Chapter 337: Such a Situation

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

After a moment of silence, Li Luo was the first to analyze it carefully: "Although the Long Baoxing is wealthy and powerful, they aren't charity workers. How could they just give it away like this?"

Lu Qinger and Qin Zhulu both expressed their agreement. Logically speaking, "Dao Gold" should be like academy points; the difficulty of obtaining it must be significant, otherwise, it would have no meaning if it were too simple.

Perhaps it really was just pure luck earlier.

"Let's keep moving forward. This is only the beginning; the hard times are likely yet to come."

Li Luo waved his hand with a smile, and the three of them began to walk gradually through the mountain forest, treading on the pristine white snow.

About the time it takes to burn an incense stick later, Lu Qinger, walking in the snow, suddenly felt she had stepped on something. She bent down in confusion to clear away the ice and snow, and then she saw a spirit mushroom that looked like an ice crystal, lying in the snow and emitting a fragrance.

She bent down to pick it up and said, "Is this also a rare spirit plant?"

Li Luo was stunned for a second, then shook his head and said, "Do you think it's Chinese cabbage, just lying around on the roadside?"

"Burn it with incense and you'll know," Qin Zhulu said in a muffled voice. He then deftly took out the golden incense and lit it. After a series of familiar steps, the ice crystal spirit mushroom was enveloped by smoke and then vanished, leaving three glittering gold coins that rolled out of thin air and landed in the snow.

Silence ensued.

The three of them stared at the three pieces of Dao Gold in disbelief. A moment later, Lu Qinger bent down to pick them up and said uncertainly, "It feels like the Dao Gold in this Golden Dragon Dojo doesn't seem very important?"

"Could it be that the amount of Dao Gold required later is huge? For example, when going to that Treasure Pool to exchange for treasures, it all requires thousands of Dao Gold?" Qin Zhulu scratched his head and asked.

Li Luo was also left a bit confused, muttering, "But this kind of rare spirit plant should also need time to grow, right? Even in the Golden Dragon Dojo, it shouldn't be so easy to manifest, right?"

"Could it be that I am truly too ignorant and simply don't understand the foundation of this cultivation holy land?"

Faced with Li Luo's self-doubt, neither Lu Qinger nor Qin Zhulu could provide an answer; after all, they had never left the Great Xia Kingdom and didn't know how incredible things in this world could be.

Perhaps they really were just frogs in a well.

Holding onto this thought, they continued forward. Unsurprisingly, during the next half-day of travel, they continuously encountered rare spirit plants one after another. They hadn't encountered any crises in this half-day, yet the Dao Gold in their hands had already reached over fifty pieces...

Because there was no basis for comparison, they really didn't know if these fifty-plus pieces of Dao Gold were considered a lot or a little.

"We might have just happened to fall into an area with abundant spirit plants." Regarding this harvest, Li Luo once again concluded after careful deliberation.

However, this conclusion was followed by a heavily wounded spirit beast suddenly rushing out of the jungle. Before Li Luo and the others could even make a move, the spirit beast left a long trail in the snow and died on the spot, leaving the three of them looking somewhat dazed.

"Why do I feel like something isn't right?" Qin Zhulu swallowed hard. The spirit beast before them had a strong baleful aura; if it were in its prime, the three of them would have had to fight a bitter battle even if they joined forces, yet now it had died inexplicably before them.

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

How could they just be handed things like this?!

"I understand."

Hearing Li Luo's low voice, both Qin Zhulu and Lu Qinger looked over in surprise.

Li Luo patted the dead spirit beast in front of him and said, "This situation can only be explained by one reason, and that is... I might just be that legendary Child of Destiny."

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

Then, both of their gazes slowly turned to Lu Qinger, who was standing to the side looking somewhat at a loss.

Meeting their gazes, Lu Qinger widened her beautiful eyes, and her slender jade fingers couldn't help but point at herself: "Because of me? How is that possible?"

Li Luo and Qin Zhulu also felt it was unlikely, but the facts were just that; along the way, almost all the spirit plants were obtained by Lu Qinger in various ways.

And there was also this spirit beast that ran over to die on its own.

Li Luo let out a breath, but his expression began to turn somewhat solemn as he said, "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"

Although they could obtain Dao Gold in such an easy and inexplicable way, in Li Luo's experience, the more ostentatious one was during such trials, the more trouble it would attract.

"Suddenly, it feels like it's getting more and more interesting!" Qin Zhulu suddenly became excited, his face flushed, and a baleful aura rose in his eyes.

Li Luo was speechless; this really was a battle-crazed maniac, but big brother, you have to know the occasion! This Golden Dragon Dojo is basically full of people at the Phase Transformation stage; wouldn't us three at the Pattern-Birth stage be asking for trouble by being so high-profile?

Lu Qinger tugged on 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 will be much smaller."

She didn't have much interest in the Golden Dragon Mountain-Visiting Token to begin with. The environment of this snowy mountain range was quite nice, and if they were just here to play, it would actually be quite pleasant.

And while they were at it, they could easily earn some Dao Gold, and when it ended, they could also receive a baptism.

Hearing this, Li Luo said helplessly, "If I really stay here with you until the end, your mother might tear me apart when we get back."

One could imagine how furious Yu Hongxi would be: "I paid for you to be my daughter's bodyguard, and you spent the time taking my daughter sightseeing in the Golden Dragon Dojo?"

Lu Qinger quickly said, "I will explain it to her when the time comes; I won't let her take her anger out on you."

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

Li Luo turned around, looked into the snowy jungle on the right, and smiled: "Stop hiding, come out."

Lu Qinger was startled upon hearing this, and immediately, the power of the Ice Phase surged over her delicate body as she cast a cold, sharp gaze in that direction.

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

All three were young men. They looked at Li Luo and the others, and then the one in the middle, who looked like the captain, smiled and said with a strange look in his eyes: "We accidentally got a bit too close and were actually detected. You are quite sharp."

"Sounds like you've been with us for a while," Li Luo said calmly.

The green-robed captain opposite smiled and nodded: "We have indeed been following for a distance. So, friend, I wonder if you could explain to us why you haven't done anything along the way, yet have managed to scrape together dozens of pieces of Dao Gold?"

"And us..."

He smiled helplessly and said, "It's a bit embarrassing to say, but we've been in this area for half a day now, and yet, we've gained nothing."

Li Luo nodded sympathetically: "That is truly regrettable."

The green-robed captain smiled and nodded: "So we wanted to ask, how did you manage to walk along and pick up Dao Gold the whole way? What exactly is going on here?"

Li Luo looked thoughtful and said, "The situation is indeed just such a situation, but as for what kind of situation it is, we still have to see the situation."

The atmosphere became a little quiet.

The green-robed captain's smile grew wider: "This friend is quite humorous."

"If you are unwilling to say..."

He slowly drew a willow-leaf blade from his waist. The blade was thin and sharp, and at the same time, a powerful Wind Phase force slowly surged from his body, whipping up the residual snow at his feet.

"Then please, the three of you, use the Dao Gold you obtained earlier to help us out..."