After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 258 Soul Trade
Upon receiving the message, Zhao Huoyan immediately replied excitedly, "Yes!"

Seeing how desperate the overseas cultivation community was dealing with unclaimed spiritual objects, they were incredibly grateful that they had received the news in advance and had been able to centralize the management of all kinds of cultural relics.

However, China has so many cultural relics, and countless of them have the potential to transform into spiritual objects.

During the surge of spiritual energy, local spiritual control groups devoted considerable manpower and resources to ensuring the safety of these cultural relics and arranging for their orderly transformation. As a result, they were unable to spare any more manpower to manage the unclaimed spiritual objects in the wild, and had to mobilize the masses to hunt down and kill them.

Although the unclaimed spirit objects caused them considerable trouble, the spiritual essence emanating from them was truly a valuable thing.

Within the Spirit Adjustment Bureau, several cultivators who were in a bottleneck period have broken through their cultivation levels by absorbing spiritual souls.

Unfortunately, the supply of spiritual energy always falls short of the demand.

At every bureau meeting, someone would deliberately bring up the cultural relics belonging to Master Song Miaozhu, wanting to recover them.

At first, she felt that such a large batch of cultural relics was too much for her to handle alone, and that it would be a waste.

Later, she realized that she couldn't handle so many artifacts that had been transformed into ownerless spirits on her own, and that it would cause trouble.

Every day, someone is assigned to monitor the situation at Xiaozhushan.

However, Xiaozhushan remained peaceful as always, with no unclaimed spirits escaping from the mountain to cause trouble.

On the contrary, within the Spirit Investigation Bureau, which has such a large staff, there have been reports of artifacts being stolen from several regional Spirit Investigation teams.

That's how the director was able to firmly suppress the voices within the bureau.

The bureau chief firmly suppressed these voices because Master Song Miaozhu had previously expressed her intention to sell souls.

However, with no news for a long time, some people in the bureau began to have different ideas.

If we can reliably purchase large quantities of spirit souls from Master Song, the dissenting voices within the Spirit Adjustment Bureau should disappear.

After all, cultivating unclaimed spiritual objects from cultural relics requires not only a large amount of spiritual energy, but also dedicated personnel for management and control. Killing unclaimed spiritual objects and extracting their spirits also requires a considerable number of people. Only the spirit obtained in the end is the sole reward.

Spending some money to directly obtain the final harvest's spirit essence is definitely easier than raising the artifacts yourself to extract their spirit essence.

Moreover, once the spirit is in their hands, isn't that the same as them obtaining the spirit itself?

So Zhao Huoyan said "yes" almost without hesitation.

However, he still bargained a bit out of a sense of duty.

[Zhao Huoyan: If I buy a lot, can I get a discount?]

[Meow Bamboo: No way! If you can eat it all, I'll sell it to you. If you can't, I'll hang it in the Spirit Merchant's shop window.]

[Zhao Huoyan: I can eat it! I can eat it!]

Zhao Huoyan was not surprised at all that his bargaining failed.

After all, in all the time I've been working with Master Song Miaozhu, I've never been able to successfully negotiate a lower price in any transaction.

Looking at these two kinds of spirits, one has the function of warding off evil spirits, and the other has the function of ensuring peace and safety.

Although there are no ghosts in the mortal world now, there is still yin energy, especially in the unexcavated tombs underground.

In order to quell the unrest caused by the unclaimed spirits as soon as possible, various places are stepping up the excavation of cultural relics in tombs. Spirits with the ability to exorcise evil spirits can be used to make exorcising spirits to drive away evil spirits.

As for spirits with the function of ensuring safety, needless to say, some unclaimed spirits are truly unruly. Even the Bureau of Spirit Control, which manages to control transforming unclaimed spirits, isn't confident in capturing them without injury every time, let alone wild ones. Spirits made from spirits with the function of ensuring safety can ward off disasters and save lives.

Both types of spirit souls have very practical abilities. It's okay if they're a bit more expensive. Anyway, Master Song Miaozhu has always only used contribution points to exchange for RMB, and rarely uses them to exchange for spirit items. There's no need to worry that she'll empty her storeroom of spirit items because she has too many contribution points.

Zhao Huoyan comforted himself and then quickly pushed forward with the deal.

[Zhao Huoyan: When can you make the transaction? I'll apply for funding from above as soon as possible.]

[Song Miaozhu: Today, shall we meet at Anshou Paper Shop again?]

[Zhao Huoyan: Of course!]

He couldn't be happier!

Song Miaozhu also wanted to clear out these spirit souls that were no longer useful to her and give them to people who needed them more. At the same time, she could earn more spirit stones to hoard, and make more room in her spiritual platform space to store new spirit souls.

Two hours later, Song Miaozhu arrived at Anshou Paper Shop riding a paper phoenix.

After receiving 1.684 billion contribution points, she immediately used her spiritual power to draw out the spiritual souls in her spiritual space and handed them over to Zhao Huoyan.

Zhao Huoyan stored it in his spiritual space.

"Alright! I'll let you know when there are new spirit souls!"

As soon as the transaction was completed, Song Miaozhu wanted to slip away.

Zhao Huoyan quickly stopped her: "Master Song, we have something very important that we would like to ask you to clarify!"

"Answer my questions? Sure! You ask first, I'll make an offer, and once the money's in place, everything will be fine."

Song Miaozhu's greedy nature has been triggered by the potentially declining spiritual energy tide.

Zhao Huoyan breathed a sigh of relief; as long as he was willing to talk, that was good.

"Everyone has witnessed the spiritual energy of Xiaozhushan. That spiritual energy should be enough to transform a large number of cultural relics, right?"

We would like to ask you how you managed to make those cultural relics behave so obediently?
"These days, those unclaimed spirit objects are just too difficult to manage; one wrong move and they can cause a huge mess!"

"This is a problem!" Song Miaozhu pondered for a moment, but the desire to make money still prevailed: "It's not that I can't tell you, but let me be clear from the start, my method may not be suitable for you. Do you still want to hear it? I won't charge you much for this information, just the price of one exorcising spirit. Pay first and then I'll give you the information."

Zhao Huoyan hesitated for a moment, then nodded and transferred four million contribution points.

What if it comes in handy?

"I keep the cultural relics in the underworld, where there is no spiritual energy, so they won't transform at will. When to take them out, how many to take out, and how much spiritual energy to let them absorb are all up to me. I only let a small number of cultural relics transform at a time, and after collecting their spiritual essence, I can let the next batch transform," Song Miaozhu said truthfully.

Zhao Huoyan was wearing a True Knowledge Cicada brooch, but the brooch didn't react at all. He knew that what Song Miaozhu said was true, and he was immediately very disappointed.

Now that people can't contact ghosts anymore, how can we talk about storing cultural relics in the underworld?
As for controlling the time it takes for cultural relics to transform by controlling the supply of spiritual energy, the Bureau of Spiritual Investigation has already found a way to do that.

It was only so-so in terms of effectiveness.

After all, in the mortal realm, the only way to reduce the spiritual energy in the environment is for cultivators to absorb it.

During periods of calm in terms of spiritual energy, things are fine; the more you absorb spiritual energy, the less you have.

However, during the period of surging spiritual energy, cultivators need to do handicrafts to cultivate in order to absorb spiritual energy. The more they cultivate, the more spiritual energy will be attracted and surge out.