Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 202 Spiritual Stone
"Those guys lost because they were too confident!" City Lord Li's excited voice interrupted Jiang Xuan's thoughts.

Jiang Xuan collected his thoughts and looked at the extremely excited old man in front of him, finding him somewhat amusing.

"Boy, do you know how many spirit stones they lost to me?" City Lord Li asked Ling Honghe excitedly, regardless of the fact that Ling Honghe was a warrior who had just arrived in Yingzhou and had just become his personal guard.

"Spirit stones? This..." Jiang Xuan was a little embarrassed.

City Lord Li is a cultivator, but Jiang Xuan is not. Although he has heard that spirit stones are a measure of value among cultivators, spirit stones are too far away for ordinary people.

Even for warriors, spirit stones are a very unfamiliar thing.

Even for the top warriors, the success rate of the Jade Cultivation Channel Trial, which is less than one in a hundred, means that almost all warriors cannot become cultivators.

This means that almost all warriors are destined to have nothing to do with spirit stones in this life.

At this moment, although City Lord Li, who was a cultivator, only asked Jiang Xuan about the number of spirit stones, Jiang Xuan had no idea about the value of spirit stones.

I'd just make a random guess, but I'm afraid that I'd overestimate or underestimate the value of the spirit stone and end up making a fool of myself in front of City Lord Li.

If I don’t guess, I’m afraid it would be impolite and leave a bad impression on City Lord Li.

"Ten dollars!" Before Jiang Xuan could hesitate any further, City Lord Li stretched out both hands and shouted excitedly.

Not satisfied yet, City Lord Li added, "Ten dollars each for the four of them!"

After saying this, City Lord Li's excitement could no longer be suppressed, and was completely exposed in his rising tone.

"Ten pieces per person, that's forty spirit stones. So, how much are forty spirit stones worth?" Jiang Xuan heard this and started to calculate in his mind.

"Boy, although spirit stones and silver are both valuable, they are different and cannot be converted at will."

City Lord Li added, "In short, you should know that you have earned a lot of spirit stones for me. I have to thank you no matter what."

After hearing this, Jiang Xuan finally realized that the reason why City Lord Li said this to him was to express his gratitude to him clearly.

"It was not intentional, so it's nothing. The City Lord is too kind." Jiang Xuan spoke from his heart.

He didn't know about the bet between City Lord Li and the other four city lords.

Not to mention not knowing, even if he knew, he would definitely not change his behavior for the sake of other people's bets, which would affect the results that are related to his own interests.

From another perspective, since he won the first place in the Heavenly Class Group of the Five States Martial Arts Competition, Jiang Xuan also received corresponding rewards.

Among them was a bottle of muscle-strengthening powder that he had been longing for, and also the precious qualification to become a personal guard of the Yingzhou City Lord's Mansion.

Jiang Xuan has already gained a lot of benefits. It is naturally good to help the city lord win the bet, but it is not to the point of accepting others' thanks.

What's more, the person who thanked him was the old city lord of Yingzhou, whom Jiang Xuan had always respected.

In Yingzhou, almost all Yingzhou residents hold City Lord Li in high regard, including the Jiang family. Jiang Xuan's father, Jiang Yuan, has always said that if it weren't for City Lord Li, Yingzhou City would never have reached its current prosperity.

When Jiang Xuan was a child, he did not fully understand this sentence. In fact, before leaving Yingzhou, Jiang Xuan still did not fully understand this sentence, thinking that it was just a simple compliment from his father to City Lord Li.

However, when Jiang Xuan really left Yingzhou, he realized the dangers outside Yingzhou and the intrigues.

He began to have a deeper understanding of his father's words, and began to realize that having City Lord Li as the City Lord of Yingzhou was indeed a blessing for Yingzhou and its people.

"It's nothing?" City Lord Li laughed again when he heard what Jiang Xuan said.

"Do you know the value of forty spirit stones?" City Lord Li asked, stretching out four fingers.

Jiang Xuan understood that City Lord Li's question this time was not asking him to give an answer, so he simply shook his head and said frankly that he did not know the value of the spirit stone.

"The price of spirit stones and silver cannot be simply converted, but in terms of purchasing the magical tools needed by cultivators, forty spirit stones can buy a very good ninth-grade medium-level magical tool." City Lord Li said.

"A ninth-grade medium-level magical weapon?" Jiang Xuan heard this, but still had no specific concept in his mind.

However, he immediately thought of the rewards for the peak group of this Five States Martial Arts Competition. Among them, the top three in the peak group would receive a ninth-grade lower-grade weapon, which was also a ninth-grade lower-grade magical weapon.

Unlike ordinary weapons, once a weapon is of a certain quality, it is no longer an ordinary weapon but a magical weapon.

The reason why it is called a magic weapon is that during the refining process, a certain small formation will be placed in it, so that it can exert greater power in the hands of the cultivator.

However, even these were what Jiang Xuan heard more or less from other people, and some from his father, who obviously also heard them from other people.

After all, as far as Jiang Xuan knew, in the entire Yingzhou, apart from the more special royal palaces, there were only a few cultivators.

One was the City Lord Li in front of him, another was the director of Yingzhou Martial Arts School, and he couldn't identify the other one.

Some people say that the chief guard of the Yingzhou City Lord’s Mansion is not a cultivator, some say that the chief guard of the Yingzhou City Lord’s Mansion is a real cultivator, and some even say that there are two cultivators among the personal guards of the Yingzhou City Lord’s Mansion.

Jiang Xuan was very emotional at this moment. He had only been in the Yingzhou City Lord's Mansion for a short while, but he had already learned some real things about cultivators.

He also truly understood why becoming the personal guard of a city lord was a reward only available to the top-ranked warrior in the Heavenly Grade Group.

Now it seems that this reward is indeed incomparable to the reward of becoming a core disciple of any official martial arts school in the five states.

Thinking that a lower-grade ninth-grade magic weapon could be a reward only for the top three in the peak group, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but think about the value of the obviously more advanced, middle-grade ninth-grade magic weapon.

If a ninth-grade lower-class magical weapon can satisfy the needs of a newly promoted jade cultivator, then a ninth-grade middle-class magical weapon should be a better choice for a jade cultivator.

City Lord Li simply made a bet with the city lords of the other four states and easily won forty spirit stones, which were enough to buy a ninth-grade medium-level magic weapon. No wonder the old city lord was so excited.

(End of this chapter)