Volume 2: World of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Chapter 14 Wood Spirit Pearl
An hour later, the Dragon Palace Banquet was over.
Sun Zichu held a tray and followed Jiale out of the Dragon Palace and returned to Wangjiang Tower.
"Brother, this!"
This tray was given to his grandson Chu by the Dragon King. Investment naturally requires something in return. Inside the tray, there were three luminous pearls, two jade plates, and one gold bead.
The night pearls are of superior quality and priceless. It is no exaggeration to say that these three night pearls are worth all the Sun family's assets. However, these are only useful to ordinary people and are of no benefit to cultivators. Instead, they are the least valuable item in this thing.
Look at those two jade plates again.
One is the Dragon Palace Token. Holding it means you are a distinguished guest of the Dragon Palace on the canal. From now on, no aquatic creatures will dare to invade you when you walk in the waters, which adds to your fortune. The most amazing thing is that with this token, you can mobilize a team of aquatic creatures on the canal to obey your orders. Of course, once the aquatic creatures are mobilized, the token will be taken back. This is a real investment, and it is enough to accomplish great things at critical moments.
The other one is a protective token, which can save one's life and allow Sun Zichu to escape death.
The function of this token is no less valuable than the Dragon Palace Token.
Finally, there is the golden bead. The Dragon King of the Canal also saw that there was a trace of purple energy on Sun Zichu's body, and his luck had begun to flourish. With this trace of purple energy, as long as Sun Zichu continued to grow, it would only be a matter of time before all his blue and gold luck would turn into gold. And the golden luck was already enough to support this ray of purple energy to breed dragon energy.
This golden bead contains a portion of dragon energy, which comes from the Dragon King of the Grand Canal. If one day, Sun Zichu wants to rule the world, he can swallow the golden bead, add dragon energy to it, and obtain the position of a latent dragon.
The Dragon King of the Canal is interested in investing, so Jiale will naturally not refuse. With the help of the Dragon King of the Canal, Sun Zichu's future will be much easier. As for how to repay him in the future, that is Sun Zichu's business. Of course, the reason why the Dragon King of the Canal is so generous is naturally inseparable from Jiale's face. In the eyes of the Dragon King of the Canal, there is no reason why Sun Zichu cannot accomplish anything with the help of his cousin Jiale. Even if he cannot rule the world, he is enough to rule a region.
By then, the investment will have paid off, and compared to his previous investments, this one can be considered low-risk.
On the top of the Wangjiang Tower, Wu Jun and others were still waiting for Jiale and others to come back. The news that Sun Zichu had composed the poem to protect the country and that the Dragon Palace was welcoming guests had already spread throughout Jinling as time passed. Before Sun Zichu even entered the city, he had already become famous throughout the city.
“I’m back! I’m back!”
Seeing Jiale and his grandson Chu reappear on the river under the escort of Dragon Palace etiquette, everyone couldn't help but cheer.
" My dear nephew, have you seen the Dragon King?"
At this time, whether it was Wu Jun, the Yangzhou academician, the Jinling prefect and others, they all became more friendly to Jia Le and Sun Zichu.
"It's just a dream. I'm sorry to have kept you all waiting for so long."
Everyone was very curious about the Dragon King's Banquet. After they sat down, they started asking questions. Jiale did not answer, but pushed Sun Zichu to the front and communicated with them. With Jiale's instructions, Sun Zichu answered fluently and talked freely. After all, they were just mortals, and soon they turned the topic to poetry and songs. Compared to making up stories, this was what Sun Zichu was good at, and he could not help but handle it more freely.
At this time, Wu Baoer and Wang Xiaomeng's eyes were full of stars when they looked at their sun Zichu.
Jiale was also sitting there drinking with Wu Qing. Wu Qing was not only a talented writer, but also a military expert. He was definitely a Zhuge Liang type of talent. It had to be said that Sun Zichu had made a great profit this time. Not only could he marry a woman who would bring good luck to her husband, but he also had a brother-in-law named Zhuge Liang, and a father-in-law who was the sixth-rank magistrate of Jinling County. With this move, he was instantly promoted.
After the marriage, his luck will be even more prosperous, and I'm afraid that Sun Zichu's blue-gold luck will directly reach the level of 30% gold.
If you pass the imperial examinations and enter officialdom in the future, you will have 70% of gold. Then, if you have your own power, then it will be the time when your luck will be all gold.
If it weren't for what happened today, without Sun's father, the Sun family would indeed be considered in decline, and it would be really difficult for Sun Zichu to marry Wu Baoer. But after today, Wu Jun could not fail to see Sun Zichu's future, and there would be absolutely no problem for Jiale to propose marriage for Sun Zichu. With Wu Jun acting as a temporary umbrella for the Sun family, Jiale would be able to practice peacefully in Jinling City without wasting time dealing with those with ulterior motives.
Well! Kill two birds with one stone.
In the blink of an eye, the sun was setting. Although the canal was still bustling, it was time to adjourn the meeting.
"My dear nephew, you can bring Zichu to our house tomorrow. We haven't seen each other for a long time since you moved back to Jinhua. Now that Wu Qing and Bao'er have grown up, it's a good time for us to get closer."
Seeing Wu Jun smiling, Jia Le naturally had no objection. "I was just going to visit you this time. We will definitely arrive on time tomorrow at noon. I just happen to have something to discuss with you."
Jinling City is also divided into four cities, but there are no slums in Jinling City. The whole Jinling City is a place where every inch of land is valuable. However, the richest city is of course East City, as the government office is located in East City.
The Sun Mansion was also built in Dongcheng. After Sun's father died, the Sun family moved back to Jinhua County, but the Sun Mansion in Jinling City has always been there, and there are still servants guarding it. The current housekeeper Wang Jin, like Lin Ting, are both elders of the Sun Mansion and are in charge of the Sun family's business in Jinling City.
Before setting off, Lin Ting had already sent the news that at the gate of Jinling City, Wang Jin and his men were eagerly waiting, and when they saw Jia Le appear, they hurriedly waved to him.
"Master, Master, here."
At this time, the grand event on the canal had just ended, and a lot of people returned to the city. In fact, Wang Jin came in the morning, but he waited and waited but no one came. He thought Jiale and the others had encountered danger on the road. Later, Sun Zichu wrote a poem to defend the country and was invited to a banquet at the Dragon Palace. Only then did Wang Jin feel relieved and at the same time felt proud, knowing that the Sun family might really rise again.
Sun Mansion.
The Sun Mansion in Jinling City is larger than that in Jinhua County, with more servants. Wang Jin is quite capable and runs the business in an orderly manner.
Now that Sun Zichu has become a commoner, visiting cards have been sent to the Sun Mansion like snowflakes, making the Sun Mansion, which has been silent for a long time, lively again.
However, Jiale didn't care about these things and just let Sun Zichu make his own decision. He was too lazy to deal with these people.
backyard.
Jiale looked at the pine trees and green bamboos in front of him with some surprise. He remembered that these were where Sun Yan's father moved in from outside when he was a child, and it has been more than ten years now.
Feeling the spiritual energy of the green pine and green bamboo, I discovered that they were two spiritual creatures that had become spiritual.
Spiritual plants that have not reached the level of demon general can only transform but not change their form. Their true form is their biggest weakness. Just like the four little Qingkui in the Qunxian Building last time, although they followed Qingkui, their true form must be hidden somewhere. After they transformed into a false form, even an ordinary person could chop off their true form, and they would die instantly.
The green pines and bamboos before their eyes have already reached the peak level of the demon realm, and are only one step away from transformation.
And this breath seems familiar.
As far as I can remember, Sun Yan had two playmates when he was a child, and this aura seems to be very similar to them.
"come out!"
As Jiale's aura rose, the branches and leaves of the green pines and bamboos trembled, and two little guys rolled out. It was not quite appropriate to call them little guys. Although these two guys were able to reach their current state due to a miraculous fate, their actual age was more than a hundred years. This included not only the time they were at the Sun family's house, but also the time before they were moved in from outside.
The illusion seems to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, a little boy and a little girl. The boy is chubby and the girl is also pink.
"Master, it's us."
Both the little boy and the little girl were a little scared, because the Sun Yan in their memory was not so powerful. When Sun Yan was a child, they saw Sun Yan playing alone and couldn't stand the loneliness, so they ran out to play with Sun Yan. They were very good friends at that time. Later, when Sun Yan grew up, they didn't dare to come out.
Now seeing that Sun Yan had become so powerful, he shocked them out with just one shout. The two little guys were afraid that they would be exorcised by demons, so they quickly tried to establish a relationship with him.
"Tell me, what's going on with you?"
The two little guys looked at each other, and felt relieved when they saw that Jiale didn't shout for war. They didn't dare to hide anything and started to tell the story directly.
It turned out that the two little guys grew up on Cuiyun Mountain outside Jinling City. One day, a spirit bead fell from the sky and landed right in front of them. The spirit bead was obviously a treasure. After they absorbed some of the spirit of the spirit bead, they were directly born with spiritual intelligence. With the help of the spirit bead, their cultivation improved rapidly.
However, there was a small incident along the way. Sun's father passed by Cuiyun Mountain and saw that they looked good, so he transplanted them into the yard.
At that time, they actually had no strength, and did not think they were any great, so they could only let Sun's father do whatever he wanted. After entering the Sun Mansion, they lived a good life. There were people taking care of them every day, and the two little guys just survived like this. They were about to break through the demon general realm and were about to transform.
Spirit Pearl!
Jia Le was stunned when he heard this. What kind of treasure could allow these two little guys to improve their cultivation so quickly? In just a few decades, they had covered a distance that other monsters would take thousands of years to cover.
"Where's the Lingzhu?"
The two little guys were a little reluctant to hear this, but they didn't dare to resist. After hesitating for a while, the little fat guy handed to Jiale.
It is a small green bead. Jiale can feel the abundant wood energy in it. Moreover, this bead is absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth all the time and converting it into pure wood energy. Because some of the energy will overflow, the spirit bead seems to be even more full of spiritual energy. These two small beads are probably relying on absorbing the overflowing energy to cultivate so fast.
baby!
After feeling it carefully, Jiale sighed in his heart. This is definitely a good treasure. As for the specific level of the treasure, Jiale would have to refine it before he could know. However, the level is probably higher than the Nine Yin and Nine Yang Evil-Suppressing Coffin, and its specific function is probably not just to absorb and transform spiritual energy.
I didn't expect to gain so much from my trip to Jinling City this time. It's not a loss at all.
Looking at the two little guys in front of him, Jiale thought for a while, then he pointed with one hand and two energy points appeared on the green pine and green bamboo.
Qingsong and Cuizhu, who were originally only at the peak of the demon soldier realm, were actually directly elevated to the demon general realm after Jiale's words and transformed themselves.
The two little guys didn't expect that the transformation they had been dreaming of would come true like this. For a moment, they even forgot that their treasure had been taken away, and they felt very happy.
"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master."
After the Kunlun Mirror absorbed the crystals of time and space energy, it recovered a lot. Jiale found many more wonderful uses for it as he explored. For example, in front of him, Jiale was giving the energy of the energy beads to others. This would have been impossible before, but after the Kunlun Mirror recovered a little, it was now possible. However, using it this way was very wasteful.
If Jiale used the energy bead in the Kunlun Mirror, he could use all of it directly. If he took it out, half of it would be wasted. If Jiale hadn't seen that the spirit bead could guarantee a return on investment, he wouldn't have wasted it to use energy on the two little guys.
"You're welcome. This is what you exchanged for your spirit beads."
The two little guys didn't think much about it. They had already prepared themselves for the possibility that the spirit pearl would never come back, and now they had actually gotten a result of directly transforming into a human form. In their opinion, it was already a profit.
The spiritual intelligence of spiritual plants grows slower than that of ordinary monsters, and is even slower than that of humans. Even though they are over a hundred years old, their spiritual intelligence level is only equivalent to that of a ten-year-old.
"Then we have to thank you, Master. Master, after we transform, can we continue to stay here? We think it's great here and don't want to leave."
The two little guys acted pitifully and cutely while talking, as if they were afraid that Jiale would drive them away. Jiale just smiled. After using the power of Kunlun Mirror, the two little guys were actually equivalent to Jiale's spiritual beasts. If Jiale wanted to, he could control their life and death with just a thought. Now that they didn't want to leave, it was just right.
"If you don't want to leave, just stay here. But don't cause trouble, understand?"
"I know."
The two little guys were so happy to see Jiale agreed. There was no reason for them to disagree.
After returning to the Sun Mansion, the defense of the Sun Mansion has been handed over to Wansheng, and Sun Zichu has also been arranged by Wang Jin. Jiale wanted to know the origin of the spirit pearl, so he did not delay any longer and went straight back to the house to start refining the spirit pearl.
"Wooden Spirit Pearl!"
After a night of refining, Jiale had already refined a trace of the spirituality of the spirit bead, officially recognized it as its master, and obtained the information of the spirit bead.
Low-grade spiritual treasure, wooden spirit bead.
It turned out to be a spiritual treasure!
Jiale could not suppress the joy on his face. The cultivators used magical instruments, from low to high, there were magic instruments, spiritual instruments, magic treasures and spiritual treasures.
These are all treasures refined after birth. Of course, above them, there are also the legendary innate magic treasures and innate spiritual treasures. For example, the Kunlun Mirror itself is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.
In Uncle Jiu's world, the strongest level is the top-grade spiritual weapon. Even in an immortal sect like Maoshan, there are only three of them.
Even in today's world, seeing that Fu Zhen and Xuan Yan can only use top-grade spiritual weapons, we can know that these top-grade spiritual weapons must be very precious. In the human world, perhaps magic weapons are already the limit, and spiritual treasures can probably only be seen in heaven.
Now, Jiale unexpectedly obtained a magical treasure by chance. It must be said that Jiale began to wonder if his luck had increased recently.
The Wood Spirit Pearl is not good at attacking, but that is only compared with other spiritual treasures. Its attack power is definitely much stronger than that of magic weapons. It can directly hit people, control the wood energy of heaven and earth to attack, and even control plants.
In terms of defense, the Wood Spirit Pearl can form a protective shield to protect the body. In addition to absorbing Jiale's body's magic power for maintenance, it can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for maintenance. After all, the Wood Spirit Pearl is absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth all the time.
The most important auxiliary role.
The Wood Spirit Pearl has the strongest healing ability. After Jiale possesses the Wood Spirit Pearl, he becomes immune to all poisons. As long as he survives, the Wood Spirit Pearl will be able to save Jiale and allow him to recover slowly. Even if his foundation is damaged, he can recover some of it.
Of course, these are not what Jiale cares about most.
Jia Le placed the Wood Spirit Pearl into the Kunlun Mirror and surprisingly discovered that the Wood Spirit Pearl could absorb and transform the spiritual energy within the Kunlun Mirror. Although its purity was not as high as that of the Energy Pearl, it was almost one-tenth as effective. In other words, Jia Le would not only be able to practice with the Energy Pearl in the future, but with the Wood Spirit Pearl, even if the Energy Pearl was used up, Jia Le would be able to maintain one-tenth of the speed of practice as when he had the Energy Pearl.
You have to know that this is sustainable, it's incredible.
At this time, Jiale was also somewhat grateful to the two little guys. They were simply his lucky stars. From now on, he would treat them as his own green plants and would never treat them unfairly. They would be given enough water and plenty of sunshine.
After practicing for a while, it was almost mid-morning when his grandson Chu came to call him, and Jiale finally went out.
Wang Jin had already prepared the gifts, and he took his grandson Chu and Wansheng with him to the Wu Mansion. The two families lived not far from each other, so they arrived at the Wu Mansion soon.
Wu Jun must have told the doorman that when he saw Jiale and his friends were coming, he would invite them into the house directly.
Wu Qing, Wu Baoer and Wang Xiaomeng also came over after hearing the noise.
It was a while before Wu Jun returned from the government office.
"My dear nephew, I'm busy at the government office. It's a little late. Come, sit down and have some tea. You said yesterday that you had something to tell me today. What is it?"
Wu Jun was an impatient person. After he sat down, he got straight to the point without saying a word.
Jia Le pointed at his grandson Zichu and said, "Zichu had just arrived in Jinling yesterday, and he met Baoer by chance. He fell in love with her at first sight. I saw that the two of them were of similar age and had reached the age of marriage. They got along well, so I shamelessly wanted to ask Uncle Wu for this marriage."
Um!
Wu Jun's smile disappeared. He really didn't expect that Jia Le was talking about this matter. He looked at Sun Zichu and Wu Baoer. At this time, both of them had lowered their heads in shame, with their fists clenched, obviously very nervous. Wu Jun was an old hand, how could he not see that his daughter was obviously interested in Sun Zichu.
But it is understandable. Sun Zichu's performance yesterday was famous in Jinling, and maybe it won't be long before he will be famous throughout Daqian. He also values people's character, so it is understandable that Wu Baoer likes him.
Wu Jun was actually quite satisfied with Sun Zichu. If it weren't for yesterday's national poem, he would have had to think twice even if Jia Le had proposed to him. Now, in his eyes, Sun Zichu was already a good son-in-law. With Sun Zichu's talent and the strength of the Sun and Wu families, as long as Sun Zichu's luck was not too bad, his future status could be imagined. If you think about it carefully, he is a good match.
But Wu Jun felt . You know, Wu Jun was not the kind of person who would use his daughter as a tool for marriage, and he still loved his daughter very much.
"Baoer, what's your opinion?"
Wu Bao felt even more embarrassed when he heard this, and said, "It's all up to my father," and then he ran away.
Seeing this, Wu Jun shook his head and said, "Girls should not be kept at home when they grow up. Since they are willing, our two families are old friends, and Zichu is a good match, then let's settle it like this."
Jiale also knew that this matter was a matter of course, so he thanked him and said to his grandson Chu, "Come over and meet your future father-in-law."
Sun Zichu was naturally overjoyed to have the beauty back home. He stepped forward and said, "Meet my father-in-law."
Now that the matter was settled, Wu Jun was actually happy, "What about the wedding date?"
"Zichu will take the provincial examination in ten days, so why not put it after the examination? With Zichu's background, it will be no problem for him to be on the list, and it will be a good opportunity to add some luck to the exam."
"Okay, that's settled then."
As old friends became in-laws, their relationship naturally became more harmonious. It was not until the evening that they returned home.
Jiale didn't need to worry about it anymore, as there were still plenty of energy beads in the Kunlun Mirror. Jiale was not in a hurry to look for more and would use up the energy beads in front of him first.
With one heart in practice, half a month passed in the blink of an eye. The seven souls and the earth soul further merged, and perhaps in less than half a month, they would be officially integrated together.
Sun Zichu's provincial examination has already finished, and today is the day the results will be announced.
"Good news! Young Master Chu of the Sun family has passed the examination and ranked first. He is the first in this provincial examination and is nominated as the champion. Congratulations, young master."
The person who brought the good news from the government office has already arrived at the Sun family. The Sun family, who had been expecting something, burst into joy. Wang Jin gave a big red envelope to the person who came to announce the good news, and people came to congratulate them in an endless stream.
Jiale was not surprised by this result at all, and he did not want to go out to deal with these things. He simply cut a paper man and sent a spiritual consciousness to deal with it, while he continued to practice.
With the ability to change shape and form, the paper figures cut by Jia Le are no longer ordinary paper figures. They are already powerful enough to be used as clones. At Sun Zichu's wedding, Jia Le doesn't need to go there in person. He can just let the paper figures handle it.
He has been in the Yang Shen realm for quite some time, and it is time for him to practice hard and try to break through.
Half a month later.
The seven souls and the earth soul are completely integrated.
Two months later, the life soul and the earth soul were completely integrated. However, at this time, the energy beads were also completely used up. It was indeed a huge consumption to break through the Yuanshen realm. After thinking about it, Jiale decided to go out and see if there were any monsters and demons that he needed to get rid of. After all, the Wood Spirit Beads were not as useful as the Energy Beads.
Sun Zichu and Wu Baoer had been married a month ago. After Wu Jun really made the decision, he was more anxious than Jiale. As the top scorer in the provincial examination, Wu Jun felt a sense of crisis. He had such a good son-in-law, who was appreciated by the Yangzhou education commissioner and accepted as his disciple. No matter how you looked at it, he had a bright future.
“Brother!”
Seeing Jiale, Sun Zichu and Wu Baoer both hurriedly bowed.
Looking at the golden boy and jade girl in front of him, Jiale nodded. With the help of Wu Baoer's phoenix fate, Sun Zichu's luck was indeed flourishing. It was already 30% golden and was still growing.
"Are you going?"
"Brother, Baoer wants to go to the Guanyin Temple. We are getting ready to leave."
