My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 90: Buying a Corpse

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: Buying a Corpse

While leisurely chatting, they finished their dinner. Wang Zijia then led Bai Qian back to his small courtyard.

In the cultivation room, Wang Zijia took out the cultivation methods secret book he had acquired that day from his sleeve and began scrutinizing it.

After a long time, Wang Zijia carefully read it through. As the secret book in his hand turned to fragments of paper, new changes appeared in the cultivation methods in his mind.

Cultivation: Late Child stage

Dao Cultivation: 50 years (5819/30000)

Cultivation Method: Universe Law Canon (Child Chapter)

Spell: ····

Tai Chi Fist: 78

Magic Money: 1001

Dao Kung: 1970

Merit: 1

Because the foundational method and the breakthrough Chapter are two parts of one method, they easily merged together with Wang Zijia’s comprehension.

Looking at the cultivation method that had now become the Universe Law Canon, a smile spread across Wang Zijia’s face.

Despite his cultivation still lacking, it didn’t prevent him from making early preparations for the Sacrificial Wine stage.

Out of the three prerequisites required for the Sacrificial Wine stage, he now had the cultivation methods.

As for the Dao Basics Nine Techniques, he already had five techniques to form the rudimentary framework of the Dao foundation. Together with "Melting Crystal Property Change," and the conscious composition "Shooting Star Blink", and "Void Spirit Crystal Shield," he now had eight techniques. He could take his time to find the remaining one technique.

Now all that was left was to choose his Foundation Building items. He needed a Foundation Building Pill and a top-tier Foundation Building Spirit Object.

Of course, the supplement of super characteristics was not necessary for the Foundation Building Pill. It would be best if he had it, but it wouldn’t matter if he didn’t. Even the top-tier Foundation Building Spirit Object didn’t necessarily need to be complete, just a wisp would do.

As long as he had this wisp to serve as the super-root primer for the Dao foundation, he could rely on the value to stack up a perfect Dao foundation.

In conclusion, although the distance to the Sacrificial Wine stage seemed far away, it was not far off. The basis had been slowly built in his previous cultivations.

Of course, to achieve all this, he needed to make money, a considerable amount of magic money!

If he only considered one Foundation Building Pill, or an equivalent Spirit Object, he would need 15,000 Dao Kung. and adding the Explosive Spirit Pill needed for cultivation, even better to upgrade the Spiritual Roots to medium grade, 50,60 thousand magic money might still not be enough.

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The next day, Wang Zijia went to work as usual after practicing his punches and eating breakfast.

Out of the ten apprentices, six had already signed up for the tutoring class. As the effects started to show, the remaining few became restless.

The remaining four found Wang Zijia one after the other and all paid the registration fees.

Wang Zijia didn’t discriminate against these younger disciples according to their grades. He collected three to five hundred from each of them depending on their circumstances, the only difference being that he no longer accepted magic money for the registration fee. He only accepted Dao Kung.

Those who didn’t have enough Dao Kung had to find ways to exchange it on their own.

From these four people’s income, along with the income from the Wisdom Heart Pill, Wang Zijia earned a total of 1,600 Dao Kung.

In the short term, these sheep could no longer provide wool to be harvested. Apart from them being nearly drained, he needed some time for them to gradually understand the array.

Once everyone understood the array, it would be the day of Wang Zijia’s fame in the Fu Tower.

By then, he wouldn’t even have to do anything, the rumor of his genius teachings as a Senior Brother would spread on its own. As for the secret techniques which were bound to be investigated, once scrutinized, they would find it all to be deceptive tricks aiming to earning money.

This was not a bad thing; it would only further prove his teaching ability.

Moreover, a capable person who has flaws is the best kind of capable person!

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Wang Zijia’s life once again settled down: making talismans, going to work, and teaching the disciples.

Time passed by unknowingly, and in the blink of an eye, two decades had passed.

On this day, Wang Zijia once again visited the commercial South District of the Qifu Faction, entered Yulong Street, and familiarly found a teahouse and booked a private room.

A moment later, a bird flew out and passed through half the street block and arrived at the neighboring Jade Flying Street, in the Fire Lacquer Teahouse.

Here, a private room had been booked by Ji Chao for years.

Seeing the window of the private room open, Wang Zijia did not hesitate and directly entered.

"Greetings Senior Brother Li!" Ji Chao, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Wang Zijia flying in and immediately greeted.

"Hmm!" Wang Zijia still maintained his aloof demeanor and asked sparingly, "Have the items I requested been prepared?"

Ji Chao didn’t answer promptly; instead, he got up to close the window. Afterwards, he took out a first-class advanced array disk, embedded it with five pieces of magic money, and activated it.

After doing this, he threw out five frozen corpses with a wave of his hand.

The not so small private room seemed somewhat crowded because of the appearance of the five corpses; a trail of cold air filled the room.

"These are the five child corpses found according to your requirements, Senior Brother Li." Ji Chao said, sneaking a glance at Wang Zijia, and added, "They were all specially preserved immediately after their deaths, ensuring they’re ninety percent fresh."

The Sect didn’t forbid the trade of corpses, but it didn’t encourage it either, considering it a gray area.

Especially for those in their Transformation series who follow the Bloodline Transformation Path, these objects were more than ordinary. This was also the reason why Wang Zijia found him.

No more so, aside from the Funerary Preserving Vein, their Bloodline Transformation Lineage was the most suitable for dealing with corpses.

"Are they all cultivators?" Wang Zijia glanced at the five corpses and asked.

"Yes!" Ji Chao nodded, adding, "But they are all primary disciples. They were low-level scattered cultivators who didn’t know any spells and who only fought using talismans if not martial arts."

Wang Zijia nodded. He was not using them to extract technique resources from the funeral, so he indifferently asked, "How much?"

"These low-level corpses aren’t accepted by the Funerary Preserving Vein because they did not die of natural causes. The market price for these remains, through our lineage, would be two hundred magic money per corpse," Ji Chao answered.

Wang Zijia slightly knit his eyebrows; it was much more expensive than he had imagined.

Seeing this, Ji Chao immediately spoke, "Because you requested a clear source, this is the cheapest price. This is only because I have many related customers."

"Of course, if Senior Brother Li accepts goods that are not as regular and haven’t been through the proper channels, we could at least cut this price in half."

Wang Zijia shook his head, saying, "If I wanted those kinds of goods, why would I need to find you? Aren’t there plenty of corpses in the Dark Market of your Transformation Lineage?"

Ji Chao replied with a spread of his hands and a helpless expression: "Well, we can’t do anything about that. This is the lowest price. The Sect still very much controls this area. Therefore, even though these scattered cultivators seem worthless while alive, like trash, their corpses, passed through proper channels, are worth some money."

The casual tone conveyed the bleak picture of the lives of bottom-level cultivators in this world.

Of course, every world in its extreme development eventually leads to such circumstances. Nobody is any better off.

"Alright, if it’s two hundred, then it’s two hundred!"