Chapter 27: "Missing Person" Ad

  One hundred million!

  Unexpectedly, the trail of Zuo Xiaoyao, the long-lost biological daughter of the younger brother of the chairman of Hongxin Group, was so valuable. Thinking about her own thin wallet, Zuo Xiaoyao smiled wryly in her heart. Although she wanted to ask if the reward would be valid if she turned herself in, her rationality made her walk past the newsstand with a calm expression, and no one could tell that she was the target of the huge reward "shining with gold light".

  The more out of control the situation became, the calmer she got. This was a conditioned reflex that Zuo Xiao Yao had developed after facing many unexpected situations over the years, and it was very useful, having helped her get through numerous difficult times!

  In this modern era where information spreads extremely quickly, even if you've already disguised yourself, in a situation where you're tempted by personal gain and the people around you have been mobilized, the longer you stay in crowded areas, the more likely you are to be exposed. Especially when the other side has fabricated a story that is so touching it can make countless people not only admire the great kindness of Chairman Wang Quanren's assistance in finding his younger brother's daughter with a large sum of money, but also pay closer attention to the search for the person.

  Hongxin Group! Two Wang Families!

  After finishing reading the newspaper she had bought on purpose, Zuo Xiao Yao suppressed the anger in her eyes and boarded the long-distance bus to Songbai Town. She casually covered her face with the newspaper, closed her eyes as if sleeping, while at the same time, the voices of fellow passengers came from beside her ear.

  "...This Zuo Xiaoyao is really lucky, having a rich uncle like that. As long as she acknowledges him as her father, she'll instantly become a wealthy heiress, Haixin!"

  "Yes, yes! How come such a good thing doesn't happen to me?! But whoever finds this woman will become an instant millionaire, 10 million!"

  "I really can't understand if this woman has a problem with her brain, she's been on the newspaper and TV every day, she must be able to see it too, it's almost two months now, why hasn't she appeared yet..."

  "I heard that someone has put aside their proper business and is only looking for this woman, one hundred million ah, if anyone can find her, it's a bargain..."

  Because she had been covering her head with a newspaper and pretending to sleep in the car, no one around her noticed anything unusual on the way. She arrived at Shennongjia where Songbai Town is located, and then bought another batch of dry food and seasonings from the supermarket. After that, Zuo Xiaoyao touched her wallet again and found that it had shrunk significantly, which was quite painful. However, circumstances were stronger than people, and she couldn't do anything about it. She had to resort to this inferior strategy. Anyway, a gentleman takes revenge ten years later, but since she is just a little woman, let's say twenty years. If not, then thirty years, forty years, or fifty years. With the reversed heavenly fate of the Purple Yuan boundary, even if only based on the current 20:1 time difference with reality, who dares to compete with her in terms of cultivation time?

  Didn't plan to visit the scenic spots within the Shennongjia administrative area, specially prepared a set of cooking utensils such as pots and pans, had already made up her mind to cultivate herself in this large mountain with relatively well-preserved ecology. Zuo Xiaoyao entered the mountain from a rugged ridge, once again starting a life that could be said to be isolated from the world, just like two years ago.

  This time, after understanding the external situation, she also knew that her hidden opponent had no other way to do so except to use high-rewarded human flesh search tactics, and her heart was much more settled.

  Over the past twenty years, Zuo Xiao Yao has been taught many lessons through her life experiences. The most important one is that when your own strength is not enough to pay for your impulsiveness, you must learn to "endure"!

  Only those who can endure what others cannot will be the last to laugh. This is a great university question. A strong country, strong people, and strong relatives and friends are not as good as self-strengthening. Don't expect to become the strongest, but at least strive to become stronger than your opponents, strong enough to protect yourself!

  She alone ventured into the Shennongjia, which had always been quite mysterious in her heart. Zuo Xiaoyao had her own plans. This mountain range, listed as a forest park and natural reserve, was rich in products and covered an area of over 3,000 square kilometers. The mountains were high and steep, and it was a place where people rarely set foot. Apart from possibly encountering ordinary people who came to explore or investigate, there was also the possibility of meeting fellow cultivators.

  The former was the most likely to encounter, but she didn't put too much emphasis on it. If she really encountered it, she would just avoid it at that time. The latter was her real goal, just like learning and research. Relying solely on herself to achieve success was ultimately limited. As her cultivation improved, Zuo Xiaoyao felt that the problems she encountered became more difficult. Previously, because of the enemy's darkness and her own brightness, she didn't dare to think about how to find fellow travelers in the Xuanhuan world.

  Now, after the position swap, although she still doesn't know her opponent's identity and appearance, she has successfully escaped their surveillance and grasped the initiative. From the content of that wanted poster, which was quite troublesome to compile, Zuo Xiao Yao had already determined that the Zuo family owning a mysterious treasure was not publicly known in the circle of cultivators; otherwise, they wouldn't have just posted that 'missing person' ad to find her!

  So, for the current Zuo Xiaoyao, as long as she can disguise her appearance well and smoothly connect with other cultivators, successfully entering that mysterious circle that is ordinary people and now her, and knowing more about cultivation-related knowledge, even if it takes some risk, it's worth it. After all, in life, to get something, you have to pay a price, living too comfortably or escaping can't achieve anything, this fact has long been recognized in her heart!

  Along the way, she would occasionally stop to collect her second goal of coming to Shennongjia for a retreat - medicinal herbs. Putting aside the trivial matters that had been bothering her, Zuo Xiaoyao's face once again broke out into a joyful smile. For someone who was now so poor that they were down to their last penny and couldn't afford to buy any more medicinal herbs, being able to pick some for free in these mountains was truly something worth being happy about.

  No need to install medicine, as long as she moves her mind, the collected medicinal materials will be taken into the purple boundary space. This is another gain discovered by Zuo Xiaoyao after self-cultivation and promotion to the fusion stage.

  Although she currently knows that there are four kinds of elixirs suitable for the fusion stage, namely the second-grade Rongyuan Dan, Huayuan Dan, Zhuli Dan and Qingchen Dan, but because the medicinal materials required for these four elixirs are all nearly ten varieties, and they are relatively precious, only occasionally encountering one or two plants, not enough to match, but encountered a lot of medicinal materials for refining Yiqi San and Jingchen Dan, as well as some other medicinal materials recognized or unrecognized by Zuo Xiaoyao.

  Even with limited ability to identify medicinal materials, Zuo Xiaoyao could still intuitively distinguish which ones might be useful to her, even if they looked very similar to ordinary plants. This intuition was different from the kind she had when identifying antiques in the market, where she could vaguely sense which items were older. The intuition she possessed for distinguishing between plants was a nearly conditioned reflex-like instinct, extremely keen!

  But thinking of the 'Grass and Wood Spirit Power' mentioned by the purple-robed woman, Zuo Xiao Yao didn't plan to delve deeper into why she possessed this ability, but instead became even more confident in her intuition. Between the Purple Bamboo Forest and the mansion was a fairly large open space, which had already been converted into a garden by Zuo Xiao Yao during her spare time while hiding in the mountain cave for secluded cultivation.

  Because the soil in the Ziyuan boundary is very soft, this project is not difficult. I originally wanted to use it to grow some melons, fruits and vegetables to try out the growth rate of plants growing here. After all, the flowers and grasses in the front yard have been blooming, but she has no access to the medicinal garden in the backyard, and the purple bamboo forest is always the same. At least now she can't see any changes. Zuo Xiaoyao must not have figured out this problem yet. Unfortunately, this plan was not implemented, and this piece of land is now used to plant these temporarily unused medicinal materials.

  PS: Thanks for the support from Dizzy Girl. These days, family matters are complicated and my mood is heavy, so I'll just update once today. If I can update twice, there will be a notice, please forgive me!