Chapter 337: This Sort of Situation

"It might just be a coincidence. If 'Dao Gold' were really this easy to obtain, it would be far too common."

After a moment of silence, Li Luo was the first to carefully analyze: "Although the Golden Dragon Treasure House is wealthy, they're not charity donors. How could they just give it away like that?"

Lv Qing'er and Qin Qin Zhulu both expressed agreement. Logically speaking, "Dao Gold" is just like academy points—obtaining it must not be easy, otherwise it would lose its meaning if it were too simple.

Perhaps earlier it really was just pure good luck.

"Let's keep moving forward. This is only the beginning. The hard days are probably still yet to come."

Li Luo smiled and waved his hand, then the three of them stepped on the pristine white snow, gradually advancing through the mountain forest.

After roughly one incense stick's worth of time, Lv Qing'er, who was walking through the snow, suddenly felt she had stepped on something. She bent down in confusion and brushed away the ice and snow, then saw a lingzhi mushroom like an ice crystal, lying in the snow and emitting fragrance.

She bent down and picked it up, saying: "Is this also a rare spirit plant?"

Li Luo's expression went blank for a second, then he shook his head: "You think it's a cabbage, just lying around everywhere?"

"Try burning it and we'll know." Qin Qin Zhulu said in a muffled voice, then nimbly took out the golden incense and lit it. After a series of familiar steps, the ice crystal lingzhi was wrapped in smoke and then vanished. Three golden coins materialized out of thin air, rolling down and landing in the snow.

Silence continued.

All three stared at the three Dao Gold coins in disbelief. After a moment, Lv Qing'er bent down to pick them up and said uncertainly: "I feel like the Dao Gold in this Golden Dragon Dao Field doesn't seem very important?"

"Could it be that the amount of Dao Gold needed later is enormous? Like when exchanging treasures at the Many Treasures Pool, you'd need thousands of Dao Gold?" Qin Qin Zhulu scratched his head and asked.

Li Luo was also a bit dumbfounded, muttering: "But this kind of rare spirit plant should also need time to accumulate before it can grow, right? Even the Golden Dragon Dao Field shouldn't produce them this easily, right?"

"Could it really be that I'm too ignorant and simply don't understand the heritage of this cultivation holy land?"

Facing Li Luo's self-doubt, neither Lv Qing'er nor Qin Qin Zhulu could provide an answer. After all, they had never left the Great Xia Kingdom, nor did they know just how many incredible things existed in this world.

Perhaps they really were seeing the sky from the bottom of a well.

With this thought, they continued forward. As expected, during the next half-day of travel, they kept encountering rare spirit plants one after another. Over this half-day, they hadn't encountered any crisis at all, yet the Dao Gold in hand had already reached over fifty...

Because there was nothing to compare it to, they really had no idea whether these fifty-plus Dao Gold coins counted as a lot or a little.

"We might have just happened to land in an area rich in spirit plants." Regarding this harvest, Li Luo once again thought carefully and reached a conclusion.

However, this conclusion was accompanied by a heavily wounded spirit beast suddenly charging out of the thicket. But before Li Luo's group of three could even act, the spirit beast scraped a long mark across the snow and died on the spot. All three of them looked a bit dumbfounded.

"Why do I feel like something's not quite right?" Qin Qin Zhulu swallowed. The killing aura of this spirit beast was not weak—if it were at its peak, even the three of them working together would have had to fight hard. Yet now it had inexplicably died right in front of them.

If this was also luck, Qin Qin Zhulu felt it was a bit of an insult to his intelligence.

Who hands things over like this?!

"I understand now."

Hearing Li Luo's low voice, both Qin Qin Zhulu and Lv Qing'er looked over in surprise.

Li Luo patted the dead spirit beast in front of him and said: "There's only one explanation for this situation, and that is... I might just be the legendary Child of Destiny."

Qin Qin Zhulu said in a muffled voice: "What does it have to do with you? Along the way, have you picked up a single rare spirit plant? If we're talking about the Child of Destiny, it's not you..."

Then the gazes of the two slowly turned toward Lv Qing'er, who stood beside them looking a bit at a loss.

Meeting their gazes, Lv Qing'er widened her beautiful eyes and pointed at herself with her slender jade finger: "It's because of me? How could that be?"

Li Luo and Qin Qin Zhulu also felt it didn't seem likely, but the facts were exactly this—almost all the spirit plants along the way had been obtained by Lv Qing'er in various ways.

And the spirit beast in front of them that had run over to deliver its own death.

Li Luo let out a breath, but his expression began to grow somewhat solemn as he said: "Why do I feel like I have a bad premonition?"

Although they could obtain Dao Gold in such easy and inexplicable ways, based on Li Luo's experience, in this kind of trial, the more conspicuous you were, the more trouble you'd attract.

"Suddenly it feels like it's getting more and more interesting!" Qin Qin Zhulu suddenly got excited, his face flushing red, killing aura rising in his eyes.

Li Luo was too tired to complain. This really was a battle-crazy maniac, but brother, you have to read the situation. This Golden Dragon Dao Field is basically full of Manifestation Stage fighters. With our three Meridians Stage cultivators being this conspicuous, wouldn't we just be asking for trouble?

Lv Qing'er tugged at Li Luo's sleeve and whispered: "How about we just wander around this area and not go anywhere else? That way the risk of being targeted would be much smaller."

She had never been that interested in the Golden Dragon Mountain-Passing Token to begin with. The environment of this snowy mountain range was quite nice—if they were just sightseeing here, it would actually be quite pleasant.

And conveniently earn some Dao Gold on the side, so when it ended, they could still get a wave of baptism.

Li Luo heard this and said helplessly: "If I really stayed here with you until the end, your mother would tear me apart the moment we got back."

One could imagine how furious Yu Yu Hongxi would be: I paid for you to be my daughter's bodyguard, and you just took my daughter sightseeing in the Golden Dragon Dao Field?

Lv Qing'er quickly said: "I'll explain it to her when the time comes. I won't let her take it out on you."

Li Luo was just about to speak when his expression suddenly shifted. Beside him, Qin Qin Zhulu's gaze also hardened, and a heavy spear appeared directly in his hand.

Li Luo turned around, looked toward the snowy thicket on the right, and smiled: "Stop hiding. Come out."

Lv Qing'er was startled by his words, and immediately ice phase power surged over her delicate body as she cast a cold, sharp gaze in that direction.

Under the watch of the three, the ice and snow there suddenly began to flow, and then transformed into three human figures.

All three were young men. They looked at Li Luo's group, and then the one in the middle, who appeared to be the captain, smiled and said with an odd look: "We got a little too close by accident, and you actually noticed. You are quite sharp."

"Sounds like you've been following us for some time," Li Luo said calmly.

The blue-robed captain opposite smiled and nodded: "Indeed, we've been tailing you for some distance. So, my friend, I wonder if you could explain to us why, along the way here, you've done nothing yet managed to get your hands on dozens of Dao Gold coins?"

"While we..."

He smiled helplessly and said: "It's a bit embarrassing to say, but we've also been in this area for half a day now, and we have absolutely nothing to show for it."

Li Luo nodded sympathetically: "That really is unfortunate."

The blue-robed captain smiled and nodded: "So we wanted to come ask—how exactly are you managing to pick up Dao Gold as you walk? What exactly is going on here?"

Li Luo showed a thoughtful expression and said: "The situation is actually just this one situation, but what exactly the situation is, we'll have to see how the situation develops."

The atmosphere went slightly quiet.

The blue-robed captain's smile widened: "This friend of ours has quite a sense of humor."

"If you don't want to tell us..."

He slowly drew a willow-leaf saber from his waist. The blade was thin and sharp, while powerful wind phase power slowly surged out from within him, sweeping up the residual snow beneath his feet.

"Then please, the three of you, use the Dao Gold you obtained earlier to help relieve our predicament..."