CHAPTER 346: WAGER

"Ayuan, let’s go." Shen Xu urged, pulling Zhen Yuan out of the bamboo hut.

A moment later, they appeared in the peach garden.

"Can we finally go out?" Yang Shi impatiently asked.

He had been waiting for four days and had long been dying to know what kind of isolated place they had entered.

"Who is interested in a wager?" The double suddenly asked, looking at everyone with excited eyes.

"What kind of wager?" Feng Xue asked.

"Why don’t we guess what we will find?"

Yang Shi rolled his eyes when he heard this.

"Master, didn’t you already see when you first entered the formation?" He asked, but Shen Xu shook his head.

"I was exhausted, and my head was hurting. I didn’t see anything." The double said and turned to Zhen Yuan.

"Ayuan, did you see?" He asked.

"I saw." Zhen Yuan nodded with a mischievous smile.

"In that case, you should stay out of the bet. The rest of us will stake our lives and livelihoods."

"Is it so serious?" Li Wenqiang asked, but then again, he had experience with death and wasn’t too worried about staking his life.

Thinking of this, he nodded with a determined expression.

"I agree to the bet." He said.

"Our lives and livelihoods are inextricably entangled. Is there a point to this bet?" Feng Xue asked in a helpless voice.

After all, they always advanced and retreated together.

"You are right...." Shen Xu muttered with a thoughtful expression.

"Why don’t we bet on status?" He continued.

"What do you mean?" Yang Shi asked, and the others also looked confused.

"Whoever loses will be the fall person until we ascend to the immortal realm." Shen Xu said and quickly continued.

"If we are caught in a compromising situation, we will place the blame on that person. If we encounter a weird dish that looks good but smells bad, that person will step up to test it for everyone. If we are punished for one reason or another, that person will take the punishment on behalf of everyone else..."

Everyone was shocked when they heard Shen Xu’s explanation.

A moment later, Yang Shi swallowed and narrowed his eyes.

"Master, tell me the truth..., are you planning to go wild in the Tianxuan continent? Do you already have a list of messy things you want to do when we get there?"

After saying that, Yang Shi stared at Shen Xu with suspicious eyes.

"Do you already know what we will find outside? Is that why you are confident you won’t be the fall person?"

"I have always had good luck. Isn’t it natural that I will guess correctly?" The double declared in a reckless voice.

"What if you guess wrong? What if we all guess incorrectly?" Feng Xue, always the voice of reason, asked.

"We will forget the bet if we all guess wrong."

"What if more than one person guesses wrong?"

"They will take turns being the fall person."

Seeing that her master could not be dissuaded, Feng Xue sighed and agreed to the wager.

"I will go first." Yang Shi said with a thoughtful expression.

Soon after, he smiled and spoke.

"An herb garden." He said.

Although he wasn’t certain, he was relatively sure.

After all, they had encountered many such places, and from previous experience, he suspected this place would likely be the same.

However, Feng Xue disagreed, and she shook her head before speaking.

"I suspect it has something to do with formations. Maybe a formations inheritance place." She said.

Feng Xue once read an ancient text, and from this book, she learned that ancient formation masters often used the five elements formation to train and test their disciples.

Considering that the things in the forbidden zone were remnants of an ancient era, Feng Xue guessed that the five elements formation was such a test.

"What about you?" Shen Xu asked, looking at Li Wenqiang with curious eyes.

"I..." Li Wenqiang started, frowned, and continued.

"I think it’s a retreat for a powerful cultivator." The man said for lack of a better guess.

"An herb garden, a formations inheritance, a retreat, ..., not bad, but I think you are all wrong." The double said.

"Master, why are you so confident? Did you really not see anything?" Yang Shi asked, and Shen Xu shook his head.

He truly did not see anything.

However, after he and Zhen Yuan entered the formation, he felt a powerful rush of pure qi. Inferring from that, he guessed the formation was protecting and isolating a spirit stone mine.

"I think it’s a spirit stone mine." He said.

"Spirit stones? We have so many spirit stones, do we still need more?" Yang Shi asked in a disinterested voice.

"What an arrogant tone?!" Shen Xu sneered.

Although they had countless spirit stones, the double would never disdain more.

After all, excluding Zhen Yuan and Li Wenqiang, everyone in their group was a guzzler. Most importantly, they had a space that was always eager to consume his spirit stones.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu turned to Zhen Yuan.

"Ayuan, am I right or are they right?" He asked, but Zhen Yuan chuckled while rubbing the double’s hair.

"You will know when we go outside." He said.

At the same time, he waved his hand and took everyone out of the space.

Ten breaths later, Yang Shi laughed with a proud expression.

"I was right." He said, but Shen Xu sneered.

"Are you stupid? This is not an herb garden." The double argued.

"There is only a small difference between herbs and other crops." The python refused to back down, but Shen Xu was not convinced.

"Can spirit grasses be used to cook food?" He asked, and Yang Shi nodded.

"What about vegetables? Can they be used to refine pills..."

"This..., some vegetables...,"

"A crop farm is not an herb garden." Shen Xu concluded and refused to admit Yang Shi’s ’almost’ answer.

After that, the five began looking around.

The five elements formation encompassed a one-thousand-acre farm.

At a glance, the farm had all kinds of crops, including vegetables, grains, flowers, herbs, fruit trees, and more.

"Ayuan, look, ..., that’s a pink-cap mushroom. It will taste delicious when cooked with the three-colour earth chicken." The double exclaimed and pulled Zhen Yuan to look at the mushroom.

However, on their way, the double was distracted and stopped with an excited expression.

"These are hellfire red peppers. They are the hottest peppers listed in the food ingredients compendium."

"...and those are white silk potatoes. They are creamy and perfect for making mashed potatoes."

"Ayuan, don’t you love my five-flavour dumplings? The dumplings made from golden wheat flour will taste several times better than usual."

In this way, Shen Xu pointed and explained countless ingredients, getting more excited with every one that he saw.

"Purple rice..., there is even purple rice." He happily jumped and rushed to touch the rice ears.

However, he soon calmed down and frowned.

"Why is there purple rice in the cultivation world?" He asked in a confused voice.

Whether on the Canglan, Tianqi, or Tianxuan continents, the highest grade of rice was black. Even the long-grain herb rice they ate in the Martial Tower City was a variation of a high-level black rice.

From what Shen Xu knew, purple rice was not even available in the immortal realm, let alone the cultivation world.

"There is so much purple rice..., how is this possible?" Feng Xue was also confused.

She knew about purple rice from her inherited memory.

However, purple rice was a rare treasure that only grew in the God realm.

"I am sure we are not seeing an illusion." Shen Xu said, recalling the illusion they encountered in the Yunshan secret realm.

"It’s not just the purple rice." Yang Shi said, looking around.

"There are so many ingredients that shouldn’t be here. Some have long been extinct, and others are impossible to appear in the cultivation world." He said.

"Look at the age of the ingredients." Zhen Yuan suddenly said, and everyone shifted their attention to this matter.

A moment later, Shen Xu gasped, and the others also looked surprised.

"The youngest is ten thousand years old." The double muttered, and Zhen Yuan nodded with a thoughtful expression.

It wasn’t strange to encounter a ten-thousand-year-old crop, but to encounter so many and in the same place?

This was impossible!

Most importantly, the aura in the Tianqi continent and the forbidden zone was not enough to support the growth of so many high-level plants.

"There is something wrong here." Feng Xue said and subconsciously frowned.

"Does anyone sense danger?" Li Wenqiang asked, but everyone shook their head.

"The only danger is the five elements formation." Yang Shi said.

That said, the five didn’t let down their guard and began looking around.

However, they didn’t find anything strange except the uncommonly thriving farm and the overly old crops.

"Let’s try to transplant them to the space." Shen Xu suggested with a determined expression.

After all, he was a spiritual chef, and he couldn’t pass up so many precious ingredients.