Gong Zixuan smiled. Looking at the person in front of her, she said,“If shi xiong Mo would like one of these for himself, I’m afraid you’dneed to seek out a certain person. If you can find her, it’d be much easier foryou to get one from her or find out the story behind it!”
“Oh? Who is it? Does shi mei know her?” That had piqued MoXuanzun’s interest. He had always been interested in anything weird. It didn’tmatter what it was, as long as it’s something he had never seen before, he’dwant to learn all about it.
“Of course I know her, would shi xiong like to go look forher?” Gong Zixuan answered him with a question.
“Yes, yes, of course! I must go find out all about this vine!”
Mo Xuanzun nodded and his eyes lingered on the vine, “This thing is sostrange. It has the texture of jade, the vine itself is live-like. I pridemyself for reading a lot of books in my lifetime, but I have never heard ofanything like this before. I must go find out more about it.”
“Shi xiong, other than the fact that it seems life-like, thereare more to it than that!”
As she was saying that, she retrieved the vine from him and casuallywaved it at a fake mountain behind the kiosk.
RUMBLE!
A loud noise and debris and dust filled the air immediately, as thoughsomeone had blown it up with their qi.
Seeing that, Mo Xuanzun’s face was full of surprises. He looked at thevine in her hand again and cried out with urgency, “Shi mei Gong, wasthat really done by this vine?”
“Of course, would I lie to my shi xiong?”
“Good stuff, good stuff. This is indeed a real treasure!” Mo Xuanzunwas in love with it, “Shi mei Gong, you must tell me quickly who it was.I will go seek her out immediately!”
“If shi xiong wants to look for her, then you must head toQing’an Province in Dafeng. There’s a village by the name of Willow. Onceyou’ve arrived there, look for a girl named Cheng Xiao Xiao, she was the onewho gave me this vine.”
“Dafeng? Willow? Cheng Xiao Xiao?”
Hearing those three terms, Mo Xuanzun frowned and said, “Haven’t Iheard about those before in the past? I seemed to recall something about amystical well and mystical beasts. How could it be possible that a place likeDafeng would have something like that in their possession? Is that reallypossible?”
“Shi xiong Mo, you haven’t gone yet, how’d you know if it’strue?”
Gong Zixuan smiled with one hand over her mouth, “Alternatively, youcan work your calculations. I trust that there’s nothing in this whole wildworld that you couldn’t figure out with your calculations, right?”
“Not necessarily!” Recalling what he wasn’t able to calculate, hesmiled with embarra.s.sment. “Okay, let me try to do some calculations on thisCheng Xiao Xiao of Dafeng!”
Upon saying that, he started with his calculations. As time pa.s.sed, hislooked more and more stumped and disturbed.
This was the very first time Gong Zixuan saw this expression on theusually fairly confident Mo Xuanzun. She was genuinely surprised.
What she didn’t know was that this was already the second time. She justwasn’t there for the first time.
After one-incense time, Mo Xuanzun stopped with hiscalculations. After he zoned out for a while, he mumbled to himself, “How isthat possible? How is that possible? I couldn’t figure it out. What, what isgoing on? I couldn’t figure her out, and I couldn’t figure her out. I couldn’tfigure either one of them out. The two of them are related somehow?”
“No, no, that’s not possible. Both of them have some sort ofties to me somehow? No, no, that’s not possible!”
Gong Zixuan was dumbfounded. She wasn’t sure exactly what wasgoing on, but judging by his look and his words, she figured that somethingmust have happened.
“Shi xiong Mo, did something happen on your trip?”
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