Chapter 3569 — Old Jiao Has a Problem
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
After a pause, Meng Jueming softened his tone. "But you need not worry. Yes, you will be living in the worst one, Cave Dwelling Number Fifteen down the mountain, but Wei Zhao insisted on putting on airs and chose Cave Dwelling Number Fourteen down there himself—it is not much better than yours. I will find a way to allot you a few more spirit jades on my end; that will be more than enough for you to pull ahead of him. To live in the worst cave dwelling and still trample him underfoot—would that not make revenge all the sweeter! It also proves indirectly that you were stronger than Wei Zhao all along. Otherwise, if you had not been stronger from the very start, how could you ever have beaten him while cultivating in an environment inferior to his?"
"Of course! Cousin Jiu is brilliant!" Meng Zhou's eyes lit up with excitement.
For newcomers, the two primary cultivation resources were simple: one was the cultivation cave dwelling, the other was spirit jade. Compared with each other, the effect of spirit jade far surpassed that of the cave dwelling—especially compared with those inferior cave dwellings at the foot of the mountain, its effect was a full hundred or a thousand times better. Otherwise, spirit jade would never have become the resource of choice for the vast majority of cultivators seeking to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Even so, spirit jade had two drawbacks compared with cave dwellings. First, it was precious and scarce, hard to come by—especially for newcomers. Second, it was a single-use consumable: if one absorbed it with full force, the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy within would be exhausted in as little as two or three days, or at most four or five, unlike a cave dwelling, which could be used for the long term.
By the rules, the Welcome Pavilion distributed one piece of spirit jade to each newcomer every month. The process looked perfectly fair on the surface, but everyone knew that spirit jades came in all sizes, and the ones in charge of distribution were managing brothers like Meng Jueming. When the time came, who got a large piece and who got a small one—at the Azure Cloud Pavilion, that was settled by a single word from Meng Jueming! As for Kubi, the managing brother in name only, they simply ignored him outright.
Leaving aside how Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou schemed and calculated, Wei Zhao, after a word with Senior Brother Kubi, Xiao Che, and Qiao Hongcai, entered his own Cave Dwelling Number Fourteen down the mountain.
He had no need for any incantation or mnemonics. He did not know whether Xiao Che needed them, but if he did, Senior Brother Kubi would not make things difficult for him.
After looking around, Wei Zhao found that the spiritual energy inside the cave dwelling all welled up from the ground. Its concentration was perhaps eight to ten times that of the outside world. In the mortal realm, this alone would have been enough to call it a holy land of cultivation; unfortunately, Wei Zhao had long since grown accustomed to the extraordinary density of the jade pendant's space, and so he paid it no mind at all.
By this reasoning, not to mention Cave Dwelling Number One at the foot of the mountain, even the finest Cave Dwelling Number One at the summit was still far inferior to the jade pendant's space. That was precisely why Wei Zhao had just given his cave dwelling away to Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai. Sitting atop a treasure mountain like the jade pendant's space, if Wei Zhao still lacked confidence, then he would truly be sick.
After sealing the cave dwelling, Wei Zhao sat cross-legged and entered the jade pendant's space.