Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

The spirit being over there seemed to have noticed Xi Heng's gaze and turned its head.

"Miss, is there anything I can do for you?" she asked doubtfully.

"I was just thinking." Xi Heng casually made up a topic and said, "Do people in this city like raising fish so much? When we were choosing a place to live yesterday, every courtyard we looked at had a sizable fishpond like this."

"Perhaps this is a custom or preference among you cultivators." The other party replied, "If you don't like it, I can fix it."

"No need. Feeding the fish is a good pastime when I have nothing to do. I'll just trouble you to take care of them." The girl shook her head.

“Miss, please don’t worry. As a creature created by spirits, my mission is to serve a real person like you.”

Only when the other person mentions that they are a spirit creation can you see that they are not like ordinary people.

If a real slave were to speak of being born a slave, she would either have mixed feelings or have already resigned herself to it; in any case, she would express some different emotions.

However, when this spirit being spoke, his expression remained unchanged, calm and undisturbed.

Xi Heng seemed to be deep in thought, and waved his hand to let the other person continue pruning.

He then returned to the courtyard of the mansion and went back to his bedroom.

Although it was already noon, Yin Wanluan was still asleep in bed. After visiting the courtyard yesterday, the two of them went to soak in the spiritual spring that nourished their bodies and minds, which also made them feel comfortable and sleepy.

After returning to the courtyard, Wan Luan collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.

After waking up in the morning, Xi Heng washed up and went outside to feed the fish for a while, but she was still not awake.

The white-haired girl entered the bedroom, sat on one side of the bed, propped herself up with one hand, glanced at the other's peaceful sleeping face for a while, and silently connected to the wide-area network of Changpingjing to get on with her business.

After logging in with the identification code I registered yesterday, the first thing I saw was a chaotic array of colorful advertisements.

The largest portion of the page featured the various spirit creations of the Spirit Blood Department of the Far Expansion Company.

The word "Custom" is written in large letters next to it, indicating that the various functions and qualities of the spirit creation can be customized according to the user's needs.

Other advertisements are mostly for online movies, TV series, games, and other entertainment promotions, with relatively few physical materials.

There are no advertisements here like those for flesh-and-blood transformation and spirit implantation in the former Xiping City. The products sold on the main page of the online store are all ordinary items, such as home furnishings, clothing and accessories, bags and shoes, toys and books.

The best-selling items are infiltration pods for large-scale online games, suggesting that the city's focus on the virtual world has surpassed that on reality.

"The store also has large-scale mechanical facilities, various land-based vessels, and magnificent airships..." Xi Heng silently browsed the information on the Qizhen website.

With a flick of the finger, the array patterns rotated the page to the cultivation essentials interface, where some commonly used cultivation pills for the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages could be seen. Simply click to purchase, and delivery would begin immediately.

The text above states that, on average, a small unmanned flying boat will deliver the goods in just a few dozen breaths.

Xi Heng used his spiritual light to pinpoint his location and casually bought a pot of lychee-flavored fasting pills.

Then she softly hummed a relaxing tune, closed her eyes, and waited quietly.

Perhaps because this courtyard was close to the place of sale, the Bigu Pill arrived much faster than she had expected.

Within a minute, the hum of a small airship could be heard outside.

A while later, the package containing the Bigu Pill stopped on the windowsill. Following her chosen option, it opened automatically, and the contents were retrieved. The small flying boat then retrieved the package.

Xi Heng raised his finger and with a flick of his wrist, the elixir bottle inside traced a curve and landed in his hand.

I poured one out and put it to my lips. The taste was sweet and refreshing, and it really felt like I was eating a lychee.

“Not bad…” Xi Heng turned his gaze and clicked on the homepage of Kai Gu Dan’s shop. He could see that there were many different flavors, which were more colorful than the Fire Hell flavor before—there was even a green pepper and eggplant flavor.

As I browsed through the online stores in front of me, I unconsciously lost track of time.

It took him a long time to come to his senses, and he began searching for clues about the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit on the array network.

However, after searching for a while, all that was found were marketing accounts on video websites that used some unknown sources to explain its rarity and power, treating it like a myth or legend, making it all very mysterious.

There is no explanation on how to find it, and not even a clue can be found.

Then, Xi Heng used his Black Array Master techniques to find a deep-water network domain, skipping over many text and video content with rather heavy content, as well as various strange commissions and black market goods sales interfaces, and went straight to the page for cultivation resources.

After turning over for a while, he clicked his tongue.

"Even the cultivation pills sold in the Deepwater Network can only be used up to the early Golden Core stage at most... and then they're gone."

"Perhaps the cultivation resources for those at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm and above have been monopolized by the major powers in Changping Capital..." Xi Heng muttered to himself.

"To get truly effective information, we might have to find people from those major powers."

She thought for a moment, and then sent a message to Jin You in Xiping City across thousands of miles via the wide-area network.

A response came shortly afterward.

After exchanging a few words, Jin You gave her the contact information of a cultivator from the Jin Yuan Sect.

After thanking him, Xi Heng easily added the person and began communicating.

With the help of Jin You, the lord of the city, it is still difficult to directly put the Five Elements Spirit Fruit into his hands, but other things can be much more convenient.

After establishing communication, the Jin Yuan Sect cultivator, knowing she had come for news of the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit, sent a text message directly:

"In the entire world, only within the highest heaven of Changping, there are three Five Elements Trees. Every few decades, a Five Elements Spirit Fruit grows on each tree, and its attributes are unpredictable."

“Every hundred years, Xiping City can receive one. If you do not want to wait, you only have two choices.”

"Which two?" Xi Heng replied.

"One way is to join one of the three major sects in Changping, accumulate merits within it, and exchange them for a spirit fruit," the other party sent. "The second way is to increase economic benefits in Changping Capital, develop the city, and accumulate contributions to exchange for it."

"Increase economic efficiency?" Xi Heng tilted his head.

"Changping Capital is not like those stagnant cities outside. As the central city, it must lead the way and guide the outer cities. The most important aspect of this is the development of the spiritual light economy." The Jin Yuan Sect cultivator sent another message:

"Whether it's proposing new economic strategies, creating new products or companies that are sought after by millions, or increasing output and improving quality... as long as the benefits are significant enough, one can make a contribution."

The other side gave an example: "For instance, the company that has made the greatest contribution to the development of Changpingjing today is the Spirit Creation and Spirit Blood Project of Yuansu Company. In recent decades, they have brought about tremendous changes to Changpingjing, and the contribution they have made is enough to exchange for ten Five Elements Spirit Fruits without much effort."

"Developing cities, huh?" Xi Heng thought to himself.

She's fine with things like burning trees, which can be solved with force, but she has absolutely no clue how to develop a modern city like this.

He had no problem developing Tianzhao in Chonghai Realm before, but if he returned to ancient times with a modern mindset and took power, he would surely find a way to make civilization progress.

But the world before her was completely different, even more advanced than the modern world she had once lived in.

In the world before she traveled there, androids and holographic immersive online games only existed in concepts and science fiction novels, but here they have already become a reality.

If she tries to develop the city based on her own insights, it might lead the entire city in the opposite direction. Forget about accumulating contributions; the fact that the high-ranking cultivators above haven't punished her is already considered a sign of their benevolence.

"That's a bit difficult... Are these the only two methods?" Xi Heng read the text aloud in the input box and sent it.

"Unless you have a relationship with an elder of the Supreme Heaven that you can use, or you have enough strength to threaten the three major sects, or you have unimaginably valuable treasures to trade with, then there are only these two options."

"A precious treasure..." Xi Heng wondered if he could exchange it for a white phoenix feather.

However, now that the white phoenix feathers have been integrated into her body and become part of her bloodline, she would need to reload her save file to get another one.

"If I really can't get it, I'll try reloading the save file," she thought.

Xi Heng could simply die and reload his save file, but he was unwilling to give up this life on the spot without any warning.

Furthermore, perhaps with a stroke of good fortune, one can accumulate considerable contributions with just a few simple actions.

She then asked the Jin Yuan Sect cultivator, "If I wish to accumulate merit points, do you have any recommendations?"

“Making contributions is not easy; one must be outstanding enough to have a chance.” The other party said, “You can try refining local specialties into new products and try to run a business. Although the success rate is very low, you can at least gain some experience… Many Golden Core cultivators from other places have taken this path.”

"Special products from this place... Spirit bodies and mechanical armor are probably not easy to sell in this city where there aren't many mortals." Xi Heng shook his head, said thank you, and hung up the communication.

"Why don't I first cultivate the Nascent Soul cultivation technique that Jin You helped me find, and advance my spiritual fire a few more levels? It will be of some use when resisting the Nascent Soul lightning tribulation during my advancement later."

The white-haired girl sitting on the edge of the bed tapped her cheek, not having come up with any ideas yet, so she shut down the wide-area network.

Just as she was about to get up to cultivate, a hand suddenly grabbed the hem of her clothes.

Turning around in confusion, she saw Yin Wanluan, who had been asleep all day, finally wake up, rubbing the corner of his eye with one hand and holding her hand with the other.

"Are you awake?"

“I have an idea.” She clearly knew about the text message communication between Xi Heng and the Jin Yuan Sect cultivators, and said in a muffled voice as if she had just woken up. “If we want to manufacture products and start a company, we can use the products from Fire Hell.”

"You were awake just now, did you hear everything?" Xi Heng tilted his head.

"Yeah, just squinting."

"Speaking of products from the Fire Hell..." the white-haired girl asked, puzzled, "So, the only one left is Spirit Fire, right?"

"Phoenix Script, a spatial artifact," Yin Wanluan stated directly.

"There don't seem to be any widely available spatial treasures in this world. If we could create a batch of storage bags that can be used by Qi cultivators or even ordinary people using Phoenix Scroll script and Spirit Storage Bag, it would definitely be a major development."

Upon hearing this, Xi Heng opened the array network and began searching for spatial artifacts.

There was no one selling them online, and even in the dark web's black market, there were only a few broken storage treasures available for purchase.

Indeed, there are no low-level spatial magic treasures in this world. The magic tools used by high-level cultivators may even be ancient artifacts preserved from the collapse of the heavens a thousand years ago.

“It is indeed a business,” she nodded.

Using spatial artifacts crafted with Phoenix Script as a foundation, filling the gap in storage in this world, I might soon be able to establish a sizable company and earn substantial contributions.

Although Xi Heng himself knew nothing about company management, there were spirit creation bodies in this world. He could simply purchase some spirit creation bodies set up by company employees and let them manage products, sales, and so on, while he only needed to make spatial artifacts.

If that's too much trouble, you can create an avatar to specialize in space products—not long after Yin Wanluan proposed it, she figured out how to operate it.

"Let's give it a try."

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Volume 1: Chapter 296, Economies of Scale

Ten days later, Xi Heng used spirit stones to purchase a small building outside, which would serve as the main base for the soon-to-be-established company.

If purchased with normal spirit points, the price of the building seems quite expensive, but as long as the cultivator uses spirit stones, not to mention a small building, even a grand mansion in the central city is not out of the question.

Spirit stones have extremely strong purchasing power in Changping Capital. Xi Heng only used a few dozen to meet the material resource needs of most of the companies he established.

During the process of selecting the property, she also purchased a spirit entity that was set up as a company employee to assist her in registering the company, making seals, opening company bank accounts, and handling various licenses, organization codes, tax registrations, and so on.

Generally speaking, this complicated process requires a long preparation time and takes several days to complete.

However, as a Golden Core cultivator, Xi Heng was practically invincible. He only took the company staff with complete experience for a short tour, which ended in less than an hour.

Xi Heng also bought a piece of spirit wood, carved it into a plaque, and hung it in front of the gate of the building he had just acquired.

The only words written above are the simple characters '凤箓'.

She didn't take the naming seriously; the company was merely a tool for her to obtain the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit, and once she had it, she didn't need to pay much attention to its development.

Perhaps after achieving the Nascent Soul stage, he could exchange his contributions to the company for some treasures, but that was a matter for later, and Xi Heng didn't care too much about it.

After registering the company, they casually finalized the structural plan, established departments, and determined the required personnel with the previously purchased spirit-created employees. They then continued to contact the spirit blood department of the Far Expansion Company to purchase more spirit-created employees.

Since the staff are purchased directly, there is no need to pay them wages. The spirits do not have many needs beyond work and rest. They only need to purchase some pills to satisfy their hunger and maintain their physical strength.

Alternatively, they could directly purchase large quantities of long-shelf-life spirit-created blocky food from the Far Expansion Company and use it as feed for the spirits in the company.

However, Xi Heng still treated the spirit creation, which looked almost exactly like a human, as a real person, and fed it various flavors of filling pills as meals. He even ordered some snacks from the array network.

On the fifteenth day of the company's preparation, Xi Heng made the first commercial prototype storage bag in the product preparation room deep inside the building.

The specific method is quite simple: just add some encryption methods that only you can understand to the Phoenix Register characters, combine them with the unique integrated array patterns of this world, and stick them on the surface of the ordered Phoenix Pattern storage bag, so that they blend with the spirit cloth.

As the prototype for the product, Xi Heng made it look as high-end as possible—the effort put into perfecting this was even greater than that spent on inscribing the array patterns.

With the finished product in hand, I'm fairly satisfied.

After it was made, she held the storage bag in front of her, which could be activated solely by spiritual light, and gently twirled it in front of her.

"The first one is a bit troublesome, but for mass production, we just need to attach the array patterns that have inherited the Phoenix Script and make some minor adjustments..." Xi Heng muttered to himself.

The person who makes the adjustment must understand the Phoenix Code script in order to make the internal space of the storage bag stable enough so that things will not be lost due to various turbulences, nor will it suddenly expand or shrink.

If there is truly no one else in this world who can understand the Phoenix Code, then perhaps only she and Yin Wanluan are capable of properly debugging this product.

"Hmm... let's leave this part to the avatar."

"By simply injecting the knowledge of integrating array patterns and a little bit of divine sense into the external avatar, the avatar will not have much intelligence and can work as steadily as those spiritual creations outside... The workload is not high, and the avatar does not need to be nurtured."

Even so, she still wanted to further increase her control over her avatar.

"After a while, I'll practice the third level of the external avatar technique to improve my control."

The technique of creating an avatar is a widely applicable method and should be further refined, Xi Heng thought.

In short, the first-generation product prototype has been completed.