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Chapter 123: Picking Up a Bargain, Seizing a Spiritual Object?

Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Picking Up a Bargain, Seizing a Spiritual Object?

After a long while, when Wang Zijia’s mind cleared, he unconsciously beckoned and the quicksand in his hand converged, completely changing its appearance.

Previously, Wang Zijia’s mana sand was earthy yellow, but now it had turned blood red, and the sand grains were crystal-like, blood-red and transparent, with a somewhat eerie beauty.

The translucent sand grains carried some residual warmth as if they contained violent energy within.

With a thought, a translucent spear, akin to a blood crystal, emerged. Rather than calling it an earth spear, it was more appropriate to call it a crystal spear now.

The Melting Crystal Property Change Technique was a spell that couldn’t be used independently, but the enhancement it brought to Wang Zijia was immense. It felt like a passive skill and was therefore among the most difficult spells to comprehend.

"Boom!"

By then, the fight in the city center had become even more intense, and the fluctuations were clearly different from what Wang Zijia had sensed when he first arrived — there were resonances of spell duels.

’Has a battle started?’

’Has someone attempted to make a blood crystal from a human body, or has there been a boon in luck and a spiritual item dropped from the lesser beings?’

Wang Zijia’s thoughts flickered rapidly. He jumped upon a piece of rubble, surveyed the surroundings, chose a location amidst the ruins, and the ground’s mud surged and swallowed him up.

Following that, a thumb-sized, translucent, blood-red little man jumped out.

The Five Ghosts emerged from the void, and the small man jumped onto one of them, hiding in the hair of its bun hairstyle. The flesh on its head wriggled, sunk slightly, and a throne-like dent emerged.

Soon after, the Five Ghosts shivered, and a dense ghost qi diffused and transformed into five ghost-like illusions, disappearing from the spot.

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After a moment, the Five Ghosts arrived at the city center.

Looking around, the previously ramshackle city center had now become ruins.

On the battlefield ravaged by spells, three individuals were still engaged in a fierce battle. Judging by their clothes, one was an advanced disciple of the Flying Immortal Sect, and the remaining two likely belonged to the Daqian Academy, not the official disciples who had come with Wang Zijia on the flying boat, but those from the subordinate academies.

At this moment, the two academy disciples were surrounding the disciple from the Flying Immortal Sect. All three were peak disciples, with spiritual light flashing as their mana clashed.

Around the battlefield where these three were engaged, four academy disciples and a disciple from the Flying Immortal Sect laid as corpses. In the center of the five, there was a pretty ordinary demon’s corpse, no different from the demons Wang Zijia had encountered in the town previously.

However, where it was not ordinary was that above its demon corpse, there was a spiritual light group floating. Inside the light group, a milky white, illusory muscle constantly twisted, emitting a faintly eerie aura.

While it looked somewhat similar to the inheritance derived from the pollution technique, a spellcaster could tell them apart at a glance. This light group had stronger spirituality, and the twisted muscle within it moved as if alive.

"Can this... be used to refine a Foundation Building Pill as a basic spiritual item?"

Having recently crammed a lot of related knowledge, Wang Zijia instantly recognized that it should qualify as a Grade D Spiritual Material of the lowest level.

The Wanyu Sect usually used such spiritual items for the main ingredients in Foundation Building Pills. Very few people used it directly because of the severe side effects.

Usually, only individual practitioners or subordinate factions would use it directly.

Looking at that thing, Wang Zijia glanced at the five people fighting in the sky and showed a wicked smile at the corners of his mouth.

"Since you all are so generous, I won’t hold back either!"

As he muttered, Wang Zijia led a Fuwa ghost baby to quietly approach.

As the ghost beings born from the second-grade Magic Door, they were very difficult for common children to perceive once they had transformed into ghosts, especially during a battle.

Thus, the Ghost Babies easily reached the corpses, and then suddenly materialized, grabbing the Spiritual Light Group on the corpse of the demon and turning to run.

"How dare you!"

"You’re asking for death!"

"Damn!"

The moment the Ghost Babies appeared, the three child combatants in the battle all paused, turned their heads to look, and yelled fiercely at the Ghost Babies.

But the Ghost Babies ignored them completely and, after grabbing their spoils, a talisman floated up, causing the entire ghost body to transform into a stream of light. They flickered out over a distance of ten meters and then quickly rushed away.

Seeing this, the three men also churned with spiritual power and chased after them.

Three inhalations of time later, Wang Zijia manipulated the remaining four Fuwa Ghost Babies to approach several corpses for their inspection.

That’s right! Wang Zijia didn’t really care about whether he could snatch that spiritual object. What he was more concerned about was inspecting the corpses!

Upon arriving at the Flying Immortal Sect disciple’s corpse and searching for a moment, a small cloth bag the size of a palm was found by Wang Zijia.

’Tsk tsk, as expected of a disciple from a Major Sect, even a random disciple has a Storage Bag. They truly are wealthy.’

Of course, the disciples who could come from the Wanyu Sect this time were almost all about the same.

Without immediately checking the Storage Bag, Wang Zijia searched the remaining four Daqian Academy disciples. These four were far behind; behind them were medium-large rune-wrapped parcels that expanded about ten times. They barely counted as advanced Magical Weapons.

Wang Zijia didn’t immediately check these either but hung one on each Fuwa Ghost Baby. After a brief hesitation, he gathered all the corpses on the ground, including some demon corpses nearby, into the Storage Bag.

After looking around and confirming that there was nothing else to loot, Wang Zijia quietly left.

At the same time, his Mind sensed that the Ghost Baby responsible for acting as bait had rushed out of the city. However, it had not lost the three disciples who were chasing it and was about to be caught up with quickly.

Wang Zijia immediately triggered his Mind, and the fleeing Ghost Baby’s figure trembled. It immediately threw out the Spiritual Item in its hand, then ran off in another direction.

The three pursuers paused all at once, then in perfect coordination chased after the Spiritual Item.

A few moments later, Wang Zijia’s main body crawled out from the ruins and without a word, turned and ran out of the city.

The Fuwa Babies carrying four parcels on their backs followed right behind. Their plump little faces were full of concentrated effort; they looked exceptionally adorable.

As they fled the city, the Fuwa Ghost Baby acting as ’bait’ also rejoined them. The Five Fuwas transformed into ghost shadows, merging into Wang Zijia’s body. Wang Zijia’s running speed skyrocketed, and in the blink of an eye, he had disappeared from view.

Several dozen moments after he left, two flashes of Spiritual Light burst out from within the city. They held extreme rage, but after a thorough search yielded nothing, they could only reluctantly give up.

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Carrying four parcels on his back, Wang Zijia ran for a good half an hour under the cover of the Five Ghosts. He only stopped once he had completely left the city behind.

He found a safe place in the wilderness and set down a Concealment Array Disk.

Spiritual power flowed around the Array Disk, as runes flickered. An energy cover mimicking the surrounding spanned several meters, slowly rendering Wang Zijia and the Five Ghosts invisible.