"Draw it prettier for me!"
The golden shimmery woman passed the potted plant to Sun Mo and even reminded him solemnly, "I'm using this as a gift. Don't ruin it!"
"No problem, I guarantee that I'll draw it prettier than the number one on the Devastating Beauty Rankings!"
Lu Zhiruo gave him a thumbs up.
"..."
Li Ziqi's lips twitched. (Is this guy brainless? Whether a spirit rune is good or not depends on the effect. Why the hell do you want it to be prettier?
Also, papaya girl, what kind of analogy is this? If you don't know how to use it, don't use it recklessly, alright?)
"Is there really such a thing as drawing spirit runes on the leaves of plants?"
"Is it very difficult?"
"It's not very difficult, it's extremely difficult. Only ancestor-level experts should be able to do it, right?"
Among the spectators, the two street vendors who knew a little about the study of spirit runes moved closer. But just when they wanted to take a step further, they saw that the bald guy had already squeezed to the front and squatted down in front of the potted plant.
"Ziqi, look carefully!"
After Sun Mo instructed, he gave it some thought. In order to shoot to fame, he chose the lightning protection rune.
He dipped his brush in ink and activated Divine Sight, staring at the purple-leafed luo's leaves. The veins flowing with spirit qi immediately became clear in Sun Mo's vision.
Just as Sun Mo finished his first stroke, the baldy's expression changed, becoming solemn and respectful. This young man was an expert!
Regardless of his disposition or technique, he was at the grandmaster-level.
Ding!
Favorable impression points from Fei Tu + 30. Neutral (80/100).
As the bald guy was very proficient in the study of spirit runes, he understood how amazing Sun Mo was. But a moment later, the astonishment and emotions in his heart disappeared. He was fully immersed in the spirit rune lines drawn by Sun Mo.
The lines, the layout, it was simply... simply...
At this moment, the bald guy didn't know what words he should use to describe him.
The tens of people in the surroundings gradually quietened down. They didn't understand what Sun Mo was drawing, but his focus when he was drawing affected them.
This was the aura of an ancestor-level expert. It was extremely infectious.
When the passersby saw this scene, they couldn't help but come over to watch the show. Even the helpers and shop owners in the nearby shops stretched their necks to look.
Time slowly flowed by. This time around, Sun Mo's drawing speed was slower. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he was panicking like a dog in his heart.
"Oh no, I was too careless!"
Sun Mo wanted to cry, but no tears came out. He only wanted to take out a unique spirit rune and shock everyone. After that, he would sell it for a high price. He had completely neglected the fact that his proficiency level for the lightning protection rune was only at the expert-grade.
If he were to draw on spirit rune paper, Sun Mo would definitely not make a mistake. But now that he was drawing on the leaves of a purple-leafed luo, the difficulty was doubled.
Because of the direction of the veins on the leaves, there were some parts where spirit rune lines couldn't be set up. Hence, Sun Mo could only change the lines at random times.
However, one had to understand that spirit runes were a whole structure. A slight change might cause the layout of the spirit runes to change as well.
Therefore, he had to modify the layout as a whole. To put it simply, he had to depict the first step, see the second step, and anticipate the third step.
"I'm so arrogant! I'm too arrogant! "
Sun Mo felt his balls aching. Luckily, the only thing he could be at ease about was that the leaves of the purple-leafed luo were bigger, and he could draw as much as he wanted.
Li Ziqi cast a worried glance at Sun Mo. Her teacher's movements were clearly slower and not as smooth as before. Could he have encountered a bottleneck?
But which spirit rune was this? It looked very strange.
Li Ziqi was a relatively intelligent girl and also had a photographic memory. Other than cultivation, she was interested in all other subjects. Ever since Sun Mo took the study of spirit runes as his second subject, the little sunny egg had immediately finished studying spirit runes by herself during these few months.
In her mind, there were 3,000 spirit rune diagrams, but none of them matched up with this one.
"Is Teacher going to fail?"
Lu Zhiruo, who had sharp instincts, also noticed that something was wrong. However, she then shook her head and tossed away this' unrealistic 'thought.
(Aiya, Lu Zhiruo, you are actually doubting Teacher. Teacher is so amazing, how can he possibly fail? You just have to wait quietly and applaud and cheer for him when he's done.
(That's right, Teacher is the best!)
Ding!
Favorable impression points from Lu Zhiruo + 50.
Upon hearing the system's notification, Sun Mo turned his head and saw Lu Zhiruo's big eyes shining with the light of worship.
Seeing that Sun Mo was looking over, the papaya girl immediately smiled sweetly and waved her little fist with force. She even mouthed the word 'good luck'.
Hu ~
Sun Mo drew in a deep breath. That was right, this was his first battle after coming to the Darkness Continent. Moreover, the papaya girl was also looking forward to it. No matter what, he mustn't fail.
What was expert-grade? It meant that Sun Mo's attainments in this subject had reached the proficient level. He could be called an elite and could beat up many people.
It could be said that in a profession, the highest realm a person could reach through hard work was to become an elite. Above that, one would be a grandmaster.
And if one wanted to become a grandmaster, one had to have the support of talent. It wasn't possible to just rely on hard work and sweat.
Sun Mo's appetite was raised by the grandmaster-grade and ancestor-grade proficiency points, so he started to look down on expert-grade spirit runes. Actually, even if it was expert-grade spirit runes drawing technique, ordinary people would need ten years of tempering before they could reach it.
However, the current Sun Mo no longer cared about proficiency points. All his attention was placed on the lightning protection rune. In his mind, all the information regarding it gushed forth like tidal waves. After that, the information regarding the black tortoise spirit rune and spirit gathering rune also started to appear.
During this process, the basic knowledge that Sun Mo had crammed in the library also started to flow in his mind unknowingly.
What was inference? This was! What was divergent thinking? This was!
Sun Mo solved the problem as he drew. When he found a pattern, it was like a car driving on the right path. The speed at which he drew increased again.
15 minutes later, with a boom, the spirit qi in the surroundings surged and gathered over.
A spirit qi tornado was formed, but the scale was a lot smaller. It simply couldn't be compared to the spirit gathering rune earlier. However, no one cared about this at this moment because everyone's gazes were fixed on the spirit rune on the leaf with a dumbfounded look on their faces.
What pattern was this? It was so strange!
"This one of yours isn't beautiful!"
The Golden Shanshan felt depressed. (What happened to the first ranker on the Devastating Beauty Rankings? This one of yours is even uglier than the lasses in my family's outer courtyard.)
Fei Tu stared at the lines and sank into deep contemplation. He felt that the answer he had been searching for was in this spirit rune.
That feeling was as if he was looking at a door in front of him. If he walked past it, the sky would be clear after the rain. However, just as he was about to touch it, he was interrupted by the Golden Shanshan.
"Shut up!"
Fei Tu turned his head abruptly and bellowed at the Golden Shanshan. His bald forehead was flushed red from anger, and he had an impulse to kill this young man.
"It's clearly not beautiful, yet you don't allow me to say it?"
The Golden Shanshan felt aggrieved.
"Hehe!"
Sun Mo laughed softly.
The beauty of industrial design was neatness and order. Right now, the various trajectories on this leaf weren't too orderly. However, it was completed and could be used. That was enough.
Ding!
"Congratulations on drawing the lightning protection rune on the leaf. You've broken through your bottleneck, your mental state has improved, and your experience has increased tremendously. You are hereby rewarded. Your proficiency index has been raised to the 'quasi-grandmaster-grade'."
The system sighed ruefully. When Sun Mo had modified the spirit gathering rune for the first time, it had discovered that this fellow's talent in the study of spirit runes was extremely high. Even without the system's assistance, he would still have some achievements.
The system's reward merely accelerated this process.
It was like there were two types of people standing on the shoulders of giants. One type would look down, worried that they would fall, while the other type would look higher and further, wanting to stretch out their hands to touch the sky.
"Only quasi-grandmaster-grade? Are you so stingy? You don't even give me the title of grandmaster-grade? "
Sun Mo was speechless.
"You should be content. Even if you're a genius, you'll need several years of tempering to rise from the expert-grade to the grandmaster-grade. You'll have to comprehend it and continue to temper yourself. Right now, you can be considered to have half a foot into the grandmaster-grade. What's left is to keep drawing and accumulate experience and proficiency index."
The system explained.
"This... what spirit rune is this?"
The uglier merchant was curious.
Before Sun Mo could reply, Fei Tu called out, "I'll buy this potted plant. I'll give you double the price."
As Fei Tu spoke, he hurriedly took out his spirit stones. He was really afraid that if Sun Mo were to say it out loud, it would attract even more people to fight over it. At that time, he'd probably have to fork out even more money.
"Double? Doesn't that make it 20? "
Ying Baiwu was astonished. How long had it been since her teacher's' small target '? Yet, he had already completed 20% of it?
"20?"
When the merchants heard this number, they felt their eyelids twitching. They were all astonished. Did these customers all have mines or something like that? They were really extravagant when it came to spending money.
Just as Fei Tu was about to grab the purple-leafed luo, Sun Mo also grabbed the edge of the potted plant. "Sorry, this is his."
"That's right, it's mine."
Jin Shanshan stretched out his hand and pulled the potted plant over, hugging it with one hand.
"Be gentler!"
Fei Tu saw that the leaves were bent due to Jin Shanshan's violent movements. His heart ached terribly. It'd be too much of a pity if it was damaged.
"What spirit rune is this? You should tell everyone about it! "
The uglier merchant started to urge him again.
"Hehe!"
Sun Mo didn't say anything. Instead, he flicked the big leaf with the lightning protection rune.
"After activating this spirit rune, you'll be able to summon a few lightning spheres. They'll automatically retaliate when you're attacked. At the same time, you can also use your consciousness to control them and launch long-range attacks."
Sun Mo explained.
Ah?
After hearing Sun Mo's description of the effect, a series of exclamations rang out in the surroundings. Could something like this be done?
"Huh?"
The baldy trembled and subconsciously pulled his scalp, not even realizing that a tuft of hair had fallen off. This... this... couldn't be a self-created spirit rune, right?
As a teacher from a famous school that specialized in the study of spirit runes, the baldy was sure that he'd never seen this spirit rune before.
"Is that so?"
As Jin Shanshan spoke, he planned to infuse spirit qi into it. Luckily, Sun Mo's reaction was fast and he grabbed his hand.
"Don't use it now."
Sun Mo looked at this amusing young man and activated Divine Sight.
Nangong Xun, 14 years old. Ninth level of the body-refinement realm.
Strength: 7. I'm as handsome as a jade tree, pursuing elegance and elegance. All muscles should scram, don't look for me!
Intellect: 6. It's sufficient, but most of the time, I don't know what he's thinking about. His brain circuit is a little strange.
Agility: 9. It's fine if he's not strong enough, but he can't not be handsome.
Will: 2. What is this? Can it be eaten?
Endurance: 5. Other than being more diligent when running errands for beauties, he's a lazy person at other times.
...
Potential value: Maybe it's high!
Note: For Sister Bing, I can give up everything. Cultivation? No way. Being a bootlicker for Sister Bing is my life goal.
"..."
Looking at the system's evaluation, Sun Mo was speechless. What was this? Also, this was the first time this potential value had appeared.
"Hehe, I hope Sister Bing can like this gift."
Jin Shinning, no, it was Nangong Xun. He waved his hand at Sun Mo and ran off hurriedly. Clearly, he was in a hurry to present his treasure.
When the spectators looked at Sun Mo again, there was a hint of admiration in their eyes. This guy's character was very good. If they were in Sun Mo's shoes and heard someone offering a high price of double, even if they didn't agree in the end, they'd definitely feel conflicted for a while.
However, this guy rejected it without even batting an eyelid.
"This teacher, can I trouble you to give me a spirit rune potted plant that can release lightning balls?"
Fei Tu urged and directly gave 20 spirit stones. At the same time, he secretly surveyed the surroundings. Luckily, this price was a little higher, causing those spectators to be reluctant to part with it.
Naturally, it was also because they didn't understand. If they discovered the uniqueness of this spirit rune, he'd definitely have to face a bidding war.
"I'm sorry, I won't be drawing anymore."
Sun Mo wasn't so bored that his balls hurt. He had already gathered enough popularity. Next, he just needed to wait for the harvest. Only a fool would continue drawing.
"Ah?"
Fei Tu was surprised. After that, he wore a bitter expression and lowered his voice to plead, "I see that your drawing is quite simple. Can you draw another one for me?"
"I'm tired!"
Sun Mo instructed Lu Zhiruo and put away his spirit rune tools.
"Ha, is this guy an idiot? He doesn't even want to earn money? "
The roadside merchants didn't understand Sun Mo's mentality. However, they were shocked after that because that baldy had raised the price again.
"30 spirit stones!"
When Fei Tu offered this price, his liver was in so much pain. He really couldn't bear to part with it. After all, his family didn't have any mines, but he really wanted it.
(Very good, it's true. This guy is also a fool. Spending 30 spirit stones to buy a potted plant, do you have nothing better to do?)
Among the spectators, someone couldn't hold it in anymore and shouted, "Which one is the purple-leafed luo? I'll help you pick it. It's only five spirit stones. "
"Scram!"
Fei Tu angrily scolded. (Are you a f * cking dumb? If there aren't any spirit runes drawn by this teacher, why would I buy this thing?
Am I really going to take it back and use it on this thing? (I'm not a pervert!)
"I won't draw anymore."
Sun Mo shook his head and then smiled. "But I have a ready-made one. Do you want it?"
The baldy, who had been greatly disappointed and was hesitating on how to make Sun Mo change his mind, immediately became spirited when he heard this.
"Yes!"
This voice was firm and forceful, as if it wanted to bellow out the qi in his dantian.
"Ziqi, take out the bamboo tube marked with a red pen from my bag and pass it to him."
Sun Mo instructed.
"Alright!"
Li Ziqi did as she was told.
Because spirit runes couldn't be folded or they'd damage the spirit rune lines, she could only roll them up and store them.
Li Ziqi opened the bamboo tube and took out a stack of spirit rune papers. When she saw the lightning protection rune on it, her eyes narrowed.
(This layout... is so unique!)
The beauty of industrial design finally shocked the little sunny egg.
"Hurry up!"
Fei Tu had been stretching his neck out to look, urging her non-stop. When he received the spirit rune paper from Li Ziqi, he felt as if he was struck by lightning and froze. His eyes stared at the spirit rune paper without blinking.
A few people squeezed up to him, wanting to take a look.
Fei Tu immediately hugged the spirit rune paper in his arms, blocking the gazes of others. After that, he looked toward Sun Mo and surveyed him seriously. "May I ask for your name?"
"I'm just a poor teacher who sells spirit runes. It's not worth mentioning."
Sun Mo chuckled.
"Hehe, you're too humble."
Fei Tu had a self-mocking smile. (I'm the poor one, alright? If I had money, I'd really want to buy all the spirit runes in the bamboo tube.)
"Teacher, you aren't poor. A spirit rune potted plant of yours can be sold for 30 spirit stones. That's a huge profit!"
Ying Baiwu mumbled in a low voice. (I suddenly don't want to learn sword dance anymore. Teacher can casually draw spirit runes for half an hour and earn 50 spirit stones. This is simply robbery.)
Ding!
Favorable impression points from Ying Baiwu + 100. Respect (1,000/10000).
Sun Mo glanced at this girl who wanted money no matter what. From the moment he got to know her until now, she would contribute 100 favorable impression points each time. She was really generous.
"I'm sorry, please make way!"
A middle-aged man parted the crowd and walked up to Sun Mo. His tone was respectful. "Master, I'm Shopkeeper Ma from the Thousand Spirits Shop. From your attire, you should be a teacher from the Central Province Academy, right?"
"Yes!"
Sun Mo's expression was calm, but he heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. His true target had finally taken the bait.
The reason why he chose to draw the spirit rune potted plant here was because he wanted to attract the interest of this shopkeeper. After all, only a major character like him would be able to afford a few hundred spirit stones in one go.
"Pardon me for being presumptuous, but I would like to invite you into the shop for a chat."
Shopkeeper Ma made an inviting gesture.
"I'll have to trouble Shopkeeper Ma then."
Sun Mo placed his right hand behind his back and displayed the demeanor of a great teacher. It wasn't that he wanted to put on an act, but rather, he wanted to appear cool. Hence, he could only do this.
"Take the things, let's go!"
Li Ziqi reminded.
"Oh!"
Lu Zhiruo carried the potted plants with each hand and hurriedly followed behind.
"Brew my Jadepot Tea to serve the guests!"
Shopkeeper Ma hadn't even entered the shop when he called out, getting the apprentices to brew tea.
"Seems like that teacher from the Central Province Academy is quite capable in the study of spirit runes!"
"Of course, even someone like Shopkeeper Ma has taken the initiative to invite him. What do you think?"
"I wonder what his name is? Also, those three should be his female students, right? They are all quite pretty. "
The Thousand Spirits Shop was one of the biggest shops on this street. The spectators didn't dare to enter and could only disperse. Their gazes were filled with envy.
As expected, knowledge was wealth!
They couldn't even earn a single spirit stone by staying here for a day, but Sun Mo could easily earn tens of spirit stones just by writing and drawing. No, judging from Shopkeeper Ma's appearance, he might be able to earn even more.
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