Chapter 45 (2/2)

Even though Ren Tianzong trusted Ren Jie and was patient enough to wait for the outcome, he was not going to sit around and do nothing. At the very least, he had to ensure that others would not assume that there was no capable person within the Ren family and that they could easily bully members of the Ren family.

Therefore, he handed a token tablet to Wan Hong and instructed him carefully.

The Fang family had tried killing two birds with one stone. They had retaliated after they were extorted by Ren Jie. There was a ruckus outside. Yet, Ren Jie was not at all worried about what was happening on the outside. He was sitting in his study room, resigned to the situation but happy about it as well.

There was a special jade container on the coffee table in Ren Jie’s bedroom. The jade container was relatively small and contained five pieces of crystal clear spiritual jades. Although there were only five pieces, they were enough to capture anyone’s attention. The reason was that they were all superior-grade spiritual jades. According to the conversion rates, five pieces of superior-grade spiritual jades were equivalent to five hundred middle-grade spiritual jades, five thousand inferior-grade spiritual jades and five hundred thousand jade coins.

However, superior-grade spiritual jades were very rare. It would still be difficult to buy them even if one had sufficient money. When one was at the True Qi Realm, inferior-grade spiritual jades would be useful to speed up one’s cultivation. However, few people at the True Qi Realm had the financial capacity to obtain inferior-grade spiritual jades. Only disciples belonging to big family clans could afford using inferior-grade spiritual jades to cultivate.

The best option for those at the Divine Power Realm was middle-grade spiritual jades. However, that would vary based on one’s circumstances. Many people at the Divine Power Realm could only afford using inferior-grade spiritual jades. Therefore, inferior-grade and middle-grade spiritual jades were the most commonly used. Meanwhile, superior-grade spiritual jades were very rare. There were not many of them in the market. Thus, it was almost impossible to exchange for superior-grade spiritual jades.

Not long after Ren Jie returned home, Chang Laosi disguised himself and contacted Ren Jie using the conduit that Ren Jie provided him to send those things over. He had them secretly hidden and had retrieved them especially for Ren Jie.

If there were only those five pieces of superior-grade spiritual jades, Ren Jie would not be so troubled and would have simply given him a million jade coins. However, there was a storage pouch within the jade container that Chang Laosi gave him. Although that storage pouch was not very big, it contained a three-cubic-meter space which was almost filled to the brim with spiritual jades. There were fifteen thousand inferior-grade spiritual jades and seven hundred middle-grade spiritual jades in the storage pouch. Additionally, there were an additional five superior-grade spiritual jades.

It was evident those spiritual jades were not what Chang Laosi had exchanged for, but were instead his lifetime savings. According to the market rates, they were worth at least two million and seven hundred thousand jade coins. And the price did not consider the rarity and difficulty in obtaining them.

Ren Jie had asked Chang Laosi to keep them away when he saw them. However, Chang Laosi’s stubborn personality meant that he would be unyielding in things that he was determined to do. Therefore, he had strongly refused to keep them away. He said that he considered it a moral obligation to provide an offering to his teacher when he acknowledged his teacher. It was only right for disciples to show respect for their masters. Moreover, he added that he would find all means to procure more spiritual jades if Ren Jie needed more of them. Those spiritual jades that he gave Ren Jie were accumulated after he had used the quantity that he needed for his own cultivation. He had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation at the Divine Power Realm and would not require them at the moment.

Anyways, no matter what Ren Jie said, Chang Laosi would not accept those spiritual jades. Ren Jie realized that he had underestimated Chang Laosi’s burning dedication. He had not expected that what he had done would cause Chang Laosi to be hugely devoted to him in such a short time.

In the end, Ren Jie could only accept them in resignation.

“Forget it. I will accept this teacher acknowledgment gift for now.” Ren Jie happened to require spiritual jades at the moment, especially superior-grade ones. He could only anticipate that those spiritual jades would last for a longer period of time. As for Chang Laosi, Ren Jie wanted to accept him as a disciple wholeheartedly. With the increase in his cultivation realm, Ren Jie could summarize the know-hows in the gambling industry in his previous life and teach them to Chang Laosi. There was still a long road ahead of them.

However, if Ren Jie had known that this would happen, he would not have ordered Chang Laosi to exchange the spiritual jades for him. He could extort the Fang family or demand Gao Zhanyuan to pay his debts in front of the emperor, but he would never conspire against his allies. Since things were at this stage, he could only accept the spiritual jades.

Ren Jie did not bother about the ruckus outside. He had specially informed Tong Qiang that he was going into secluded cultivation and did not allow anyone to disturb him. He planned to give the Fang family clan an entire day to create chaos. That would make the ceremony tomorrow, where he would accept disciples, more meaningful. After making the necessary arrangements, Ren Jie directed his divine sense to enter his mind.

He was slightly sentimental when he saw that familiar buddy of his. It was the only thing that accompanied him to this universe. Because of the changes that happened to it, Ren Jie could gain influence in this new universe. However, everything that he did was far from enough. After all, the universe that he was in was unlike the Earth which had advanced technologies and a robust system developed based on the rule of law.

This was a universe where the powerful preyed on the weak. Ren Jie did not want to be eaten up, made fun of, or oppressed by others. He did not want to be a puppet family head that was similar to that of a puppet emperor. To achieve that, he must become stronger. As he thought about that, Ren Jie used his divine sense to open the jade container beside him and the storage pouch that Chang Laosi had given him. In a split second, Ren Jie could clearly feel five hot streams gushing into his body and entering his mind. Simultaneously, thousands of weak energy entered too. The next moment, Ren Jie suddenly saw the familiar scene that was strongly etched in his brain.

The laptop was completely made from balls of light. At the bottom right corner of the display, there was a wireless network signal icon. As energy gushed into his body, the signal gradually strengthened.

“Done!” Ren Jie yelled in his mind in excitement using his divine sense.