Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 45: Mutated Spiritual Root?

"Are you afraid?" Ye Chen asked with a smile as he saw Li Mei and Lan Ming silently following him.

"Brother Chen, he is after all a sect master of the Frostfire Sect. Even if he couldn’t do anything to her, what about outside the city, and what if he pulled up petty tricks?" Lan Ming pouted with a dissatisfied look.

"Senior brother, you can’t take this lightly." Li Mei agreed with her and displayed dissatisfaction.

Watching them in sync, Ye Chen rolled his eyes.

"Stop worrying too much; we will deal with him when the time comes; moreover, Zhen Yunqi will not just sit and watch," he said with assurance, and before they could say something, he dragged them to a nearby stall that was filled with female items.

…

"Trash! How dare you come back like this! You are a disgrace to the sect!" a handsome middle-aged man shouted. His face filled with killing intent and anger.

"Sect master, if I really take action, then everyone will think I am trying to silence him from spreading the truth. Not to mention I can’t do anything to him in the great market," Zhang Hua explained with fear as he felt his back turning cold with sweat.

The handsome middle-aged man in front of him was Mo Chongsheng, the sect master of the Frostfire Sect.

Right now, his face was gloomy and filled with anger because he had told everything about what happened in the great market.

He was also angry at him because he didn’t dare to do anything to Ye Chen even after his sect master was humiliated.

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Mo Chongsheng really wanted to cut Zhang Hua into small pieces, but he held back as he thought of the consequences of killing someone in the city.

"Take me to see him!" he ordered with a cold tone.

Hearing him Zhang Hua didn’t delay and hurriedly led the way.

The great market was only a hundred meters away from the place they were staying, so they didn’t bother to take any carriages.

Because of this, many people recognized Mo Chongsheng and gave him weird looks.

Mo Chongsheng knew the reason behind this, and his face was black with anger.

…

In the Azure Cloud Pavilion, Zhen Yunqi also received the news of what was happening.

"This brat just started cultivating, yet he likes to provoke core formation experts!" She sighed with a helpless look.

Mo Chongsheng’s cultivation was at only the ninth level of core formation, one level below hers.

Although the Frostfire Sect was a second-grade sect, it had only climbed to the second grade fifty years ago.

Before that, it was just a third-grade sect, hence why the cultivation level of Mo Chongsheng was low.

Zhen Yunqi didn’t care if someone was making trouble for the disciples of the sect. As long as no one is killed or injured, she won’t care about such affairs. But she really couldn’t sit still if it was Ye Chen.

Hence, after throwing her a helpless look, she headed towards the great market.

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Jade Mountain Pavilion, tenth floor.

Just like Zhen Yunqi, Jing Xiao also received the news and frowned with displeasure.

"Mo Chongsheng! It seems you need a good lesson this time," she muttered coldly before making her way towards the great market.

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At this moment, Ye Chen was unaware of what was happening; even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.

"Brother Chen, why aren’t you buying something?" Lan Ming inquired as she saw him just strolling around the shops.

The only things he bought in the inner area were some accessories for them.

Li Mei also gave him a curious look.

After shopping for a while, both of them calmed down and didn’t care much about Mo Chongsheng. Of course, the main reason is that they didn’t have time to think about him; moreover, with Ye Chen’s presence, they felt everything would be alright.

"Senior brother, didn’t you want a cauldron? Look, there is one," Li Mei pointed at the stall ahead of them.

Ye Chen took a glance and shook his head.

"The cauldron looks good, but it’s almost breaking," he replied with a disappointed look and moved forward.

There were a lot of stalls in the inner area, but Ye Chen just took a look and kept walking.

Although there were many rare things and even some mystery objects, he didn’t care because the grades here barely reached tier 2 and tier 3.

One look and anyone could tell that they just looked mysterious and weren’t old enough.

Some of the stalls even had fake items.

His interest was already lost here, and he decided to look into the core area.

However, before he could, the golden spiritual root inside his dantian suddenly started to tremble.

Ye Chen couldn’t help but stop in his tracks after feeling this.

’What’s happening? Is it finally going through the mutation?’ he muttered in his heart as he looked inside the dantian.

He already came to the conclusion that his spiritual root was going through mutation, and it was because Lan Ming had a mutated fire spiritual root.

From her, he learned that a spiritual root might mutate after reaching some conditions. After which the cultivator would have an affinity with certain elements.

They can be one, two, or even more. Once that happened, they would become a genius and could easily master any martial arts or techniques related to their affiliated elements.

Although the mutating conditions were harsh and different for everyone, the process of spiritual root devouring the Qi was the same.

Hence why he thought his spiritual root was finally going through mutation. It’s just he couldn’t find out why it was sleeping for so long.

"Senior brother, why did you stop?" Li Mei asked with a puzzled look.

"Oh, it’s just—" Ye Chen was about to reply when the spiritual root inside the dantian stopped trembling without any trace.

Seeing this, Ye Chen was speechless and almost cursed, wondering if his spiritual root was playing jokes on him.

"It’s nothing. Let’s go," he shook his head with a disappointed look and walked forward without explaining anything.

However, just as he took the first step, the golden spiritual root started to tremble again.

At this moment, Li Mei walked beside him with a puzzled look, and soon it stopped.

’What’s happening?’ Ye Chen thought with a frown and moved forward.

The same event occurred, and when he moved a few more steps, again the spiritual root kept trembling; however, just after a while it stopped again.

This time Lan Ming and Li Mei were both behind, so he didn’t think they were the reason.

Soon he walked backwards, and the golden spiritual root started trembling again.

"Brother Chen, is there something wrong?" Lan Ming inquired with a confused look.

Li Mei was no different and looked at him for an answer.

Watching them like this, Ye Chen smiled.

"It’s nothing. I just thought about buying something," he said and walked towards the stall, which was located to the right.

The more he moved forward, the more the golden spiritual root trembled.

Even if it was an idiot, he would know that the spiritual root was interested in something.

Li Mei and Lan Ming didn’t know this, so they were baffled at his response.

However, they didn’t care and walked with him.

The stall Ye Chen had his eyes on belonged to a male disciple who was a few years older than them. Moreover, he wore a familiar purple robe.

Clearly, he was from the Frostfire Sect, which Ye Chen had been in conflict with.

Thinking of this, his expression turned strange.

The same was for a male disciple of the Frostfire Sect.

He had clearly heard what happened and who spread the rumors.

It’s just that he didn’t know why Ye Chen was walking towards his stall.

’Does he want to buy something, or is he here to create trouble?’ the male disciple thought with a frown.

At this moment, Ye Chen arrived at his stall and looked at items placed on yellow cloths.

There were about fifty items, which included some weapons, some talismans, jade bottles, herbs, and other miscellaneous things dug out from ruins.

Ye Chen’s gaze was attracted by two items. A bronze box that contained a Tier-3 ginseng and a stone that had some strange symbols carved on it.

"I want that stone; name your price," he said without any nonsense.

Hearing him, the male disciple frowned a little and took a close look at the strange stone.

He had dug this from a ruin, and after failing to appraise the strange symbol on it, he brought it here to sell.

There was nothing special about it, so it didn’t attract his attention.

But now that an enemy was coming to buy this stone specifically, he couldn’t help but think otherwise.

’Is there some secret?’ His eyes flashed with hesitation and greed.

However, when he thought of the rules of the great market, he knew that no matter how unwilling he was, he had to sell this stone.

The great market, after all, contained many unknown treasures, and to stop the seller from going back on their words, they were obliged to register every item.

If they refuse to sell, then someone can just report them, and they will be punished.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth in hatred.

"100 mid-grade spiritual stones: leave it or buy it!" he shouted loudly.

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Although late, here is the art:

Jing Xiao