After staying home for a few more days and thoroughly teaching the Locust Spirit Courier to provide mulberry leaves to the Age-Tilting Silkworm every day, Li Ye headed to the Zhou Family to continue his work.
The sooner he finished things here, the sooner he could take the mycelia and open his shop. Every day of delay meant losing glittering Spirit Stones!
Whenever he encountered cultivators upon arriving, they greeted him respectfully. Li Ye did not put on airs, nodding in response to each of them.
When he reached the courtyard the Zhou Family had prepared for the Four Seasons Sect cultivators, he found Senior Brother Rat sitting there, chatting with Qian Fang with a smile on his face.
Senior Brother Rat had suddenly come over—could it be that there were results?
Li Ye walked forward.
Sensing someone enter, the man and rat both turned to look at him.
Senior Brother Rat sized Li Ye up and said with a smile, "A True Person's disciple indeed, Junior Brother. I knew from the start that you were no ordinary person!
Didn't I call it?"
"Haha." Li Ye smiled modestly. "Just luck. But seeing how full of vigor you are, Senior Brother, did you gain something from the mine?"
"I'd guess it's good news?"
"Good news, good news." Senior Brother Rat's smile grew even brighter. "You came at just the right time, saving me the trouble of finding you and repeating myself."
After a pause, it continued, "I spent several days searching the mine with my children, nephews, and younger kin. With the help of a young Sword Cultivator from the Southern Domain, we finally discovered some clues.
Aside from the influence of that mighty fox clansman who infiltrated our side, it turned out that a Demonic Qi Mine was in the