Chapter 149: White Dew Turns to Frost

Zhou Qingyue said calmly: "If I die, I die."

Although she said it like that.

But in the depths of her pupils, black light appeared from time to time.

Ghosts, after all, had a different way of thinking than humans.

The words she spoke were not necessarily true.

The Zhou family elder had long anticipated this and said helplessly: "Regardless, I will take you to apply for an identity device first."

Zhou Qingyue didn't say much this time and followed behind the Zhou family elder: "Let's go."

This Zhou family elder was clearly not of the Divine Palace Realm.

Although his combat power was very strong, he didn't hear Zhou Qingyue's voice.

"That Dragon Sparrow?"

Hearing this, Jiang Jian's gaze narrowed.

The Dragon Sparrow jade pendant in his sleeve seemed to become even colder.

"Time to split the money!"

Liu Feng breathed a sigh of relief and placed the big and small bags of spiritual resources on the stone platform.

Zhou Sisi stared at these things, her eyes shining.

Zhou Lingling was somewhat helpless and said: "According to the God-Witness Contract, 90% of the resources belong to Jiang Jian."

"Of course I know."

Zhou Sisi laughed, "But we discovered a Zhou family ancestor, and the reward won't be small either."

"What's more, the things Liu Feng and I scavenged, even if it's only 10%, are still a lot."

Zhou Lingling nodded and said: "That is indeed the case."

As she spoke.

Zhou Lingling opened her identity device, found the God-Witness Contract, and activated it directly.

Real-time recording had already started.

Dozens of miles away, Taiping Prefecture Prayer Temple.

The collected "Divine Power" permeated out, crossed a distance of dozens of miles, and fell into the underground palace.

The reason the God-Witness Contract had mandatory force was because of the existence of the Prayer Temple.

The Prayer Temple used special means to collect "Divine Power" from sunlight as a means to fulfill the God-Witness Contract.

"These are actually all ours?"

"How is this possible!"

Watching a large pile of resources tilting toward Liu Feng, the few exclaimed.

"The contract isn't wrong!"

Zhou Lingling looked through the contract, her brows furrowed, "The contract clearly states that Jiang Jian himself gets 90% of the harvest this time, and we split 10% equally."

"But why would it be like this?"

As the few were puzzled.

Zhou Lingling thought of one thing, her pupils contracted, and she looked at Jiang Jian: "Could it be!?"

She had already remembered that Jiang Jian had just taken away Zhou Qingyue's burial object.

Although she didn't pay attention at the time and didn't know what it was.

But according to the God-Witness Contract, its preciousness was already completely beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Halfway through her words.

Zhou Lingling closed her mouth and didn't say any more.

Zhou Sisi and Liu Feng looked at each other, having similar guesses in their hearts.

However, neither of them spoke again.

"Let's cancel this God-Witness Contract quickly!"

Zhou Lingling looked at Jiang Jian, "How about the four of us split these resources equally, what do you think?"

Jiang Jian was silent for a moment, shook his head lightly, and said: "No need, just leave it as it is."

He didn't take any spiritual resources and walked directly toward the outside of the underground palace.

"I feel like this isn't very good."

Zhou Sisi looked at Jiang Jian's back and was the first to say, "With so many spiritual resources, he doesn't want any of them; we've taken too much advantage."

Not waiting for her boyfriend and cousin to speak, she continued.

"I know he might have other harvests."

"But the things in front of us are solid, they can't lie."

Zhou Sisi turned to look at her cousin and said seriously, "Let's split them into four portions and mail one to Jiang Jian."

Liu Feng looked at his girlfriend, feeling somewhat moved in his heart, and said: "Sisi, why are you so sensible now?"

Zhou Sisi held his hand and tightened it forcefully: "People must know how to be grateful; if it weren't for Jiang Jian, we couldn't have reached this point."

As these words fell.

Zhou Lingling nodded and said: "Then let's split out one portion and mail it to Jiang Jian."

Outside the underground palace.

Jiang Jian exited the tunnel and stopped.

Dozens of meters away.

The Zhou clan elder looked over, his expression strange.

Beside him stood a girl wearing a light white short-sleeved shirt.

"Jiang Jian?"

The Zhou clan elder probed.

Jiang Jian responded, walked up, his tone neither humble nor arrogant, and asked: "Elder, is there something?"

The Zhou clan elder sighed and asked: "What kind of God-Witness Contract did you sign with Zhou Lingling?"

"I just went to the Prayer Temple to apply for an identity device for Princess Qingyue, but it prompted that it couldn't be processed."

The Zhou clan elder turned sideways and pointed to the girl beside him, "After testing by the Prayer Temple staff, she is currently in a special state and cannot become a non-official citizen."

Zhou Qingyue stood to the side, her pitch-black pupils emitting cold light, still expressionless.

Jiang Jian was silent for a moment and said: "The contract I signed with Zhou Lingling was for resource distribution; I get 90% of the harvest from this team."

The Zhou clan elder frowned and pondered.

After a long while.

His gaze suddenly shook, and he exclaimed: "Right, I didn't have time to ask, when Princess Qingyue appeared, was she subdued by you all?"

Jiang Jian nodded: "Yes."

The Zhou clan elder's expression became even more complex: "She hasn't applied for an identity device yet and has no human rights."

"After losing her combat power, she herself is a ghost, also belonging to a part of spiritual resources."

"The God-Witness Contract you signed should have classified her as belonging to you."

"That's why when I took her to the Prayer Temple just now, I couldn't apply for an identity device."

Hearing this.

Jiang Jian was somewhat speechless and said: "Elder, what do I need to do?"

The Zhou clan elder looked helpless and said: "According to Prayer Temple regulations, after a ghost appears in the world, each realm only has one chance to apply for an identity device to become a non-official citizen."

"The Prayer Temple is managed by the prefecture's divine envoy and is independent of the government office; my Zhou family can't force it either."

The elder turned his head to look at the girl beside him, "She already used her chance just now, but the application failed."

Jiang Jian asked: "So?"

The Zhou clan elder spread his hands, and only then did he state his purpose: "According to Earth Alliance law, as long as it is a Spring Realm creature, whether it is a spirit demon or a ghost, trading is strictly prohibited."

"The current situation is somewhat special."

"According to the God-Witness Contract, you are her owner and cannot transfer her."

"You can only let her follow you in the capacity of a pet."

"Only then can she be protected by law and not be beaten to death by anyone at will."

Seeming to see that Jiang Jian was about to refuse.

The Zhou clan elder hurriedly said, "Don't be in a hurry; the resources she needs for cultivation will be issued by the Zhou family on time."

"Also, the Zhou family will issue you a hardship fee on time, which will definitely satisfy you!"

Speaking of this.

He looked at Jiang Jian full of expectation.

There were some secrets he didn't tell Jiang Jian.

One of the Zhou family old ancestors, the former son of the Shang Emperor, felt very complex after knowing his sister had turned into a ghost.

This old ancestor didn't want to see Zhou Qingyue.

Because several thousand years ago, it was he who personally ordered his sister to be buried in the mausoleum.

After he woke up, following the era, he used the Zhou family's resources to cultivate to the Divine Palace Realm as a ghost and became one of the Zhou family old ancestors.

His thinking had undergone a huge change.

Now facing Zhou Qingyue.

Whether to kill or release.

He was very conflicted and couldn't make up his mind.

Now, it was the year 3227.

In this era, he had too few relatives.

After all, not everyone who died would turn into a ghost.

This sister who was once ordered to die by him had instead become his closest bloodline.

But in his heart, he was also very contradictory and didn't want to meet Zhou Qingyue at all.

After receiving the elder's report on the situation.

This old ancestor was overjoyed and immediately made a decision to go with the flow and throw this trouble away fiercely.

Even if it meant consuming some resources, he wouldn't hesitate.

"So, now I need to register her in my household registry as a pet?"

Jiang Jian was even more speechless.

But in his heart, he thought of the ghosts in the Haicheng pet market.

The difference was.

Those ghosts were in the God-Given Realm and could be traded at will.

Likewise, they could be registered in the identity device as pets.

Once they became pets, they were private property of citizens and protected by law.

Spring Realm ghosts were prohibited from trading.

But such creatures, as soon as they were born, would be valued by the Prayer Temple.

Some staff would even come to handle the identity device for them proactively.

Therefore, ordinary Spring Realm spirit demons and ghosts almost all possessed identity devices and were likewise non-official citizens of Earth.

Zhou Qingyue's situation was too special.

After she appeared in the world, before she had time to handle an identity device, she was beaten and lost her combat power.

She was treated as a spiritual resource and directly had her ownership determined by Zhou Lingling's God-Witness Contract.

Under these circumstances, the application for an identity device failed; she had no household registry and was not protected by any law at all.

In other words.

She was walking outside, and even if she were beaten to death and had her ghost power source extracted, no one would interfere.

And Jiang Jian, as the person to whom the resource belonged, was the only chance she had to get protection from a legal level.

"Correct, for the time being, this is the only way."

The Zhou clan elder smiled bitterly and handed over a list, "Here is the hardship fee for you."

"As the top student of the two prefectures of Linjiang and Hanjiang, you shouldn't look down on ordinary resources."

"So I selected a few things that you can use."

Speaking of this, the Zhou clan elder blinked.

Clearly, the Zhou family had long investigated Jiang Jian's background.

It wasn't just Jiang Jian.

This clan competition, besides Zhou Lingling, had quite a few juniors who also invited guests.

All guests would be strictly investigated by the Zhou family.

Only after confirming their identity and origin, that they were all clean, and that they didn't have any other intentions, would they be allowed to enter the Shang Emperor's Tomb.

Jiang Jian took the list, glanced at it, and his gaze narrowed.

Just the first item made him somewhat tempted!

"Millennium Spiritual Ginseng, can increase the spiritual essence limit!"

Since the birth of the gods, it had only been three hundred-plus years.

Clearly, this was originally a mountain ginseng of over a thousand years, which had experienced hundreds of years of baptism by the aura of the gods to grow into a precious spiritual item!

Observing Jiang Jian's expression change.

The Zhou clan elder smiled, feeling quite proud, stroked his beard, and said: "Millennium Spiritual Ginseng is very precious to you all."

"But to my Zhou family, it's just an ordinary spiritual item."

His tone was quite arrogant, "Every heaven-gifted talent of my Zhou family who cultivates to 103% of the God-Given Realm will receive a Millennium Spiritual Ginseng to make their spiritual essence cultivation go to the next level."

"I observe that you have also cultivated to the limit of the God-Given Realm and should be in great need of this."

"You Linjiang Prefecture shouldn't have this thing, right?"

Hearing this.

Jiang Jian didn't deny it and said: "The Zhou family is indeed deep in foundation; I haven't seen this kind of spiritual item in Linjiang Prefecture yet."

The Zhou clan elder smiled, his chin lifted higher: "A stalk of spiritual ginseng is just a drop in the bucket to my Zhou family and can't be counted as anything."

Although he said it like that.

But in his heart, he still felt some heartache.

The stock of Millennium Spiritual Ginseng in the Zhou family was not much, with only a hundred or so stalks left.

Using one meant one less.

Only Zhou family juniors who performed very well could receive this reward.

"But besides the Millennium Spiritual Ginseng, the rest of the things are very average."

Jiang Jian finished reading the list and said softly.

Besides a stalk of Millennium Spiritual Ginseng.

On the list, there were Level 3 God-Given Weapons, Level 3 talent light balls, and some other spiritual materials.

These, although likewise precious.

But for Jiang Jian, they had no use.

The Zhou clan elder waved his hand and said: "These are all treasures!"

"Don't forget, this is only the resources for half a year!"

"Besides the Millennium Mountain Ginseng."

"The rest of the resources, as a hardship fee, will be issued to you every half year!"

"How about it?"

Looking at his appearance, he clearly didn't want to give out any more resources.

After all.

Zhou Qingyue's appearance, to that old ancestor, at most made him feel somewhat conflicted in his heart and wasn't really a big deal.

To solve this matter, taking out a Millennium Mountain Ginseng and adding some messy spiritual resources was already the limit of the Zhou family.

"Okay."

Jiang Jian estimated for a moment and put away the list.

These things were worth about 20 million Alliance coins.

Every half year, there would be a fixed income of 20 million Alliance coins.

It was quite helpful for his cultivation.

Jiang Jian stepped forward and shook hands with the elder.

The elder, thinking that he had helped the old ancestor solve a trouble and was about to be praised by the old ancestor, couldn't help but smile.

The next second.

He withdrew his hand, suppressed his smile, coughed dryly, and looked at the girl beside him: "Princess Qingyue."

The girl wearing a light white short-sleeved shirt walked to Jiang Jian's side.

The elder immediately waved his hand behind him: "Come quickly, lower the gangway and send the Princess to the fleet yard!"

Ten-plus minutes later.

Shangzhou Fleet Yard.

Jiang Jian said goodbye to the elder and, carrying a ghost, boarded his cross-boundary shuttle.

"Who is she?"

The gray fox poked its head out, staring at the ponytail girl, "Is she your classmate?"

The cabin door behind closed.

Zhou Qingyue looked at it, and in the depths of her pupils, a black vortex appeared.

Shangzhou Shipyard.

"Help!"

"Who is she?"

"What are you scaring it for?"

Jiang Jian lowered his head to pack his schoolbag and spoke softly.

Zhou Qingyue was expressionless, standing quietly in place, and said coldly: "I didn't do anything."

"It was just infected by Yin energy, causing fear in its heart."

Hearing this.

Jiang Jian finished packing his things and looked up.

Sure enough.

Around the ghost, there was no fluctuation at all.

It was just that her Spring Realm ghost energy was simply too terrifying.

"It was infected by Yin energy itself, which triggered fear in its heart."

"You aren't afraid of death?"

Jiang Jian asked, "Why did you still listen to the elder and come to me."

Just like in the underground palace, Zhou Qingyue revealed a strange smile and said: "You took the Dragon Sparrow, so naturally I have to come over."

"Dragon Sparrow, what exactly is it?"

Jiang Jian took out the jade pendant and placed it in his palm.

A pitch-black phoenix circled and flew up.

Its figure shifted between reality and illusion, its gaze cold and ruthless.

"Dragon Sparrow is a type of phoenix."

Zhou Qingyue's figure dissipated, turning into black energy.

The next moment, she appeared on the sofa, re-condensed into a human form, and sat down.

"It's just that its wings and tail feathers, its whole body, are all pitch black."

"About three hundred and fifty-plus years ago."

"A Dragon Sparrow shadow appeared in this jade."

"It appeared at the exact same time I gained intelligence."

"It seems to be my companion."

The ghost said, "As time passed."

"This Dragon Sparrow shadow became more and more realistic."

"Even I wouldn't dare to touch it easily."

The ghost turned her head, black hair hanging down, looking at the Dragon Sparrow jade in Jiang Jian's hand.

"Until now."

"I still feel that it has a connection with me."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 150 =====

"This Long Que phantom is becoming more and more lifelike."

"Even I dare not touch it easily."

The ghost tilted her head, her black hair hanging down, and looked at the Long Que Jade in Jiang Jian's hand.

"Until now."

"I still feel that there is a connection between it and me."

(End of chapter)