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Curiosity Killed The Cat

After coming to senses, the first thing Zi Yang did was confirm the leaf that was put into the frozen capsule and then search the void net for more details on how to use this leaf from the ancient tree of life.

Void net is the Internet in this world but better. It is a virtual world where the one’s spirit can enter, and do all things one can do in real lives. Trading, Shopping, Hunting, Simulating, Fighting, Learning – you name it.

There are also various forums on where various knowledge points are discussed. Zi Yang logged into his commonly visited forum and search for ancient life tree related posts.

In a few seconds, the search result displayed 29753 results. Looking for verified posts, Zi Yang focused on the one by a potion master from provincial college.

“The oozing vitality of the leaf should best be utilized for curing diseases and to use it to enhance the body’s innate origin would underachieve the purpose as these leaves can only heal and not make up for deficiencies. Nevertheless, the relief provided is considerable too. I would suggest using extraordinary level resources of water and fire attribute together with the leaf and balance it properties together to make a body lotion or cream for daily use.”

It is a good idea to make a lotion. If he could massage Zi Ming with the lotion every day with it, it would surely help. Just a small hiccup though…. Insufficient money.

Extraordinary resources cost a hefty sum. Consider selling Euterpe berries to make this money…. selling 6 small packs every day to different customers, i.e. a full pack at 600 ancient dollars; selling for about 14 days would be enough to but one extraordinary material.

Then considering growth cycle of the berries, catalyst energy stones to speed up progress and availability of customers….

A conservative estimate of two and a half months should be enough to get this started.

Alright, goal set.

Next day, Mama Mei went to trade with the truts and Zi Yang started with his daily routine of cleaning the store, selling products and studying relevant knowledge at night.

He has joined the third batch of evening classes at his district’s i.e. Mawsynram district’s citizen awareness school.

One would think that such awareness schools should not have been necessary considering the entire beast monitoring society has been stabilized for hundreds of years. That’s far from the truth.

Moreover, because everyone has gotten used to strength, beasts and evolution, very few people would care to pay attention to explain the dangers of society to people at the lower end of the stratum in society.

To survive in a strength-respecting society, weak people must have the conscious of weak people and know how to survive.

Zi Yang started making tight schedules to ensure he can make enough money while not missing out on the important classes.

While Zi Yang was contemplating life plans for next few months, in a house on the opposite street; a woman covered in an ethereal aura was constantly drawing mysterious symbols in the air, every time a symbol was drawn, different phenomena happened.

Sometimes, a spark, a drop, a sun, a flower etc. were visible until they were dissolved into a liquid along with some glittering stones on the side.

On the other side of the room were another woman who had followed Zi Yang and the leafed hat trut. The only difference was they stood as still as a stone, maybe for the fear of disturbing the work or purely for the sake of embodying the captivating image of the ethereal woman.

The woman who was seemed to exist in multiple dimensions, had deep black eyes that seemed to contain the entire universe yet seem void. The eyebrows add a contrasting sense of a mellow and kindness to the solemn eyes.

Her smile seems to contain the nectar of a hundred flowers, bring joy and peace. and a small mole to the left of her slender nose strangely harmonizes ethereal and peaceful, mysterious and clarity of her nature.

If only seen once, people may doubt is she was an illusion or a beautiful fantasy.

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After the woman finished the potion, she fed it to a haggard golden toad and looked at the corner, “Dark Void, how is the boy dealing with the recent affairs?”

The woman in the corner came out of her reverie, but before she could give an effective reply, the trut jumped from her arms onto a table, screamed and screeched.

Dark Void followed and explained the events and asked her doubts, “Void Empress, even if you owed his mother a favor, it has been repaid when you saved their lives eight years ago. Why do you have to owe three more favors and then monitor his life while staying here?”

Void Empress flicked her hair, walked to the garden and placed the trut on a tree. She then turned, “I want to confirm something. But before that, I must check his character and way of life. If it doesn’t work, it would be meaningless to check. So, I owed him three favors, to see how and when he uses them.”

“If he used them well and his character passes, what happens then?”

“Well, in that case, I may accept him as my disciple.”

Dark Void was shocked. Void Empress has not accepted disciples even after several years of her coronation.

Many people from well-known families and geniuses from all major cities tried but all failed!

But the empress chose to stay in third-tier Jade cloud city for nearly 10 years to evaluate and accept a disciple. A disciple who could not even sense qi!

Dark Void couldn’t imagine how many people would be gasp if they learn of the circumstances here.

Dark Void couldn’t help but persuade, “Void Empress, Zi Yang is a rated case of qi sensing deficiency. He can’t become a beast master or any other professional.”

Void Empress paused for a moment before replying, “Pay attention to him and keep monitoring. You can send an attendant to pretend to be his caregiver and monitor more accurately.”

“Yes empress”, replied Dark Void and quickly withdrew. She knew that she would not be able to get the answer today.

Qi sensing deficiency, huh?

After a while, only a sigh was heard from the room and the void empress couldn’t help but recall that night eight years ago.

When Yi Nuo gave birth to Zi Yang, neither the mother’s nor child’s condition was good.

Yi Nuo was carrying another life and doctor said its life essence is insufficient and was in danger.

Even with her help, Yi Nuo had to disperse her beast taming space and cancel her contracts to transfer that energy to the fetus and freeze for eight years.

She originally planned to leave after repaying the bonus but the doctor reminded that the newborn Zi Yang hadn’t cried and breathes feebly.

Void Empress still remembers when she tried to supply spirit qi to the fetus, the feedback she got from the little one’s body was jolting!

She sensed disgust coming from the little one’s body.

She knows that feeling.

The feeling when a noble dignified emperor feels disgusted when an eunuch feeds his bad food.

She felt slighted.

She, Jing Huan, is the void empress who created her virtual empire in the void and connected the entire Donghuang ancient country through spiritual waves.

She singlehandedly connected all cities and created a virtual world but her spirit qi was disgusted by a newborn!

Having tried multiple times with doctors’ healing pets and even her auxiliary pet’s healing, all of them had no effect on him and all the qi was rejected by his body.

It was only after nearly four hours that Zi Yang opened his eyes that doctors breathed a sigh of relief and more of an accomplishment of having saved a person with qi sensing deficiency syndrome.

A body which rejects qi!

It is a rare case in the world when someone is inherently unable to accept qi and could only become a normal person throughout his life.

But the void empress knew. It’s not that the boy rejects absorbing qi.

Instead, his body seems to be throwing out the spirit qi in the outside would that everyone absorbs as garbage.

This is what Jing Huan was curious about at first.

What was the feeling of nobility when she tried to channel spirit qi and was rejected?

What kind of qi would he absorb if not the spirit qi?

As time went by, she saw the boy grow up, struggle to roll, crawl, stand or sit.

She grew more curious.

She thought it would be despairing to a 5-year-old, but the body had clear eyes with not self-pity in them – only guilt for his mother and brother.

A 6-year-old boy cared tried his best to relieve his mother of burdens and did house work with a dragging body and acted lively when his mother went home.

All that happened made Jing Huan feel it would be good to have a sensible kid as her own. But she couldn’t adopt.

Because she knew that the boy would never be the same towards any other mother.

So, she decided to be a master.

That’s how curiosity killed the cat.