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My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange-Chapter 23 - Demonic Kiln Rice Tank
Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Demonic Kiln? Rice Tank?
Chapter 23 -23: Demonic Kiln? Rice Tank?
“Qi Mansion? Here?”
In a few flashes, Wang Zijia stopped in front of a luxurious mansion.
It was a standard classical courtyard, which seemed to occupy a vast area, with a pair of stone lions guarding the double-open main gate, demonstrating the ordinary tradition, just like a royal mansion.
Standing at the entrance to the courtyard, looking at the main gate, Wang Zijia clearly felt that the fluctuation that was bothering him had spread from here, as if it were driving him away or driving away his kind of existence.
And his inner qi, upon coming into contact with this place, became very active, giving rise to a feeling of joy from his heart.
The two contradictory emotions intertwined, causing Wang Zijia’s brows to furrow.
After observing for a moment, Wang Zijia prepared to sneak into the courtyard to investigate, but as he advanced a few steps, he seemed to trigger something.
“Squeak!”
At that moment, the main gate was suddenly opened from inside, and a middle-aged gatekeeper came out, his face wooden, showing no expression.
Seeing this, Wang Zijia immediately took two steps forward and said, “Fellow Daoist, what happened to your mansion over the past two days…”
The middle-aged gatekeeper who had opened the door seemed also to be approaching Wang Zijia, he almost interrupted Wang Zijia:”Evil Seed, leave here, this is not a place for you!”
Wang Zijia was startled at the reprimand, his annoyance in his mind escalated a few points, and the urging to leave became nearly tangible.
An Evil Seed?
Is that referring to me?
Am I being mistaken as a pollution spreader?
Before he could argue, as Wang Zijia drew closer, his inner qi became more and more active. And because of this reprimand, something seemed to be activated, and his inner qi, over minute vibrations, came out automatically to protect the body.
With the surge of true qi, a chilly breath was drawn from the gatekeeper’s body by the true qi and entered Wang Zijia’s body like a lightning.
“Thump!”
The guard, who had been aggressive seconds ago, fell down as soon as his breath left his body, very suddenly.
“What the hell!”
“Is this man also a pollutant? But wasn’t it impossible to extract pollution from living beings before?”
The sudden change did not stun Wang Zijia.
The experiences of the past two nights had formed an instinct in him to hide in the Sea of Consciousness as soon as he detected anything unusual entering his body.
Weights: Sinful Origin
Status: Polluting
Value: 11
Introduction: During the breeding period of the new Sin Demon, there will be a certain amount of Sinful Origin automatically disseminating, eroding, enslaving ordinary substances around it, and silently driving away its kind to subtly form a Mysterious Domain.
While looking at the weight in front of him, Wang Zijia stood there stunned.
Not the previous Sinners?
A newborn Sin Demon?
The goat-headed creature from the night before?
There is another one breeding in the city?
Thoughts flashed across his mind, and Wang Zijia, who was thinking of running away, looked at the words “Breeding Period,” his eyes flashing.
“First, let’s see if there’s any profit to be picked up, but I’ll run away if anything feels wrong. Anyway, pollution is considered resources for me!”
After making the decision, Wang Zijia exchanged these weights for cultivation, then exited from the Sea of Consciousness.
He took two steps forward, scrutinized the gatekeeper, and finally understood why his true qi was able to extract pollution from the other person!
Now the gatekeeper on the ground was deathly pale, rigid all over, and even had obvious signs of a corpse, he had clearly been dead for at least two days!
But Wang Zijia clearly remembered that the man was alive just now, apart from being somewhat wooden, there was nothing unusual about him.
Was it the Sinful Origin?
He looked up at the half-opened main gate, not hesitating any longer, he cautiously moved towards the courtyard.
Once inside the main gate, Wang Zijia found that the courtyard was not at all what one would expect of a royal mansion; it was a mere replica of an ordinary mortal royal mansion’s layout.
Before he could delve deeper, yet another guard suddenly appeared in front of him.
“Evil Seed, leave…”
This time, as Wang Zijia was being cautious, he constantly activated his True Qi. Before the other party could finish speaking, the Sinful Origin sustaining its actions actively rushed towards Wang Zijia.
It seemed that after two nights of cycles of becoming demonized and purified, Wang Zijia’s True Qi began to feel odd. Like a deep-rooted addict, it yearned to be demonized and become a Sinners.
This kind of aura also attracted Sinners, and they might even consider him as one of their own. It was somewhat akin to the betrayal of a husband and the wantonness of a wife.
Moreover, the pollution from the Sinful Origin was even more terrifying than the pollution from the Evil Seeds. Its attraction to his Innate True Qi was even stronger, almost actively embracing it.
Wang Zijia effortlessly exchanged Weights and looked at the guard’s corpse that had fallen to the ground without a struggle, his expression strange.
It looked as though he hadn’t entered a Demonic Kiln but had fallen into a rice bin?
In a moment of hesitation, he jumped atop the rooftop of a nearby house to survey the entire mansion.
Shadows moved within the courtyard – maids carrying lanterns, patrolling guards, busy manservants. The sight painted a perfectly peaceful picture of an ordinary royal mansion at night, with no anomalies in sight.
But after encountering strange guards twice, Wang Zijia looked closely at the mansion for a while and discovered a problem.
All the people in the royal mansion were moving around in a fixed pattern. At first glance, everything seemed normal. But if you watched for a quarter of an hour, you’d see that they were stuck in a loop.
It was like a fixed scene, a dynamic painting, or a game site.
Exactly, a game site!
This place was much like past life’s online games, where scenes without player interactions would operate this way.
And the two guards before were suddenly driven to drive him away because Wang Zijia triggered some mechanism!
“So, it’s a forming Mysterious Domain? In that case, why not try luring the monsters?”
Looking at the moving puppets, Wang Zijia pondered for a moment and then began to take action.
He floated downwards and headed deep into the courtyard, while vigorously stirring up his True Qi. He tried his best to make himself ‘stand out’!
“Evil Seed…”
As Wang Zijia provoked the first wave of guards, guards from seven or eight teams in the garden area moved simultaneously and charged towards him, which almost scared him into running away.
“Thump… Thump…”
Luckily, when any guard got within five meters of him, a cold aura would fly out of their bodies, and they would all collapse to the ground, as dead as a doornail.
In a moment, all the guards in the courtyard had collapsed next to Wang Zijia, forming a small pile of corpses.
Wang Zijia retreated into his Sea of Consciousness, watching the swelling Weights with a slightly strange feeling in his heart.
This method of leveling up in a game seemed a bit off-course, right?
Weights: Sinful Devil
Status: Being polluted
Value: 343
Description: Everyone treats you as one of the Fate Sins, yet you prey upon the dog-leg guards who are still in their Breeding Period; you even snatch unsophisticated infants. You truly have some ambition!
Seeing the unreasonably obtained hundreds of value points, Wang Zijia was overjoyed!
He hesitated for a moment between cultivation and skill experience, eventually choosing the former. After all, earning money, a minor accomplishment in talisman paper making was more than enough. Piling up five hundred value points to grand mastery only increased his success rate a little over one percent, which was not cost-effective!
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Plus, his True Qi cultivation could not only add to his self-defensive power now, but once he had Spiritual Roots, it could also be converted into mana.
Cultivation: Innate (538/?)
Cultivation Method: Hidden Shadow
Martial Arts: Dragon Short Knife Nineteen Slash
Spell: talisman paper making technique (minor accomplishment 516/1000)
Over five hundred years of power!
Feeling the surging True Qi within his body, Wang Zijia’s face was filled with joy as he left the Sea of Consciousness.