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Chapter 278: Ji Chao’s Breakthrough

Chapter 278: Chapter 278: Ji Chao’s Breakthrough

It wasn’t that assembling 15,000 contributions was difficult. Even though it was hard for the Ji Family to train anyone in the big money-making fields like pill refining, talisman creating, array setting, and instrument making, the entire family had been working for several decades. Add to that a bit of doing small business and they could make enough.

The key issue was one A-grade task indicator required for the exchange of the Foundation Building Pill, which had stumped too many disciples.

Today, about eighty disciples with different cultivation levels from the Ji Family, most of them had come to the North Ancestor Temple of Varied Veins. The clan elders had heavily fortified the ancestral temple, making everyone feel anxious and serious.

It was because the clan had scrimped and saved for several decades. After risking everything to focus on cultivating their current "genius", Ji Chao, today he was finally about to take the last step!

The reason why they attached such great importance to it was that Ji Chao had managed to obtain a level B superior spiritual item, which meant that there was hope for him to host a ritual!

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In the ancestral hall, inside the cultivation chamber which was enveloped by every kind of messy array,

After Ji Chao had set up the altar, he looked at the various arrays that started to glisten in the chamber, showing hesitation. He was unsure whether these arrays would affect his connection to his Martial Uncle Li Xiaoyao via the altar.

"I’ll give it a try first. If it doesn’t work, I’ll switch it off and start over!"

Having said that, Ji Chao started to perform the ritual on the altar following the method Wang Zijia had given him. When the faint spiritual wind started to circulate in the chamber and Ji Chao felt it was about right, he bowed to the altar in front of him like it was an altar offering and prayed,

"Disciple Ji Chao, having fulfilled my duties, hereby report upward, please bless me, Martial Uncle Li, with a spiritual item for my breakthrough!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the spiritual wind in the chamber didn’t stop. Threads of red sand, appearing like mist, seemed to jump out from the void, slowly forming a five-meter long crystal serpent. The serpent coiled and uprighted itself, as if they just met for the first time.

Despite only about over a year, the situations for both of them had become completely different. Seeing this, Ji Chao was shocked in his heart and immediately paid his respect, "Greetings, Martial Uncle Xiaoyao!"

The crystal serpent transformed by Wang Zijia didn’t immediately respond to Ji Chao. He sized Ji Chao up and down as if inspecting his status, actually, he was checking Ji Chao’s information with his mind.

Name: Ji Chao

Cultivation: Advanced Pupil

Spiritual Roots: Medium grade (Fourth Grade)

Dao Cultivation: One hundred years (18000/18000)

Spells: Bloodline Extraction (Great Mastery), Bloodline Fusion (Great Mastery), Eagle Body Change (Great Mastery), Spirit Wing Escape Technique (Minor Accomplishment, 1998/2000), Eagle Claw Attack (Minor Accomplishment, 2995/3000)·······

Available Value: 7563

After a brief moment, Wang Zijia furrowed his brows. Ji Chao only mastered seven out of the Nine Foundation Techniques that he used to form the transformation of the eagle’s bloodline. A mid-level escaping technique and a high-level attacking spell hadn’t attained mastery yet.

Even though it was just a tiny bit short, adding up it was like seven or eight points of value. However, this gap right at the last step was not small at all.

Frowning, Wang Zijia shaped like a little snake opened his mouth slightly and said in human language, "Your foundation is not strong. You’re uncertain about the basics, why do you want to break through now?"

Ji Chao was taken aback, then flashed another bitter expression and said, "Martial Uncle, you may not really understand us, the lower level cultivators. We can’t compare with geniuses like you. I’m well aware that it’s dangerous to force a breakthrough with just seven techniques, mastering."

"But I haven’t made any progress in nearly ten years. Without any lucky encounter, it’s likely that it’s still the same after dragging on for another twenty years. I’m already nearly 50 years old, if I keep dragging on, the hope will only become more remote."

"Instead of watching the breakthrough opportunity slip away, I might as well gamble. After all, I’m already the one with the highest talent and the closest to hosting a ritual in the clan for nearly a hundred years."

On hearing this, Wang Zijia fell silent for a while and said, "Fine, it can be considered as our acquaintance with lowly status, I’ll help you one more hand!"

After saying this, under Ji Chao’s surprised gaze, Wang Zijia opened his mouth and spat out a bloody pill, saying, "This is a second-grade Secret Inheritance comprehension pill specially made. Its medical effect is several times stronger than that of the first-grade Wisdom Heart Pill. The key is that it has a miraculous effect on those who are stuck in a bottleneck of lower-level spells."

Ji Chao was first elated, then he seemed to remember something and asked, "How much is the Fa money?"

"Well, it doesn’t worth much, but this pill is a secret of the Pill Institute. Ordinary people can’t get it, even taking a look is impossible."

Wang Zijia had already squeezed Ji Chao out completely. He knew very well that Ji Chao had become a total pauper. Instead of having him owe three to five thousand Fa money, it’s better to maximize the value.

Therefore, when he said this, he changed the subject and said with a smile, "But our relationship, of course, can’t be measured with a pill. I will give it to you for free as a premature congratulation for your ritual."

Although Ji Chao didn’t know the principle that the most expensive thing was the free one, he realized that Wang Zijia had sold him a huge favor.

However, he was not happy about it. What Wang Zijia did was more than providing timely help, it was also treating him on an equal basis. So he said solemnly, "Martial Uncle, I will always remember your kindness today."

Wang Zijia’s serpentine mouth tilted up slightly and spat out a jade box again. Inside the box was a clump of blood the size of a palm. A bird beak was faintly visible in the clump of blood.

This was the so-called level B superior spiritual item, demon sparrow bone, in the legend. Of course, the one Wang Zijia had was fake. Inside was a Sinners’ seed eroded by Wang Zijia’s demon seeding.

Under the dual effects of demon seeding and Sinners’ seed, ordinary means could hardly see through the disguise of this spiritual item.

"Alright, it’s not early anymore, you should start your breakthrough. I’ll help you guard!" Wang Zijia handed the two items to him and said indifferently.

Ji Chao heard what he said, took a deep breath, and took out several more jade boxes. However, all of them were rubbish, not even a single Foundation Building Pill.

Of course, if Ji Chao could break through with the top-tier configuration of a spiritual item plus a Foundation Building Pill, the Ji Family wouldn’t have fallen to where it is today.

He took a deep breath. First, he picked up the bloody pill that Wang Zijia gave him and swallowed it without any hesitation. Given their cultivation level and the degree of secrecy between them, Wang Zijia did not need to wait until now if he wanted to harm him, so he didn’t worry about it.

After swallowing the pill, he subconsciously pursed his lips, why did the taste resemble the lowest level Cultivating Yuan Pill?

Does the top-level Secret Inheritance pill taste that simple?

Before he could ponder more, an insight suddenly emerged in his mind. Although it wasn’t much, they were the slight bits of spiritual light he needed.

At this moment, it was as if the sky and the earth opened in his mind. As a bit of spiritual light emerged, those two spells, which he was getting stuck while forming, quickly condensed into runes.

Knowing that this was a rare opportunity, he didn’t hesitate and grabbed various spiritual objects to swallow, starting to prepare for the breakthrough.

But the moment he swallowed the demon sparrow bone, he was completely stunned and seemed to have lost all consciousness. His mind was filled with all kinds of crazy thoughts, and his body felt a bit weird.