My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 447 - 406: Spirit Essence【Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions】

Chapter 447: Chapter 406: Spirit Essence【Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions】

The two chatted idly for over an hour before ending their conversation.

After leaving the Administrative Office, Wang Zijia went to the Artifact Academy.

He realized that as a Perfected Monk from the Outer Sect, it made more sense to network in the Outer Sect rather than look for connections in the Inner Sect among the Qifeng.

His approach yesterday was wrong!

Even though he was known as a genius, people from different circles might not necessarily accept him. After all, he was still at the Outer Sect!

So, he changed his route today and visited several academies, such as the Artifact Academy, the Talisman Court, and many others. He tried to establish relations with all of the twelve courtyards in the Outer Sect.

Since it didn’t cost anything, he figured he might as well try his luck first.

Due to a lack of cultivation time, he had few connections. As a result, it was inevitable that it was difficult for him to search for spiritual objects.

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He visited many places and drank more spiritual tea than his belly could hold.

It wasn’t until evening that Wang Zijia returned to White Peach Peak, feeling quite drained!

Xiang Feifei was still purposefully avoiding him, appearing to be busy at the foot of the mountain as if she was working overtime.

The main reason was that she didn’t want to lie to him, but also couldn’t tell him the truth.

Wang Zijia pretended not to realize it.

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Upon reaching the underground base, he headed to the refrigeration area.

More than a thousand Paper Figures were busy arranging the corpses neatly in the cold storage, and kept checking from time to time to prevent the Demonic Corpses from transforming again.

He hadn’t managed the corpses for almost half a month, and they had piled up significantly.

Wang Zijia stood in the center of the cold storage, extended several silk threads from his body, and began to absorb the pollution continuously.

As the cold storage was specially built by Wang Zijia, the placement of the corpses was very suitable for him to absorb the pollution, making his actions swift.

Shortly after, all the corpses in the entire cold storage were initially absorbed by Wang Zijia.

The Five Ghosts and Major Ugly flew out from his body and began to devour the corpses.

Meanwhile, Wang Zijia turned around and continued his absorption in the next room.

"Value +750,000!"

Taiji: 890,000

After about half an hour, Wang Zijia had absorbed all the accumulated pollution, revealing a satisfied smile.

It seemed like not all aspects of war were bad. After all, if it wasn’t for Jiang Mingda and others scavenging corpses on the battlefield,

he would likely only have a tenth of the amount through the patrol team at the same time.

Just as he was about to return to his laboratory, Wang Zijia suddenly trembled, and an unexpected surge of spiritual energy emerged from the next cold storage room.

’What is this······’

With a flash of his body, Wang Zijia arrived next door.

At this moment, he saw the Five Ghosts floating in mid-air, their aura continuously strengthening.

Apparently, the Five Ghosts were also beginning to progress to the late Genuine stage!

If you talk about Wang Zijia absorbing the pollution, compared to them eating the corpses, they would have gained significantly more value.

If it weren’t for Major Ugly and Seven Trees sharing the food, and Wang Zijia consuming a Bewildering God Pill worth 200 million Magic Money, they should have advanced before Wang Zijia!

The aura of the Five Ghosts lingered for a while, and the moment they completely completed the upgrade, Wang Zijia’s body also experienced a substantial spiritual energy surge.

"Cultivation Value Degree +350,000!"

Dao Cultivation: Five Hundred Years (20.85 Million/40 Million)

He unexpectedly received a significant supplement!

That made sense, after all, the Five Ghosts had become his Art Spirits, including the form of the Molten Rock Guardian.

Name: Big Baby (Ghost Baby)

Cultivation: [Perfected] Posterior Stage

Evil Source: Ordinary

Dao Cultivation: Five Hundred Years (20 Million/40 Million)

Belongs To: Sinister Transformation Summoning Creatures

Talents: Ghost Child Bewitching, Summoned God Child, Molten Rock Guardian

After looking at the information of the Five Ghosts, there weren’t many changes, at least not fundamentally.

"Wa wa?"

"Wa!"

"Qua qua!"

"Soso!"

Ghosts howling, frogs croaking, flesh tentacles and tree roots wriggling, a large group of ghost things were celebrating cheerfully in the cold storage, like demons dancing.

Wang Zijia only glanced at them for a moment before ignoring these ghostly entities.

He turned around to leave the refrigeration area and came to the laboratory where blood red runes were spread all over and a bone altar stood.

He sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to sense the Paper Figures he had sent out earlier.

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In a nondescript corner of the Ghost Market, an obscured Paper Figure suddenly swelled up and transformed into an old Taoist.

Then, he moved his mind slightly.

He located a log-in area and quickly walked over.

When he arrived outside a log-in room, he surprisingly took out the order symbol for this room from his pocket and went in.

The room was barely one square meter, resembling a changing room. A puppet stood in it, and now that it was joined by an old Taoist, it felt a bit cramped.

The old Taoist, transformed from a Paper Figure, looked at the puppet and without uttering a word, raised his hand and pressed a strange Heart of Rune into the puppet.

The ordinary and dull puppet gradually gained spiritual wisdom.

Item: Marionette

Category: Special Puppets

Level: Second-grade magic weapon (Top grade 1.5 million/200)

Design: Human form

Status: Mechanical Mind (Presettable)

Function: The marionette can carry messages over long distances and be controlled. This is a basic method of a puppet master.

Looking at the completed puppet, Wang Zijia’s mouth curled slightly.

His confidence in anchoring to the Ghost Market was not due to the formidable stealth means of the paper figure that could evade the cleaning mechanisms of this place on its own.

Rather, the cleaning mechanism of this place surely wouldn’t repel its own puppets specifically designed for user login, right?

Smiling, the old Taoist paper figure transformed and draped itself over the puppet.

Immediately after, the hermit’s eyes came to life.

Wang Zijia started moving around, no longer feeling the remoteness of operation.

Nodding in satisfaction, the anchor had finally been completed, and he could start exploring this Ghost Market with peace of mind.

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He stepped out of the exclusive compartment for ’Login Online’.

And walked onto the street.

At this moment, the time was around eight or nine o’clock, just when the Ghost Market was at its busiest.

On the cross-shaped street, many puppets were coming and going, carefully inspecting the stalls on both sides.

Sometimes you could also see avatars like Wang Zijia that looked like real people.

Usually when such figures appeared, everyone would instinctively step aside a little.

Although visual displays of cultivation are almost non-existent here for various reasons.

Those who would bring a puppet were most likely real-life monks, and those who could cross ten thousand miles to come here like Wang Zijia were mostly God Monarchs.

Of course, this was only the majority.

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Yesterday he merely took a brief stroll around to get a preliminary understanding of the situation before hastily leaving.

Today, Wang Zijia leisurely browsed the stalls. The entire market square was very traditional, modeled on ancient markets.

Of course, those who set up stalls were not of low cultivation, so no one was hawking.

Only occasional conversations and negotiations over prices could be heard, making the atmosphere lively but not too chaotic.

As he wandered around, Wang Zijia became more and more amazed.

Third-grade items here were practically the lowest level, fourth-grade items were considered exquisite, and fifth-grade items were not unheard of.

Such top-of-the-line items were not auctioned off, everyone just set up stalls here, making the social circle Wang Zijia had gotten accustomed to seem somewhat fantastical!

Suddenly, Wang Zijia stopped before a stall, looking at a jade talisman about the size of a yellow paper charm. It was covered in dense runes that were dizzying to look at.

Although it was somewhat worn, it didn’t change the fact that it was a fourth-class treasure, and still a Talisman Dao inheritance magic weapon.

"How much is this in Spirit Essence?" Wang Zijia asked.

Spirit Essence: Secondary currency in the Cultivation World, mostly used by monks of the Middle Third Boundary, units: Money, Liang!

Ten money makes one liang, and one liang of Spirit Essence is roughly equivalent to ten thousand magic money, it is easier to exchange down, but there is a premium to exchange up.

Unlike the unified system of magic money, Spirit Essence is not fixed.

Spirit Stone, Spirit Milk, and Spiritual Liquid are all included and referred to as Spirit Essence, counted in liang!

The reason for using liang as the unit is because Spirit Essence measures the spiritual power in these items.

No matter what form your Spirit Essence is in, one liang contains the same amount of spiritual power!

In ancient times, the main currency was actually spirit stones, and they were also counted in units of pieces.

But as time went on, during the last epoch, the Fifth Era, these resources became extremely scarce, and gradually, spirit stones became precious.

Moreover, spirit stones are not like gold, they can’t be easily melted. Spirit stones resemble crystals and are mined out as irregular prismatic shapes.

To polish a prismatic spirit stone into uniformly shaped pieces, no matter what the standard, at least two to three percent gets wasted.

This is a completely unnecessary loss.

Moreover, there are differences in the concentration of spiritual power. Even the same quality spirit stones differ slightly in energy concentration.

It didn’t matter when resources were plentiful, but in an era of increasing resource scarcity, these are very critical issues.

Later, an array repairer invented the spirit scale using a prospecting disc, which can accurately weigh the spiritual energy content in spiritual objects.

So the originally standard spirit stones exited the historical stage, and entered the era of Spirit Essence currency.

Likewise, with the invention of renewable magic money, Spirit Essence became a high-level currency.

After all, whether it’s Spirit Stone or Spirit Milk, they are not only currency but also valuable cultivation resources.

And the currency in the Ghost Market is Spirit Essence.

Although Wang Zijia didn’t have a single penny of Spirit Essence, it didn’t prevent him from asking the price.

"Ten thousand liang! Or you can exchange it for a sword dao magic treasure of the same level." The reply from the puppet stallholder was clearly not in AI mode, but was manually operated.

’Heck······ Ten thousand liang, isn’t that one billion magic money? Are you kidding me?’ Wang Zijia was speechless and responded: "You might as well just rob."

The puppet gave Wang Zijia, who had transformed into a real human hermit, a glance and replied indifferently: "This is a complete fourth-class hereditary Talisman Master, not only containing a set of talisman techniques, but the talisman can also act as an Innate life magic treasure, and may even contain cultic methods!"

"With it, you can quickly cultivate an Infant God. This price is absolutely a big bargain!"

Rolling his eyes, Wang Zijia responded: "Do you also dare to spout these lies you use to deceive where real people live?"

"Not to mention the issue of incomplete treasure, I have a question. Is this a complete inheritance made by a talisman master or a broken inheritance that a talisman cultivator actively dismantled before death?"

The puppet was caught off guard by Wang Zijia’s question and replied: "The inheritance created by the Talisman Master is not much different from the one by the inheritance master, it’s just slightly more broken."

Wang Zijia glanced at him, without any desire to continue negotiations.

This person was obviously not sincerely wanting to sell!

Or he wanted to wait for a big fool to come!