Chapter 150: Unserious Magic Treasures

"Since the Daoist friend is so well-prepared, if I still refuse to accompany you on this trip, I would lose the heart of a cultivator to advance bravely!" Xin Shisan Niang gritted her teeth and said: "I will go back to prepare a few magic treasures and call two reliable friends. Three days later, I will come to invite the Daoist friend to explore the Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture!"

Qian Chen nodded slightly. He saw that Xin Shisan Niang didn't seem prepared to represent the Xin family in exploring the Earth Aperture, but rather seemed prepared to form a private group.

He reminded her: "That Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture was discovered by your Xin family and the Tao family together. If we enter the Earth Aperture, we certainly won't be able to hide it from the Tao family. If the Tao family creates trouble at that time, it won't be beautiful. Since this Earth Aperture is vast, why not call that Young Master Tao to enter together? In this way, the Tao family won't be able to make trouble."

Qian Chen wasn't being kind-hearted or magnanimous; he was just worried that after they went in, the Tao family would smash out divine thunders, trigger a Yuan Magnet storm, and ruin that Yuan Magnet essence.

He had his own methods of self-protection, but if the Yuan Magnet essence was ruined, Qian Chen would want to kill someone.

Rather than letting things reach that state and breaking everything off, it would be better to bring the Tao family along first. In any case, the Yuan Magnetic Essence Qi that Qian Chen needs is a troublesome waste for both families.

But Xin Shisan Niang didn't want to bring the Tao family along at all! She saw the hope of entering the Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture in advance from Qian Chen. Such benefits, she couldn't even bear to share half with her own family, let alone the Tao family, with whom they had always been at odds? She immediately laughed and persuaded: "Daoist friend, you thought wrong! I know the faces of those aristocratic families much better than you do."

"They won't think that the Daoist friend has helped them, but will only think that the Daoist friend is scooping something from their pot!"

"That Tao family... I'm afraid they have already regarded that Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture as their own thing. Our Xin family discovered that secret realm even earlier than them, and now we are both annoying uninvited guests. In their eyes, the Daoist friend doing this is just snatching their things!"

"So bringing the Tao family along won't be the best of both worlds, but will ruin things instead."

Qian Chen sighed helplessly. He only intended to take the Yuan Magnet essence that both families looked down upon, and didn't intend to take too many other spirit objects. Originally, there was no conflict of interest with the Xin and Tao families.

It was like a super-large copper mine accompanied by a small amount of silver. Qian Chen, as a foreign contractor who had mastered advanced mining technology, only intended to dig away the copper mine that the local natives couldn't refine and utilize, leaving the silver to the local natives near the copper mine. Everyone gets what they need—isn't that the best of both worlds?

If Qian Chen didn't come, these two clans were already prepared for destructive mining.

By then, not only would the copper mine be destroyed, but the environment would also be polluted, creating a debt of sin...

But unfortunately, the two clans were at odds and refused to play together. Moreover, what Xin Shisan Niang said was not entirely unreasonable. Qian Chen didn't have a deep understanding of the nature of the aristocratic families in the Central Lands, but he knew the ways of the feudal lords in his previous life. These people just thought—on my territory, if you move a stool, you have to share half of your butt with me.

Since Xin Shisan Niang, who understood the aristocratic families, said so, Qian Chen just let it be!

Seeing that she had persuaded Qian Chen, Xin Shisan Niang smiled slightly, cunning as a little fox, said goodbye warmly, and left with a smile. The maid left outside the pill chamber saw that her mistress was calm and at ease when she went in, but was charming and coquettish when she came out, her expression carrying a hint of satisfaction and tranquility, just like a little fox that had stolen a chicken.

The maid thought of the time when she hadn't transformed and her spiritual intelligence was still ignorant, and she occasionally stole a fat chicken from a farm—it was just this expression.

She couldn't help but have some strange associations in her heart, secretly thinking: "Could it be that Miss stole a 'boy chicken' from somewhere?"

Before she could expand her imagination, she heard her mistress greet: "Let's go... You are not allowed to tell anyone about me coming here today."

The maid's brain was even more chaotic—did Miss hook up with someone?

Xin Shisan Niang looked at the maid with a head full of bad thoughts. How could she not know what she was thinking? The Xin family itself had fox bloodline, so they loved to recruit some fox spirits as maids, and if necessary, they could be recognized as goddaughters and married off for marriage alliances. These little "salty hooves" all had many flowery thoughts and needed to be knocked on the head from time to time.

The Xin family had never cared whether the people under them had flowery thoughts. The women of their Xin family just liked that set of intrigue. If the people under them were too honest, it would be boring.

Xin Shisan Niang had heard the story of one of her old aunts. She loved to subdue those ambitious monsters. Often, because her operations were too "salty," she would accidentally overturn the car, have her power usurped by the monsters under her, and be subdued as a plaything. Then she would win over the subordinates of that monster, engage in various intrigues and palace-heart strategies, regain power, and still keep that ambitious person under her command.

After five or six times like this, she finally overturned the car and was now being wrapped around the body by another woman!

Xin Shisan Niang left gracefully as she had come. Qian Chen closed the cave again, preparing to refine the newly obtained Thunder-Light Electric Lock a bit more. He closed the pill room, and the five qi in his chest churned, emitting a rolling thunder sound. Then, he spat out bolts of thunder light from his mouth and nose, wrapping the electric lock and suspending it in front of his chest, darting around like a thunder snake.

It was the Five-Qi Lei Guang refined by Qian Chen through the differentiation of yin and yang in his chest.

Now Qian Chen could be considered proficient in the thunder method, not inferior to the ordinary disciples of the Shenxiao Sect. It was just that he was still a bit short of the magic power required for a true disciple of the Shenxiao Sect to refine the thunder method into a divine ability.

It wasn't that Qian Chen's aptitude and comprehension were inferior to theirs, but the Shenxiao Sect had specialized in the thunder method since ancient times. There were countless tricks and shortcuts, and there were secret realms, spirit elixirs, and Daoist books in the sect that could assist in practicing the thunder method. Even the masters and seniors could directly assist with their own magic power. Qian Chen lacked these accumulations and could only try and error by himself, groping his way, starting with the most basic "Shenxiao Five-Thunder Scripture," so it was inevitably much slower.

Three days passed in a flash. Just as Qian Chen was using the power of the lightning-essence electric snake to advance his thunder-method cultivation by a few points, and also refining the heat of this object to be a bit deeper, making it more compliant, he heard Xin Shisan Niang calling from outside the door.

Qian Chen was at a critical juncture, so he turned a deaf ear and continued to refine this object. The Gold and Silver Boys on the gourd at his waist had long received instructions and jumped down.

Xin Shisan Niang called a few times before she saw a pair of Gold and Silver Boys, only as tall as her calves, slip out of the courtyard, raise the clear light of the Heaven-Net Umbrella, and invite her in. Xin Shisan Niang couldn't help but reach out and pinch their small faces, laughing: "Two cute boys, come, call me Godmother!"

The Gold and Silver Boys slapped her hand away, looking angry, muttering something in their mouths.

Xin Shisan Niang had always been close to these little monsters. She felt closer to these spirits with no distracting thoughts than to human cultivators or great demons. She took out two gold melon seeds from her carry-on bag and wanted to reward them.

Unexpectedly, the Gold and Silver Boys looked disdainful. They raised their heads to look at Xin Shisan Niang, their small faces arrogant as if saying—do you know what kind of food the two young masters eat on weekdays?

You want to dismiss us with these three melons and two dates?

Xin Shisan Niang was amused and laughed loudly. She said to a girl behind her who was wrapped in sable fur, fluffy like a snowball, and only about fifteen or sixteen years old: "The little monsters raised by this Daoist friend are extremely interesting. The ones at home are all too slippery. They have lost such natural innocence!"

The girl kicked her small cowhide boots impatiently and said: "This person has such a big air. We came to visit, and he just sent two monsters to receive us."

Xin Shisan Niang said: "Little sister, be careful with your words. This Daoist friend is a serious cultivator. There are no servants, gatekeepers, or family-born slaves to serve him. He is a person of great magic power who is intent on bitter cultivation. The aristocratic family sons you usually associate with have big airs, but their family wealth is probably not as thick as a single hair of this Daoist friend."

"Do you know what magic treasure he uses when he travels?"

This tone was exactly like a "bitchy" girl showing off what kind of car her good friend was driving to her best friend.

The girl said impatiently: "It's nothing more than cloud cars or flying swords, or flying shuttles. Could it be like us girls, draped in a red silk?"

(Eight-Armed Nezha: Do you look down on my Universe Ring?)

(I'll beat your head crooked!)

"Silly girl..." Xin Shisan Niang pointed at her forehead with her slender fingers and laughed: "He is a cultivator who rides the clouds... not an aristocratic son who runs around in a cloud car to show off, flying even slower than when I drive the peach blossom malevolent qi!"

If Qian Chen heard this, he would definitely sigh helplessly: "The Flying Cloud Pocket is just what I use for daily travel. When it comes to the best flying magic treasure, it really is a General General Xuehe Red Silk! Oh! There is also a White Bone Lotus that can transform into a pair of flying wheels entangled with ten thousand souls. Anyway, none of them are very 'serious'."

General General Xuehe Red Silk, White Bone Lotus... both feminine and eerily demonic.

If it weren't for the fact that the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo incarnation was in the shape of a boy, Qian Chen really wouldn't be embarrassed to use it... Imagine a hero with a dignified appearance like Senior Brother Yan, draped in a red silk, stepping on two flying wheels... Qian Chen's brain was filled with the image of the Wang Baoqiang version of Nezha. I'm afraid the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Relic would be sent to the cold palace, and it would never want to seduce Qian Chen into becoming a demon in this life!

After waiting for about half an hour, just as Xin Shiliu Niang wanted to complain to her sister again, she heard a thunderclap explode, and lightning ran all over the ground, enveloping this courtyard. Xin Shiliu Niang screamed, watching the lightning wrap around her. All the fur on her body was about to explode... The fear of thunder deep in her bloodline made her extremely nervous, even though she had some magic power to resist.

Fortunately, the thunder that ran all over the ground like silver dragons disappeared as soon as it appeared, transforming back into the pale yellow silk ribbon in Qian Chen's hand.

This time, the Thunder-Light Electric Lock, with deeper refining heat, could be unfolded into a thunder net. One net down, it could string up a dozen people.

Only then was Qian Chen somewhat satisfied. He walked out of the pill chamber slowly, draped in the pale yellow silk ribbon, looking radiant. The five qi in his chest had not yet calmed down, and there was electric light in his eyes. The girl met his gaze, and was so frightened that she shifted her eyes, not daring to look at the birth and death of the thunder within.

Qian Chen came over leisurely and bowed to Xin Shisan Niang: "Sorry to keep you waiting, Daoist friend!"

Xin Shisan Niang hurriedly pulled her younger sister to bow gracefully and said: "Not at all. This is my younger sister, the sixteenth in the family. Daoist friend can call her Shiliu Niang. I also want to congratulate the Daoist friend on refining such an extraordinary spirit treasure. This treasure can transform into thunder; it should also be prepared for this trip?"

Qian Chen nodded slightly: "It is not convenient to use gold and iron at the Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture. If you encounter anyone who doesn't know what's good for them, this kind of magic treasure that can send and receive thunder can be used without scruples!"

Xin Shisan Niang was secretly shocked, knowing that if her own family also "didn't know what was good for them," I'm afraid this thunder rope would be tied to their bodies!

She was even more afraid of Qian Chen's endless magic treasures.

Qian Chen packed up his things. His entire family fortune was on him, so there was no need to seal this courtyard. He just left a few simple seals, then rode the clouds, let Xin Shisan Niang lead the way in front, and headed toward the Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture.

The two Xin family girls both drove a fragrant wind carrying dots of peach blossoms, all transformed from peach blossom malevolent qi, and their speed was not slow.

After half a day, they arrived in a desolate mountain ridge. Xin Shisan Niang circled twice, confirmed that there was no one behind them, and then flew in one direction. Before long, they arrived in front of a cliff hanging alone outside. She pointed to a gap in the stone wall in front and said: "It's here!"

The gap was plain and unremarkable, just like a crack in the mountain wall. It was dark and deep inside, and there seemed to be bats flapping their wings. But Qian Chen gathered his magic power in his eyes and saw that this gap had been disguised by illusion. Under the illusion, there was a young cultivator guarding the cave entrance, looking at them with precaution. ===== CHAPTER 151 =====