Chapter 16

Huang Yaoshi sneered: "Who we exchange our cultivation art with is our freedom, Old Fool, you've no right to interfere."

Old Fool cried urgently: "The bald monks of Shaolin have no sense of honor—they'll never exchange the art once they get it!"

"Is that so?" Huang Rong smiled, waved her hand, and instantly a gale erupted—dozens of peach trees before her turned to ash, leaving only a massive handprint on the ground.

"Do you think Shaolin can stand against me?"

Old Fool stared in shock: "Is this a primordial-level art? Impossible!"

In the past, Wang Chongyang achieved half-step primordial with Primordial Qi Art.

Old Fool knew the primordial realm best—no such power existed within it.

"This is certainly not the strength of the primordial realm—it is the power of a Grand Master!"

Grand Master?

Old Fool froze.

Huang Rong explained the cultivation realms to him; his heart instantly burned with heat.

"Old Fool wants to trade—but I want a Grand Master-level art," Old Fool said, eyes darting.

Huang Yaoshi was speechless: "Old Fool, you really know how to haggle—your Complete Reality arts can't possibly exchange for a Grand Master-level art."

Huang Rong nodded: "Father is right."

She shifted tone: "But if you use the Complete Reality sect's influence to spread the primordial-level art far and wide, then… I might teach you a Master-level art."

"Really?" Old Fool was overjoyed.

He'd only demanded a Grand Master-level art as a bluff.

He hadn't expected Huang Rong to actually raise the offer.

"Is there something wrong with this art?"

Huang Rong shook her head: "Of course not."

She merely wanted to spread the art, to see if Zhang Taixuan could gain the world's origin.

If so, wouldn't she also gain the world's fortune?

It was a win-win.

Old Fool: "I accept."

In the chat group.

Zhang Taixuan: "Miko, I've obtained the world's origin—I'll transmit the Seventh Stage of the Yin True Scripture to you. Cultivate well; you'll become a terrestrial immortal."

Yotsuya Miko: "Ah… this is too precious… I…"

Zhang Taixuan: "Since I promised benefits to everyone, I won't break my word. 【Red Envelope】"

Yotsuya Miko: "Thank you very much."

Zhang Taixuan: "By the way, Miko, try seeing if you can sell the evil spirits."

Yotsuya Miko: "Sell evil spirits?!!"

Zhang Taixuan: "They're your world's specialty—not using them feels like a waste."

Yotsuya Miko: "Specialty? I don't want this kind of specialty at all!"

Exiting the chat group, she looked out the window and saw an evil spirit clinging to it; when it noticed her gaze, it shrieked: "You can see me?!"

Yotsuya Miko sniffed lightly, her tone casual: "I can indeed see you."

At those words, the evil spirit's eyes turned blood-red and lunged forward.

But before it reached Miko, a solid, dense true qi hand seized it.

"Chat group, I wish to sell this."

【Ding, Yotsuya Miko sold one evil spirit, gained 1 point.】

【Evil Spirit: Formed from corrupted soul fragments of dead humans; usable in pill refining.】

Yotsuya Miko stared in shock: "It really can be sold?!!!"

One point—that's a hundred taels of gold, worth tens of millions of yen.

Since her father's death, the burden had fallen on her mother; Yotsuya Miko had long wished to ease her mother's load.

But she was just a student—even with part-time work, she earned little, a drop in the bucket.

"If this continues, won't I be able to give my mother and Kyosuke a good life?"

The evil spirit she just sold was weak—she could catch many in a day.

Converted to gold, she might soon become the richest cherry blossom.

She quickly opened the chat group.

Yotsuya Miko: "Thank you, Brother Zhang, for the reminder—these evil spirits really can be sold! I've finally found a way to earn money."

Lin Fengjiao: "These evil spirits can be sold?"

She opened Shangcheng and saw the item's description.

Its body was pitch-black, its face twisted, radiating profound evil.

"This evil spirit is so strange!" Lin Fengjiao was stunned. "In all my years exorcising ghosts, I've never seen one like this."

Even fierce ghosts still had thought.

Unlike the ghost Yotsuya Miko sold, this one had almost no thought—only base evil instinct.

"Is this a difference between worlds—or between nations?"

Lin Fengjiao was deeply curious—she truly wanted to exchange one for study.

But remembering one point equaled a hundred taels of gold, she immediately abandoned the idea.

Fantasy world.

At this moment, Zhang Taixuan paid no attention to the others' thoughts in the chat group—he began drawing lots.

【Ding, you have obtained the Dao Scripture: Wheel Sea Scroll.】

"Wheel Sea Scroll?" Zhang Taixuan frowned, claimed the reward, and in the next instant, countless pieces of knowledge appeared in his mind.

Instantly, his previously disappointed expression vanished.

Although he had previously created the subsequent three minor realm techniques for the Wheel Sea based on the Bitter Sea realm cultivation method, he had lacked the Art of Forging.

The most precious part of the Dao Scripture: Wheel Sea Scroll is the Art of Forging.

It allows one to forge a life-bound magic treasure, achieving the effect of one artifact breaking ten thousand methods.

Moreover, comparing the complete Wheel Sea Scroll with his own created version, the two mutually verified each other, granting him deeper insight into Wheel Sea cultivation.

【You have obtained the Wheel Sea Scroll Dao Scripture; your understanding of the Wheel Sea has deepened.】

【You have comprehended the Art of Forging; you now understand the principle of one artifact breaking ten thousand methods.】

"It is time to forge a magic treasure that proves the Dao."

With a thought, the Art of Forging activated; shimmering starlight divine runes emerged from his Bitter Sea, transforming into divine chains that wove together, finally forming a great cauldron veiled in starlight.