"I'm going out to buy a few things."
Phoenix Woman tidied up the teahouse a little, then went downstairs and called out to Su Mo.
"All right," Su Mo answered, crouching in the courtyard without turning around.
Phoenix Woman nodded and left the teahouse.
Su Mo silently tended to the teahouse courtyard, covering it with Spirit Soil from beside the Floating Life Pool and planting seed after seed formed from the Flower of the Other Shore Power.
A gust of wind swept past, shaking a few dead leaves from the withered willow on the stream bank outside the courtyard and blowing them onto the surface of a pond inside.
The fallen leaves stirred ripples across the pond...
Suddenly, Su Mo sensed what seemed to be a disturbance in his Spirit Sea. He paused briefly, then summoned the Spirit Sea Gate.
Stepping into his Spirit Sea, he immediately noticed one unusual disturbance after another coming from the pond within.
Su Mo walked slowly to the pond and shook his head with a smile.
It was the little fish, the one Su Mo had taken in just after leaving the Ninth Realm.
Back then, the little fish had brought rare treasures from the water every day in exchange for the chance to cultivate alongside Su Mo. Later, when Su Mo left that place, he had brought the little fish along too.
Strictly speaking, this little fish was Su Mo's first disciple.
Now, for some reason, the little fish seemed to have sensed the aura of the Demon Realm and had become rather lively.
Seeing Su Mo approach the pond, the little fish swam happily to the bank in front of him and blew a few bubbles at him.
It liked Su Mo's aura, and this entire expanse of heaven and earth was