The tutors were all baffled.
Aside from illustrations in guides passed down for millennia, who in the Four Kingdoms had ever seen a real Two-Forms Symbiosis Fruit? Buy them? You probably couldn't get a single one no matter the price, and he claimed to have bought a whole cartful?
He had to be joking.
"The apprenticeship ceremony is now complete. Let's conclude for today," Dean Chen announced, looking up at the sky. "It's getting late. All of you may stay the night here at the academy and leave the mountain tomorrow. You are dismissed."
"Yes, Dean."
Everyone bowed in acknowledgment.
Xiang Minghou was still a little dazed. He walked over, bent down to pick up Ye Qianning, and whispered, "This is bad, little one. I think your dad said the wrong thing."
"It's fine." 'If I said they were bought, so be it. I don't care if anyone else believes me.'
"Mm."
