Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Chapter Two: Jade Pendant and Coins

Xi Heng didn't look closely at the many smaller, square characters next to him last time; he went straight to the two characters "Read Files" in the center.

This time she paused and looked at the surrounding text first.

Biological age: 19/19

"This life has only lasted a little over two years, which means that this body was seventeen years old when I first transmigrated..."

Xi Heng stared at the smaller, square characters on the side and muttered to himself.

In the past two years, many things have happened in the country called Great Zhao, which she traveled to.

For example, in the south, the Tianliang Army uprising joined forces with Huangmei Mountain, which gathered many martial arts figures who resisted the imperial court, and together they captured several cities.

One of them was not far from the village at the foot of Yaowang Mountain where she lived, and the war almost reached her village.

Fortunately, after the city fell, the Great Zhao court quickly dispatched the Ever Victorious Army from the northern border to the south to retake the city. They fought a major battle with the Tianliang Army, involving tens of thousands of soldiers, which prevented the war and disaster from spreading further.

Xi Heng continued reading the text below and noticed that before loading the save file, she could retain one item and one cultivation level.

She had no cultivation level at all, so she first thought about what she should keep—what was the most valuable thing she possessed.

After thinking it over, I can only think of two things.

One of them was a round jade pendant that he had carried with him since the beginning of his transmigration. He could vaguely recall it from his memories; it was an extremely important token that could not be lost.

"What's so important about it?" Xi Heng shook his head.

Until her lifespan ended in this lifetime, this broken jade pendant had no effect on her whatsoever.

Xi Heng had already decided that he would sell the jade pendant directly to get money for martial arts training.

“But I’ll have this jade pendant on my waist in my next life anyway, so I don’t need to choose this one.” She made her decision.

As for the other item, it was the Elixir of Purification given to me six days ago by that young lady who appeared out of nowhere.

It is said that this medicine can prolong her life by seven days.

Xi Heng had no need to extend his life in this life, so he did not use it.

"This elixir must have been extremely valuable to prolong my life when it was beyond saving."

Moreover, the packaging, surface color, and smell of the pills are all quite extraordinary.

This medicine works by regulating blood and qi and clearing the meridians...

“Taking this pill while practicing martial arts should have some effect.” Xi Heng nodded: “Or, if the jade pendant isn’t worth much, we can sell the pill to pay for the tuition.”

"Just choose this one."

Having just settled his mind, Xi Heng tried to reach out and touch the glowing text.

The words "【化浊丹】" are already listed above it.

Xi Heng then stopped, turned around and looked around to make sure there were no other words to pay attention to, and then reached out and pressed the [Load Save] button in the center.

A strange suction and a scouring sensation suddenly plunged her vision into complete darkness. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a simple bedroom.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the familiar ceiling, with main beams and secondary beams stretching across my view, and a large pile of timber interlocking.

She slowly got up from the hard wooden bed and looked around the familiar little house. It still had the same uneven walls and peeling paint, the worn tabletop, and the few chairs stacked together, covered in dust.

The harsh living conditions did not discourage Xi Heng. Instead, feeling his still relatively healthy and strong body, he chuckled a few times.

When she was seriously ill before, she would be out of breath if she had to pick up the medicine scale to weigh a few medicinal herbs.

Now, Xi Heng felt relaxed and at ease, and she could run fifty meters at full speed without fainting.

She moved her body a bit, and although her heart was still beating a little fast, she no longer had abdominal or chest pain.

Xi Heng let out a long breath, then put on the gray-white coat that was casually tossed on the bed, and then picked up the jade pendant from under the pillow and pinned it to his waist.

She then ran to a corner of the room, found a rusty dagger, and sharpened it on a knife-sharpening stone until it looked a bit sharper.

She ran to a cabinet, pulled out a drawer, poured out the few taels of silver inside, and then found a small cloth bag for storing copper coins and stuffed it in.

With everything prepared, Xi Heng took one last look back at the room where he had lived for two lifetimes, for a total of three or four years, before leaving.

He then turned around, stepped out of the threshold, and immediately turned back, walking directly out of the village along the dirt road.

In this situation, Xi Heng subconsciously thought that he should recite a poem.

Before I could even decide, a line of poetry appeared in my mind and I blurted it out:

"Laughing loudly, I stride out the door; how can I, a man of such talent, be a mere commoner?"

"Wait a minute." Xi Heng stopped and looked down.

Then he grabbed his empty left hand.

"Where is the Elixir of Purification?" She remembered leaving this item before reloading her save file, but she couldn't find it now.

Just as she was wondering if there was a bug in the system, a series of faintly glowing boxes appeared before her eyes.

Only the frontmost square contains a pattern, which is the red box containing the Elixir of Purification.

Xi Heng blinked: "This is... the inventory?"

She reached out and grabbed it, and the red box pattern transformed into a physical pill box in her hand.

"Amazing." She fiddled with it for a moment, then put the box back in, and the Turbidity-Clearing Pill transformed back into an image in her inventory.

Xi Heng tried to insert the dagger hanging from his waist into it as well, but it went straight through.

It seems that only items saved before loading can be placed in the inventory.

Having figured out the system's function, Xi Heng didn't pay much attention and continued walking towards the village entrance.

Everything else is irrelevant; the most important thing right now is to practice martial arts!

She never wants to become that frail person she used to be again.

It was early morning, and at the village entrance, there were donkey cart drivers carrying people and goods.

Xi Heng recognized the man, named Jia Er. He often came to the pharmacy to get some plasters for back pain and waist pain. He often strained his back and couldn't run fast, afraid of offending people.

As he approached, Xi Heng pulled out a dozen or so copper coins from his pocket: "Jinshi City, can we go there?"

Jinshi City is the closest major city to this village. Although it is not as prosperous as the major cities in the south, it is one of the key transportation hubs between the north and south due to its special geographical location. In the entire Great Zhao Kingdom, it ranks among the top ten in terms of area and population.

“Jinshi?” The hunchbacked coachman was stunned. He glanced at Xi Heng and said, “Jinshi City is not a good place to go. The road is winding and difficult to travel. I’ve also heard that there are bandits in the mountains. I don’t want to risk my life.”

“There are no bandits.” Xi Heng remembered clearly that the rumors of bandits were rampant in her previous life, and many people in the village moved away with their families.

But in the end, there was never any sign of bandits, and no one attacked their small village at the foot of the mountain.

"You think it's gone just like that?" The driver, relying on his age, said to Xi Heng, "You're the one who gathers herbs in the south of the village, right? What are you doing in Jinshi City? Gathering some good stuff to sell in the city?"

Xi Heng ignored him and took out a tael of silver from the brocade pouch at his waist, tossing it to the coachman: "Are you going or not?"

"..." The other person hesitated.

Xi Heng drew his dagger from his waist and stabbed it hard into the wooden plank of the donkey cart he was sitting on; the sharp blade penetrated deep into the wood.

"Go!" The old coachman trembled at the sight of the knife and quickly agreed.

……

Sure enough, everything went smoothly along the way.

The half-day journey passed quickly amidst the bumps and jostles of the donkey cart. Although there were some minor disturbances along the way that would have startled the driver, nothing actually went wrong.

The mountain paths wind and twist, going up and down, and some places that seem close actually take half an hour to reach.

According to rumors spread by mountain bandits, the driver traveled very quickly, leaving the black donkey pulling the wooden cart panting heavily and foaming at the mouth.

The long journey, which would normally take from dawn to dusk, was completed in the early afternoon.

The city is situated next to the lake, with tall and majestic city walls and gates. The walls are made of gray-blue bricks and stones, and there are many arrow towers standing on them at intervals.

Even someone unfamiliar with military affairs could tell at a glance that such a fortified city would be difficult to conquer.

A wooden plaque hangs high above the city gate, with the words "Jinshi" (金石, meaning gold and stone) deeply engraved on it.

The line of people entering the city was long. Xi Heng got off the donkey cart and waited outside for more than ten minutes before it was her turn.

"Pay forty coins to enter the city." The gatekeeper didn't even glance at him before taking the money.

Xi Heng took out two old copper coins with a face value of twenty coins. The other party rubbed them a couple of times and then turned his head towards the city gate.

No written records or documents are required; people are simply allowed in.

After entering the city, Xi Heng casually strolled through the commercial streets, a sight rarely seen in this world. He bypassed jewelry shops, music shops, jade shops, and a bunch of street vendors, and headed straight for a pawnshop.

Two lanterns hung at the entrance of the shop, and a large character '当' (meaning "to act" or "to be") hung on the outer beam.

Stepping over the threshold, you arrive at a counter that resembles a prison, with rows of wooden bars separating the inside from the outside.

Without saying much, Xi Heng took out the useless jade pendant from his sleeve and slapped it on the spot. The sound made the fat shopkeeper, who was wiping the object, tremble.

"How much is this jade worth?" She had no time for idle chatter.

"Jade? Miss, you can't just auction off jade like that." The shopkeeper muttered, rubbing his eyes as he carefully picked up the jade pendant that Xi Heng had tossed on the counter.

"Luckily it didn't break," he complained, lighting a candle and examining the jade pendant in his hand by the light.

As he looked at it, he touched it with his palm, and his eyes lit up.

Then, he coughed twice and said, "Although this jade pendant looks good, the texture is not smooth, there are flaws and cracks in the grain, it doesn't transmit much light, and the carving is a mess..."

After listing a bunch of shortcomings, the guy finally said, "At most, ten taels of silver."

Xi Heng grabbed the jade pendant back, said nothing, and turned to leave.

No matter how much the shopkeeper called out to them to stay, they paid no attention.

She then visited several more pawnshops in the commercial street, where the highest offer was fifty taels.

Then she turned around and went back to the pawnshop where she had started, slapped the jade pendant on it again, and asked for one hundred taels of silver.

The fat shopkeeper trembled with fright again: "One hundred taels?!"

“One hundred taels.” Xi Heng nodded.

"How could it be a hundred taels! Let me tell you the truth, this jade is worth at most thirty taels. I only added a little extra because I thought the jade was of decent quality!" the fat shopkeeper said anxiously.

Xi Heng turned and walked away.

"No! Fifty taels, is fifty taels alright?" The pawnshop owner finally realized that Xi Heng wasn't going to follow the rules or try to bargain with her, and immediately tried to persuade her to stay.

Xi Heng prepared to go to the next pawnshop to continue making exorbitant demands.

But she had only gone halfway when she was caught up by the fat shopkeeper from the pawnshop, who was panting and carrying a bulging money bag.

"One hundred taels! Just one hundred taels..." The shopkeeper stopped in his tracks, almost breathless.

He patted his chest to calm his breathing, and after a dozen seconds, he showed Xi Heng the money pouch in his hand, which was full of small gold coins: "Miss, young lady, there are ten taels of gold in this pouch, which is equivalent to a hundred taels of silver. Please count it."

"Oh?" Xi Heng didn't expect the jade pendant to be worth so much money. She was just saying it casually.

She looked around and, seeing that the place was relatively safe and deserted, casually picked up a thin gold ingot.

The cake was covered in teeth marks; it must have been made of real gold.

In her previous life, when she worked as an accountant at a pharmacy, she handled gold and silver quite a bit. She could tell the difference between real and fake just by looking at the color and workmanship.

She picked up the purse, weighed it in her hand, and confirmed that it contained ten taels of silver. Then she tossed the jade pendant to the other person.

The fat shopkeeper was both delighted and startled. He hurriedly caught the jade pendant in his arms and almost fell to the ground.

When he finally regained his balance and exhaled, just as he was about to scold him, Xi Heng had already walked away.

……

Chapter Three: Entering the Academy to Learn Martial Arts

Xi Heng put the exquisite purse into his sleeve and headed towards the western part of Jinshi City, where many martial arts schools stood.

In her previous life, she had heard from customers at the pharmacy that there were five major martial arts schools in Jinshi City: Jinsha Palm, Xiao Shisan Na, Qingsong Sword, Hongmen Fist, and Poyu Knife.

These major martial arts schools have hundreds of disciples and wield considerable power.

After successfully entering the "internal strength" stage through training at these martial arts schools, one can become a formal disciple.

At that time, all forces in Jinshi City, whether underworld or legitimate, will treat martial artists with courtesy because of their status.

To become an apprentice in one of these martial arts schools, one only needs to offer ten taels of silver to study there for two months.