Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 253 - Medium-Grade Spiritual Vein Root Obtained

Yaomu Shou took the initiative to answer, “You’ll need to negotiate with it.”

“Come again?”

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I’m sure I misheard that. She didn’t say I should negotiate with this thing, did she? Is this thing even alive?

“Spiritual vein roots only live in the most auspicious places. That’s why experts build their sects, schools and clans on auspicious grounds,” explained Yaomu Shou.

“That doesn’t sound like a negotiation,” I told her. “That sounds like a non-consensual hijacking.”

“I’m getting there,” she replied. “So because they live in auspicious places and you don’t want to force it lest you risk damaging it. You need to convince it that where you want to take it to is better than where it is now.”

“So it’s alive?” I was still confused on that.

Yaomu Shou’s mouth curled up into a smile before she answered, “Yes and no. Alive in the sense that they move in tandem with the rhythm of the heavenly daos, but they don’t possess any intelligence. They make up the foundation of many things in this world but they are a kind of contradiction in and of themselves. They’re bursting with spirituality, but have no life to speak of.”

I listened to Yaomu Shou’s full explanation. Basically, I had to persuade this spiritual vein root to come with me.

It had to be introduced to a place that was worthy of a medium-grade spiritual vein root.

I wondered at what point did I go wrong in my life that I had to sell/pimp myself out to a spiritual vein root? Then again, maybe seducing a non-intelligent, genderless, sugar daddy isn’t all that bad.

Based on what Yaomu Shou told me, what a regular spiritual vein root was satisfied with wouldn’t be the same for a medium-grade spiritual vein root.

Sects that wanted to take on a medium-grade spiritual vein root would need to spend copious amounts of wealth to better prepare their grounds for its dwelling.

Of course, the returns would definitely be worth it.

“That’s not negotiating. That’s bribery, and a barefaced one at that.”

Yaomu Shou shrugged. “Call it whatever you want. Now you can fight it if you wan

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