Chapter 565: Time to Celebrate
The Highest Ruler did not immediately accept Jiang Li’s proposal, as they knew nothing about other worlds.
After negotiations between both parties, it was finally decided that Qixin World would send an investigation team to the Nine Provinces and other worlds for observation before making a decision.
“Found the survivors of Jingyu World, developed a method for mortals to reach the mid-Qi Refining stage, established preliminary contact with Qixin World… I feel like I’ve forgotten something.”
Jiang Li frowned. Everything was going smoothly, but he felt like he had forgotten something that wasn’t particularly major but wasn’t minor either either.
Jiang Li smacked his palm.
“I forgot about the system mission.”
“The system mission seems to be about earning ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones by selling Qixin World’s technological products?”
Jiang Li wasn’t sure, so he summoned the system and reread the mission to confirm he hadn’t remembered wrong.
Then he felt somewhat troubled. The holographic projectors from Mingzhong World only cost five hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones in the Nine Provinces, and that price was inflated specifically to prevent low-level cultivators from becoming addicted—otherwise the price could be even lower. What kind of technological product from Qixin World could be so valuable?
“May I ask, does your Qixin World secretly develop technological products like dimensional foil, mathematical law weapons, time machines, or at the very least quantum computers?”
“…”
The Highest Ruler wondered if Jiang Li was overestimating their Qixin World.
After seeing off the Highest Ruler, Jiang Li posed this question to Wen Quan and Radiant Enlightenment Daoist.
“Do yellow discs count? Although they’re not high-tech, they’re very popular. I noticed Wen Quan’s interest in such things hasn’t diminished even after starting cultivation.”
Wen Qing’er looked at Wen Quan in surprise.
Wen Quan lowered his head and covered his face, wishing he could move to another world.
Jiang Li gave a thumbs up: “Good teacher.”
“Nuclear bombs and such, although not particularly powerful, might sell for ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones as collectibles.” After some thought, Jiang Li felt this wasn’t appropriate either.
“I remember when your Qixin World was developing space technology, you encountered the problem that regular pens couldn’t write in space, so you developed space pens?”
“That did happen.” Wen Quan nodded.
Jiang Li went to the system shop and bought a space pen, then went to space and wrote a few words on paper, feeling very satisfied.
Before leaving, Jiang Li completely rewrote the cultivation technique Wen Quan was practicing. The technique’s level was so high that even Radiant Enlightenment Daoist felt the urge to switch to practicing it.
Jiang Li also wrote a technique perfectly suited for Wen Qing’er. With this, she could become a powerful expert without further intervention from Jiang Li.
“Don’t be so sentimental. Once the Nine Provinces establishes connections with your world, we’ll meet again someday.” Jiang Li waved goodbye to everyone and used the system to teleport back to the Nine Provinces.
…
“Everyone, look! This is the hawthorn tree carefully cultivated by Human Sovereign Jiang. Someone was fortunate enough to glimpse from a distance that Human Sovereign Jiang irrigated this tree with the essence of heaven and earth, causing this hawthorn tree to become extraordinary.”
“Please keep your voices down and observe from a distance. Don’t disturb the senior experts meditating under the tree.”
The tour guide worked hard to maintain order at the scene.
“What’s so special about this hawthorn tree? Why can’t I see anything remarkable about it?”
The cultivators discussed among themselves. First, Sect Master Bai Hongtu claimed this tree was incredibly mysterious and contained great secrets, which then attracted numerous Unity Stage cultivators to come here for enlightenment.
“After all, it’s a tree personally attended by Human Sovereign Jiang. It must have extraordinary qualities, but our mortal eyes simply cannot perceive them.”
People nodded, finding this reasoning sound.
Meanwhile, the Unity Stage cultivators meditating under the tree were secretly transmitting messages to each other.
“Have you gained any enlightenment?”
“No, I want to leave now, but I’m afraid people will ask me what I’ve comprehended.”
“Same here, same here.”
“Should we all leave together? When others ask what we’ve comprehended, we can imitate the Buddhist Sect and give meaningful smiles.”
“That’s a good idea, but I’m not very good at smiling like that. Should I practice first?”
“Look! The Unity Stage experts are all smiling—they’ve gained something!”
Several Unity Stage cultivators stood up, appearing as if they had seen through all worldly affairs, then leaped into the air and disappeared into the horizon.
“May we take a closer look at this hawthorn tree?” People asked the tour guide one after another.
“Of course, feel free.”
People were overjoyed and swarmed forward.
Suddenly, a hand tapped the tour guide’s shoulder, and a sinister voice came from behind him.
“Bai Hongtu, I hope you can explain this.”
Bai Hongtu, who had been disguised as a tour guide, tried to slip away but was firmly grabbed by the collar by Jiang Li.
“Forget it, this isn’t the first time you’ve gone crazy. That’s not why I came looking for you anyway.”
Bai Hongtu breathed a sigh of relief.
“I want to sell you something worth ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones.”
“What is it?” Bai Hongtu became interested.
“This.”
Jiang Li handed Bai Hongtu a piece of paper that read: On such and such date, Jiang Li borrowed ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones from Bai Hongtu.
“Isn’t this just an IOU?”
“Just tell me if it’s worth ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones or not.”
Bai Hongtu opened his mouth, then realized he truly couldn’t find any reason to refute this.
Bai Hongtu touched his storage ring against Jiang Li’s storage ring, and ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones transferred from Bai Hongtu’s ring to Jiang Li’s.
This was a function added to storage rings by the Buddhist Sect to facilitate transactions. Once introduced, it became widely popular among cultivators.
Otherwise, taking out ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones today would have been enough to pile up into a small hill.
[Congratulations, Host, mission completed]
Jiang Li obtained a new Celestial Ascension Ladder fragment. Looking at the gradually completing Celestial Ascension Ladder, Jiang Li felt a small sense of satisfaction.
After Jiang Li left, Bai Hongtu nervously took out his Communication Talisman.
…
“Commander Liu, I’ve created a new cultivation technique.” When Jiang Li arrived at the Human Sovereign Hall, he found Commander Liu leaning over the desk writing something.
“What are you writing?”
“A health preservation manual.” Commander Liu closed the book and smiled.
Jiang Li noticed the book was titled “Tree Cultivation Guide.”
“…”
“Hall Master, what have you created?”
Jiang Li handed “Wuxing Qi Refining Manual (First Volume)” and the annotated version to Commander Liu, briefly explaining the technique’s function.
“This is tremendously good news!” Commander Liu immediately beamed with joy. This directly raised the average cultivation level of the Nine Provinces’ people, and that was just the surface benefit—the indirect advantages would be countless.
“I’ll need to trouble you, Commander Liu, to coordinate and popularize this technique, trying not to miss a single mortal.”
“Of course.” Commander Liu agreed immediately and began planning how to popularize this technique most quickly and safely.
The six major sects didn’t need this technique, so they could be ignored. The nine great dynasties were the foundation, and besides them there were thousands of smaller countries that all needed attention. The Human Sovereign Hall would uniformly print the technique, have each country send representatives to gather at the Human Sovereign Hall for training…
Jiang Li also told Commander Liu that Qixin World would send an investigation team and asked him to receive them.
After completing these tasks, Jiang Li stretched lazily and looked up at the blue sky, feeling that today was truly a good day.
“Why not transcend a tribulation to celebrate?”