Grandma Lin came out with her money bag, and Liu Yan followed behind her.
"Grandma has some money here, take it first. I don't know what you want to buy. If it's not enough, Grandma will think of something for you." Grandma Lin patted Lin Jingge's shoulder and pulled Liu Yan in front of her: "Do you want to take Yan Yan to the city or come with me to the Spirit Field?"
"Grandma, you can take her with you. I have some errands to run and it's inconvenient for me to take the child with me."
"Alright, then I'll be going now." After saying that, Grandma Lin pulled Liu Yan and headed out the door.
As she was leaving, Liu Yan turned back to Lin Jingge and said, "Sister, come back soon!"
"Okay, I'll be back soon." Lin Jingge stepped forward and ruffled the child's fluffy head, then turned and locked the door.
Lin Jingge entered the city and headed straight for the city center, the spirit stone exchange office.
She gave the prepared silver to a woman at the exchange counter.
"One thousand taels can only be exchanged for one low-grade spirit stone. Are you sure you want to exchange it?" The woman at the spirit stone exchange counter kindly reminded him, looking at the silver coins that were in a cloth bag.
Hearing the price, Lin Jingge was also taken aback; she hadn't expected spirit stones to be so expensive.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. Something that's essential for cultivation is expensive for a reason.
She paused for a moment, then took the bag back, took out two silver notes, and pushed them to the woman: "I want to exchange them for two spirit stones."
Almost all of these silver notes were earned from Miss Qian; the remaining loose silver in the cloth bag was given to her by Granny Lin Jingge.
After receiving the silver, the woman took out two spirit stones from her spatial ring and handed them to Lin Jingge.
After leaving the spirit stone exchange area, Lin Jingge looked at the two spirit stones in her hand and sighed.
With this amount of spirit stones, it probably wouldn't even be enough to fill the snake's teeth.
For a moment, she didn't know what to do. The poison in Granny Lin's body wouldn't last long.
"Gege, why don't you go borrow some from Miss Qian? If that doesn't work, I still have some of my own essence..." Xiao Shi offered Lin Jingge a suggestion, and finally decided to use his own.
Before it could finish speaking, Lin Jingge interrupted it: "No, you've already used up some of your essence, you absolutely can't use any more."
If you use it again, the knowledge will disappear.
She didn't say it aloud, but they both knew it.
Xiao Shi also fell silent.
"Then why don't we go and borrow some spirit stones from Miss Qian?" Xiao Shi spoke up again. "That snake is almost at the peak of the second tier; it'll be worth quite a bit of money if we sell it."
Having no other choice, Lin Jingge had to go to the Qian family.
Upon hearing Lin Jingge's purpose, Miss Qian waved her hand and said, "How much more do you need? I'll lend it to you!"
"Fifty spirit stones, Gege is still short fifty, not a single one less!" Xiao Shi quickly told Lin Jingge how much she was short.
Unexpectedly, it was still so much short. Lin Jingge said, "I need fifty spirit stones..."
"Hey, it's just fifty spirit stones—what?! You want fifty spirit stones?!" Qian Suisui jumped up from her chair in shock: "Sister, that's fifty spirit stones, not fifty taels! What do you want it for?"
"I..." Lin Jingge fell silent. If she had known that spirit stones in this world were so expensive, she wouldn't have made this impulsive decision.
"If you can't tell me, that's fine. I don't have that many spirit stones on hand, so I can only give you ten. I'll go find my father for the remaining forty. Wait for me here." After saying that, Qian Suisui hurriedly walked towards her father's study.
Lin Jingge sat in the hall, waiting quietly for the person to return.
"Gege, we have so many spirit stones, why don't we just hire a cultivator?" Xiao Shi also realized that this broken gun was so energy-consuming, it could consume even more energy stones than it. Wouldn't it be better to hire someone directly than to spend so many spirit stones to risk their lives?
"Are you stupid? Our goal isn't the snake, and the value of that flower is still unknown. But just the fact that it can be used on mutated fire-type cultivators shows that its value is not low. If the people we hire get greedy, and we can't beat them, we might as well do it ourselves."
Taking the lead personally was indeed risky, but Lin Jingge had confidence in the energy gun and absolutely trusted Xiao Shi's analysis.
After this explanation, Xiao Shi understood that it is just a system that can analyze things, but it cannot analyze human thoughts.
Not long after, Qian Suisui returned.
She entered the room and looked at Lin Jingge, who seemed hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong? It's okay if it's not enough, I'll think of another way." Lin Jingge said subconsciously when she saw Qian Suisui's predicament.
"No! It's not difficult. My father gave me spirit stones, it's just that..." Qian Suisui hesitated for a long time and didn't get to the point, because she didn't expect her father to take advantage of her misfortune.
Recalling what her father had just said, Qian Suisui hesitated to speak.
After she went to tell her father the whole story, he actually called her stupid!
Seeing that Qian Sui Sui remained silent for so long, Lin Jinge had more or less guessed what was going on.
After all, she hadn't known Qian Suisui for long, and their meetings were all for transactions. Even if she was willing to sign a contract to borrow spirit stones, fifty spirit stones were no small sum. An ordinary person probably couldn't earn back the money of one spirit stone in their entire life.
Her father's concerns were valid, and Lin Jingge could understand them; it was she who had been abrupt.
"It's alright, if it really doesn't work..."
"My father said he can lend you spirit stones, but you have to join my Qian family." Qian Suisui finally told Lin Jingge what her father had said, and then placed a contract in front of her.
Lin Jingge didn't feel offended by the contract; she picked it up and read it carefully.
I was halfway through reading when I heard a rumble of thunder from not far away.
Before she could even react, Qian Suisui's excited voice rang in her ears: "My older brother is about to break through!!"
Before she could finish speaking, Qian Suisui ran out first.
Lin Jingge put away the contract in her hand and followed behind Qian Suisui.
Not far away, there was a small thundercloud, with flashes of lightning, but it did not strike for a long time.
Many people were gathered outside the courtyard, staring in astonishment at the thundercloud.
When Lin Jingge arrived, Qian Suisui was already surrounded by a lot of people.
"Dad, my eldest brother is finally about to break through!" Qian Suisui said excitedly, grabbing her father's hand. "After my brother breaks through, our family will have spiritual cultivators too! Let's see how Uncle and the others will act so arrogant in front of us then! My brother is three years younger than his son."
Qian Suisui's father rubbed her head to calm her down.
Then she turned her head and saw Lin Jinge, greeted Qian Suisui, and went to Lin Jinge's side.
"How's your consideration going?" Qian Suisui's father's voice rang out.
"Why would Uncle want me to join the Qian family when I haven't even reached the level of a Spirit Master?" Lin Jingge gripped the contract tightly and glanced at Qian Suisui's father, Qian Zhong.
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