I Can Extract Everything

After thinking for a moment, he assumed that perhaps the villagers didn't know that even though their Spiritual God was a hundred years old, it was mentally the same age as these children and even younger.

"Grandpa Tree, pick us up quickly!"

One of the children cheerfully asked Willow Tree.

Soon, Willow Tree stretched out some of its thin, elastic branches and tied them to the children's waists.

"Ah..."

"I'm flying~ Hahaha."

"Grandpa Tree spin me!"

"I want higher, higher!"

"Hey, don't include me!"

"Ahh, my pants are stuck at a branch, my buttocks showing! Put me down, huaa..."

Witnessing this exuberant atmosphere, Qin Yi couldn't help but be surprised by the familiarity of the village children with their Spiritual God.

Willow Tree looks very happy to play with them. Could it be because it's still young too?

Seeing these innocent children playing upside-down in the air made Qin Yi come up with a brilliant idea.

Wu Kun said that the people in this village were very tight-lipped but he was probably talking about the adults.

Has he ever asked from the children?

With the character that he showed yesterday, the answer is probably not.

In the first place, did he even take this mission seriously?

From what he heard from Li Hai, one of the guards from the Guardian Temple accidentally discovered this nameless mountain while on his way back to the Guardian Temple.

After Li Hai got this report, he didn't react much and even reported this discovery to the sect.

This nameless mountain is just an ordinary mountain that can be found anywhere. Even if a Magical Beast lived there, it could only grow as a Rank 1 Magical Beast.

If they wanted to advance to a Rank 2 Magical Beast, they're needed to change places as the spiritual energy in the nameless mountain was very thin and couldn't help their cultivation too much.

Therefore, Li Hai did not take this nameless mountain too seriously. If it weren't for the Blind Old Man living here, perhaps he wouldn't have had the chance to set foot on this mountain.

In this matter, he only sent one guard from the Guardian Temple, which was Wu Kun.

However, he did not expect that this guard he had sent was incompetent. Even though it's been a month, Wu Kun still hasn't gotten the full investigation results.

Therefore, he added Qin Yi as an additional worker to help with Wu Kun's investigation.

Unfortunately, Qin Yi had no intention of cooperating with Wu Kun.

From what he witnessed yesterday, he could judge that Wu Kun was a very complacent person and did not listen to other people's suggestions. Let alone if the person who gives suggestions to him is much weaker than himself.

Although it was still too early to judge, the assumption was probably not wrong.

Therefore, Qin Yi decided to do this alone.

Besides, he had just come up with a good idea to start his investigation.

In his opinion, perhaps he could take advantage of the children's innocence to obtain information about the Ritual. Although they might also not know about the Ritual, at least Qin Yi could get a slight clue from them.

He has a lot of experience with children; after all, he is also used to living with children in the orphanage and taking care of them every day.

First of all, he needed to get closer to them.

When he managed to do that, he could start to cheat some clues about the Ritual out of their mouths.

Although it's a little shameless, he'll do anything to complete his mission, even if he has to trick the children.

Fufufu... What a good strategy!

Qin Yi chuckled softly but evilly under his black hood.

***

Qin Yi did not immediately carry out his plan as over the past ten days, all he did was make observations.

He could freely enter and leave the village without anyone knowing; even Wu Kun, who had a cultivation base far superior to him, was unaware of Qin Yi's existence.

The only creature that knows of its existence is the Willow Tree. But luckily, it's silly and speechless.

Therefore, it cannot tell anyone that it turns out that someone is lurking around the village watching their daily lives.

Qin Yi prioritized his observations over the children who often went out to play with the Willow Tree.

He follows them wherever they go, observing their character, likes and dislikes, even their daily schedule.

"..."

Err... this sounds so wrong.

Anyway, after ten days of observing, he finally decided to start executing his plan.

First and foremost, in order to be close to the children, he needed to pretend to be someone belonging to this village.

No matter how innocent they are, they would get startled and wary toward the sudden appearance of a suspicious person like Qin Yi.

Moreover, the children in this village are not ordinary children as they have been trained from an early age.

Having experienced frequent village invasions by other villages, they probably realized how dangerous it would be if an unknown person suddenly appeared in their village.

Qin Yi didn't want to frighten them, so he naturally had to use clever methods to approach them.

However, to do that method, he needed to talk to Willow Tree first.

Shortly after, he arrived at the place of the Willow Tree.

Willow Tree was immediately overjoyed after seeing Qin Yi's figure.

Qin Yi has spoiled this big fellow over the past ten days. It has been watered with magical water that contained a lot of pure [Spiritual Energy].

Thanks to that, it already considered Qin Yi as its caretaker, even its Daddy.

"Big fellow, do you want me to keep pouring this water again?"

Qin Yi asked as he showed his two bottles of miraculous water to it.

Willow Tree wiggled its branches as if to reply, 'Want, I want it, Daddy~.'

"Then, may I ask you something? If you can do that, I will add two more bottles of water every day?"

Qin Yi smiled as he took out two more bottles from his storage bag.

Even though Willow Tree didn't know what its Daddy wanted, he still agreed to it without hesitation.

"Good fellow! Then let's do this..."

An hour later, children began to appear in groups.

In this village, only children were allowed to get close to the Willow Tree. Therefore, no adults would watch them during this period.

"Grandpa Tree, Grandpa Tree..."

"Let's play!"

As usual, they started chirping as soon as they saw Willow Tree.

However, when they saw Qin Yi, they immediately made various expressions. The eldest was surprised and wary at the same time, and the youngest could only suck his fingers in the puzzle and curiosity.

"Who are you?"

Amid the silence, one of the children suddenly opened his mouth.

His name was Mu Chen, a ten-year-old boy. He is the eldest among the children.

"Ohoho, how come you don't know this grandpa? You just played with grandpa yesterday. It's so sad that you don't know grandpa anymore..."

Mu Chen stared at the old man with doubt and asked back.

"Have we ever play with you?"

"Don't talk nonsense, old gramps, we never play with old strangers!"

This time, it was the tomboy girl who talked. She is Mu Tao, the second oldest among the children.

"Ah, grandpa is sad. I thought that you all wanna play with grandpa again today..."

"Grandpa Tree...play."

"Mu Mu, stay away from him!"

Among the children, the most innocent one is the youngest one, Mu Mu. He is just five years old.

Mu Mu happily walked over to the grandpa while extending his two short arms, hoping that Grandpa Tree would catch him with his branch as usual.

The fake Grandpa Tree was, of course, familiar with this scene.

Thus, he raised his right hand. In the next second, a branch appeared and grew lengthwise from his sleeve.

The branch then gently tied up Mu Mu's tiny body and lifted him into the air.

"Fly...fly..."

Mu Mu laughed cheerfully at him up in the air.

Meanwhile, the rest of the children were shocked and couldn't help but suspect that this old gramps was really Grandpa Tree.. After all, only Grandpa Tree could do this.