My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 91: Raising Ghosts

Chapter 91: Chapter 91: Raising Ghosts

As Wang Zijia, in bird form, nodded, he spit out a storage bag, swung his hand, and took out the magic talismans that he had created throughout the month.

Ji Chao lightly tapped and found that there were a total of 245 of them, "Senior Brother Li’s mastery in talisman techniques keeps increasing, it seems that you are not far from condensing your Dao foundation and becoming a sacrificial wine."

Wang Zijia made no reply. The reason he could produce about eight per day was just because of his increasing cultivation level.

"That’s 1715 magic money in total. Hmm, you’ve made quite a lot of low-level talismans this time, which are priced at 213 magic money at market rates. With the remaining low-level spiritual materials, do you want to redeem all of them to Fire Jade Marrow Charm Ink?" Ji Chao asked after he finished counting.

Wang Zijia nodded, and Ji Chao skillfully handed him more than nine hundred magic money and some Fire Jade Marrow.

Wang Zijia put away his belongings and swept five corpses into the storage bag, then swallowed the storage bag whole.

After a moment’s hesitation, he asked, "What would be the rules if we trade using Dao Kung in the future?"

"That... please forgive me Senior Brother Li, I ventured into commerce because I was short on Dao Kung," Ji Chao answered awkwardly, then continued,

"Therefore, if you plan to trade only with Dao Kung, then only your Magma Fireball Charms can be sold for six or seven Dao Kung each, and you will also have to purchase the Fire Jade Marrow with Dao Kung."

Wang Zijia slightly frowned, pondered for a moment, but ultimately decided that it was not worthwhile. It was better to proceed through the Xiang family’s methods since the Xiang family, no matter how decayed, was a former sacrificial wine family.

Plus, the explosive spirit pills he needed for his cultivation also required a considerable amount of magic money, so he did not insist further.

Seeing Wang Zijia silent, Ji Chao feared that Wang Zijia would switch dealers, so he quickly added: "Of course, Brother Li, if you are not in a hurry, I can trade exclusively using Dao Kung starting from next year, until you have accumulated enough resources."

Wang Zijia seemed to come back to his senses, didn’t say anything else, and directly flew away.

"That really is quite aloof!" Ji Chao muttered to himself as he similarly turned to leave.

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Wang Zijia took a familiar route around two circles before returning to the private room where his body was located.

As the bird form collapsed, the storage bag fell into his arms, and Wang Zijia opened his eyes.

With a slightly furrowed brow, he picked up the storage bag, checked it for a moment, and then got up and went downstairs, but did not leave immediately.

Instead, he turned and went to the street market on the neighboring Southward Street. Since he often came to purchase explosive spirit pills, Wang Zijia was already very familiar with this place.

He promptly found a few regular stalls that sell the array disks and, after some negotiations, he bought a first-grade high-order isolation array disk for 110 magic money.

This item was plentiful due to the existence of their Qifu Faction, leading to transparent pricing.

After all, in their faction, both the talisman masters and array masters were among the highest-ranked individuals in each major pulse.

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Night time, Biyi Court.

Wang Zijia did not enter the cultivation room as usual but, unusually, came to the basement in the courtyard.

At this moment, various blood-red runes composed of peculiar array arrangements occupied the entire basement.

Arrangements were not just on the ground but also on the walls. Each rune node had various beast bones attached.

It added a deeper sense of chill to the already dark basement.

This was crudely put together by Wang Zijia after nearly two weeks of effort and spending over five hundred magic money.

Only after activating and fully operating the newly bought array disk, did Wang Zijia release the five frozen corpses in his hand, throwing them to the five positions of the array.

As the strands of chills emanated, the basement became even more like the underworld.

In the gloomy secret room, the air was chilly. In the flicker of the dim candlelight, blood-red runes shimmered, creating an eerie scene reminiscent of a heretical cult’s ritual.

Wang Zijia carefully arranged the corpses, and checked the magical array several times.

Finding himself in the middle of the array, he delicately undid the seals on the five bodies.

The frost on the surface of the corpses retreated rapidly, and within a blink, five fresh corpses appeared, a subtle scent of blood enveloping the room, as if they had just perished.

Out of caution, Wang Zijia temporarily transferred all the mana from the rest of his Core Techniques to the Five Ghosts Divine Power.

Five Ghosts Divine Power (Incomplete 4053/40000),

After all, it was an incomplete Magic Door. Even if he devoted all his movable value to it, Wang Zijia only felt a tad more familiar with its manipulation, but with little enlightenment.

He had done all that he could, what remained was to press on as intended.

Wang Zijia took a deep breath, and amidst the waves of his mana, he started to chant.

As he cast the spell, an unfounded Yin Wind started circling around in the basement. The candle flickered, blood-red runes glimmering, and an odd aura pervaded the five corpses.

Surprisingly, a sudden insight came to Wang Zijia, a choice between: Five Ghost Infants Nurturing Evil and Five Ghosts Spiritual Communication.

In other words, the ghosts nurtured by the Five Ghosts Divine Power could be the physical ghost babies Wang Zijia had encountered before or true ghost beings, like spirits.

Obviously, he, who had not yet achieved the level of a sacrificial wine, probably couldn’t produce fierce ghosts. The most he could do was conjure a few solitary ghosts and wild ghosts, or even fake ones.

’Five Ghost Infants Nurturing Evil? Does that mean I can cultivate chickens for value?’

’But to cultivate this thing, doesn’t it require children?’

’Forget about it then, the Wanyu Sect Law Hall is vigilant!’

In a flash of thoughts, Wang Zijia chose the orthodox use of the dubious technique and went down the path of Five Ghosts Spiritual Communication.

As Wang Zijia’s choice was made, a wild wind blew ferociously in the basement. The faint candlelight was instantly extinguished, plunging the surroundings into a dark-red darkness.

The cold wind billowed, the blood-red runes flickered incessantly, and on the five corpses, five transparent figures appeared.

At first, the figures were severely fractured, with the continuous consumption of spiritual materials within the blood-red array, they gradually became whole.

When the spiritual materials were all used up and the bodies had completely turned into mummies devoid of spiritual essence, the five transparent figures had transformed into five complete spirits.

’I succeeded on the first try?’

With a slightly pale face, Wang Zijia opened his eyes in surprise.

Lifting his hand, a fireball appeared, illuminating the entire basement.

The Five Ghosts floated to the front of Wang Zijia following his thoughts. Looking at their indifferent eyes, Wang Zijia slightly knitted his brows.

After careful examination for a moment, his joy gradually faded.

He had both succeeded and failed.

The five beings, dim as they were, couldn’t really be called ghosts. At most, they were puppets acting as mediums for casting spells.

The good part was he didn’t have to worry about being backfired from nurturing a too strong ghost, because these five things were not cultivable at all, devoid of any potential for growth.

Fortunately, although they couldn’t be instructed to do anything, they were nonetheless the product of a Magic Door. If fully activated, they could exert power just over a peak child.

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