Chapter 39 – Florida Man's "Cat" Feeds on National Treasures
"Spatial ring?"
Gao Yan picked up a spatial ring from the pile of assassin's ash. He cheerfully laughed and tried to access it.
PIKI
Unfortunately, as soon as Gao Yan inserted his Qi into the ring, it released a strong electric current, repelling Gao Yan's Qi and zapping him.
"Ouch!"
The deacon noticed that Gao Yan got his hands on the spatial ring. He warned the alchemist trainee.
"Be careful with the no-na spatial rings. A strong cultivator usually locks their rings with their elent essence or Qi. Unless you're stronger than the ring's owner, its residual Qi will repel you and might kill you on the spot."
Gao Yan and the other disciples were surprised. The forr looked at his spatial ring, which he had gotten as a gift from Wu Buyi. He wondered if he could lock it, too.
"Senior, how do you unlock or lock a spatial ring?"
The deacon coughed, "Simple. When your strength is at the golden core stage, you can start using complex Qi threads to form an array spell. There are a thousand lock techniques that you can learn from the sect's library. Only if you understand the techniques, you can unlock soone else's rings, granted that you manage to morize ten thousand locking techniques on the mainland."
"… Wow," everybody was flabbergasted by the profound of the lock techniques. They wondered if they could learn all of them and unlock the no-na rings.
Teasing the disciples enough, the deacon revealed a hidden technique, "But that's a very troubleso thod. Unless you want to preserve the rings and the content inside, you can do so. But if you're like and other elders, we simply inject our Qi or essence into it and destroy the locking spell inside. Then, all items in there will be ejected from the ring. You just have to be stronger than the ring owner as I ntioned earlier."
"Oh!"
"Be warned though. If the ring has a large inventory space, you might find yourself buried in a mountain of items. In the past, a sick bastard store an entire mansion in his ring, and it was stolen. The thief overrode the locking spell and got himself buried under the mansion alive. It's a risky thod. Be sure to unlock the ring in an open space while you're hovering in the sky. Let the items fall under you, not on top of you."
"…"
Gao Yan's hands trembled as he imagined himself being crushed under a mountain of heavy items in the ring. He put it in his pocket, waiting to ask Wu Buyi to unlock it for him later on.
The deacon silently collected the clothes of the assassin. He kept the clan token and urged, "Let's move. We need to return to the sect before nightfall. Oh, I almost forgot. The sect now forbids everybody from collecting the spirit grasses around here. Senior Florida Man might be growing them, and we don't want to provoke him."
"Y-Yes, sir."
Gao Yan and the disciples gulped as they looked at the grasses around them. They were all blue, and they emitted strong spiritual energy. Everybody wanted to pick them up, but the deacon glared at them.
Without permission, the group swallowed their greed and continued their journey ho.
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anwhile, Leo had fun.
CHING-CHING-CHING
After cleaning the ss in his store, Leo played with more rings, wondering if he could get more items. Blue stones and similar items gushed out from the rings, and they were destroyed in the process. Leo sorted all items and repeated until the last ring.
When everything was over, Leo looked at thirty 2000-liter bins, full of blue stones. He clicked his tongue and pushed the wheeled bins through the back door, bringing them to the storehouse in the first workshop. As for the regular grain pills that he got from other rings, he brought them to the second workshop and left them there for the ti being.
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The next day morning, Leo ca out to check his mushroom farm in the second workshop building, and he was pleasantly surprised - The surface of the soil was all white. At this rate, they would grow up into fine mushrooms soon. Every pot was the sa. The black soil turned white as the mushroom spores rapidly grew and consud its nutrition.
Celebrating this occasion, Leo added more spit to every pot, hoping that his fluid contained enough nutrition for the unknown mushrooms. He wondered if it would taste like Truffles.
"Grow up quickly, okay? Even if you're zombie cordyceps, I can still eat you. Actually, I ate them a lot when my age was still 4 digits. I'm immune to your zombie fungi. Hehehehe."
Leo left the mushroom farm alone. He exited through the front door and collected two more batches of grain pills.
Carrying the grain pills to the store, Leo put them into the sa Tupperware boxes on the shelves. He also separated the leftover inferior and lesser-grade ones into other boxes and placed them near the Bloodlons.
As the newly made batches were better in quality, Leo decided to get rid of the old pills by selling them a bit cheaper than the other pills.
The new low-graded pills were all sold for 20 years of lifespan each. However, as for the old ones, Leo retained the old price, aka 10 years of lifespan.
After sorting the new products, Leo returned to the workshop. Instead of making more grain pills, he carried the iron pine lumber there and chopped them into 1-cubic-foot blocks. Then, he tossed one into each cauldron and refined them.
10 minutes later, two sacred wood blocks ca out. The edges had been sharpened, and the size expanded to one cubic ter.
Leo humd as he threw more lumber cubes into the cauldrons and let them run. Then, he carried the two blocks of sacred wood and lined them in front of his store, displaying his wealth, hoping to lure so thieves into attacking this store again.
After making 20 blocks of sacred wood, Leo was bored. He switched the products to rejuvenate juice so that he could get sothing delicious to drink. He also thought of the corianders, which he had been using to make coffee.
Leo finally rembered that he had forgotten to research them.
"Ah, silly . I should have done that several days ago. I'm getting old."
Leo waited for ten minutes. After collecting his favorite root beer, he tossed a stalk of coriander to check its usefulness.
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[Aroma Coriander]
Aroma Corianders are a common weed, commonly found in Unicorn-infested areas. As the corianders constantly gain nutrition from the unicorn's stool, they produce a similar scent to the stool. Although they feed on dubious resources, many humans may find them flagrant and use them as garnish to dress their food. Can be used as an Earth Elent catalyst in alchemy.
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Contain strong caffeine. Might rupture so blood veins if it's consud directly.
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It was just another catalyst. Still, as Leo didn't plan to sleep tonight, he picked one and put it in his mouth, checking how much he could get from eating this plant.
DING
Leo was disappointed.
'Not suitable in cooking. I guess I'll keep using them as coffee beans.'
He resud making rejuvenate root beer and walked toward the field, east of the store building.
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"Nom-Nom ow?"
While Leo was busy at the workshop, Cat played with a sacred wood block in front of the store as it found the cubes interesting. It tried sitting on it and hitting it with its whips.
BOOM
As clumsy as a cat, Cat made an accident - One of the sacred wood blocks was broken in half.
"Myaaa?!"
Cat panicked, afraid that Leo might scold it. It grabbed the broken pieces and tried to patch them together. However, it kept failing.
As all hope was lost, Cat used a drastic asure - It copied Leo's actions by spitting on the wooden block and attaching the pieces like jigsaw puzzles.
As Cat clumsily tried to repair things without knowledge, its roots got stuck in the middle of the broken sacred wood block.
"MYAAA?!"
Shocked and confused, Cat ran around with the sacred wood block in tow like a panicking cat with a plastic bag getting stuck on its hind leg. It ran into the forest and hit many things on its path.
By the ti that Cat ca back to its sense, the wooden block was gone. However, Cat sensed sothing odd about its roots. It looked down to see the weird roots that had been itchy.
The root rged with the broken sacred wood cube, turning it white.
"ow?"
Cat tilted its head and swung the root around. It pierced an iron pine tree nearby. A few seconds later, the tree withered and dissipated into dust. On the other hand, Cat sensed that it had absorbed the tree's Qi, making it stronger.
"ow
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