Chapter 289 - 150: A Carload of Spiritual Objects (3/3)

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Chapter 289: Chapter 150: A Carload of Spiritual Objects (3/3)"What?" Upon hearing this news, Huo Qing’s eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but reveal a joyful expression, "Really? That’s one of the Four Great Daoist Academies!" Even though it was just preliminary training, it still had to do with the Four Great Daoist Academies. "It might not happen, and the main students there are the favored sons of various middle schools, we’re just paying to audit the classes." Iron Hand lowered his gaze, softly saying, "Anyway, you need to work hard this year. Even if you’re lucky enough to get in, if you can’t keep up with the training, you’ll be advised to leave before the Daoist examination -- the training institution also has its quotas to meet, and it’s already a favor to let you listen in, let alone becoming a formal student." "No problem, no problem!" Upon hearing this, Huo Qing became ecstatic. How could he not know that this was his best chance? To have professional trainers teach him, even if just as an auditor, was certainly better than struggling to study on his own! Moreover, with the Chonggang Town warehouse now at his disposal, he could concentrate on self-study, accumulating knowledge and practical experience over the year... there surely wouldn’t be any problem! "It’s just..." Thinking of this, Huo Qing couldn’t help but worry, "What about the materials for practice? Intense formation training requires a lot of resources." The materials for practicing the Spirit Gathering Array in the recent period were from his savings, plus the spiritual objects An Jing sold him, but those were almost used up; even if he had the money, he couldn’t find a channel to buy spiritual objects in the short term. "Don’t worry, I’ve saved up some over the years." Seeing the joy on Huo Qing’s face, Iron Hand couldn’t help smiling too, "Even if we can’t get into the training academy, at the very least, I want to elevate you to Qi Refinement within these two years." "Uncle..." Huo Qing was simply moved to tears, "You have been so good to me..." "This is nothing." Iron Hand shook his head somewhat helplessly, but he quickly became expressionless again. ——Be happy... but after that, don’t blame me. If you are fortunate enough to enter one of the Four Great Daoist Academies... then you’ll have no choice but to become a mole the Guiyi Army inserts among the cultivation sects and clans. But if you don’t do this, you’ll never get a chance to enter the upper echelons... Huo Qing, becoming a pawn maneuvering between powerful forces is the only way for people like us to climb upwards. It was at this moment. The bell rang. Both Iron Hand and Huo Qing turned to look at the door at the same time, with Iron Hand powering up his perception ability, while Huo Qing squinted his eyes, sensing a familiar aura. "Ha." A few breaths later, Huo Qing smiled, "An Xuan is here — I hope whatever he was dealing with is settled now!" "He’s brought quite a lot of things..." Iron Hand frowned slightly, stepping forward to open the door. "Long time no see, Iron Hand Boss, and Brother Huo!" Appearing before them was An Jing at the edge of the formation, accompanied by a large cart filled with all sorts of materials. Bringing numerous special produce spiritual objects from the Tianyuan Realm, An Jing revealed a beaming smile to his two future partners, "This time, I’ve brought over a lot of the Wilderness’s specialty spiritual objects, we’re definitely going to make a good profit!" "Eh, while making money is good, you two don’t need to be so shocked, right?" Feeling happy was inevitable. Huo Qing had just been worrying about the need for a lot of materials to study formations, things not easily acquired even with Good Deeds. And before he even started thinking about solutions, An Jing arrived with a load of spiritual objects, like a pillow for a sleepy head! As for Iron Hand, his joy came from a different reason. ——This mysterious sect kid has finally shown up... I didn’t look carefully before, but now I can see what he’s really made of! However, after a serious observation, Iron Hand was a bit startled, "Qi Refinement?!" "No way, how old is this Wilderness kid, to have already reached Qi Refinement?" An Jing didn’t conceal his strength this time. If he wanted to, he could’ve simply demonstrated Inner Breath like Tide in front of strangers. But Tianyuan Realm is different from Embracing the Void... Tianyuan Realm is filled with all kinds of disguising and body-modifying methods; youthful-looking cultivators are commonplace. Although he looked young and was at Qi Refinement, this type of identity was easier to fake. As for those who were familiar with his actual age, there were only a few such as Huo Qing and Iron Hand whom he met at the beginning, and An Jing wasn’t afraid to show them. Letting these people understand his real strength and potential was a good thing, allowing better cooperation among them. The only issue seemed to be that Iron Hand was a little too shocked. "The first time we met, he was at most at the Inner Breath like Tide of the Spirit Awakening realm..." Iron Hand calculated the time in his mind and realized it had been only around three months; An Jing had advanced from Inner Breath to a Qi Refinement cultivator? His perception ability started to tremble... Imperial Heaven and the Great Dao, what an inconceivable turn of events! But because there were so many incomprehensible things in Tianyuan Realm, Iron Hand didn’t take it too seriously — his gaze was drawn to the cartload of spiritual objects An Jing brought, and his heart began to race again. An Jing brought some spiritual objects that were actually not anything precious, just some spirit wood trunks, low-purity Frost Jade, spirit beast meat preserved through sealing with Frost Jade, and some animal hides... In summary, there wasn’t even a single Qi Refinement stage spiritual object among them, all were common non-grade spiritual objects. But even non-grade spiritual objects, a cartload like this, were extremely valuable! Iron Hand gave access to the Great Formation, "Come in quickly! The fact that you were able to deliver this cart here safe and sound, is truly unbelievable!" As for An Jing, of course, it wasn’t possible that he transported them all the way from the Wilderness to the recycling shed; it was certain that it would have been taken by the well-meaning locals of the Tianyuan Realm along the way. It can only be said that the Great Void Passage is convenient! After Mingguang Dust and his companions left, An Jing, who wasn’t under surveillance, began his collection of many low-end spiritual objects in Kanming City. Lately, the Dust Li people started to sell large quantities of low-grade spiritual objects and other magical artifact wealth accumulated over time to Da Chen, in exchange for materials to rebuild their homeland. After suffering from the devastation of the Heavenly Demon, most of the survivors were low-level martial artists, unable to protect these spiritual objects. Since that was the case, it was better to sell them all to Da Chen while the atmosphere was still relatively friendly. Thanks to that, the prices of all sorts of spiritual rhyme animal hides and bones in Kanming City plummeted below their original baseline. They were already quite cheap, and now their prices were practically clearance sale rates. An Jing used just the five hundred taels of silver given by the Kanming City official and the reward silver of the three from the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect to buy an entire cartload. But still, An Jing’s identity was after all that of a Dust Li person; he couldn’t openly buy these items which were theoretically piled like mountains in his homeland. At most, he used the excuse of ’picking some good quality spiritual objects at a low price’ during special periods. Regardless, the real pleasure of trade between worlds was that, no matter what, at the very least An Jing would only earn a little less. That being the case, of course, maintaining his cover identity and safety was the most important. Therefore, An Jing also purchased some additional special products from Da Chen, ’Frost Jade’. All jade stones with spiritual rhyme are essentially by-products of Spirit Jade or Spirit Stone. For example, Frost Jade is a by-product of Spirit Stone veins located in cold zones, essentially miscellaneous Spirit Stone with Water Element Spirit Qi. In the Embracing the Void realm, such spiritual jade was basically considered a chicken rib—useless—only bought in bulk by Feng Shui Masters and Array Masters to fill in the foundation of the Five Elements Formation or to alter the elemental character of Feng Shui. But in the Tianyuan Realm... An Jing could only say that he saw the price for similar Wood Attribute miscellaneous Spirit Jade ’Mujue’ was twenty-seven Good Deeds per tael. It may not sound like much, but you should know that in Embracing the Void, the price for Wood Attribute miscellaneous jade is one tael of jade for five taels of silver, and Frost Jade, being right in its place of origin, is actually even cheaper. And the exchange rate for silver in the Tianyuan Realm, just so happens to be five taels for one Good Deed. With a twenty-seven-fold return and further discounts for bulk purchases, the profit of more than thirty times really makes An Jing feel that making money is simply too easy. And no one questioned what An Jing was buying the Frost Jade for because a whole piece of super-sized Frost Jade could be used to make a Cold Jade bed which aids during practice, regulating Inner Breath, and even if they were scattered, they could serve as a concentration aid during meditation and cultivation. "...The total price, five thousand four hundred and ninety-two Good Deeds." After estimating for quite a while, Iron Hand and Huo Qing came up with this answer, then inhaled sharply, "How is it so much?!" "Brother An Xuan, did you sell all the produce of your sect?!" ——At most half a tribe. An Jing estimated in his heart, if he were to consider the output of a Dust Li tribe, it would be somewhat difficult to assemble a small cart like this because the tribe had its own needs, leaving not much in excess. But the identity An Jing wanted to assume in this world was definitely not that of an ordinary Dust Li tribe... Therefore, An Jing shook his head slightly, with a tone of entitlement, "Of course not, this is just the spiritual objects my group intends to trade." "Iron Hand Boss, in consideration of Huo Qing, I am willing to cooperate with you." An Jing’s tone was arrogant and even somewhat impolite, but he was very clear that this was the time to show firmness—after all, more than five thousand Good Deeds was a large few hundred thousand in his previous life, and in the Tianyuan Realm’s ’chaotic times’, it wasn’t strange for people to have unlawful thoughts. However, he misunderstood Iron Hand and Huo Qing: the latter didn’t have this thought at all, while the former, due to his particular status, wouldn’t change his course of action over money. "This is..." After the shock, Iron Hand looked up. He looked at An Jing, with a dawning realization in his eyes, "You want to obtain a Xuanye City household registration? Does your sect... want to enter the city?" ——Just like us from the Guiyi Army, intending to send a ’genius’ to infiltrate the inner circle of Xuanye City? An Jing frowned slightly. He felt like Iron Hand might have misunderstood something, but it seemed he hadn’t really misunderstood anything. However, since the other party had thought of a reason, he nodded along, "You could say that." "With these Good Deeds, plus a Demon Material Merit, you can indeed exchange for a Xuanye City household registration and get the core chip." Seeing An Jing’s feigned ambiguous expression, Iron Hand became even more convinced of the intentions of An Jing’s sect, "It seems you are not lacking in military merits... just the channels, right?" "Hmm." An Jing nodded, "But not for now... It’s still a bit early." Although the core chips were good, he had to understand them and be sure there were no traps before using them—feeling Iron Hand’s misunderstanding deepening, An Jing decided to reveal his real purpose, "I did not come for the Xuanye City household registration... I don’t need it for the time being." As he said this, An Jing took out the Scale Armor of the Necrocontroller Demon from the bottom of the spiritual material cart and showed it to Iron Hand, "This time, I came to fabricate an Anti-Magic Artifact." The scales shimmered like black gemstones, the Demon Material exuded a serene presence, having withstood the extermination of Demonic Qi by heaven and earth. As Iron Hand’s eyes gradually widened, showing an incredulous expression, An Jing admitted honestly, "I plan to use it as the raw material." "Iron Hand Boss, as you can see, our sect is not short of money... If you have the channels, we will not be stingy with the craft fee!"

Chapter 289 - 150: A Carload of Spiritual Objects (3/3)

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