Later, Song Ciwan traveled with Lan Qiuyan for a while longer, finally parting ways with her that evening.
Before parting, Song Ciwan quietly left a Storage Talisman for Lan Qiuyan. Inside the Storage Talisman were five bottles of Fuyuan Pills, with each bottle containing ten pills.
The Fuyuan Pill had long since become ineffective for the current Song Ciwan; she would find its medicinal potency too weak even for replenishing True Qi. For Lan Qiuyan, however, it was a perfect fit.
For Lan Qiuyan, who was at the Innate First Transformation and came from a commoner background, fifty Fuyuan Pills were a massive fortune. This would be enough to make her path to the Second Transformation much smoother.
This was as much as Song Ciwan could help her. As for how far Lan Qiuyan could go in the future, that was up to her.
After parting with Lan Qiuyan, Song Ciwan began to travel north.
She avoided the main roads and headed into the mountains and forests. As she walked, she operated the Heaven and Earth Scale, selling off various kinds of Demon Spirit Malice.
[You have sold two taels and nine maces of General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice and received 290 years of Lifespan.]
[You have sold sixteen taels of General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice and received 1,600 years of Lifespan.]
[You have sold twenty-three taels of General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice and received 2,300 years of Lifespan.]
...
She sold as she walked.
Song Ciwan didn’t sell all the Malice at once. Instead, she first sold a single, small clump as a test to see how much Lifespan the General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice could be exchanged for.
Evidently, the General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice was extremely valuable.
Compared to the pittance she earned from painstakingly Washing Demons in the Washing Room, the General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice was practically glittering like gold.
And in Song Ciwan’s Heaven and Earth Scale, there were still 4,790 taels of General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice remaining!
What a staggering reserve of Lifespan this was.
Song Ciwan didn’t even dare to sell it all at once, only daring to sell it in increments of ten or twenty taels at a time.
It wasn’t that she was being stingy, nor that she was disregarding the Heaven and Earth Scale’s daily transaction limit. The truth was, she couldn’t handle gaining so much Lifespan at once.
Lifespan might seem formless and without substance, and unlike Cultivation, it didn’t appear to need Refinement or adaptation. In truth, however, every major increase in Lifespan was, for Song Ciwan, a tempering of her life’s very essence.
She wasn’t a block of wood; it was impossible for her to feel nothing.
So, to avoid losing control, she could only sell it in batches.
After some testing, Song Ciwan found that selling a little over twenty taels of the General Spirit Level Malice at once was her limit. Any more, and she would begin to "float."
This "float" was literal—an actual description, not an exaggeration.
As for the Pseudo-Slaughter Spirit Level Malice, which was a grade higher than General Spirit Level, Song Ciwan had tested that as well.
[You have sold nine taels and one mace of Pseudo-Slaughter Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice and received 910 years of Lifespan.]
For Song Ciwan, there was no difference between Pseudo-Slaughter Spirit Level and General Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice in terms of Lifespan gain.
[You have sold one tael and nine maces of Slaughter Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice and received 1,900 years of Lifespan.]
The Slaughter Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice, however, represented a true qualitative leap!
In Song Ciwan’s Heaven and Earth Scale, there were still 380 taels of Slaughter Spirit Level Demon Spirit Malice.
If she sold all of this Malice, Song Ciwan didn’t dare to imagine what would become of her.
That evening, before nightfall, Song Ciwan made a total of eight sales involving the Malice. In the end, her remaining Lifespan shot straight up to 10,230 years!
The moment her Lifespan broke past the ten-thousand-year mark, Song Ciwan, standing there in the forest, suddenly felt as if she had sublimated to a realm unreachable by anyone in the mortal world.
She couldn’t say what exactly had changed, but in that moment, she distinctly felt a lightness, as if she had been reborn.
The Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting flowed quietly within her. The sun had set, but the moon had not yet risen, and the twilight clouds painted the entire forest in a romantic, orange-red hue.
A tiny Rabbit Demon with a faint aura scurried past Song Ciwan. It hadn’t noticed her presence, yet in that very instant, it suddenly turned back.
Then, for some unknown reason, the Rabbit Demon sat down facing the empty air, brought its forelegs together, and began to kowtow in reverence.
Song Ciwan stood motionless, but the Heaven and Earth Scale beside her inexplicably collected a wisp of aura: [Demon Spirit, the pious wish of an unranked Rabbit Demon. None, none, none... six taels and seven maces. Sellable.]
...
’What in the world is this?’
Song Ciwan only had two trades left for the day, but she felt an impulse and immediately sold the clump of Demon Spirit she had just obtained.
[You have sold the Demon Spirit, the pious wish of an unranked Rabbit Demon. None, none, none... six taels and seven maces, and received one mace of pure Demon Flowing Paste.]
Pure Demon Flowing Paste: A special substance for use by the Demon Race. It can purify Demonic Power.
’This could be useful for the Big White Goose.’
Song Ciwan lightly stroked the Spirit Beast Bag at her waist, but she was in no hurry to let the Big White Goose out.
She turned, raised her hand, and flicked a wisp of Vitality from the "Strong" Character Technique back toward the little Rabbit Demon that had just passed.
The little Rabbit Demon didn’t notice any change in its body after the Vitality entered it; it had no idea what it had just received. But it instantly gave a light leap and then cheerfully bounded into the tall grass ahead.
Song Ciwan smiled. After the Rabbit Demon had disappeared into the distance, she continued deeper into the mountain forest.
Before long, Song Ciwan found a suitable spot.
It was on the eastern bank of a mountain stream. A cliff rose from the water’s edge, its face rugged and craggy, full of strange outcroppings and hollows.
Song Ciwan walked up the cliff face as if it were level ground. Then, behind a large boulder, she used the Earth Escape Technique and passed into the stone wall.
Normally, a simple Earth Escape Technique could only be used to pass through soil, not penetrate a stone wall like this.
But after successfully reaching Foundation Establishment, her understanding of the Five Elements Daoist Techniques had naturally risen by an untold number of levels.
She now possessed a peculiar Dao charm, making it a trivial matter to use the Earth Escape Technique to enter the stone wall.
After penetrating about three hundred meters into the stone, Song Ciwan created a Cultivation Room for herself within the mountain.
With a slight movement of her fingers, the earthen walls of the Cultivation Room became exceptionally solid. The hardened rock took on a metallic texture; when Song Ciwan casually poked it, she only managed to leave a shallow little dent.
That was enough. After all, with her current Giant Power, the fact that she could only leave a small dent was sufficient proof of the room’s sturdiness.
She then took out some Array Flags and set up a few simple Concealing Arrays. Only then did she sit down cross-legged, cleanse her body several times with the Great Derivation Birth Skill, and finally, take out the Han Guang Glaze Residence to begin its Refinement!
The Han Guang Glaze Residence was cupped in her palms. She bit the tip of her tongue and spat out a mouthful of her heart’s blood essence. In an instant, a cloud of blood mist enveloped the wondrous treasure.
Visit and read more novel to help us update chapter quickly. Thank you so much!
Use arrow keys (or A / D) to PREV/NEXT chapter