Chapter 41: Turning Warm Banknotes into Cold Hard Power

The 「Future Heroic Spirit」 revealed through Jiang He’s talent was not a one-time use.

As long as a Heroic Spirit disappeared, after a period of cooldown, he could summon the same Heroic Spirit again.

However, unlike the weekly refresh of 「Future Revelation」, the 「Heroic Spirit’s own cooldown time」 was not fixed.

Based on Jiang He’s understanding of his talent, the stronger the Heroic Spirit’s power, the longer the cooldown time.

For instance, a Heroic Spirit like White Crane, an super S-rank existence, could take ten days, half a month, or even several months to a year before being summoned again—it was not surprising at all.

Therefore, Jiang He had to be prepared for the long-term absence of his Word-Spirit talent—

In other words, before Friday night arrived, he had to take advantage of the time while he still possessed the Word-Spirit talent to inscribe a large number of Spell Words of various kinds, thereby bypassing the Word Keeper profession’s storage limit for Word-Spirits, ensuring that he would have enough Word-Spirits to use most of the time.

Moreover, the way the Word Keeper profession gained experience was precisely through inscribing Spell Words.

During the process of inscribing Spell Words, Jiang He could also rapidly raise his Word Keeper profession level, thereby expanding his storage capacity for Word-Spirits.

It was something that killed several birds with one stone.

“The spiritual blood quota Captain gave me still has just over a hundred grams left. That’s not enough for large-scale Spell Word inscription.”

“And besides, these are all C-rank spiritual blood. Using them just to grind levels would be too wasteful…”

“I should go to a breeding farm and purchase some spiritual blood.”

Jiang He changed clothes and left the Blood Refining Chamber.

However, he did not leave the fire department directly. Instead, he made a round and found Zhang Zhiyong in the cafeteria.

It was lunch break. Zhang Zhiyong was eating his meal, and when he saw Jiang He approaching, he raised his hand to greet him: “Xiao Jiang, want to join me?”

Jiang He glanced at Zhang Zhiyong’s lunch. It was canteen food cooked in large pots, with precious Transcendent ingredients such as exotic beast meat. The nutritional value was rich, but the taste was truly beyond words.

Jiang He decisively shook his head: “No thanks, Captain. I wanted to ask you about that A-rank merit Teacher Zhong mentioned before…”

“I was going to talk to you about that.” Zhang Zhiyong swallowed his meat patty and wiped his mouth.

“The Council’s A-rank merit is extremely precious, and regardless of whether you’re a firefighter, security officer, teacher, or working in some other industry, it’s universally applicable.”

“Take our fire department as an example. If you want to be promoted to deputy chief or chief in the future, an A-rank merit is a necessary requirement.”

“Secondly, regardless of your position, A-rank merit can improve your welfare and benefits.”

“For example, I’ve received a B-rank merit once, so I get a very high spiritual blood quota every month… If it were you, once your paperwork is finalized, your monthly quota will probably be higher than mine.”

Jiang He’s eyes lit up.

To him, the value of a spiritual blood quota was not limited to body refinement. He could also use it to inscribe Spell Words, improve his profession level, and so on. Its uses were extremely broad.

He would never refuse—it was the more, the better!

Zhang Zhiyong continued: “In addition, the first time a Transcendent obtains an A-rank merit, he can also choose one B-rank Transcendent item from the Council’s treasury.”

Transcendent item!

Jiang He’s heart raced.

Just like the magical treasures in myths and legends, the Transcendent Era had all sorts of Transcendent items.

They were strange and varied, with different abilities. Some were naturally occurring, while others were man-made.

Their only commonality was “preciousness.”

For example, the Arc Light Organization’s attack on Central State City had been for the purpose of seizing Chi Zhenshan’s S-rank item 【Tear of Heaven’s Law】.

In truth, that item was not Chi Zhenshan’s own, but something he had borrowed from the Council for temporary use.

Later, when his strength plummeted due to injury, the Council did not aid him but instead removed him from the mayoral position. This was also related to his failure to safeguard that item.

A few days ago, the 【Stealth Insignia】 Jiang He had seized from Evil Wolf was a man-made, C-rank Transcendent item.

Its market value was definitely no less than ten million!

It was just that selling it was troublesome, and Jiang He did not plan to sell it for the time being.

Now, could he freely choose a B-rank item from the Council’s treasury?

Jiang He couldn’t wait and asked, “When can I choose?”

“You’ll have to wait for the Council to confirm the merit. At the fastest, it’ll take two or three days,” Zhang Zhiyong said.

Jiang He’s expression fell with disappointment.

Forget it, a few days later was fine too.

Coincidentally, his new Heroic Spirit would have refreshed by then. He could go choose equipment with his other self.

After finishing the talk about A-rank merit, Jiang He revealed his true purpose: “Captain, I want to buy some spiritual blood. Do you have any channels?”

“Spiritual blood?” Zhang Zhiyong asked in puzzlement: “I gave you a quota of 200 grams of spiritual blood, you should still have plenty left. Once your A-rank merit is finalized, you’ll at least get a few hundred grams more. That should be enough for your body refinement, no?”

“Not for body refinement, I have another use,” Jiang He said. “The quality doesn’t need to be very high, E-rank spiritual blood is fine. As for the amount… how much can I get for one million?”

This time, for the sake of leveling, Jiang He was going all in.

When he said the three words “one million,” he felt as if his heart was bleeding.

That was all his money!

“One million?!”

Zhang Zhiyong abruptly stood up.

In the cafeteria, other squads of firefighters looked over, but he waved them off and sat back down.

What shocked him was not the amount of money, but…

“For E-rank spiritual blood, the wholesale price is about a hundred per gram. One million would be ten thousand grams.”

“Twenty catties of spiritual blood. Even if you used it for hotpot, you wouldn’t finish it. How many meals are you planning to eat?”

【Spiritual Blood】 was no ordinary beast blood, but life essence similar to the vital blood of martial artists.

What did he plan to do that required so much spiritual blood?!

Jiang He, however, thought it over.

One Spell Word required 2 grams of spiritual blood. Ten thousand grams would make 5,000 Spell Words.

Each Spell Word granted 1 point of Word Keeper profession experience. 5,000 points of experience was enough to raise his Word Keeper profession level to lv30.

Of course, tomorrow was Friday. In such a short time, Jiang He definitely could not use up that much spiritual blood.

But he would need to grind levels next week too, so buying it would never be a loss.

Jiang He struggled inwardly for a moment, but in the end decided to turn his warm banknotes into cold hard power.

“Uncle, don’t ask. These are things for us Word-Spirit talent holders. You wouldn’t understand.”

“…”

Word-Spirit talent? Or Blood-Spirit talent?

Zhang Zhiyong really wanted to complain, but looking at Jiang He’s conflicted expression, he seemed to realize something.

This probably wasn’t for Jiang He himself, but for that White-Haired Man.

After a moment of thought, he said: “Alright, since you put it that way, I won’t ask anymore.”

“You need a large amount of E-rank spiritual blood, right? Well, I do have a channel. I can get the price down to around 60 per gram.”

Sixty per gram?

Ten thousand grams would cost 600,000—saving 400,000 straight away?!!

Jiang He stood up in excitement, leaning over the table to tightly grasp Zhang Zhiyong’s hands.

“Uncle, I love you to death!!”

“You’re already calling me Uncle, so what else is there to say? We’ll just buy it.”

Zhang Zhiyong packed up his leftovers, tossed the tray into the wash area, and led Jiang He out of the cafeteria.

“Come on, let’s go to the breeding farm.”

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