Chapter 174: Small Town Exploration (2) “Most of the residents here…
Hyun Chi frowned: "What exactly is this Cube?"
"This is it." The strong demon took out two more cubes and threw them on the table.
This time Si Ling and Xuan Chi saw it clearly - they were two small gray stones, the size of dice, cut into squares.
Xuan Chi touched one, turning it between his fingers, examining it carefully. The stone was cut very neatly, and each edge felt slightly rough as it passed over his fingertips, but that was all.
...Apart from its good texture, Xuan Chi didn't think it had anything special about it. It was just an ordinary dark grey stone, which should be quite common in the Three Realms.
"Won't this kind of thing be counterfeited if used as currency?" Xuan Chi asked, puzzled. "There shouldn't be a shortage of rocks on the seabed, right? Even a demon with hundreds of years of cultivation could cut them into small cubes."
Si Ling was fiddling with another cube, thinking the exact same thing. Seeing Hyun Chi's direct question, she looked at Jian Shuo Yao. The simple-looking man shrugged and said with a smile, "You'll know after you cast a spell on it—be careful not to blow up the table."
Xuan Chi raised his eyes and asked Si Ling what he meant. Si Ling smiled, meaning "whatever you want."
Hyun Chi placed the Cube back on the table and pointed his finger at the air—
"Bang!" The Cube jumped up from the table with a flash of white light, and then fell back onto the table, returning to its original simple appearance.
Si Ling asked in surprise, "Is this Luciano's unique spell?"
"Well," the muscular demon said, "it's indeed a unique spell, but it's not Luciano's. No one knows where he got these things. Anyway, no one has ever successfully created a '□□' with the blessing of this spell—someone came close once, but the cube was ultimately destroyed. And a real cube cannot be destroyed by any spell."
Any spells?
Si Ling and Xuan Chi looked at each other silently, both scoffing at this statement in their hearts.
Si Ling thought she probably didn't have to worry about being ripped off by Luciano. If he asked for too much when she exchanged currency, she would destroy a Cube right in front of him to teach him a lesson. When Luciano realized she could easily destroy the monetary system that the town depended on, he naturally didn't dare to ask for too much.
She then raised the Cube in her hand and asked the muscular monster in front of her: "Can you sell this to me? Just name your price."
"Oh... this is just the smallest denomination of currency." The strong demon spread his hands generously and said, "Just take it. Just consider it a friendship."
"Thank you." Si Ling carefully put the Cube away and asked about other things in the town. About half an hour later, the three of them left the bar.
Before leaving, Xuan Chi confirmed Luciano's address with Jian Shuo Yao. After Jian Shuo Yao left, he asked Si Ling, "Go exchange money?"
"Let's try to destroy this thing first." Si Ling was thinking about the bad idea just now, and he and Xuan Chi found a remote wasteland to conduct experiments.
In Si Ling's imagination, it would be effortless for either her or Xuan Chi to destroy such a small Cube. The experiment was conducted in advance just out of caution. She wanted to find the most reliable spell so that it would hit the target with one shot and shock Luciano the most.
However, a quarter of an hour later, something seemed to be wrong.
During this quarter of an hour, Si Ling and Xuan Chi took turns trying out spells. The strength of the spells gradually increased from the simplest small spells to real offensive spells.
But the seemingly ordinary little cube before him, apart from jumping up and down in the white light again and again, showed no damage at all. Not to mention being completely destroyed, not even a corner was missing.
Finally, after Xuan Chi released the "Pure Water Without Form", Si Ling did not take any more action.
She frowned and walked to the Cube, sitting casually on the ground. She reached out and picked it up: "Pure Water Without Form..." She raised her eyes to look at Xuan Chi, "This spell, even a god with five or six thousand years of cultivation can kill it instantly, right?"
Xuan Chi walked forward and sat across from her. "Unless the opponent's five elements happen to counteract me, with a cultivation level of five or six thousand, killing four or five with one spell shouldn't be a problem."
"Tsk." Si Ling handed him the Cube, "It's intact."
Xuan Chi reached out to take it, thinking to himself: I can't let Si Ling use the Nether Hail All Things just to destroy this thing, right?
Once the Ghostly Universe is unleashed, it will certainly shock Luciano, but the entire town will be reduced to ashes, so what's the point of having currency then?
Si Ling was speechless: "What the hell is this?"
"Is it something similar to the Bu Tian Stone and the Kai Tian Stone?" Xuan Chi asked.
These are the sacred stones belonging to Nuwa and Pangu respectively. The former was used by Nuwa to mend the sky and save the world. It is extremely famous and well-known to everyone. The latter existed earlier and was the broken stone split off when Pangu created the world.
The two were born in different ways, but their natures are similar - both are divine objects that existed in the early days of the birth of the Three Realms, and have accumulated the essence of the sun and moon, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from ancient times to the present.
These items were considered rare treasures in the East, and there were no similar legends in the West. But Si Ling thought, if the legends were true, and they were scattered all over the world at the beginning of the Three Realms, then who knows if some of them would have ended up in the West.
So Hyun Chi’s guess is not really accurate.
Si Ling sighed and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, don't waste your energy, just go find Luciano and exchange money. Whatever you can exchange, it's enough to buy a place to live."
"Yeah." Xuan Chi nodded, and the two stood up and went to Luciano's residence.
...Fortunately, Luciano did not ask for too much.
He knew what had happened in the trench not long ago, and he had heard from his men that the two oriental-looking ghosts were the same two from the trench. He therefore speculated on their financial resources, and a certain greed grew within him. However, after weighing the pros and cons, he ultimately refrained from going too far with such unpredictable individuals. He quoted a reasonable price, only charging them an additional handling fee under the guise of a "cross-cultural handling fee."
"Fifty thousand cubes. You can take this certificate to the bank in town to collect it tomorrow morning." Luciano signed the certificate formally and handed them a note. "If you need the money urgently, you can use this note to buy on credit. You can pay me back later."
"Okay, thank you." Si Ling's expression was a little complicated when he took the two pages of paper.
As a lawless place, the little rules here are quite humane.
"I wish you a happy life in this small town," Luciano said politely, and then added with a hint of pride, "Most of the residents are happy here, and I think you will like it here too."
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