My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange-Chapter 65 - Trade

“It’s me. Xu is impressed by Brother Li’s prowess. This transformation technique is almost on par with a second-order method, isn’t it? It seems Brother Li is not far off from the sacrificial stage,” Ji Chao said politely, returning Wang Zijia’s courtesy.

Wang Zijia, however, didn’t waste any words. He directly opened his snake mouth and spitted out a palm-sized storage bag. In between mana fluctuations, fifty-eight Magma Fireball Charms and a not-so-small heap of spiritual materials were taken out by Wang Zijia.

With a gentle wave of his tail, the spiritual materials and talismans floated towards Ji Chao.

Seeing that Wang Zijia was unwilling to engage more, Ji Chao too did not say much. After checking the talismans, he carefully counted those lower-grade spiritual materials.

“Fifty-eight pieces. For our first transaction, I’ll take a nice round figure, a total of three hundred and sixty magic money. These lower-grade spiritual materials should be able to be exchanged for about sixty-five Fire Jade Marrows, the best type of Spirit Ink for making Magma Fireballs. How does it sound, Brother Li?”

After being intensively taught by Xiang Feifei for a while, Wang Zijia’s foundational knowledge had slowly caught up, so he only hesitated a bit before nodding, “Yes!”

He was frugal with his words. Adding to the atmosphere he had deliberately created, it gave off a ruthless impression.

Upon hearing Wang Zijia’s words, Ji Chao took out several hundred magic money and a delicate jade box.

Wang Zijia caught the items as they were tossed to him, checked them at a glance, and then satisfied, put them away.

“So are we settled on this deal?” Noticing this, Ji Chao asked tentaively.

“Yes!” Wang Zijia nodded. His snake-like body landed on the ground, and with the opening of his mouth, he swallowed the storage bag. “The amount should be about the same every ten days or so; there might be minor fluctuations.”

“And the place of transaction?” Ji Chao watched Wang Zijia, who was about to slither back into the grass, and immediately said, “We can’t always meet like this. After all, we are not trading any contraband in the Sect, are we?”

Wang Zijia paused, then said, “Let’s make it the Fire Lacquer Teahouse up ahead on Jade Flying Street.”

“Okay!”

Ji Chao nodded, finally settling down on the transaction route, his face showing a bit of joy. Even though this was not a big deal, it was still a high-end merchandise, and expanding his trade channel was definitely a plus. It was a step closer to the resources he needed to advance to the sacrificial stage!

As his thoughts raced, he saw Wang Zijia had already slipped into the bushes, so he didn’t linger. With a fluctuation of mana, he turned into a white-headed eagle and soared into the sky.

Wang Zijia looked up at the disappearing eagle, but ignored it. He wandered around for a while, then once again turned into a small bird, flew back into the teahouse from a window, and materialized on the table. A storage bag fell.

Wang Zijia opened his eyes, picked up the storage bag, checked it, and quietly sighed a relief.

Already nearing 1,800 magic money. Instead of heading directly back, he walked towards the central building complex of the Qifu Faction, the Scripture Pavilion sub-branch, the technique tower.

Each centrum in the Scripture Pavilion had a sub-branch. Almost all followed a uniform style and were located near the iconic buildings of each centrum, making them easy to locate.

It was a classical tower-style building, sturdy and simple, mostly seven floors high. The first four floors were designated for technique practice rooms, the top three floors served as scripture rooms.

The disciples of the Qifu faction could purchase many popular techniques and some unique Qifu faction techniques. They could also rent technique practice rooms here for technique practice.

For example, for stealth class, some required simulated ecological environments, which the Illusion Formation practice rooms here could satisfy. However, most could only be used for Dao Kung. Some special enlightenment rooms of major pulses might even require Merit.

Wang Zijia took a walk around, familiarized himself for a while, spent over a thousand magic money, and bought the first-grade advanced technique “Meteor Flash”. After that, he went to the Pill Institute branch and bought a certain number of Violent Spirit Pills before he turned back.

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Now that the financial road is stable, he could cultivate and improve his Dao cultivation while raising money to buy the final defensive techniques.

Because he could save a bit on teaching materials, he could make five or six high-grade talismans each day, almost without any capital, making a net profit of more than thirty magic money.

Wang Zijia had set up smooth channels through the means he had previously displayed, and neither side had any intention to probe. Therefore, every ten days, he netted an income of three to four hundred.

Although Wang Zijia still lacked a substantial amount of money for techniques, at least he was no longer struggling. He could buy some elixirs from time to time to slowly enhance his cultivation.

Those days settled into a routine of work, talisman making, and cultivation. Every day, he dined with Xiang Feifei, taught Bai Qian, and encouraged her to develop gas-sensing so that she could start cultivating.

In a blink of an eye, two more decades passed, he traded twice, and obtained more than seven hundred magic money.

If he didn’t purchase elixirs to increase his cultivation, he could soon afford another Ethereal Crystal Shield. But, he spent a lot of money buying Wisdom Heart Pills to compensate for the deficiency in his skill ability level, and he also bought many Violent Spirit Pills to enhance his Dao cultivation.

However, he noted down the Clay Activation, which enhanced his techniques even more. The creatures that he transformed into seemed more lifelike than ever, no longer like exquisite silicone dolls, adding a bit more agility.

Cultivation Revelation: Child Intermediate Stage

Dao Cultivation: Forty-one years (4159/5000)

Spiritual Roots: Special Earth Spirit Root

Cultivation Method: Wanyu Basic Cultivation Technique

Talent: Spiritual Root Seed Demon

Techniques: Earth Clay Control (Great Mastery), Rune Perception (Great Mastery),

Talisman Paper Making Technique (Minor Accomplishment 500/1000),

Clay Shape-Shifting Stealth Technique (Beginner 300/600),

Earth Spear Spirit Arrow Technique (Beginner 200/400),

Molten Fireball (Beginner 300/600),

Meteor Flash (Beginner 300/600),

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Spiritual Power Shaping (Beginner 300/600),

Clay Activation (Not Yet Started 50/300),

Tai Chi: 65

Magic money: 474

Over a month, even if he only sporadically cultivated with the medicine, the rise in his Dao Cultivation was extremely dramatic, gradually approaching the threshold of the advanced pupil’s stage.

But the skill aspect was far behind; only Wisdom Heart Pill could be a bit quicker, costing twenty magic money each pill, and also consuming two hours of practicing Tai Chi to gain eighteen or nineteen points of value. The progress was a bit slow.

As his cultivation stage constantly drew closer, his need for the value of his abilities became more and more urgent.

Compared with other people, even if they had Immortal Spiritual Roots, they might not be able to match the speed of Wang Zijia’s cultivation.

This was also why he was striving to find channels. Even when he started, he disclosed all his information. But the update speed of the information was bound to be slower than the speed of his cultivation.

Therefore, many of his future actions would not be overt. Otherwise, the final outcome would not be good.

Lower Grade Spiritual Roots, more exaggerated than Immortal Spiritual Roots, even a fool would know it was not normal.

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