Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 304 - 304 0243 How Could I Possibly Hold You Back

Chapter 304: Chapter 0243: How Could I Possibly Hold You Back? Chapter 304: Chapter 0243: How Could I Possibly Hold You Back? Chapter 0243 How Could It Possibly Be a Drag?

Qi Tian didn’t want to complicate matters, so while murmuring “too expensive,” he still pretended to be hurting as he pulled out seven hundred spirit stones from his storage bag hanging on his waist. He also fetched another storage bag from his bosom, and from it took out a hundred spirit stones. After collecting eight hundred spirit stones, he handed them over to the masked cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

After verifying that everything was in order, the masked cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage passed the Immortal Crane statue to Qi Tian.

No one questioned Qi Tian. To these people, every item they sold were well-known to them, which they considered worthless. They would be glad to quickly sell them off to any willing buyers. After all, exchanging a piece of junk for eight hundred spirit stones was a deal anyone would be foolish to ruin.

Qi Tian pocketed the Immortal Crane statue and began browsing around the room. He couldn’t have anticipated finding an item capable of stirring a response in the Heavenly Dao Engine. This encouraged him to look at the roomful of objects with increased hope, thinking that he might find a second piece after the first.

However, to Qi Tian’s disappointment, he was unable to find a second treasured item after rummaging the entire room. It wasn’t surprising, these items were meant to scam people and wouldn’t truly be valuable treasures for sale. If there were more, it would be an insult to the intelligence of these scammers.

Regardless of the result, Qi Tian wasn’t too disappointed. Even a single find was good enough. He had originally planned to expose this fraudsters’ den, but since he had purchased something valuable, he decided to let it be.

True to their word — or perhaps because they saw that Qi Tian and his group had nothing more to offer, the fraudsters opened their doors to let Qi Tian and his companions leave.

Returning to the business district, Qi Tian realized he did not have time to dally. He entered a shop specializing in talismans and spent two hundred spirit stones to buy twenty Soaring Cloud Talismans. These powerful flight talismans could maintain a person’s flight status for two hours each time they were used, a good alternative to flying swords. Since Qi Tian couldn’t use the illegal spirit stones right now, purchasing these items was his only alternative.

With his Soaring Cloud Talismans safely stowed, Qi Tian left Wanjie City. Re-appearing from the Teleportation Array Disk inside the mountain cave, he carefully pulled out the Immortal Crane statue to study it. Despite looking at it for a long time, he couldn’t find anything unusual. Finally, Qi Tian resorted to a method most commonly used by cultivators, bleeding on it.

Unfortunately, even after Qi Tian dripped his blood onto several different parts of the Immortal Crane statue, it remained unresponsive.

As a last resort, Qi Tian let the Heavenly Dao Engine swallow the Immortal Crane statue, meanwhile ordering it not to digest the statue for fuel but to remove its disguise and reveal its true form.

Soon, an object flew out of Qi Tian’s palm. Looking at the palm-sized object in front of his eyes, Qi Tian showed a look of extreme surprise.

In terms of shape, this object was almost identical to the original Immortal Crane statue, but much smaller in size. The original statue was about the size of a real crane, while the current one was only palm-sized, extremely pocket-sized.

Initially, Qi Tian couldn’t feel any spiritual fluctuations from the Immortal Crane statue, otherwise the fraudsters wouldn’t have sold it. But now, Qi Tian could really sense the thick spiritual force from it.

The spiritual force fluctuated very heavily, which was far from what Qi Tian had come across from other spirit militaries or spirit treasures. Simply from this point, this crane-shaped treasure was a high-quality treasure.

Qi Tian couldn’t help but marvel. Such a valuable treasure and the Heavenly Dao Engine had somehow resisted devouring it, instead regurgitating it for Qi Tian. The loyalty and favor that the Heavenly Dao engine showed him was indeed extraordinary.

Qi Tian carefully held the treasure in his palm. He carefully dripped two drops of blood on the crane again. This time, the crane statue absorbed the blood immediately. Afterwards, the crane statue lit up with a faint light, and Qi Tian strangely felt a sense of spiritual connection with it.

Qi Tian, taking advantage of this opportunity, looked at the top of the crane statue, where there should have been the crown of a crane. But instead, there was now a groove. Qi Tian took a low-grade spirit stone and approached the groove. Before the spirit stone could touch the groove, a suction force was emitted. With a slight loosening of his grip, the spirit stone was absorbed and embedded into the groove with a click.

Then, the crane statue let out a clear crane call, accompanied by bands of seven-colored radiance, the crane statue swiftly grew in size. Soon, it grew to the size of an average crane and laid down at Qi Tian’s feet.