Early the next morning, Luo Chen changed into the white fox-fur coat from last year. With his hands tucked into his pockets, he began patrolling his territory at daybreak.
Winter had thoroughly arrived, and heavy snow drifted down in flurries.
Slanting Moon Valley was blanketed in snow everywhere.
From afar, Luo Chen spotted a little brat building a snowman by the main gate.
When Luo Chen walked over and took a look, he could not help laughing.
"So ugly!"
Qu Lingjun tilted his head, said nothing, and dashed into the house.
Luo Chen froze for a moment. Was that really necessary?
I gave you pills yesterday, and today you were already being so rude?
But the next moment, he saw Qu Lingjun run back out with a little flowerpot.
"Chairman, Chairman, this is my birthday gift for you!"
Looking at the plant in the pot, which had just begun to sprout tender buds—
Luo Chen opened his mouth. Was it my birthday?
Qu Lingjun proudly showed it off. "This is a Soul Nourishing Tree. The seed was one you casually gave me before. I used some demon beast blood that the uncles did not want and cultivated it for a while before I got this."
"How about it? I'm amazing, right?"
Luo Chen pinched the little boy's chubby cheek and laughingly scolded him, "So after all that, you're borrowing flowers to offer Buddha!"
"Hehe!"
Qu Lingjun gave a foolish grin, then puffed out his chest. "Ordinary people can't raise a Soul Nourishing Tree!"
That was true. Soul Nourishing Trees were very difficult to raise.
But it was not that they were difficult to plant.
The difficulty lay in the fact that a Soul Nourishing Tree required a full thousand years to grow from seedling to a usable stage.
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