Chapter 29: 【Memory Change, Ordered to Seize Treasure】 (Seeking recommendation votes)

Lu Chengtong finally decided to act against Jia Gusheng first.

For no other reason, it was because he had the highest cultivation.

If he delayed for a period of time, he couldn't guarantee that this guy wouldn't enter the Foundation Establishment Realm, and then there would be one less target to bet on.

Jia Gusheng was a typical "homebody" who devoted his heart to artifact refining and basically wouldn't step out of Huoyun Peak; wanting to approach him required some thought.

Unleashing the earth escape supernatural power with the soul power of a Foundation Establishment late-stage from the Treasure Mirror could bypass the protective array of Huoyun Peak, but if he emerged from underground, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't be discovered by reconnaissance-type arrays.

This supernatural power, unless he comprehended it to a higher level and could use the aura of the earth to hide himself, could not deceive the monitoring-type early-warning arrays.

So breaking in by force wouldn't work.

There was a more direct way: find him to refine artifacts.

Dharma treasures were a luxury item.

The price of a low-grade Dharma artifact with medium-to-high quality was about two hundred spirit stones; most Outer Sect Disciples couldn't afford it themselves and used standard Dharma artifacts issued by the sect, the quality of which was only low-grade, and the value was about eighty spirit stones.

Besides buying finished Dharma treasures directly, there was another way to obtain Dharma treasures.

Provide materials yourself, pay a manual fee, and let the artifact refiner refine it on your behalf.

Compared to a finished Dharma treasure, the cost of materials was very cheap.

The value of materials needed to refine a superior low-grade Dharma artifact was only about twenty spirit stones.

Pay another manual fee, which was about forty or fifty spirit stones; if everything went smoothly, one could get a good low-grade Dharma artifact for about sixty or seventy spirit stones.

The premise here was to ensure everything went smoothly.

There were two situations where it wouldn't go smoothly: one was that the quality of the refined Dharma artifact was poor, which could be considered breaking even.

The other was refining failure, losing everything!

According to the unwritten rules, refining failure was not the responsibility of the artifact refiner at all.

This was a kind of protection for the artifact refiner industry.

Artifact refiners and alchemists were both professions that were extremely expensive to cultivate in the early stages and extremely expensive to grow in the later stages.

The cultivation cycle of an artifact refiner was even longer than that of an alchemist.

Because an artifact refiner first had to possess a certain amount of array knowledge; an excellent artifact refiner must be a decent array master.

Besides that, various complex knowledge such as metal and stone attributes, five-element theory, etc., were enough to make many people flinch.

Sect disciples had an advantage, which was that they could ask fellow disciples to help them refine Dharma treasures, which was generally cheaper than finding "wild artifact refiners" outside, and it would also be safer.

After all, everyone knew each other's roots, and everyone knew the success rate of artifact refining.

Lu Chengtong's way to approach Jia Gusheng was to ask him to refine a Dharma artifact.

Speaking of artifact refining materials, he really had some.

Years ago, in the mining area mountain range, several demonic beasts fought for the Baiyuan Fruit tree, and he finally took a big advantage and harvested them all.

He sold some for spirit stones, and there were still a few things left, which were just right for materials.

On this day, after preparing the required spirit stones, Lu Chengtong came to Huoyun Peak to pay a visit to Jia Gusheng.

A laborer disciple went in to report, took him to a side hall halfway up the mountain, and waited for a long time before Jia Gusheng arrived late.

This was a muscular man with bronze skin, nine feet tall, very sturdy, wearing a short-sleeved outfit, and his blood and Qi were like a furnace.

He must have practiced body-refining cultivation techniques; with such powerful blood and Qi, ordinary ghosts might have their souls scattered if they bumped into him.

"What kind of Dharma treasure does this Junior Brother need to refine? What kind of materials did you bring? Let me take a look."

Lu Chengtong had already perceived it; there was no one else around, so he could act.

But he didn't act now, and took out the things he had prepared.

"Senior Brother, please take a look. These are two fire bone beads from a Qi Refining late-stage Red-Maned Black-Furred Lion, and this is a horn from a Qi Refining mid-stage Horned Python, preserved intact. I want to use these as the main materials to refine a flying sword."

There were many kinds of materials needed to refine a Dharma artifact, and different artifact refiners had different areas of expertise, and the auxiliary materials used were different, so generally speaking, the employer only provided the main materials, and the auxiliary materials were provided by the artifact refiner himself.

Jia Gusheng touched the two fire bone beads as big as a three-year-old child's fist and nodded, saying:

"The things are preserved well, without damage. I'll take this job; the remuneration is fifty-five low-grade spirit stones, and the deposit is twenty spirit stones. This is the document; sign it, and we'll each have a copy, which counts as proof."

This guy hadn't been in the business for long, but this business seemed to be very skilled.

Lu Chengtong dripped a drop of blood and handed over the document. Just as Jia Gusheng reached out to take it, Lu Chengtong unleashed the 【Soul-Bewitching Soul-Seizing】 supernatural power.

First read some of his memories to see if there were any places that could be changed without leaving a trace.

Jia Gusheng was born in a mundane martial arts family, and his family relied on escorting goods for a living.

He was born with great strength, and by the age of twelve, he had grown to the body size of an ordinary adult man, so he began to follow his family to escort goods.

At thirteen, he and his uncle escorted goods home and found that his home had become ruins.

Cultivators fought, affecting his home, and the spell directly razed a city district to the ground; at that time, he swore that he must find the person of that day.

To avenge his parents and clansmen!

Half a year later, the Ziyao Immortal Sect recruited disciples, and he was chosen as a true disciple by virtue of his talent, and he had been cultivating until his current realm.

Jia Gusheng was investigating that matter, and now he only found out that on that day, it seemed that a robbery cultivator was chasing an Immortal Sect disciple, and the two fought, causing a large number of mortals to be implicated and killed.

That Immortal Sect disciple was also killed.

Lu Chengtong immediately had an idea.

He changed the part of the memory that Jia Gusheng investigated about the robbery cultivator to "a disciple under Elder Zhao Yongcheng was ordered to seize the treasure," and the rest didn't need to be changed.

A person's memory would repair itself; the unreasonable places, the more one pondered, the more reasonable they became.

The less one changed, the stronger the sense of belief.

After the memory was changed, Lu Chengtong patted Jia Gusheng, made a surprised look, and asked:

"Jia Senior Brother, why are you stunned?"

Jia Gusheng, who had recovered, had some dodging eyes; he naturally didn't want his hatred for Zhao Yongcheng in his mind to be seen by others.

He lowered his head and waved his hand, saying:

"It's nothing, maybe I've been refining artifacts too frequently recently and am a bit tired. Cheng Junior Brother, come back in ten days, and I will give you the Dharma artifact. Today I am very unwell, so I won't keep you any longer."

Jia Gusheng looked rough, but he was from a wealthy family after all, and he didn't lack etiquette.

Lu Chengtong said with concern when he heard this:

"Jia Senior Brother, rest more; it's not too late to refine it for me after you rest well."

This sounded like concern, but in fact, it was like worrying that his things would be wasted and couldn't be refined well.

"Cheng Junior Brother, rest assured, I will definitely refine your Dharma artifact with all my might and guarantee the quality."

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup, which was sending the guest away.

Lu Chengtong wanted exactly this effect, so he immediately accompanied with a smile and turned to leave.

This was considered the first one completed; as for who to choose next, hmm, sword cultivator, Chen Sanqing, not easy to handle!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 30 =====