Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Usually on weekdays, the flow of customers on Zhou Ji’s side was very small.
When Zhou Ji saw this man, his eyes lit up.
“Haha, good morning, Hao. You are here to deliver the spell books, right? How is it? There shouldn’t be many problems with the city’s Spell Casters’ Bureau, right?”
The man Zhou Ji called Hao was surnamed Zhang. He was about thirty years old, with a beard on his chin. He looked quite handsome.
His family background was better than Zhou Ji’s. After four years of free education, he attended five years of intermediate vocational education classes and three years of advanced vocational training classes. In the end, he successfully entered the city’s legal department. The two of them met when Zhou Ji was running around for the shop’s license plate for the first time.
“Look at what you’re saying, Zhou Ji. With your me around, as long as your spells aren’t dangerous and won’t hurt anyone, there shouldn’t be any problems!”
Zhang Hao responded in a very familiar manner and casually threw a brand-new booklet to Zhou Ji. The booklet was sealed with an envelope on the outside, and there was also an array on it to prevent people from opening it in advance to peek at it.
Only spell books specially produced by the Spell Supervision Department could be scanned on the interface. The cover paper of this thing was special, and there was a sensing array printed in the interlayer.
“Then thank you, Hao. Thank you for coming.” Zhou Ji took the book that recorded the second Power Lifting Spell and casually stuffed two crystals into Zhang Hao’s hands.
Zhang Hao didn’t refuse and put them back into his arms.
“Haha, Zhou Ji, you’re being too polite… Is your daughter cultivating?”
The rest of the words were said to Zhou Xiao Rui who was sitting on the small bed. At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged on the small bed with her eyes closed, looking like she was meditating. However, there was not the slightest fluctuation of spiritual essence around her body.
“I heard that when you start cultivating, you can strengthen your consciousness and observe your surroundings through your consciousness, so you have to give it a try.”
Zhou Ji did not have any other reaction to Zhang Hao’s fuss. He only opened his mouth to explain. The idea of wanting to cultivate was put forward by Xiao Rui herself, and Zhou Ji did not object to it. As long as one could understand the cultivation technique and feel the spiritual essence, they could cultivate it even in their mother’s womb.
Although the effect of the current cultivation technique was a little worse than the ancient one, its stability was surprisingly good. Almost every day, people could be seen wandering around the inner city and the outer city walls to cultivate. Even if they were woken up, there would not be any risk.
“Sigh… that’s true.” Zhang Hao reached out his hand and wanted to pat Xiao Rui’s head but considering that the little girl was cultivating in a decent manner, he did not have the mood to disturb her. “Forget it, forget it. Your life isn’t easy either. A grown man has to take care of a daughter…”
As he spoke, Zhang Hao suddenly said as if he had thought of something, “Sigh, by the way, Zhou Ji, you’re not married, right?”
“No.” Zhou Ji, who was asked about this, was somewhat at a loss. If he remembered correctly, Zhang Hao knew that he was not married. After all, he was the one who helped Xiao Rui get all sorts of certificates when he adopted her.
“Are you really not going to get married? Are you going to stay in this small shop for the rest of your life? You can’t wait for your daughter to grow up without a mother to take care of her.”
Zhou Ji smiled bitterly at this point. He understood why Zhang Hao suddenly brought this up. “Is sister-in-law going to introduce me to someone, Hao?”
“Hey, you brat! What, you still don’t like other people’s daughters? Let me tell you, for someone like you who is single and raising a child, other people’s daughters might not even like you! This family is not bad, and the daughter is not bad looking either. The main reason is because of a cultivation accident that caused the meridians in both of your legs to break, and you could have been unable to walk for the rest of your life…”
Seeing that Zhou Ji was getting impatient.., Zhang Hao also stopped talking about this. “Zhou Ji, I know that you’re still thinking about cultivation, but now that you’re taking care of your children and opening a shop, your family doesn’t have much money, so how much can you cultivate to? Those resources and whatnot are all being tightly grabbed by the people in the inner city. Look at me, I’ve already been stuck in the eighth level of the Qi Cultivation Realm for a long time now, and I don’t have enough spiritual essence…”
“Hao, I’m going to move soon. I’m going to the Heavenly Armor City No. 1,” Zhou Ji suddenly interrupted Zhang Hao’s rambling.
“What? Heavenly Armor No. 1?” Zhang Hao widened his eyes and enunciated each word.
This planet was named Bai Shier, a planet under the jurisdiction of the Bai clan. Generally, on habitable planets like this, the distribution of spiritual essence was in a multi-point pattern. The administrators built the city according to the distribution of the spiritual essence of the entire planet. The center with the highest concentration of spiritual essence at each point would be the center of the inner city. After a certain area was demarcated to the outside, the rest of the city would be built.
The overall concentration of the spiritual essence at different spiritual essence distribution points was also different. On White No. 12 star, the concentration was directly reflected in the name. Heavenly Armor City No. 1 was the city with the densest spiritual essence on the entire planet, while City No. 10 of Huang Ding was the city with the thinnest spiritual essence.
“Well…”
“Zhou Ji…” as Zhang Hao said this, his palm was already on Zhou Ji’s forehead. “Don’t tell me you’ve burned your head off from cultivating?”
“No, I’m serious.”
“Then what about your daughter if you go?”
“I’ll bring her along.”
“No, Zhou Ji. which cultivator do you meet who brings their daughter along?” Zhang Hao was a little numb.
Although he accepted the “tip” that Zhou Ji gave him without any scruples, he actually took good care of Zhou Ji.
He could guarantee that other than the things he received when they first got to know each other, after this guy adopted his daughter, he would use every single piece of spiritual crystal that Zhou Ji gave him on his own matters.
For example, he would maintain a good relationship with some supervisors of the magical technique department, treat them to a meal, and so on. Zhou Ji was also clear about this matter, because basically every time he visited Zhou Ji for a meal, he would call Zhou Ji along, not missing a single one.
“You know, Xiao Rui actually can’t leave me…” Zhou Ji said slowly. “Moreover, I also want to become stronger…”
That was Zhou Ji’s reply to Zhang Hao.
He wanted to become stronger.
In fact, he also wanted to become stronger in the past, but at that time, he was more Buddhist and didn’t feel much urgency. He firmly believed that as long as he relied on the cultivation method editor, he could even survive for a thousand years before coming out.
But when he saw the news of the discovery of the Milky Way galaxy a few days ago, Zhou Ji’s heart suddenly felt pressured. That place was his hometown, and he could not watch his hometown be destroyed.
He realized that no matter which version, the fundamental problem was that he was not strong enough.
As long as he could advance to the core formation realm or higher in a hundred years, he would definitely be able to speak up in the Southern Alliance. At the very least, protecting a planet was not a big problem.
“You…” Zhang Hao was completely speechless towards Zhou Ji. Looking at his determined look, he finally asked, “Are you sure?”
“Yes… I might even ask you to do one last thing for me.” Zhou Ji said as he waved his hand.
A luggage bag flew out from a secret compartment behind the curtain.
Zhang Hao opened the luggage bag and sneakily looked inside. He suddenly closed it, and after making sure that there was no one else, he lowered his voice and approached Zhou Ji. “Are you crazy? You’re hoarding so many crystals! It’ll be bad if someone finds out about it! Every report is accurate!”
“I’ve saved these over the years. The source is very clear. There’s a total of 500 crystals.”
This figure made Zhang Hao’s scalp tingle. Zhou Ji had given him half a year’s salary!
“Hiss… No… brother. What do you want me to do? Are you trying to buy my life? I won’t commit murder and arson.”
“It’s not that serious. I just want you to help me think of a way to transfer my license plate to Heavenly Armor City No. 1.” Zhou ji smiled and said, “After all, I still have to earn a living there.”
“Zhou Ji, you’re giving me a hard time… do you know how expensive the land in Heavenly Armor City No. 1 is now? Even a small shop of fifty square meters over there is costly!” Zhang Hao grinned; obviously, he was scared by Zhou Ji’s plan..