Chapter 3630 — An Unintentional Feud
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It seemed he would have to find the right time to test whether the idea of trading good jade for waste jade was actually workable. Wei Zhao made up his mind in secret. Compared with that, every other way of earning spirit jade was simply too slow. Only this plan could bring the jade pendant space's effects into play to the fullest. Of course, it carried considerable risks as well, which was why it needed to be tested first.
While Wei Zhao was secretly examining the Star Ink Stone, the inner disciple of Soaring Heaven Pavilion beside him turned and glanced his way. The discovery that someone else recognized the stone's value clearly startled him, and his eyes filled with the hostility of a rival. But after taking in Wei Zhao's attire, his gaze grew distinctly contemptuous, as though he no longer considered Wei Zhao worth taking seriously.
That was hardly surprising. To keep his identity concealed, Wei Zhao had not only used the Thousand Threads Mask to change his face, but had also chosen clothes that resembled neither the distinctive garb of a newcomer from Welcoming Pavilion nor the attire of an inner disciple of Threefold Pavilion. In the eyes of others, he was simply a grassroots rogue cultivator.
The market district was open to every cultivator on the Northern Island of Cloud Stair Island, but compared with disciples of Threefold Pavilion, grassroots rogue cultivators were plainly the lowest of the low. Getting such penniless wretches to produce the astronomical sum of a thousand spirit jades would be harder than climbing to heaven! For people like them, merely entering on an open day for the inner street and feasting their eyes on the merchandise was already something to be thankful for. Buy a treasure worth a thousand spirit jades? They could dream on!
Yet although he looked down on Wei Zhao as a poor grassroots rogue cultivator, that did nothing to change the fact that this inner disciple of Soaring Heaven Pavilion was just as short of money himself. After greedily taking a few more looks at the Star Ink Stone, he could only turn away in frustration. As he passed Wei Zhao, he sneered, "A toad dreaming of eating swan meat. These days, you really do see every kind of fool..."
Watching the man's departing back, Wei Zhao shook his head with an amused, unreadable smile. If he managed to get the swan meat into his own mouth first one of these days, he wondered what expression this fellow would wear then.
After looking around the Hong Clan Trading Company, Wei Zhao went on to make a circuit of the other shops along the inner street. Because the Star Ink Stone was on his mind, he paid little attention to anything else. As for the Heart-Devouring Exquisite Grass he had hoped to find, he saw no trace of it anywhere, which meant he would still have to find a way to obtain it during the upcoming newcomer trial at Welcoming Pavilion.
After leaving the market district, Wei Zhao returned to his cave abode. He sorted the five medicinal ingredients he had purchased earlier and placed them beside the medicine cauldron in the jade pendant space.
Han Jingyi had specially made that cauldron for him back in the mortal world: an automatic Shennong medicine cauldron. Once the ingredients were prepared and placed inside, all he needed to do was inject true qi at the Celestial level, and it would automatically refine a third-grade pill. If he injected true qi at the peak of the Celestial level, it could refine a fourth-grade Heavenly Dao Golden Pill. It was a genuine divine artifact of alchemy!
Thinking of Han Jingyi, Wei Zhao suddenly fell into a daze... She had come to Cloud Stair Island too, yet she was not on the Northern Island. Where was she now...?
Jingjing, are you all right? Thank you for developing this automatic Shennong medicine cauldron for me!
At the thought of Han Jingyi, Wei Zhao's gaze hardened with resolve. For the sake of all those familiar faces, he would keep moving forward no matter what!