Sword Sect Little Demon Child, Three and a Half Years Old and Extremely Fierce

Chapter 13: Bankruptcy Again

Next, the senior students began to divide the ore.

Su Ning picked up a piece and examined it carefully: "I have a wood spirit root, so I don't need too much. The small piece that my junior sister gave me yesterday is enough to upgrade the sword's toughness. I won't take it."

He put the ore back.

Yan Chuan rubbed his hands together: "I have a fire elemental root, so adding this to my sword will increase its hardness. Should I take five jin?"

He himself felt it was a bit much, and he cautiously looked at his fellow students.

Murong Zhuo nodded: "Is five catties enough? How about ten catties?"

Yan Chuan shook his head: "That's enough, save it."

Murong Zhuo took three jin for himself: "Earth spirit root plus this is fine, but I'm not greedy, I'll just take three jin."

Gu Chenguang waved his hand: "I have a water elemental root, so I don't need it. My junior sister gave me enough yesterday to upgrade my sword, so I won't take it."

In the end, the senior students only took eight pounds of ore.

The rest are all going to be sold.

I asked, "Don't you guys keep some for yourselves?"

Su Ning laughed: "We have enough swords for now. We'll buy more when we need them later."

Yan Chuan: "Yes, the most important thing right now is Junior Sister's cultivation!"

Murong Zhuo: "If you become stronger, our sect will become stronger."

Gu Chenguang: "Mm."

I looked at them.

They wore patched clothes, lived in simple caves, and wore boots with holes in them.

They held the Netherworld Iron Ore in their hands as if it were some rare treasure.

But they couldn't bear to use it.

Because it's for my junior sister's cultivation.

I lowered my head.

My eyes feel a little hot.

"Thank you, senior brother."

Su Ning patted my head: "No need to thank me, we're family."

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So, the senior brothers happily took the Netherworld Iron to the black market.

I stayed in the sect and continued my cultivation.

In the evening, my fellow students returned.

His face was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

Su Ning pulled a jade bottle from his pocket: "Junior Sister, look!"

I took the jade bottle, opened it, and took a look.

Inside lay ten round pills.

The Qi-Nourishing Pill, the Body-Tempering Pill, the Azure Spirit Pill... these are all good things to help me quickly lay a solid foundation.

Yan Chuan took out another bag of spirit stones and poured out 30 crystal-clear high-grade spirit stones.

Top-grade spirit stones!

This is the first time I've ever seen a high-grade spirit stone.

They emitted a soft purple light, their spiritual energy so rich it was almost tangible.

Thirty high-grade spirit stones are equivalent to three thousand mid-grade or three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

For a poor sect like ours, it's an astronomical figure.

Su Ning stuffed the spirit stones into my hand: "Junior Sister, these should be enough for you until you reach the Foundation Establishment stage."

I looked at the spirit stone in my hand, and then at the expectant eyes of my fellow disciples.

Then I shook my head, "I'll take 20."

Suning: "Huh?"

Yan Chuan: "Junior Sister, you don't need to be frugal..."

"It's not about saving it," I said. "The rest can be distributed among the senior students."

Everyone was taken aback.

He said earnestly, "My senior brothers are all Golden Core cultivators, and they also need good spirit stones for cultivation. Besides, you've even been reluctant to upgrade your swords in order to earn resources for me. You can take these spirit stones."

The air was still for a few seconds.

Su Ning's eyes were a little red: "Junior Sister..."

Yan Chuan sniffed: "You silly child..."

Murong Zhuo turned his face away: "The wind is so strong, sand got in my eyes."

Gu Chenguang silently took out a handkerchief and wiped the corner of his eye.

In the end, the senior brothers accepted the spirit stones.

Ten pills, two for each of the five senior brothers.

The eldest brother isn't here, so we'll keep him.

The second brother could mine, but no one was left.

Everyone carefully put them into storage bags.

Like holding a rare treasure.

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That night.

I was cultivating while holding twenty high-grade spirit stones.

Su Ning set up a spirit-gathering array and placed twenty high-grade spirit stones into the array's core.

I sat cross-legged and began to practice my exercises.

……

Three days later:

"boom--"

Spiritual energy surged in like a tsunami.

Refinement stage at its peak, breakthrough achieved with ease.

It's just one step away from reaching the foundation stage.

The senior brothers exchanged glances, and then added the two high-grade spirit stones that each of them had collected that day into the spirit-gathering array.

I closed my eyes and continued cultivating, circulating my internal energy.

The spiritual energy within his body spun wildly, compressed, and condensed...

Foundation established, complete!

I opened my eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.

My fellow students formed a circle around me, watching me nervously.

Suning was the first to ask, "How is it?"

I checked my internal organs and nodded: "I've reached Foundation Establishment."

The crowd cheered.

Suning picked me up and spun me around.

Yan Chuan was so excited that he stomped his feet.

Murong Zhuo looked up at the sky and roared.

Gu Chenguang pulled out his notebook and frantically wrote down his junior sister's cultivation progress:

—Cultivation Level: Early Foundation Establishment Stage✓

—Time taken: Less than three months

—Consumption: 30 high-grade spirit stones

—Note: A genius's cultivation speed comes at the cost of bankruptcy.

After the cheers subsided.

Everyone calmed down.

Then I started to worry.

Su Ning spoke first: "Thirty high-grade spirit stones, that's all."

Yan Chuan nodded: "They went bankrupt as soon as they made their fortune, in less than three days."

Murong Zhuo sighed: "Thirty high-grade spirit stones would be worth three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones."

Gu Chenguang added, "That's enough for an ordinary person to cultivate for ten years."

I looked down at my surroundings.

The spirit stone has turned grayish-white.

It has lost all its spiritual energy.

Thirty high-grade spirit stones, gone just like that.

I looked up: "Did I... overspend again?"

The senior students all shook their heads.

Su Ning: "It's not your fault, it's necessary for cultivation."

Yan Chuan: "Yes, that's what the Chaos Spiritual Root is like."

Murong Zhuo: "Blame it on us for being too poor."

Gu Chenguang closed the notebook: "It's alright, I'll have my second senior brother send some ore back next time, and then I'll exchange it for spirit stones for you."

I looked at them.

My heart feels warm.

But I'm also worried.

Thirty high-grade spirit stones are needed to establish the foundation.

What about the Golden Elixir?

What about the Nascent Soul?

OK.

I really can't imagine it.

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That night.

Stone platform at the main peak dining hall.

The Second "Money-Making" Seminar of the Heavenly Sword Sect was solemnly held.

Attendees: All disciples of the sect (four people plus a three-year-old junior sister in the Foundation Establishment stage).

Meeting chaired by: Su Ning.

Meeting minutes: Gu Chenguang.

Meeting topic: How to continuously obtain spirit stones.

Suning spoke first: "Relying on selling ore is not a long-term solution. No matter how big the mine is, it will eventually be exhausted."

Yan Chuan nodded: "Moreover, Junior Sister's cultivation speed is too fast, and the consumption is too great."

Murong Zhuo scratched his head: "I need to think of a stable source of income."

Gu Chenguang flipped through the notebook: "According to the practices in the cultivation world, common ways to make money include: alchemy, weapon crafting, talisman drawing, and array formation."

I raised my hand and asked, "Which one should we choose?"

silence.

Su Ning sighed, "Alchemy requires a furnace, which I can't afford."

Yan Chuan: "Forging weapons requires a forging furnace and rare and precious materials, which we can't afford."

Murong Zhuo: "Drawing talismans requires talisman paper and talisman brushes, which I can't afford."

Gu Chenguang: "Set up the formation..."

My eyes lit up: "We don't need to buy the formation?"

Gu Chenguang nodded: "There are some basic formations that don't require materials. All you need to do is find the right array core and draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

Me: "This one's good!"

Everyone had just started to smile.

Gu Chenguang added, "But setting up an array requires knowledge of array formations. And knowledge of array formations requires buying books to learn. Each book costs at least ten mid-grade spirit stones."

Everyone fell silent again.

Me: "...So, you still don't have money?"

Gu Chenguang nodded: "Still no money."

Suddenly, Suning slapped his thigh: "There's another industry that requires no capital!"

Everyone looked at him.

Su Ning lowered his voice: "Rob the rich to help the poor."

Yan Chuan's eyes lit up: "It's robbery!"

Murong Zhuo rubbed his hands together: "I've already decided on my target: Zhao Youqian!"

Gu Chenguang: "...It's illegal."

Everyone fell silent again.

Su Ning sighed, "If only robbery were legal."

Yan Chuan scratched his head: "Let's focus on physical training for the next few days."