Firstly, he needed some self-protection abilities to ensure his own safety. After all, judging from the events of the previous night, his current situation didn't seem very good, and it might even be very dangerous.
Secondly, on the premise of ensuring safety, he needed to find a way to contact cultivators, especially those with some news about ordinary people possessing Spiritual Roots.
It didn't need to be great, as long as he could have it, even a smidge of Spiritual Roots would be enough. As long as he could achieve something from nothing, he could slowly transform, and even the attainment of Immortal Spiritual Roots wasn't impossible.
He was eating while deep in thought, and time quickly passed.
In the afternoon, Wang Zijia had already roughly familiarized himself with his job and the relationships of the people from his memories.
After estimating that there shouldn't be any problems, he looked at the time. Before finishing work for the day, he went to organize the last shipment of goods, then left his designated area and arrived at the Elixir Administration Area.
At this moment, the day shift was virtually over and everyone was lazing around in their respective warehouse areas, waiting for their shift change.
"Mr. Xu!" Wang Zijia found Xu Chenglin and greeted him.
"There is Zijia. Is everything okay at home?" Xu Chenglin looked at Wang Zijia and asked.
They were in the same department, there was no secret. Everyone knew about his family situation.
"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Xu. Everything is well," Wang Zijia replied.
"You came to look for me at this time, is there anything you need my help with?"
Wang Zijia's father had been very capable, and he had good relationships with most of the staff in the first floor. Xu Chenglin was one of them, thus he asked directly.
"Actually, Mr. Xu, I do have something I would like to ask for your help with. I am interested in buying some pills from the tower. I heard that we get a 10% discount on our purchases?" Wang Zijia asked.
"What type of pills are you interested in buying? Are you feeling unwell?" Xu Chenglin asked with concern.
Wang Zijia shook his head and said, "Firstly, I want to buy some poison. The poison needs to be powerful but not immediately harmful to the body. The type that actually kills when the poison takes effect. Ideally, it should have an incubation period."
Xu Chenglin frowned at those words, sizing Wang Zijia up and down. "A slow-acting highly toxic substance? What are you planning to do? Have you encountered any difficulties? Don't act rashly. Even though we are Sect Servants, if caught by the Law Enforcement Team, we won't be treated particularly well."
"Mr. Xu, you're mistaken. I don't intend to use these substances against anyone, I merely want to conduct some research," Wang Zijia explained in between his words. "Even the incubation period doesn't necessarily have to be long. It can take effect in seven minutes, as long as it doesn't harm the body immediately, that's fine."
Xu Chenglin looked at Wang Zijia with suspicion. There was a pause before he said, "Alright then. You're not young anymore, as long as you know what the consequences of your actions can be."
After all, if he didn't agree to this, who knew if Wang Zijia would go to the outside market to buy. That would be even more dangerous.
Upon seeing that Mr. Xu agreed, Wang Zijia spoke again, "Apart from poison, I also want to buy some pills that can temporarily boost the abilities of martial artists, and those that can enhance the cultivation of martial artists."
"Pills that enhance martial artists' cultivation?" Xu Chenglin paused for a moment when he heard this, looking at Wang Zijia and saying, "Have you confirmed that you don't possess Spiritual Roots and decided to proceed with martial arts cultivation? Have you verified it properly?"
"Mr. Xu, you are misunderstanding. I haven't yet tested for my spiritual roots, and the family cannot afford the cost for testing it now. It's just that with my father gone, I need something to rely on! Therefore, I thought about pondering over cultivating some martial arts while studying the cultivation method, so I would have means to protect myself," Wang Zijia explained.
In reality, due to his father spending loads of money to purchase two cultivation methods and spells for him to study, he was pretty sure that he lacked Spiritual Roots. After all, this was the best way to confirm besides Spiritual Root Detection, but he had not declared this to the outside world yet.
"This... " Xu Chenglin remained silent for a moment before finally sighing, "Alas...I don't understand why your father suddenly left."
Hearing this, Wang Zijia's expression turned somber, and he lowered his head, no longer speaking.
"Alright. I'll find them for you." As he spoke, Xu Chenglin got up and entered the warehouse of the Elixir Administration Area.
As someone who had been working in the warehouse for decades, he was really familiar with it, especially with the various types of pills that ordinary people could use. After all, before he compromised, he also had his eyes on all these items.
After a while, he returned with a pile of bottles.
"This is the Circulation Pill, the best pill for martial artists. One pill costs half a magic money piece, and it can increase one's power by about a year," Xu Chenglin first took out an exquisite jade bottle and told Wang Zijia.
"One pill can enhance power for a year, you're not implying that buying a hundred of these can allow me to achieve innate mastery and be on par with a beginner cultivator?" Wang Zijia asked innocently.
"Haha..." Xu Chenglin didn't correct Wang Zijia and instead laughed heartily at his words, "Breaking the innate with a hundred years of power, theoretically it isn't wrong to say so. But for these pills, you would need to have a hundred of them before talking about it.
We have a quota for this each year, and we can only buy up to ten. And we cannot buy all at once. This is mainly to prevent those lower-rank staff from selling them to outsiders, blatantly reaping benefits from the Sect."
Wang Zijia nodded as if he had just realized this, Xu Chenglin then took out another jade bottle and said, "These are three Explosive Qi Pills. They can double a martial artist's cultivation level and maintain it for seven minutes.
If you can use up all the effects of the pill within the seven minutes, your body will not experience too much damage. If the effect period ends before the pill effect is used up, you will be weak for some time. Of the many explosive pills, this pill carries the lightest side-effects and overwhelmingly stands out for its cost-to-value ratio. Each bottle costs one piece of magic money."
Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia silently took the medicine bottle and Xu Chenglin, seeing this, placed the remaining various bottles onto the small cabinet between them. He said, "These are what I found, they are all the strongest slow-acting highly toxic substances, and they have different incubation periods. The shortest one will take effect after a cup of tea, and the longest can last for half a year ..."
Mr. Xu pointed to a variety of poisons, explaining in much detail. Clearly, he still didn't trust Wang Zijia and thought he was planning some bad deeds. However, their relationship wasn't so close that he felt he could lecture or even stop him.
Fortunately, he made sure to explain everything in detail to help give Wang Zijia some idea.
"There you go, those are the ones. Which one do you want?"
"Alright, I'll take them all. Please tally the amount, Mr. Xu, and let's go settle the bill with the manager," said Wang Zijia, nodding.
"Huh..." Xu Chenglin uttered in surprise, "All of them? What...what are you trying to do?"
"Mr. Xu, I'm really buying them for some research," Wang Zijia said with a wry smile.
When Xu Chenglin heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay then, as long as you know your limits."
They left the warehouse area and came to the manager's office at the main gate to settle the payment.
The warehouse workers like them didn't make much, but it didn't mean that the Warehouse Keeper department didn't make any money; on the contrary, they made quite a bit.
Hence, the warehouse manager was a legitimate Sect monk, assigned directly from the Miscellaneous Service Academy. He did not belong to the outsourced staff. He was still enjoying the welfare benefits of the Sect while working!
"These ten poisons are all highly toxic substances. Although they are mundane items, their prices are not low.
The total is over five pieces of magic money. Including a bottle of Explosive Qi Pills and a Circulation Pill, the total is almost eight pieces of magic money. You haven't used any of your purchasing quota, so all can be discounted to 10%, totaling 7.11 magic money. Just give me seven magic money pieces and eleven gold pieces!"
After a moment, the manager finished counting and said when he was done with the billing.
Wang Zijia respectfully saluted him and said, "I thank the manager for his assistance."
Whilst speaking, he carefully took out seven jade coins and several silver pieces from his pocket, and paid the bill.
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