Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Help the desperate but not the poor.
Given the weather and temperature, the plum blossom branches were only going to be sold for another week.
These 5,000 plum blossom branches cost about 70,005 Federation dollars.
Lin Yuan hoped that the 70,005 Federation dollars would help this whelp of a boy.
The young boy’s eyes that the struggles of life had blurred lit up when he received the money.
His cracked lips split into a smile as he exclaimed, “My brother will finally be able to drink medicine every two days!”
Lin Yuan had heard the young boy mention that he had an older brother that soaked the plum blossom branches in ice water.
Lin Yuan was also an older brother, and he wondered how another older brother would be willing to allow his younger brother to sell plum blossom branches by the street.
But he did not expect that the young boy was selling the plum blossom branches so that his older brother could seek medical help.
The young boy skipped off into an alley with the money in hand and an empty basket.
The gruff man had been observing Lin Yuan and could tell from Lin Yuan’s elegant silver embroidered spirit qi clothes and gold embossed tissue that Lin Yuan had a decently high status.
However, the gruff man could not tell just how high Lin Yuan’s status was.
The gruff man had spent his entire life selling spiritual ingredients on Tree Stream Street and had met many sons from rich families. Many of them came from rising factions.
But Lin Yuan gave the gruff man a completely different feeling than those rich sons did.
His eliteness was laced with composed elegance, and every curl of his lips made him seem amiable.
When he saw Lin Yuan watch the young boy’s disappearing figure, the gruff man said, “Ah Yu’s older brother contracted a strange illness last summer, and their parents were killed by Forest Scary Wolves while digging for vegetables two years ago in the Endless Forest. If their parents knew that they were going to die in the Endless Forest, they wouldn’t have adopted the two kids. Ah Lun cannot be exposed to sunlight after contracting that strange illness. Ah Yu is the one keeping them both alive, but their small fey store will probably have to close soon.”
The gruff man realized that the elite young man had left some time ago.
Lin Yuan walked into the alley that the young boy had gone into.
Tree Stream Street was an old street, and many alleys had been there for years. There were one-room houses in these old alleys that had both a front and back yard.
Currently, there was a store in front of each of the houses.
The houses were just like stores that were tightly squeezed side by side and were abuzz with activity.
The moment he stepped into the alley, Lin Yuan saw a few large steamers in the front yard of a small house.
The steam rising from the steamers had the fragrance of the Black Back Mountain Boar meat. The scent made Lin Yuan’s stomach rumble, and he immediately walked up to buy some.
But he suddenly remembered that he was going to have lunch with Tian Ningning at the Spirit Food Pavilion soon and decided not to buy the Black Back Mountain Boar meat.
It was not easy to walk in the alley. If one started to run, one would definitely end up kicking a whirlwind of dust.
However, walking on such a path gave Lin Yuan a nostalgic feeling.
He was shocked when he took out Federation dollars from the amber-button-shaped Diamond fey storage box.
It had been a long time since he used Federation dollars to pay for anything.
After spending so much time in the stunning Return from Faraway Mansion, walking in the old alley made him feel as though he had descended to the human world from the celestial world.
The clanging noises and smoke made Lin Yuan realize that the intangible things were the freest.
Suddenly, his spiritual energy pulsed, and a shapeshifting Willpower Rune appeared in Lin Yuan’s mind.
Lin Yuan could not believe that he had accidentally comprehended another Willpower Rune. He now had two Willpower Runes that he had not used yet. The other was the one he had comprehended while in the midst of carnage.
The Willpower Rune he had comprehended while in the midst of carnage had been the first one he comprehended, and it had been collecting dust in his mind for a long time.
This other willpower did not have a solid shape and was overflowing with freedom.
Lin Yuan did not have a clue what feys were suitable for these two Willpower Runes.
As a spirit qi professional, he could not contract a random fey just for the sake of using the Willpower Rune.
Every fey that he contracted had to be able to fit in with his combat system perfectly.
He felt that he needed to spend some time to properly evaluate what kind of fey was still missing from his combat system.
As he regained his senses from comprehending the Willpower Rune, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered what the gruff man had told him.
Ah Yu reminded Lin Yuan of himself.
Lin Yuan was already feeling empathetic, but he did not expect Ah Yu and his brother to be in the exact situation that Lin Yuan and Chu Ci had been in.
Both sets of siblings were orphans where the older brother was sick and opened a small fey store.
The difference was that Lin Yuan and Chu Ci were their parents’ biological children while the brothers were adopted.
Lin Yuan found it hard to believe that such different people would be in such similar situations.
At the same time, he was also suspicious.
The gruff man had said that a strange illness had blinded Ah Yu’s brother. What an odd disease!
In the Spirit Qi Awakening era, normal people who could not become spirit qi professionals were seen as pathetic yet lucky.
The people in the era of the Spirit Qi Awakening allowed normal people to absorb spirit qi and consume spiritual ingredients that contained spiritual power.
As long as one did not contract a serious illness, it was difficult for a person to die.
During the Spirit Qi Awakening era, many strange illnesses had also been eradicated.
