leave.
Ye Mo felt great - his wife was still the best.
"Someone from Shangqing Mountain came over and told us that someone from their sect would be fighting with Liu Lei from Shu Mountain. Martial Sister Yilan saw a stranger come, so she came too," Mu Xiaoyun immediately explained.
Ye Mo smiled, "Very well, we will go watch it together tomorrow and see how Liu Lei kills his opponent."
…
The ship would be travelling for a month at sea. For most people a month was boring and long, so there were many entertainment businesses on board. But most ancient martial arts practitioners rarely spent their time there, so it was more for the ordinary people on board.
The death battle was the most eye-catching event for them. Even ancient martial artists liked this sort of fights, and there would be bets placed too.
This was not only a battle between those two yellow levels, but the honour of their respective sects was at stake.
Ye Mo took Mu Xiaoyun to the busy crowd at the fighting scene.