Little Martial Aunt burst into laughter and said, “Alright, you little thing! Acting as if everyone is forcing you! Do you really think your senior uncles are interested in your possessions? It’s just that breakthroughs are hard to come by nowadays, everyone has been stuck in the late Nascent Soul period for years. If you can help, your senior uncles won’t treat you unfairly. If you can’t help, naturally, we won’t make things difficult for you.”
Bao Gu muttered to herself, “Isn’t this forcing us?”
Duobao Spirit Monkey’s eyes spun around twice, and finally, one of its front paws covered its face and eyes, displaying a “too horrible to look at” expression. With a sleight of hand, it produced a golden fruit that looked like a baby and offered it up!
A series of exclamations followed:
“Nascent Soul Fruit!”
“The Nascent Soul Fruit that can reshape the Nascent Soul, oh my god!”
The elders present stood up in an unseemly manner. The existence of the Nascent Soul Fruit meant that if someone was accidentally killed, they could rely on the Nascent Soul Fruit to condense the Nascent Soul into a spirit body, which was equivalent to having multiple lives ! Even if not killed, using the Nascent Soul Fruit to refine the Nascent Soul into a spirit body was almost as good as cultivating an external incarnation.
If it weren’t for the consideration of fellow disciples, some might have already been unable to sit still and started fighting over it.
Uncle Zhu asked, “Duobao Spirit Monkey, how many of these fruits do you have?”
Duobao Spirit Monkey moved its paw away from its face and squeaked sharply, raising a finger to indicate “one”. The implication was probably: How many more do you want? There’s only one!
Uncle Feng tapped on the table next to him and said, “Monkey brother, just put it down for now. Look, there are nine of us here, not enough to go around, right?”
Upon hearing this, Bao Gu almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. Uncle Feng, we can’t be so shameless, can we? You just took away sister’s Supreme Monkey Wine, and now you want more? This request makes her want to vomit blood! Just for beating up Elder Qin, do you need so many people? Bao Gu’s tears were swirling in her eyes, almost rolling out to show them a few tears.
The group of senior uncles and senior brothers, who had lived for who knows how many hundreds of years, all pretended not to see the tears in Bao Gu’s eyes and continued to look at Duobao Spirit Monkey. The implication was, how do we divide one fruit among nine people? Nine parts!
Duobao Spirit Monkey “squeaked” and darted around the yard, its monkey fur standing on end. After several rounds of hopping back and forth, it saw that they had no intention of letting it go. Holding back from covering its face, it then pulled out a transparent, dragon-shaped grass with a thumb-sized, vermilion fire fruit on the “head” of the dragon-shaped grass.
Even with mental preparation, the elders present were still shocked, their faces changing dramatically, and many were secretly swallowing saliva.
This was another ninth-grade sacred medicine! Little Dragon Grass!
Little Martial Aunt almost bit her teeth to pieces! This Little Dragon Grass was extremely useful for demon cultivators, as it could help them transform in advance and avoid the thunder strikes of transformation tribulation. If she had this grass earlier, she wouldn’t have been struck by heavenly thunder to the point of death and rebirth, losing a great deal of treasures, and becoming utterly impoverished after surviving the transformation tribulation.
Before the tribulation, she could be considered one of the wealthiest in Xuantian Gate. Even now that she had successfully survived the tribulation, she could still use this medicine, which also had the effect of purifying the demonic energy in her body. Now that she had a demon body, she had to rely on energy-concealing treasures to hide her demonic energy. Once she fought, the demonic energy would be hard to conceal, and it was easy to be mistaken for a demon beast and be killed when walking outside.
This medicine was extremely important to Little Martial Aunt, so she unceremoniously accepted it and said, “Little monkey, thank you very much for this!” Seeing the little monkey looking pitiful, she really wanted to take out some fruits and sacred medicines to comfort it, but now she was so poor that she couldn’t even produce a second-grade sacred medicine, so she could only shamelessly accept the little monkey’s Little Dragon Grass.
Bao Gu looked at Little Martial Aunt with teary eyes and thought, “Little Martial Aunt, you can’t do this?” But then she thought, after all, they were all from Lingyun Peak, and it was better than letting outsiders benefit, which was a form of self-comfort. She turned to the Duobao Spirit Monkey sitting on her shoulder and said, “Little monkey, one for each person, give them all at once.”
Duobao Spirit Monkey “squeaked” at Bao Gu, but seeing the tears in her eyes, it stopped squeaking and threw out seven fruits onto the table, then jumped back onto Bao Gu’s shoulder and turned its back to everyone.
The Nascent Soul realm cultivators of Xuantian Gate all moved and gathered around the table. If it weren’t for the consideration of status and fellow disciples, knowing that everyone would get a share, they might have been unable to restrain themselves from fighting over it.
Duobao Spirit Monkey was quite generous, offering all ninth-grade sacred medicines and fruits. No matter how they divided them, it was still fair.
The Nascent Soul realm cultivators were quite satisfied. Seeing Duobao Spirit Monkey and Bao Gu both with teary eyes, they all generously gave Duobao Spirit Monkey a pile of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade spiritual fruits and medicines. Duobao Spirit Monkey, lying on a small mountain of spiritual medicines and herbs, finally felt a bit better!
Bao Gu also received a large amount of spiritual pills and treasures for cultivators below the Golden Core stage. Before leaving, each peak elder gave her two communication treasures, telling her that if she encountered danger, she could call for help at any time, and the senior uncles and senior brothers would definitely protect her with all their might. Knowing that she would go to the ancient ruins in half a year, and taking Duobao Spirit Monkey with her, they were afraid that the spiritual fruits and medicines she found wouldn’t be enough to store, so each gave her several storage bags, storage jade bracelets, jade rings, rings, and necklaces that were several times larger than ordinary storage bags.
All the Nascent Soul realm elders of Xuantian Gate who could move around came out, leaving Xuantian Gate almost empty. The elders were also worried that Xuantian Gate without Nascent Soul realm elders sitting in would be taken advantage of by others, so they hurried back to Xuantian Gate after getting the benefits. Only Little Martial Aunt, who had just come out of seclusion and succeeded in her tribulation, stayed behind.
Before leaving, Uncle Feng told Bao Gu to try her best to get the ancient token if possible. Xuantian Gate only had one token quota, which would be given to the winner of the competition among the disciples to go to the ancient ruins. Among the younger generation of disciples, Yu Mi and the acting head’s true disciple, Nan Yi, were the strongest, and it was estimated that the token would fall into the hands of one of them. But now that Yu Mi had broken through to the Golden Core stage and could not enter the ancient ruins, the ancient token would likely be obtained by Nan Yi.
Bao Gu pouted and said, “Senior Uncle Feng, don’t I have the right to that token?”
Senior Uncle Feng helplessly said, “Although Nan Yi is the designated winner, he still had to win it through the competition among fellow disciples. You are only at the third stage of Qi Refining, and Nan Yi is at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, ready to enter the Golden Core stage at any time. How can you compete with him?”
Bao Gu softly “oh”ed and thought to herself, “The acting head is too bad! He gave sister Golden Core Pills to help her enter the Golden Core stage, but it was actually paving the way for his disciple, Nan Yi!” She sighed deeply in her heart. Her senior uncles and senior brothers were simply robbing her! Although they didn’t take her life, it still hurt so much! She might as well consider it as spending a lot of money to hire bodyguards to save her life! She sent these senior uncles and senior brothers out of the yard, patting her aching heart and looking back at her Little Martial Aunt, who had just transformed into a human form, with tears rolling down her cheeks.
Little Martial Aunt raised her finger to wipe Bao Gu’s tears and said, “Don’t cry! They are all your senior uncles and senior brothers from the same sect. In the future, everyone in Xuantian Gate will support you, which is much better than being caught and forced to hand over treasures, right?”
Bao Gu nodded heavily.
Little Martial Aunt said, “Go see how your sister is doing! You and Yu Mi should properly cultivate in seclusion for the next half year. Leave the matter of the ancient token to me. I can’t just take advantage of you for nothing!” As she spoke, she looked at Bao Gu and smiled.
Bao Gu nodded and asked, “Is there any other way to get the ancient token besides from the sect?”
Little Martial Aunt said, “As far as I know, although there are many treasures in the ancient ruins, there are also great dangers. If four hundred people enter, if the situation is good, fifty or sixty people can come out. Once, due to some unknown change, everyone was wiped out inside. Many people who obtain the token are not willing to enter and will secretly auction it off in exchange for what they need. Some disciples of sects who obtain the token may not be able to keep it safe. If the news leaks, they may be assassinated and robbed while out, and the ancient token is not registered for loss. The four hundred tokens are all the same, and anyone, whether a cat or a dog, can enter the ancient ruins with a token.”
Bao Gu said, “But you have to be at the Foundation Establishment stage to enter, and I’m only at the third stage of Qi Refining. How can I…”
Little Martial Aunt laughed and said, “Who told you that you must be at the Foundation Establishment stage? Qi Refining stage cultivators are weak, so it’s dangerous to enter, and no sect is willing to send Qi Refining stage disciples to be killed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enter!” She frowned and said, “But your cultivation is too weak. Even with a body full of treasures, it’s not certain that you can… The disciples of various sects who can enter, who doesn’t have a few treasures given by their sect?”
Bao Gu looked around and quietly approached Little Martial Aunt’s ear, saying, “Little Martial Aunt, sister will enter, and you should follow us in. With you there, I guarantee we’ll be fine.”
Little Martial Aunt laughed and said, “Silly! Do you think it’s so easy to sneak in? Even if you suppress your realm, it’s impossible to escape the joint search of various sects. Even if you have a storage bag that can hide living things, you can’t bring people in! Unless you have a small world like the Mount Meru Mustard Seed, do you have one? Which Foundation Establishment stage cultivator can bring out such a treasure?”
Bao Gu hesitated and whispered, “I have one!”
Yu Mi was willing to risk his life to snatch the water essence for Little Martial Aunt, which showed that Little Martial Aunt was reliable. Bao Gu didn’t plan to keep this from Little Martial Aunt.
Little Martial Aunt’s eyes widened in disbelief and exclaimed, “You have one?”
Bao Gu said, “Sister snatched it from an injured Nascent Soul realm cultivator, and the little monkey snatched it from sister and gave it to me.”
Little Martial Aunt: “…” Really? She exclaimed, “You’re not lying to me?”
Bao Gu replied, “Of course I’m not lying.”
Little Martial Aunt was shocked, her beautiful eyes wide open and her lips half-open, unable to close for a long time! After being shocked for a while, she smiled to herself and thought: Bao Gu, you are truly worth the entire sect’s elders and Nascent Soul realm cultivators coming out to save you! She asked, “What treasures are in that small world? Tell me.”
“It’s empty, there’s nothing!” Bao Gu carefully described her small world.
Little Martial Aunt: “…” That feeling instantly—she felt like she was being teased!
