New Deal and the Next Clone

As Li Moxun spoke, he gave Gu Yue a deep look, then calmly raised his hand and held up three fingers.

"I want three thousand-year spirit herbs for these pills. If you want more, bring thousand-year and hundred-year spirit herbs to trade with me first."

Li Moxun finished calmly. Ignoring Gu Yue, who was still standing in the doorway, he suddenly moved close to the girl and slipped past her from the side.

Seeing Li Moxun suddenly come so close, Gu Yue froze for a moment. But when she saw that the young man only glanced at her before striding away, a trace of anger appeared in her expression.

Yet by the time she came out, that anger had turned into surprise, because the sky was already filled with stars.

She lowered her head and glanced at the watch she had taken from her chest. It was already two in the morning.

Looking at the time, the corner of Gu Yue's mouth twitched. But after a second of silence, she did not return to the dormitory. Instead, her expression calm, she walked toward the outside of East Sea Academy.

Meanwhile, after returning to his room, Li Moxun ignored the countless calls coming through on his soul communicator and simply replied with a message.

He sat there quietly and raised his hand. Two pills appeared in his palm, pinched between his fingers, and then he swallowed them directly.

As pure spiritual power flowed through him, Li Moxun could feel that besides the changes within his body, the spiritual power around him had also begun to increase.

Of these two kinds of pills, one rapidly raised cultivation, while the other rapidly absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy.

With these two pills, the speed at which his soul power increased would be very fast.

As he sat cross-legged cultivating, Li Moxun thought again of Gu Yue's situation.

Li Moxun did not agree with this so-called ultimate pull between bloodlines.

If the early stages were due to the pull of bloodline, then later on, Gu Yue—or rather, Gu Yuena—had truly fallen in love with Tang Wulin as well.

It just had nothing to do with him. Whether it was the absolute pull within their bloodlines or the feelings between the two of them, neither had much connection to him.

But when he thought of the pills he had given Gu Yue, Li Moxun's expression eased somewhat.

Those pills had only used a total of one thousand-year spirit herb and two hundred-year spirit herbs to refine. It was only because of the refining method itself that the spiritual power contained within these spirit herbs seemed so abundant.

And using these pills to trade for three thousand-year spirit herbs was a huge profit for Li Moxun.

Of course, if Gu Yue brought out something better, he would also be willing to help her directly refine higher-quality pills using thousand-year spirit herbs. But all of that was for later.

For now, Li Moxun sat there, feeling his own strength increase.

Within his body, his soul power was also continuously rising, and his entire body was changing.

After a sleepless night, when he came to the classroom after breakfast, the atmosphere was clearly somewhat silent—or rather, awkward.

Seeing Li Moxun come in, Tang Wulin, who had originally looked gentle, turned his head slightly. A flash of hostility passed through the young man's eyes, but he stood there without speaking.

Sensing the hostility in Tang Wulin's eyes, Li Moxun paused for a second, then turned his head to look at the empty seat on the other side. That was Gu Yue's seat.

At this moment, Gu Yue was absent as well.

With both of them having disappeared together, Wu Zhangkong naturally went to retrieve the surveillance footage. In the end, the footage showed only that the two of them had returned to the teaching building together, and then vanished.

Wu Zhangkong did not know what exactly had happened, so when Li Moxun arrived today, he ran straight into Wu Zhangkong, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie, who had been waiting in advance.

But before any of them could open their mouths to ask, the door opened, and Gu Yue also walked in.

Seeing the two people who had disappeared together now appear together, Tang Wulin's expression became somewhat complicated. But he looked deeply at Gu Yue and, in the end, said nothing.

Facing Tang Wulin's gaze, Gu Yue also looked deeply at him and likewise said nothing.

Li Moxun was not very interested in the complicated eye contact between the two of them, but he could tell that Gu Yue would most likely make a move against Tang Wulin in the next few days and strip away the bloodline within him that belonged to the Golden Dragon King.

One had to know that this bloodline was very powerful. It was the complete Golden Dragon King bloodline.

So if Tang Wulin were directly killed and the Golden Dragon King released, it would use Tang Wulin's body to produce a true second-rank god. Under such circumstances, no one would be able to stop it.

So even if Gu Yue wanted to erase Tang Wulin, she could only strip away Tang Wulin's bloodline step by step.

Only, this had nothing to do with him, Li Moxun. Although he had scammed Tang Wulin, there was no karmic connection between him and Tang Wulin to begin with.

He would not feel grateful just because the other party had put in a few good words for him, and of course, he would not deliberately harm Tang Wulin either.

This was likewise a transaction between him and Gu Yue, and he had merely completed the transaction. As for the results or karma it produced, Li Moxun did not care.

As the morning classes continued, the surrounding atmosphere was clearly somewhat strange.

As soon as class ended, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie left on their own. This time, they did not even call Gu Yue.

Of course, Gu Yue did not speak either. She simply turned and left. After Li Moxun casually packed up his things, he walked out of East Sea Academy and arrived at a snack street not far outside.

There were not many people on the snack street during the day, but all kinds of snacks were still set out there.

Looking at these snacks, a trace of nostalgia appeared on Li Moxun's face. The snacks here were very similar to those from their world.

Whether it was candied hawthorn, hawthorn balls, or all kinds of other delicacies—some he had seen before, some he had only heard of—they were displayed there in a dazzling array.

Li Moxun simply picked a few, then found a boiled-vegetable shop and sat there quietly, eating the boiled dishes he had bought for one hundred Federal Coins.

The food here was clearly somewhat expensive, but he had ordered quite a lot as well.

As Li Moxun ate, he looked out at the scenery beyond the window. Only after finishing everything did he calmly stand up and leisurely return to the dormitory.

The dormitory was still as empty as ever, with only him there.

He locked the door behind him, sat there, and his eyes were calm.

To him, whether life was exciting or dull, as long as it gave him the chance to cultivate, that was enough. Li Moxun did not care about anything else.

Of course, though he did not care, he also had no intention of giving up his observation of Tang Wulin's side.

Gu Yue would definitely make a move against Tang Wulin, and when the time came, all kinds of unexpected events were very likely to occur. Those accidents would likewise affect Li Moxun.

So Li Moxun sat there in silence. As he raised his hand, A-Tai appeared beside him, his gaze fixed on him.

As for what Li Moxun was about to do, excitement showed in A-Tai's eyes. Clearly, Li Moxun was preparing to expend spiritual power again and condense a new avatar.

And toward this kind of avatar, A-Tai's eyes were likewise filled with thought and curiosity.

But under his gaze, Li Moxun merely lifted his hand casually. Immediately, he felt a pain in his head, and another thousand points of spiritual power were stripped away.

A figure appeared. It was a girl of about fifteen, wearing a standard white short-sleeved shirt with a pair of jeans.

The girl's expression was very calm. Then a strange symbol appeared and merged into her body.

Immediately afterward, the girl's figure vanished from where she stood, directly deployed by Li Moxun.