My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 525 - 466: Returning to the Clan

Chapter 525: Chapter 466: Returning to the Clan

"It isn’t Gu Yuebai, Brother Yuebai should have another month or two!"

"Are there other renowned people likely to successfully cross the tribulation?"

"Hmm? I haven’t heard of it, which lineage is this?"

"They say it’s the Repository Guard of Scripture Pavilion. I heard it from our family’s patriarch. Zhang, the head of the Pill Institute, revealed this while searching for spiritual objects."

"So it’s the Repository Guard, that makes sense. Those of their lineage mostly keep themselves isolated, they do not act unless the Sect is in distress. This sudden emergence is not so surprising."

"Wait, Zhang, the one I’m thinking of?"

"Correct!"

"Could it be a genius from the Zhang Family who has been in isolation?"

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"Has there been any unusual activity in the sect recently?"

"Well, the Devil Gate has been very active these past three to five days. But the Sect’s top tiers have been oddly quiet!"

"The Dharma Assembly concluded half a month ago. The Bone Soul Sect should have recovered by now, I estimate they are planning something!"

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Various familiar discussions in the small circle entered into Wang Zijia’s ears as he quietly merged in. When hearing the news about the Repository Guard, he was stunned.

This matter had just been settled in the afternoon, and now it’s widespread here, showing the information here was quite extensive.

Of course, this was also a result of deliberate effort by Zhang Decheng.

After mingling with everyone for a while, and after the meeting, he went to the Ghost Market and mingled in another small circle.

After habitually searching for spiritual objects in a full circle, he still gained nothing.

However, Wang Zijia was no longer impatient.

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At the ruins of the Three Realms Temple on Zhongshan, Wang Zijia slowly opened his eyes.

The five ghosts protecting the law by his side and Chu Ziyu simultaneously noticed this and immediately stood up, "Father!"

Wang Zijia nodded and asked, "Any gains?"

In addition to Wang Zijia himself digging three feet into the ground these past few days, Chu Ziyu had also been leading ordinary paper figures, which Wang Zijia refined earlier, to search everywhere.

"No, we found no spiritual tools or special tools." Chu Ziyu cautiously replied.

"Then continue searching!" Wang Zijia replied indifferently.

"Understood!" Chu Ziyu sighed in relief, quietly withdrew, and resumed guiding the paper figures to search.

Wang Zijia didn’t mind much, he hadn’t held much hope for this, it was already a stroke of luck to have a mysterious bone whistle.

He grabbed the magic treasure given by Zhang Decheng from his palm. The round shield, palm-sized, was dark and deep, yet the texture was warm and smooth. With the spiritual light circulating, it looked like a piece of black jade.

It was very visually appealing.

His eyes shone, and he checked the information of the magic treasure.

After pondering for a moment, Wang Zijia chose not to smelt it into his Demon Armor.

Even though he already had a protective magic treasure, the Magma Demon Armor, but in the current situation, having one more defensive magic treasure was actually better than melting it into one.

After all, Wang Zijia couldn’t guarantee that combining the Demon Armor and Round Shield would upgrade it to fifth grade!

With his thoughts, he raised his hand and summoned his mana. One by one, the runes condensed in his palm, slowly forming a rune ball.

’Enlightenment: Activation!’

As Wang Zijia pressed the rune ball onto the spiritual shield, the shield burst into strong spiritual light and continued to tremble.

Mana flooded in during this process, and the runes on the rune ball followed the mana and flowed into the spiritual shield.

Because he was not just refining the magic treasure, but also activating enlightenment while refining this treasure.

Therefore, the artifact spirit of the spiritual shield, which already had not weak spiritual wisdom, did not show any resistance, and even actively cooperated with Wang Zijia’s refining.

So within just half a day, Wang Zijia completed the initial refining of a top-grade magic treasure.

Utensil: Insect Armor Spirit Origin Shield

Level: Fourth-Class Treasure (Top-Grade 2.1 billion/3 billion)

System: Shield

Status: Spiritual Wisdom formed

Function one: Spiritual Shield; for general protection, activates an energy cover that encases the whole body.

Function two: Point Shield; the round shield can automatically move across the body and actively block attacks. In this state, the shield’s defense is extremely strong, but the surrounding areas lack defense, so it is only suitable for dealing with powerful individual attacks.

Of course, these two states are not independent, Spiritual Shield and Point Shield can be activated at the same time, the round shield moves on the energy cover, but the consumption is slightly higher.

Treasure Power·Light Haste: Reduces mana consumption by 30% while using this treasure for defense and weakens incoming attacks to a certain extent.

’Excellent!’

Looking at the round shield that was jumping like an elf before him, Wang Zijia nodded with satisfaction amidst the smile.

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He got familiar with it for a while before putting it away.

Then he turned to the five ghosts by his side.

Over the past half month, the biggest gains were not made by Wang Zijia himself, but by these five guys and the major ugly inside them.

The Moon Demon Cliff was a horrific scene of dismemberment, most of the initiates had practiced the pollution method, leading to most of the pollution being sieved out through inheritance and taken away by the sect.

By the time it reached Wang Zijia’s hands, not much extractable pollution was left.

However, these flesh and bones were very real, and most of them had a high level of cultivation.

Even though there weren’t any divine infant bones left (these were collected by the sect’s specialists before the corpse collection team arrived), there were countless sacrificial wines and perfected devil corpses.

In addition, the tens of thousands of human pills plundered from demons were wiped out by these six individuals.

At that time, the five ghosts and Major Ugly had all reached the peak of the Perfected Realm. However, becoming divine infants was not going to be easy.

The five ghosts had a plan. Since they were already considered art spirits, they could advance together with Wang Zijia, but Major Ugly would have to find another way.

After checking on the five ghosts, Wang Zijia began to examine his own condition and manage his situation, making the final preparations for his ascension to divine infant status.

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Time flew by and five days had passed, which was somewhat a miscalculation on Wang Zijia’s part.

He’d assumed that the sect would send a divine infant to defend this location to prevent anyone from intruding for a short period of time, to avoid the leakage of information. Hence, he thought he had at most five or six days.

He’d already waited three days, so he thought he could complete the handover in the next three days, then schedule a two day trip to the enclave. After leaving the anchor points, it would be easier to come and go.

However, he ended up waiting five more days, and along with the previous three days, no one had come even after eight days.

It seemed that the sect intended to send a perfected individual to defend the place.

After a little contemplation, he finally realized.

Indeed, with a big battle looming, the normal thing to do was not to station a divine infant to guard these ruins.

Considering his agreement with Zhang Decheng on the day of the nascent formation was already due, Wang Zijia decided to go and complete his nascent formation first. Afterwards, he could return and wait for someone to complete the transfer, then go to the enclave in the same manner.

Leaving Chu Ziyu in charge of the defense, Wang Zijia entered the temporarily dug underground space.

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In the underground space of Zhongshan, Wang Zijia took a deep breath.

First, he took out an anchor artifact that had been activated to develop a mechanical spiritual intelligence. With a movement of his mind, the artifact demon skin seemingly transformed and emerged from Wang Zijia’s body.

The two faced each other in silence, appearing like two identical Wang Zijias, with the same looks, aura, and strength.

Normally, Wang Zijia couldn’t manage to create a Chaotic Sea of Knowledge of his whole being, so he would not be able to complete the self-space transfer.

But······ things were different with the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain!

Wang Zijia handed the Blood Jade Book to the demon body. As the demon’s body fluctuated with magic power, the book spontaneously flipped open. As the bird’s eye view of the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain appeared, the book rapidly grew in size.

In the blink of an eye, it turned into a gigantic bird’s eye view map.

Simultaneously, the surface of the scroll began to ripple like water, and the entrance to the Bewitching Domain appeared.

Seeing this, Wang Zijia decisively stepped into the passage and entered the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain.

After the original body disappeared, the demon body stopped supplying magic power, and the book returned to its normal size.

Subsequently, the demon’s body retreated into the book cover once more. The book closed and leapt into the air for a moment before diving into the Chaotic Sea of Knowledge in the anchor artifact in front of it.

The temporary basement was left with only a lonely anchor artifact.

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At the same time, in the underground base of Wanyu Sect’s Jade Talisman Array, and White Peach Peak.

A blood-red book abruptly emerged from the anchor tool, with the demon’s body appearing and reactivating the book.

As the book opened, the entrance to the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain was reactivated.

Wang Zijia emerged from within, inspecting his surroundings to confirm that he had returned to the White Peach Peak, and nodded in satisfaction.

Although theoretically feasible, and having tried it out on numerous individuals, this was the first time that Wang Zijia had successfully completed a self-transfer, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He put away the book and his demon body once more, checked again over himself to ensure there were no issues, and quietly left the underground base.

Without alerting anyone, he left White Peach Peak, heading towards Qifeng.

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A quarter of an hour later, just as the sun was leaving the horizon, Wang Zijia silently arrived at the lower mountain area of Inheritance Peak, inside the Heavenly Inquiry Tower.

He met Zhang Decheng, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Greet the tower master!" Wang Zijia respectfully greeted Zhang Decheng, "I trust this disciple has not arrived late?"

Instead of answering Wang Zijia’s question, Zhang Decheng carefully scrutinized him for a moment before saying, "How is your preparation? If there’s any issue, it’s fine to polish it for another two days. There’s no rush."

"Thank you for your concern, tower master. This disciple has finished preparing. The only thing missing is the spiritual object!" Wang Zijia responded respectfully.

Zhang Decheng waved his hand, taking out two boxes.

He first opened one of them, which contained a jet-black heart of a tree.

Zhang Decheng handed it to Wang Zijia and explained, "This is a Divine Wood Heart nurtured for evolution, an extremely rare fourth-grade spiritual wood. After it achieved spiritual essence, it was nurtured for tens of thousands of years. It’s a top-grade natural spiritual object."

"It is very neutral and is considered the highest grade among the spiritual objects used by heart spirit practitioners for forming a nascent configuration!"

Upon hearing this, a smile appeared on Wang Zijia’s face. He quickly took it and examined it meticulously, holding it lovingly.

Even after much effort for half a year, all he had obtained was a pile of garbage.

The value of the main material he had just obtained, even if combined with the spiritual objects he had previously obtained (which were not pill guides but complete spiritual items), couldn’t match the value of this one item.

Only Faxin’s gift could compare to it in value, proving its rarity!

Zhang Decheng did not open the second jade box because it was a refined spatial artifact.

As he waved his hand at the jade box, magical power fluctuations occurred, and a light screen emerged on the jade box.