A Wisp of Vitality for Divine Gold! Xuanzheng: Heavenly Dao Bank, Here I Come! Let's Take Out a Hundred Million First!

Xuanzheng's "Father God's Care and Pangu Hall Construction Advance Survey Team" continued their grand "archaeological endeavor" across the Primordial World.

A Great Witch, responsible for reconnaissance, ran back excitedly, "Ancestral Witch! Three hundred miles ahead, there's an ancient battlefield ruin containing a piece of 'Grand Unity Essence Gold'!"

Xuanzheng waved his hand, a standard "excellent employee encouragement" smile on his face, while his inner monologue went, Oh? Grand Unity Essence Gold? That's hard currency! The system doesn't lie to me; just follow the navigation, and you'll get a villa by the sea... No, a more stable divine hall!

The survey team swarmed towards the target.

Before long, an ancient battlefield ruin exuding intense malevolence appeared before them. At the center of the ruin, the earth's energy surged, and faint, complex prohibition runes flickered, tightly locking down the core area.

"Good heavens, these prohibitions must have been set by a Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level big shot, at least?" a Great Witch gasped. "And it looks like a significant underground dragon vein node is suppressed beneath it. If we force our way through..."

Xuanzheng stroked his chin. The [Script Mirror] flickered slightly, deducing N tragic outcomes of forcibly breaking the prohibition: including, but not limited to, being blown to smithereens by the prohibition's backlash, being tossed away by the dragon vein, or awakening some ancient being slumbering within the dragon vein for countless millennia to discuss "the meaning of life (physical edition)" with you.

"Tsk, the risk is too high, and the reward doesn't match," Xuanzheng immediately crossed out this option in his mind. "Charging in headfirst doesn't align with my 'sustainable development' strategy. I need a way that's elegant and timeless."

A flash of inspiration struck him. The patterns on the [Karma Scale] on his left palm seemed to sense his thoughts and grew slightly warm.

"Got it!" Xuanzheng snapped his fingers. "[Karma Scale], my old friend, time to work! Let's discuss something?"

He sank his consciousness into the [Karma Scale]: "I've got my eye on that Grand Unity Essence Gold, but I don't want to get involved in the karma of breaking the prohibition, and I can't withstand the dragon vein's backlash. How about this: I'll use a wisp of 'good karma' or 'vitality' from a future unlucky soul... ah, no, a destined being in this area, as collateral for a transaction with Brother Heavenly Dao. I'll get this essence gold and have all the loose ends tied up for me. What do you say?"

The [Karma Scale]'s surface glowed, and its pans swayed slightly. After a moment, information flowed into Xuanzheng's mind: "Feasible. But the host must accurately locate the carrier of the 'good karma/vitality,' the specific event, and the time it occurs. The value of this 'good karma/vitality' must be equivalent to the value of the 'Grand Unity Essence Gold' itself and the cost of 'dispelling the karma from breaking the prohibition and the dragon vein's backlash.'"

"Professional!" Xuanzheng praised. "As expected of Pangu the Great's certified cheat, so meticulous!"

He immediately activated the [Script Mirror]: "Script Mirror, scan the scripts for the next few hundred to a thousand years in this vicinity for me. Find a promising candidate, preferably someone who's about to kick the bucket but will generate immense value if saved."

On the [Script Mirror]'s surface, countless threads of fate flowed like a waterfall, and fragments of future scenes flashed by rapidly. Xuanzheng expended considerable mental energy, his eyes almost crossed, until finally, the scene froze.

"Found it!"

The mirror showed that in several hundred years, just outside this ancient battlefield ruin, in a valley a hundred miles away, an Innate Spiritual Root—a mutated subspecies of the Seven Treasures Gourd Vine—would encounter a sudden Nine Heavens Gale Tribulation at the critical moment of its transformation. Without help, it would surely die. However, if it could survive this tribulation and successfully transform, it would later take root in this area, protect the local beings, and accumulate considerable merit and good karma within a thousand years.

"That's the one, unlucky... lucky gourd child!" Xuanzheng grinned.

He communicated with the [Karma Scale] again: "Target locked! Approximately five hundred and thirty-seven years in the future, one hundred and three miles east-southeast of here, a 'Seven-Colored Fortune Gourd Vine' (a name Xuanzheng just made up) will face its transformation tribulation of death. I will use 'assisting it in successfully passing the tribulation and obtaining the merit and good karma it accumulates from protecting local beings after its transformation' as collateral to apply for a special loan of 'Grand Unity Essence Gold' from the Heavenly Dao Bank, and request the exemption of all negative karma related to obtaining this treasure. The interest... let's use 0.1% of the gourd vine's merit over the next thousand years. No more than that; I'm running a small operation!"

Xuanzheng solemnly submitted this loan application, which could be described as a "textbook on getting something for nothing," in his mind.

The [Karma Scale] trembled violently, and the ancient patterns on it suddenly burst into seven-colored radiance. A profound will seemed to descend, scrutinizing Xuanzheng's "business plan."

A moment later, the radiance intensified!

On the [Karma Scale]'s pans, an invisible giant hand seemed to descend and, with a "snap," stamped an "Approved" seal!

Immediately after, the space before Xuanzheng distorted slightly, and a divine metal the size of a human head, emitting pure Geng Metal energy, appeared out of thin air, landing steadily in his hand. It was the Grand Unity Essence Gold!

At the same time, a mysterious force swept over him. Xuanzheng could clearly feel that the prohibition-breaking karma and the dragon vein disturbance he might have incurred with this ancient battlefield ruin had been instantly erased, as if he had merely walked by and picked up a lost wallet.

"Holy crap! The Heavenly Dao Bank really knows its business! This efficiency, instant approval, instant loan!" Xuanzheng weighed the heavy Grand Unity Essence Gold in his hand, grinning from ear to ear. "Revitalizing non-performing assets, cashing in future returns early—the Heavenly Dao likes this model too? It seems I'll need to find more of these 'high-quality collateral assets' in the future, strive for financial freedom as soon as possible, and marry... cough cough, lead the Witch Clan to its peak!"

At this moment, Dijiang and Zhujiuyin, far away in Pangu Hall, vaguely sensed the vast fluctuation from the Heavenly Dao level and the near "creation from nothing" appearance of the Grand Unity Essence Gold through a faint Ancestral Witch Mark left on Xuanzheng.

Dijiang: "...What was that disturbance just now? It seems... the heavens themselves delivered a treasure to Thirteenth Brother?"

A hint of emotion appeared on Zhujiuyin's face: "Thirteenth... he truly has received the supreme favor of Father God. Such a method is unheard of."

The two looked at each other, gaining a whole new understanding of Xuanzheng's "mystery" and his identity as "Father God's own son."

Xuanzheng, unaware of what his elder brothers were imagining, happily put away the Grand Unity Essence Gold, clapped his hands, and said to the group of bewildered Great Witches behind him with a smile, "Done! Materials in hand, let's move! Next bug point, here we come!"