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Never mind Gou Junbao thinking Qin Xiaoxia was acting mysterious-Qin Xiaoxia himself felt he had been shortchanging Gou Junbao.
Whether for the sake of secrecy or as a perk of their friendship, he couldn't forget his buddy Gou. Dawn still needed to reserve a place for him. At least he ought to have some standing in front of Nan Feng.
Gou Junbao was straightforward, but he wasn't stupid. After enough incidents, he would grow suspicious sooner or later, and it wouldn't do to have a leak on his end. Back when Old Qin was still around, he would occasionally pretend to be a mysterious master to tease Gou Junbao and swindle a bottle or two of good liquor out of him, so Gou Junbao had developed some resistance to that sort of thing.
Still, he should find an opportunity to lay his cards on the table. If Gou Junbao overreacted, he could try using a Spell Formation derived from the two techniques of magic power and hypnosis to help him forget the conversation.
With that matter settled for the time being, Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou turned their attention back to the Tree Shepherd.
Since he had no idea how to help the Tree Shepherd recover, Qin Xiaoxia buried most of the thorn vines in the soil, then ran out to the farmers' market to buy a bag of the legendary "Jin Kela." Unfortunately, despite how famous the stuff was, he couldn't find any and had to settle for ordinary chemical fertilizer.
He buried the vines, fertilized and watered them, then lifted the Mystic Realm's light restrictions to let natural sunlight shine in. To improve the effect, Qin Xiaoxia even dug up plenty of actual soil from the fields outside and brought it into the Mystic Realm.
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