“Oh, this second bottle is Zhong Cao. It is the seed of a moderate grade sea of grass.”
“Moderate grade sea of grass?”
The shopkeeper explained, “That’s right. When you use the moderate grade sea of grass, ten acres of grass will grow around you. The grass grows taller than a person. You can use it to escape. It can be used to confuse your opponent. If you realized that your opponent is too strong, you just have to throw this, and a sea of grass will appear. Then you can disappear into it. This can come in handy.”
“This sounds good too.” Ding Hao’s eyes sparkled.
The Innate Stage masters with divine consciousness couldn’t apparate. Thus if he came across someone with Innate Stage level nine, he could disappear into the sea of grass and they won’t be able to find him. Plus, he had a dog. Its nose was very sensitive. He would be able to detect anything in the sea of grass.
“Alright, I want both. Tell me how much.” Ding Hao was satisfied with this shopping. Di Hu was reliable too.
The shopkeeper said, “The sea of grass is thirty Yuan Stone a bottle. All together it’s fifty eight Yuan Stone. I’ll throw in a couple of bottles of the Fiery Fruit for you, alright?”
She had been introduced to him by a friend, and she was helping him escape, therefore, he did not try bargaining with her. He then asked, “Are there only two types of moderate grate seeds suitable for me in such a big shop? Do you have anything else that I may have a look at?”
The shopkeeper chuckled, “Gentleman Ding, I do have lots of seeds here, but there are not many that suit you. I have some seeds of spiritual plants and some attacking-type seeds…I’ll let you have a look.”
She went into a room and came out with a few bottles on a tray.
Ding Hao examined each carefully. He realized that he didn’t need any of those. The shopkeeper was incredibly good at picking out what Ding Hao needed.
“There is no label on this bottle?” Ding Hao picked up a bottle and saw there was no label at all. It was strange.
The shopkeeper saw that and chuckled, “That bottle was given to me as a form of repayment. He owed me a debt. The label was torn, but the bottle should contain a moderate grade seen. However, I’m not sure what the seed does.”
“Is that so.” The reason that Ding Hao paid any attention to this labelless bottle was that his power absorption stone sensed a much stronger spiritual energy from this bottle than any other bottle. It even gave off an aggressive aura that was far greater than any of the other bottles!
‘This is something incredible!’ Ding Hao thought.
He remained cool and placed the bottle down. He said, “Lady Wu, how are you going to sell this bottle without any label? If it was cheap, I don’t mind taking it. I’d love to find something inexpensive and unique, but if it is expensive then forget it.”
Actually, the shopkeeper was worried that she wasn’t able to sell this bottle of seed. Who would want a bottle of seed with an unknown function? Now Ding Hao wanted it, she immediately said, “Gentleman Ding, if you know what to do with it I’ll sell it to you for fifteen Yuan Stones. But if you don’t know what to do with it, you should forget it, as I fear that it may interfere with the things that you do.”
Ding Hao shook his head, “You say that I know what to do with it? I don’t want it then, I’m only going to spend a small amount of money to gamble and see what’s in it. It is much too expensive.”
The seed had been in the shop for many years, and she wasn’t able to sell it. The shopkeeper said, “How about twelve Yuan Stone? It is a moderate grade seed after all. Take it if you want.”
“Alright, it is a round number now.” Ding Hao thought that he had enough.
The Zhong Teng and Zhong Cao were fifty-eight Yaun Stone, and the unknown bottle was twelve Yuan Stone. The total was seventy Yuan Stone. Ding Hao didn’t have enough Yuan Stones, but this was still under Heaven’s Will System, so he was able to use his banknotes.
After settling the bill, the shopkeeper gave him five complimentary lower grade Fiery Fruit.
“The Fiery Fruit would release great fire after being planted. If you have a blaze element celestial gene, this would be very useful.”
“I do have a blaze element celestial gene, here’s the money.” Ding Hao paid in banknotes and placed the three bottles and the five FIery Fruit into his storage pouch.
Then the shopkeeper opened a window facing the back, “You can leave from here.”
“Thank you.” Ding Hao wore his black cloak.
The shopkeeper recommended, “When you get to the outside territory, and you need weapons you can go to Chen’s shop, if you need wooden figures go to the Chu’s, tell them that I introduced you.”
“Alright.” Ding Hao’s black shadow jumped to the ground from level two.
There were many people that wore black cloaks in the border village. He was able to disappear into the crowd very quickly.
He was very happy with the goods he bought from the seed of the spiritual woodshop.
The moderate grade Tenjia grass and moderate grade sea of grass can be used during critical moments to save his life. As for the cheap bottle of seeds, Ding Hao sensed that it was very powerful and valuable! ‘This was quite a find!’
The shopkeeper probably knew what he did, but she knew it was hard to sell when you have no label on the bottle.
Ding Hao told himself that although he was just shooting in the dark. It would be a surprise to see what grew from the seeds.
Time was limited, he had to change his banknotes to Yuan Stones.
Luckily, there were many money changers in the border village. He went to seven or eight shops to change two to three hundred Yuan Stone from every shop, and he had one thousand eight hundred and thirty Yuan Stone in total. This was a large amount.
Ding Hao was wearing the black cloak and walking in the crowd feeling confident. Honestly, money could make people more confident!
It was still early, he went to the weaponry shop that the shopkeeper introduced just now.
It was a shop in front and a welding shop at the back. The shopkeeper was a bare arms wielding master.
There were many different kinds of weapons in the shop. There were sabers, spears, swords, and halberds, but none of them got Ding Hao excited.
The best weapon was the higher grade sword. It was only slightly better than the willow-leaf saber he got from the city lord, but it was very expensive.
“Boss, are there any other better weapons? These are too common.”
“Gentleman, these were all made by me. They are all here. We are not like the shops in Tu City. If you are looking for a really good weapon, you might want to try to check out Tu City. They even have Supreme Treasure.” The shopkeeper was honest.
“Supreme Treasure?” Ding Hao had never heard that before.
The shopkeeper said, “The higher grade objects are tools, the supreme grade objects are considered treasures. The supreme grade weapons are known as Supreme Treasures. Supreme Treasures is not something that anyone can have. Its price is shockingly high, but it is a powerful weapon. If you have the money, you can very well buy that in Tu City, but if you don’t have the money you can buy weapons here.”
“Supreme Treasure! The higher-grade objects are tools, the supreme grade objects are considered treasures!” After listening to all that, it gave Ding Hao an even better reason for him to go to Tu City.
“Boss, I’ll be back next time.”
…
In the border village, the patrol camp.
“What? You lost him? How did that happen? You are all useless!”
Zhou Genwei was so angry that he slapped the table when his officers reported back with the bad news.
The officers felt strange that Ding Hao had stayed upstairs for a long time. The shopkeeper came down without Ding Hao. The officers panicked and rushed upstairs to check and Di Hu ran away at the same time.
Zhou Genwei shouted, “You are useless! Close that shop down!”
The officers said timidly, “General Zhou, the shopkeeper is related to the deputy general of Wuzhou. That may not be the best idea to…”
Smash! Zhou Genwei threw the cup in his hand on the floor.
“Idiots! You are all useless idiots!”
The two officers’ heads lowered after being scolded. Then one of them said, “General Zhou, we overheard them talking about Tu City. Maybe Ding Hao was planning to go to Tu City.”
“He’s going outside the territory?” Zhou Genwei was slightly shocked, “He was only at Innate Stage level three! He dared to go outside the territory?” Zhou Genwei couldn’t believe that in the beginning, but then he thought, ‘That’s quite possible. This kid is quite daring. He wasn’t able to buy any prohibited medicine under my watch. He’d probably try his luck outside the territory…’
At this moment, another officer came in to report. “General Zhou, we heard from the owner of the courtyard that about two hours ago the celestial teacher, Liu Yunkun had already checked out and left the border village. Then Ding Hao and Di Hu too had checked out.”
“What?! So that’s true!” Zhou Genwei’s facial expression changed. He clenched his teeth and said, “That’s right! He must be thinking about going outside the territory, but the celestial teacher didn’t want him to tag along! Send some men to the border village and lockdown the border! Don’t let him escape…”
Then he changed his mind and said, “No, let him leave! Let him leave the border village!”
Zhou Genwei had a vile smirk, “Little piece of trash, you’ve brought this onto yourself!”
…
Walking out from Chen’s weaponry shop, Ding Hao went to Chu’s wooden figures shop.
The wooden figures were battle puppets.
However, an Innate Stage master wasn’t able to project his divine consciousness to control the battle puppets. Furthermore, the wooden figures were rather stupid. They made a move when you gave an order. It was quite useless. Minion was much better by comparison!
Ding Hao didn’t buy them.
Then he bought some meat and a social custom manual. Ding Hao could sense that the atmosphere in the streets was getting tense. There were more officers in the street now. They were interrogating everyone. They checked everyone who was wearing a black cloak and checked their card.
“Routine inspection! Show your card!”
“Oh no, they are getting closer!” Ding Hao panicked and hid in the alley. “I have to leave this place now!”
When he got to the border of Heaven’s Will, there were already many patrolling officers standing in one line blocking the passage. They were checking everyone’s card.
“Darn! It’s too late!” Ding Hao stopped and was upset with himself. He should have left immediately upon exiting the seed shop.
As he was worrying, he saw a hidden passage.
There were not enough officers to guard that hidden passage, he could still go through that.
“Now!” Ding Hao picked up his speed and ran to the hidden passage. Just as he stepped over the border of Heaven’s Will the officers rushed to the same passage.
“Quickly! General Zhou ordered us to close all passages and check everyone’s card before they leave!”
Ding Hao turned his head and took a glance and left the scene quickly. He walked in a quickened pace to go outside the territory…