Master Jia was taken aback.
But they quickly realized what was happening.
Zeng Houyi is truly a fool with too much money!
However, Master Jia's joy remained unspoken, though he glanced at Zeng Houyi.
"This just happened in my family, so I want a magical artifact to ward off evil spirits!"
Zeng Houyi rubbed his hands together and smiled.
The fox demon incident probably spurred him quite a bit, which is why he made this plan.
Master Jia said: "This Pixiu has been with me for many years and contains a portion of my powerful magic. It is indeed very suitable for warding off evil spirits, but it is not cheap!"
Zeng Houyi asked, "How much?"
Master Jia held up two fingers.
Zeng Houyi hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked, "20,000?"
Master Jia chuckled, "That's right, 20,000!"
"However, I have a connection with Mr. Zeng. If Mr. Zeng wants it, I'll give you a 50% discount. I'll give you 10,000 yuan, just so we can be friends!"
Zeng Houyi was overjoyed.
"Thank you very much, Master Jia!"
Zhang Yuan was drinking tea when he heard Master Jia ask for 20,000 yuan, and he almost spat out his tea!
"Zhang Yuan remembered that Jia Zheng bought this Pixiu from an antique stall. The cost was only a few dozen yuan, but he dared to ask for 20,000 yuan!"
What a damn swindler!
Zeng Houyi took out another wad of banknotes and happily exchanged them for the Pixiu statue that Jia Zheng had touted as possessing powerful magic, feeling like he had gotten a great deal.
The honest and upright Zhang Yuan couldn't stand it any longer.
He took the Pixiu statue from Zeng Houyi and secretly channeled a stream of true energy into it.
The Pixiu statue, after being imbued with true energy, emitted a faint golden light, making it a genuine minor magical artifact. Although its power was not very strong, it was still better than a fake magical artifact that had no function whatsoever. At least it could scare away ordinary spirits and ward off evil spirits.
After bidding farewell to Zeng Houyi, Jia Zheng drove away from Zeng Houyi's villa with Zhang Yuan.
...
After the car left, it drove for a while and then stopped under a row of roadside trees where there were no pedestrians.
Jia Zheng and Zhang Yuan each received 35,000.
Zhang Yuan touched his bulging satchel filled with cash and grinned foolishly at the willow trees outside the car window.
"Hey bro, mission accomplished. Want to head back to school? I'll take you!"
Master Jia was in a good mood and offered to take Zhang Yuan back to school.
It takes half an hour to drive one way from this place to Tongcheng University, and at least an hour and a half round trip. Zhang Yuan felt bad for making Master Jia make such a long trip for nothing, so he said, "No need, I don't have any classes today! I can take the bus back later."
"Really not going to?"
"Okay, you can take me to the bank. I want to deposit money."
Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan came out of the bank, feeling relieved.
The crossbody bag was now empty, containing only a mobile phone.
The 35,000 yuan in cash has been deposited into the bank card number. With the income from Mr. Wang's side, the balance in the card has become 121,000 yuan!
Zhang Yuan walked under the trees by the street, humming a light but off-key song as he crossed the road. He stopped at a bus stop to wait for the bus, pondering whether he should practice the Meridian Opening Pill or the Burst Pill first after returning to school!
The No. 21 bus arrived slowly, stopped at the station, and then slowly drove away again.
The bus Zhang Yuan was on sped up after leaving the bustling city center, heading towards its final stop, Tongcheng University.
Two strange men came up in the middle.
An elderly man wearing a gray cloth shirt with a mustache and a thin face, and a young man wearing sunglasses, jeans and a t-shirt, about the same age as Zhang Yuan, with a trendy and cool style.
The moment the two got into the car, they caught Zhang Yuan's attention!
Because their essence was like a dragon, and a powerful true energy surrounded them. Ordinary people could not feel this kind of true energy fluctuation, but Zhang Yuan, who was also a cultivator, sensed it immediately!
They were actually two powerful cultivators?!
Zhang Yuan stared at them in astonishment, his mouth agape.
When the two men met Zhang Yuan's gaze, their eyes also showed surprise, but this surprise quickly passed.
Cultivators are extremely rare in human society, and it's unusual to encounter them so often. I never expected to run into two of them on the bus today.
After the old man in the gray shirt and the young monk wearing sunglasses boarded the bus, they chose two empty seats a few rows in front of Zhang Yuan, keeping a distance from him and remaining somewhat wary.
Zhang Yuan observed the two cultivators without showing any emotion.
They were very strong, especially the old man, whose internal energy was extremely powerful.
The bus continued its journey, and Zhang Yuan and the two cultivators remained at peace with each other.
After several stops, the elderly man in the gray shirt and the young man in sunglasses got off at the Tonglin stop.
As they got off the bus, the young man wearing sunglasses glanced back at Zhang Yuan with a complicated look in his eyes. Seeing that Zhang Yuan hadn't gotten off, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and left the bus stop with the old man in the gray shirt.
The Tonglin bus stop is not far from Tongcheng University. This area is sparsely populated, consisting of a wasteland and a grove of paulownia trees.
The bus slowly pulled away from the stop, but after only a few hundred meters, it screeched and came to a sudden stop.
The passengers were thrown forward violently by the car's inertia and hit the front seats.
The passengers were startled, but thankfully no one on the bus was hurt.
The bus driver stuck his head out of the window, looked around, and muttered, "Strange, why did the bus suddenly stop?"
What happened?
He restarted the car, the engine vibrated a few times, and then stalled again!
The driver stood up from the driver's seat, cursing, and turned to the passengers, shouting, "The bus has broken down, everyone get off and wait for the next bus!"
Although the passengers were not happy, they had no choice but to get off the bus one after another.
The bus driver, wearing a baseball cap, has already called the bus company for help.
Zhang Yuan had no classes on the weekend, so he wasn't in a hurry to go back. After getting off the bus, he stood on the side of the road like the other passengers, waiting for the next bus to pass by.
At this moment, there were six or seven passengers standing by the roadside with different moods. Some were waiting for the next bus, while others looked rather anxious.
Before the bus broke down, Zhang Yuan vaguely sensed something was wrong with the energy field around the Tonglin stop. The fluctuations in spiritual energy in the vicinity were very abnormal and much denser than in other places!
After getting off the bus, this feeling became even stronger.
As for why the spiritual energy in this area was fluctuating abnormally, Zhang Yuan had no idea.
But the bus suddenly broke down, which seemed to be related to the unusual fluctuations in spiritual energy in the vicinity!
After waiting by the roadside for about ten minutes, the next bus still hadn't arrived. Zhang Yuan decided he didn't want to wait any longer and started walking along the road towards the school.
The school is only about ten kilometers away. Ten kilometers is nothing to Zhang Yuan now. If he uses his inner energy to run, he can get to the school very quickly.
However, Zhang Yuan did not do that. Instead, he strolled leisurely along the road. The area was not desolate and the scenery was quite nice.
As Zhang Yuan walked in the sunset, he admired the scenery along the way.
After walking about a few hundred meters, I encountered two more strange passersby.
One of them carried a large gourd on his back. The gourd was about half a person's height and looked extremely heavy, but the person hung it on his back with ease.
The other person held a folding fan made of palm leaves and wore a pair of tattered cloth shoes.
The two people appeared to be strolling leisurely, but in reality, they were moving incredibly fast. They crossed the street from the other side and covered nearly a hundred meters in the blink of an eye!
As they brushed past each other, their eyes met, and Zhang Yuan could clearly see the fear and wariness in their eyes!
"Two cultivators again?!"
"What's going on today? We've run into two more cultivators."
However, the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from these two cultivators were much weaker than those of the two encountered on the bus earlier, suggesting they might be cultivators at the initial stage of the Meridian Opening Realm.
Zhang Yuan paused, gazing in the direction the two had gone, lost in thought.
The two cultivators and the other two cultivators who got off the bus all went in the same direction, and when they saw him, their eyes were filled with vigilance and worry. Combined with the abnormal fluctuations in the spiritual energy nearby, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but suspect that something might be going on over there.
"Could it be some kind of treasure?"
Zhang Yuan thought to himself.
Out of curiosity, he channeled his inner energy into his feet and secretly followed the two strange men in the direction they had gone.
In order not to attract the attention of the cultivators ahead, Zhang Yuan deliberately kept a distance and followed them secretly at a leisurely pace.
After following for about a kilometer, we arrived at a desolate forest.
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