Chapter 716: When I Was Young, I Was Also a Mother’s Baby

Translator: Timothy_ Editor: GlobeGlotter

Ye Mo knew he wouldn't need to worry for at least a couple of days. He took Mu Xiaoyun shopping in Hang Shui City. These days were the happiest for Mu Xiaoyun. She could be with her husband, and they enjoyed walking around the city. She liked looking at jewelry; she didn't need to buy anything, but simply looking made her content. She couldn't remember the last time she'd walked freely in the streets.

When she was young, her mother had held her hand, walking in busy streets, looking around. But a disaster took everything away, separating her from her family, leaving her to struggle alone in Huang Ping. For thousands of days and nights, she suffered, never eating a full meal, yet still caring for her constantly abusive mother-in-law. If she hadn't met Ye Mo, she'd still be suffering.

Mu Xiaoyun wiped away tears, thinking in self-mockery, "When I was young, I was also a mother's baby."

Ye Mo sensed Mu Xiaoyun's sadness. He took her hand and asked, "Xiaoyun, what's wrong?"

Mu Xiaoyun clasped his hand tightly, thinking, 'I'm in my husband's care now; Mother should feel assured in the heavens.'

"Young Miss, look, it's those two we saw yesterday. That girl is really like a flower planted in cow dung," a girl in green said, seeing Ye Mo and Mu Xiaoyun enter a jewelry shop.

Yun Ziyi smiled. She'd had no intention of inviting them again after yesterday, but seeing them, she frowned. She felt she'd seen them somewhere else, but couldn't place it.

"What's wrong, Young Miss?" the green-dressed girl asked.

Yun Ziyi said, confused, "I feel as though I've seen them recently."

The green-dressed girl laughed, "Young Miss, of course you have. You saw them on the streets yesterday."

Yun Ziyi laughed at herself, "That's probably it—"

Just as she was about to leave, she stopped. "Wait, I didn't see their backs yesterday. I only saw the woman and felt she was extraordinary. But just now, their backs seemed very familiar."

"Their backs?" Yun Ziyi murmured, her face changing drastically. "Xiao Ling, check if they left the city this morning and returned. Or no, never mind."

Yun Ziyi thought, 'It shouldn't be them. If those people left this morning, they wouldn't be walking around freely; they would've been caught. But from the back, they really do look like that big-bearded man and his woman.'

…

The day flew by for Mu Xiaoyun. Returning to the hotel with Ye Mo, she was still enjoying the day.

Although Ye Mo wanted to make the essence-increasing pill immediately, he feared the Earth Spirit Fruit's chi would attract powerful masters, so he didn't dare.

Mu Xiaoyun nestled into Ye Mo's arms. "Ye babe, are those chi stones very precious?"

Ye Mo nodded. "Yes, I call them spirit stones. They're very useful for cultivation. Since they're so rare, they're precious."

"Then, Ye babe, I don't need it. You can have them." Mu Xiaoyun tried to take out her spirit stone, but Ye Mo stopped her. "No need, keep it. You cultivate the slowest; I want you to hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to keep up."

Hearing this, Mu Xiaoyun quickly put her hand down. If she couldn't keep up, what if Ye babe, Sister Luo Ying, and Sister Qingxue ascended to the immortal realm without her? She'd be alone again, with nothing.

"Ye babe, I think I should get up and cultivate." Mu Xiaoyun felt the pressure and wanted to cultivate immediately.

Ye Mo pulled her hand. "Cultivation is important, but don't be so desperate. It's slow-paced; the more you worry, the less you'll improve."

"Mm!" Mu Xiaoyun's mouth was covered by her husband, and she immediately softened.

…

Their second day in Hang Shui was the first day of the hidden sects' recruitment.

Hang Shui Square, the largest in Hang Shui, was tens of thousands of square meters, yet it was crowded.

When Ye Mo and Mu Xiaoyun arrived, Ye Mo found the sects divided by grade. Special grade sects were in the most prominent places. Ye Mo scanned around and found each of the Big Three had a Great Heaven Master present. He also saw Taiyi Sect had a master.

When Ye Mo's spirit sense reached Taiyi Sect, he felt the Taiyi Sect Master subconsciously look at him. Ye Mo immediately withdrew his spirit sense. This guy was extremely dangerous! Ye Mo had planned to join Taiyi, reach stage seven, and then get revenge, but now that plan seemed impossible.

He decided that before reaching stage seven, he wouldn't contact Taiyi or the other big sects.

Ye Mo carefully avoided the three big sects and moved his spirit sense elsewhere. There were twelve first-grade, thirty-six second-grade, and around one hundred twenty third-grade hidden sects. Many other ungraded small sects were also present.

Ye Mo decided to join a second-grade sect.

The special grade sects had long lines that would take a day to clear. Even the second-grade sects had much shorter lines than the special grade sects, but still many people were queuing.

"Let's go to a third-grade sect," Ye Mo said, helplessly going to a sect called the Flash Fist Sect.

Joining the line, Ye Mo found the testing speed surprisingly fast. The first stage involved placing one's hand on a device and using inner qi to activate it. Those without inner qi simply placed their hand on the device, and the interviewer activated it.

Five crystal balls were on the device. When the interviewer activated their chi, the balls would either light up or have no reaction. The brighter the balls, the higher the talent. The balls also had different colors. Ye Mo was shocked—wasn't this the device used to test spirit roots? How could the small realm have such a thing? Ye Mo sent out his spirit sense and found almost all the sects had it.

He didn't even know how to make it, yet so many existed in the small realm! Although these were commonplace in the cultivation realm, this was the small realm. He had to get one or at least find out how they were made.

Scanning the device with his spirit sense, he found it worked based on a simple Five Element Formation.

But soon Ye Mo realized this was the simplest way of testing for spirit roots. It could only test for any of the five element spirit roots. It couldn't identify mutated spirit roots. Indeed, the devices in the cultivation realm had eight crystal rods.

"No talent, next." The interviewer was very fast. Most people were unsatisfactory.

"But Master, I can cultivate! I'm already yellow level!" A denied man looked at the device in disbelief. He could clearly cultivate, and quickly, so how could he have no talent?

The interviewer's face fell. "I said you're unsatisfactory! What are you saying? If you don't believe me, test somewhere else."

The man left sullenly. He'd just come from another sect. Ye Mo knew this guy might have a mutated spirit root.

"Level five talent, unsatisfactory, next."

"No talent, unsatisfactory."

"Level four talent, stand behind me."

…

Soon, it was Ye Mo's turn.