Chapter 5104 — Spirit Jade Is No Problem
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wu Chengtian and the others answered and promptly threw themselves into the work with great enthusiasm. One group went to fell trees for timber, another stayed to pound the foundations, while Qiu Lingshan and the other women gathered in a circle to design the blueprints—even Leng Leng was dragged into the discussion. The scene was lively indeed.
Xin Yi'an watched this spectacle with his jaw hanging open. These people had hardly come to cultivate—they had plainly come to play!
"You're actually building houses? Grand-Uncle-Master, do you mean to settle here for good?" Xin Yi'an said, caught between laughter and tears.
"Is that allowed?" Wei Zhao's eyes lit up. This place had abundant spiritual energy, beautiful surroundings, and was cut off from the world—its conditions were uniquely favorable. If he really could turn it into a base of operations, it would be a rare and excellent choice.
"In principle there's nothing to forbid it. Unique as this place is, it belongs neither to the Ancient Alliance nor to the secular world—properly speaking, it's ownerless land. Only, once the Ancient Passage closes, you truly would be cut off from the world," Xin Yi'an said.
On every side stretched boundless sea; the only place one could actually move about was this tiny archipelago, whose islands together covered no more than a few dozen square kilometers. Its one advantage was abundant spiritual energy—fine for the occasional secluded breakthrough, but once the Ancient Passage closed and cut it off from the world, living here would drive anyone mad.
"Then what does it take to open the Ancient Passage?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Two conditions. First, a great deal of spirit jade—activating the Ancient Passage requires at least three hundred pieces. Second, one must pass through the natural prohibition between the Ancient Little Jianghu and the secular world. That prohibition has cycles of strength and weakness, reaching its lowest point once every thousand years; only then can one pass safely and harmlessly. At other times passage isn't entirely impossible, but it is very dangerous," Xin Yi'an answered truthfully.
"A prohibition? I didn't sense any powerful prohibition when we came in," Wei Zhao said, puzzled.
"There is much Grand-Uncle-Master does not know. That prohibition also requires spiritual energy to sustain it. Here on the secular side the spiritual energy is so thin that even if a prohibition once existed, it collapsed long ago. But on the Ancient Little Jianghu side it still stands, and that Ancient Passage teleportation formation lies within the prohibition's range of coverage—so entry and exit are both affected," Xin Yi'an said.
"So as long as one doesn't go to the Ancient Little Jianghu, the formation on this side isn't affected?" Wei Zhao said, his spirits lifting.
"That... that does seem to be the case. But keeping the formation on this side active also takes a great deal of spirit jade—even if not three hundred, two hundred at the very least, and it only holds for a time. After a year it must be replaced," Xin Yi'an said with a shake of his head. To say nothing of himself, two hundred pieces of spirit jade was no small sum even for the entire Northern Island Cangwu Sect—and this was not even permanent; at the very most it would last a single year.
"Oh, that's no problem," Wei Zhao said, not regarding spirit jade as anything of consequence at all. To him, any problem that could be solved with spirit jade was no problem. Never mind a paltry two hundred pieces—if he could swipe a spirit jade card, twenty thousand would be a drop in the bucket.
"..." Xin Yi'an was speechless. He knew his Grand-Uncle-Master was rolling in wealth, but he had never imagined it went this far—several hundred pieces of spirit jade treated as nothing at all. Was the man some old landed miser?! (To be continued.)