Chapter 143: Transaction and Objective (1/2)

”Registered disciple?”

Ma Donggui was stunned. He looked Yan Hong up and down, as if he was thinking for a moment, then quickly nodded.

”Alright, no problem. Since Junior Brother Jiang Li has spoken, I'll agree on behalf of my master. This is just a registered disciple position after all.”

He did not know who Yan Hong was, but since Jiang Li had come to visit, he had to give him face.

Looking back at the past, Jiang Li had barely obtained the status of a registered disciple after three months of testing pills and constantly being at the risk of ”death”. Now, with his status, he could get it with a few words.

The difference in status was so great that it made people feel helpless.

Of course, this was also because he had found the right person.

With Ma Donggui's influence in the Foreign Affairs Hall, he could even arrange for one or two people to be supervisors in the sect's spirit stone mine. That was a top-notch job in the Foreign Affairs Hall.

Helping him become a registered disciple was naturally a simple task.

”Senior Brother Ma is so kind. I'm truly grateful.”

Jiang Li thanked him repeatedly, but after a pause, he put on an expression that showed he had something to say but was hesitant.

”However, this thick-skinned Junior Brother has one more favor to ask.”

”This matter is quite troublesome and might make Senior Brother feel troubled. I'll apologize in advance.”

”Perhaps Senior Brother Ma can take a look at this first.”

Jiang Li smiled as he spoke, explaining that he had something to ask of the other party. After that, he pressed a metal token on the table and pushed it towards the other party.

Jiang Li had spent a lot of effort to throw Yan Hong into the Foreign Affairs Hall, but it was not just to make him a registered disciple to run errands.

What Jiang Li needed was for Yan Hong to make use of the name of the sect and protect him when doing business outside.

But to grasp his own benefits, freedom and power were essential.

The best situation was to let them open another store in one of the large trading centers in the Great Mountain Region and let Yan Hong manage it.

In regards to this, the price Jiang Li offered was fourteen hours of scripture imparting time.

Jiang Li indicated that he was willing to use the token awarded to the first place in the Qi Refinement realm to exchange for a token that was only two hours long.

When Ma Donggui heard that Jiang Li still had something to ask of him, he was originally a little unhappy.

However, his eyes immediately widened when he saw the token Jiang Li pushed over.

When he saw this gaze, the smile on Jiang Li's face became even more brilliant. He knew that the other party was already moved.

Jiang Li immediately stated his needs.

A store that completely conformed to the rules of the Scripture Storage Valley and was under the name of the Foreign Affairs Hall. It would be protected by the sect but was independently managed.

Hearing this request, even Ma Donggui showed hesitation.

This was no longer a request that he could make his own call. Even the other elders of the Foreign Affairs Hall did not have the authority to approve it. It had to be approved by his master, the Head Elder of the Foreign Affairs Hall, personally.

Jiang Li's request was really not small.

Ma Donggui looked down at the token, weighing the pros and cons in his heart.

First, it was certain that he could handle this matter.

Or rather, besides him, it would be difficult for Jiang Li to find anyone in the Foreign Affairs Hall. Those ordinary elders did not have the authority to make such a decision.

However, given how much the Head Elder of the Foreign Affairs Hall doted on him, as long as he put in a good word, it was very likely to succeed. If he was unlucky and failed, he could at most beg for it.

In addition, he did not intend to reject this deal.

One had to know that cultivators with dual-attribute spiritual roots were already relatively rare among cultivators.

Cultivators with mutated spiritual roots were even rarer than that. In the entire Scripture Storage Valley, if all the inner and outer sect disciples were to gather together, the number of mutated spiritual roots would be less than five.

In contrast to their precious and powerful abilities, relevant inheritances were hard to find.

Even if the cultivators with dual-attribute spiritual roots, including Jiang Li, could not find cultivation methods and Dao techniques that completely matched their attributes, they could still cultivate and use a single-attribute inheritance.

However, it was different for mutated spiritual root cultivators.

Ma Donggui, who was sitting in front of Jiang Li, might have been a disciple of the sect for seven or eight years, but it was very likely that he had grasped fewer spell techniques than Jiang Li.

When he was fighting in the sect, he used the Five Heart Lightning over and over. It was not that he did not want to use other spell techniques, but it was very likely that he did not know other moves.

With his status, it was naturally impossible for him to not obtain the lightning attribute inheritance in the Scripture Storage Pavilion.

However, it was precisely because mutated lightning spiritual roots were rare that there were not many such predecessors in the Scripture Storage Valley.

Therefore, the Scripture Storage Valley's Scripture Imparting Hall became his final hope.

Amongst the many disciples of the Scripture Storage Valley, everyone wanted to obtain the inheritance token.

In the Scripture Imparting Hall, if one was lucky, there was a chance that a peerless cultivation method would be passed down.

If he was unlucky, it could guarantee that he would be able to obtain an ancient high-grade inheritance and reach a higher level of enlightenment at least.

As for the Scripture Imparting Hall, to the lightning spiritual root disciple, Ma Donggui, it was not as simple as just icing on the cake. His requirements were the most rigid. He could not avoid it unless he stopped cultivating.

”Your request is acceptable! However, I want that 24-hour Scripture token!”

Ma Donggui licked his lips. His gaze moved away from the token and he looked into Jiang Li's eyes as he spoke.

Presumably, he had learned the content of Jiang Li's reward from the Head Elder of the Foreign Affairs Hall.

The Scripture Hall token could be exchanged for with the contributions of all the inner sect disciples, but the price was extremely high. Even he, the disciple of the Foreign Affairs Hall's Head Elder, could not easily afford it.

The truth was that the fourteen hours of scripture imparting that Jiang Li quoted was already enough.

However, the 24 hour token could allow him to listen to the scripture for an entire day and night. It was something that he had never attempted in all these years.

He had to fight for it no matter what.

Of course, Ma Donggui was not going overboard. Jiang Li's status was not inferior to his, and his talent in body cultivation was so exaggerated. There was no benefit in offending Jiang Li.

So before Jiang Li could speak, he continued.

”Junior Brother, don't be angry. I'm not a greedy person. Let me explain first. If you're not satisfied, then we can continue with your earlier suggestion.”

Jiang Li smiled and nodded, waiting very calmly for the other party to throw out his side of the bargain.

”Junior Brother Yan Hong is proficient in the ways of merchants. You should understand that wanting to run a store is definitely not something that can be done with just a safety net.”

”Whether the transportation is safe or not, whether the speed is fast or slow, whether the goods are complete or not, whether the quality is good or bad, whether there are stable and cheap supply channels, the finished processing after the purchase of materials, and many other aspects.”

”If you want to run a successful store, you need a lot of other support.”

Although Ma Donggui had never really learned these things in the Foreign Affairs Hall, he had been exposed to these things for many years and knew quite a bit of basic common knowledge.

Jiang Li glanced at Yan Hong, and his expression was filled with extreme excitement and worry.

He was excited because the price the other party was talking about was simply something he dreamed of. If these things were gathered together, it was equivalent to getting a hen that could lay spirit stones everyday.

For a shop with such conditions, even a fool would find it hard to lose spirit stones.

On the other hand, he was worried about how precious the things that Jiang Li had sacrificed would be if he was able to obtain such generous conditions.

”Senior Brother Ma, what do you mean?” Jiang Li asked the obvious.

”If Junior Brother Jiang Li is willing, you can give me a 24-hour Scripture Hall token.”

”In return, Junior Brother's store will receive the same treatment as the sect's own branch stores. The goods in the Foreign Affairs Hall will be bought by you at their original price.”

”Due to the fact that this store will manage its own spirit stones, if Junior Brother Jiang Li doesn't have enough spirit stones to fill up the stock, the Foreign Affairs Hall can still lend another batch of goods first to make your shop look bustling.”

Jiang Li smiled and was very satisfied with this. He took back the 16-hour token and pressed the 24-hour token on the table.

”In that case, I'll have to trouble Senior Brother Ma.”

Ma Donggui was overjoyed, and he also handed a token that was only two hours long to Jiang Li.