Meanwhile, Thiago was scanning the ground with his Eyes of Eternal Truth when he finally found an herb whose name on the panel created by his special eye ability matched one, he had seen on the list...

[Purple Mountain Moss

This herb is often found on mountaintops, hence its name. On its own, this herb is of limited use for treating minor lethal wounds, as its mana content is rather low. However, in combination with another herbal mixture, it can become a driving force in the pill refinement process due to its strong binding properties, which can even bind certain higher-level herbs and ingredients. It has similar medicinal properties to Flower of Joy.]

This is what Thiago saw when he looked at a dark green, purple moss growing between some sparse rocks and on some trees.

'Good, I've already found the Purple Mountain Moss, let's put it in my spatial necklace right away,' Thiago thought, as he had found this herb only a short time after he started helping LI Wei to gather herbs, which naturally made him overjoyed.

After he had put all the moss that he could see at that place into his spatial storage space, Thiago continued on his cheating way of finding herbs, which his eye ability, which was simply too easy for him, as he did not even need to do much and only had to scan everything with his eyesight and as long as he was wiling numerous information would be displayed before him.

Shortly after that, he had already found the next herb, which was slightly more valuable than the previous one, and it was called Pale Sun Crocus, and it contained a relatively large amount of searing fire energy, and it was a perfect material for making certain kinds of medicines and pills.

A good example of this was the Nine Suns Golden Pill, which was a pill that could greatly accelerate the cultivation speed of lower-level cultivators with fire affinity, and it also used the Pale Sun Crocus as a supporting ingredient.

"Very good, I have already found two of the herbs on the list, so there are only two left, but it depends on whether Li Wei has already found them, well, never mind, just look for them," Thiago mumbled and decided to find the last two herbs left on the list.

Wandering aimlessly around the place, Thiago was lucky enough to find the two remaining herbs close together in one fell swoop a few minutes later, but only because he happened to kick over a rock that was in his way, and who would have thought that the herbs would actually be growing underneath it.

These two herbs were called Yellow Alstroemeria and Blooming Lily.

They were two rather important ingredients for mana-gathering pills, as they had strong medicinal properties that could be used to attract mana from the air, although this type of pill was only suitable for the novice realm, as its potency would not be enough for the student realm, making this pill only attractive to lower-level cultivators.

"Eh? Who would have thought that they would grow under this rock, what a coincidence. It seems that my luck is off the charts today," Thiago exclaimed slightly, as he found it quite a coincidence that by kicking the stone away, he would be able to find the last two herbs by a stroke of luck.

After quickly calming his thoughts, Thiago picked up the two herbs and put them next to the others in his storage room. After that, Thiago turned to where he sensed Li Wei and walked towards him to tell him that he had already found all the herbs

When he reached Li Wei's position, he was quite surprised and asked astounded: "Is there a problem or were you not able to find any herb? Well, it does not matter since -"

"No, no problem, in fact I wanted to tell you that I have already found all the needed herbs on the list," Thiago promptly interrupted Li Wei who seemed to have already figured out everything, albeit he had guessed completely wrong in this case.

"Wait, you what? You have already found them all, are you kidding me? Where are they then, I don't see them on you?"

"No, why should I lie, I can show them to you now." Thiago replied and promptly took out the four herbs from his spatial storage, causing Li Wei's expression to change abruptly as he saw the herbs appear out of nowhere and knew what it meant.

The short boy with the blood-red hair standing in front of him was carrying a spatial artefact that only realtively higher-level cultivators or children of noble families could usually afford.

Immediately, his demeanour was completely different and more submissive than before, and he promptly said as he bowed: "Forgive my presumption just now, I hope I have not offended Your Excellency".

"Huh, what's going on?" Thiago muttered as he noticed how Liw Wei had suddenly changed completely after taking the herbs out of his spatial storage. It did not immediately occur to him that the problem was his spatial artefact, as he had taken it for granted and had not considered the possibility that it was a rarity.

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Not knowing what was suddenly happening Thiago directly asked Li Wei:" Hey why are you acting like that all of a sudden?"

When Li Wei heard that Thiago had asked him something, he looked up and saw that Thiago did not seem to be the least bit angry, so he replied hesitantly: "This lowly one has seen that you are in possession of a spatial artefact and therefore probably belong to a powerful family, which is why I have just apologised for my manner of speaking in which I doubted your herb gathering abilities."

"Oh - so that's the problem, well to be honest there's really no need to act like that, just act like you did before, since I'm not from a powerful family myself. Thiago explained to Li Wei, who did not really seem to believe what Thiago was saying based on his doubtful facial expression, since it was highly doubtful that Thiago could have a spatial artefact if he was not from a powerful background, and as for the other option of being a powerful cultivator, Li Wei did not believe it either, since Thiago clearly had the cultivation of the first level of the novice realm.

Well, there was still the possibility that he had found this spatial artefact in some fortuitous opportunity, which he could not really rule out, as he had no idea and knew nothing about Thiago.

Withdrawing from his thoughts, Li Wei hesitantly said that he had understood and would act normally again.

From this little episode we can also see that Li Wei is a person who has seen the ways of the world and knows when to stretch and bend or lower himself. This was the normal way when lower-level cultivators met higher level cultivators or people with stronger backgrounds than themselves. In fact, it was the same in the ordinary world.

After that Thaig asked the question which had been on his mind since before: "How rare or precious are spatial artifacts?"

This question actually puzzled and confused Li Wei a little, because as far as he was concerned, this was a common knowledge that everyone knew, even if they were only at the first level of the novice realm.

Nevertheless, he answered Thiago's question honestly: "Well, actually, they are not extremely rare, as basically every relatively strong cultivator starting from the student realm has them, and even some cultivators at the novice realm if they have the financial strength, but for ordinary people with a poor background like me, it is basically impossible to have them at the novice realm," Liu Wei's face showed a visible trace of sadness when he mentioned his background, but it quickly disappeared, "As for you being at the same realm as me, I had previously thought that you were from a wealthy family. I hope it's nothing private or anything like that, but why didn't you know that, I mean, it's basically common knowledge everywhere in this Great Flame Kingdom?" He finally asked, not being able to satisfy his curiosity about this topic.

Thiago, who had listened attentively to what Li Wei had just said, was a little confused for a moment, not knowing what to tell him, but then he quickly made up a believable story, or so he thought, and without blushing or his heart beating faster, he answered his question.

"It has to do with the fact that I have only recently left my homeland and have only been travelling here for a short time, and before that I always stayed in a certain forest far away in the north, where my family lives, because they are all very close to nature and had settled there a long time ago. So, I did not really learn much common sense from them. But I am grateful to have met you, because you will be able to explain it to me, right?"

Thiago actually mixed truth and lies in this story, as it was true that he had lived in the forest all this time and had not learned any common sense there, but otherwise it was pure nonsense.

Li Wei, who had listened to Thiago's explanation, felt that there was something wrong with it, but he did not really know what it was and could not put his finger on it, so he could only accept it and then turned his attention to the herbs that were now lying on the ground in front of Thiago, as he had retrieved them from the spatial storage space earlier.

"Wow! These are really all the ones that were on the list, amazing!"

"You really are well versed in picking up herbs, does it have something to do with you having lived in the forest all your live?" Li Wei asked full of curiosity, which Thiago answered without blushing and change of heartbeat:" Yes, it's all thanks to the teachings of my fellow clansmen."

It seemed that Thiago was getting better and better at talking nonsense and he was not even ashamed of it, but it was not really a disadvantage for Thiago to talk nonsense from time to time, as he had nothing to lose as long as he kept to a certain limit.

"How many herbs have you collected in this time?" asked Thiago, to which Li Wei could only smile a little embarrassed and then say that he had not found any in this time, which did not make Thiago laugh at all, since he had only been able to find these herbs thanks to his Eyes of Eternal Truth, otherwise who knows how long he would have searched for at least one herb, since he had no knowledge of herbs at all.

Seeing that Thiago was not laughing at him, Li Wei was astonished, and Thiago's image improved in his mind.

Now that Li Wei had gathered all the herbs he needed thanks to Thiago, he naturally wanted to repay the favour, so he asked Thiago what he could do for him to repay the favour.

"Well, I'm actually on my way to the Halfmoon City and you're probably a resident of the city, so why don't you lead me to the city and show me around a bit, how about that?" Thiago replied without thinking too much, because that was exactly what he needed right now, because he had no idea how things worked in the city, and it would be better if he had a native to help him in that aspect.

Hearing that Thiago's request was so simple, Li Wei immediately beamed with joy and of course agreed, since he had to go back to the city anyway, so why not reciprocate a favour at the same time?

"Yes, of course I will take you to the city, since you helped me with such an important matter today. It is the least I could do."

After that, Li Wei led Thiago down to the opposite side from where Thiago had come up, through a long path between bushes and trees, until Thiago could suddenly see a massive and extremely huge city from high above in the distance, the Half-Moon City.

Here I come! Thiago declared in his mind, already anticipating what he would experience in the city or with the humans in general.

And only half an hour later, Thiago and Li Wei were standing in front of a huge city wall next to the entrance gate to the city.

Thiago would have to register first in order to gain access to the city, but that would only cost a small amount of money, and Li Wei would pay for him as he had no money, let alone human currency, on hand at the moment.

Looking at the city in front of him, Thiago could see....

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