At this time, in the fields below the hillside.
"Professor Cai, these Napa cabbages look so watery. Isn't it winter?" Mo Chuan looked at the expanse of green in the field, his mind filled with questions—after all, he was a cheat with exceptionally rich life experience.
Napa cabbages in winter often appeared particularly shriveled due to the drop in temperature, and their originally bright green leaves would turn limp and yellowish-green.
"Young man, you wouldn't understand this," an old farmer said with a smile as he wiped his cleaver. "This is all thanks to Professor Cai!"
"This is my ability," the professor said with a slight smile. "These cabbages were already cultivated with superior breeds, and coupled with my ability to add vitality to plants, making them more resistant to freezing, drought, and alkalinity, this is why this situation has occurred."
"That's great." Mo Chuan nodded and asked, "Is the Professor a production-type ability user?"
Ability users were broadly categorized into production, combat, and service types based on their functions.
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People like Yimu and Lianshanrang were both production-type and combat-type ability users.
"Yes, after I finished my studies at Modu University, I received an invitation from Xuanyuan Qi, so I came to take a look. I never expected to stay here for five years." Professor Cai chuckled and pointed at the cabbages, "Alright, come, help me harvest the vegetables. Today we might even have cabbage and lamb dumplings!"
Mo Chuan took a cleaver and followed everyone in harvesting the vegetables.
...
Confucius returned to Luoyi with Gray Sheep.
"Master, you are..." Gray Sheep asked in surprise, looking at the surroundings.
"I came here to see, to see how it differs from Longjing and Jinling." The Master smiled and led Gray Sheep into the classroom.
As soon as they entered, they saw Chang Wei beating Laifu... no, Lianshanrang beating Meng Le.
"What?! You drank so much of the wine I painstakingly saved up for! You pay me back!!"
Lianshanrang, with tears in his eyes, grabbed Meng Le's collar and shook him vigorously. Meng Le, with hazy eyes, stared at the ceiling. His flushed face and the smell of alcohol from afar all indicated what Meng Le had done.
"..."
"..."
Gray Sheep was a little scared, so he decided to be invisible.
"Lianshan, what's going on?" Confucius's expression was normal, but there was a hint of embarrassment.
"Master!? You're back?"
Lianshanrang quickly let go of Meng Le, who was drunk and lying like a puddle, and said, "Master, it's nothing, it's just that Meng Le drank three bottles of sorghum wine in one go and is now like this..."
"Alright, then you can wait for him to wake up. Meng Le isn't ill-intentioned, just a bit greedy for alcohol." Confucius shook his head. "Where is Xuanyuan?"
"He's on the phone in the office outside. Student Mo Chuan provided him with a large sponsorship, but he wants Xuanyuan Qi to find someone to help him identify treasures, so he's currently contacting people he knows..."
"Hmm, alright. You help Meng Le sober up first, and then we'll talk when he wakes up." Confucius nodded and left with Gray Sheep with a casual wave.
At the same time, Xuanyuan Qi had just finished his call and was flipping through his phone book.
He sensed the fluctuation of spatial spiritual energy and instinctively looked up. Seeing that it was Confucius, he immediately said, "Master! You're back!"
"Hmm... I heard that Mo Chuan has some treasures that need to be examined?"
"Yes..."
"I'll do it."
"But Master..." Xuanyuan Qi originally wanted to say that Mo Chuan's items might be dangerous, but thinking of the Master's unfathomable strength, he closed his mouth.
...
More than ten minutes later, Confucius, accompanied by Xuanyuan Qi, found Mo Chuan in the vegetable patch and left with him. Gray Sheep, on the other hand, asked Xuanyuan Qi to take him around.
In the Spring and Autumn World.
Confucius looked at Mo Chuan, gazed at him for a moment, and finally said softly, "Resembles, very much resembles..."
"Uh... Master?" When Mo Chuan heard Xuanyuan Qi mention the surname of the old man before him, he had some guesses in his heart.
Although Long Country was vast, there was only one family that could be considered the Kong family—the Kong family of Qufu in Qingzhou.
And there was only one who could be called "Master"—the strongest person in the Kong family who controlled the Spring and Autumn Brush, the Warring States Chariot, and the Doctrine of the Mean Ruler.
Confucius seemed to be reminded by Mo Chuan's words and snapped back to memories of certain matters. He spoke to Mo Chuan, "Bring out what you mentioned so I can take a look."
Mo Chuan casually clenched his hand, enveloped two items with the Netherworld Azure Flame, and presented them to Confucius.
They were the "Yasakani no Magatama" and the "Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi."
Confucius sensed from afar the powerful evil energy possessed by these two cursed weapons—the power that carried immense temptation and corrosion, which even Confucius found somewhat astonishing.
"What were these two items originally? If their prototypes were not powerful, they would never have been corroded to this extent yet possess such powerful spiritual energy fluctuations."
"The Three Sacred Treasures from Japanese legends, the Yasakani no Magatama and the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi."
"Sacred Treasures?" Confucius glanced at Mo Chuan and immediately appeared very interested, "How did you obtain them?"
"How to put it..." Mo Chuan did not reveal the entire story to Confucius. "I made a deal with the current Japanese Emperor. I helped him ascend, and he gave me these two items."
"I see, if that's the case, it makes sense." Confucius nodded and said, "Do you know that before the first spiritual energy war, there was another country at the other end of Blue Star."
"I know, the land of freedom and beauty, where there are gunfights every day."
"Do you know why it has disappeared now?"
"This... I heard it was to create a Saint-level ability user, which led to a nationwide spiritual energy riot and climate storm, ultimately leading to the country's demise."
"Hmm... half correct." Confucius said, "What I am about to tell you, after you hear it, do not recall it much. It is best to cast it into the deepest recesses of your memory, and even more so, do not tell anyone else, understand?"
"Yes..."
"You are correct. At that time, the Beautiful Country and the Rose Empire were in a desperate fight, and coupled with their losses on the main battlefield, the famously innovative Beautiful Country people decided to artificially create a Saint-level ability user to reverse the outcome of the war."
"At first, they partially succeeded, because they found fragments rich in divine spiritual energy and a body that could fuse with it."
"But what no one expected happened."
"The god they found was an evil god no less powerful than the Outer Realm Sky Demons, possessing immense polluting and corrosive power. Soon after the experiment's success, the evil god used the laboratory as a base, further corrupting the entire Beautiful Country."
"At that time, all countries unanimously decided to carry out a final devastating strike against the Beautiful Country, preferably erasing this continent from Blue Star."
"At that time, I was one of the executors, and what I saw and heard in the Beautiful Country still sends shivers down my spine to this day... twisted tentacles, flesh, eyeballs, mouths, all living beings were unspeakable monsters..."
"Uh... Master..."
"What is it?"
"Is the monster you are talking about that one?"