My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 624 - 539: Understanding

Chapter 624: Chapter 539: Understanding

Wang Zijia looked at Li Xingming with an emotionless expression. "I won’t bother with these matters. When Shengshi comes out of seclusion, you can apologize to him. Now, tell me about the situation with the clan’s treasury," he said.

Upon hearing this, Li Xingming’s expression stiffened.

The intimidation from the founding prince of Changbao was significant, and given that the figure in question was also a founding ancestor and a direct bloodline ancestor, it was evident that the younger generations were more afraid of him.

Li Xingming paused for a moment before starting to talk about the situation within the clan.

Although the Li family of Changbao had declined, it was still a major family with three Infant Gods remaining in the world. Naturally, it was incomparable to the Murong family. Including the hidden treasury, they had about twenty to thirty million in magic money alone, and counting various resources, there was even more.

Of course, this was the clan treasury, and even if Wang Zijia could freely use it, he couldn’t possibly drain it.

...

The conditions that Wang Zijia had to meet for his breakthrough to the Yuan Shen stage were:

The Cultivation Method. He wasn’t in a rush for this as he could definitely obtain it through upcoming tasks.

Spiritual Objects, Changbao couldn’t be relied upon for these. He would need to find other ways.

Cultivation, he was still about 30 million away in terms of value.

Dao Consistency, he needed four copies of the Fourth-grade Advanced Daoist Scroll and the value required to promote all three great Dao systems to the fifth grade. This approximately totaled 420 million.

Without considering the cost of finding secret books, just the demand for value exceeded ten thousand spirit essences, which equated to a billion magic money.

It was challenging for an impoverished Infant God family to spare so much in a short time, even half of that amount would be difficult unless they sold off their industries and emptied their warehouses.

Wang Zijia could exploit the value of a piece of magic money to its limits. In contrast, if anyone else could even extract a small portion of a magic coin’s worth, it would require a more exaggerated consumption.

This is one of the reasons it’s tough for Infant God families to nurture Great Cultivators of the Yuan Shen.

Of course, these difficulties should not take long to overcome with twenty-some Yuan Shen Cultivators on standby.

Furthermore, these Great Cultivators of Yuan Shen still had connections with their sects. When they self-sealed, they merely retired and did not break off relationships with their sects.

Some who had a long timeline were not convenient to make public appearances.

However, a few from the last three thousand years didn’t have such restrictions.

Thus, Wang Zijia didn’t need to squeeze the Li family too hard. There were enough routes to assure his promotion to the Yuan Shen stage would not be too challenging.

"Take out two thousand spirit essences to buy these things!"

Wang Zijia spoke as he handed over the materials needed for the love poison pill and some other items to Li Xingming.

"Yes, ancestor!" Li Xingming didn’t hesitate. Even if to spare these things, the clan would need to tighten their belts for a while. He still immediately agreed.

Their Li family was soon to be a major Yuan Shen family; could they let the ancestor live in hardship over twenty million pieces of magic money?

They were already quite embarrassed. They could not afford to lose face again over this amount of money.

"Also, tell the clan to prepare for war," Wang Zijia said indifferently.

Li Xingming paused, "Prepare for war?" he asked in confusion.

"Ha, my Changbao is after all a lineage passed down from the Immortal Alliance era. How can I let the Devil Gate be so arrogant as to blatantly incite a Blood Sea and commit such heinous crimes?" Wang Zijia said with a slightly cold expression.

"If they can continue being so presumptuous, should I even continue with this practice?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xingming wanted to say that it was the business of the Wanyu Sect several times but didn’t dare to speak out in the end.

This person was indeed from thousands of years ago, a figure from the Immortal Alliance era—his perspective must be different from theirs.

Moreover, while others might consider it a legend, their Li family knew very well that this individual had genuinely exhausted all his resources to exorcise the devil back then. In the end, he didn’t even leave a corpse behind.

One could argue that in the title of Scholar Sword Immortal Li Shenghong, the weight of the ’scholar’ far surpassed that of the ’sword immortal!’

"Grandson understands!" After a while, Li Xingming finally said, "Grandson will mobilize the whole clan."

Wang Zijia shook his head and said, "There’s no need. The junior disciples of today’s Li family have too low cultivation levels. Going to the battlefield would mean certain death. Just inform some of the high-levels and prepare for defense."

"As for the rest... I have my arrangements."

Upon hearing this, Li Xingming finally heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Disciple understands what to do!"

"Refine those materials into Love Poison Pills for me. There should be enough Pill Cultivators in the clan, right?" said Wang Zijia.

Li Xingming paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, the Love Poison Pill is a conventional pill. Many in the clan have varied cultivations with not a few of them being Pill Cultivators. We have cultivators ranging from the first to fourth grades."

"Alright then, go ahead and prepare," Wang Zijia said tersely, signaling for Li Xingming to leave.

"Your command is received!" Upon hearing this, Li Xingming bowed once again before turning to leave.

...

Half a day later, in the underground palace.

What’s amusing is that besides those ’Big Shots’ currently stabilizing their cultivation in the palace, there were still four Infant God Monarchs presiding over the ’situation’!

They were none other than the head and deputy head of the Wanyu Sect’s Dark Hall from Hidden Tower and the head and deputy head of Daqian’s Divine Capture Bureau.

They had been invited to attend a meeting earlier, lazily initiating a remote conferencing session.

However, upon receiving shocking news after Li Wangzu suddenly stood them up, they all used various means to rush back hurriedly within a day.

At the moment, they seemed to be maintaining the general situation within the underground palace but were actually itching to establish a connection with this ancient Sword Immortal.

After all, a big shot who could help tens of people make the breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit was just too formidable and alluring!

Hardly any god monarch could resist such temptation!

At this moment, all four of them were absentmindedly teaching the disciples of the Underground Palace, who were listening just as distractedly. Whether they were preaching or listening, their minds had wandered off somewhere else.

Suddenly, a child around ten years old rushed over.

Upon reaching the man dressed in black, the child bowed and said, "Greetings, Dark Blade God Monarch, our ancestor is asking if you have any spare time?"

The man dressed in black’s name was Liu Qiuyuan, a cultivator in the late stages of the Infant God, the Hall Master of the Wanyu Secret Hall, the person in charge of the Wanyu Hidden Vein, codename: Dark Blade!

The absentminded Liu Qiuyuan was taken aback, and then exclaimed with delight, "I have, I have!"

"Then God Monarch, please follow me!" After bowing, the child turned around and left.

Liu Qiuyuan immediately followed. In a similar room next door, several equally distracted god monarchs perked up their ears. They all peeked out.

At a glance, they saw the beaming Liu Qiuyuan leaving and felt annoyed in their hearts while muttering that the guy had hit a stroke of luck.

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In a short while, when the child brought Liu Qiuyuan to find Wang Zijia, Wang Zijia had already left the Sword Immortal Palace and started wandering around the Underground Palace.

When Gui Ling’er had familiarized him with the place earlier, he had been completely focused on the items. He actually hadn’t wandered around much.

"Junior Liu Qiuyuan pays respect to Senior Sheng Hong!" Liu Qiuyuan respectfully saluted Wang Zijia.

"You’re here!" Wang Zijia nodded with a smile, asking, "You’re quite familiar with this place, aren’t you?"

"In response to Senior’s question, I spent my entire childhood here. Later, I went to Wanyu Sect and after accomplishing significant progress in cultivation, I often returned to teach and cultivate disciples for the Secret Hall, so I’m rather familiar with this place."

"Looks like you’ve come at the right time, walk with me!" Wang Zijia replied with a smile.

"I dare not refuse!" Liu Qiuyuan saluted again and came to Wang Zijia’s side, falling half a step behind him, and started speaking.

"Does senior wish to go somewhere in particular, or shall we just stroll casually?"

"Let’s take a casual stroll first, then head to the Technique Inheritance Pavilion." Wang Zijia responded casually.

"Alright, then senior, please follow me." Liu Qiuyuan pointed in a direction, the two men took a step forward, with four children silently following behind them.

"So, you’re from the Wanyu Sect’s Dark Hall?" Moving forward, Wang Zijia initiated the conversation.

Liu Qiuyuan slightly reacted, nodded, and took the initiative to explain, "Yes, the Wanyu Dark Department is made up of many halls. These halls do not belong to each other. They operate independently, each completing the tasks assigned to them. It’s a fairly peculiar structure."

"My sect is the one that our Hidden Vein has been passing down until now, it’s called the Dark Speech Hall. It was established as a branch by the Dark Three Hall Master several thousand years ago."

"Dark Three, huh? You should be able to meet that somewhat quirky youngster in half a month," Wang Zijia murmured nostalgically.

Liu Qiuyuan was left speechless for a moment, not knowing how to respond, and felt utterly embarrassed.

I was just about to talk about the founding ancestor, this is an awkward situation you put me in! There’s no way to continue the conversation like this!

You’re eight thousand years old, high and mighty, extraordinary!

"So, the Wanyu Dark Department..." Wang Zijia continued to inquire about the Wanyu Dark Department.

Liu Qiuyuan answered honestly.

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"So you’re saying, that little guy Dark Three used to have quite a position in the Dark Hall?" Wang Zijia asked curiously.

"Yes, although the cultivation of Dark Three Hall Master wasn’t particularly strong, he had many novel ideas, many of the structures we have in our dark department today, and even some of our branch constructions, were all managed by him initially."

"Thus, our Dark Words Hall holds a pretty good position in the Wanyu Dark Hall." Liu Qiuyuan replied respectfully.

In a short while, Wang Zijia had more or less gathered some understanding of the Wanyu Dark Department.

His main reason for calling this man over to inquire was because he remembered his past experiences with the Dark Department and found the style somewhat familiar.

Looking at it now, that kid Dark Three had put what he had taught him to good use in the construction of the Wanyu Dark Department.

"Senior Sheng Hong, are you asking about these matters because you want to..." After enduring it for the third time, Liu Qiuyuan finally couldn’t help but ask cautiously.

Wang Zijia paused for a moment before he realized what the other was trying to ask. He shook his head and smiled, saying, "Don’t worry, I’m not particularly interested in affairs like espionage."

"Regardless of whether I’m here or not, the Hidden Vein will not become anyone’s Hidden Vein. When I was establishing the Hidden Vein, I set down a rule. Regardless of where the Immortal Alliance ends up, the Hidden Vein is responsible for continuing the Dao of the Alliance."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qiuyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Wang Zijia truly intended to use the Hidden Vein for something and ended up pulling the entire Hidden Tower over to Daqian’s side, most of the current Hidden Vein Dark Guards in the sect would probably be unable to refuse.

But this was not something he wanted to see. Although he belonged to the Hidden Vein disciples, he also belonged to the Wanyu disciples. After all, the principles he had accepted from the beginning were not about espionage.

Comparatively speaking, his sense of belonging here was stronger.

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After chatting casually for most of the day, Wang Zijia, having learned almost everything, arrived at the Technique Inheritance Pavilion. He said, "Alright, we can stop here for today. You go about your work!"

"Alright, I won’t disturb Senior anymore!" With that said, Liu Qiuyuan turned around and left.

As for Wang Zijia, using the identity token of the Ninth Prince, he entered the Inheritance Pavilion of the Hidden Vein without any obstacles.

After half a day, he had obtained all the permissions for the entire underground palace.

No, he should have obtained all the permissions of the Li family.