During its growth, the Fire Spirit Grass would emit a faint fiery glow each time it ascended a tier. Its maturation period was at the third tier, with a maximum limit of five tiers. A mature Fire Spirit Grass possessed an excellent Fire Attribute and could serve as the main ingredient for Alchemy pills. However, to Jiang Zuo, the Fire Spirit Grass represented one of the Five Elements Attributes. He just so happened to need to collect Five Elements Power, making this Fire Spirit Grass a great choice. Moreover, this Fire Spirit Grass had already glowed once, meaning it would mature in just two more tiers. As long as it was well nurtured, it would enter its maturation period in a month.
The man stood there blankly, looking somewhat helpless.
"How much are you selling this grass for?" Jiang Zuo made an inquiry.
The middle-aged man was taken aback. "Y-you want to buy it?"
Jiang Zuo nodded. "Name your price. I suggest you aim a little higher."
The man held up two fingers. "T-two thousand."
Jiang Zuo frowned.
"Or, one thousand and five hundred. One thousand and five hundred is fine too. If that really doesn't work, one thousand is no problem either." Seeing Jiang Zuo frown again, he lowered the price once more.
Jiang Zuo sighed. This was the flaw of ignorance. If the man had known the value of this grass, he wouldn't have felt so guilty. "I'll transfer the money to you."
The man's face lit up with joy. "I don't have any of your mobile payment stuff. Is a bank card okay?" He knew that people nowadays basically didn't carry cash.
Jiang Zuo nodded. The man then took out his bank card and handed it to Jiang Zuo, who transferred a sum of money without any hesitation.
"Alright, give me the grass."
"Thank you, thank you." The man handed the grass straight over to Jiang Zuo without any hesitation.
Jiang Zuo inspected it. The roots were well preserved, so it could still be planted once he took it back. With the Fire Spirit Grass in hand, Jiang Zuo went over to buy his medicine.
Meanwhile, the man held his phone, waiting for a message. As soon as the money arrived in his account, he would receive a notification.
It didn't take long for the money to arrive as expected. However, when he looked at it, he froze completely. He stood dazed for a long time. By the time he regained his senses, the person who bought his grass had already left. Looking at the message on his phone, he was still a little delirious. He knew how to read, and he certainly knew how to read numbers. That person hadn't transferred one thousand to him, but rather two hundred thousand.
A full two hundred thousand.
His daughter was saved! She was saved!
Snapping back to reality, he fell straight to his knees. He muttered to himself, "Thank you. Thank you."
Later that day.
As for the two hundred thousand, Jiang Zuo hadn't made a transfer error, nor was he taking pity on the man. It was simply that this Fire Spirit Grass was worth two hundred thousand. It didn't matter whether the man's daughter was truly sick, nor did it matter if he was a scammer, because Jiang Zuo wasn't taking a loss. But if it was true, then he was just helping him out in passing. He disdained saving this kind of money.
Jiang Zuo bought a potted plant on the way back. He had to plant the Fire Spirit Grass properly; otherwise, it would be a loss if it died. Just as he returned and finished planting the Fire Spirit Grass, he felt his phone vibrating. He took it out and found that someone had tagged him again.
Liu Yiyi: "@Boss Po Xiao, you are going to be famous."
Chi Xue Child immediately asked, "What's wrong? Has the news about resolving Elder Chen's issue already spread?"
Liuyue Xue sent a shocked expression. "What? It's already resolved? Hasn't it only been a little while since he went? What about Demon Cultivator Mo Yan?"
Demon Cultivator Mo Yan joined the group chat.
Liuyue Xue: "..."
Chen Yi: "..."
Xiao Xiaomo: "..."
Blade Master Hai Bian: "..."
Demon Cultivator Mo Yan: "Why are you all like this? Are you looking down on Demon Cultivators?"
Liuyue Xue tagged Chi Xue Child. "You didn't get caught, did you?"
Chi Xue Child sent a helpless expression. "She insisted on following. She didn't know the way herself, so she just had to drag me along."
Liuyue Xue sent a petrified expression. "She? Are you sure you didn't type that wrong?"
Chi Xue Child: "I didn't."
Demon Cultivator Mo Yan sent a mischievous expression. "What? Can't I be a girl?"
Liuyue Xue directly flipped the table. "Why did the intelligence I received say that Mo Yan is a guy?"
Po Xiao: "Probably a mid-way sex change. I've encountered this kind of Secret Technique before."
Demon Cultivator Mo Yan: "...I was born this way."
Liu Yiyi sent a pause expression. "Can you let a person finish talking?"
Blade Master Hai Bian: "Right, Yiyi Fairy just said that Fellow Daoist Po Xiao is going to be famous. Is it not because he completed the commission?"
Xiao Xiaomo: "No. We heard a legend at the company."
Liuyue Xue: "A legend? What happened at the company?"
Liu Yiyi: "I just heard that someone participated in the Cultivation assessment this morning. It was a 1.1 Cultivation assessment."
Liuyue Xue: "And then?"
Liu Yiyi: "And then that 1.1 Fellow Daoist absolutely crushed and abused the 1.5 instructor. Rumor has it that the examiner hasn't recovered to this day, and his eyes are still filled with fear."
Chi Xue Child sent a surprised expression. "Fake, right? The gap between 1.5 and 1.1 is too huge. Winning is one thing, but abusing him to the point of leaving unerasable psychological trauma? Isn't that too much of an exaggeration?"
Blade Master Hai Bian: "Who is the person Yiyi Fairy is talking about? Could it be..."
Liu Yiyi: "That's right, it's Boss Po Xiao. Someone saw it with their own eyes."
Chi Xue Child was shocked. "Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel like it's possible again."
Demon Cultivator Mo Yan: "The possibility is super huge. Why else would he be so arrogant?"
Liu Yu: "So it's actually quite normal for my 1.3 self to get abused."
Xiao Xiaomo: "Roll back to where you came from. Stop coming out to embarrass yourself. @Boss Po Xiao, is it really you?"
Watching these people discuss, Jiang Zuo couldn't help but frown. It was just a 1.5. Was it really that exaggerated?
He then replied, "It's just a 1.5. Isn't that very weak?"
Blade Master Hai Bian: "Dare I make an inquiry about Fellow Daoist's true strength..."
Po Xiao: "1.1."
The entire group went quiet.
Jiang Zuo shrugged. He had no time to entertain these people. Putting his phone aside, he started to get busy with his own affairs.
This time, he had spent almost all of his remaining seven hundred thousand or so. He should be able to upgrade to 1.2 tonight. Thinking about it, Cultivation truly cost a lot of money; he had spent one million in just two days. If he didn't do commissions, it would take an eternity to earn this much money.
At the Tianhe Group.
"Boss, isn't Brother Zuo a little too heaven-defying?" Liu Yu asked Xiao Xiaomo.
Xiao Xiaomo said crossly, "If he wasn't heaven-defying, would he have been able to obliterate you in one strike?"
Chen Yi chimed in, "Boss, are you interested in becoming a mistress?"
BANG.
Chen Yi was directly bashed in the head with a baseball bat.
Xiao Xiaomo said, "The logistics side spread the news too fast. I'm just worried that someone will try to put him in his place."
Chen Yi was dismissive. "Boss, Brother Zuo is no ordinary person. You can tell just from what he's done these past two days. If someone tries to put him in his place, they'll be the ones getting put in their place sooner or later.
"However, the people in the company aren't idiots. They won't go looking for trouble with Brother Zuo, right?"
"A 1.1 defeated a 1.5. If you say there's nothing fishy going on here, would anyone believe it?"
"Boss, do you think Brother Zuo has a Magical Treasure on him? And it might not be an ordinary Magical Treasure? The legendary golden finger?"
Xiao Xiaomo shook her head. "It's not that I think so, but rather that many people think so. There will always be someone who will make a move against him in secret. Right now, not many people know that Jiang Zuo is Po Xiao. In short, keep it a secret, and don't let his appearance spread either.
"Unless he lets others know himself, don't leak it out."
"Understood."