Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World-Chapter 1228 - 543: Overnight Wealth, Good Deed Reform (Part 2)

Chapter 1228: Chapter 543: Overnight Wealth, Good Deed Reform (Part 2)

No, why do you become more interested the more I speak?

"Master Pang, you mustn’t act impulsively! This Forget River, you can’t enter it!"

"Who said I was going to enter?" Master Pang was stunned, looking at Yan Changge, with a face that said one thing—do I look like a fool to you?

"...So, you’re saying you want to explore this Weak Water?"

Master Pang smiled and waved his hand, and a small metal figure appeared before everyone.

"This is... a puppet?"

"Yes, as mentioned before, Master Xie proposed the idea of an unmanned warship, which later inspired the sect to create this exploration puppet."

Yan Changge, who rarely left the Underworld, was even more curious upon hearing this and examined the puppet in front of him.

"This puppet actually borrows some methods from the Tianhe Sect’s Flying Sword and Artifact Refining, oh, and also Elder Han’s Ten Directions All Hearing, with very strong detection capabilities," Master Pang patted the puppet’s head and said, "Although it’s newly made, it can help me explore this Ruishui River."

As he spoke, Master Pang pointed a finger, and a light screen appeared before them.

It showed their group.

"This is... the scene that the puppet is seeing?"

Yan Changge suddenly realized.

Master Pang nodded, grinning: "We disciples of the Jiushan Sect have never advocated risking our lives..."

Yan Changge looked at the swaying little puppet, twitched his mouth—he knew who that daredevil was... his Ancestor Master.

Master Pang waved to the puppet, and the little thing took two steps, assumed a diving posture, and plunged headfirst into the Weak Water without hesitation.

The scenery on the light screen changed.

The murky, dark liquid surged on the screen without a sound; the Ruishui River was filled with deathly stillness.

Beside the light screen, there were also some numbers and symbols.

"What is this..."

"It’s just some data. This one is temperature, the one on the right is the Spiritual Energy index, this number here is the depth. It seems something is pulling the puppet further down, and this is..." Master Pang explained, suddenly pausing and frowning.

"What’s wrong?"

"These are the conditions of each part of the puppet..." Master Pang pointed at the light columns, which were visibly decreasing.

"What does this mean?" Yan Changge was momentarily confused, then suddenly understood, "Does this Weak Water have an erosive effect on the puppet too?"

Master Pang gritted his teeth: "This puppet is inscribed with eighteen sets of defensive spells, yet it’s being eroded so quickly..."

Yan Changge shook his head and said, "Weak Water not only harms cultivators and spirit beasts, but it may also have some erosive effects on Magical Treasures."

Master Pang’s smile faded as he watched the puppet fall into the Weak Water.

Though the Ruishui River seems like a river, one only realizes its boundlessness once at the bottom, deeper than any vast ocean.

The damage to the puppet grew as the screen remained a monotonous yellow.

"What’s that?"

Suddenly, a figure slowly crossed the screen from left to right, its face decayed, eyes empty, startling everyone.

Yan Changge exhaled lightly: "The Emperor once said that the dead of All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds would shed their mortal bodies in the Weak Water, even Dao Fruit Cultivators are no exception."

"You mean, that person just now was a Dao Fruit?"

Master Pang was shocked.

"Precisely, a cultivator’s physical body below Dao Fruit generally cannot exist in Weak Water for that long," Yan Changge smiled, "That’s why I dare not let you, Master Pang, touch Weak Water; its damage to the physical body is thousands of times greater than to magical treasures."

Master Pang nodded slightly, continuing to watch the puppet on the screen helplessly, saying with a hint of resignation: "I didn’t expect that the puppet cannot be controlled in Weak Water and only keeps falling..."

"This is one of the most bizarre aspects of Weak Water; no spell is effective, and anyone who enters can only drown at the bottom."

Master Pang was equally helpless and could only watch the puppet’s transmissions closely.

The deeper it went, the more corpses there were, not just of cultivators but also various spirit beasts, all drifting at the bottom of Weak Water, a chilling sight.

After a while, Master Pang’s eyes flashed and dimmed again.

"Did you see that?"

Yan Changge nodded repeatedly, evidently also noticing the anomaly on the screen earlier.

After a while, the puppet gradually sank to the bottom of the Weak Water, and a burst of light filled the screen.

Master Pang and Yan Changge slowly turned their heads, gazing at each other in disbelief at what they saw.

...

"Spirit Stone?" The Nine Nether Emperor stood up abruptly from the hall, "Is there a spirit stone mine in the Weak Water?"

"It’s not just that," Master Pang stood in the hall, his eyes also glowing, "Weak Water is producing Spirit Stones!"

"Producing?" Nine Nether Emperor’s eyes lit up sharply.

"The sect has long been exploring how Spirit Stones are produced; they are too miraculous to manufacture," Master Pang explained, "Until we saw the situation with the Weak Water, Zheng Fa proposed an idea."

"Tell me about it."

"Spirit Stones are likely the result of the interaction between Weak Water and cultivators’ Dharma Bodies or Spiritual Power."

"We don’t know exactly how they interact yet."

"But generally speaking, the special properties of Weak Water seem to wash away a cultivator’s consciousness, leaving behind a mixture of Spiritual Energy and Divine Soul—which is why it can inscribe runes."

Yan Changge was puzzled and said, "But before the Underworld appeared, didn’t Xuanwei also have spirit stone mines?"

"Who said the Underworld didn’t exist before?"

Nine Nether Emperor understood: "So, you mean the previous Spirit Stones were ancient remnants, and now with the Underworld reestablished, Weak Water can produce Spirit Stones again?"

"That’s what we speculate."

Nine Nether Emperor’s eyes were alarmingly bright as he turned to the empty palace, a look of joy after hardship on his face.

Not just him, Yan Changge and the others were even more joyful—they were about to become rich overnight, their hardships finally over!

Nine Nether Emperor was silent for a moment, then seemed to think of something and said, "As I said before, regardless of what is discovered, the Jiushan Sect may freely use it." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Yan Changge was dumbfounded, opened his mouth to say something but couldn’t find the words; after all, they were also considered people of the Jiushan Sect now.

"Nephew Zhang happened to want to discuss something with the Emperor."

"Discuss? Discuss what?" Nine Nether Emperor was puzzled.

Master Pang scratched his head, seemingly finding it a bit difficult: "It’s something that Nephew Zhang and Zheng Fa discussed—they’re both currently breaking formations with Zheng Fa, so the Emperor will have to wait a bit longer."

Nine Nether Emperor was even more confused; in terms of status, Master Pang was now not inferior to Zhang Wuyi, so why wait for Zhang Wuyi?

Master Pang laughed awkwardly, his expression a bit embarrassed: "It’s nothing else, mainly that I didn’t understand what they were talking about."

"..."

...

Two years later, Senior Sister Zhang personally arrived at the Underworld.

Senior Sister Zhang cupped her hands to the Nine Nether Emperor and apologized, "Apologies for making the Emperor wait so long."

"No problem." The Nine Nether Emperor first showed concern for other matters, "How is Zheng Fa now?"

"For now, he is stable and no longer needs my help."

Senior Sister Zhang explained briefly and then directly said, "I came here for the matter of Spirit Stones in the Weak Water."

"As I said, you’re free to deal with it," Nine Nether Emperor waved his hand, seeming not to care much.

"..."

Senior Sister Zhang looked at him, a bit of laughter in her eyes.

In Nine Nether Emperor’s smile, there was a hint of smugness: "I figure the Jiushan Sect won’t treat my Underworld unfairly."

Though Nine Nether Emperor spoke boldly, Senior Sister Zhang could hear his underlying thoughts—no matter what, the Weak Water is in the Underworld, under the control of this Taiyi Golden Immortal, the Nine Nether Emperor.

If Nine Nether Emperor was truly dissatisfied, he could cut off the supply of Spirit Stones, and the Jiushan Sect would be powerless.

Senior Sister Zhang shook her head slowly, helplessly saying: "We originally wanted to handle this matter according to the sea domain model, but my junior brother has a different idea."

"What idea?"

Nine Nether Emperor asked curiously.

"We intend to establish a Heaven and Earth Bank."

"A Heaven and Earth what?"

Nine Nether Emperor was confused; he finally understood why Master Pang had said he didn’t understand.

"Heaven and Earth Bank."

"I know what a bank is." Nine Nether Emperor nodded slightly, "You mean to use Spirit Stones as capital and issue notes?"

"No, we already have a kind of currency."

"What is it?"

"Good deeds."

Hearing this, Nine Nether Emperor partly understood and partly felt confused, listening to Senior Sister Zhang continue to explain: "We intend to expand the Jiushan’s good deeds system to outside the sect, and in the future, good deeds will be renamed to Nine Mountains Money. The Heaven and Earth Bank will be the issuing body of the Nine Mountains Money."

"In the future, the value of Nine Mountains Money will be forcibly pegged to Spirit Stones, and my junior brother is even considering allowing cultivators to exchange Nine Mountains Money for Spirit Stones at the bank."