Chapter 53

Twenty-eight Dragons (3)

The infinity pouch Uncle Zong had given her was actually not big; its internal space was only about two metres in length, width, and height. However, for Mu Wanwan, this was the most valuable thing she owned right now. It must be said that even though it was just a storage bag with a very small storage space that didn’t have any temperature or freshness preservation abilities, it still cost quite a lot of low-grade spirit stones on the market, and could only be exchanged for with spirit stones.

Even when the Mu family was still prosperous, Father Mu had never bought an infinity pouch like this for Bai Shuiyao.

Yet, Uncle Zong had generously given it to her outright, probably because he really wanted to continue cooperating with her.

Mu Wanwan was not stupid. After this trip to the market, putting together Uncle Zong’s reaction and her super high success rates in the cultivation of seeds previously, she could come to a few conclusions. The original body had also cultivated some plants before, but the results had not been as good as hers. Thus, it was possible that after she transmigrated, the change of souls had also caused some changes to the spiritual energy in the body.

And, they were good changes.

A smile appeared in Mu Wanwan’s eyes. So, she did have a gold finger1 after all! Otherwise, with a disabled dragon right from the start, and without any gold finger subsequently, she might as well just pack up and jump into the river with Mister Long…

However, dragons wouldn’t die even if they jumped into rivers.

Mu Wanwan didn’t know how her mind had wandered to this; she shook her head, wanting to hurry up and get things organised so she could make something to eat and take a nap.

The method of using the infinity pouch was very simple. When she was at Uncle Zong’s, she had followed his instructions and imprinted a wisp of her spiritual energy on it; she only needed to spend a little amount of spiritual energy to use it.

First, were the mattress and clothes that took up the most space. Mu Wanwan took them out and put them away in the cupboard. Next, was the rice and noodles she bought for herself, the bones and meat she had spent quite a lot of silver coins on, and the eggs and sugar—she put them all in the back basket.

She also bought two pairs of shoes. Her current pair were all soaked through, and shoes were not expensive; two pairs only cost three silver coins, which was equivalent to fifteen dollars a pair, the prices seen during a great sale. However, the quality was very so-so, and couldn’t be said to be very good shoes. The surface was also bare, with no patterns at all.

In addition to these things, Mu Wanwan also bought some lamp oil and wicks. Although spending her spiritual energy every day on cultivating seeds was already tiring enough, she had still decided to do some needlework at night. After all, it could help contribute to the household budget. Besides, she also wanted to use some spirit stones on herself— only if her spiritual power improved would she be able to possess more wood spiritual energy to cultivate seeds.

In the past, she didn’t know that her spiritual power was special, so it didn’t matter, but now that she did, improving herself was also a necessary part of raising a dragon. If she couldn’t make money, then there would be less hope for the spirit stones Mister Long needed.

Mu Wanwan took out the most important and valuable little pouch which contained all the wealth between the two of them: a medium-grade spirit stone, four low-grade spirit stones, three silver coins and five copper coins.

The silver coins and copper coins were meant for the entrance fee next time. She decided to keep one low-grade spirit stone for herself, leaving the medium-grade spirit stone and the remaining three low-grade ones for Mister Long.

Having made up her mind, Mu Wanwan took all the spirit stones out.

The medium-grade spirit stone was very different from the low-grade ones. Besides being larger in size, it was also more translucent. Mu Wanwan held the medium-grade spirit stone that was full of spiritual energy against the light coming in from the window for a look, and thought that the piece of spirit stone was simply reflecting off brilliant rays of gorgeous lustre from beginning to end.

In the original body’s memory, the most superior spirit stone was the top-grade spirit stone, which was a type of spirit stone that looked better both in appearance and in colour. Mu Wanwan secretly guessed that the best spirit stone was probably better-looking, bigger, and more valuable than diamonds.

Mu Wanwan took a deep breath and felt as if the presence of the medium-grade spirit stone made the air seem to be full of rich spiritual energy.

She placed the few spirit stones by Mister Long’s ear and said softly, “Mister Long, aren’t I amazing? I earned many spirit stones this time.”

Mu Wanwan laughed at herself when she finished speaking; to think she was actually asking for credit from an unconscious dragon.

After clearing up some clutter, she placed the two packets of seeds and the spiritual soil that Uncle Zong gave her on the table, then set out the thread and cloth meant for embroidery that had gotten wet earlier to dry, and planned to cultivate the spiritual plants when she woke up.

Footnote:

1 gold finger: Chinese buzzword for something like a ‘cheat code’, an ability/ item/power that makes things easier for the protagonist.

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