After a round of bargaining, the two sides reached a compromise.
Chen Lin paid twenty jin of fluorescent rice and ten jin of golden wheat in exchange for the natural fire and an inheritance for a divine ability.
Once the transaction was complete, Fire Wa hurried away.
Chen Lin did not even get a chance to ask him about the Mist Lord.
That gave him a bad feeling.
It seemed he had been swindled!
Yet he felt he had already driven the price quite low. After all, an Oddity received one jin of spirit rice as an annual stipend; thirty jin could be earned in just thirty years.
For these ancient fossils, thirty years passed in the flick of a finger.
There was nothing wrong with the flame, either.
Although the divine ability was only average in power, it had tremendous potential for growth and was a rare inheritance.
However he looked at it, Chen Lin did not feel he had lost out.
So he stopped dwelling on it, carefully put away the flame, and began searching for the ruins of Oddities who had failed to revive, following Liu Yuanling's information.
There were three ways to become an Oddity.
The first was to complete the task within the ruins of a deceased Oddity.
The second was to challenge an existing Oddity directly. It was not a fight to the death, however, but a contest of the Oddity's craft, and losing came with a penalty.
The final method was innovation.
Not only did one have to obtain the Island Spirit's recognition, but the application also had to be publicly announced. If anyone demonstrated a craft of the same level during that period, the application would fail.
After making a circuit of the island,
Chen Lin settled on three ruins.
One was