Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 142 - 58: Innate Spiritual Object (Third Update)

Su Jie’s eyebrows drooped as he said, "Hmm, are you still looking to trouble me?"

"No, I’m not, don’t talk nonsense!"

"Then why are you still here?"

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Su Jie paused, looking Ning Xinyue up and down, thoughtfully saying, "What exactly is your plan in coming to Ghost Ridge Palace? Lay it out clearly for me."

"I just, I just came to get back at you."

Turning her head away, unable to meet Su Jie’s eyes, Ning Xinyue’s lying was too obvious to ignore.

"Not talking, huh? I’ll call someone! Maybe handing you over to the elders for a tough interrogation will get the truth out, they are much harsher than I am."

Su Jie pretended to get up, judging from her reaction that this girl’s visit to Ghost Ridge Palace was not as simple as seeking revenge.

Ning Xinyue grabbed hold of Su Jie, saying, "Wait, just wait, let me think."

"What’s there to think about? I didn’t hesitate when I saved you."

"Um..."

Biting her tender lips, Ning Xinyue finally caved in, gritting her teeth, "You swear to keep it secret, not to tell anyone."

"Don’t worry, I’m famously trustworthy."

Seeing Ning Xinyue’s expression, Su Jie realized, just as he had guessed, that this girl had another motive for coming to Ghost Ridge Palace.

"Heh."

Ning Xinyue’s face was incredulous as she almost scoffed at Su Jie’s so-called trustworthiness.

"Enough with the nonsense, out with it."

Su Jie’s face grew stern, this was Ghost Ridge Palace territory after all, where his word was law.

"I came here to hunt for treasure."

Ning Xinyue hesitated, revealing her true purpose for coming to Ghost Ridge Palace.

"Hunt for treasure, what treasure?"

Su Jie’s eyes lit up at the mention of treasure; he loved such things best.

Ning Xinyue rolled her eyes, vigorously saying, "How would I know what it is?"

"You don’t know and yet you came treasure hunting?"

His lips twitched, this time it was Su Jie’s turn to be speechless.

"I just know that here lies an exotic treasure about to emerge, but I don’t know exactly what it is. The recent Alien Ghost riots in your Ghost Ridge Palace territory, I suspect it has something to do with that."

"Exotic treasure!"

Su Jie’s breath caught, the so-called exotic treasure, formally known as an Innate Spiritual Object.

Innate Spiritual Objects are formed naturally by the influences of spiritual energy and other factors between heaven and earth. Unlike man-made Magic Artifacts, these objects are extremely powerful and possess various miraculous properties.

An innate spiritual object in the outside world was something even the major sects’ holy lands coveted.

"Is your theory accurate, could the Alien Ghost riots be related to the innate spiritual object? Isn’t it just turbulent earth energy, magnetic field changes causing it?"

"Have there been Alien Ghost riots at your Ghost Ridge Palace in the past that lasted this long?"

Hearing Ning Xinyue’s words, Su Jie couldn’t help but ponder deeply.

From the Alien Ghost riots to now, it had been half a year, while according to some elder disciples of Ghost Ridge Palace, the riots in the past decades had ended in a month or two and never persisted for over half a year.

That said, Ning Xinyue’s analysis made some sense.

Su Jie smacked his lips, then another thought occurred to him.

"That can’t be right! Have the sect’s elders not noticed?"

"Do you think exotic treasures are that easy to discover? Divine objects obscure themselves, don’t you understand? If they were so easily detected, all the treasures in the world would have already been dug up.

And no offense, but when it comes to finding treasures, I’m far better than those Ghost Ridge Palace elders who might excel in fighting off foes but not in treasure hunting."

Ning Xinyue held her head high with pride, staring intently at Su Jie as if he was the one to frighten her.

Regarding Ning Xinyue’s reasoning, Su Jie offered no counter; searching for treasures buried deep underground was not something his masters had taught him.

"When you were caught and put on the slave trading ship, you didn’t intentionally try to infiltrate the Ghost Ridge Palace, did you? You already knew about the exotic treasure, didn’t you?"

Seeing the girl’s proud expression, Su Jie was somewhat doubtful. If that was the case, her scheming mind was not to be underestimated.

Ning Xinyue’s expression stiffened and she weakly said, "That was really an accident."

Su Jie breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself, "That makes sense. With your intellect, you probably wouldn’t have the cunning to use yourself as bait. I was overthinking things."

"Hey, what do you mean by that!"

Ning Xinyue was angry. Were those even proper words?

"Can you find the location of the exotic treasure?"

Su Jie ignored the girl’s anger and continued to speak, focusing on the core issue.

Ning Xinyue’s expression weakened further, and she whispered, "I need time to calculate."

"So, you can’t?"

Su Jie stared at her, seeing Ning Xinyue’s guilt.

"I’m not lying. I just need to perform calculations. Don’t doubt my abilities."

Ning Xinyue puffed up her cheeks, displeased with Su Jie’s underestimation of her.

To prove herself, Ning Xinyue even took out a Jade Compass.

The compass was incredibly exquisite, with intricate patterns all over it like a sky full of stars, grabbing anyone’s attention.

Ning Xinyue took several spirit stones from her storage bag. As soon as the stones appeared, the air immediately became denser, and the concentration of spiritual energy greatly increased.

These were Mid-grade Spirit Stones, containing extremely abundant and refined spiritual energy. They could almost be used for cultivation without filtration, transforming directly into one’s spiritual power.

The only downside was the high price.

A single Mid-grade Spirit Stone was worth hundreds of Low-Grade Spirit Stones and was rarely seen used among disciples.

Under Su Jie’s pained gaze, Ning Xinyue placed the Mid-grade Spirit Stones above the compass. The spiritual energy within the stones was continuously absorbed by the compass, eventually turning them into ordinary stones.

With the spirit stones providing energy, an illusory map appeared on the surface of the compass.

It displayed the mountains, rivers, and streams surrounding the Ghost Ridge Palace, evolving on the compass.

"This is the Tianxi Eight Diagrams Plate. It can deduce geomantic formations of mountains and rivers."

Pointing at the Tianxi Eight Diagrams Plate, different colors and halos shined from the veins of the earth.

"Blue represents mineral veins, white represents underground rivers, black represents lurking Yin Qi, gold represents branches of dragon veins, grey represents..."

Ning Xinyue slowly explained before pointing at the geomantic map above.

There, a light purple cloud was floating, unlike the stable mineral veins. This cloud moved back and forth, completely without pattern.

"Do you understand? This is the target we are looking for. Once my Tianxi Eight Diagrams Plate locates the position of this cloud, we can find the exotic treasure."

"I see, how long will it take to successfully locate it?"

Su Jie nodded, understanding that the purple haze was indeed the aura of a treasure, signifying supreme nobility.

"As little as a week, or as long as a year and a half. I need to supply energy with spirit stones every day, allowing the Tianxi Eight Diagrams Plate to calculate. I can’t decide when it will be done."

"That long."

"Of course, deducing the secrets of geomancy is inherently fraught with difficulties. It’s not something that can be deduced at will."

"I mean, do you have enough spirit stones to sustain that daily investment?"

Su Jie emphasized, this girl really doesn’t treat spirit stones as money! With such an investment, it could run into a huge amount.

Ning Xinyue placed her hands on her hips, finally finding something to tease Su Jie about, and retorted, "That’s just a poor person’s mentality. You should know, even the Sect Holy Lands would be tempted by an Innate Spiritual Object. What does a little investment now count for? As the calculations advance, it will require more computing power, so the investment in spirit stones will keep increasing. But once we find the exotic treasure, the current investment will return a hundredfold, a thousandfold."

Su Jie calmed down. That was right!

The value of an Innate Treasure could incite bloody battles among sects. Every time an exotic treasure emerged, it caused a storm of bloodshed.

Such a treasure, if a sect knew they could deduce its location, they wouldn’t blink an eye at investing hundreds of thousands of spirit stones upfront.

Su Jie was penniless, but for the sect, emitting such an amount was absolutely not a problem.

However, Su Jie narrowed his eyes, looking at Ning Xinyue. This girl could bring out so many spirit stones without changing her expression; she was truly a walking treasury!