My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 106: Alchemist Bai Qian

Chapter 106: Chapter 106: Alchemist Bai Qian

"Primary Inheritance Command Token, one law will be granted. Do you have a target in mind?"

Just as Wang Zijia was assessing his surroundings, a detached and majestic voice rang out from the sky.

"Disciple wishes to inquire about Spatial Dao Techniques?"

"Spatial techniques require Dao foundation to carry, therefore, any spatial system technique is at least a second order method. Your current authority is insufficient."

"Is there any exception? For instance, one of the core nine techniques for establishing a spatial Dao foundation?"

"Assembling the nine techniques forms its own law. The nature of space is the characteristic that emerges after all the techniques are combined, not the enhancement of one of the nine techniques. There is no such characteristic among first-grade magic spells."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia fell silent.

When he had come earlier, he was still hopeful. He thought that it might be his own circle not being extensive enough, and that maybe the Scripture Pavilion hid some secret inheritance. But now, it seemed he was overly hopeful.

As for using the inheritance order to exchange for a thieving technique, that wouldn’t be much different in essence from his current routine, it didn’t seem necessary at all.

"Disciple wishes to choose the ’Melting Crystal Property Change Technique’!" After a moment’s contemplation, Wang Zijia faced the pitch-black void like the starry sky, saluted it, and then responded respectfully.

"Melting Crystal Property Change Technique, high-ranked first grade, an Earth-based Foundation Core Dao Technique, and a direct inheritance of Dao Law Court. Exchanging from Talisman Court Instrument Talismetric Vein requires one point of merit and 1400 Dao Kung. Detecting that you have an Inheritance Order, you may be exempted from the cost of the exchange. Please select the exchange method!"

"Inheritance Order!"

As Wang Zijia confirmed, a ray of streaming light flew from the sky into his arms, transforming into a secret book as he caught it.

Without waiting for Wang Zijia to do anything, his eyes were once again filled with countless lights. It felt as if he were traveling through time, and by the time he regained his senses, he was thrown out of the Scripture Pavilion’s main gate once again.

Wang Zijia pursed his lips and looked back at the austere Scripture Pavilion, mumbling to himself: "You didn’t even give me three seconds. That’s so horrible!"

The paper kite on his shoulder slowly grew larger and flew up. Wang Zijia jumped on and headed towards the Fu Tower where he worked.

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This way, Wang Zijia started to spend his days working at the talisman carving desk, occasionally teaching disciples.

At night, he began to coax the Demon Seeding targets, capturing the magic money they had saved for decades and aiding in the currency circulation of the sect.

For three consecutive days, every night Wang Zijia managed to coax a Demon Seeding target. He earned six thousand magic money from two people and three thousand from another, totaling to fifteen thousand.

He gave ten thousand to Xiang Feifei for her to exchange Dao Kung. The remaining magic money, plus what was left over, brought Wang Zijia’s magic money to thirteen thousand.

With the experience accumulated from these five targets, Wang Zijia started looking for more Demon Seeding targets based on the information given by Xiang Feifei.

He was much more careful than before and only considered potential targets who had some savings yet were highly marginalized.

For every person he chose as his next target, he had to tactfully acquire information about them and check them out carefully before beginning the Demon Seeding process and attempting to coax money out of them.

Every target yielded at least three thousand magic money, significantly reducing Wang Zijia’s economic stress.

Time flew by, and in just over two weeks...

Wang Zijia had successfully Demon Seeded and coaxed another five targets, earning a profit of twenty-one thousand.

In order not to affect the market for Elixirs, Wang Zijia started to buy Explosive Spirit Pills and Wisdom Heart Pills in batches when he started advancing his cultivation. He didn’t just buy them at Southward Street, but also went to the building complexes of the surrounding Dao pulses to buy them.

Even so, the price of Explosive Spirit Pills would occasionally fluctuate as this wasn’t a common medicine for enhancing cultivation like the Cultivating Yuan Pill. As a burst-use pill for desperate times, one might not buy it even once in a decade, so the original demand market was already small.

Of course, as he became wealthier, he didn’t only buy Explosive Spirit Pills. He also started to buy some other burst-use pills with slightly lower cost-performance ratios to enhance his cultivation.

For this reason, Wang Zijia spent over five thousand magic money to purchase the remaining two techniques for Bai Qian’s Beginner Alchemy, along with the pill recipes for the Wisdom Heart Pill and the Explosive Spirit Pill.

Everything was ready. They just needed to wait for her to consume the Wisdom Heart Pill, accumulate enough value, and let the three techniques reach the proficient level.

Besides his cultivation, Wang Zijia also started improving his Spiritual Roots.

Although it was theoretically possible to breakthrough to Sachrificial Wine stage with Lower Grade Spiritual Roots, a Medium Grade Spiritual Root would provide a certain boost when reaching Sacfrificial Wine. Therefore, once he had more than enough money, Wang Zijia naturally started working on his Spiritual Roots.

After all, the improvement of Spiritual Roots benefited one for life. The earlier, the better.

Cultivation: Late Stage Child Stage

Dao Cultivation: Ninety years (27321/30000)

Spiritual Roots: Special Earth Blood Spiritual Root (Lower Grade 35432/50000)

Cultivation Method: Universe Law Canon (Child Chapter)

Talent: Demon Seeded Spiritual Root

Spell: Melting Crystal Property Change (Beginner level 300/600)...

Tai Chi Fist: 1017

Magic money: 13375

Dao Kung: 17570

The Dao Kung needed for the Foundation Building Pill was easily gathered with the help of Xiang’s family. All he needed to do was finish a Class A mission at the Child Stage, and he could exchange it.

However, after these days of investigation, the acquisition of Foundation Building Spiritual Objects put Wang Zijia in a predicament.

Forget about directly applying to the sect, even at the Task Hall, all the tasks related to obtaining spiritual objects were fought over viciously. And this was only for Class C; Wang Zijia didn’t even have the qualifications to look at Class A spiritual object-related tasks, which was frustrating.

...

One day, as usual, when Wang Zijia returned to the courtyard after dinner, Bai Qian happily said: "Master, I have finished all the Wisdom Heart Pills you gave me."

Upon hearing the news, Wang Zijia stopped, his face lit up with joy: "Come on, let’s go inside!"

Without further ado, he headed straight for the cultivation room. Bai Qian also followed Wang Zijia into the cultivation room, her face full of joy.

Name: Bai Qian

Cultivation: Primary Disciple

Dao cultivation: One year (159/2000)

Techniques: Medicine Extraction (Not yet started 50/300),

Spirit Water Refining (Not yet started 50/300),

Medicine Fusion (Not yet started 50/300)

Taiji: 1745

More than 1,600 skill points were provided by the 80 Wisdom Heart Pills, in addition to its resistance-free provision of more than half a year of Dao cultivation.

[Do you want to spend 550 value points to promote Medicine Extraction to Proficiency Level?]

"Yes!"

[Do you want to spend 550 value points to promote Spirit Water Refining to Proficiency Level?]

"Yes!"

[Do you want to spend 550 value points to promote Medicine Fusion to Proficiency Level?]

"Yes!"

In a blink of an eye, more than 1,600 value points were consumed, and Bai Qian’s three entry-level alchemy techniques had all reached the proficient level.

Numerous insights emerged in her mind, and Bai Qian fell into confusion.

After a long time, under the care of Wang Zijia, Bai Qian slowly opened her eyes.

"How is it?" Wang Zijia asked anxiously.

"I feel.... I feel like I can do alchemy now." With spell information in her mind, Bai Qian spoke in a somewhat bewildered and muddled tone.

"It’s not like you can, you definitely can." Wang Zijia said, looking at the other’s low cultivation level. Making pills was one thing, but seriously starting furnace alchemy would probably be difficult.

He fished out a bottle of Explosive Spirit Pills and said, "Let’s cultivate some more mana for a few more years, and then discuss."

Bai Qian :"..."

Even though she knew that her master had mighty powers, every time she saw such an event, Bai Qian would think of Xiang Feifei’s word about the difficulty of cultivation, and she always felt it was discordant!!!