Chan Si

Chan Si

Chen Mobai's parents worked hard for a year, and in the end, they earned only around fifty thousand Merit Points.

And now, the two Spirit Stones in his hands were already equivalent to half a year of their income.

No wonder he had lost his composure a little.

The truth was, in this life, Chen Mobai had never even touched a Spirit Stone. If not for the detailed descriptions of Spirit Stones in textbooks, films, and dramas, he probably really would not have recognized them.

It was also at this moment that Chen Mobai felt this Water Mansion might already be outside the territory controlled by the Immortal Sect.

Forcing down the trembling of his hands, he placed the Spirit Stones on his clothes, then took out his phone and photographed the first thirty pages of the "Azure Water Array Detailed Explanation."

Chen Mobai was afraid that when he returned to the city, he might not be able to bring these things back with him.

By photographing the booklet with his phone, at the very least, he could still study the knowledge at school later.

He tied the clothes into a bundle and held it in his arms. Then Chen Mobai tapped open the "Turtle Treasure" software on his phone and pressed the return-to-city button.

Silver-white light flashed for a while. Chen Mobai opened his eyes and discovered that he was already sitting on his bed.

He glanced at the clock on the wall. There was exactly half an hour left before class.

The heavy feeling in both hands made his mood even more excited.

They had all come back with him! He opened the clothes, spread the items out one by one on the floor, and after counting and confirming them again, Chen Mobai could not suppress the excitement in his heart. He could not help jumping onto the bed and doing a somersault.

Fortunately, when the house had been built, soundproofing Restrictions had also been laid down. Otherwise, just from that noise alone, his parents would definitely have been woken.

After venting his excitement, Chen Mobai opened his cabinet and pressed the Spirit Stones, Hand Crossbow, Short Blade, and other things that could easily arouse suspicion into the very innermost part.

Then he took out the schoolbag he had not used in a long time and put the gold and the booklets inside.

The last thing left was the Needle Box used by the brown-clothed youth.

A look of hesitation appeared on Chen Mobai's face. This thing was undoubtedly a true magic artifact; he just did not know what grade it was.

He also did not know how to use it. The best method would be nothing more than directly putting it up for consignment online.

But on the Immortal Sect Network, transactions involving secondhand magic artifacts required a certificate of authentication.

Cultivation items, especially magic artifacts—more than eighty percent of them were secondhand goods.

To ensure order in the magic artifact trading market, the Immortal Sect issued certificates to cultivators who passed the magic artifact appraisal qualification exam and stipulated that before every magic artifact transaction, a certificate of appraisal issued by a Treasure Appraiser was required.

Every transaction required a new appraisal to determine the wear on the magic artifact, its years of use, and so on.

Of course, official regulations were one thing, and actual transactions were another.

Especially with First-Grade Magic Artifacts, some low-grade ones were not even worth as much as the travel expenses for hiring a Treasure Appraiser, so there were still some three-no products circulating in the market.

But if a magic artifact wanted to be traded and sold for a good price, the appraisal step was absolutely indispensable.

Especially for magic artifacts of the second order and above, because their value was enormous, basically only after a Treasure Appraiser had cast an eye over them would any cultivator dare to buy.

It was precisely because of this that "Treasure Appraiser," as a profession, counted as one of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation with the largest number of people taking certification exams.

After Chen Mobai bought three Green Arrow Talismans, he was already as poor as a washed white sheet, with nothing left at all. He simply had no extra Merit Points to hire a Treasure Appraiser with a qualification certificate. So this Needle Box could only be set aside for now, to be dealt with after he had money, or used by himself after he figured it out.

Though that was what he thought, Chen Mobai still put the Needle Box into his schoolbag and took it to school.

This was the first true magic artifact he had ever owned in his life.

Carrying the schoolbag stuffed full of wealth on his back, Chen Mobai went downstairs, threw the fish into the sink, then heated up two pieces of cornbread for breakfast and went straight to school.

It just so happened that today was the turn of the teacher who taught arrays to come over and teach class.

The teacher's surname was Chan. She was a very young intern teacher, and it was said she was still a cultivator studying at Vermillion Cinnabar Academy.

Although this teacher had the shallowest qualifications in all of Immortal Sect Fifth High School, Chen Mobai felt that her teaching level was the best... or one of the best.

If not for the fact that the school also had a principal in the Foundation Establishment Realm teaching classes, Chen Mobai would not have added that "one of."

Perhaps because she was not very old and was close to the students' level of thinking, at least every time she explained arrays, she made the knowledge points deep yet easy to grasp, and her examples were vivid and lively.

It was also precisely because of this that even though Chen Mobai normally did not pay much attention to the course on arrays, he was basically able to firmly remember the content Teacher Chan had taught.

Thanks to this, Chen Mobai had been able to repair the Azure Water Array and restart it.

Teacher Chan's looks were good, and her figure was also good. She just did not smile much and was rather serious when teaching. Otherwise, her popularity would have been even higher.

But among cultivators, there were basically no ugly people.

After all, generation after generation had cultivated immortality, and their bodies had already evolved toward perfection. Only things like Spiritual Roots were arranged by the heavens, relying purely on luck, with nothing anyone could do about it. But getting oneself a pretty shell of skin was merely a matter of delaying one's Qi Refining by a few years.

There were even some cultivators who, in order to prove their firm Dao heart for cultivating immortality, would deliberately go to the hospital for cosmetic surgery and make their own appearance extremely ugly, to show that apart from the Dao, they had no stray thoughts.

For example, Chen Mobai had an Uncle of the Same Clan. In his youth, he had been peerlessly handsome. While setting up a stall on the street, he had been unintentionally recorded by someone, and the video had been uploaded online. Overnight, he became an internet celebrity.

But his heart for cultivating the Dao was firm. Faced with countless film and television companies coming to his door, he went straight to the hospital and had his face altered into something utterly ordinary and plain.

Although his Spiritual Root aptitude was ordinary, he had still entered Spiritual Pivot Academy among the Hundred and Twenty Mansions. Now, every day, he buried himself among the mountain veins, excavating the ruins of ancient cultivators and conducting protective research.

The morning array course quickly passed as Chen Mobai focused on reading "Azure Water Array Detailed Explanation."

After class ended, he repeated his old trick, pretending to fall a step behind, and turned into Teacher Chan's office.

With the same excuse, he said that for the sake of his College Entrance Exam scores, his parents had hired a private tutor. There were several after-class assignments regarding array refurbishment and repairs that he needed to complete independently. But the student was truly dull-witted; after thinking a hundred times, he still could not find the answer, so he could only come over to ask the teacher for guidance.

But Chan Si was different from Old Man Ding. After she heard Chen Mobai's words, she took the Azure Water Array grade that the latter had written on the draft paper, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"With your strength, this private tutor dared to assign you work on a Second-Order Array?"

"It's only about the issue of restarting operation after the array has been repaired and refurbished. In reality, the private tutor has already taught me the entire array."

Chen Mobai forced out an explanation.

"Oh..."

Chan Si glanced at him, smiled meaningfully, but did not say anything more. She picked up her fountain pen, preparing to answer all the questions on the draft paper and show off her strength as a teacher.

But after she had just finished reading it through completely once, she discovered that with her own store of knowledge, she actually had no idea where to start.

"Huh. How come the array this private tutor taught you runs counter to the Immortal Sect mainstream? They're practically things from two different systems."