Purple Mist Dao Master

Chapter 737 - 449: Postnatal unaware of the precious essence, Innate stare at the wall shedding tears in vain!

"So爽!"Ding Xiang shamelessly followed Yan Chuan around for six whole days. Her speed of absorbing and refining Essence Energy was far inferior to Wang Zhengyi’s ’Monkey King Avatar’ and Yan Chuan. Even in the ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’, she could only refine up to 80 jin of Essence Energy per day. After six days, she had refined merely 360 jin, equivalent to consuming 450 jin of Essence Stones.

That’s quite a lot indeed.

Breathing in clouds and exhaling fog, the consumption of Essence Energy made Ding Xiang feel a pinch, but the cultivation efficiency was indeed much faster than her previous painstaking refinement of Essence Stones.

She wished she could cultivate like this all the time, always cultivating in the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’.

However.

She couldn’t.

She didn’t have many Essence Stones. Previously, most of the court’s monthly bonuses for the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion were spent in the ’Heavenly Ladder City’. She didn’t feel the shortage of Essence Stones at the time, but now that she has advanced to the Innate, she immediately feels financially tight.

Only then did Ding Xiang finally understand the Emperor Yan’s intentions—

"It turns out that Your Majesty is not unfaithful, not reluctant to part with Essence Stones, but afraid that we youngsters don’t know the value of essence and would squander them in the Postnatal Realm, which is why he deliberately controls the frequency of Essence Stones distribution!"

Ding Xiang realized.

Emperor Yan was concerned like a parent, afraid that any of them would squander Essence Stones like a suddenly rich person, and end up having no Essence Stones after proving their Dao to the Innate Realm.

For instance, Ding Xiang: "If it wasn’t for Your Majesty distributing the bonuses in installments, my little bit of Essence Stones would probably have been invested more in the Heavenly Ladder City, squandered even more!"

Emperor Yan!

A good person!

They all wronged the old man!

After understanding Emperor Yan’s good intentions, Ding Xiang felt somewhat ashamed.

However, now that she has proven her Dao to the Innate Realm, she thought she could find Emperor Yan to settle the remaining balance of the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion bonus at once: "At that time, I was at the Second Tier Third Level, with a total of over 40,000 jin of Essence Stones. From last July to this February, a total of eight months, I received only 400 jin per month, just 3,200 jin in total, less than one-tenth."

Although Ding Xiang understood Emperor Yan’s good intentions previously, now that she has proven her Dao, in the face of a shortage of Essence Stones, her first thought was still to find Emperor Yan for payment.

"Brother, your team has a total reward of 186,500 jin of Essence Stones, distributed in monthly installments of 1,865 jin, totaling 14,920 jin in eight months, with 171,580 jin still unpaid." Ding Xiang urged Yan Chuan: "We, who have already proven our Dao, might as well find a time to form a group and go to Cang Mountain to ask the court to cash out the bonuses?"

Ding Xiang was really short of money!

Not only for cultivation but also for her ’Mind Reading Technique’, which had new changes after advancing to the Innate Realm. According to her calculations, it was also a money-consuming pit, at least for now.

"Brother Yan—" Lu Yuru’s eyes lit up after hearing Ding Xiang’s proposal. She was not short of Essence Stones at the moment, but she also had tens of thousands of jin of Essence Stones still in the court’s hands, and it wouldn’t rest easy until she had them in hand.

Yan Chuan smiled upon hearing this: "Let’s go when there’s time." Currently, he was not strong enough, so he dared not go to the Lishan Sect, nor to the New Yanjing above Cang Mountain.

Just wait.

Wait for a year or two, until he had refined all 211 Fire Bud Crystals, and his physique could withstand a full-strength strike from a Sixth Rank Divine General, then it wouldn’t be too late to go.

He’s waited eight months, he can wait another year or two.

"Brother, are you not short of Essence Stones?" Ding Xiang didn’t expect Yan Chuan to refuse, if it were Sister Bodhisattva, she would surely not refuse her.

"If you’re short, I can lend you some." Yan Chuan smiled at Ding Xiang. Ding Xiang was his advantage, but his ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ was also beneficial to Ding Xiang, so it wasn’t a situation where he was taking advantage of her. However, considering their good relationship, and since Yan Chuan still had some spare Essence Stones temporarily, it was no problem to lend some to Ding Xiang first, he wasn’t that stingy.

"Thank you, Brother!" Ding Xiang exclaimed happily, worried that Yan Chuan might be reluctant to lend, she added eagerly: "I’ve recently discovered that I have great talent in the fields of elixir, instrument, talisman, and array, and I’m planning to put some effort into researching them."

"Elixir, instrument, talisman, and array?"

Yan Chuan blinked.

Lu Yuru was surprised: "You have talent in all of them?"

"Yes!"

Ding Xiang patted her chest confidently. ’Mind Reading Technique’ was her talent, and after proving her Dao to the Innate Realm, her ’Mind Reading Technique’ underwent a transformation, allowing her to bind another person while binding Yan Chuan.

Understanding the resource demands of the Innate Realm, Ding Xiang decisively put aside any considerations related to cultivation, preparing to specialize in one aspect of ’elixir, instrument, talisman, and array’ with the primary aim of making money.

As for which specific aspect of ’elixir, instrument, talisman, and array’, she wasn’t clear yet. Ding Xiang lacked understanding of Golden Talisman City, and she was still waiting for a ’fated person’!

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Yan Chuan didn’t have many Essence Stones either, lending Ding Xiang 1,550 jin. Ding Xiang included the 550 jin of Essence Stones she had consumed while following Yan Chuan for six days, bringing her total debt to Yan Chuan to 2,000 jin.

After six days of secluded cultivation,

After experiencing the wonders of the ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’ in the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ and feeling the pinch of limited Essence Stones, Yan Chuan began to think about ways to make money.

In fact, Yan Chuan had been thinking about it long before coming to Golden Talisman City.

However, all his life he had tread carefully, apart from fighting, he had no other skills.

Thinking about making money, after much deliberation, either relying on ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ to open a Martial Arts Hall, which was his old line of work. Or to upgrade Exotic Treasures using ’Treasure Rock’ to sell at high prices and then destroy them, committing fraud to get rich quickly.

However, money from a Martial Arts Hall came too slowly, especially in the early stages, it certainly couldn’t support Yan Chuan’s cultivation needs.

As for using ’Treasure Rock’ to commit fraud, not to mention the moral hurdle of ’deceit and trickery’, which Yan Chuan couldn’t get past himself, the Golden Talisman City was filled with experts, and even if Yan Chuan disguised himself, there’s a risk of exposure. Moreover, every bit of Spiritual ability was extremely precious to Yan Chuan at the moment, and using it to enhance Exotic Treasures for fraud, low-level ones wouldn’t earn much, while high-level ones were difficult to support with Spiritual power.