46: Chapter 45 Jade Tablet of the Temple of Heaven, Register of Names in the Heavenly Court

President Chen Wang, as a prominent figure, had headed the Gaoping City Card Association for many years.

No matter how tempted he was, he had to keep a straight face; this was basic professionalism.

He smiled, poured a cup of tea, and asked:

"It is indeed tempting, but what is the price?"

Sun Po looked utterly confident and gave the answer he had carefully considered:

"Ten! I want ten purple materials!!"

President Chen Wang's stern square face finally relaxed a bit. He handed the teacup to Sun Po and said:

"I'll give you twenty, but there is one question."

President Chen Wang continued:

"How often can you use this ability?"

Hearing this, Sun Po shook his head.

"Confidential."

President Chen Wang was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily:

"Rest assured, countless Card Makers come to register at the Card Association. What kind of card-making talent haven't I seen?"

Sun Po remained unmoved, quietly sipping his tea.

President Chen Wang also understood Sun Po's intentions.

This brat was holding back!

He also understood that geniuses like this were usually like donkeys that had to be handled gently along the grain.

If you smoothed their fur the right way, they would most likely give you a good reward in the end.

But if you went against the grain, it would directly push them to the opposite side, making them go against you.

Moreover, it was impossible for him to simply take control of someone just like that.

Holding a high position, President Chen Wang naturally wasn't lacking this bit of composure.

He let out a haha and smiled:

"It doesn't matter. If you don't want to say it, then don't. I said I'd give you twenty, so twenty it is. Let's just consider this making a friend.

However, if Little Friend Sun has spare capacity, please spare some time to help a few of my old comrades.

As for the price, we'll stick to what we discussed today."

Sun Po was noncommittal and continued:

"Then please take me to choose those twenty purple materials first."

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Ten-odd minutes later, passing through the blockade of layers of mechanical doors,

Sun Po finally followed President Chen Wang to a place resembling a warehouse.

This warehouse was filled with rows of various metal shelves, and the items on the shelves were each sealed in large golden boxes.

President Chen Wang led Sun Po making several turns until they reached rows of purple metal shelves, and pointing at them, he said:

"From here on is the purple material zone. I'll have someone pick twenty for you and send them to your house along with my [Heavenly Soldier] card."

Looking at the endless rows of purple shelves, Sun Po's eyes gleamed with a thief's light:

"I really want to empty the whole place out!! If all the items in this room were decomposed? Changyou's 15,000,000 spirituality value would probably almost be enough, right?"

It couldn't be blamed that Sun Po lacked worldly experience. Previously, he had only dealt with Gaoping City's public material market, which was mostly dominated by gray, white, and green materials, belonging to the low-end market catering to the general public.

It was already pure luck for Sun Po to occasionally fish out a few purple ones from there. As for the orange [Ruins of the Tianhe Water Mansion], he had only found it thanks to Liu Jianren's sheer dog luck.

But what stood before him now was the Gaoping City Card Association, the true official institution whose overall strength was definitely stronger than any of the three major families in Gaoping City.

Accumulated over many years, its internal warehouse naturally couldn't be shabby.

To prevent severe leakage of spirituality, these materials were tightly sealed in these metal boxes, and Sun Po couldn't identify the materials either, so he casually picked twenty boxes.

After returning to Yang Xinyue's home, Sun Po looked at the neatly arranged large golden boxes and was very satisfied.

Who would have thought that the delivery staff would quickly take those materials out of the boxes and pull the boxes away to get back on the truck.

Sun Po was puzzled:

"Are these boxes not staying?"

That staff member was the exact one who had received Sun Po that day. With a look that said "you wish," he replied:

"According to Professor Bai's research, gold can effectively alleviate the leakage of spirituality from materials,

therefore, these boxes are all cast from pure gold. The president instructed that the boxes must be hauled back."

Sun Po sighed once more:

Gold? Leakage of spirituality? This Professor Bai seemed to really have some tricks up his sleeve.

Still, the Card Association was truly unhumanly wealthy!!

With that, he began to decompose these twenty pieces of purple materials.

Since there were no particularly special purple materials among them, Sun Po finished the decomposition very quickly.

His spirituality value reached a terrifying 2,400 points, also hitting an all-time high.

Looking at the spirituality bar and the screen of the self-made MOD, Sun Po took a deep breath.

The path of entrepreneurship starts right here!

Immediately afterward, he began to conceptualize the MOD he had imagined last night in his mind.

During the match, he had noticed that whether it was the "Gang" character incantation or the "Zha" character incantation used by the [Heavenly Soldier], they were both related to Taoism from his past life.

Even that small, tattered alms bowl made Sun Po feel somewhat similar to the legendary [White Jade Divine Bowl].

Therefore, Sun Po guessed,

since these [Heavenly Soldier]s could learn Taoist arts, they were inseparable from Taoism.

And in Taoism, there was a saying about granting registers.

In later modern times, granting registers might not be all that important or mysterious,

but in ancient times, granting registers was one of the most important rituals for Taoist disciples.

The so-called "Jade Registry of the Altar of Heaven, Enrolled in the Heavenly Bureau" was precisely this.

Various Taoist sects had different registers granted to them;

for example, the Quanzhen Sect had the "Thunder-struck Jujube Wood Tablet", the Shenxiao Sect had the "Meteorite Register", and other various sects also had various forms such as "Jade Book" and "Stone Tablet".

In his past life, he had the good fortune to have seen the Shenxiao Sect's [Meteorite Register].

In his mind, he began to mold this lump of colorful jelly according to that shape.

"About thirty-odd centimeters? Sword-shaped."

"The shape of that piece is about like this? Yang inscription on the front, Yin talisman on the back. Hmm, it feels pretty much like the one in my memory."

After half an hour of carving, Sun Po looked with satisfaction at the quaint-styled iron sword on the screen and clicked confirm.

[MOD [Shenxiao Meteorite Register] has been crafted, quality is [Purple 1-Star]

Consumed a total of 400 spirituality points, remaining 2,000 spirituality points, gained 20 system experience points]

[MOD [Shenxiao Meteorite Register] compatibility with [Heavenly Soldier]: 94%]

[MOD [Shenxiao Meteorite Register] load success rate: 91%]

Striking while the iron was hot, Sun Po continued in one go,

"Read [Shenxiao Meteorite Register], load the [Shenxiao Meteorite Register] MOD for [Heavenly Soldier]."

The next second,

light and shadow shifted before Sun Po's eyes, and his consciousness was suddenly pulled into a vast starry sky.

Standing beside him was the president's [Heavenly Soldier].

They were like prisoners exiled in the universe, unable to shout or move.

Suddenly, his field of vision was filled with a huge, tattered ancient scroll.

That ancient scroll was severely damaged, with seven or eight out of ten characters on it destroyed.

Sun Po could neither recognize the handwriting nor move,

but that [Heavenly Soldier] held the [Shenxiao Meteorite Register] crafted by Sun Po and flew straight into a certain spot within the ancient scroll.

Immediately afterward, Sun Po vaguely saw that two more characters in the ancient scroll had disappeared.

The next second,

Sun Po's vision fiercely returned to his room, and he suddenly saw an extra [Heavenly Soldier] in silver spear and silver armor standing before him.

That [Heavenly Soldier] looked seemingly no different from before, but its eyes were much more lively, no different from an ordinary person.

With a thud, it knelt on one knee on the ground and said in a deep voice:

"Many thanks to the Immortal Master for bestowing the name!!"

At this point, Sun Po also let out a long sigh of relief.

His first business deal should be considered a success!

2,000 spirituality points! Secured!!

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