Phi-Fic Chapter 134 Guiyuan Sect 9
Chapter 134 Guiyuan Sect 9
Because Yingyue said the rental shop had reopened, the little cloud beast didn't stop for a moment and took the two of them directly to the rental shop in the sect market, pushing Cheng Jiu inside.
The senior students at the rental office greeted Cheng Jiu warmly, "Isn't this Junior Sister Cheng Jiu? And Junior Sister Ying, Junior Brother Wen, Junior Brother Gong Cheng, and Junior Brother Gong Yu."
It was obvious that this senior brother was more enthusiastic towards Zhong Jiu than the others. After all, just by looking at the little tyrant pushing her in from behind, you could tell that this was definitely a big customer!
"Junior sister, you've come at the right time! There's a new flavor of spirit beast food. Little ancestor, do you like it?" The senior brother at the rental office scooped up a handful of spirit beast food and fed it to the little cloud beast.
The little cloud beast opened its mouth and swallowed the spirit beast food beside him, then happily swayed back and forth, clearly enjoying it very much.
Cheng Jiu didn't have that many top-grade spirit stones on hand, but he could exchange them with points. One pound of top-grade spirit beast food cost one point, which was quite expensive.
Upon hearing Cheng Jiu say that he could exchange his points for spirit beast food, this senior brother's eyes lit up so brightly they almost blinded him.
Upon hearing that the points in Cheng Jiu's hand were from the Medicine Peak, he wished he could treat her as an honored guest. It could be seen from the fact that the Medicine Peak required pills to exchange for points that the points from the Medicine Peak were quite valuable among all the peaks, even more valuable than top-grade spirit stones in some ways.
After all, ninth-grade pills are priceless and hard to find; even top-grade spirit stones might not be enough to buy them, but the points earned from Medicine Peak can definitely be exchanged for ninth-grade pills.
She had been wanting to turn the monster meat she had exchanged into spirit beast food, and had even exchanged the recipe. But she had forgotten about it when she came back. Now that she was buying spirit beast food, she immediately remembered that she still owed Xuanze 20,000 jin of it. She had only given it pills before.
Fortunately, Xuanze didn't urge her to repay the debt, and bought it together this time. During the beast tide, she made a fortune in Medicine Peak.
Cheng Jiu bought 300,000 catties of spirit beast food with different flavors in one go.
Anyway, the more of these things the better. My two contracted beasts like them very much, so I can stock up on them. After all, I don't know how long the training will take in the future, so it's always good to have some on hand.
Those who wanted to form contracts with beasts after Gongcheng and Gongyu saw this and wanted to buy some of their own future contract beasts so they could build good relationships with them.
With this in mind, they all placed orders one after another, and such a large number of orders directly emptied the inventory that the rental office had painstakingly accumulated.
The senior brother was so happy that his teeth were practically splitting open, and he even managed to scrape together an extra three thousand catties as a free gift for Cheng Jiu: "Junior sister, welcome to come again next time!"
Cheng Jiu and the others had previously agreed to go to the market to buy cloth for making spirit garments. The little cloud beast did not choose to leave with Cheng Jiu, but stayed at the rental shop to greet its long-lost underlings.
The last time I saw these underlings was at Medicine Peak. They were all quite injured. Of course, besides feeling concerned and happy to see them again after so long, I also felt grateful.
Another reason is to show off. After all, its owner is so generous and treats it so well, so it has to show off in front of these guys, right?
The little cloud beast understood the principle that returning home in glory is like wearing fine clothes at night.
However, the spirit beasts at the rental shop were extremely annoyed by it. Those weaker than it or with inferior backgrounds could only silently endure the harassment from the little cloud beast, daring not to utter a single complaint, for fear of offending this little tyrant.
But those few beasts whose backgrounds and strengths were not much different from Little Cloud Beast were all pampered, and they couldn't stand Little Cloud Beast showing off so intimately. They almost started fighting with Little Cloud Beast.
The senior colleague at the rental office was also unhappy. He couldn't afford to offend these troublemakers, so he could only try his best to mediate.
The entire rental office was thrown into chaos by the little cloud beast. The senior brothers in the rental office just wanted to shout to the sky, "Junior Sister Cheng Jiu, please come back quickly, this place can't take it anymore!"
Cheng Jiu was completely unaware of the farce unfolding here. Ever since the little cloud beast made a contract with Cheng Jiu, it had been very well-behaved.
So gradually Cheng Jiu forgot about its past behavior and thought that the little cloud beast was just a mischievous child. He never thought that the little cloud beast would do anything to the rental office.
It simply thought it wanted to reminisce with old friends, and happily followed its companions to choose the fabric for making the spirit clothes.
After the beast tide ended, the sect market returned to its usual bustling state, and Cheng Jiu even saw things he had never seen before, such as gambling on stones.
These gambling stones originated from the mortal realm. The mortal realm has scarce spiritual energy, but that doesn't mean it lacks resources. This is because when the spiritual energy between heaven and earth dissipates, some of it dissipates into the air, while the rest is stored in the earth, forming veins of minerals, all of which are veins of spirit stones.
Unlike the mineral veins in the cultivation world, the spiritual stone veins in the cultivation world can be used directly once they are found, and they are shallow and usable mineral veins.
Moreover, the quality of the mineral veins is very uniform. For example, top-grade mineral veins are full of top-grade spirit stones, and high-grade mineral veins are full of high-grade spirit stones. As for medium-grade and low-grade spirit stones, they are usually the scraps from these mineral veins.
However, the mortal realm is different. A single mineral vein contains top-grade spirit stones, high-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade spirit stones, and even stones.
Although the quality cannot compare with that of the cultivation world, some relatively rare ores are generated in these veins, and the mined ores are often covered with a thick outer shell.
Even Mahayana cultivators cannot determine what is inside this outer shell, which is why the gambling on stones came into being.
In the cultivation world, these items that involve gambling on luck are extremely popular. Merchants from the cultivation world trade with dynasties in the mortal world, transporting these mined ores to the cultivation world for gambling and sale.
However, this was the first time the five of them had ever seen jade gambling. Usually, such things only appeared in storybooks, becoming a weapon for the protagonists to slap everyone in the face.
"Want to play?" Yingyue pointed to the jade gambling stall, showing how popular it was. Senior brothers and sisters were queuing up to select and buy jade, and the stall occupied the largest area in the entire market.
Gong Yu and Wen Sishu were clearly quite interested: "Junior Sister Xiao Jiu, let's go take a look!"
Cheng Jiu nodded: "Okay!"
Although it contains pure stone, it's still quite conscientious. Firstly, it's truly undetectable by human eyes, and secondly, the outer casing is very effective at preventing counterfeiting.
Once the raw stone is opened, the outer shell will lose its properties and turn into ordinary sand or mud.
So there's absolutely no need to worry about buying fake raw stones.
The five of them looked around; it was purely a matter of first impressions.
The stones were casually placed on the ground, and the fellow apprentice selling these raw stones was extremely busy. They were of different shapes and colors, which meant that these raw stones came from different mineral veins.
It is said that these colors are very particular and closely related to the environment in which these mineral veins were formed.
Cheng Jiu immediately spotted the apple-shaped, five or six fist-sized, bluish-green raw stone on the ground and picked it up.
It had a smooth, stone-like texture, and Cheng Jiu liked it more and more as he looked at it, so he put it in his pocket.
Originally intending to pick only one, Cheng Jiu noticed that the others were clearly not satisfied with just one, so he decided to continue looking at more.
I picked up another red rough stone, about the size of two fists, with some pits and bumps on it.
It was yellow, and Cheng Jiu thought it looked a bit like a little bird.
"This is big enough," Cheng Jiu said, looking at the half-person-high brown rough stone.
The more she picked, the more excited she became. In the end, it was Yingyue who asked Cheng Jiu, "Junior Sister Jiu, have you made your choice yet?"
Upon hearing this, Cheng Jiu stopped browsing and ran over with the five raw stones she had chosen. Of course, she didn't bring the largest one, mainly because there wasn't enough space to carry it.
Tell the senior brother in charge of collecting spirit stones to bring the big rock over.
The half-person-high stone seemed very heavy, but this senior brother was clearly trained and lifted it with ease.
The stone slammed heavily onto the ground; it was the largest of the five rough stones the men had picked.
The raw stones are priced by weight, with a minimum of one low-grade spirit stone per pound. The price increases depending on the location. For example, Cheng Jiu's half-person-tall raw stone costs fifty low-grade spirit stones and five top-grade spirit stones per pound. All six stones together cost a total of five top-grade spirit stones and five high-grade spirit stones.
But that wasn't the most expensive. The most expensive was a raw stone the size of a human head that Gongcheng had chosen, worth ten top-grade spirit stones.
After paying, several people chose to open the car on the spot. Isn't it a small expense to buy some fun?
But who should start? The five people drew lots, and Cheng Jiu won first.
The senior brother in charge of opening the raw stones was clearly very skilled: "Junior sister, which one would you like to open first?"
Cheng Jiu pulled out a fist-sized cyan raw stone: "Senior brother, open this one!"
"Alright!" The senior brother carefully picked up the rough stone and began to polish it.
"Hopefully, this will be a great start! Hopefully, this will be a great start!" Cheng Jiu looked at the slowly polishing rough stone and began to feel nervous.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, the outer shell was quickly worn away, and a jade-like luster shone through it.
"A top-grade spirit jade, the price has skyrocketed!" the senior brother exclaimed, holding up the spirit jade.
Soon, all the disciples in the market were attracted. Spirit jade is expensive because it has the effect of nurturing spiritual energy. This one is especially good quality. If it is made into an ornament or crafted by a weapon refiner, its value can increase even more.
Cheng Jiu only spent five low-grade spirit stones to buy this raw stone, so isn't that a huge increase? Excluding the cost of the raw stone, it has increased more than a hundred times!
Of course, even after deducting all costs, Cheng Jiu still made a profit; this one coin was enough for Cheng Jiu to break even.
The gamblers who bought the raw stones were green with envy as they looked at Cheng Jiu's spirit jade. Their envious and jealous gazes were constantly directed at Cheng Jiu.
Cheng Jiu's lips couldn't help but curl upwards.
"As expected of junior sister, congratulations junior sister!" Gong Yu gave a thumbs up.
"Yes, congratulations, Junior Sister! You still have five raw stones left, and their value will definitely increase significantly afterward!" The three from Gongcheng congratulated her.
"Let's keep going!" Cheng Jiu took out the second largest apple-shaped stone and handed it to the other person.
The senior apprentice skillfully took it and began polishing the outer shell.
The outer shell continued to shrink inward, and amidst the growing disappointment of the crowd, a small, shiny, round piece of iron fell onto the cutting board and sank deeply into it.
Even if it were small, it was enough to make the disciples of the Weapon Peak who were watching breathe heavily: "This is the Iron Mother, this must be the Iron Mother! It's so big!"
The iron mother lay quietly on the chopping board, about the size of an adult's thumb. It might slip from one's hand if one wasn't careful, but in the eyes of the disciples of Weapon Peak, it was not small at all.
Iron Mother is a ninth-grade spiritual material. The fact that it is called Mother shows how precious it is. If a little Iron Mother is added when forging a weapon, the weapon is destined to come alive. If it comes alive and is nurtured, it is equivalent to having a weapon spirit.
You have to understand that this is a weapon spirit. Apart from the Sword Abyss Sect with its profound foundation, ordinary people would probably have to risk their ancestral graves burning to obtain a weapon spirit.
This iron mother is actually the size of a thumb. If used sparingly, it can be used to forge quite a few weapons imbued with spirit. It can be called the dream material of the disciples of the Weapon Peak.
The disciple who was opening the stone reached out to pick up the Iron Mother, only to find that he couldn't lift it at all. The Iron Mother was as heavy as a thousand pounds; without some cultivation and Taoist practice, one couldn't even lift it, let alone obtain it.
The fact that such a heavy iron mother is hidden inside the stone makes it not feel heavy at all, which is the wonder of the outer shell.
The disciple looked at Cheng Jiu, unable to hand the Iron Mother over to him. If Cheng Jiu wanted to take it, he would probably have to do it himself.
After learning of the Iron Mother's value, amidst the covetous gazes of the crowd, a slender white hand reached out and pried off the Iron Mother, placing it into a storage ring.
Peel it off, pick it up! What unfamiliar words these are!
The crowd followed the pale hand to Cheng Jiu's stunning face and fell silent.
Some of the more knowledgeable disciples recognized Cheng Jiu at a glance and fell silent, realizing that he was a disciple of Immortal Lord Qingxu.
"What's wrong? Keep going!" Cheng Jiu didn't think he had done anything terrible. The spot where the iron mother on the cutting board had fallen had left a shallow dent.
As soon as she uttered those words, the atmosphere around her began to stir. With such a beautiful face, she did such a shocking thing and yet it all seemed so ordinary. No wonder she was a disciple of the Immortal Lord Qingxu; she was truly extraordinary.
The surrounding disciples sighed, their covetous gazes receding, and they were filled with anticipation for what Cheng Jiu would reveal next.
Cheng Jiu simply went for the big one and removed the largest one.
This rough stone is huge; the senior apprentice who was cutting it originally thought it would take a long time.
As it turned out, this stone was even faster than the previous one.
It was a large, top-grade spirit stone, about half the height of a person. Although its value was known, it wasn't as tall as the previous iron mother stone, but the impact of such a large, top-grade spirit stone was still unparalleled.
Especially since this one is made of wood, its emerald green light seems tailor-made for Cheng Jiu. In short, it's beautiful!
Cheng Jiu was overjoyed. He was rich! He was rich! What difference was there between this and just leaving gold lying around?
There's no difference, it's even better. If that gold piece were specially made to resemble one's birth zodiac sign, who wouldn't love it? Cheng Jiu would absolutely adore it.
This top-grade spirit stone should be displayed in her courtyard for all who visit her to see!
The remaining three were opened one by one, and inside the red one, a bunch of Fire Melting Stars, about six or seven in total, were found, which were seventh-grade refining materials.
The yellow one produced a palm-sized piece of Yellow Rock Incense, a material used for alchemy, grade eight, and extremely rare, the kind that is priceless and unavailable.
The last one was black, and what came out of it was an ink-like liquid. Fortunately, the senior sisters from the weapon peak who had been watching since the Iron Mother was opened came to the rescue and caught the ink-like liquid in a bottle and sealed it with a special secret method.
This is called Mineral Spirit Marrow. It's not a refining material, but it can repair any damaged spiritual weapon. It's even more precious than Iron Mother. Each of these ten drops is more valuable than Iron Mother if sold individually.
With six raw stones, he hit the target every time, and the onlookers could directly feel Cheng Jiu's extraordinary luck.
Cheng Jiu chose to stop, as there's a saying that going too far is as bad as not going far enough; anyway, she had already made a huge profit.