Spirit Farm (DD) c5

I looked through the window at how Bibi Dong and her minions had left. For a second, I thought about telling her about Yu Xiaogang… but then I realised that she treated me like some pet… and that she was paranoid…

‘Yeah, that’s a bad idea…’

I don’t want to explain to her how I know such stuff.

‘Nah… I already explained and revealed too much.’

After seeing them leave, I sighed to myself, took a step, and appeared in the farmstead.

My gaze went to Ah Yin. The grass tree looks beautiful. It was quite relaxing, but then I looked at the apple trees and the animals I have. 

‘I need variety… let me sell some apples to Spirit Hall, then get into a couple of auctions and buy some rarer fruits.’

I realised that I needed a couple of breaks. While I was Rank 40, my wolves were not good enough for the fourth ring for now.

After collecting a small pile of apples, I stored them in a backpack and then returned to the hotel room.

Once I left the place, I walked to the Spirit Hall’s branch.

The trip was short, and I arrived quickly. The place was similar to a church or a temple. People were dressed in robes.

“Excuse me.” I got the first person’s attention.

“Supreme Pontiff said that I could get Spirit Hall’s assistance when needed,” I said while pulling out her talisman and showing it to them.

The guy gulped loudly when he saw the talisman.

“Y-Yes! W-What can I do for you, esteemed Young Master?” He looked around at the same time as if looking for someone. Poor guy, should I tell him that Bibi Dong is not far?

“I made a deal with the lady. I will sell my products to Spirit Hall exclusively while you guys give me monetary support.”

“L-Lady?” The guy gulped in disbelief.

‘Wait, he can’t believe that I called her lady? What is with that? She is a hot woman…’ Internally, I complained to myself. I forget how rigid these guys can be.

“Yes. look.”

I pulled out my bag and showed the content to him.

“I have fancy apples. You give me money. Easy, yes?”

“T-Those are… Gulp...” The guy nearly passed out. But he controlled himself.

“One moment, esteemed Young Master, I will find the Priest for you.” The priest-like dude rushed away into the depths of the temple.

“Fuck these overdramatic idiots.” I found a seat while pulling out an apple, and started to eat it.

“I do wonder if you are a hot girl or a dude,” I said to myself while I looked at the angelic-like statue in the distance. The craftsmanship is exquisite, but I am not that big of a religious person, so I can’t compare it to anything."

As I chewed on the apple, a couple more people rushed over and arrived in front of me.

“A-Are you the one who has the Supreme Pontiff’s Token?” The older man asked with a respectful tone. He was about to bow and start praying…

“Yeah, that’s me.” I showed the talisman once more.

“I-Its actually the Token!” the small group started to whisper among themselves.

‘Geez, these geezers… just relax…’

“Yes. and I have several thousand-year-old apples.” I showed my backpack with the apples.

**Gulp**

“These…”

“By Heaven…”

“Yes, they are good. So I will give these to you guys, and you send them to your main hall. In turn, give me money.” I was about to pour those apples into their hands, but they swiftly reacted to that.

“Wait a moment! Young Master! We can’t just take them like this!” The priest stopped me as he quickly looked at his underlings.

“Find me something to keep these exquisite fruits! We can’t allow them to get spoiled!”

The pair rushed back to the depths of the temple. 

“Young Master, please follow me. I shall prepare an adequate amount of gold for you.”

‘Oh, for fuck sake…’

With a sigh, I followed after him. I can feel this will take me a while. I doubt they have enough gold as it is…

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

After excruciating several hours of ass-kissing, random questions, and some other nonsense, I was finally left alone.

‘At least I got something…’

I looked at the grape seeds I had. They did give me some food while I waited for that gold to arrive. So I got some grape seeds. I suppose some grapes and grape juice are on the horizon.

Apart from that, I have a couple of million. It will be enough for some unique fruits.

I walked away from the branch of Spirit Hall and walked towards where I sold the apples for the first time.

“Oh! Esteemed guest! Are you perhaps here to sell more of those apples?” The lady asked me. She was extremely courteous this time around.

“No, this time around, I am here to buy stuff,” I explained to her. She looked disappointed for a second.

“I Understand. Let me show you where you can sit.”

The lady motioned to follow her, and she then gave a look to someone.

‘Oh great… Are they going try to rob me?’

I sighed while following her. Well, whatever… I am pretty sure I can escape.

She took me to quite a nice seat on a balcony. It looked like VIP seats.

‘My Xianxia senses are tingling! Will I meet some big shot?’ 

As I took my seat, I realised that the person next to me was an intellectual. The guy had glasses…

And radiate that intellectual aura. He looked like he preferred to speak instead of fighting.

“Esteemed guest. I hope you enjoy your stay.” She gave me a sign, which I could use to buy. Before I could ask for details, she left.

“...”

“...”

“So… Do I shout that I am buying?” I asked the guy next to me.

“...”

He looked surprised for a second. I am pretty sure he is here for me, and the whole place is most likely rigged for me to meet him…

“...No, just raise the sign and say the amount.” The man explained before snapping out. It appears I broke his train of thought.

“Regardless, Youngster. You have quite the confidence.” He said with a small smile.

“I suppose? I don’t see a reason not to have confidence.” I replied before pulling out another apple and starting to eat it.

“...”

The guy’s glasses nearly dropped when he saw my apple.

“What? When such an event happens, I always have something to eat.” I said with a small frown. I didn’t see any sort of signs about eating.

“W-Where did you get that fruit, young man?” the elder-like dude asked me, looking quite interested now.

“I grow these,” I replied to him, and then I took another bite.

For a while, in the silence, I could only hear my chewing and his breathing.

“Do you sell such rare fruits?” He asked me.

“Yeah… To Spirit Hall.” I said with a ‘duh’ voice.

My attitude has started to nag him quite a bit. Honestly, their uptight attitude pisses me off too. So we are equal in that regard.

“How much does Spirit Hall pay you?” He asked me. It appears he is trying to outbid the Spirit Hall… is that even possible? 

“I honestly don’t know. Because I don’t care about the amount. I needed money, so they gave me quite a bit.” I explained after throwing away the remains. The elder looked like I just threw away gold…

I doubt this man realises that these are just simple apples, and it would take thousands of years for them to mature into what I have. But then again, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

“Then you need resources! My Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would pay you as much as you want!”

‘Oh, that Sect. No wonder he looked familiar. Wealth radiates from this guy.’

“Depends on what you can offer. So far, the Supreme Pontiff has given me her Token. I can go wild with their resources.” I slightly bragged to him. The reaction he showed me was priceless.

My actions are probably messing with his head, as what I am doing is against their norms. I doubt ‘cultivators’ just drop bombshells like I do.

“T-Thats…”

He didn’t say anything after that. I suppose the elder-like dude has realised that I could have ‘protection’ from the Spirit Hall.

Well, dropping their name from time to time is the best way to avoid getting involved in random fights.

“Oh, the auction girl is bringing something nice!”

My interest went to the actual auction instead of talking with the Tile guy.

~~~

‘Ah man… what a garbage auction…’

I sighed to myself as I walked back to my hotel.

But that moment, I heard someone was running at me.

I turned around and saw a black-cloaked individual running towards me.

“A robbery? Seriously?” 

The guy arrived in front of me.

“Kid! hand over all your valuables!” 

“Sure.” I removed my backpack and threw it… into my farmstead.

“...”

“...”

“Where did you put it!?” The thief, with a trembling hand, pointed a knife at me.

“In front of you. Don’t tell me you are blind?” I joked.

“Stop messing with me!” He waved his knife.

“Oh, for fuck sake…” I called forth my cultivation, and the guy dropped to his knees.

“Y-You… no way…”

“Indeed. Now…” 

My rings manifested behind me. The guy’s eyes bulged out as he didn’t expect my cultivation to be that high.

Yeah, I know… I am trying too hard…

“You are a… Soul Elder!?” The thief looked like the soul had left his body.

“Yeah… now… stay still, I will be practising my ability on you.” My second ring ability activated, and I created a ball of wind and pointed at the cloaked man.

“W-Wait! I was hired! Don’t do it!”

“...Hmm?”

I shot the ball of wind into the sky as I motioned for the guy to talk.

“Speak.”

“I-I don’t know! Some cloaked man paid me to steal from you! He gave me a sack of silver coins and told me to get your backpack.” He said with a snivelling tone.

“Hoh?”

I looked around for a bit.

I couldn’t see a thing.

‘In that case.’

I simply entered my Farmstead and looked at the outside world from my farm realm.

Seeing that I was gone. The thief just ran away as his life depended on it.

I waited for a while before I saw some cloaked men and a fat man walk over to my location.

“How did that kid disappear like that?”

“We need more of those apples! My son just had a breakthrough because of them!” A fat rich man said with a frown as his two cloaked guards didn’t have much to say.

‘So… clueless locals… no wonder they just attacked like that.’

At that moment, I activated my third and second rings, creating a big ball of wind and shooting it at the fat, rich man.

The attack, which came from nowhere, slammed into the fat man, who squealed like a pig.

“Aghhhhh!!!”

““Boss!!!””

The cloaked men exclaimed with worry as I shot two more at these cloaked men, but they activated their spirit rings and merged with their Martial Spirits.

‘So that one has four rings, and the other one has five.’

Both of them had higher cultivations, but they didn’t have what I had… and that is protection of my realm…

“Quickly! Take Boss away!”

The stronger one said to the weaker one. The bodyguards quickly scrambled to protect their boss.

But for me, this was an opportunity to do some target practice…

As the weaker cloaked guy grabbed his piggy Boss and started to run away, I used my combo shot again. 

The stronger one tried to intercept, but I shot another one, making the stronger one stop trying to protect and instead focus on the ball which was flying towards him.

‘Time to mess with this guy a little bit.’

I walked out from my farmstead in merged form and looked at the cloaked guy.

“Let me teach you what happens when you mess with a farmer.”