White Jade Coin

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Description

White Jade Coins resemble ordinary round white-jade pendants, approximately the width of an egg and half a finger thick. Each has a central hole, a smooth surface, and silver specks connected by fine threads embedded within the jade. 170

• Exceptionally durable; Chen Mu could not crush one even after increasing the strength of his pitch-black hand. 170
• A fully charged coin displays bright silver, starlike threads and specks. 199 765
• After its Earth Spirit Vital Qi is exhausted, its pattern dims; depleted coins may become dull silver-gray or gray-white. 199 267 819
• Under violent forced extraction, depleted coins can crack and burst apart. 290

Function and Use

Currency

White Jade Coins are the primary currency used by Qi Refining cultivators. They are also used to pay for cultivation resources, services, debts, and secret arts. 765

Earth Spirit Vital Qi Reserve

A White Jade Coin stores Earth Spirit Vital Qi, making it valuable beyond its use as money. It may be directly drained through a cultivator's Primordial Talisman, though this is less efficient than using an Exquisite Jade Disk. 199 299

• Inserting a coin into an Exquisite Jade Disk allows the disk to generate a local concentration of Earth Spirit Vital Qi for cultivation. 199 451
• The disk initially appeared to draw out the coin's stored qi; Chen Mu later concluded that the coin instead acts as a power source enabling the disk to create Earth Spirit Vital Qi. 199 451 561
• Song Wuji forcibly extracted the qi from several thousand coins at once to restore himself, destroying them in the process. 290
• Chen Mu later kept large reserves of White Jade as emergency magical-power supplies for Thousand Lantern City, where replenishing power would otherwise be difficult. 772

Production and Recharging

White Jade Coins are made by refining a blank artifact embryo and nurturing it within an Earth Vein Spirit Spring. Once the embryo has absorbed sufficient Earth Spirit Vital Qi, it becomes a usable coin. 765

• Coins placed in an Earth Vein before fully charging have dim silver-gray patterns and are not considered genuine White Jade Coins until every silver thread has lit up. 267
• Weizhi Peak's Earth Vein Spirit Spring produced more than 4,000 coins in two months after rising vital qi made nurturing possible. 765
• The Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation, combined with 108 Exquisite Jade Disks, can create a man-made Earth Vein Spirit Spring that recharges drained White Jade blanks. 819
• In Hundred Intentions Heaven, the common White Jade Coin is primarily made from Three Lights Jade. 816

Known Transactions and Holdings

• Jie Jia paid Chen Mu twenty White Jade Coins for two Thousand Mechanism Tokens, acquired through the Zhang Family of Zhu Yi Pavilion. 170
• Chen Mu earned 852 coins by selling 213 portions of Insecticide Smoke over three days. 206
• Shang Huan received 4,942 coins from Mo Wuzhou for Wood Spirit Guards. 272
• Chen Mu collected roughly 8,000 coins through the Wood Spirit Guard business. 278
• Chen Mu found over 47,000 coins among accumulated resources after acquiring Sun Wuhuan's assets and other gains. 362
• Li Moliang gave Chen Mu at least 2,000 saved coins in exchange for continued access to Jade Dew Beads. 576
• Chen Mu later accumulated 59,700 coins, much of it originating from Weizhi Peak's Earth Vein production. 816

Trivia

• Chen Mu initially compared using a White Jade Coin in the jade disk to paying for a mobile data plan in his previous life. 199
• Although White Jade became far less essential to Chen Mu after he formed his Dao Foundation and could directly refine Heavenly Star Vital Qi, he continued to use it as spending money and an emergency reserve. 742 765 772