"This is a Lost Track Array Jade I obtained years ago. When danger strikes, it can be activated to trap enemies or help me escape. It was damaged during an adventure, its Formation Patterns shattered and its spiritual energy cut off."
Zhao Qingqing's voice was cool and clear as a mountain spring. She held out the cracked Jade Pendant to Zhou Xuan.
"You said you knew how to repair things. Take a look—do you think this can be fixed?"
The Array Peak disciples around them immediately burst into poorly stifled laughter.
"Hahaha, Senior Sister Zhao, aren't you making things difficult for him?"
"This is a Lost Track Array Jade, with over a hundred Formation Patterns inside, all interlocking. Forget a menial laborer like him—even we'd have to ask an Inner Sect senior brother to handle it!"
"Exactly! One wrong Formation Pattern and the whole Array Jade is ruined. What the hell would a farmer know?"
The pockmarked disciple laughed so hard he doubled over. He looked at Zhou Xuan as if he were a fraud about to be exposed.
Zhou Xuan ignored the mockery around him and held out both hands, respectfully accepting the Jade Pendant.
It felt smooth and warm in his hands, but a faint sting prickled him, caused by its disordered spiritual energy.
On the surface, he studied it intently, brow furrowed as though deep in research. In secret, he had already issued a command to the system.
[Ding! Repairable item detected: Lost Track Array Jade (damaged). Repair will consume 100 Gold Touch Value.]
One hundred points!
Zhou Xuan breathed a quiet sigh of relief. That price was well within his means. And this was a chance to make connections at Array Peak. But he didn't let any of it show on his face. Instead,