Chapter 589: Nine Li True Chapter: Harvesting a Fixed Star to Form the Golden Core

One saw Master Mei Zu's face full of regret:

"Sigh~ What a pity."

Hmm?

"What a pity Jiuyu wasn't in the first or second batch. I was still quite looking forward to seeing the world she would lead…"

The third batch of Ascension Emissaries' trials differs from the previous two batches; within a short time, there won't be a chance to see it.

"Had I known it would be like this, I would have firmly opposed her joining the Soul Transformation group by special exception back then!"

With Jiuyu's strength, if she hadn't joined the Soul Transformation group by special exception, taking first place in the Nascent Soul group would have been a complete breeze.

Bie Xuening couldn't be bothered to respond to her.

What's the damn use of you opposing it!

She's my disciple, not yours.

Suddenly, Master Mei Zu turned to look at Bie Xuening and rebuked her in all seriousness:

"How do you even act as a master? How could you let her suffer such unjust treatment!"

Hearing these words, Xu Xing's eye twitched.

Do you actually care about her suffering 'unfair' treatment?

I can't even be bothered to call you out on it!

Xu Xing shook his head slightly and stood up.

"Dao Brother, this is…?"

"A junior I met earlier got a good item. Since there's nothing to do around here, I'll go pay him a visit."

Can't just stand by and watch him ruin himself.

……

……

Meanwhile, outside the Xiang Jianzong's outer gate.

The free trade area of the Alchemy Cauldron Pavilion.

Under Leng Rou's guidance, Gu Wangjun successfully bought a poison pill of very high grade at a relatively low price.

In the flow of people coming and going.

Gu Wangjun had already put away that poison pill. At this moment, he was standing in front of a stall, flipping through an old thread-bound book.

The pages were mottled and withered-yellow; even most of the text on them was blurred and illegible.

He flipped through it for a while without gaining any clue, so he had no choice but to close it again.

He saw four large characters on the cover of the thread-bound book, but only two could be barely made out.

"Nine… Chapter."

Gu Wangjun read out those two characters, then quietly asked in his heart.

'Is this thing really useful? Just repairing it alone will cost quite a bit, right?'

'I told you to buy it, so just buy it. Why so much nonsense?' Leng Rou cursed him, 'In a bit, if someone notices something off, it won't be at this price anymore.'

Fine then.

Although Leng Rou was rather sharp-tongued, Gu Wangjun still trusted her very much.

So, he looked up at the burly stall owner behind the stall.

"How much for this?"

"Everything's twenty thousand spirit coins a piece, take it or lea—" Halfway through his words, he realized something and forced out a smile. "No haggling."

Hmm?

Why does it feel so weird.

He swept a glance at the stall owner's burly build:

"Boss, you're from the Long Xiang Qing Tian Sect, right? How come you've come to the Xiang Jianzong's side to sell things?"

"Sharp eyes, huh." The stall owner was somewhat surprised. "Heck! It's not that I heard the free trade area here at the Xiang Jianzong's Alchemy Cauldron Pavilion often has idiots looking to pick up bargains, so I just…"

Just as he said this, he realized he'd misspoken again and hurriedly apologized.

"Sorry, sorry, I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about those idiots looking to pick up bargains."

Because his voice was very loud, even though he deliberately lowered it a bit, quite a few people around still heard and glared at him furiously.

Of those who came here to buy things, who didn't harbor the thought of 'picking up a bargain'…

No, wait!

This is called staking a little to win big, a discerning eye recognizing the pearl!

Truly vulgar, low-class body cultivator brute!

It could be seen that this body cultivator's 'spiritual attack' training was still at the elementary stage of being unable to control it at will.

Gu Wangjun was somewhat speechless, but noticing quite a few gazes shifting this way, he still hurriedly paid the money.

Having just obtained part of Leng Rou's 'inheritance', twenty thousand spirit coins was still something he could afford.

"There really are idiots buying it, looks like I'll have to come often in the future…" the body cultivator muttered.

Gu Wangjun: "……"

You'd better not be talking about me.

Immediately, having no intention of continuing the chat, he turned and left.

Originally, he had been quite curious about the Longxiang Qingtianzong, one of the legendary Qidaxian Sect.

After all, the rumors on the Spirit Net were a mix of truth and falsehood, not entirely to be believed, but now…

He believed them.

He walked on for quite a stretch, already far from the area where the body cultivator was, before asking Leng Rou in his mind.

"What's this book actually good for? It doesn't look special to me. Could it be that I need to drip blood on it to acknowledge a master?"

In some of the legends he had heard of, someone had picked up a sealed ancient magic artifact, dripped blood to acknowledge it as master, then rose powerfully, advancing by leaps and bounds all the way, and then—

"Off daydreaming again. Stacking the pillow higher won't help. I suggest you go buy another pillow."

As usual, Leng Rou first mocked him with a line, then began to explain.

"The content on this book has indeed been damaged and holds no value."

"If it holds no value then—"

Twenty thousand spirit coins!

"But the material of this book is excellent. Take it back and I'll teach you how to take it apart and process it. Talisman paper of such fine quality—you can use it even after you reach Jin Dan, Nascent Soul, or even higher realm!"

Talisman paper?

Gu Wangjun paused, pinched a page between his fingers, and carefully felt it.

Yet he found the page itself was extremely pliable and tough, not like paper, but more like cloth or… beast hide?

"Tsk tsk! A book made of such fine material—the content recorded inside must be extraordinary."

Unfortunately, judging by the book's material and the spirit ink used for the text, the cost of restoration was completely beyond what this kid could bear.

Low-quality body cultivator brutes really are brainless—selling such a fine thing for only twenty thousand spirit coins.

Because he had been warned by the Xiang Jianzong's patrolling magic artifact earlier, and because Leng Rou herself had a poor impression of body cultivators, he began wildly slandering body cultivators in his mind.

emm…

From a certain angle, perhaps it couldn't really be called "slander."

"Let's wander around a bit more. If there's nothing good, we'll leave."

The harvest was already enough for now. Greed was the greatest taboo in such matters.

"Mm."

Gu Wangjun responded, glanced at the small booklet with its mottled cover in his hand, and prepared to put it away.

Yet the moment he took a step—

His vision suddenly blurred.

He looked up and found the scenery around him continuously receding, with pure white fault lines in between.

It was as if a patch of abrupt white space had been inlaid into this stretch of heaven and earth.

Very quickly, in the instant his thought arose, the four directions became a vast expanse of white, endless to the eye.

This wondrous sight made Gu Wangjun freeze on the spot, not daring to make the slightest move for the moment.

However, because he had Leng Rou, who was at the peak of Return-to-Void, as his backing, he didn't panic too much and quickly came back to his senses.

"What's going on?"

He asked quietly in his mind.

"I… don't know either."

The voice rang out beside his ear with perfect clarity.

Gu Wangjun was startled and whipped his head around!

Only then did he discover that Leng Rou, who should have been recuperating inside the ring, had come out at some unknown point, her gentle yet spirited face full of astonishment.

She hadn't figured out what the situation was either.

This was the Xiang Jianzong!

Who had such enormous nerve, daring to do this within the Xiang Jianzong…

"The Nine Li Zhen Zhang—if this were taken and made into talisman paper, that would truly be a waste."