"Going back to copy a recording?"

Upon hearing Wei Qiangsheng's words, Wang Qiang immediately widened her eyes.

Although this girl usually seemed quite carefree and cheerful, she was still a super genius, having been part of the youth class at Ke University and graduated from Fudan.

She definitely wasn't lacking in intelligence and often, she was even smarter than most people.

Whether Wei Qiangsheng was joking or seriously thinking about copying the audio, his words indicated one thing:

A treasure was found in the raw stone!

In an instant.

Wang Qiang's eyes were filled with the glow of seeing ¥¥!

The girl darted to Wei Qiangsheng's side faster than the male lead in that Black Ke University video, quickly mumbling:

"President Qiangsheng, what's this thing? How much is it worth?"

At this moment, Wei Qiangsheng still hadn't recovered from the shock, looked at her with a complex expression, and said:

"This thing is called the Precious Celestial Earth Essence, an earth-element divine object among the Five Elements, only formed by chance and coincidence. For cultivators with an Earth Spirit Root, it's a supreme treasure for cultivation.

It can cleanse all the dirt and debris from the Earth Spirit Root within a cultivator's body, inexplicably enhancing the cultivation speed of earth-based techniques by one or more levels.

Additionally, it can give the cultivator an 'illusory inner sea,' allowing the stored spiritual energy within their body to be a third more than cultivators of the same realm!

Moreover, due to the low threshold for refining this Precious Celestial Earth Essence, it only requires the four spiritual root aptitude to refine.

Therefore, in the Damo Realm, the Precious Celestial Earth Essence is extremely valuable.

Even the lowest quality Precious Celestial Earth Essence is worth over 30,000 spirit stones, roughly equivalent to 70% of the lifetime value created by a Foundation Establishment Eighth-Layer cultivator—because once refined, it basically represents reaching a high-level Foundation Establishment realm as long as one doesn't fall."

Having introduced all this information, Wei Qiangsheng looked again at the piece of Precious Celestial Earth Essence on the table:

"As for this piece of Precious Celestial Earth Essence obtained this time... I roughly estimate its value to be at least over 60,000 spirit stones."

60,000 spirit stones!

Upon hearing the price reported by Wei Qiangsheng.

Let alone Wang Qiang and Wu Fan, even Lin Ziming and Ma Ning's eyelids twitched heavily.

Goodness.

This tennis ball-sized piece of Precious Celestial Earth Essence is worth as much as half of what the bunnies earned busying themselves this time!

One must know, this time the bunnies gathered 120,000 spirit stones after selling underground flame veins, bottoming out, and selling joy sticks through three processes.

Although 120,000 spirit stones equate to only a bit over seven billion Huaxia currency in conversion, such an amount is a mere drop in the bucket for a country like Huaxia.

But let's not forget, this is the Damo Realm, where the nature of spirit stones cannot be judged solely by exchange rate.

The bunnies put in enough manpower and resources for those 120,000 spirit stones to organize a trade negotiation worth over billions.

And according to what Wang Qiang said, how much did this raw stone cost?

Four spirit stones!

This is no longer like opening a Waldorf river-view suite from a travel agency blind box, but rather hitting the jackpot with a complete stay voucher for the Kremlin, alright?

Thinking of this.

Wang Qiang suddenly turned her head, wearing an expression of 'there is only one truth' as she looked at Wu Fan:

"Xiaowu, and you said you didn't have the protagonist's halo? At the time, I turned around and saw you picking out the raw stone!

Look, it shipped, right?

The refining threshold of the Precious Celestial Earth Essence is four spiritual roots, it's completely prepared for you."

Upon hearing Wang Qiang's words, Wu Fan's face suddenly turned a bit peculiar.

After a few seconds, he weakly said:

"Sister Wang, I do have four spiritual roots, but... but I don't have an Earth Spirit Root...."

As the words fell.

Wang Qiang's detective-like expression froze on her face, and after a while, she dryly asked:

"Uh, what?"

Wu Fan spread his hands towards her, indicating he really didn't have an Earth Spirit Root.

"Listening to what Comrade Wu Fan said, I just remembered."

Standing next to Wang Qiang, Lin Ziming suddenly recalled something and took out a form from his briefcase, scanning it with his index finger line by line:

"Chen Fei... Mu Ge... Found it, Wu Fan, spiritual root attributes: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire... Comrade Wu Fan indeed doesn't have an Earth Spirit Root."

Wang Qiang: "...."

Seeing the atmosphere becoming a bit awkward, Ma Ning quickly spoke to ease the situation:

"Whether there's a halo or not, even if Comrade Wu Fan can't use this piece of... Precious Celestial Earth Essence, your contributions alongside Comrade Xiao Wang's will ensure the organization won't let you down."

Lin Ziming nodded upon hearing this and said to Wang Qiang:

"Comrade Xiao Wang, Professor Ma is right.

This piece of Immortal Origin Earth Essence is your personal item, so how you arrange it is entirely up to your personal decision.

Of course, the organization hopes to exchange something of equal value for this unique item.

For example, using future cultivation resources or simply cash added to the deal, it's all possible. In any case, it won't be something like giving you five hundred bucks and a flag."

Wang Qiang looked somewhat troubled at the Immortal Origin Earth Essence on the table, muttering gloomily:

"I really don't have any thoughts about this thing. Even though I wear white clothes in the laboratory, I've never hoped to become an empress in white, reigning supreme with a thought — that's so exhausting. Isn't it better to quietly lie low behind the nation and win effortlessly?

If the organization needs this, I'll turn it in without complaint, I have that awareness. Just make sure the money I spent on the original stone is reimbursed to me.

I just feel this is a bit unreasonable. This is clearly something only a protagonist's aura can reveal... But Wu Fan just can't use it..."

Everyone: "..."

Seeing this little girl muttering to herself almost into a shut-in state, Wei Qiangsheng, who didn't quite understand what the protagonist aura meant, stepped in to end the topic. Actually, he also didn't understand why Wang Qiang wasn't happy about revealing the Immortal Origin Earth Essence:

"Miss Xiao Wang, no matter what, revealing the Immortal Origin Earth Essence is a good thing.

Plus, don't you have other items? Why not take them all out for me to appraise?

Maybe we'll find something good again."

In reality, Wang Qiang's feelings were quite subtle; rather than saying dejection, it was more like a delighted dilemma.

So after hearing Wei Qiangsheng's suggestion, she felt it made sense, thus began the next round of 'treasure appraisal' with renewed hope.

She laid out the items she and Wu Fan had procured earlier on the table, first handing over her own jade slip:

"President Qiangsheng, please take a look at this one.

I picked it myself, but it's said that no matter how much spiritual power is inputted, it can't be opened..."

A visible trace of curiosity flashed across Wei Qiangsheng's face:

"A jade slip that can't be opened with spiritual power?"

He took the jade slip and examined it meticulously, fiddled around with it a bit, then a hint of peculiarity appeared on his face:

"This jade slip indeed cannot be opened with spiritual energy... because it's simply not a magical artifact."

Wang Qiang: "?"

Knowing this little girl had clearly been duped, Wei Qiangsheng explained to her:

"In the Damo Realm, only jade stones that have been soaked with spiritual energy can be made into jade slips that can carry spiritual energy. But the slip you found is made from ordinary jade stone.

Ordinary jade stone cannot directly carry information; at most, they are used as materials for refining jade talismans.

Because of this, naturally, this 'jade slip' cannot be opened with spiritual energy.

It's just that the maker was quite clever by coating it with a special layer of adhesive on the surface, making it look like it's made from a special material.

Generally, cultivators below the third-layer of Qi Cultivation have difficulty distinguishing its authenticity, as only those in the fourth-layer begin to cultivate 'spiritual sense.'"

After speaking, Wei Qiangsheng slightly exerted force with his left hand, and the jade slip turned into powder.

Watching the powder floating in the wind, Wang Qiang's eyelids twitched:

"President Qiangsheng, roughly how much was the cost of this 'jade slip'?"

Wei Qiangsheng thought for a few seconds.

Considering the truth might upset this little girl, he compared it against Treasure Hunting Street's standard rip-off price and slightly increased the cost:

"The cost is roughly.... a quarter-piece of a spirit stone, equivalent to about seven hundred copper coins."

Wang Qiang and Wu Fan exchanged a glance, both: "...."

Seeing this, Wei Qiangsheng couldn't help but ask:

"How much did you spend to buy this item?"

Wang Qiang expressionlessly raised three fingers:

"Three spirit stones."

Wei Qiangsheng: "..."

Better not tell this girl that the usual rip-off price at Treasure Hunting Street is typically one spirit stone.

Feeling regret about being deceived, Wang Qiang let out a faint sigh, a bad premonition rising in her heart. She pushed the five items Wu Fan bought all toward Wei Qiangsheng:

"President Qiangsheng, kindly appraise these too, I can handle it."

Wei Qiangsheng, having somewhat understood Wang Qiang's character, knew it'd be impossible to refuse this stubborn girl at this time.

He then refrained from saying more, earnestly identifying the items.

......

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