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Chapter 107: Difficult to find Spiritual Object

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Difficult to find Spiritual Object

Bai Qian, who was familiar with taking medicine, picked up a medicine bottle without hesitation, poured out a pill, and swallowed it in one bite.

As the pill melted immediately upon entering her mouth, its medicinal power spread, turning into a violent surge of mana that swept through her whole body. But before it could explode, the uncomfortable feeling of swelling abruptly disappeared. She felt hollow, as if her body, once stuffed full like a cat’s paw, needed to be filled again.

With her prior experience, Bai Qian took another pill and began to ingest it.

In a short while, she had finished three bottles of medicine, a total of thirty Violent Spirit Pills, which had been converted into over six hundred points of value, completely exhausting Wang Zijia’s stock.

Dao Cultivation: Eight years (827/2000)

After looking at Bai Qian’s cultivation, Wang Zijia believed she should have enough to start refining her own pills. He transferred a thousand magic money to Bai Qian from his identity card, saying,

"Tomorrow, go buy some spiritual materials for refining Violent Spirit Pills and Wisdom Heart Pills, as well as a novice pill furnace. And start alchemy. Your master’s future supply of pills depends on you."

"Okay!" Bai Qian nodded vigorously and said seriously, "Don’t worry, master, Bai Qian will work very hard!"

Wang Zijia smiled and nodded, saying, "Good, I’m waiting for it!"

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The next day, Wang Zijia, as usual, neglected his duties at work, creating talismans. After work, he came to the South District and proficiently chose a teahouse, reserving a private room.

In a moment, a pitch-black crow flew out, crossed several blocks, arrived at Jade Flying Street, and entered the familiar private room through a window at the Fire Lacquer Teahouse.

Ji Chao, who had been waiting for a while, saw Wang Zijia, whose appearance had drastically changed, and hesitated to ask, "Brother Li?"

The crow casually nodded. Ji Chao was stunned, then said: "With such a vivid and lifelike transformation, it seems Brother Li has mastered the Nine Techniques and only needs to condense the Magic Door and forge the Dao foundation to achieve the status of Sacrificial Wine!"

Wang Zijia glanced at him, and, unusually, replied: "Your transformation seems almost complete as well, with the form and appearance visible."

"Hehe, still a little bit missing, just a little bit." Ji Chao seemed rather pleased by the rare praise from Wang Zijia, who was mysteriously tight-lipped, and revealed a genuine smile.

Wang Zijia did not continue to speak and casually threw out as many as two hundred and forty-nine Magma Fireball Charms, as well as a decent amount of low-level spiritual materials and primary talismans.

"The Magma Fireball Charms are worth more than 1,700 magic money, and these low-level talismans are worth a total of over 100 magic money. The total is 1,898 magic money. Let’s round it up to 1,900 magic money for Brother Ji!" said Ji Chao after counting.

"Yes!" Wang Zijia was still stingy with his words.

"Does Brother Li want to exchange the remaining spiritual materials for Fire Jade Marrow?" asked Ji Chao.

Wang Zijia nodded, and the two quickly completed the transaction. After Wang Zijia had swallowed it and put it into his storage bag, he didn’t immediately spread his wings to leave.

Seeing this, Ji Chao swiftly took the initiative and asked, "Does Brother Li have other business?"

Wang Zijia hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you have access to top-tier Foundation Building Spirit Objects?"

Ji Chao’s face stiffened before he revealed a bitter smile. He said, "Brother Li, you really overestimate me. If I had such contacts, would I still be reselling these things here?"

"Forget about class A spiritual objects. Even for a Foundation Building Pill, I would have to ask the clan for at least half the support, and the task would still require the cooperation of my own clan members and our allied clans."

Wang Zijia didn’t have much hope in the first place. Hearing this, he slightly furrowed his brows, and asked his real question, "What about related information?"

Ji Chao shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Wherever a Foundation Building Spirit Object is born, how can the news leak out easily? As for the tasks where sects regularly produce spiritual items, I’m also not qualified to take those!"

Wang Zijia remained silent for a while, then continued to ask, "Can you get a second grade magic tool?"

"What kind does Senior Brother want?" Ji Chao perked up and asked.

Second-grade utensils were different from first-grade ones; the value of the latter was deliberately suppressed by the Sect with a magic soldier costing only hundreds of magic money. However, a magic tool, even a second-grade low-level one, often cost thousands of magic money and occasionally could even cost tens of thousands which was not a rare occurrence.

"The ones related to preserving life, preferably the ones that can ensure enduring a fatal attack and the ones that can grow are the best," Wang Zijia replied in such a manner.

Ji Chao’s face spasmed for a while. Substituting life was already the most valuable of all utensils; it had to be able to grow as well... If it wasn’t for Wang Zijia’s established reputation, Ji Chao would have felt like slapping him.

"Those disposable ones that require to be fed with essence blood, even if they’re a bit more wicked, will do," Wang Zijia added.

Ji Chao bitterly shook his head and said, "This type of magic tool, Senior Brother, shouldn’t you be found in your Qifu Faction? Although there are many growing magical instruments in our Flying Bird Transformation School, most of them are bloodline artifacts and Ming devices."

"If it doesn’t work, Senior Brother, you should go to the Essence Blood Talisman School. All their objects have sky-defying effects. It’s just that they are too debilitating, even the talisman used to escape requires some drops of your essence blood, and it takes about five or six years to recover."

"Because it is so debilitating, the market demand is not great, and often one might buy one and never use it in their lifetime, so I didn’t establish a channel in that area."

Having said that, Ji Chao added, "Yes, their Essence Blood Substitute series is the most complete and can meet your needs just now."

"I know about that, but since there were no available channels, I thought of asking about yours first," Wang Zijia said.

"I don’t have one, you should go find it at the Family Alliance Gathering, it shouldn’t be hard to find if you limit the search range. It’s just that they are dead expensive because they often don’t open for business for three years and when they open, it lasts for three years," Ji Chao replied.

"Alright, let’s leave it at that," Wang Zijia bid his farewell.

"I wish Brother Li success in achieving the Sacrifical Wine in advance!" Ji Chao replied in such a manner.

Wang Zijia did not say anything more. With a flap of his wings, he leaped out of the window and disappeared into the street.

Ji Chao watched Wang Zijia’s retreating figure and stayed in a daze for a long while before sighing, "Alas, I don’t know if I should call him a martial uncle next time we meet, or offer consolations."

...

After returning to the Biyi Court, Wang Zijia’s brows furrowed tightly.

As his cultivation was nearing, the lack of leads for the Foundation Building Spirit Object made Wang Zijia quite agitated.

Given the current situation, he would need years of planning to get a spiritual object, particularly a Class A spiritual object, which might take ten years or even decades of establishing relationships, and that’s only a possibility.

Indeed, the Wanyu Sect was very powerful, and it was not difficult for junior monks to advance, but to advance with top resources was truly too difficult, the kind of difficult where there was no clue how to.

"What if...find a few Sacrificial Wines who were about to die from the Demon Seeding, then threaten and tempt them to use their connections to find it?"

’Would that be too risky?’

’No, even a failed breakthrough had a life-saving method, let alone the Sacrificial Wine, I can’t act recklessly!’

’How about quietly operating for a few years and staying low profile? I’m not even seventeen yet!’

’No, the matter of spying is like a ticking time bomb, it can explode at any time, I must become a Sacrificial Wine as quickly as possible.’

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