My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 457 - 413: Returning the Favor with the Jade Disk of Dao Law_2

Chapter 457: Chapter 413: Returning the Favor with the Jade Disk of Dao Law_2

"You mean this object is..." he said in a tone tinged with surprise.

"I didn’t say anything. The effect of this object is just as I’ve just mentioned. Senior Brother, feel free to check it with Uncle Gu," replied Wang Zijia, changing the subject.

Hearing this, Gu Yuebai looked at the two jade talisman discs on the table, his face fraught with indecision.

If this object really had the effects Wang Zijia had implicitly suggested... this wasn’t a return gift at all. It was more like selling an enormous favor to the Gu family!

Any object that could help a person condense an Infant God... wasn’t each one a sky-shaking treasure?

After a moment, he sighed and reluctantly picked up the jade pieces. "Junior Brother, you truly are... Don’t worry, I won’t leak any information about this object from the Gu family," he said with a bitter smile.

Wang Zijia just shook his head and said, "Senior Brother, you don’t have to be like that. There’s nothing shady about this thing. It’s just like a fake pill and it’s only effective as a low-grade product for sacrificial wine."

He laughed. This was just a medium for demon seeding. Without people to exchange it with, it was nothing more than a jade disk with a Dao talisman. While the effect was superior, the nature of this Dao was transparent to the sect’s high levels.

It was just that he had combined it with Artifact Path to develop it, so it could perform artifact making for others’ promotions. There were many similar methods in the sect, but they all carried varying degrees of risk.

The moment Wang Zijia decided not to use the Balanced Scale to exchange, this Dao talisman was no more different, maybe just classified as a fine product.

Gu Yuebai did not dwell on this topic after hearing this.

Their conversation shifted and they started chatting leisurely again.

They talked about the recent happenings in the sect and the young generation of the Gu family.

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A while later, Wang Zijia rose to take his leave.

After watching Wang Zijia leave, Gu Yuebai took out the jade disk and looked at it for a while, but he couldn’t discern anything specific.

He immediately rose, returned to the Gu family ancestral land, and met with the patriarch Gu Yuncheng in person.

He presented the jade disc with the Dao talisman and reported everything that had happened without any omission.

"Did he really say that?" Gu Yuncheng asked while playing with the Dao talisman.

"Yes, if it wasn’t for Junior Brother Wang implying that this object could help with my promotion, I wouldn’t dare go against your wishes and privately accept his return gift," Gu Yuebai replied respectfully.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuncheng started using various methods to examine the Jade Disk Dao Talisman.

But ultimately, he frowned; it was just an ordinary magic tool. The effect was a bit peculiar, but it was just a fine product, nothing more.

"Interesting!" his expression was mysterious.

Gu Yuebai, hesitated and then asked, "Patriarch, I really don’t understand why you are giving special treatment to Junior Brother Wang."

"Over these years, there have been many geniuses in the Outer Sect who are superior to Junior Brother Wang, and a few Immortal Spiritual Roots were discovered, but we didn’t strive to get close to them, we even lent them the Infant God spiritual object...".

Gu Yuncheng cast a glance at Gu Yuebai, and after a moment, declared, "50 years ago, after the failure of your thirteenth cousin’s promotion to Infant God, I sought out the Du Family at the Wentian Pavilion and obtained a Hongyun Coin for you."

Gu Yuebai was taken aback, his gaze fixed on Gu Yuncheng. "Could it be..."

"Exactly," said Gu Yuncheng. "I was quite taken aback at the time. I had just casually placed him as a chess piece for the clan to take care of, who knew that... the Hongyun Coin would be activated so abruptly."

"The Hongyun Coin from the Wentian Pavilion only triggers extreme good luck under extremely certain circumstances! Otherwise, I wouldn’t have risked fighting Yue Changqing, who’s practically one foot in the grave."

"Careless actions could lead to my downfall, but they could also turn around in my favor. They might as well provide an opportunity to extend the cycle of the God Monarch for the Gu family."

Gu Yuncheng spoke, his gaze fixed onto the two Dao Talisman jade discs, while Gu Yuebai was slightly startled.

The old and young kept staring at the two extremely ordinary Dao Talisman Jade Discs, falling silent for a while.

After a while, Gu Yuncheng tossed a jade disc to Gu Yuebai and said, "Use this directly before your breakthrough. As for this one... I’ll keep it for research."

"Yes, I understand," he said. The hand holding the jade disc clenched tightly.

It was as if the jade disc in his hand wasn’t just an ordinary magical tool, but represented his cultivation path and future for hundreds of years.

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It was evening when Wang Zijia returned to the White Peach Peak.

"You’re out?" Xiang Feifei exclaimed excitedly as Wang Zijia entered the courtyard.

"Hmm!" Wang Zijia nodded, then acting surprised, asked: "You’ve broken through the sacrificial wine stage? When did this happen?"

Xiang Feifei froze, then quickly said, "Yeah, I suddenly broke through in the past few days."

Wang Zijia: "······"

Could you put a little effort into your lies!

The matter was settled without further discussion, as both clearly understood each other.

But because this issue was raised, they spent an inordinate amount of time bickering, engaging in several rounds of decisive battles in the Peach Forest and even skipping dinner.

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At night, Wang Zijia went to the underground base. It had been more than half a month since the last harvest, and many corpses had piled up in the ice cave.

Magical Silk Threads fluttered about, continuously absorbing pollution.

The Five Ghosts, Da Chou, and Qi Peach Trees, all greedily scavenged at the back.

All of them were large eaters, especially Da Chou. Nowadays, the corpses were simply not enough to satiate their hunger.

"Value +710,000!"

Taiji: 790,000

After absorbing all the pollution, Wang Zijia checked his cultivation and savings.

Dao Cultivation: 500 years (25.97 million / 40 million)

Magic money: 260,000

Dao Kung: 150,000

Although there was still a sizable gap in his cultivation, his Spiritual Object had begun to take shape. He could even try to breakthrough using an unlimited reroll strategy with the things at hand.

But this would not only require at least several millions of magic money, but also a cultivation method!

The infuriating thing was that Wang Zijia learned from various circles over the past few days that the cultivation method for the Infant God stage could only be obtained from the Scripture Pavilion. As for the task quota, all direct disciples of the head teacher’s lineage had to undertake it. There was no escaping it.

"Damn it!" Wang Zijia shook his head speechlessly, "Let’s save up some money first, prepare enough value to speak of, and worry about the cultivation method later!"

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Every day, making talismans and teaching became Wang Zijia’s main sources of income. His daily income from Jade Talismans was about 10,000, and the income from teaching was uncertain. After averaging it out, he managed to earn a good 5,000 to 6,000 units of Dao Kung.

For the Preaching lineage, this income wasn’t considered low.

After all, it was only teaching, and Wang Zijia couldn’t possibly inflate rates too much, thereby avoiding exorbitant tuition fees.

Of course, compared to an ordinary Preaching Tower, Wang Zijia had arguably already set the price sky-high.

Time flew, and another ten days passed.

One day, a notification suddenly came from Wang Zijia’s Identity Card.

"Inheritance Hall notification: Dao Child Wang Zijia, a new inheritance order has been created for you. Please check it as soon as possible and decide whether to accept it. If you do not respond within a day, we will regard it as an automatic refusal."

Attached to the notification was a document.

Customer: Daoqi Lineage Chen Family.

Target: Chen Yichang.

Category: Array Chess Cultivator (with a little Beast Control).

Cultivation: Perfected Middle Stage (has declined, originally at the peak of the late stage).

Status: Near the end of his lifespan, severely polluted.

Description: A member of the Daoqi Lineage’s Chen family, Chen Yichang showed extraordinary talent at an early age by incorporating chess into his cultivation and achieved the Perfected rank by supplementing it with the Array Dao. His actions and success averted the imminent decline of the Chen family.

There are now two Perfected cultivators in the family, making them one of the top true families in the Daoqi lineage.

However, due to injuries sustained during struggles in his early years, even though he managed to suppress them using the black and white chess pieces corresponding to the demonic chess pieces, it eventually led to major problems.

Now at the end of his lifespan, various diseases have erupted one after the other, including the severe pollution he had previously managed to suppress.

Note: This person is severely polluted. Extraction of inheritance is extremely difficult. Please consider carefully before accepting it.

Reading the information, Wang Zijia suddenly realized why a third-grade order was directly assigned to him. It seemed that the severe pollution, high chances of failure, and potential impact on performance made this the kind of task that no one wanted to take on.