The Glowing Dragonblood Ginseng

Time rolled on,

and another month passed.

At noon,

Wayne walked out of Villa No. 66,

floated into the air,

and flew toward the teleportation passage. Today marked the third month.

His cultivation progress

had reached three hundred completed rune imprints, with nine hundred Heaven-and-Earth rune imprints still remaining.

The reason he had come out

was not only for his monthly resupply and classes to relax, but also because today was the day he had arranged with Deli Aurora.

A moment later,

Wayne emerged from the teleportation passage in the dormitory district and arrived at the vast teleportation plaza.

Soon,

Wayne spotted Aurora in a white dress,

standing at the edge of the plaza.

Wayne floated down and landed before Aurora.

"Aurora."

The girl looked at Wayne and smiled.

"Wayne, you're here."

Seeing this,

Wayne nodded.

"Yeah. But Aurora, how long have you been waiting?"

Aurora gave a light laugh.

"Not long. Come on, let's go to my house and contract the little sprite."

Wayne froze slightly.

"You didn't bring it here?"

Aurora shook her head. "Little sprites are very precious.

Before they are contracted,

how could I possibly bring one out?

And a little sprite can only contract with one human in its lifetime. If someone robbed us on the way,

then even if we killed them afterward,

we still wouldn't be able to get the little sprite back."

Wayne was somewhat stunned by this, but on second thought, the social atmosphere might be good, yet when profit stood before them,

the logic remained unchanged since time immemorial.

Who knew whether some hotheaded fool might appear?

Thinking of this, Wayne nodded.

"Then let's go."

Aurora stepped forward and linked her arm through Wayne's.

"Follow me."

As she spoke, she led Wayne toward the center of the teleportation array.

After they drew close,

Wayne watched the badge Aurora wore flash, and the teleportation array immediately lit up.

Then,

the familiar sensation of dizziness struck again.

A moment later,

Aurora's voice rang out. "Wayne,

are you all right?"

Wayne opened his eyes. Before him was a dazzling sea of people.

He rubbed his brow before replying.

"I'm fine."

At this time, Aurora led Wayne toward the exit at the edge, introducing the place as they walked.

"This is the core district of the Imperial Capital. The people living here are either wealthy or noble. Every family able to reside here

is a family with powerful experts."

Wayne nodded slightly and did not find anything strange about it.

Instead, he asked curiously,

"By the way, Aurora, how can you activate a teleportation array?

Don't you need to refine a badge

before you can use one?"

Aurora was startled by the question, but she quickly explained.

"You mean the usual case. Once powerful cultivators reach Level One,

they use Sanctuary Badges, or Academy Badges, for teleportation.

But there are exceptions.

After all, what family doesn't have a few children without talent? So the royal family developed a special teleportation badge for that purpose.

You can use it just by dripping blood on it."

As she spoke, she pointed to the badge on her chest.

"This one—the Bloodline Teleportation Badge."

Hearing that,

Wayne glanced at the badge and withdrew his gaze, gaining a better understanding of the matter.

As the two spoke,

they left the exit passage. Before them were shops of every kind and streams of pedestrians.

They could even see

dwarves and elves among the crowd.

And finally, there were floating cars gliding back and forth.

Looking at this scene,

Wayne was greatly surprised. He had not expected the Imperial Capital to be so convenient. Just then, a floating car stopped before them.

The door opened automatically.

"Wayne, my house is still some distance away. Let's ride back."

As she spoke,

she climbed into the car first.

Seeing this,

Wayne followed her inside. It was quite spacious, with two rows of seats facing each other.

Aurora and Wayne sat together.

"To the Deli residence."

As Aurora's words fell, the car door shut and the vehicle started moving.

Wayne stroked his chin.

"The Deli residence?"

Aurora nodded. "That's right. The residence of every family with a Level Seven expert

appears on the map.

That lets floating cars know the exact destination. As for other places, they can only reach an approximate landmark nearby,

or somewhere the driver knows."

Hearing that,

Wayne clicked his tongue twice.

"Tsk, tsk. This world really is a paradise for the strong."

At that,

Aurora let out a silver-bell laugh.

"Hehe, are you talking about yourself?

The future powerhouse, Wayne?"

Hearing Aurora's words, Wayne did not take them as teasing.

After all,

Aurora was stating a fact. He had come to this world with a cheat,

precisely to do this.

If he did not even have that much confidence, then what was the point of having a cheat?

Half an hour later,

the floating car stopped again before the gates of a massive manor.

Wayne and Aurora stepped out of the vehicle.

As he looked at the knights standing guard at the manor gate, he could not help feeling a little envious.

A home. Land.

A gene carved into the bones of the Chinese.

He silently recited to himself,

Sooner or later, I'll have them too!

At this moment, Aurora stepped forward, linked arms with Wayne, and led him toward the gate.

The knights bowed slightly.

Aurora nodded, then led Wayne inside.

A quarter of an hour later,

Aurora and Wayne entered side by side through the entrance to the northern garden within the manor.

What surprised Wayne

was that only the entrance had knights guarding it. There was no one here.

At this moment,

Aurora's voice sounded. "Wayne, look.

That is

the magic plant about to give birth to a little sprite."

Wayne looked in the direction Aurora pointed. In the center of the garden stood a glowing magic plant.

It had one main stem,

with three branches growing from it and five leaves in total. Its entire body shimmered with cyan light.

Wayne recognized its origins at a glance.

"This is Dragonblood Ginseng?"

At that,

Aurora nodded. "That's right. Dragonblood Ginseng with a Level Six upper limit.

My father encountered it

while traveling when he was young. The reason it is glowing is because it is nurturing a little sprite."

She paused as she spoke.

"However, decades have passed, and only now has its gestation been completed.

According to my mother,

it will be fully born today."

Wayne's heart skipped a beat. A magic plant nurturing a little sprite would glow?

Then the one hundred magic plants nurturing little sprites in his villa courtyard—

if he ever let anyone in as a guest and they saw them,

wouldn't that be disastrous?

So he hurriedly asked, "Does glowing mean it is nurturing one?"

Aurora gave Wayne a strange look, but quickly understood.

Wayne had been cultivating during this period and had not come into contact with this knowledge.

So she nodded slightly.

"That's right. To determine whether a little sprite is being nurtured,

this is one of the signs.

When you develop territory in the future, if you encounter a glowing magic plant, you will know it is nurturing a little sprite.

However, glowing magic plants

do not glow from the very beginning. They only begin glowing during the final hundred years before the little sprite is successfully born."

At those words,

Wayne felt slightly relieved. By that reckoning, he still had at least two years.

Only then would the little sprite magic plant in the courtyard

glow like this.

By then, Wayne would already have become a Rank 1 official wizard, and there would naturally be more ways to deal with it.

If it truly came to that,

then before the little sprite had fully gestated,

he would simply have to keep everyone else from entering the villa.

[Look forward to it—the protagonist will officially contract his first little sprite in the next chapter,

with gorgeous illustrations!]