“Thank you, Master! Ayuan likes you!”
Ayuan was extremely happy.
After forming the contract, it could understand Bai Qiu’s words and even sense his emotions to some extent.
It knew Bai Qiu was happy and liked it, so it was also happy and liked its master even more!
The raft trio stared blankly at Bai Qiu acting like a madman, but none of them said anything.
If this had happened to them, they’d probably dig out their family genealogy and dedicate an entire page to record this event.
“Sigh… I didn’t expect Brother Bai to actually like that snake so much. No wonder he said he wouldn’t hit it earlier,” Huang Qi muttered quietly.
“Little Qi, that’s not something you should joke about!” Zhao Daqiang said seriously.
“Hehehe… Little Qi, I’ll keep this secret for life. Transfer me 100,000 Sanctum Coins, and I’ll forget what you just said.” Ning Xingxue snickered with a wicked grin at Huang Qi.
“Uh… S–Sister Xue… you’re joking… right?”
“What do you think?”
Zhao Daqiang sighed internally.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have gotten close with Huang Qi—then he could also extort a little fortune right now.
…
“Alright, Ayuan, no need to stay buried in the mud. From now on, you’re with me; you don’t have to hide anymore.”
After his emotional outburst, Bai Qiu spoke to the snake whose head was still poking timidly out of the mud.
“Understood, Master! Ayuan will come out now!”
Ayuan quickly crawled out of the muck.
Its appearance was similar to an ordinary water snake—light yellow with mottled patterns—but instead of black, its markings were a faint blue, glowing softly with a bioluminescent sheen.
Its body size matched Bai Qiu’s earlier estimate—about 23 meters long.
Unlike pythons with small heads and bulky bodies, Ayuan’s head was large and its body thick and short.
So overall… it looked rather chubby.
“Hold on, I’ll give you a bath.”
Bai Qiu raised the Tidal Staff, channeled magic, and soon a freshly cleaned Ayuan appeared before him.
Its faint blue patterned scales glowed beautifully.
Its appearance wasn’t bad at all—just overly timid, practically radiating the aura of a creature with crippling shyness.
It was obvious even from its posture how frightened and cautious it was.
But Bai Qiu didn’t care whether it was brave or timid.
As long as Ayuan behaved and listened, that was enough for him.
He asked, “Can I stand on your head?”
“Yes, you can!”
Ayuan immediately lowered its bucket-thick head to let Bai Qiu climb on.
Bai Qiu stepped on carefully and asked, “How is it? Too heavy?”
“A bit heavy! But Ayuan can handle it! Master, don’t worry!”
Its internal monologue followed—apparently even a snake over twenty meters long felt some pressure having someone stand on its head.
Bai Qiu thought: Looks like I need to feed this kid more. It’s too skinny—carrying a person already makes it struggle.
Afterward, Ayuan ferried Bai Qiu back to the raft.
Bai Qiu tied a rope around its neck and had it pull the raft as it swam around the entire dungeon, quickly sweeping up all remaining resources.
This included several special plants and four treasure chests.
One chest was even in a submerged cave—without Ayuan, the four of them could search until tomorrow and still might never find it.
Once all progress was completed, the team began dividing the loot.
At the same time…
Guinelia looked at the Purplebell Water Lily inside her storage ring, her cheeks turning bright red.
She muttered shyly to herself:
“Aiya! How did I oversleep like that? And he found me sleeping right next to him!”
“But he was so bold… so straightforward… He usually seems so cold, but I didn’t expect him to be so decisive in this kind of situation… How am I supposed to handle this?”
Guinelia paced around her bedroom, sometimes covering her face, sometimes rolling on her bed.
She had never encountered such a daring confession from a boy before.
And even though he woke up earlier, he didn’t take advantage of her in any way—what a gentleman!
She had originally gone over because she was drawn by the blueprint, but once she saw the storage ring and the flowers inside, the blueprint was tossed aside immediately… landing right on Zhang Shiyao’s still-sleeping face.
………
“Why isn’t the bunny opening the shop yet?”
“She must be the laziest bunny in the entire zone!”
“This is bad… looks like we can’t resell healing potions anymore. If she gets upset, she won’t even open the door…”
Outside the potion shop, a noisy crowd gathered at the entrance.
Their mood wasn’t great—night had already fallen, and that bunny still hadn’t opened the store!
If she weren’t so cute, they would’ve been cursing her out by now.
…
As usual, Ning Xingxue opened all the treasure chests.
Bai Qiu, after learning that some of the special plants were Ayuan’s favorite water-type plants, bought them all.
This time, Ning Xingxue didn’t pull any blueprints, weapons, skill cards, or tools—because everything she pulled was… dirt.
Dense Soil (Quality C)
Description: Soil formed by centuries of condensed magical essence beneath riverbeds. Greatly enhances crop growth speed, with a chance to improve and upgrade the crop’s quality, up to a maximum of C-rank.
A total of 400 portions of Dense Soil—each weighing 5 kg.
That was 2,000 kg, a full 2 tons of C-rank soil.
Everyone stared at each other in shock.
Was she lucky or unlucky?
If unlucky—well, it was just dirt.
But if lucky—this was genuine C-rank soil, and four hundred units at that, practically two difficulty levels above the dungeon they were in!
“Master, Master! This soil is great!”
Ayuan’s voice echoed in Bai Qiu’s mind.
It already knew Bai Qiu could hear its thoughts, so communicating by inner voice felt completely natural to it.
“Splash splash!”
Its tail wagged so hard that waves rippled across the swamp.
It truly loved this soil.
“1.000kg per person?” Huang Qi asked tentatively.
Bai Qiu spoke up: “What are your plans? This soil is useful to me. I want to buy as much as possible.”
“Uh…”
Even though it was just soil, it was C-rank after all.
Using Sanctum Coins felt wasteful.
Ning Xingxue asked carefully: “Bai Qiu… do you have anything of similar value?
If we trade with Sanctum Coins, we’re not even sure what the market price for this soil is.
And none of us really have valuable crops to grow.”
Bai Qiu nodded.
Indeed, with the small amount of Sanctum Coins he had, buying these C-rank soils outright was impossible.
According to Li Zhu’s explanation:
E-rank weapon → 100 Sanctum Coins
D-rank weapon → 2,000 (20× increase)
C-rank weapon → 200,000 (100× increase!)
If you converted the soil based on weapon values:
20,000 coins for 500 kg of Dense Soil, and Bai Qiu’s total savings weren’t even 20,000.
Ning Xingxue’s group might not know the market, but Bai Qiu did.
If he used a handful of coins to take these resources away from them, even he would despise himself for such shameless behavior.
“You guys take a look. See if there’s anything you want in exchange.”
Bai Qiu sighed and signaled Ayuan to lower its head.
Sitting cross-legged on the back of Ayuan’s neck, he began taking out skill cards from his storage card one by one.
— The end of the Chapter–
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