My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 663 - 568: Gathered Together [Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions]

Chapter 663: Chapter 568: Gathered Together [Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions]

Xiang Ji stood dumbfounded in the courtyard, staring at his robust physique in a daze for a long time.

"Our family has truly become a burden," he exclaimed after a while.

"Who are you!"

He was awakened by Feng Haonan, who had just entered the courtyard.

"You little brat, I hardly recognized you," he said.

"Vice Master Xiang? You..."

...

At White Peach Peak, Wang Zijia opened the door of his room.

Outside the door, Xu Xian, who should have been on duty at the White Peach Tower, was respectfully waiting outside the cultivation room.

"What brings you here?" Wang Zijia asked with a frown.

"Master Wang, the newly ascended God Monarch of the Gu family came for a personal visit. He came to the courtyard and didn’t find anyone, so he went to our White Peach Tower. At the moment, Martial Uncle An Xingsheng is serving him."

"Martial Uncle knew about your close relationship with the Gu family, so he initiated the contact method to inform you."

Xu Xian answered carefully.

Hearing Xu Xian’s words, Wang Zijia nodded in realization. He had been preoccupied with the problem of lifespan experiments today and forgot about this matter.

"Where is the person?" asked Wang Zijia.

"In the White Peach Pavilion, Thousand Peach Garden!" Xu Xian immediately replied.

"Let’s go!" Wang Zijia nodded and headed out of the courtyard.

...

At the entire White Peach Peak, there were two places with the highest standards for entertaining guests. One was the reception hall of the White Peach Tower, which was more formal.

The White Peach Pavilion in the Peach Garden, however, was the place with the best view in the entire White Peach Peak. It was considered the place with the most artistic conception. Wang Zijia often used it to entertain people who were close to him and people who liked such places.

When Wang Zijia arrived, Gu Yuebai was quietly savoring tea in the pavilion, enjoying the peach forest. There was also a Cliff Lake next to it. The scenery was excellent.

An Xingsheng was respectfully serving at the side.

"Senior Brother Yuebai, how did you manage to come to my place today!" Wang Zijia enthusiastically went forward and greeted him.

"Is it because Brother Wang is complaining that I haven’t visited him for more than a year?" Gu Yuebai explained with a smile.

"I can’t compare with you, brother. You had the power of a pseudo-infant at a young age."

"After my breakthrough, I honestly spent more than a year adjusting, fearing I would miss out on any benefits."

The last time the two met was more than a year ago. After Gu Yuebai’s breakthrough, Wang Zijia quietly celebrated once.

"Senior Brother, don’t listen to the nonsense in the sect. According to what they’re saying, I might have already become an immortal!" Wang Zijia said so.

"So are those inner sect disciples down there drunk? Wandering around in your Jade Talisman vein?" Gu Yuebai teased with a smile.

The Jade Talisman Vein was expanding again, and it was being built on a large scale. After all, it was to be made into the core major vein of the west forest area!

"I only heard about Patriarch Gu Yuncheng’s incident yesterday. Is the head of the Gu family okay?" Wang Zijia decisively shifted the topic.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuebai looked deeply at Wang Zijia and suddenly stood up and gave a formal bow to Wang Zijia.

"Senior Brother Yuebai, what are you doing!" Wang Zijia quickly stood up and said.

"We, the Gu family, remember your kindness, Brother Wang. In the future, if there’s any need, the Gu family will not hesitate to help." Gu Yuebai made a solemn promise.

"No, no, if Senior Brother Yuebai continues like this, it will truly create awkwardness. When the head of the Gu family previously privately resisted that old man from the Yue family, he didn’t even tell me about it. When I found out about it later, did I ever cause such awkwardness like Senior Brother Yuebai?"

"Moreover, you suddenly did this. You should also tell me what it’s for!" Wang Zijia said, looking at Gu Yuebai.

In Wanyu, he had received the favor of three groups.

The Xiang family helped him to start, the Gu family helped him avoid disaster, and the Zhang family helped him rise to power.

These three groups, although they had taken action because they saw his potential, they both expected return on their investment.

An adults’ world does not hold simple and pure kindness.

He did not forget these things, but he only remembered them and did not take action when he did not have enough capital.

Nowadays, he is gradually not living in constant fear anymore, and some things are not a hindrance anymore.

It’s not necessary to make a big fuss, but it doesn’t hurt to keep it a secret.

Hearing Wang Zijia’s words, Gu Yuebai did not clarify anything, but simply said in a mysterious way:

"Patriarch’s injury was all healed yesterday, and he even broke through the mystery of life and death and stepped into the Primordial Spirit stage. Today he’s going through the process at the Wanyu Great Hall!"

"That’s good then!" Wang Zijia said.

The two looked at each other in tacit understanding, without mentioning anything else about this circumstance, but just touched upon it.

After a moment of silence, Gu Yuebai smiled bitterly again: "Brother, you said it was just a simple return gift."

"I was really foolish and treated it as an ordinary return gift. You handled this matter too roughly. If I had casually given your gift to others, would it not have been a waste of your intentions?"

"It was just a return gift, and that thing may not really be useful!" Wang Zijia knew that the other party was talking about the Jade Disk of Dao Law, and said so.

"That’s not something to take lightly! Now, I don’t even know what to use in return." Gu Yuebai said with a bitter smile on his face.

"Brother Bai, are you looking down on me just because you became a God Monarch and I’m from a broken-down household? Are you here to draw a line between us? That’s why you’ve been so distant!" Wang Zijia said unpleasantly.

"Ah, I can never win against those who pass on their powers..." Gu Yuebai shook his head.

Neither dwelled on the subject, chatting casually instead.

...

Half a day later, Gu Yuebai bid his farewells and left.

News of Gu Yuncheng, the old patriarch of the Gu Family, breaking the gateway of life and death and advancing to the Primordial Spirit stage spread throughout the entire sect at an alarming speed.

Within just one day, numerous versions of the event had surfaced.

Epiphanies under trees, introspection before death, enlightenment in the Dragon Field, the mad struggle for survival, and rebirth from dying.

Upon hearing these stories, Wang Zijia found them strangely familiar. Aren’t they similar to the absurd reputation he had now?

It appears that there are some skilled spin doctors within the Wanyu sect!

In times like these, positive news like this was indeed needed to lift people’s spirits.

Combined with the sudden quietness of the Devil Gate, this news became the top headline in the sect, keeping spirits high for several days.

Wang Zijia spent most of his days sealing spells.

During the previous encounters with the Devil Gate, all the pages used for sealing spells were depleted. The spells he sealed weren’t those randomly performed, but each one was as powerful as a full-out attack, like a desperate last resort.

Therefore, after sealing two or three spells, he had to stop to recover his mana. Without the aid of any medicine, it took almost half a day to recover the massive amount of Magic Origin of the Primordial Spirit realm.

Under such circumstances, it would take a perfectly planned day to complete ten pages.

To gather a reserve of five thousand pages would take more than a year.

But, if completed, the combined power of five thousand pages would be terrifying!

During his downtime for mana recovery, Wang Zijia would either deal with matters in the Sword Burial Valley or show up at the White Peach Peak.

Time flies, and before he knew it, another month had passed.

One day, while Wang Zijia was sealing talismans in the Duobao World, a flicker of joy crossed his face, and he promptly disappeared from the Duobao World.

...

Leaving the underground palace, he quickly headed for the Heitan Lake deep within the Sword Burial Valley.

Walking on water, he leisurely made his way to Heart Island at the center of Heitan Lake.

From a distance, he saw a familiar figure sitting quietly in the Central Lake Pavilion, sipping tea without any attendants around.

Sensing Wang Zijia’s arrival, Li Shenghui, who was drinking tea, looked over.

When Wang Zijia stepped into the pavilion, Li Shenghui rose to his feet. After exchanging formal greetings, they sat down in silence.

Sitting quietly, sipping their tea.

The atmosphere was somewhat peculiar; both knew the reason for their meeting, yet neither spoke.

"Ahem!" After a long while, Li Shenghui started coughing, his breath slightly fluctuating.

Surprised, Wang Zijia said, "Brother Li, are you injured?"

"It’s nothing serious!" Li Shenghui replied calmly.

’If it’s not serious, then why are you acting up? Are you trying to make the item seem more difficult to obtain?’

Wang Zijia ignored Brother Li’s posturing. Instead of playing the guessing game to see who would reveal a high demand first, he directly asked, "So Fifth Brother, have found it?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shenghui dropped his pretense, revealing a faint smile and said in high spirits, "I accomplished the mission successfully!"

In his words, he took out a jade box sealed layer upon layer.

He placed the box on the table in front of him and gently pushed it towards Wang Zijia, signaling him to open it and check. Meanwhile, he poured himself another cup of tea and began sipping it slowly.

Wang Zijia was expectant.

He carefully opened the half-foot tall jade box in front of him. Inside was a jade bottle.

This was a special jade bottle, a spiritual tool meant to contain specific spiritual liquids.

As Wang Zijia channeled a touch of mana into it, the jade bottle shook slightly, and a jelly-like substance, the size of a fist, flew out. Under the control of the mana, it started to wiggle slightly.

It had a matte black color and was faintly glowing with a special light. An intense fluctuation of spatial energy radiated from it.

Li Shenghui took a sip of his tea and put it down before asking, "Well, does it meet your requirements, Ninth Younger Brother?"

"This is Void Abyss Spirit Marrow, the essence of the Void Abyss Luminous Stone’s core vein. Only one drop is produced every ten million years. And what you have in front of you is the essence from the very core of a spirit mineral vein."

"Once this thing is taken, the billion-value Void Spirit Spring will gradually dry up and eventually perish."

"We don’t have this thing in our realm. To get this, I had to go to the North Cold Realm, spent half a month as a high-level miner, and had a long hassle with two annoying old Taoists Crossing Tribulation to finally get it."

Wang Zijia ignored his words, focusing devoutly on the jelly-like substance the size of a fist in front of him.

Within the matte black substance, there were dozens of silver strands so thin that they were barely visible to the naked eye.

The strands were minute. Even when all were combined, they weren’t any thicker than a strand of hair.

However, Wang Zijia didn’t care about the quantity, he was only concerned whether the quality could meet his requirements.