Chapter 344: Super Prodigy Fu Tianbo

"'Just passing by'?"

The woman in yellow looked completely puzzled, not understanding what Su Mo meant.

Su Mo smiled and explained, "It's just an expression for being on an errand. I'm just temporarily passing through, nothing special."

"Oh, I see!"

The woman in yellow came to a sudden realization. She studied Su Mo carefully and saw that he was indeed very young, not some old master pretending to be weak.

This shocked her even more.

'To be so young and able to crush a Tier Five Demon King's head with one hand... Su Mo must be a super genius from some major power.'

'And a Demon Level one at that.'

The woman in yellow said seriously, "Since you don't want us to call you senior, can we call you our benefactor? That should be acceptable, right?"

"Whatever you want."

Su Mo said indifferently, not bothering to argue over the matter.

'It's just a title. It doesn't matter what they call me.'

Just then, the two men recovered their strength. They staggered over and asked, "Senior Sister Luo, are you all right?"

"I'm fine!"

The woman in yellow said, "Don't just stand there like wooden posts! Hurry up and kowtow to our benefactor. If he hadn't intervened in time, we'd all be dead by now."

"Benefactor, please accept our respects!"

The two men knelt on the ground and respectfully kowtowed three times to Su Mo before getting back up.

Su Mo couldn't stop them and could only accept it with a sense of helplessness.

The woman in yellow introduced herself, "My name is Luo Yu. These two are my junior brothers, Liu Ming and Gao Qiang. We're from Huangfeng Valley."

"Huangfeng Valley?"

Su Mo looked blank.

Luo Yu asked, "Benefactor, you don't know of our Huangfeng Valley?"

"Never heard of it."

Su Mo shook his head.

Luo Yu's face fell with disappointment.

She had originally hoped to use her Sect's name to build some rapport with Su Mo, but he had never even heard of Huangfeng Valley.

Liu Ming grumbled, "Senior Sister, you think too highly of our Huangfeng Valley. Not everyone has heard of us."

Luo Yu gave a bitter smile.

Their Huangfeng Valley was indeed not large. The Valley Master was only at the Early Stage Martial Emperor Realm. They were relatively well-known locally, but if placed in the context of the entire Central Profound Domain, they were hardly famous at all.

'Especially for a Demon Level prodigy like Su Mo. His sights are set on major powers like the Purple Cloud Palace and Haoyue Sect, or even the various Sacred Lands. Why would he ever pay attention to our little Huangfeng Valley?'

Liu Ming asked curiously, "Benefactor, what power are you from?"

"Don't ask! It's no fun if you just ask!"

Gao Qiang stopped him. "Let me guess. A genius like our benefactor... By the way, Benefactor, what's your current Realm?"

"Martial Master Great Perfection."

Su Mo answered truthfully.

Gao Qiang chuckled. "Benefactor, you've got some nerve. You don't even blush when you lie. I may not be as strong as you, but I'm no fool. I can tell you're lying with a single glance."

"When did I lie to you?"

Su Mo was bewildered.

Gao Qiang said, "You can kill a Tier Five Demon King with one hand. That means your strength is at least at the Early Stage Martial King level, or maybe even above the Mid Stage Martial King."

Su Mo nodded. "You're right. My strength is indeed above the Mid Stage Martial King."

"Above the Mid Stage Martial King?"

Liu Ming asked curiously, "So, has your strength reached Martial King Great Perfection?"

"Well..."

Su Mo said evasively, "I suppose it has."

Liu Ming seemed to have thought of something and said excitedly, "Benefactor, I know who you are! You're Fu Tianbo!"

"Fu Tianbo? The super prodigy from Purple Cloud Palace?"

Gao Qiang stared intently at Su Mo.

However, Su Mo shook his head. "Sorry, I'm not Fu Tianbo."

"You're not?"

Gao Qiang and Liu Ming looked astonished.

In the entire Central Profound Domain, aside from the super prodigies from the Sacred Lands, only Fu Tianbo had reached the Martial King Great Perfection Realm.

'If he's not Fu Tianbo, could he be a prodigy from one of the Sacred Lands?'

"I'm a Loose Cultivator."

Su Mo replied.

"What?"

The two of them stared at Su Mo in disbelief, clearly not expecting him to be a Loose Cultivator.

In truth, Su Mo wasn't lying.

Wandering the Central Profound Domain alone, he did indeed resemble a Loose Cultivator without any backing from a larger power.

After all, his people were all in the Northern Profound Domain.

Luo Yu asked curiously, "Benefactor, could you tell us your esteemed name?"

"Xiao Mo."

Su Mo said, "From now on, let's just address each other as brothers and sister. Calling me 'Benefactor' all the time feels too distant."

'It would be one thing if it was just Luo Yu calling me that.'

'But having Liu Ming and Gao Qiang call me Benefactor too... I really can't get used to it. It's even more uncomfortable than being called senior.'

"Alright, we'll call you Brother Xiao then."

Luo Yu asked, "Brother Xiao, are you here to train in Emperor Heaven Valley?"

"You are too?"

Su Mo asked.

Luo Yu nodded. "We do want to go to Emperor Heaven Valley, but we don't have the Spirit Stones to buy the entrance tickets."

"Emperor Heaven Valley sells tickets?"

Su Mo asked in surprise.

Luo Yu explained, "Normally, you can't. But this time, the Purple Cloud Palace opened Emperor Heaven Valley ahead of schedule. It was a huge expense, so they came up with the idea of selling tickets. As long as you pay the Spirit Stones, you can get in."

"Emperor Heaven Valley only opens once every hundred years. If we miss this chance, we might never be able to enter it in our entire lives."

Su Mo was speechless. "So you came here to hunt Demon Beasts and gather Spiritual Medicine, and nearly got killed by a Demon Leopard?"

"That's right."

Luo Yu continued, "Originally, we weren't planning on hunting Demon Beasts. We just wanted to gather Spiritual Medicine, but we accidentally ran into that Demon Leopard and it started chasing us. If it weren't for you, Brother Xiao..."

"So, have you gathered enough Spirit Stones?"

Su Mo asked.

Luo Yu shook her head. "A ticket to enter Emperor Heaven Valley costs twenty Middle-Grade Spirit Stones. The three of us pooled everything we have, and we only managed to gather enough for one person. As for the rest..."

Calculated at a rate of one Middle-Grade Spirit Stone to one million Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, twenty stones would be two hundred million Lower-Grade Spirit Stones.

For three people, that's a total of six hundred million.

As they were only Martial Monarchs, it was indeed very difficult for them to gather that much.

Luo Yu's tone shifted. "However, we did find a few rare, thousand-year-old Spiritual Medicines. If we can harvest them, we might be able to gather enough for two more spots."

"Spiritual Medicine?"

Su Mo pondered for a moment. "Alright. In for a penny, in for a pound. I'll take you to harvest the Spiritual Medicine."

"Do you really mean it?"

Luo Yu asked, pleasantly surprised.

Su Mo nodded. "I do. As for whether you can gather enough for the tickets in the end, that will depend on your own fortune."

He was carrying far more than six hundred million Spirit Stones.

However, he had no intention of just giving them to Luo Yu, Liu Ming, and the others.

'Saving someone and not only getting nothing in return, but also having to give them Spirit Stones? Only an idiot would do something that stupid.'

"Let's go!"

The group headed in the direction of the Spiritual Medicine.

On the way, Su Mo asked curiously, "By the way, who is this Fu Tianbo you mentioned earlier?"

"You don't even know who Fu Tianbo is?"

Luo Yu stared at Su Mo, her face a mask of astonishment.

Su Mo shook his head. "Is he very strong?"