Luo Fan stopped immediately when he heard that.
He turned and looked at King Xiren with some curiosity.
Grandor smiled as he spoke.
"This is a good thing. Xiren actually exchanged one of his Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit trees for it."
Luo Fan froze when he heard that.
He had noticed before that there was a large pit next to the four Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit trees in the courtyard.
It was obvious something had once been there.
But now there was only the empty pit.
He had not expected that King Xiren had traded it away to get something to give him.
One Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit tree was worth a lot.
Most importantly, it was like a money-printing machine: every ten thousand epochs it could produce 108 Blue Abyss Spirit Fruits.
Those Blue Abyss Spirit Fruits were very valuable.
Although they were of little use to King Xiren personally, selling them could still fetch 100,000 mixed units.
And that income came every ten thousand epochs.
For an Immortal, ten thousand epochs was not short, but receiving 100,000 mixed units every ten thousand epochs was still very good.
Such a tree was worth at least tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of mixed units.
Yet King Xiren had traded it away to obtain what he needed.
King Xiren glanced at Grandor and said lightly, "Don't listen to him."
"This Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit tree is of no real use to me."
"I keep Blue Abyss Spirit Fruits to entertain guests."
"If I managed to trade for this thing, you should thank that old fellow."
"Without him, even with the tree I couldn't have gotten this."
"He used a favor to get it."
Luo Fan felt very conflicted.
He had not expected his two teachers to sacrifice so much for him.
One Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit tree already had tremendous value.
And yet it still wasn't enough, Grandor had to put up a favor as well.
After all, favors are the hardest debts to repay.
A favor from a peak King-ranked, five-star potion master was extremely valuable.
Who could think anyone could easily owe Grandor such a favor?
Seeing Luo Fan's complicated expression, King Xiren waved his hand.
"All right, don't make that face."
"You're our disciple. Giving you something good is natural."
"If you want to repay us, then become stronger."
"Maybe in the future these two old men can ride on your coattails, hehe."
With that, King Xiren took a head-sized fruit from his world ring.
"This thing is called a Red Feather Fruit."
"It grows in the birthplace of a Fire Beast God… well, in the place where a great being was born."
"This fruit can raise your genetic level by another fivefold!"
Luo Fan was shocked.
A fruit that raises genetic level!
He refused without hesitation.
"No, teachers, I can't take this!"
"A fruit that raises genetic level is also very important to you."
"If you use it, Teacher, you could become an invincible King-ranked expert."
He knew that a fruit that increases genetic level could tempt even Venerables.
And this one increased by fivefold, that was significant.
Even King Xiren's genetic level was only fourfold that of ordinary people.
King Xiren shook his head and said, "All right, listen to me."
"This Red Feather Fruit can indeed increase genetic level by fivefold."
"But it has restrictions."
"First, it can only be used by beings below the Immortal rank."
"Second, it can only be used by flesh-and-blood lifeforms."
"Finally, this fruit is useless for beings with a hundredfold genetic level or above."
Only then did Luo Fan understand why King Xiren would not use it himself.
Then he realized something else.
If this Red Feather Fruit had worked on King Xiren, it could not have been obtained by trading a Blue Abyss Spirit Fruit tree.
Not even Grandor's favor could have secured it.
Still, even with all those restrictions, the Red Feather Fruit was extremely valuable.
Even if King Xiren had traded it for treasures that restored divine force, he could have gained a lot.
He could have exchanged it for things useful to himself.
Yet he intended to give the Red Feather Fruit to Luo Fan.
Thinking of that, Luo Fan felt a warmth in his heart.
"All right, take it and consume it here with us watching."
"We happen to be here to keep an eye on you."
Luo Fan hesitated, then reached out to take the Red Feather Fruit.
He silently vowed to repay his two teachers properly in the future.
But before that, he would first exploit the system's rewards a little.
[Quest: Obtain a Red Feather Fruit. Reward: Life Origin Fruit ×10, Life Origin Spirit Fruit ×3]
[Quest: Genetic level raised to fifteenfold. Reward: Primary Divine Power Path Talent +5]
When Luo Fan saw the rewards he was thrilled.
He had eaten a Life Origin Fruit before.
At that time he had encountered the unlucky Immortal world fragment in a spatial interlayer.
Through the task to obtain the unlucky Immortal's legacy, he had gotten a Life Origin Fruit.
The Life Origin Fruit's effect was simple: it could raise a being's genetic level to tenfold.
However, it could only raise up to tenfold.
In other words, beyond tenfold the Life Origin Fruit was useless.
From that perspective, the Red Feather Fruit was rarer.
After all, the Red Feather Fruit could raise beings below one hundredfold genetics by fivefold.
But the Red Feather Fruit could only be used by beings below Undying.
The Life Origin Fruit had no restriction on the user's rank, Immortals and Venerables could use it.
That made the Life Origin Fruit far more valuable than the Red Feather Fruit.
Although the Life Origin Fruit was useless to Luo Fan now, it would be useful to his two teachers.
As for the Life Origin Spirit Fruit, it seemed to be a higher-grade item than the Life Origin Fruit.
This task reward was excellent.
Also, after consuming the Red Feather Fruit and raising his genetic level to fifteenfold, Luo Fan casually created a related task.
An increase in divine power path talent was also a very good reward.
After seeing the quest rewards, Luo Fan accepted the Red Feather Fruit from King Xiren's hand.
The system notified him the quest was completed.
He did not hesitate and claimed the rewards.
He first placed the Life Origin Fruits and Life Origin Spirit Fruits into his system space.
Then he sat down cross-legged where he was, preparing to eat the Red Feather Fruit.
The Red Feather Fruit was about the size of a human head, entirely red.
Its surface felt somewhat hot to the touch, about ten thousand degrees.
But that temperature was nothing to Luo Fan.
Although the Red Feather Fruit was all red, different regions had varying shades.
It looked very strange.
There were also secret sigils on it.
Those sigils were also red, but darker in color, so they were visible on close inspection.
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