Yang Zhen and the Shameless Cat were both dumbfounded, looking at each other in bewilderment.
" The Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit?" the Shameless Cat asked hesitantly.
"You planted it?" Yang Zhen's eyes widened.
The two exchanged a glance, Shameless Cat hurriedly pulled out a fruit, holding it in his hand and exclaiming in disbelief, "Is this thing called the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit?"
Yang Zhen swallowed hard, looked at the Shameless Cat with a hesitant expression, took a deep breath and said, "What exactly is your relationship with the Mountain and River Court? Are you perhaps the ancestor of the Mountain and River Court?"
The Shameless Cat rolled his eyes and said, "What ancestor? I'd like to be their ancestor myself. It must be so comfortable to have someone serve you tea and water. But what is this Mountain and River Court? I've never even heard of it."
"Then how did you end up in someone's sealed-off area and plant this Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit?"
The Shameless Cat handed the fruit to Yang Zhen and said, "Damn it, look closely, this isn't some Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit, it's clearly just a..."
At this point, the Shameless Cat suddenly stopped talking, looking at Yang Zhen with growing surprise and anger in his eyes.
Yang Zhen was completely bewildered by the Shameless Cat. He snatched the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit and asked, "What is this? Tell me quickly!"
The Shameless Cat suddenly jumped up, cursing, "I understand now! No wonder I felt something was off when I found the treasure. It turns out that those bastards from the Mountain and River Court actually dug up my treasure and sealed it away! Those thieves, robbers, those damned bastards..."
Yang Zhen swatted the furious Shameless Cat away and said with a strange look, "Stop, stop, stop for a second."
Damn, there's a story behind this!
Yang Zhen looked at the Shameless Cat with suspicion and asked, "Are you sure this place is the treasure you buried?"
"Not sure!" the Shameless Cat answered honestly.
Yang Zhen was taken aback, then asked, "I'm not sure what you're yelling about?"
"I believe this is the treasure I buried back then!" the Shameless Cat said matter-of-factly.
Yang Zhen nodded, assuming that this was planted by the Shameless Cat. Otherwise, how could the Shameless Cat have this memory, and how could it have happened to find the sealed area of Mountain and River Court?
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen continued, "Isn't it easy to determine your treasure? What did you bury back then, and what did you find inside?"
The Shameless Cat stared at Yang Zhen with a shifty look, and after a long while, it finally spoke, "Kid, don't try to trick me. There's nothing inside. If there were, I'd already eaten it. Don't even think about swindling anything from me."
Yang Zhen slapped the Shameless Cat on the head and scolded, "Do you think I, this Sage of Saunter, am someone who needs nothing in return?"
The Shameless Cat looked at Yang Zhen suspiciously for a moment, then pursed its lips and said, "I don't remember, it's been too long. I just feel that this place, North Isle, is somewhat familiar, and it might not have been called North Isle before. Also... I just remembered that I buried something here once and even peed on it. That's right, smell it, I can smell that fresh and refined scent even from this far away."
Yang Zhen was dumbfounded, staring at the Celestial Person Shameless Cat with an expression of utter astonishment.
It's truly remarkable that this Shameless Cat can make such disgusting words sound so delicious.
However, since that Shameless Cat has already mentioned the Divine Ability of marking territory using the smell of urine, it's probably true. This place might actually be where that Shameless Cat buried something many years ago.
Yang Zhen looked at the Shameless Cat with suspicion and clicked his tongue in amazement, saying, "So, this place really was you who buried something first, and then the people from Mountain and River Court took it for themselves?"
"That's it!" the Shameless Cat insisted, muttering curses incessantly.
Yang Zhen frowned, then his eyes lit up, and he said, "Damn it, in that case, wouldn't everything sealed inside be ours?"
"It's mine, the original owner's!" the Shameless Cat corrected.
"What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. With our brotherly relationship, we're practically family," Yang Zhen waved his hand and said, "Since that's the case, then we can't let these thieves get away with it."
Before the Shameless Cat Shameless Cat could speak, Yang Zhen suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a minute, the Mountain and River Court was sealed off ten thousand years ago, or rather, it sealed itself off. If you buried this treasure, wouldn't you have lived for more than ten thousand years?"
The Shameless Cat paused, then shook its head and said, "Don't talk to me about time. I have no concept of time and don't remember."
Holy crap!
Yang Zhen gasped, staring at the Shameless Cat Celestial Person astonishment, muttering to himself, "Holy crap, what the hell did this Sage of Saunter just pick up?"
As he spoke, Yang Zhen rubbed his face and said, "Putting that aside for now, if this black fruit isn't Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit, then what the hell is it?"
The Shameless Cat frowned, staring at the black fruit for a long time before finally speaking, "This is Black Flame Fruit, not some Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit."
Yang Zhen was taken aback. "No? The Dao Source Fruit can stimulate the Dao Source after consumption, helping cultivators to Dao Entry the Dao and achieve enlightenment, and absorb the Heaven and Earth Origin. Since this is not the Dao Source Fruit but the Black Flame Fruit, then what is the use of the Black Flame Fruit?"
"Arouse the Dao Source, Dao Entry enlightenment, and absorb the Heaven and Earth Origin!" The Shameless Cat sang out the effects of the Black Flame Fruit, its eyes widening as it waited. "It's been renamed?"
"It's been renamed!"
As Yang Zhen inhaled, he tucked the Dao Source Fruit, also known as the Black Flame Fruit, into his robes and reached out to the Shameless Cat, saying, "Give it to me!"
"Give me what?" The Shameless Cat glared and said, "Boy, return the Black Flame Fruit to me. It's the last one!"
Yang Zhen chuckled and said, "You're kidding me, aren't you? When you lie, your left eye twitches, your eyeballs don't know where to go, they keep darting around like you're doing something wrong, your heart races, your hands fidget, your right big toe keeps curling up and down, and your tail keeps wagging... Do you want this Sage of Saunter to give me more signs?"
The Shameless Cat glared at Yang Zhen, his eyes wide, and cursed, "Damn it, you little bastard, are you really a devil?"
Yang Zhen curled his lip, tossed the Black Sage of Saunter Black Flame Fruit back to the Shameless Cat, and said, "Don't talk about me as something so despicable. Since you planted this, would I, this Sage of Saunter Sage of Saunter, steal it from you? I was just curious."
The Shameless Cat looked at the Black Flame Fruit suspiciously, examining it from every angle to confirm it was the same Black Flame Fruit from before and that it hadn't been tampered with. Only then did it put it away and happily said to Yang Zhen, "Wow, this is a windfall! If only I had planted more back then, otherwise we wouldn't have only grown five. This Sage of Saunter ate two, and now there are only three left."
Yang Zhen nodded, not minding at all. That Shameless Cat, was a notorious miser; it made no difference whether the Black Flame Fruit was with him or with Shameless Cat.
What Yang Zhen was more concerned about was what other things were hidden in the treasure buried by the Shameless Cat. If those thieves from Mountain and River Court took them, the loss would be huge, not to mention the Heavenly Spring Sacred Land and Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, which were still eyeing them covetously.
Yang Zhen was already wondering if it was a bit unfair to interfere at this time, but now it seems...
Hmph, they're the ones who's being dishonest!
Yang Zhen stared at the Shameless Cat, saying with great interest, "Now you can talk, right? What other good things haven't you brought back? This Sage of Saunter will get them back for you for free. I absolutely won't let those guys from Mountain and River Court, Heavenly Spring Sacred Land, and Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain snatch them away."
The Shameless Cat's eyes lit up, and it jumped up. "Damn, you're the most loyal guy ever!"