My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 101: Pretty Boy?

Chapter 101: Chapter 101: Pretty Boy?

Wang Zijia only discovered this awhile back, that the reputation of his ’genius’ son-in-law was in fact not that of a conventional genius. It was essentially: Beneath the shell of a genius lay a pretty boy.

All because he had deceived Xiang Feifei into his grasp, the Xiang family had to maintain their reputation and hence they did everything to hype up his title as a genius.

The intersection of truth and falsehood allowed Wang Zijia to fully understand the true nature of the Xiang family.

They were simply a bunch of old foxes. No wonder they hadn’t produced any sacrificial wine for so many years, and also why they hadn’t fully declined despite missing the sacrificial wine for so many years.

"How annoying, all these silly ideas from Sixth Great Uncle, saying that you’re too talented and might draw others’ envy," Xiang Feifei’s face instantly turned red as she stomped her feet, saying shyly:

"And seeing how you would grow more handsome as time passed, it’d be better to be upfront instead of hiding, hence they did all this."

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While they were deliberating, after finishing their meal, Wang Zijia did not directly head to the basement. Instead, he brought Bai Qian to the cultivation room first.

During these past few days, Bai Qian had formally started his miscellaneous duties as a disciple and had received his welfare. What he received was the central foundational spell from the Nine Techniques of water method alchemy: Medicine Extraction.

However, on Wang Zijia’s orders, Bai Qian merely learned the spell but didn’t attempt alchemy, he instead put more effort into practicing Tai Chi.

Name: Bai Qian

Cultivation: Primary Disciple

Dao Cultivation: 1 year (116/2000)

Spell: Medicine Extraction (Not Yet Started 50/300)

Tai Chi: 95

After checking Bai Qian’s information, Wang Zijia took out a Wisdom Heart Pill and said, "Take this, and start your cultivation of Tai Chi."

Upon hearing this, Bai Qian didn’t hesitate to swallow the Wisdom Heart Pill and started practicing Tai Chi with utmost diligence and concentration, an intensity that Wang Zijia could never match.

After all, he was too familiar with the background of Tai Chi, and whenever he saw it being performed seriously, he thought of the casual old people in the park. The context was difficult for him to reconcile.

Tai Chi: 115

A single Wisdom Heart Pill cost twenty value degrees, its effectiveness was much better than what Wang Zijia could achieve himself. Seeing such results, Wang Zijia breathed a sigh of relief, and realized that the most optimal way for the Wisdom Heart Pill to increase value was through Tai Chi. It was a good thing this wasn’t exclusive to him.

This would be convenient for some of his actions afterwards.

After sorting everything out, Wang Zijia started calculating. Alchemy was different from talisman creation, as the latter only required an understanding of the core rune perception to create a first-grade talisman.

On the other hand, alchemy required mastery of the three foundation spells. You also needed a pill recipe to create a first-grade pill.

Of course, knowing how to extract medicinal power could allow you to make pills, but they were of an inferior grade, meant for use by martial artists, like the Explosive Qi Pill Wang Zijia used previously.

Therefore, Bai Qian needed at least a skill value of 1800, which meant at least 80 Wisdom Heart Pills plus a spell investment of about 2500. The quickest possible time frame for this was about 20 days, any quicker could easily waste the medicinal pills.

"A month huh, that’s bearable, entirely worth the investment in nurturing. After all, I have my unique ways for using these medicinal pills and I can’t always buy them from outside. Over the long term, that would too easily alert others to changes in the market."

In between his thoughts, Wang Zijia laid out his plan, he took out eighty Wisdom Heart Pills and gave them to Bai Qian, saying, "Take note, you need to finish all of these within a month."

Looking at the rows of jade bottles in the cultivation room, Bai Qian was reminded of the snack boxes in the courtyard, the two were so similar yet their value was worlds apart.

Already no longer the naive newcomer, she opened her mouth but eventually said nothing.

After all, she knew that her young master was a man with great divine powers, and that there must be a reason for him to do this. Just like how he said eating candy could cure an illness, she really had been cured by eating candy.

The only downside was that she developed a liking for sweets.

The young master didn’t say anything about it and often brought her all kinds of candies. Yet, she always felt a bit embarrassed. After all, she was no longer a child and shouldn’t have such a sweet tooth!

"I understand!" In the end, that was all Bai Qian could say.

Wang Zijia nodded, saying, "Alright, let’s leave it at that for now."

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After dealing with Bai Qian’s matter, Wang Zijia did not immediately leave the cultivation room. Due to the early hour, Wang Zijia directly reached for and produced a medicine bottle, from which he poured an Explosive Spirit Pill.

Without any hesitation, he tilted his head back and popped it into his mouth.

The elixir melted as soon as it touched his tongue, turning into a warm stream that charged into his Dantian. His mana rapidly inflated, giving him a sensation of swelling all over his body.

"Value Degree +22!"

Even before it had fully exploded, the energy inside Wang Zijia’s body retreated like a tide. His body felt somewhat empty during this alternating process of expansion and contraction.

Wang Zijia pursed his lips. He was accustomed to this feeling, so without the slightest hesitation, he tilted his head back and swallowed another pill.

"Value Degree +22!"

"Value Degree +23!"

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With each elixir swallowed, his cultivation rapidly increased.

In less than half an hour, thirty bottles of Explosive Qi Pills, a total of three hundred pills, were consumed by Wang Zijia, earning him nearly six thousand seven hundred degrees of cultivation value.

Cultivation: Late Childhood Stage

Dao Cultivation: Fifty years (12503/30000)

Magic Money: 2063

Dao Kung: 2570

Feeling the doubled concentration of his mana, Wang Zijia exhaled a long breath.

After stabilizing his cultivation for a moment, he took out a Wisdom Heart Pill and began practicing Tai Chi.

After he had consumed two Wisdom Heart Pills in succession and spent most of an hour digesting them, he had converted thirty-nine points of Tai Chi value. Only when he felt the day was almost over did Wang Zijia slowly finish his work.

He rose and left the cultivation room, and returned to the basement.

With a slight movement of his mana, he undid the seal on the altar. The red spiritual light flickered, and the basement was again swept by cold Yin winds, making it seem quite eerie.

Wang Zijia checked the altar and produced several poisons to add into it.

Then he took out a strand of hair. Information about the target surfaced in his mind.

Name: An Yuanhang

Sex: Male

Level: Advanced Pupil

Cultivation: Hundred-year Cultivation

Age: Sixty-six years old

Status: Qifu Faction’s Puppet Hall Paper-cutting Master.

Background: Disciple of An Family from the Qifu Faction’s Sacrificial Wine clan, medium talents. Revealed a talent for puppet making in his early years, joined Puppet Hall of Qifu Faction sixty years ago, became a paper-cutting master, and was one of the top three figures of the older generation of An Family, thus received key training from the An Family.

However, due to his limited talent, despite mastering seven out of the Paperman Nine Techniques within thirty years, he hit a bottleneck when it came to the eighth technique, ’Spirit Touch’, and was unable to make any progress, let alone break through the technique.

Later, the An Family’s Great Cultivator of the Sacrificial Wine approached his limit, causing the clan to fall into a period of transition. He turned to mundane matters, leaving resources to the promising new generation.

Despite this, he did not completely give up hope. Over the past thirty years, he had studied many exotic and marvelous techniques, trying to learn them by analogy. Additionally, he kept making and selling puppets to accumulate resources, harboring ambitions to become the Sacrificial Wine, and his estimated wealth was also significant.

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