Yang Zhai picked up a fungus-looking Ka. It was not a fungus, but a living being. The moment Yang Zhai uses his rays, it would turn into a stone.
The rank of this ka was 5, among the top quality kas. It belonged to the Mastery Path. Even though it was rank 5, its price was above four hundred thousand, more than rank 5 top quality kas.
Rank 5 kas sold ranging from fifty thousand to three hundred thousand. Yang Zhai didn't absorb it directly. He was extremely careful. He didn't want to mess with this Ka. He took the small box it was in.
Its name was Ophio Unila.
After that, he exchanged one million essence stones for ten thousand mid-grade essence stones. Then, he handed the storage Ka to the store owner.
"It would be forty-five thousand essence stones." Said the owner.
"What do you mean? This is a top-quality storage Ka among rank 4. I want five hundred mid-grade essence stones."
"That's not possible, sir. I would also need to profit from this when I sell it. I should at least earn a profit of fifty mid-grade essence stones."
The store owner was being nice. Otherwise, he would have only given four hundred mid-grade essence stones for this, so that he could earn a profit of a hundred mid-grade essence stones.
Yang Zhai looked at the store owner and then picked up the token placed on the table he had just handed to the receptionist.
"Do you know what it means? It means that I know the sect leader. It also means that there is also a chance that I am favored by him. If I tell him what you are doing to me, what do you think will happen? Let's settle this now. Provide me with the five hundred mid-grade essence stones. I'm not asking for something that will incur you any loss."
"But still…"
"No still, just hand me my essence stones."
His essence stones?
"Sir…,"
"Are you giving me?"
"Can we sit and talk…"
"Alright, give me my Ka back, I will go to the sect leader."
"Fine, sir. I will give you five hundred mid-grade essence stones…sigh…"
The store owner handed Yang Zhai five hundred mid-grade essence stones. Yang Zhai stored all of them in his storage bracelet and left.
The store still had to be on good terms with the sect leader to trade here. Yang Zhai pressured him into buying the ka. He also didn't give him any time to confirm whether Yang Zhai was really on good terms with the sect leader.
However, there was no benefit now. Even if he confirmed it now whether Yang Zhai was really on good terms with the sect leader or not, it didn't matter. The store owner couldn't take back his essence stones now.
As for Wang Lei, even if he knew Yang Zhai robbed him and the store owner, what could he do? He needed Yang Zhai, so he also couldn't do anything to him.
Yang Zhai sat in his room and opened Ophio's box and released Aurora's aura. After confirming that its will had weakened, he enslaved it and stored it. It went near his void arrangement and waited there.
He stood up and left the inn. He went to a spot free of people. After that, he dug a pit and jumped inside, he closed the entrance after entering.
He then activated the inheritance ring and a door appeared after a while. He entered it and the gate closed.
He stored almost all of his essence stones here except for some. He kept the sacrifices needed for the kas in his storage bracelet as he would often need them, even during battles.
After storing them, he came out and the gate closed.
After that, he called for Reen,
"Reen,"
She came and answered,
"Yes, master,"
"Go and look for rank 5 Water Hound that is giving instructions to the hounds outside the village. Also, even though Vara has already confirmed it, see if there is a second Rank 5 Water Hound."
"Alright, master."
After saying this, Reen flew into the sky and disappeared.
After a while, it returned.
"No, master, there is only one rank 5 Water Hound. That Water Hound is in the southeast direction from this village, approximately a mile away."
"Good, you can go."
Reen entered the ring again.
The next morning, Jaen Fen is defending the newly built wall around the village.
Two rank 4 hounds somehow managed to jump over the wall. The place they entered from was where Jaen Fen and the others were defending.
Rank 3 cultivators were unable to stop them from entering because of their agility.
Ji Woo hurriedly took action and a wind whip appeared in her hand. She whipped it at the hound. This whip was built from a rank 4 Ka and was extremely sharp. The moment it struck the hound, a deep long wound appeared on the hound.
"Be Careful!!"
Shouted Jun Yi, he stopped what he was doing and ran towards Hi Woo.
Ji Woo looked behind and the second hound was about to bite her neck. Her eyes widened.
However, a blast happened near the hound and sent it flying.
It was Jaen Fen. He used Endra at the right moment and sent the hound flying. Even though it injured the hound, it wasn't a severe injury.
Rank 3 and rank 4 cultivators jumped at the hounds and killed them.
"Are you fine, Ji Woo?!" Jun Yi asked worriedly.
"Yes, I am fine."
"Did you get hurt anywhere?" Jun Yi grabbed Ji Woo's shoulders and asked anxiously.
"I am fine, don't worry…" she took a step back and answered.
Ha Eun and Min Jae looked at this silently.
"Are you fine, Ji Woo?" Yang Zhai came and asked her.
"Yes, I am fine!" She answered hurriedly.
Now, Jun Yi looked at this silently standing to the side.
"Good," after saying this, Yang Zhai walked away.
After a week,
"Ji Woo, why does your body have a strange scent coming from it?" Ha Eun asked her.
"Hmm, I do? Now that you mention it, there is a strange scent coming from my body."
Ji Woo hadn't noticed this before because the increase was very subtle. So, she had slowly gotten used to it.
She only noticed this after Ha Eun mentioned it.
"Did you not know? I thought you were using some kind of herb or something. If it weren't you, then how did it appear?"
"I don't know. I only noticed this now that you mentioned it."
"Ji Woo, you should stop defending here for a while and should rest. I've noticed that for the past week, the hounds have been gathering in greater numbers outside the wall where you guard. It's not normal." Jun Yi said with worry.
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