My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 652 - 560

Chapter 652: 560

He casually browsed through them, all classic stories that had been circulated for thousands of years.

After many words and explanations, An Xingsheng finally turned away and left.

Meanwhile, Wang Zijia was examining the items when, after half a day, a sudden noise broke the silence.

"Ding!"

[Notification: Dao Child Wang Zijia, your Dark Bureau task is completed. Please report to the Master of the Heavenly Inquiry Tower for the final audit and collect your respective welfare.]

[Future Dark Bureau tasks will be assigned directly to you, bypassing the review and approval process of other departments.]

[Congratulations, you have excellently completed your first task from the Dark Bureau, and have officially started your position as the Dark Hall Master.]

[Congratulations, the Dark Hall Master identity has been fully established. You can apply for the welfare of your subordinate disciples, undertake reviews, receive official Dark Guard quotas, and also recruit Dark Guards within the sect.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the complete information database authority of the entire Sect!]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the access to all major secret vaults and the privilege to review secret texts.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the complete surveillance rights of the entire Sect!]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the discretionary authority. Note: Those you suspect can be detained and interrogated beforehand without going through relevant procedures, but will be reported afterwards. However, discretionary action also makes you subject to heightened scrutiny.]

[Congratulations...]

At this moment, Wang Zijia’s identity card was constantly beeping.

Looking at the information above, he was now officially a Hall Master, while previously, he could only be considered a Dark Guard with the title of Hall Master.

As it turned out, the benefits of being a proper Dark Hall Master were numerous.

Honestly, the position of a Dark Hall Master was much rarer than an elder of the Elders’ Hall.

After a brief moment, Wang Zijia had just finished reading the information.

With anticipation and joy, he rose from his seat and left the White Peach Tower. Transforming into a streak of light, he soared up into the sky.

...

Within the Heavenly Inquiry Tower at the lower region of the Inheritance Peak.

Wang Zijia went straight to Zhang Xiumin’s office, as he was well familiar with the way. He greeted her, "Senior Sister!"

Zhang Xiumin immediately rose to reciprocate, "Junior Brother is courteous! I presume you are here for the Patriarch? He’s been waiting for you. Go on up!"

Wang Zijia nodded, turned away leaving a few women gossiping.

With a sense of urgency, he ascended to the eighth floor where Zhang Decheng, the Tower Master, was already sitting by the tea table in the center of the room, having prepared some tea.

"Greetings to the Tower Master!" Wang Zijia greeted.

"You’ve come quite promptly. Have a seat, the tea is freshly brewed!" Zhang Decheng gave Wang Zijia a glance. Amid the cordial atmosphere, he spoke with a beaming smile.

Wang Zijia did not stand on ceremony and sat opposite Zhang Decheng.

After a sip of tea, he surprisingly lost some composure and went straight to the point, "Master, about the task..."

Zhang Decheng glanced at Wang Zijia, set down his tea cup, and spoke with an ambiguous smile:

"You young man kept a tight lip indeed. I was just nagging you a few days ago and didn’t expect you to cause such a big commotion."

What Zhang Decheng referred to was the battle in Changbao, but he wasn’t talking about the Burial Spirit Sect but rather about the Chu family’s several annihilated clans.

"It’s all about luck. Changbao suddenly decided to declare war, so I just joined in the fun!" Wang Zijia said with a smile.

"Whether it’s luck or your contribution, anyway, among the many Dark Bureau tasks, you have come out on top."

"Directly influencing a region to join the war, none of the teams from Daqian and Flying Immortal’s Dark Bureau have such ability. I heard they are all lobbying several major clans, rallying public opinion, promoting the mood of joining the battle, and helping the negotiation team make progress!"

Zhang Decheng’s words were filled with pride and amusement, as if he himself had accomplished the task.

Wang Zijia smirked subtly. Had he gone to these two places, he probably would have done the same thing.

However, in front of Wang Zijia, Zhang Decheng verbalized a few instructions.

Because it was a special Dark Bureau task, the first mission had many follow-up review processes.

Especially the reward issue, most of it needed the affiliated lineage to provide, hence these processes, limited only to the first task.

After the information was completely documented in the Dark Bureau, a separate Dark Bureau identity was fully established, independent from the daily identity.

But at Zhang Decheng’s, many things had become optional. Besides, had he been stingy to Wang Zijia in terms of his own resources? Let alone the resources from the lineage, it was absolutely impossible to be stingy!

After a moment, Wang Zijia’s identity card chimed with notifications for task rewards.

Task: Proxy Disturbing the Country

Type: Dark Bureau (chaos type)

Danger Level: Extremely High

Status: Completed

Evaluation: Excellent

Introduction: Please assume the identity of Chu Jiefu, take over the Chu family in Changbao State...

Reward: Wanyu Code, Infant God Pian, Yuan Shen Pian (specially provided by the Chuan Dao Tower lineage), fourth-grade beginner-level Magic Treasure: False Status, and Dark Hall Master identity.

Contribution: 2000

Note: Due to your outstanding completion of the task, you are rewarded with an additional one thousand points of Dark Bureau contribution.

Dark Bureau contribution: It has an equivalent use value to a great merit in the sect, and can also be exchanged one-to-one for Spirit Essence, but to exchange anything from the Dark Bureau contribution to the sect does not need additional conditions.

Regardless of the task quota requirement or other conditions attached to cross-lineage resources, they can all be directly exchanged.

That is, a reward of twenty million magic money, but it’s much more precious than twenty million.

Seeing that the task was finally completed, Wang Zijia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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Without waiting for Wang Zijia to ask, Zhang Decheng had already taken out a delicate jade box, carefully opening it.

An ancient and mottled jade slip appeared inside. The material of the white jade slip was somewhat turbid, slightly yellow, and there were many fine cracks on it, as if it would shatter at any moment.

Zhang Decheng carefully took out the jade slip. As Wang Zijia reached out to accept it, Zhang Decheng admonished, "Be careful, even with my daily care, this jade slip can only be read three to five times."

The difference between the jade slip and the secret book is that the secret book rots at once.

However, the jade slip not only can be used multiple times, but also those of the Taoist Lineage could, through special means, constantly replenish the special Tao charm lost due to use.

Even the likes of Immortal Canons, once the carrier is completed, the carrier itself is a unique magic treasure, with its own power.

Wang Zijia nodded, carefully accepting the jade slip, and his divine thought couldn’t wait to rush into it.

"Wanyu Code"

Sacrificial wine Chapter, Perfected Chapter, Infant God Chapter, Primordial Spirit Chapter

There was a complete set of cultivation methods inside, Wang Zijia’s divine thought touched the Primordial Spirit Chapter.

Unlike comprehending the secret book, as he touched it, countless information actively entered his mind, making his brain somewhat swollen.

Although it was directly memorized, ordinary people needed to sort it out for a long time.

But the advantage is that you don’t have to slowly comprehend and remember it.

The former spends less time overall than the latter.

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After a long time, Wang Zijia carefully returned the more yellowed and heavily cracked jade slip.

Zhang Decheng immediately sealed it up again.

Wang Zijia was carefully sorting out the information in his mind. This time, the cultivation method was not only the Primordial Spirit Chapter but also included the part about breaking through Crossing Tribulation, but then it just abruptly came to an end.

After sorting out his things, Wang Zijia asked, "Tower Master, is the content in this jade slip incomplete too?"

Zhang Decheng, hearing this, fell silent for a moment before then somberly sighing, "Alas...what you have seen is the complete cultivation method of our tower, it’s all the sect has regarding the ’Wanyu Code’."

Hearing this, Wang Zijia furrowed his eyebrows, this cultivation method didn’t seem like a complete canon.

Zhang Decheng knew what Wang Zijia was thinking about and said with a sense of loss, "Indeed, it is only half, the ’Wanyu Code’ since the sect dared to name it a Code, naturally it transcends the sixth-grade Chapter and has a seventh-grade Immortal Canon level."

"However, the inheritance of cultivation methods is difficult in this era. And it’s not that every generation who has received the cultivation method can eventually break through Crossing Tribulation, let alone become immortal."

"Whether it is heritage masters stripping off the inheritance, or morticians extracting the inheritance from a corpse, even the highest rank cannot guarantee 100% success, at most they only have a 60% to 70% chance, and the higher the rank the lower the chance."

"As for our sect, it has been tens of thousands of years since we’ve seen an Earth Immortal."

"Thus, after such a long inheritance, the Wanyu Code has only the fifth-grade part left. Anything above that has been lost."

"Not just the Wanyu Code, but also the Wandao Code of the Sect Master’s lineage, the Wanling Dispatching General Secret Code of the Demon-suppressing Tower lineage, all have fallen to sixth-grade, and all parts of the Immortal Canon have been lost."

"Even the parts about breaking through to become an Earth Immortal, the entire sect now only has half left, no one dares to use it easily."

Listening to this, Wang Zijia fell silent for a moment.

This era, the reason why cultivation methods are destined to be the most precious things, lies right here. They are indeed very hard to carry on.

For low-level disciples, the vast number can be used to make up for the probability of failure.

After all, even with only a 70% success rate, once a cultivation method appears on a corpse, that would mean several books.

In such cases, as long as the base number is large enough, then more and more cultivation methods can be obtained, let alone people choosing to be heritage masters instead of morticians.

This is also why only a sect with a diverse array of people can keep going in this era.

Because sects without the benefit of a large population have nothing.

Whether it’s Tao law or cultivation methods!

The level above the Primordial Spirit, to Wanyu, is already considered the upper part, even if it’s not the top, it’s almost there.

In such a scenario, where the population is not large, if there are accidental failures a couple of times, it is very easy to lose a generation, and then a vicious cycle begins, with the sect continuously decaying.

Both of them were silent for a moment.

After a while, Zhang Decheng reassured, "Don’t worry, although the Wanyu Code has no sequel, our sect’s Three Great Immortal Canons ’Wan Yu’, ’Wan Dao’, ’Wan Ling’ once came from the Eight-grade Celestial Immortal Level Cultivation Method and they came from the same source."

"After you cross the Tribulation, you can directly study the latter part of the two great Canons at least until the Tribulation’s crossing peak, our sect’s current inheritance should have no problem."

"As for reaching the state of an Earth Immortal after that...you’ll have to rely on yourself. The sect cannot be relied upon anymore!"

When Zhang Decheng mentioned that the sect couldn’t be relied upon, his tone carried a touch of melancholy.