Chapter 118 Getting the Out of the Box
Jiaojue didn't arrive until the next day, accompanied by Xuanwu.
Having awakened her bloodline and enhanced her cultivation, Yanwu now only needs thirteen drops of blood to break the seal, so she does it whenever she has time.
He glanced at the dense crowd on the shore ahead, then turned to stare at Ji Rong, narrowing his eyes and grinning sinisterly, "You little brat, why did you make decisions for me behind my back! You've already given so many worthless girls body tempering, and you even dare to take money behind my back!"
Ji Rong mimicked Jiao Jue's manner, squinting and glaring back at him, saying in a gloomy tone, "Brother Jinlong, how dare you say such things about me!"
"So, Wu Guang, did you hear that? Big Brother has agreed to give me all the money."
Wu Guang, the money-loser, stood to the side, staring at his toes, and did not answer.
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue was so angry that his tail stood on end. He grimaced and breathed hot air as he said, "Give it all to you? You stupid bird! I'm already being merciful by not making you pay compensation, and you still dare to covet my little bit of money."
"Wu Guang, not a single penny of this laundering money you collected is allowed to go to that stupid bird!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Guang immediately bowed deeply to Jiao Jue and replied, "Yes, Lord Jinlong."
"No way!" Ji Rong quickly interjected, "At least give me 20% of my trouble fee."
"Dream on, you idiot! I won't give you a single one!" Jiao Jue said through gritted teeth.
As if it had discovered something amusing, Jiao Jue circled in the air, grinned, and showed Ji Rong its snow-white, sharp teeth, saying, "You made me lose money behind my back, this time you have to work for free."
Ji Rong nodded with a long face, seemingly in deep sorrow. Jiao Jue felt somewhat relieved upon seeing this.
The matter of tempering has finally been settled.
Jiao Jue looked at this group of weak Wu tribesmen as if they were a pile of waste. He sent them to Tuifeng Island and then told Ji Rong and the others that he wanted to rest, leaving Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing to guard the pool.
He led the calf into the mine and sat there like an old man, watching the calf dig for ore.
With the Wu tribe as a control group, after only a short period of time, Jiao Jue found Xiao Niu more and more pleasing to the eye, and Xiao Niu seemed to cherish the opportunity to be with Da Xiu, working extra hard.
This tempering process should have taken about ten days from start to finish.
Because Ji Rong adds one Enlightenment Leaf for each hour, and ten hours make up one cycle, it should take one hundred and eighty hours for 1,800 witches.
But in reality, it only lasted four days; even so, Ji Rong and Xuan Wu were exhausted.
This is a thankless and exhausting task, and most of the ancient shamans do not find this method suitable.
Especially during the fifth round, when Ji Rong finally activated the inscription veins of the first giant leaf, the hundred people struggled violently as if they had seen some kind of prehistoric beast. Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing, who had no experience, were quite flustered for a while because of this.
Seeing this, Ji Rong couldn't help but curse these hundred shamans inwardly for being useless.
She briefly felt a strong sense of agreement with Jiaojue's theory of being useless.
A total of 1,800 people,
Only two people managed to open the tenth Enlightenment Leaf.
Only one person managed to open the eighth Enlightenment Leaf.
One person managed to hold on until the seventh leaf of enlightenment opened.
Eleven people managed to hold on until the fifth Enlightenment Leaf opened.
There were also twenty-one others who managed to open the fourth Enlightenment Leaf.
The forty-nine people who survived until the third Enlightenment Leaf opened.
Seventy-three people survived until the second Enlightenment Leaf opened.
Ji Rong's disdain only lasted until the results of this selection were announced, and then disappeared.
After much hard work, Ji Rong had acquired 157 talented Wu Clan cultivators, a result that exceeded her expectations.
She felt that Heaven still favored the ancient witch lineage; otherwise, how could these guys, who had lived on the closed island for so many generations, still be able to unearth hundreds of witch materials!
Ji Rong gathered her roots and came to the pool to look at herself. She recalled the scenes of these tempering sessions and began to speculate about her bloodline talent.
So, while preening her feathers, she said to the witch with a smug look, "Witch, we've managed to sift out all the cultivation seeds of your lineage this time, and that's all thanks to me!"
When Xuanwu saw Jiaojue and Wurong arguing, she bowed deeply to Jirong and said, "It is truly a blessing for our clan to have you, Lord Jirong."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong shook its wings, raised its head, and laughed even more triumphantly.
Upon hearing the sound, Jiao Jue came out and, seeing the astonishing efficiency, couldn't help but marvel once again at how clever Ji Rong's bird brain was.
Ji Rong became even more proud upon hearing this. She spread her seven-colored feathers, let out a clear cry, and swirled in the air for a long time.
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Ji Rong believed that refining all suitable members of the Ancient Witch lineage was the most farsighted thing he had done for the Ancient Witch lineage.
However, as a teacher who had received sacrifices from the entire witch tribe, Ji Rong felt that she could not favor one over the other, so she decided to bestow this blessing upon the witch-demon lineage.
After listening to her impassioned speech, which turned out to be about tempering the bodies of the Lich lineage, Jiao Jue immediately narrowed his eyes and said with disdain, "Ji Rong, it's fine if you're willing to let them use it, but I'm not going. I'm afraid I'll take the opportunity to crush them all."
"The bloodline of the Lich is mixed, and the spiritual energy required to temper the body is enormous."
Regardless of success or failure, each person must pay 20,000 spirit crystals.
"You idiot, since you made this request, you still have to work for free, otherwise forget it."
Ji Rong originally wanted to mock Jiao Jue's greed and arrogance, but he himself had drawn back the spiritual energy used for tempering!
But remembering that the lich lineage often had many hands and feet and none of them had a clean-cut face, she couldn't help but stomp her foot, leaving a claw mark on the ground.
After stomping a few times, creating a deep crater in the ground, Ji Rong finally stopped. She suddenly realized that Jiao Jue had truly become merciful.
Back then, this guy would show murderous intent whenever he saw me; but now he can voluntarily put away his claws, and even though he can't stand it, I've never seen him actually use his claws to crush a lich.
Ji Rong felt she should praise Jiao Jue; if there were a hundred Lich Clan members, each worth 20,000, how much money would that be!
She had to please the golden dragon so that he would give her some of the hard-earned money.
She racked her brains and said, "Brother, you're not only kind now, but you also take the initiative to cut off the cause. You're really amazing!"
"What does 'severing the cause' mean?" Jiao Jue pondered the new term Ji Rong had just uttered, unable to recall which two characters it was.
"The cause of cause and effect, Brother Jinlong."
Ji Rong continued to fabricate with an admiring look on her face: "Brother, you are compassionate, so you did not go to see that witch-demon lineage. This means that you took the initiative to sever the karmic ties of killing. What a great act of kindness!"
Jiao Jue chuckled upon hearing this, saying, "The strong are not afraid of cause and effect. But Ji Rong, the words you used today are quite novel. You can let the old man promote them in the Witchcraft Tribe in the future."
Jiaojue was arrogant. After he shed his dragon form and became a golden dragon, he could better understand why the dragon race valued bloodlines so much.
This perfect physique and surging power represent a peak that hybrid dragons can never match.
His decision not to kill the lich clan was partly due to his desire to avoid dirtying his hands.
Moreover, if the lich people are killed, the lich tribe will fall apart, and its miners will find it difficult to sustain themselves here.
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