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Chapter 219: Demon Seal Escape

Chapter 219: Chapter 219: Demon Seal Escape

The box wasn’t large, with just under two hundred pieces of Immortal Jade neatly arranged inside, which converts to nearly two million Spirit Stones.

Jiang Yuan had owned a few million Spirit Stones before, so he didn’t feel too excited upon seeing it. He even thought, being able to trade with the Yin Mountain female corpse and mix into the Demon King’s infiltration plan as an inner hall disciple, even if they’re not a prestigious sect, shouldn’t they be a bit wealthier?

Dividing it into three parts, the three who participated in the raid each got sixty-three pieces, with two remaining. Jiang Yuan decided to give one each to Wan Mingchuan and Yun Mo, immediately gaining a lot of favor.

"It’s said that Immortal Jade is the currency used by immortals in the Celestial Realm. The background of Bloodthirst Hall is indeed extraordinary to have accumulated so much Immortal Jade," Hu Zhile contentedly put the Immortal Jade into his storage bag and sighed, "Even though I also have some ways and means to acquire Immortal Jade, I never dared to hope for so much."

Jiang Yuan thought to himself that it turned out the rare nature of Immortal Jade was more important than its value. Ten thousand Spirit Stones were easy to get, but a piece of Immortal Jade was hard to find. So, is the system’s currency exchange channel, which allows me to exchange for Immortal Jade at any time, quite useful?

"Both these boxes are full of Yin Demon Pearls, which are the common currency used by Demon Cultivators." Bai Yunqi opened the large box he had pulled back using the White Silk he shed during his promotion and glanced at Hu Zhile, "The box has a mysterious space and is a very good Magic Artifact, with about two million in it. Do you have the means to exchange it for Spirit Stones?"

Hu Zhile was momentarily stumped and shook his head, "The amount is too large and will easily arouse suspicion. If I were to exchange it, I could only do about thirty to fifty thousand at a time..."

"Leave it to me, count out the exact amount and divide it, I’ll give you Spirit Stones." Jiang Yuan thought, why bother exchanging?

Once inside my storage bag, it’s just a matter of transferring to my account to get either Spirit Stones or Immortal Jade without any fees. Moreover, these two boxes look pretty good and have a lot of space, placing them in the room for the disciple to use as a wardrobe or storage for sundries would be nice...

Two large boxes of Yin Demon Pearls totaling over two million three hundred thousand, each person got more than seven hundred thousand, with the remainder being evenly split between Wan Mingchuan and Yun Mo.

The Yin Demon Pearls were exchanged and distributed as Immortal Jade and Spirit Stones, causing Hu Zhile’s favor to skyrocket, almost equaling Bai Yunqi.

Having done nothing but honestly cultivating, Yun Mo was so excited his wings trembled, this was the treatment for following the right leader!

With a Spirit Pool available to openly absorb Spiritual Energy for cultivation, even when the master returned from a campaign, he received valuable Immortal Jade and Spirit Stones; what more could one ask with such a master?

If time could rewind to a month ago when he was used as a mount, Yun Mo would have felt humiliated, but now, how delightful!

"Master, I will definitely achieve Foundation Establishment this month!" Wan Mingchuan said, clutching his Spirit Stones, as if he’d been injected with adrenaline, "When I succeed, I want to follow Master to conquer everywhere!"

"In cultivation, greed and desire are taboo. It’s good to be ambitious but one shouldn’t blindly compete to achieve goals. Moreover, even after achieving success in cultivation, we shouldn’t always be thinking of conquest everywhere. We’re just handling official matters and happened to bring back some spoils of war," Jiang Yuan didn’t have much sage advice to give, but he believed cultivating required cultivating the heart, and his disciple shouldn’t always think about fighting.

Wan Mingchuan listened earnestly, nodding, "I’ve learned, if people don’t offend me, I won’t offend them; if people offend me, no matter how distant they are, I’ll eradicate them."

Jiang Yuan: ...

It’s not bad, this learning approach at least keeps him from being bullied.

What’s left to be allocated were various weapons, Magical Treasures, and two secret technique manuals, all things used by Demon Cultivators.

Bai Yunqi, after inspecting each item, felt it safest to destroy all these things emitting a continuous evil demonic aura.

Hu Zhile agreed it was a pity, but she had no way to sell these things without attracting attention, and destroying them was better than getting embroiled in trouble.

"Then leave all these to me to handle," Jiang Yuan waved his right hand to collect everything, anyway, his system’s storage bag, though worn and not having many slots, was comparatively more powerful than theirs — no worry of any items being contaminated by demonic realm items in the inventory.

Of course, he wasn’t going to destroy them, he’d equip and use the demon-specific weapons and Magical Treasures himself, even if it meant a bit of trouble swapping. Jiang Yuan kept a Celestial Demon Halberd with +300 Attack Power; a set of Celestial Demon Pearl for defense and damage reduction, and the rest could be thrown into the Treasure Forging Workshop and dismantled into various basic materials.

As for the cultivation techniques, naturally, one should read them first!

Hu Zhile, having successfully completed her mission, first went to the Market at Cyan Fish Mountain to hand over a Memory Stone to her sister to spread gossip, then hurried back to the Netherworld to report to the Queen;

Bai Yunqi, having harvested plenty, buried himself in the Spirit Pool to cultivate;

Wan Mingchuan, on the verge of a breakthrough and augmented by the Spirit Energy from the Spirit Pool, now could overcome sleep and use meditation instead, working diligently with Yun Mo by the pool.

Jiang Yuan, after collecting processed items from the workshop and organizing raw materials, completed two orders at the grocery shop, tidied up the storage box, and only then entered the grocery shop to take out a demon cultivation technique manual.

Since it carried a strong evil demonic aura, it was better to take it out at the grocery shop, otherwise Bai Yunqi was sure to notice. _{f\ree webn ovel(.)com}

[Demon Seal Escape: Intermediate Earth-level Technique, once learned, can generate various demon seals with practice. Click to activate escape techniques of different levels]

[Do you wish to learn Demon Seal Escape?]

Immediately, scenes from certain anime escape techniques flashed in his mind, making it seem like a highly useful skill for escape, so of course, he chose "Yes"!

The system quickly read through, and the skill set had one more addition.

The beginner escape technique had only a simple symbol. Upon clicking to use, the system popped out a map showing a circled area within which it could be used, roughly allowing for selection of any subterranean location within a wide radius from Shuiyun Lake to Riverfront Village.

"Let’s take a look at Lushan, I haven’t managed to collect Spirit Stone Mine for two days now." With his mind set, Jiang Yuan immediately targeted Lushan Mine.

With the demon seal flickering, a surge of thick demonic energy erupted from beneath his feet, the black mist enveloping him in an instant, and before he could react, he found himself standing inside Lushan Mine amidst howling winds and dark clouds.

"Whoa, it actually pinpointed the mine? Quite impressive!" Apart from being a bit bewildered by the mist during the escape technique, Jiang Yuan was extremely satisfied with the escape skill.

The paper men, diligently mining Spirit Stones, glanced at him and then resumed their quiet work.

[Soul-breaking Hand: Low-level Earth technique, Curse Technique. Once learned, one’s lifespan can be used to cast curses. The cursed cannot break free and are consumed and killed when their heart, liver, and lungs are cursed, with their organs and body transferable to a designated location; should the curse be broken, the caster suffers recoil and loses double the lifespan. After learning, every three months requires an additional month of lifespan to maintain the curse’s power, and upgrading also consumes corresponding lifespan]

"So this is what they mean by ’minding the heart, liver, and lungs’, supposedly a signature skill of Bloodthirst Hall," Jiang Yuan, after examining the second book, only checked the details without opening or wanting to learn it.

He’s still figuring out how to increase his lifespan, and this thing demands lifespan indiscriminately, he can’t afford it right now.

Of course, if the system could show a lifespan balance and allow accepting lifespan sacrifices or consuming lifespan-increasing Elixir like other demon cultivators, well, no problem, he’d do it!

After collecting from the Spirit Stone Mine, he spent more than half an hour defeating small monsters around to gather slime raw materials, and waited until the cooldown for Demon Seal Escape ended, then clicked to return to the small courtyard. It was time to upgrade tools and see what lay hidden behind those vines behind the house!