Chapter 974

"Red Firmament Thunder Strike, one hundred Great Merits! What the hell, why is it so expensive?"

Liang Qu's stock of Great Merits was only sixty-eight, and counting the White Apes, he was still short by twelve.

Moreover, the exchanged materials were not for circulation, and individual Great Merits could not be transferred, so everyone had to buy their own; there was no way to pool them.

Killing a Grandmaster earned about twenty Great Merits, so this thing required five Perfected Form lives!

Not to mention whether it was possible, whether there were that many Perfected Forms to kill was a problem in itself!

"Because the effect is good."

Su Guishan rubbed the pages of the booklet, pointing with his index finger.

On the page, a single purple jade was drawn. In the center of the purple jade, golden patterns melted like a river, deriving an ancient thunder character.

"Red Firmament Thunder: Induces the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder. Every day at the Yin hour, it induces a small amount of thunder arcs to wander through the nine orifices and thirty-six meridians. It can trigger the 'Thunder Body Forging Technique,' where thunder patterns enter the bones, or forge a Thunder-Erosion Body or Heavenly Thunder Body. It can also serve as an offensive means, with formidable power, nourished and catalyzed by the Qi Sea and Qi-Blood.

Storage time limit: If nourished properly, do not catalyze repeatedly in the short term; the jade is immortal, and the divine ability is immortal."

Liang Qu's brow jumped.

"How formidable is 'formidable power'?"

"A normal Grandmaster divine ability strike. A Hunting Tiger can also catalyze it. In other words, if you are a Grandmaster, you have one more divine ability than those of the same realm; if you are a Hunting Tiger, you have a divine ability that can be catalyzed repeatedly."

One hundred isn't expensive either.

His thought changed.

The Divine Ability Order was completely different from the King of Xu Yue's jade plaque or the old monk's small order; it was a Grandmaster fragment that could be reused!

He looked further down.

"Black Tortoise Suppressing Mountain: Turtle shell barrier, can withstand one strike of the Red Firmament Thunder—"

"Shrinking the Earth into an Inch: Shuttle and shift three miles, minimal consumption, one hundred and twenty Great Merits."

One storage, one attack, one defense, one escape; there were only four types of divine ability orders, no more.

Strategic-level means!

Liang Qu's heart beat, as if he had glimpsed a corner of the future turbulent situation.

Generation after generation of Grandmasters dying, all made into tokens—he dared not imagine the foundation of the great powers! The number of Perfected Forms on the surface could no longer be used to intuitively compare advantages!

Especially Heavenly Human Grandmasters, whose Qi Seas were so vast—not quite inexhaustible, but more than enough to catalyze multiple divine abilities.

Hanging two more divine ability orders, they could completely cause a qualitative change through quantitative change!

The Divine Ability Order required Grandmaster corpses, and in the long run, accumulating advantages—as long as it was guaranteed that others couldn't learn it within a certain period of time, the Northern Court and Southern Frontier would certainly be no match!

Would the imperial court deliberately provoke small-scale conflicts for this?

Forget it.

It had nothing to do with him.

Just let everyone be careful and not become cannon fodder.

He suppressed his cluttered thoughts.

"How was it done?" Liang Qu was curious.

Is turning Grandmasters into props the cutting-edge technology of a flourishing dynasty?

The torrent of history is rolling forward.

"This is a major secret. You are now considered someone with a name and surname, but until today, have you ever seen the River Terrace official's face? You don't know how many spies are watching." Xu Xu Yuelong opened his mouth. "It is said that there are already better divine ability orders above,

but only the four types in the booklet are open for circulation in a small range. The last three are still unique items. If you exchange them first,

others won't be able to exchange for them, and it will be difficult to have them in the future. After all, there aren't many with the same divine ability."

"Is the golden-patterned bag a dead spatial Grandmaster?"

"Naturally. It is said that one divine ability was dismantled into hundreds of copies, otherwise, how would it be the turn of you and me, the various ministers, princes, and royal relatives?"

He didn't expect that one day, he would be lucky enough to become a "beta tester."

The last three required too many Great Merits, and Liang Qu had no urgent need.

"Are there no larger golden-patterned bags?"

Half-stone, one-stone.

Too small.

One stone in the Great Shun is about 150-plus jin of rice.

Stone is a volume unit, jin is a weight unit. Although this conversion is a bit strange, people are accustomed to it.

When moving goods on the pier, volume containers are basically used. In this way, one weighing step can be directly saved,

greatly simplifying the process and saving the need to click the abacus beads. Therefore, volume units are popular. As for how big a specific unit is, it returns to the grain itself.

150-plus jin of rice is less than 0.1 cubic meters.

It's barely enough to stuff two adults; it can only hold some personal items and elixirs.

"There are only two sizes that can be exchanged."

"Fine." Hearing the implication, Liang Qu didn't dwell on it too much. How many people want to exchange but can't? "Take two one-stone ones, one deducted from the White Apes, one deducted from mine."

Clink, clink.

The sound of gold coins jumping seemed to ring in his ears.

Thirty Great Merits were wiped out in one stroke.

Remaining number of Great Merits.

Liang Qu: 53, White Apes: 5.

Xu Xu Yuelong picked up his pen to cross out the number of Great Merits, and Su Guishan pulled open a drawer and threw out two light, empty golden-patterned bags:

"Take them and use them."

Liang Qu was startled: "You have stock?"

"I filed the application report and asked the higher-ups for the River Patrol Office's strategic reserves. You take them and use them. When the Southern Zhili ones are replaced next month, you fill the gap for the two I exchanged."

"That's great."

He wasn't in a hurry to use the remaining fifty-plus Great Merits; he'd hang them on the account first.

Coming out of the River Patrol Office, Liang Qu couldn't wait to take out the "Qiankun Bag" to play with.

A moment later.

Liang Qu took the Dragon Fubo long spear out of the bag.

Bad news: The weight of items put into the golden-patterned bag cannot be exempted; the bag weighs as much as what is put in. To get things, you have to reach in and dig; you can't just think about it. Digging might not be accurate, and putting sharp objects in might accidentally prick your hand.

Good news: The one-stone space is flexible and changes with the shape of the object, so it won't be wasted, but you have to leave a little bit, otherwise you can't reach in and can only pour it out.

The Dragon Fubo spear is over two meters long, and stuffing it in entirely is no problem. The Yuanmu bow, armor, and the like are all fine. Dragon Fubo and he share a heart-to-heart connection, and it can even enter and exit on its own.

"My Qi has the characteristic of 'as you wish,' so shrinking it before putting it in is no problem. One stone of space can be used as four or five stones—besides, Tatta Kai!"

Tatta Kai in the courtyard stepped out and jumped into the 【Vortex Palace】.

Sticking its head out, Tatta Kai took the entire golden-patterned bag and stuffed it into its mouth, entering and exiting freely.

Changing from a small space to a large space to transport some items, without needing the finless porpoise or even the fat catfish to stick their heads out, was even more covert!

"Madam, good stuff!"

Liang Qu took the golden-patterned bag to Long Long Eying.

Learning its function, Long Long Eying expressed amazement at the Great Shun Dynasty.

Compared to it, the Dragon-Man tribe that once dominated Jianghuai really wasn't much to look at.

"Only two? Didn't you prepare one for the Master and your teacher?"

"I thought about it, but it's too expensive." Liang Qu was helpless. "Giving it to the Master and teacher but not the King of Xu Yue wouldn't be right. At the very least, it would be three. Giving you a one-stone one and the teacher and the others a half-stone one would make it look like I'm not fair.

Three one-stone ones would cost forty-five Great Merits. Going to the elixir vein once would be all for nothing. If it were five Great Merits each, I would have exchanged for them all."

In the end, he was poor.

"Then why not give it to Godmother—"

"It's fine. In the future, I'll find an opportunity to see if I can kill a Grandmaster with spatial divine abilities. We'll provide the raw materials ourselves! There must be an internal price!"

Long Long Eying took it with a smile: "How is it like killing a chicken? Besides, where are Grandmasters with spatial divine abilities so easy to find?"

"It doesn't necessarily have to be a Grandmaster; a Great Demon might also work."

"Which Great Demon?"

"There's no opportunity now, wait a while."

Liang Qu's eyes flickered.

Middle courtyard.

Lin Jie, the commander of the Great Huai Army, sneezed and looked around.

Did he feel a demon thinking about him?