Mo Wuji continued unhurriedly, ”I am at least a member of the Northern Qin County King’s clan, even if I haven’t got my throne back yet, I still have my noble title. You dare to make a move against a noble? Hu Fei, let me tell you, a five-horse split is cheap, a thousand cuts and skinning is also idle.”
Hu Fei’s footsteps gave a start, and he then suddenly remembered that even the weakest county king, downtrodden to the extreme, still had a noble status, and was definitely not something a marketplace ant like him could move.
As for whether Mo Wuji’s noble status was stripped, he, Hu Fei, was not qualified to know. However, there was one thing that Mo Wuji wasn’t wrong about, making a move against a noble, being split into five horse corpses would be considered the simplest punishment.
“Your Majesty is joking, I was just joking with you, how could I make a move against you.” Hu Fei understood the consequences of making a move on Mo Wuji in the shortest possible time and said in a slightly flattering manner.
There was no rush to finish off this surname Mo, just wait until he investigated whether the other party’s title was still there or not, he, Hu Fei, had plenty of time.
Mo Wuji walked to Hu Fei’s side unhurriedly, pinched Hu Fei’s already dangling sharp knife and took it in his hand with an easy jerk.
Good knife, as soon as the knife reached Mo Wuji’s hand, Mo Wuji knew that the knife was sharp.
After releasing the knife from his own hand, Hu Fei subconsciously took a few steps back before looking at Mo Wuji cautiously.
Smokey looked at Mo Wuji and Hu Fei nervously, even after Mo Wuji had withdrawn the knife from Hu Fei’s hand, Smokey was still nervous in her heart. As the maidservant beside Mo Wuji, she naturally knew clearly that Mo Wuji was now a commoner, not a noble status at all.
In other words, just now, Mo Wuji made a move on Hu Fei first, if Hu Fei killed Mo Wuji, the most that Hu Fei would be fined was just a little bit of money.
Mo Wuji looked at the knife in his hand carefully before he looked at Hu Fei, whose eyes were rolling, and said, ”Hu Fei, don’t say that I’m crushing you to death just because I’m of noble status. Even if I’m not a noble anymore, the fact that my ancestor used to be a county king is enough to strip you of your skin if you dare to touch me. For you to dare to touch the descendant of a county king, wouldn’t you be trampling the dignity of my Cheng Yu Kingdom under your feet?”
Towards the end, Mo Wuji even snorted coldly.
Hu Fei was thinking in his heart whether Mo Wuji was a noble or not, as long as Mo Wuji wasn’t a noble, even if the sword was in Mo Wuji’s hands, he had full certainty of killing Mo Wuji. After hearing Mo Wuji’s words, Hu Fei’s little bit of thought disappeared without a trace and immediately said, “Your Majesty, my little man really made a joke.”
In his heart, he was also wondering why Mo Wuji had changed so much.
“I’m not the king anymore, get lost, don’t make me change my mind.” Mo Wuji casually stuck Hu Fei’s sharp knife in his boot.
“Yes, yes, goodbye Young Master Mo.” Hu Fei took a heartbreaking look at the sharp knife that Mo Wuji had put away before retreating.
That sharp knife was and was something he got by chance, and had been keeping it close to his heart, he didn’t expect it to be taken away today, it would be a lie to say that he wasn’t heartbroken.
“Young master, you are not …… now,” seeing Hu Fei walking away, Smokey then came over and said carefully.
Mo Wuji interrupted Smokey’s words, “I know, let’s go back first.”
Without Smokey’s reminder, Mo Wuji was able to guess that he shouldn’t be of noble status anymore.
……
The grocery room that the two of them lived in was very small, with only a worn out curtain separating the two wooden plank beds. There wasn’t anything of value in the house, and Mo Wuji was well aware that anything slightly valuable had been sold by Smokey and exchanged for some cheap candies to cajole those children.
There was a somewhat scratched mirror hanging in front of his bed, and Mo Wuji saw his own appearance in the mirror. It was a little similar to his previous life, his long hair was very dry, yet it was neatly tidied up by Smokey. His face was also slightly pale, much better than Smokey’s yellowish face. Apart from his eyes being a bit tired, his sword eyebrows and high nose made him look like he was still a handsome man.
“Young master, I’ll go to Aunt Lu’s house to borrow some rice to ……” said Smokey as soon as she entered the house. She was still a bit sad about Hu Fei’s packet of pig’s head meat, if it was her, she definitely wouldn’t have asked for that sharp knife, instead she would have asked for that packet of meat over.
“Wait ……,” Mo Wuji called out to Smokey.
Seeing Smokey look back at herself in confusion, Mo Wuji then asked, “Smokey, that Hu Fei seems to know martial arts, he’s much stronger than me. He’s a punk, where did he learn it from?”
In Mo Wuji’s memories, this world didn’t seem to be a place full of experts. He, as the descendant of a county king did not even learn martial arts, so what right did that Hu Fei have to learn martial arts when he was just a punk?
Smokey revealed a disdainful expression and said, ”That Hu Fei only learnt a few moves from others, a mortal root, not even able to open his spirit, what does he know about martial arts. I have occasionally heard the old master say, when the great grandfather was a strong spirit builder.”
“What is Spirit Opening?” Mo Wuji asked eagerly, amongst his memories, other than restoring the country or restoring the country, he surprisingly didn’t have half a memory of anything else. Could it be that he had thought wrongly? This was still a place where one could cultivate?
Thinking of this, Mo Wuji’s heart heated up, if it was really an immortal world where he could cultivate, he must cultivate like crazy, so that he could return to Earth one day in the future. He would ask why in person in front of her.
Smokey wasn’t surprised that Mo Wuji didn’t know about Spirit Opening. What she was surprised about was the fact that the young master was completely unconcerned about this before, so why was he showing such eagerness now?
She still said what she knew, “Spirit opening is to help those with spiritual roots to stimulate their spiritual roots and open up their spirit complexes, only those who have stimulated their spiritual roots and opened up their spirit complexes can cultivate. I’ve heard that the more spirit complexes that are opened up for the first time, the better the spirit root qualification will be.”
Mo Wuji immediately heard two problems from Smokey’s words, in order to cultivate one must firstly have a spiritual root. Secondly, one must also stimulate the spirit complexes that they possess.
“Smokey, why didn’t Master let me go and open my spirit?” Mo Wuji asked with a slightly agitated tone.
Smokey’s tone dropped a little, “After Master came to Raozhou, he has been running around with the succession of the throne. It was only later that he realised that things could not be done, which is why he wanted to let you take the path of cultivation. Master scraped together the money to allow you to test and open your spirit, and in the end, it was detected that you, like Master, are of mortal root. Mortal roots are normally unable to open up a spirit complex, and there is no way to cultivate ……”
“What is mortal root?” Mo Wuji’s heart sank as he still asked.
Having experienced death, what else could be unacceptable to him?
Smokey could feel the extreme loss that Mo Wuji felt, as she sighed in her heart and said, “I heard Master say that the qualification of cultivation determines the future achievements of cultivation. Generally speaking, those who do not have a spiritual root are mortal roots, also called waste roots. All mortal root possessors are mortals.
Only those with spiritual roots could cultivate, and there was a distinction between the grades of spiritual roots of those with spiritual roots. It was divided into low grade spiritual roots, medium grade spiritual roots, high grade spiritual roots and extreme grade spiritual roots. I’ve heard that there are also people whose spiritual roots are even better than Extreme Grade, as for what kind, I don’t know.”
“I turned out to be a mortal root ……,” Mo Wuji was ultimately unable to endure the loss in his heart, and mocked himself after Smokey finished speaking.
Smokey comforted, “Young Master, even in the Lord Cheng Yu Kingdom, the number of people who possess spiritual roots are very few. Most people are mortals who only have mortal roots, so many mortals can live well, we can definitely live well too.”
Mo Wuji clenched his fists, “Smokey, tomorrow, I’m going to find something to do. I’m going to save up some money and prepare to open up the spirit once again.”
“Ah ……,” Smokey seemed to be stunned by Mo Wuji’s decision, then she realised what Mo Wuji’s words meant and hurriedly advised, “Young Master, don’t! In the beginning, Master was trying to save up money to help the young master open his spirit, even though the young master tested out to be a Mortal Root, Master still insisted on opening the spirit for the young master, it’s just that Mortal Roots can’t open up Spirit Lines. Not long after the young master failed to open the spirit, the old master fell ill and died ……”
Smokey’s words were very cryptic, and Mo Wuji understood the meaning of Smokey’s words. In the beginning, if the old master had not opened the spirit for him, despite being poor, he might not have died of illness. It was evident that the amount of money needed to open the spirit was not a small amount. However, Mo Wuji had experienced two lifetimes, so naturally, he was not as simple as Smokey. For Mo Guangyuan to die sooner or later, that is, to die after helping him test his spiritual roots, it wasn’t necessarily as simple as dying of illness. By the looks of it, he just had to be more careful when he was going to open his spirit.
“Smokey, don’t worry, I’m sure I can make money. You shouldn’t go to Auntie Lu’s house to borrow rice today either, starting tomorrow, I’ll support you.” Mo Wuji walked over to Smokey’s side and reached out to stroke Smokey’s malnourished and slightly yellowed hair.
Smokey was only in her teens, so one could imagine how much she had to pay to take care of the crazy Mo Xinghe when both of his parents died?
Auntie Lu was their landlord, and Auntie Lu was already taking care of them. Aunt Lu was only a widow and was not doing very well for herself all the same. Often they have to go to her to borrow rice, which is also a burden for Aunt Lu.
He, Mo Wuji, was at least a top-notch biologist, in a place that was also considered to be technologically advanced, how could he be stopped by three meals a day?
