Chapter 158

"What talent light cluster do you want?"

The stall owner was a human wearing a mask, his tone very calm. "Level 3 light clusters, Level 4 light clusters, I have a few of each."

On the stall, several holographic screens were floating.

On each screen was information about a talent light cluster.

Jiang Jian looked at a seven-colored light cluster, his gaze focused, and asked: "What's the price?"

Level 4 Martial, rare God-Given, "Rainbow After Rain."

Displacement, attack, defense, control, suppression.

Extremely comprehensive.

Its most precious aspect was that it could convert starlight, significantly increasing cultivation speed!

Its holographic image hung before him.

Just one glance at it felt like seven-colored evil energy was permeating out.

"You have a good eye."

The stall owner smiled. "Level 4 Martial, Rainbow After Rain, I want to exchange it for treasures that increase spiritual essence."

Jiang Jian asked: "For example?"

The stall owner said: "20 stalks of Yuan-Nurturing Grass, or 15 stalks of hundred-year Infused Infused Lingzhi, or 20 Aperture-Opening Pills."

Jiang Jian frowned slightly.

The stall owner spread his hands and said: "If you don't have them, please leave."

Jiang Jian said softly: "Have you heard of thousand-year Ginseng?"

The stall owner's gaze moved, and he said: "You have thousand-year Ginseng? Isn't that a scarce resource of the Zhou family?"

After pondering for a moment, he gave a price: "If you can really produce thousand-year Ginseng, then give me 8 more stalks of Yuan-Nurturing Grass, or 5 stalks of hundred-year Infused Infused Lingzhi, and this talent light cluster is yours."

He hadn't inflated the price.

The asking price was very fair.

"I'll give you 4 stalks of hundred-year Infused Infused Lingzhi."

Jiang Jian said, "And exchange the other 1 stalk for 2 Aperture-Opening Pills, how about that?"

The stall owner thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

"Then it's a deal."

Jiang Jian settled his mind without hesitation.

He took out the wooden box and counted the spiritual resources.

1 stalk of thousand-year Ginseng, 4 stalks of hundred-year Infused Infused Lingzhi, 2 Aperture-Opening Pills.

Exchanged for a Level 4 talent light cluster.

The prices of the scarce resources on both sides were roughly equivalent.

"I'll go get the goods for you."

The stall owner turned around, activated the ladder array, and left the market.

A few minutes later.

The array light shone.

The stall owner carefully held a jade box and walked to the stall.

"Transaction complete."

Jiang Jian handed over the wooden box and took back the jade box, tucking it into his sleeve.

Not far away.

Market management personnel received the information and walked toward Jiang Jian, asking: "Hello, do you need help from the Prayer Hall? It only costs a small amount of labor fee."

Jiang Jian replied: "Okay."

The management personnel smiled: "Let's go, we'll go up first."

He took Jiang Jian, walked a few dozen meters, and entered a shipping container.

Inside the container was also an array ladder leading to the ground.

"That stall owner just now, in order to break through to the Spirit Palace Realm, has almost gone mad."

The array light shone, and the staff member suddenly spoke.

Jiang Jian asked: "What do you mean by that?"

The staff member sighed and said: "When he cultivated to the Spring-Gushing Realm, his lifespan was about to end, so the lifespan he gained wasn't much."

"If he doesn't break through to the Spirit Palace, he will simply grow old and die."

"That's why he took out all his accumulated fortune to exchange for things that increase spiritual essence."

"Before you, he had already exchanged for many resources."

"That thousand-year Ginseng of yours is a great help to him."

As they spoke.

The ladder array stopped.

Here, it was also a shipping container.

The Prayer Hall had sent staff to station here to collect fees.

After Jiang Jian paid the handling fee, he walked into the room with the jade box and began the talent replacement ceremony.

The jade box opened.

The seven-colored rainbow floated up, blooming with brilliant, dazzling light.

"This is good stuff."

The staff member wearing a star robe exclaimed in admiration.

After saying this, he pinched a formula with both hands, cast a Prayer Hall spell, and replaced the talent for Jiang Jian.

Jiang Jian, meanwhile, was thinking about what the management personnel had just said.

When breaking through realms, the lifespan gained was not fixed.

It was not only limited by the remaining lifespan but also related to one's own situation.

Ideally, humans have a lifespan of 150 years.

If one breaks through to the Spring-Gushing Realm in a short time.

Their lifespan will increase to 300 years.

But these were just the most perfect situations.

Most people's bodies have hidden injuries.

Their base lifespan doesn't reach 150 years at all, only about 100 years.

Many people are close to the end of their lifespan when breaking through to the Spring-Gushing Realm.

The heads of the great families in Guangling City were in this situation.

Even if they broke into the Spring-Gushing Realm before dying.

Depending on their physical condition, their lifespan increase was only a few decades.

It was very difficult to reach the extreme state of increasing lifespan by 150 years.

Therefore.

The actual lifespan of most Spring-Gushing Realm cultivators was only between 100 and 200 years.

The stall owner just now was a Spring-Gushing Realm cultivator whose lifespan was about to end.

"Replaced it for you."

The star-robed staff member dispersed the spell and breathed a sigh of relief. "Your Spring-Gushing spiritual essence is actually so solid!"

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Jiang Jian with a hint of shock.

As a Prayer Hall member, he had come into contact with many Spring-Gushing Realm cultivators.

But among them, there had never been any creature whose Spring-Gushing spiritual essence was as settled and solid as Jiang Jian's, with almost no omissions.

"The most terrifying thing is that your bone age is so young."

The staff member exclaimed, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be from the Zhou family, right?"

"After all, top-tier spiritual items like thousand-year Ginseng are of unimaginable value."

"In this Ping'an Prefecture, only the Zhou family possesses such things."

His expression was very confident.

In his heart, he had already concluded that Jiang Jian was a genius junior of the Zhou family.

Jiang Jian smiled, didn't say much, just thanked him, and turned to walk out of the room.

"A Zhou family genius, truly extraordinary!"

Looking at Jiang Jian's back, the staff member sighed again, "As expected of the number one great family in Ping'an Prefecture!"

Outside the shipping container.

Jiang Jian didn't return to the underground market, but instead pushed open the door, walked out of the array ladder range, and left.

In the Spring-Gushing acupoint, a seven-colored rainbow floated.

Every moment, it emitted gorgeous colorful light.

"Level 4 Martial, Rainbow After Rain."

Jiang Jian carefully sensed the light cluster, his expression slightly focused.

This talent light cluster definitely belonged to the rare God-Given category and was extremely precious!

If it weren't for the stall owner's harsh requirements.

I'm afraid this "Rainbow After Rain" would have been exchanged long ago.

After all, whether it was hundred-year Infused Infused Lingzhi or Yuan-Nurturing Grass, they were extremely scarce resources.

Spending Alliance coins couldn't buy them either.

Jiang Jian, if he didn't possess a "thousand-year Ginseng" gifted by the Zhou family that was even rarer.

He would never have been able to exchange for "Rainbow After Rain."

"Its effects are very comprehensive."

"Sometimes, it can even compare to a Level 5 talent."

Jiang Jian recalled the two Level 5 talents of Hanjiang Prefecture, and a judgment formed in his heart.

"Nourish 'Rainbow After Rain' with the Spring-Gushing acupoint."

"The speed of cultivating Spring-Gushing spiritual Qi increases significantly!"

"No wonder that person was able to glimpse the Spirit Palace."

"This Rainbow After Rain must have played a big role."

"It's just that, in order to break through to the Spirit Palace and continue living, he could no longer care about these things."

As he pondered.

Jiang Jian tried to use his Spring-Gushing spiritual essence to activate "Rainbow After Rain."

Silently.

His figure turned into a seven-colored rainbow, streaking rapidly!

In an instant, he crossed a distance of over ten meters!

The trees and soil along the way were all stained with seven-colored rainbow light, annihilating into dust!

"Rainbow After Rain can only perform short-distance displacement; it is good at attacking but not good at defense."

"During its displacement, it can cause great damage!"

The seven-colored light dissipated, Jiang Jian appeared, and he understood it better.

Rainbow After Rain's current maximum displacement distance was 20 meters.

It was different from "Close to the Ends of the Earth."

"Close to the Ends of the Earth" possessed long-distance displacement, invisibility, damage immunity, avoiding attacks, and other traits.

While "Rainbow After Rain" was mainly used for displacement in battle.

However, its killing power was extremely strong!

Besides this, it also had traits like suppression and control, which were very comprehensive.

"Close to the Ends of the Earth," a Level 6 talent light cluster, upgraded through Star Ring essence, had a very high ceiling.

The development directions of the two talent light clusters were not the same.

However, Rainbow After Rain had obvious flaws as well.

Jiang Jian took a step, turned into a seven-colored rainbow, and moved toward the clouds.

Spring-Gushing spiritual Qi was consumed rapidly!

"Although the burst is strong."

"But in a short time, it consumes too much spiritual Qi."

Jiang Jian frowned slightly, the seven-colored light scattered, and his figure appeared in mid-air.

Just as he was about to fall, his gold-white sleeves brushed, and black light intertwined!

"Close to the Ends of the Earth!"

In an instant, his figure turned into black light, soaring upward.

Directly crossing a distance of a hundred meters, appearing amidst the higher clouds!

The spiritual Qi consumed was much less!

After all, "Close to the Ends of the Earth" was a Level 6 talent.

Each activation consumed very little.

The Shenque spiritual essence was already perfect.

The Dragon Sparrow phantom gently flapped its wings and flew a circle.

In just a few seconds, it replenished all the consumed spiritual Qi.

On the cross-boundary shuttle.

"Return to Linjiang Prefecture."

Black light intertwined, and Jiang Jian, dressed in a gold-threaded white robe, appeared in the cabin.

Jixue was swiping its identity device.

Seeing Jiang Jian out of the corner of its eye, it was startled, its tail flicked, and it hurriedly replied: "Okay!"

It turned off the identity device and jumped into the cockpit on all fours.

"Did you replace the talent light cluster in your Spring-Gushing acupoint?"

In the cabin seat, Zhou Princess Qingyue looked up at Jiang Jian.

Jiang Jian smiled and said: "Thank you for the spiritual cores you collected."

There was a second half to the sentence he didn't say.

Even that thousand-year Ginseng was obtained because of Zhou Princess Qingyue.

Zhou Princess Qingyue asked: "Is that thing very valuable?"

"Yes."

Jiang Jian replied softly, then took out the white jade hairband and looked at it for a moment.

When replacing the talent light cluster just now, he hadn't replaced the Frost Sword Array.

Because the suppression and control of "Rainbow After Rain" highly overlapped with the effects of the white jade hairband.

The white jade hairband was a top-tier Level 4 God-Given weapon.

It had cost 5 Spring-Gushing spiritual cores.

There were still 18 Spring-Gushing spiritual cores left.

This was a huge sum of money.

"Must improve combat power as much as possible before going to Chang'an Prefecture."

Nie Zheng's words echoed again.

Jiang Jian had a hunch.

This junior sister was indeed not simple.

Every piece of data she sent was very detailed.

And she could accurately hit the key points, which was a great help to him.

"With Rainbow After Rain, using the white jade hairband is a bit of a waste of resources."

"These 18 Spring-Gushing spiritual cores can be used to buy a better Level 4 God-Given weapon."

Jiang Jian sat by the porthole and settled his mind.

The white jade hairband would be kept for now.

He could completely find a more suitable Level 4 God-Given weapon through the prefecture government.

The prefecture government's treasury was full of treasures.

Their quality was a cut above the things circulating outside!

As he pondered.

Jiang Jian opened his identity device and dialed Director Xu's communication.

Beep.

Beep.

A few seconds later, the communication connected.

"Student Jiang Jian, is there anything?"

Director Xu's tone was gentle.

"Director Xu, hello," Jiang Jian asked, "I want to buy a Level 4 God-Given weapon, but I don't have any channels, so I wanted to ask about the prefecture government side."

Hearing this, Director Xu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "You startled me, I thought you wanted a Level 4 talent light cluster."

"Don't even think about that thing; even if the prefecture government has it, they won't sell it to outsiders."

"As for Level 4 God-Given weapons, there are indeed some."

Director Xu said, "If you need one, I can make the decision to go to the prefecture government treasury and help you take a look."

The next second, he added, "But you still have to pay the corresponding Alliance coins."

"However, I can help you get a discount within my authority."

Jiang Jian replied: "Thank you, Director Xu."

Director Xu flipped through the treasury and said: "The prefecture government treasury is only for internal sale; I'll make an exception for you today."

"Level 4 God-Given weapons have a fixed price of 60 million Alliance coins each."

"With a discount, it's 50 million Alliance coins each."

"Even if the Prefecture Lord came, it would be this price."

Director Xu's voice paused, "For rare God-Given ones, after the discount, it's 70 million Alliance coins each."

"What type do you want?"

Hearing this.

Jiang Jian thought for a moment and said: "Preferably a defensive type, Level 4 rare God-Given."

Director Xu nodded: "I've searched, there are indeed a few, I'm forwarding the data to you now."

A prompt came from the identity device.

Director Xu had already sent the data over.

Jiang Jian didn't delay and opened the data to check carefully.

He knew in his heart.

His relationship with the Linjiang Prefecture government wasn't that close.

Although he had obtained the two-prefecture top student title and manifested a Level 5 talent, bringing many benefits to the prefecture government.

But favors were something that diminished the more they were used.

Even Director Xu and the others couldn't help him for free forever.

This purchase of a God-Given weapon from the prefecture government.

Was one of the few times Jiang Jian had used a favor.

After all.

The items that could enter the prefecture government treasury were of excellent quality.

For the same price, one could buy top-tier rare weapons.

"Fuyun Crown, Level 4 rare God-Given, Weapon."

"Has defense, transformation, flight, and cloud-supporting traits."

"Price, 70 million Alliance coins."

"Special note: Only for internal prefecture government personnel."

Jiang Jian's gaze paused, and he continued to look down.

"Thousand-Feather Clothing, Level 4 rare God-Given, Weapon."

"Has defense, control, and suppression traits."

"Price, 70 million Alliance coins."

"Special note: Only for internal prefecture government personnel."

(End of chapter)