Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 413 - 391: Level 19 Spirit Essence

Wang Wu believed his request was quite reasonable. You are a Ninth-Grade Elder; why should you care about these two hundred thousand strands of Five Qi of the Human World!

Unexpectedly, this time Song Guangming remained silent instead.

So the asking price was too high?

While he was pondering this, Song Guangming reappeared outside the city, engaging in battle with Gui Taizhen.

But the battle wasn’t actually a serious fight; he kept using the protection of the Hidden Origin Bell. He attacked Gui Taizhen with half of his power, while Gui Taizhen fought back with twelve times his power. However, each attack was blocked by the Hidden Origin Bell.

In a blink, Song Guangming and Gui Taizhen had clashed for over a dozen rounds, and the base of the Hidden Origin Bell continued to sustain damage, with warning messages appearing one after another.

Until outside the city, Song Guangming suddenly went for the kill, severely injuring Gui Taizhen and forcing him to flee in panic.

Only then did he turn around, facing the city, with a pleased smile.

Fool, given the opportunity, you couldn’t seize it.

To say Gui Taizhen could barely act as a scapegoat, while you, a Second-Grade Steward of the Hidden Origin Association, are a bona fide scapegoat.

Simultaneously, Wang Wu’s Jade Talisman lit up with two messages.

"Warning: Due to sustaining twelve attacks from an Immortal Artifact, the base of the Hidden Origin Bell is completely damaged. Please repair immediately or apply to headquarters for maintenance."

"Ninth-Grade Elder Song Guangming of the Hidden Origin Association has reported to headquarters: Second-Grade Steward Lying Flat Monarch due to personal matters harbored resentment against Gui Taizhen, leading Gui Taizhen to launch a fierce assault on the Dragon Head City branch. Headquarters is requested to investigate this matter, effective immediately. The Hidden Origin Association headquarters will send personnel to investigate in twelve hours. Please cooperate with this investigation and during this period, it is advised to stay within a range of ten thousand miles from the Hidden Origin Bell. Exceeding this range will be considered as fleeing out of guilt!"

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After reading these two messages, Wang Wu wasn’t particularly surprised; he even smirked slightly.

As expected, none of them were good people.

Song Guangming is like this, Gui Taizhen is like this, and Vermilion Bird Immortal Monarch is also like this.

The first two probably reached some sort of agreement. As long as Gui Taizhen insisted he was coming for Wang Wu due to personal grudge, then the Hidden Origin Association wouldn’t take action against him.

And Vermilion Bird Immortal Monarch persuaded Wang Wu to escape, hoping in fact to achieve the special feat of fleeing out of guilt.

Such a powerful Earth Immortal-level warrior with great potential for growth, extraordinary strength, and excellent lineage, became wanted by the Hidden Origin Association. Being an escapee was a double buff, meaning he could only serve as a laborer for the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance for life.

This calculation was loudly played.

"Sorry, Snake Emperor, Five Poison, Yue Mountain, and She Shoujiu. I can’t help you further than this!"

Wang Wu put away his smile. It had been just half a month since he last parted ways with Five Poison.

His talks with Song Guangming and Vermilion Bird Immortal Monarch weren’t because he truly believed their words; rather, he was genuinely stalling for time.

But this was as much as he could do; how things would unfold next was unclear.

Fortunately, Gui Taizhen was indeed hurt.

Hopefully, Vermilion Bird Immortal Monarch seizes this opportunity to expand her power.

And next, it was his time.

Wang Wu calmly activated the pinpoint teleportation function of the Hidden Origin Bell. The base was damaged, but the Hidden Origin Bell was not, and pinpoint teleportation was still possible.

In an instant, he teleported five thousand miles away, to the place where he had buried the Four Clowns, performed Earth Escape, retrieved the Profound Iron House, and retrieved that Top-Grade Fur.

The most important was retrieving that Companion Iron Essence.

Indeed, Gui Taizhen had not discovered this location; Wang Wu had overestimated him before.

Though he was a Taiyi True Immortal, he might be somewhat lacking in this regard.

Another possibility was that the proximity to the Hidden Origin Bell prevented Gui Taizhen from clashing with the Hidden Origin Association, and a month ago he dared and was unwilling to overturn seas and rivers in search.

Next, Wang Wu again used the Hidden Origin Bell to instantly teleport back.

Lazily ignoring the chaos of inquiries and bombardment of information from the Four Clowns, he secluded himself in a small dark room, deciding to talk to them when given the chance.

As for now?

Heh!

Wang Wu let out a cold laugh, directly taking out that damaged Creation Golden Scroll, unhesitatingly activating it and specifying to upgrade his Level 18 Spiritual Talent by one level, to Level 19, though the effect lasts only twelve hours.

But that’s sufficient.

With Level 19 Spirit Essence, the ability to see through perception capabilities grows exponentially.

Wang Wu approached a heavily damaged Profound Iron Heaven-Supporting Pillar, scanned it with his Spirit Essence, finding that the tiny cracks inside the pillar had exceeded a hundred.

It was still not terribly serious, but severely impacting the operation of the Ninefold Tribulation Fire Array and Three Realms Spirit Wind Array, akin to a short-circuited circuit.

From the perspective of others, including allowing Song Guangming to look, this Profound Iron Heaven-Supporting Pillar was considered a scrap, only fit for remelting.

But under the perception of Level 19 Spirit Essence, what does this amount to?

Moreover, this time he had Companion Iron Essence in hand; the repair speed would be even faster.

However, relying solely on Companion Iron Essence cannot actually perform the repairs. While it is Iron Essence, it doesn’t mean it can detect such tiny, nanometer, micrometer-sized cracks; it prefers devouring Profound Iron.

Thus, Wang Wu still needed to employ the Level 12 Ruyi Body Technique to shrink to millimeter size, and accompanied by Companion Iron Essence, traverse inside, guiding with the Level 19 Spirit Essence, and as Companion Iron Essence devours, repair and fill as it goes.

It’s like walking through a maze with no way back.

Very troublesome, but actually still quite efficient.

Especially the speed at which the Companion Iron Essence devours the Profound Iron and the speed of repair. The effect of the Profound Iron after repair is excellent, which Wang Wu cannot achieve with Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

In less than ten minutes, the entire Heaven-Supporting Pillar was repaired. Wang Wu emerged from a certain spot holding the Companion Iron Essence and completed filling and repairing the hole behind him as he emerged.

The Companion Iron Essence was quite unhappy, only working all the time, and consuming less than it excreted. At this rate, the little boat of friendship might capsize.

No worries, we have plenty of Refined Profound Iron.

Moreover, this is very profitable.

Wang Wu looked at the Jade Talisman, and indeed, a notification lit up.

"As a Second-Grade Steward of the Hidden Origin Association, you took the initiative to discover and actively repair the base of the Hidden Origin Bell. You have been rewarded with ten thousand strands of the Five Qi of the Human World, and your contribution to the Hidden Origin Association is increasing."

Haha!

See, this is what’s crucial.

Next, Wang Wu specially fed the Companion Iron Essence for three minutes before continuing with the repair of the next Heaven-Supporting Pillar.

There was no pressure at all.

The most severely damaged Heaven-Supporting Pillar only took about fifteen minutes, and not all Heaven-Supporting Pillars were like this.

In fact, only twenty-four Heaven-Supporting Pillars were severely damaged, which meant that just these twenty-four could bring the base of the Hidden Origin Bell to a halt.

Wang Wu, with the Companion Iron Essence, worked tirelessly for half a day and completed the repair of all one hundred and eight Profound Iron Heaven-Supporting Pillars.

For this, he collected as many as two hundred and ten thousand strands of the Five Qi of the Human World, all likely from Song Guangming’s own pocket.

As the saying goes, all mortals must die, and all immortals have a price to pay for their actions.

No one can freeload.

Counting the previous income, the total has now reached two hundred and sixty thousand strands.

Then, an even bigger piece of good news finally came.

"As a Second-Grade Steward of the Hidden Origin Association, you took the initiative to discover and solve problems, without guided tasks. You have received rewards from the Hidden Origin Bell, your steward level has been promoted to First-Grade, and your permissions have been upgraded."

"Now, you are the first First-Grade Steward of the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance Branch of the Hidden Origin Association. You now have the power to cast a double approval or double veto vote in the current branch. Note, if you go to other branches, you need to be on standby in the current branch for more than three years, to gain the power to cast a veto or approval vote."

"Meanwhile, you are now qualified to directly contact the Hidden Origin Association Headquarters and report matters that need to be reported."

"You can now consume one hundred strands of the Five Qi of the Human World to perform point-to-point instant teleportation to any location within the range of one hundred thousand miles of the Hidden Origin Bell."

"You already have the qualification to manage various affairs of the current Hidden Origin Association, and you will be allowed to enhance the base of the Hidden Origin Bell."

"You can directly teleport into the Hidden Origin Bell for daily cultivation, and you will receive a certain quota of Spiritual Qi dividends daily, according to the Spiritual Qi inventory of the Hidden Origin Bell."

"You can purchase resources from the twelve branches of the Hidden Origin Association at a fifty percent discount."

"You can use the Five Qi of the Human World to exchange for most resources in the Hidden Origin Association’s secret warehouses at a fifty percent discount."

"You can publish new Hidden Element Tasks in the current branch of the Hidden Origin Association, with a highest level of Third Grade and a lowest of Ninth Grade. If a steward of the Hidden Origin Association completes the corresponding tasks, you will receive a fifteen percent reward commission."

"Within the Hidden Origin Bell, you will have an independent, hidden small-sized cavern-dwelling."

"Within a hundred thousand miles around the Hidden Origin Bell, you will receive high-tier protection from the Hidden Origin Bell. If you encounter any attacks from an Immortal Artifact not exceeding the level of the Hidden Origin Bell, ninety percent of the damage will be weakened."

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A whole bunch of benefits.

Wang Wu was very satisfied and even felt grateful for Song Guangming’s efforts.

If possible, he hoped Song Guangming would continue his efforts, and after a few more rounds, he would be promoted from a First-Grade Steward to a Ninth-Grade Elder!

Wahaha!

Unfortunately, Song Guangming showed no movement. Is it because he cannot sense the repair of the Hidden Origin Bell base? Indeed, there are notifications for damage, but not for repairs. Of course, if he were to engage in another round with Gui Taizhen at this moment, he would find out.

Of course, none of this matters much, Wang Wu is not afraid of being discovered. If it’s damaged here, repair it over there.

At this moment, Wang Wu directly teleported into the Hidden Origin Bell and saw that in his cavern-dwelling space, a large mass of Spiritual Mist had formed, not much, just ten thousand points of Spiritual Qi, corresponding to this Cultivation Realm’s common unit of ten thousand Dou.

But the issue is, this happens every day.

In the long run, it’s still quite appealing.

Hmm?

The Vermilion Bird Immortal Monarch sent another message!

"I’m sorry, it seems you have lost."

"The war between the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance and the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance is inevitable, and I must leave. If you become wanted by the Hidden Origin Association in the future, remember to find me. The Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance is probably the only place in this Cultivation Realm where you can find shelter."

"Also, no need to reply. I will soon destroy this Hidden Origin Association Jade Talisman. This symbolizes no longer serving as a Steward of the Hidden Origin Association. If you still have any more Five Qi of the Human World, spend it quickly and escape!"