Chapter 7: Friendship Boat
By the time Xu Yangyi returned to his room, it was already eleven oâclock in the evening.
âWhat happened?â A voice could be heard from within the closed room. âI have no choice to remind you, but the time allotted to the graduation exam is limited to a week. As of now, five days have already passed. The provincial branch is waiting on the Yuyang City branchâs summary report⊠I hope I donât have to tell you again how low the Heavens Law graduation rate is. And about how many people are watching each branchâs exam?â
âI found the demon.â Xu Yangyi started up his computer and glanced at the web page. Subsequently, he knitted his brows. â...Mao Baâer⊠Iâve warned you many times, youâre only my manager. My allowance each month before Iâve graduated is only a thousandâŠâ
âWhatâs the problem?â The voice within the room rang out suspiciously.
Xu Yangyi looked at the opened string of Taobao web pages, his eyes narrowing somewhat dangerously. âAt 50 bucks per piece, the Bountiful Treasures Pavilionâs Purification Talisman has to be circulated for half a month to step into Qi CondensationâŠThe Drifting Snow of Mount Emeiâs Nine Hidden Monasteriesâ Jade Pools can enhance a smidgen of qi, but the most important aspect is the absolutely great taste⊠at 500 a piece? A live explanation of the secret to cultivation, a single reward is a hundred bucks, and you gave five rewards, using all of my alipay⊠Get the hell out.â
The sound of a lock fell upon the room, and Mao Baâer ran off without a second thought. Xu Yangyi picked up his cell phone and looked at it. Just great⊠Of the 10,000 Chinese dollars that he had deposited, only 800 remained.
Ding dongâŠ
At this moment, a familiar sound rang out from the web page. He glanced at it.
Are you sure you want to mail the Jade Pool Drifting Snow to Yuyang City? According to our regulations, this is our online shopâs final question. To state once more, this store is dedicated for cultivation. Without a photograph, the result will ask you to please seek customer service. Disclaimer: this store is under the protection of a S-rank law by government policy. If ordinary people buy this shopâs treasures as they please, this shop cannot take responsibility for all consequences that happen afterwards.
Connecting to customer service ID: Mie Jue
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[1]
Spry of hand, Xu Yangyi swiftly hit refund.
The shop owner of âFive Year Crown - Mount Emeiâs Store for the Cultivation of Your Personal Daoâ was stunned.
You⊠canceled?
Mie Jue asked uncertainly.
I bought the wrong item.
Xu Yangyi typed without feeling the least bit guilty.
What about cultivation? Itâs just a joke. In what day and age would you still believe in something like that!
No⊠Fellow Daoist, didnât you just confirm your identity as a cultivator a moment ago, too? How come nowâŠ
Youâre mistaken.
Xu Yangyi shut down the Taobao line without the slightest shame. He opened QQâthe amount of people he had on the app were quite fewâto look for a husky portrait and sent a message.
Get ready to evacuate tomorrow evening. After this business is finished, weâre going to discuss todayâs matter again.
[2]
For what does thou blameth the sickness of study⊠This one understandethâŠ
Xu Yangyi narrowed his eyes and looked at his computer screen for two seconds.
Are you sure?
Thou speaketh as white as the profundities of ivory silkâŠ
Iâm going to report to the school to change my manager right now; I canât communicate with Martians.
Xu Yangyi replied.
My computer was having some issues just now. Clear out tomorrow, right? Not a problem.
The husky portrait immediately said vaguely,
Relax, it's our first collaboration. Iâll give it my hundred percent!
Xu Yangyi lit a cigarette and took a faint drag, typing back with a single hand.
Your hundred percent is to use my alipay for the bill?
Thatâs not important⊠Gosh! Itâs time for my beauty sleep! See ya!
The husky quickly turned grey, not one second more and not one second less. The friendship boat could be said to have capsized.
Xu Yangyi didnât pay attention to the husky portrait and slowly took drags of his cigarette. He clicked on the vendor page of a treasure shop known as âSince Time Immemorialâ.
âItâs here?â He asked.
A customer service agent named Yan Nanzi was ringing the doorbell.
âWell if it isnât Fellow Daoist Xu. Your advance purchase of the lectures,
Concerns of a Cultivatorâs Self-Cultivation and Future Programming,
has arrived. Our instructional series is taught by one of Chinaâs ten great Core Formation cultivators, Daomaster Cloudcrane, who goes by the web handle of âIdle Clouds, Feral Craneâ. It is through science, rational analysis, and many real-world examples that offer evidence to dissect the environment of the new cultivation age one by one that we can learn how to properly handle the resources of both humans and demons, and understand how cultivation is a massive industry to the entire nation and the entire globe. This includes the formation of cooperative relationships between these mega corporations. While this module wonât let you win straight off the bat, youâll end up coming straight through the finish line.â
â... â Xu Yangyiâs hand froze. âIâm sorry, can I pay this in installments?â
âI apologize. This store doesnât accept paid installments in any form. Perhaps Fellow Daoist may be unaware, but Daomaster Cloudcraneâs web seminars all come from Heavens Lawâs General Hospital. He himself holds the post of academic doctoral advisor to masters students for
The Study of Society and Cultivation
and
The Structure of Society and Cultivation
. If you donât have the opportunity to listen to the teachings of the cultivation worldâs premier educational institution, these lessons alone are capable of dispelling the doubts that muddy the way of the Grand Dao. Fellow Daoist, please take a look, the last quarterâs lesson on
The Composition of Qi Condensation and How to Distinguish Excellent Social Connections
reached 500,000 units in sales. It has surpassed the lessons of the other few Core Formation cultivators in business. Daomaster Cloudcrane is also publicly recognized as the foremost Daoist educator.â
âI donât have enough money.â
âFellow Daoist, nowadays, scientific methods are employed to analyze cultivation. This isnât the Cultivation age anymore but that of Cultivation Civilization. How does the human body absorb qi? What is the composition division of the essence of qi? Perhaps it is the proton? A quantum? How is it circulated within the human body? How do the ancient circulation techniques promote qi operation? All of this is analyzed in detail to you by Daomaster Cloudcrane⊠What Iâm trying to say is that to miss out on this would be your greatest loss. In understanding of the financial hardship that many initial-stage cultivators face, our shop doesnât support payment in installments. However, we do support payment with items.â
âI can pay with items?â Xu Yangyiâs eyes shimmered, and he immediately asked.
The times were different.
Cultivation was a thing of the past that dated back hundreds of years, thousands of years, and as far back as over ten thousand years. Currently, cultivation had already become a kind of civilization. In comparison to the ancient cultivators of thousands of years ago, there was a substantial difference!
This so-called civilization has strengthened humanityâs adaptation and perception of the objective world in line with human spiritual pursuit. It was the cultural spirit that a staggering amount of people approved and accepted, and the sum of human innovation and spirit in addition to public order and civility. It allowed humans to cast off the assembly of antiquated situations that composed all societal and natural conduct. These ideals coursed through the concept of family, tools, language, script, conviction, religious ideology, law, the ideas of city-states and nations, and so on.
Present cultivation was a practice polished so quietly that it was secretly integrated into the lives of every person. It influenced small aspects like clothing, food, home, and work, and then major aspects such as secretive mining reclamations and the contrast of strength between nations.
In the age of science, Cultivation Civilization, which was incapable of being explained by science, just happened to slowly become the endless expansion of the primordial apex.
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âItâs quite simple. If you hunt a demon, there are auctions undergoing at the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion in every city. Our store holds a close collaborative relationship with the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion and through the appraisal of the Bountiful Treasures Pavilionâs experts, they can send the assessment to our shop. If the object and the price of the treasure are equal, our shop will make the delivery. If the price isnât the same, weâll have to ask Fellow Daoist to continue his best efforts. If the value exceeds the price, our shop will reimburse Fellow Daoist with the excess amount. You see?â
A contract adhered to prosperity. Xu Yangyi glanced over it for a while and nodded. âNo problem. Iâll have prey tomorrow night. My manager will contact the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion.â
âVery well, I wish you good health and merriment. May you eternally remain without heart devils, not chance upon thunderous calamity, and your cultivation soar by leaps and bounds.â
Shutting the computer off, Xu Yangyi needed a good sleep. Flying, at the minimum for human cultivators, was the threshold of the graduation exam!
The Heavens Law graduation rate wasnât high, yet every single graduate was an elite. However, the cultivator community was only so big that they merely made up a million people in Chinaâs preliminary statistics! Did a Dao Master require an intelligent and capable assistant? Did Foundation Establishment seniors want right-hand men to settle their issues without worry and attend to inconvenient matters? Didnât Qi Condensation cultivators want to join some organizations to enlighten themselves? To seek assistance?
There were job openings everywhere, but⊠excellent talents were still too few in number!
Each yearâs graduation exam was everyoneâs opportunity to display their abilities. Xu Yangyi had an excellent understanding that even Core Formation masters would be closely following the graduation examâs list of names. Their think tanks would make evaluations in every aspect, from a studentâs potential, inner quality, and strength. A majority of people would enter a branch of Heavens Law, but in case someone was heavily favored by a Dao Master or some super organization, this favor would be absolutely far better than their present circumstances, even if they didnât know how they would be treated!
Inhaling deeply, he shut his eyes. Tomorrowâs demon extermination would be his first; he was determined to succeed!
Time passed quickly. Through the night, nothing whatsoever occurred. The next day, Xu Yangyi sat down in his seat and drank his tea as always, indifferently observing the chatter of his âsubordinatesâ. He coolly took todayâs newspaper and watched all the people in front of him.
To step into cultivation, a person had to be born with something called spiritual sense. Simply put, a person could send out countless âfeelersâ, and through these âfeelersâ, they could perceive the world.
In other words, they could see things. Spiritual sense didnât require him to use his vision at all. On the contrary, perhaps it could be said that this âvisionâ allowed cultivators see through that which was true and that which was false. For example, he could see things that the ordinary people of Sanshui City were simply unable to. But let alone common citizens, he would still be uncaring, granted that something of such nature was before him, as well.
Presently, his newspaper concealed his front, making it seem like he couldnât see anything. Nonetheless, his spiritual sense swept over the features of everyone present.
They chatted and cracked melon seeds between their teeth. There wasnât a single person paying attention to him.
If he was to slay a demon, he would need firepower support. He didnât hope for this support to be of any use, however. The critical point was⊠that after he and the demon truly started to fight, both sides would throw caution to the wind and grind themselves down to the last bone. On one side was one of humanityâs superhumans and on the other was a living fossil that had carried on since ancient times. Xu Yangyiâs most initial fear was that the demon was much, much older than him by ten-somewhat years. If he didnât completely kill his opponent, the other would flee, and the entire city would become the floor of an unexpected catastrophe!
As long as his firepower support could obstruct the demon⊠just a little bit, the government and the agents of Heavens Law would be able to completely suppress the matter. In China, the power of the government was formidable. Completely different from that of western multiparty nations.
The question right now, though⊠was how was he going to make the people who saw him as an eyesore listen obediently?
1. Mie Jue = çç». The thing is, Iâm not sure if this is a name or something along the lines of an online username. Given the nature of the characters, Iâm inclined to believe itâs more of a screen name if anything along the lines of âExtinguishedâ as the name.
2. QQ is a messaging app in China.
3. ć€Șæ = Taiji. Referred to in Chinese mythology as the origin of things or perhaps that which is supreme/absolute/omnipotent and omniscient. I translated this as primordial apex. Perhaps this is one thing better off left untranslated.
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