My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange-Chapter 49 - Genius

Xiang Liang nodded and said, “Your talent is rare for this kind of spirit roots. It’s a pity your father hid you too well and let you break through to mid-level Primary Disciple so soon. What you need to focus on now is halting your cultivation and starting to comprehend a spell.”

What’s the pity in that?

Isn’t breaking through a good thing?

The best promotion for an Outer Sect Disciple is to become a mid-level Primary Disciple, right?

Wang Zijia looked up, looking completely lost, “Why?” he asked.

“The primary disciple realm, although one can reach mid-level with twenty years of Dao cultivation and advance to advanced level with fifty years, Dao cultivation really isn’t something that should be paid much attention to at the primary disciple realm. After all, fifty years of Dao cultivation is just that, depending on taking more elixirs.”

Seeing Wang Zijia’s puzzled expression, Xiang Liang explained, “What primary disciples should pay more attention to is comprehending spells and hoping for the complete mastery of a spell, relishing every opportunity to infuse a rune into the Dantian, refining mana, and nourishing the runes. This will have great benefits for breaking through to the Sacrificial wine realm later.”

“Although this isn’t a secret, loose cultivators outside and some menial workers in the door who are like driftwood in the wind only know they should refine mana and nourish runes, but don’t know why they need to do this, nor do they know its importance.”

“Of course, you don’t need to worry too much. Most disciples don’t have the opportunity to infuse the single rune when they are promoted from junior to mid-level primary disciple. Even the disciples of my Xiang family are like this.”

“After all, it’s too difficult to comprehend a skill to complete mastery when you’re a junior disciple. Apart from demonic beings, you can only hope for the opportunity to gradually progress with rune mastery.”

Seeing the bewildered expression on Wang Zijia’s face, Xiang Liang who was explaining cultivation to him, stopped and asked, “Is there something you don’t understand?”

“Well, I’m not really confused. But when I broke through to Primary Disciple, it wasn’t a blank breakthrough!” Wang Zijia’s complexion was indifferent, and once again, he used the cheap old dad of his previous life as a shield:

“My father was quite strict about this. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have needed to cultivate for more than ten years before breaking through!”

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“What? You’ve already started refining mana and nourishing runes?” Xiang Liang surprisingly asked, his face full of joy. Even Xiang Feifei, who had been indifferent all along, had a sparkle in her eyes and started to carefully observe Wang Zijia for the first time.

“Yes!” Wang Zijia nodded.

“What spell did you use to refine your mana?” Xiang Liang asked expectantly.

“Clay Control.”

Wang Zijia hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to tell the truth. At present, given that he was willing to even propose a marriage agreement in order to hitch a ride on Xiang family’s influence, he needed to strive for as much resource backing from them as possible.

Moreover, given his past existence’s buffer of more than ten years, playing these cards, although exaggerated, should not be impossible.

“Huh!” Xiang Feifei was dumbfounded.

“What? When you were a junior disciple, you comprehended Clay Control to completion???” Xiang Liang suddenly stood up, his face full of disbelief.

Seeing their reactions, Wang Zijia frowned slightly.

He knew this spell was a bit strange before, after all, he had spent more than half a month to fully memorize it fully. Now it seems that he underestimated how special this spell was.

“Yes!” Wang Zijia said, while letting out wave after wave of mana fluctuations, the originally colorless mana now had a faint yellow color.

“Haha, it really is Clay Control! Earth Spirit root, Clay Control commences mana refining…” Xiang Liang looked at Wang Zijia ecstatically, as if seeing a priceless treasure, saying, “With your talent for opening meridians, there’s hope for my Xiang family to open meridians too!”

With his eyebrows slightly knitted, Wang Zijia looked at the somewhat fanatical Xiang Liang, and figured that he had indeed underestimated the uniqueness of Clay Control, and not just a little bit. So was his “Spirit Shaping” that was almost comprehended also a special Foundation Establishment spell?

Or are they simply a set?

“Don’t use your Inheritance Order to exchange for anything else. Use it to exchange for ‘Clay Activation.’ It doesn’t matter what other spells you cultivate, but you must comprehend ‘Clay Activation’ to completion before advancing to mid-level. And if possible, you also need to learn a fire attribute or earth-fire attribute spell and comprehend it to completion before advancing to mid-level. No, I need to find a way to get you a quota for the Rune Gradual Advancement Technique to be safe.”

While speaking, Xiang Liang hurriedly left, leaving behind a somewhat bewildered Wang Zijia.

Wang Zijia turned his head, looking at Xiang Feifei. Seeing this, Xiang Feifei took a moment to compose herself, and explained what she knew, “I don’t know much, just that the most ideal Foundation Establishment spell for earth attribute is to use Clay Activation and Clay Control as the foundation for mana refining.”

“It’s said that if you refine mana with these two spells, not only will your chances of breaking through to the Sacrificial wine realm increase by 20%, but when you break through to the Sacrificial wine realm, you can freely choose another earth attribute spell to integrate and breakthrough, laying a solid foundation!”

“What about the fire spell?” Wang Zijia asked, his brow furrowed. He knew far too little about all this.

“Although having an earth spirit root doesn’t mean you can only cultivate earth-attribute spells and can cultivate other types as well, there won’t be any enhancements for those types, and comprehension would be quite difficult. But the fire attribute will enhance your earth attribute mana to a certain degree.”

At this point, Xiang Feifei suddenly seemed to remember something, and added, “By the way, you’re forbidden from cultivating any Metal-Wood two-element spells before reaching the Sacrificial Wine realm.”

“Five elements mutual reinforcement and restraint?” Wang Zijia asked hesitantly.

Xiang Feifei nodded and said, “Yes. Although the impact isn’t significant, before reaching the Sacrificial Wine realm, you need to enhance and refine your mana as much as possible. Therefore, even if it’s just a minor impact, it’s better to avoid it if you can.”

Wang Zijia nodded, and at this point he could see the gap in their foundations.

Then, the two of them suddenly fell silent. As they were essentially strangers, the air quickly filled with awkwardness.

Wang Zijia was thinking about saying something to ease the atmosphere. But instead, Xiang Feifei took the initiative to start explaining some basic knowledge about cultivation. Wang Zijia saw this and started to ask questions in return.