Chapter 552 - 550: Repaying Karma and Shared Grand Thousand
Chapter 552: Chapter 550: Repaying Karma and Shared Grand Thousand
He watched Su Qianyou eat.
Su Qing ate a little himself.
Speaking of which, the Spirit Chef’s skills were impressive.
They had perfectly balanced the Spiritual Qi within all the ingredients, as well as the flavors.
This made the food a feast for the senses, and it also maximized the absorption of Spiritual Qi.
Su Qianyou didn’t refuse a single dish.
She ate everything.
When Su Qianyou had almost finished eating,
Su Qing gently stroked her hair.
"Qianyou, you must cultivate diligently, even with your high Talent."
"You still need to focus on your cultivation."
"I know." Su Qianyou nodded, her expression still calm.
Su Qing smiled. "I feel like I’ve said this many times before."
"Do you want to go walk around the Marketplace?"
Su Qianyou nodded. She thought that was a great idea!
"Then let’s go browse the Marketplace." Su Qing just wanted to have a look around.
He simply wanted to understand what sorts of products this world had to offer.
Leaving some Spirit Stones on the table, Su Qing flew out of the window with Su Qianyou.
Su Qing had estimated a fair price for the Tier Three dishes and the Spirit Chef’s craftsmanship.
Su Qing was confident that even if he hadn’t left any Spirit Stones, the establishment would have accepted it.
Such were the privileges of the powerful.
Su Qing appeared in the Marketplace with Su Qianyou.
Many Cultivators looked at Su Qianyou with disgust and revulsion.
Su Qing was displeased, but on second thought, he couldn’t entirely blame them. The love of beauty was universal, and Cultivators were no exception.
However, to avoid unnecessary trouble,
Su Qing released a sliver of his might.
Passersby and stall-keeping Cultivators alike turned to look, their eyes stopping on the Token at Su Qing’s waist.
Everyone was shocked.
’A Peak Lord is actually visiting the Marketplace!’
’This is a rare sight, especially here on Zuyang Peak.’
’Could that be the Peak Lord of Zuyang Peak?’
The crowd was stunned by the Token at Su Qing’s waist and his unfathomable might.
Su Qing strolled through the Marketplace with Su Qianyou.
He was constantly searching for things among the stalls.
[Autumn Leaf Butterfly Specimen: The stiffened corpse of a Tier One Spirit Beast...]
[Wind-Chirping Cicada: Chirps when it encounters wind. Its cry can provide a slight increase in cultivation insights for Wind Dao Cultivators.]
...
They were all things of little use.
When Su Qing saw some of the pets for sale,
he couldn’t help but freeze.
He thought of Xiaoqing.
...
’Xiaoqing... is probably dead.’ A knot of discomfort tightened in Su Qing’s heart.
’It feels like I was the one who killed Xiaoqing.’
’With Xiaoqing’s power, there was no way it could have resisted the invasion of the Breath of Chaos.’
Su Qing felt a pang of sadness.
All of this, just to prove one of his own ideas... he had destroyed everything.
"Brother, do you want to get a pet?" Su Qianyou asked, sensing something was off with Su Qing.
Su Qing whispered, "No."
"I was just thinking of some old friends."
"I just saw a stone."
"I want it." For the first time, Su Qianyou tugged on Su Qing’s arm, acting cute with him.
Su Qing was puzzled.
"What stone?"
"Where is it? You should have said something just now."
"It’s just something that costs a few Spirit Stones." Su Qing led Su Qianyou back the way they came.
After walking for a moment, Su Qianyou pointed at a stall.
The stall owner’s body tensed up.
The might radiating from Su Qing was terrifying.
"Peak Lord!" He cupped his hands in a salute.
"Qianyou, which stone do you want?" Su Qing asked, confused.
The stall was covered in nothing but stones, and they all looked incredibly ordinary.
"Hm?"
’No, that’s not right.’
Su Qing saw a particular stone. After Su Qianyou touched it, the information within it actually changed.
"This is a Luminous Stone I found in the mountains. It glows at night and is very hard. If the Peak Lord wants it, please take it as a gift. I just picked it up, after all," the stall owner said generously and politely.
The stall owner had already accepted the worst-case scenario—that Su Qing wouldn’t pay any Spirit Stones.
"Brother, it’s this stone." Su Qianyou held the stone in her hand.
But Su Qing could see it clearly.
[Stone of Evil: An object of destiny. It coexists with a Pure Good, and can use the Pure Good to nurture the Pure Evil Flame.]
...
’To think such a thing actually exists.’
’Doesn’t that mean that as long as Su Qianyou isn’t around, this thing won’t change?’
"I’ll buy it."
"How many Spirit Stones?"
"No need, Peak Lord. I just found this thing."
Without another word, Su Qing tossed ten thousand Spirit Stones to the man.
Then he left with Su Qianyou.
The ten thousand Spirit Stones were to repay the karma. He couldn’t let Su Qianyou owe a karmic debt to the man.
The stall owner was stunned. Ten thousand Spirit Stones was more than his small stall could even hold. He was suddenly the flashiest guy on the street.
’I have to pack this up and get out of here, fast.’
This was a huge windfall.
It was clearly such an ordinary Luminous Stone,
yet it sold for such a high price.
Everyone now had a better understanding of Zuyang Peak’s Peak Lord.
It seemed Lord Zhang hadn’t been wrong; the Peak Lord doted on his sister.
If one were to accidentally offend her, wouldn’t they have their soul ripped out and their bones crushed?
Thinking about it from that angle, everyone couldn’t help but shudder.
Meanwhile, Su Qing took Su Qianyou and headed back.
"You should refine this stone. Go on." Su Qing picked up Su Qianyou’s stone and studied it for a moment.
In his hands, the Stone of Evil surprisingly reverted to being a Luminous Stone.
[Luminous Stone: A stone that can glow at night.]
A treasure chooses its master. For the first time, Su Qing felt how magical the world truly was.
After all, even he was currently unable to truly investigate this object.
’This place might still be within the space-time trunk of the Star Sea.’
Suddenly,
Su Qing froze in place.
’Something’s wrong!’
’Something’s wrong!’
’Something is very wrong.’
’The Grand Thousand Realm isn’t like this.’
’If something existed in the same era as the Star Sea Tree and also stepped into the Grand Thousand Realm,’
’then how could two powerful entities stabilize their own space-time trunks?’
’They would both be in the Grand Thousand Realm, and they would both need to protect their own space-time trunks.’
’What would the result be?’
’Perhaps the space-time trunk only contains the Star Sea Tree’s growth experience. The true Star Sea Tree, the one that experienced it all, already exists as a true Grand Thousand Realm entity in every fragment of space-time.’
’And the history of space-time is continuous.’
’The Star Sea Tree could probably only intercept the space-time from its own birth until it achieved the Grand Thousand Realm.’
’The more ancient the history, the greater the implications.’
Su Qianyou said, "Brother, are you going to keep looking at it?"
"It’s turned into an ordinary stone."
Su Qing came back to his senses and placed it in Su Qianyou’s hand. "It’s fine. It will change in your hands."
Sure enough, the moment Su Qianyou touched it, the stone began to change again.
"I’m going to refine this stone."
"Mm."
Watching Su Qianyou return to her room,
Su Qing once again began to perform an inference on how to break through to the Grand Thousand Realm.
The Yi Inference Technique began its deduction once more.
[Two methods: Repay karma or achieve the Shared Grand Thousand.]
Su Qing first ran an Inference on repaying karma.
The results showed that to repay his karma, Su Qing would have to open his own exclusive space-time trunk, return to the very beginning, and repay his karmic debts one by one.
He would have to return everything he owed.
And those who had shouldered his karma would not need to repay him.
...
’If that’s the case, wouldn’t I have to absorb the space-time trunk of the Star Sea Tree itself?’
All of Su Qing’s experiences had taken place within the space-time of the Star Sea Tree.
Su Qing performed another Inference.
[With one’s own space-time as the foundation, open a unique Space-Time Vein.]
So, it wasn’t about absorbing the Star Sea’s timeline.
It was about using oneself as the foundation to open it!
To open a unique Space-Time Vein.
Only by repaying his karma could he break through to the Grand Thousand Realm.
But right now, aside from the Eternal Dao Chaotic Immortal Qi, Su Qing didn’t have the ability to open a Space-Time Vein on his own.
"My Skill Level isn’t maxed out yet, it’s only around 130,000. Although my strength has progressed a lot, I still can’t open a Space-Time Vein."
Su Qing laughed at himself. "And here I thought reaching the Grand Thousand Realm would be a walk in the park."