Chapter 1772: Chapter 1772: Sky-High Price
The consciousness of Zen's inner world was soon suppressed by Zen.
Despite having done so, the surging waves of consciousness continued to spread out, constantly reminding Zen that this item was more than just important.
As Zen was the creator of this world, this consciousness also belonged to Zen, and such waves simply couldn't resist him.
In the past, while Master Evil was communicating with Zen, he had warned him that an inner world's consciousness wasn't necessarily entirely safe. If he was careless, such consciousness might even occupy his body.
There had once been True Gods who had neglected to monitor and manage their own inner worlds. Within such inner worlds were born very ambitious secondary creatures. Through the method of controlling the Godly Tile, these creatures succeeded in destroying the True God's soul.
Luckily enough for the True Gods, only the secondary creatures from a Holy Being's inner world could actually comprehend the Godly Way and eventually escape. Although the aforementioned secondary creatures obtained the bodies of those Gods of Creation through the Godly Tile, they remained confined within their inner worlds, without possibility of ever entering the divine land. In other words, these True Gods all became walking corpses.
During the period of time that Zen's cinnabar field had been sealed, a creature like these had equally appeared, Evil God. If Zen hadn't interfered, it was very likely that Evil God would have been able to do this to Zen, as well. After being suppressed by Zen though, Evil God became much quieter.
Now that the entire inner world was suddenly so intrigued by the piece of “mud”, there was no way Zen was going to ignore it.
“Let me see,” Zen replied calmly to the little girl. In his mind, he was wondering something completely different. “Don't you know that piece of mud?” he asked Master Evil in his mind.
“Mud?” Master Evil was startled slightly before taking notice of the brown colored mud. He hesitated silently for a few seconds before muttering, “This mud seems to be familiar. It could be brown cloud mud, and it also appears to be ... No, no, no... That's...”
In Zen's eyes, Master Evil was an extremely knowledgeable person that had a very deep understanding of the divine land. After dawdling for a while, he finally provided an answer that made Zen feel faint, “That's an ordinary piece of mud.”
Zen was speechless. There had to be a reason why this mud was causing such agitation within his inner world. There was no way he would believe that it was only an ordinary piece of mud. His only option now was to ask the stall owner.
Thus, Zen carelessly zipped left and right in front of the stall. He focused his gaze on the said piece of mud and asked, “May I ask why this piece of mud is being sold here?”
The little girl blinked her eyes a few times, covered her mouth and giggled. “This piece of mud is a treasure!” she said.
“A treasure?” Zen felt disbelief and his face revealed a puzzled expression. If this piece of mud was such a treasure as she had said, then why did she throw it to the side so casually? Of course, Zen wasn't naive, and there was no way he was going to believe that, either.
When the little girl noticed that Zen didn't believe her in the least, she continued in a clear, confident voice, “It's true. When we dug this piece of mud out twenty years ago, there was a towering tree growing atop it. That tree was way over one thousand feet tall and was about to pierce through the sky.” The little girl gestured upward with her hand as she spoke.
Scientifically speaking, it was impossible that the tree was about to pierce through the sky. The divine land's sky was unimaginably high, not to mention that a tree a thousand feet tall was not very high at all. In fact, there were countless trees that reached tens of thousands of feet in the air all across the Swirl Forest.
Still focusing on Zen's expression, the little girl pursed her lips and said, “There are golden apricot trees planted on the hillside. It's already impressive when an ordinary golden apricot tree grows to a height of twenty or thirty feet, but the golden apricot trees on that hillside are all extremely tall. Many people have said over the years that there must be something spiritual at the bottom of the hill, so our Tie Clan sent people to dig it out. We didn't expect this piece of mud to pop out after we had spent so much time there digging. At the time, this piece of mud even took on a human form and attempted an escape; it was extremely fast! Luckily, my uncle Alfred was there and he caught the mud before it could go anywhere.”
The Tie Clan was a small clan in the Six-Burden Region. They were much stronger than the Misty Mountain Village, but despite that, they still weren't strong enough to be considered among the third-tier clans.
“Human form? Escape? This mud must really have spirituality then,” Zen nodded in agreement, somewhat surprised.
“That's right! And my uncle was so happy and pretty proud, too,” the little girl added as she laughed. “But I guess after being bound by my uncle, this piece of mud seemed to have lost its spirituality, and later on, it became like this…”
As it turned out, after the Tie Clan had obtained this piece of mud and controlled it, they had self-proclaimed it to be an incredible treasure.
Throughout all the divine land, many spiritual objects existed. Time here was endless and as a result, bizarre things would appear every now and again. Time could give many things a spiritual sense, but a piece of mud that had spirituality was extremely rare, to say the least. 𝘳áΝȪBËs
After obtaining the piece of mud, the Tie Clan had secretly and carefully studied it for a long time. Despite having been doing so, they couldn't find anything special about the said piece of mud. It literally was just as Master Evil had said — an absolutely ordinary piece of mud.
Of course, the members of the Tie Clan were naturally all upset, but after studying it for more than ten years, they eventually gave up. They firmly believed that this thing was far from ordinary though, and took it to the Six-Burden Divine City. Here, they found a few True Gods with incredibly keen eyesight to verify the mud. Upon seeing the mud, the first words uttered by the True Gods were, “What is this? Did your Tie Clan go mad from poverty and use a piece of the mud dug out from the ground to fool us?”
In a fit of anger, the Tie Clan's leader left the mud to this little girl in the Money Alley.
The Tie Clan rented a stall in the Money Alley. It was run by the daughter of the Tie Clan's leader, a little girl named Linn Tie. Over the past two years, many True Gods had noticed this piece of mud; after all, it was quite unusual to find an ordinary mud for sale in Money Alley. If it was really a piece of ordinary mud, why would the stall owner bother to let it occupy a pot in the stall, they all wondered.
Whenever someone asked, Linn would tell them this same story. With her numerously told story, many people became quite interested in the piece of mud. After all, there would always be people willing to spend a little money to buy an opportunity. What if this mud really was a treasure? How could they know without getting their hands on it first?
However, when they heard the little Linn's price, the interested True Gods became so angered that they glared at her and cursed her loudly for being crazy. It turned out that Linn was asking for five hundred divine might coins.
These True Gods were only a little interested in this piece of mud. And even if this mud had been a necessity, most True Gods wouldn't have been able to afford it. In other words, they would only be willing to pay one or two divine might coins for it.
In fact, even the members of the Tie Clan stopped taking the piece of mud seriously. They all simply agreed to leave it here for Linn to sell, as long as it could eventually be sold. In all honesty, they couldn't care any less about the price of the mud. After all, what could an ordinary piece of mud be worth, anyway?
This stall in the Money Alley was very important for the Tie Clan though. Linn was capable of taking on such heavy responsibility at a young age precisely because she was very smart and a born leader. And yet, she persisted in selling this piece of mud at a terribly high price and thus, the piece had been there for several years already. Up until today, no one had really cared for it or even paid any attention to it.
When Zen asked about the piece of mud today, Linn told him the story vividly. At the same time, she smiled at him and asked, “Are you interested in buying this piece of mud?”
This little girl looked to be quite a tender age, but she was very discerning. When she first saw Zen wandering around, she felt him rather unnatural. His gaze landed on the piece of mud, as if he could see its peculiarity. Shortly after, she noticed Zen looking around her stall. In her young heart, Linn laughed. This fellow was clearly very interested in this piece of mud, and yet he had to pretend not to be.
She had a faint premonition that she would finally succeed in selling this piece of mud to Zen, and that, at a high price today. Unfortunately for her, Zen appeared to be nothing more than a proving godly warrior. Although he looked decent, he also looked a bit poor. She even caught herself wondering whether or not he would even have enough divine might coins to pay for it.
“How much are you asking for this piece of mud?” Zen asked, casually. He obviously wasn't clear on what this little girl was thinking about, but she had seen straight through his every move.
The little girl smiled and silently extended five fingers.
“Five divine might coins?” Zen asked, feeling relieved. Regardless of whether or not this mud was useful, Zen had to have it. If this girl had been asking for a high price, things wouldn't have gone well.
To his question, the girl shook her head.
“Fifty?” Zen asked again, his heart already climbing up his throat. Fifty divine might coins was already getting a little steep. Even for a warrior born into one of the greatest clans, it would be quite difficult for them to be capable of affording it.
And yet, shockingly enough, the little girl still shook her head once again, this time revealing her silver teeth as she sweetly smiled and said, “Five hundred divine might coins.”
“What clan does this girl belong to? Is she out of her mind?” Master Evil said in Zen's mind.
Before Zen could say anything aloud, Master Evil's voice was heard cursing in his mind.
In Master Evil's eyes, the piece of mud was worthless. Despite that though, Zen had a few secrets that Master Evil wasn't aware of and perhaps Zen could really see the value of the mud. Never had he imagined that this young girl would have an asking price five hundred divine might coins. Now that was not only daring, but outrageous, too.
And upon hearing Linn's price, Zen couldn't help but frown in an instant. Simultaneously though, he noted a trace of slyness on the girl's fair face. He was in a dilemma now, for he couldn't figure out the value of the piece of mud but his need of it came from the consciousness of his inner world.