"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired a Mustard Seed Space."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired a commercial building."
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired a Shadow Mask."
Mustard Seed Space: Can accommodate living beings, can grow.
Commercial Building: A 33-story commercial building in the center of Seoul.
Shadow Mask: From the 'Jackie Chan Adventures' world, can summon the Shadowkhan.
"Ding! Automatically placed in the system space. Please retrieve it yourself, Host."
"System, how can the Mustard Seed Space grow?" Lee Yeong checked the items he received from this sign-in. Without a doubt, the function of the Mustard Seed Space made Lee Yeong ecstatic. A space that can grow and accommodate living beings—this was practically a small world!
"Any treasure containing spiritual energy will do."
His consciousness entered the interior of the Mustard Seed Space. It was only fifty kilometers in diameter. Inside, there were mountains but no vegetation, rivers but no insects or fish. There was not a trace of life. Life needed to be introduced from the outside, or living beings would gradually appear as the space expanded, until a complete world was formed.
"If I remember correctly, the moon spirit tree at Hotel Del Luna is the core of the hotel. If I put it into the Mustard Seed Space..." Just as Lee Yeong was pondering whether it was feasible, Jang Man Wol finally returned.
"Who are you? What brings you to Hotel Del Luna?" As the owner of the Del luna Hotel, having lived for over a thousand years, she naturally saw that Lee Yeong was not an ordinary person who had stumbled into the hotel by mistake.
"My name is Lee Yeong. I'm here at the hotel, naturally, to stay." Lee Yeong wouldn't tell Jang Man Wol that he had his eyes on the moon spirit tree. "President Zhang wouldn't want to drive a guest away, would she?"
"You'd best tell me honestly, what is your purpose?" Having missed a guest today, Jang Man Wol was already furious. Encountering an uninvited fellow like Lee Yeong, she had no pleasant expression at all.
"I already said I'm here to stay. Don't you want to earn money?" Lee Yeong, however, seemed completely oblivious and teased her.
"Manager Lu, take him to a room, the most expensive one..." Perhaps it was for the sake of money, but Jang Man Wol didn't pursue the matter further and walked directly upstairs.
"Guest, please follow me. Your room is on the top floor."
"Manager Lu, how long do guests usually stay at the hotel before checking out?" Lee Yeong was a little curious, watching the guests coming and going in the lobby.
"Some guests stay for a few days and leave, while others have been living here for over a decade."
Upon arriving at his room, Lee Yeong looked at the space, which was different from reality. The room was more like another world, with pavilions, terraces, and towers, and the chirping of birds and insects, truly a fairyland on earth... In reality, the room's layout was formed according to the guest's inner thoughts. Although all were illusory, they could be genuinely felt.
Originally, Lee Yeong had wanted to find an opportunity to try and move the moon spirit tree into his Mustard Seed Space, but now he gave up. Not to mention what would happen to Del luna Hotel if the moon spirit tree disappeared, but the Magu God would definitely come to settle accounts with him. He didn't want to face a group of gods right now. Yes... a group, don't forget the Magu God has a total of 12 sisters.
However, this didn't prevent Lee Yeong from taking a branch. He wanted to try planting it in his world to see if it could survive and grow... But not now. The moon spirit tree had been like a dead tree for a thousand years; only branches that had bloomed with moon spirit flowers could be replanted.
In the following days, Lee Yeong bought a large number of green plants and birds and beasts, placing them all in the small world. Tree seeds were sown throughout every corner of the world, and he then used his spiritual power to make it rain. After that, they would have to multiply and thrive on their own...
During this time, Lee Yeong also took over the commercial building in Seoul. Because it was located in Seoul's commercial center, it could bring Lee Yeong tens of billions of Korean won in annual revenue. Since Lee Yeong didn't want too many people to know his identity, only the heads of the three major conglomerates renting there knew.
...
"President Jang, long time no see. You don't have to get so angry the moment you see me," Lee Yeong, who was drinking the fine wine prepared by Kim Seosang, flashed and dodged onto the sofa. "I only snatched one of your guests, is it necessary to hold such a grudge? Besides, you received the payment, didn't you!"
"You bastard, why aren't you blushing? Snatching my guest and still being so shameless..." Jang Man Wol was furious, wishing she could swallow the other person whole.
...
"What are these two doing? Ever since last time, they've either been arguing or fighting the moment they meet. By the way, Manager Choi, what happened to them?" Kim Yoona, who had just arrived at the hotel, looked at everyone puzzled.
"A few days ago, President Jang took Koo Chan-sung to help a guest fulfill their wish, but at the last moment, they were intercepted. That guest chose Mr. Li. Since then, the two of them have been like this. If Mr. Li hadn't been avoiding President Jang, who knows what kind of fight they would have gotten into..."
Manager Choi was speaking when he saw several people beside him looking dumbfounded. The two who had just been arguing were now talking and laughing.
In fact, ever since Lee Yeong and Jang Man Wol had a fight, they had already become friends. It was just that their way of greeting was a bit peculiar.
Jang Man Wol appeared cold, arrogant, and temperamental, but in reality, it was because she had experienced too many partings and could only hide her emotions in her heart.
Jang Man Wol had always trapped herself in resentment until she met Gu Canxing, and only then did she slowly free herself...
"Chan-sung, come here for a moment?" Although Jang Man Wol didn't understand why Lee Yeong said that, she still called Koo Chan-sung over.
"President, you called me?" Koo Chan-sung came to their side.
"It's not your President who called you, it's me who wants to ask you for a favor..."
Koo Chan-sung looked at Lee Yeong, then at Jang Man Wol, and only nodded in agreement after seeing Jang Man Wol nod. "What do you need me to do?"
"I need you to... break off a branch of the moon spirit tree for me," Lee Yeong said slowly.
"Why do you want a moon spirit tree branch? It's just a withered spirit tree. If you need it, can't you do it yourself? Why ask Chan-sung to go?" Jang Man Wol was stunned. She thought Lee Yeong was going to ask Koo Chan-sung for something important, but she didn't expect it was just to break off a branch.
"Let's go, we'll go to the moon spirit tree. You'll understand then. But you have to promise me, no matter what happens later, you must remain calm..."
Arriving at the moon spirit tree, it still looked withered, without a trace of life. Koo Chan-sung slowly reached out and grabbed the moon spirit tree. The moment Koo Chan-sung grabbed the branch, the previously withered moon spirit tree slowly bloomed with flowers, and the moon spirit tree regained its vitality...
Jang Man Wol looked at Lee Yeong with a shocked expression, then instantly stared at Koo Chan-sung, recalling what Koo Chan-sung had said these past few days, recalling what the Magu God had told her, "When the moon spirit tree blooms and withers again, your time will flow anew." She understood that none of this was accidental; Koo Chan-sung was the one destined to send her on her way...
Ignoring Lee Yeong and the others beside her, Jang Man Wol walked back to her room without looking back. She didn't know what kind of events Koo Chan-sung's arrival would bring, whether they would allow her to let go of a thousand years of resentment or how she would atone for her sins...