Chapter 277 - 109: Drunken Spirit (3)
’Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple. Ling’Er is orange, a bit better than an absolute waste like me, but she’ll also likely go her whole life without reaching the Beginner stage. Nannan is green, which is surprisingly decent—she’s already at Sun Shouchai’s ordinary level.’
Among the seven colors, most ordinary people have red talent. Orange talent is one in a hundred, and yellow talent is even rarer, one in a thousand.
Of course, all three of these talent colors are trash and completely useless. Anyone with them would be stuck spinning their wheels at the Beginner stage for their entire life.
Only the green ’Ordinary Talent,’ found in one in ten thousand people, offers a chance at real achievement. As for Zhen Yi’s cyan genius talent and Ge Changgeng’s blue monstrous talent, they are simply beyond comparison for ordinary people.
’Green Talent, huh. No wonder her resistance is a bit stronger than Ling’Er’s. I can let Nannan pursue the path of a Spirit Master in the future... *cough*, I’m getting ahead of myself. I don’t even have a Spirit Master Magic Gate I can use for Cultivation yet!’
Fang Rui shook his head.
For dinner, Fang Rui ate alone for the first time. Fang Ling was fast asleep, overcome by the Spiritual Qi. Mrs. Xue of the Fang Family, the Third Lady, and Nannan each had one large Red Jade Peach, which was plenty for them.
Meanwhile, the servant girls were all outside the Peach Blossom Garden, making their own food.
They simply rested there for the night.
Fireflies danced, cicadas and insects chirped, and a sky full of stars blinked down as the summer night passed.
...
On this same summer night.
「The Sun Mansion.」
On a jade stand rested a bright yellow imperial edict.
WHOOSH!
Beyond the sight of ordinary people, Sun Shouchai opened his mouth and inhaled, drawing a small dragon of Qi Fortune into his body through his mouth and nose.
「A moment later.」
A flash of cyan light shone from the back of his head as he opened his eyes. ’This reward has earned me an imperial title and allowed me to take a small step forward as a Middle Grade Spirit Master. But I’m still a long, long way from becoming an Upper Grade Spirit Master.’
’The path of a Spirit Master... it is difficult, difficult, difficult! Harder than ascending to the heavens!’
Thanks to his connection with Zhen Daoji, he had been rewarded with Zhen Yi’s guidance on two occasions. From him, he learned that even a scion of a Noble Family like Zhen Yi had languished for twenty or thirty years before he accomplished a Great Merit, gained a massive amount of Qi Fortune, and broke through to the Upper Grade Spirit Master realm in one fell swoop. It seemed he had even progressed a fair bit within that realm...
’If even disciples from Noble Families have it this hard, can someone like me, with an ordinary background and Ordinary Talent, really become an Upper Grade Spirit Master in this lifetime?’
Sun Shouchai’s eyes flickered. ’Perhaps it’s time to take a gamble. And my opportunity... lies in the Dragon Pearl!’
’The Zheng Family’s Dragon Pearl is out of the question; it belongs to the Lord. However, if I’m not mistaken, there should be another Dragon Pearl!’
’Nanshan Garden, the Zheng Family’s old ancestor, the Yin Corpse, the Yin Corpse Remnant Soul, the Yang Attribute Origin, the Dragon Pearl... It seems the Zheng Family was playing a grand game of chess. But it looks like something unexpected happened, and they’re not even aware of it.’
’Therefore, besides myself, only two or three core members of the Zheng Family should know this secret right now.’
Before Zhen Daoji came to Huaiyin Prefecture, Sun Shouchai was responsible for gathering information on the Zheng Family. From this, he indirectly deduced that the Zheng Family possessed a Yin Attribute Dragon Pearl. Later, while helping Zhou Changfa refine medicine with a Yin Corpse Remnant Soul, he came into contact with a minuscule portion of the Yang Attribute Dragon Pearl Origin, which is how he arrived at this speculation.
’Even the Lord doesn’t know about this. Now, with the Zheng Family on the verge of destruction, I might be able to fish in troubled waters, slowly search for clues, and eventually try to obtain that Yang Attribute Dragon Pearl.’
’However, before that...’
A cold glint flashed in Sun Shouchai’s eyes. ’The matter of the Yin Corpse Remnant Soul and the Yang Attribute Dragon Pearl Origin must not be exposed. Zhou Changfa is already gone, which only leaves... Ge Changgeng...’
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「The next day.」
Sun Shouchai found Zhang Henshui. "Do you want to get rid of Ge Changgeng? I can help you..."
...
「Three days later, on a night of torrential rain.」
SKREEE!
Suddenly, the cry of a crane rang out above the Fang Mansion.
’Hm? From the sound of it, that seems to be Daoist Ge’s white crane?!’
Fang Rui’s eyes snapped open.
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