Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 77 - Pleasure

Chapter 77: Chapter 77 Pleasure

Jiang Ning finished his tasks and didn’t go looking for the transformer box to refine his body; instead, he went straight home.

He closed the doors and windows and lit a stick of Soul Suppressing Fragrance.

The Black Jade Bottle floated in front of him in the air when suddenly, the stopper lifted by itself.

Jiang Ning led wisps of smoke towards the mouth of the bottle, continuously purifying Doggy’s soul.

From time to time, he cast several Magic Formations and after these actions, Doggy’s soul finally stabilized and was not likely to dissipate easily.

“Next is to gather the materials needed for the Array, only then can I refine the Evergreen Liquid ingredients.”

Some simple Arrays can be directly laid out with Spells, but for more complex ones, Array materials are required.

These days, Jiang Ning had been using search engines, searching with various keywords like:

“Deep purple stones with black spots on the surface.”

Or “Blue wood that shows mottling when sliced,” to find materials he commonly used in the Cultivation World in his previous life. Once he confirmed the images matched those from the Cultivation World online, he would place an order.

In recent days, he had identified quite a few types of materials. Most of the materials needed for the Array were now gathered, but two were still missing.

One was Blue Glass Silk, the other was Jiuyun Stone.

To find these two items, Jiang Ning had created a reward post on a forum this afternoon, promising five thousand yuan to anyone who could identify them.

To ensure credibility, Jiang Ning first made a repetitive thread post. Starting from the 9th floor, for every multiple of 9, he would give netizens 20 Q-coins and cash out immediately.

After giving away 500 Q-coins, he announced the end of the activity, then opened a new reward thread, drawing traffic from the old thread.

Because he had established the image of being foolishly rich, with five thousand yuan enticing, the reward post quickly attracted a large response, and during this period, the forum was highly active, hiding dragons and crouching tigers.

Jiang Ning’s post became more and more popular and was even featured by the forum admin.

Jiang Ning opened the forum and was greeted by a dense array of private messages.

He looked through them one by one, most of them were spam messages, some asking for money, sending out little cards, and even someone claiming to have been wandering outside for three days without money to go home, hoping for a little financial support from Jiang Ning—not much, just two hundred to enjoy a good meal.

Jiang Ning directly blocked these and continued scrolling. Some netizens gave some guesses, which Jiang Ning noted down, until he scrolled further and someone actually sent three pictures.

Jiang Ning recognized them at a glance, it was the Jiuyun Stone from the Cultivation World.

He clicked into the other party’s profile, who turned out to be an aficionado of playing with stones, no wonder they knew such a rare stone.

Jiang Ning messaged them directly, asked for their WeChat, added them as a friend, and after getting their bank details, he transferred five thousand over to them.

He then opened a new post to show the transfer record, maintaining the persona of his account.

In the internet era, a reliable online account could greatly assist in finding materials in the future.

After posting the transfer image, it stimulated quite a few netizens, with immediate replies like “Rich man, let me cling to your legs” and “Rich man, let’s be friends.”

Jiang Ning indicated that there was another reward post for a different item, inviting interested parties to check it out.

With such popularity, finding the Blue Glass Silk should not be difficult.

…

In Class 8’s early morning self-study, Jiang Ning had just sat down when Geng Lu, holding her mobile phone, turned around, perhaps too hastily, her thin white T-shirt swaying with a silky curve.

Her tone was anxious, “Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, it’s not good, my cool run score is about to be surpassed, help me run one!”

Jiang Ning took it and saw that Geng Lu was still ranked first. He asked in confusion,

“Isn’t Ma Shicheng in second place trailing by a lot of points?”

Her expression was grave: “He has already surpassed my lesser scores, I must run a higher score to solidify my position.”

Jiang Ning: “Fine then.”

“Your equipment got used, I had to change your character, otherwise it couldn’t have reached that high score,” he said.

Geng Lu had no objections. She wasn’t a girl addicted to games, didn’t care much about the gold coins, diamonds, and such in the games. After all, it was Jiang Ning who was playing her account, so however he used it was fine with her.

Jiang Ning released his Divine Sense to prevent any sudden appearance of teachers. Sometimes he thought about it and felt quite helpless that Divine Sense was actually being used to keep an eye out for teachers.

But really, it proved very useful. Every time, it allowed him to know in advance when a teacher was coming, completely eliminating the possibility of having his cell phone confiscated.

With the help of the equipment, Jiang Ning easily reached a double score.

“Jiang Ning, you’re really amazing!” Geng Lu couldn’t help exclaiming, her eyes filled with stars.

After Jiang Ning gave the phone back to Geng Lu, he basked in the adoration of the young girl for a good while.

His mood started to become pleasant.

Just before morning self-study began, Guo Kunnan and a group of boarding students came in through the back door. Guo Kunnan headed straight for the podium to retrieve his 10,000 milliamp power bank.

Jiang Ning’s Divine Sense passed through the lectern and took a tour. There was no trace of the power bank inside.

Jiang Ning knew that it must have been stolen again by Dan Xiao, the Four Middle School Thief.

Guo Kunnan grabbed nothing but air, first a bit dazed, then realizing that his power bank was gone.

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His power bank, bought online for seventy yuan, was gone.

It had only been charged once in class, and disappeared overnight…

Standing at the podium, Guo Kunnan was faced with the laughter, jeers, and swearing from the students below, his face numb, suddenly feeling very lonely.

He stood at the podium, made a gesture, and then asked everyone,

“Did anyone see my power bank?”

Guo Kunnan asked twice in a row, only to receive negative responses.

Finally, Guo Kunnan experienced the frustration, helplessness, and regret that Zhang Chi, the sports committee member, had felt.

When he came down from the podium, Dan Kaiquan asked him,

“Nan, did you lose your power bank?”

“Can’t find it, damn.” Guo Kunnan was angry. “Don’t know which bastard took it.”

“Last time, Zhang Chi’s stuff was gone too, just like that. Suddenly missing from the class, unbelievable!”

Dan Kaiquan cursed alongside, “We definitely have a thief in our class, such lowly behavior, stealing even a power bank. Is he an orphan?”

Dan Kaiquan was sincerely annoyed. Ordinarily, he could use Guo Kunnan’s power bank when he went back to the dormitory. Now that it was gone, he definitely hated the thief.

From the front row, Dan Xiao heard this, turned his head for a look, and mentally noted Dan Kaiquan.

“Damn dog, cursing me, are you?”

“I’ve remembered this.”

“Wait till I clean out your family next time.”

Such curses were nothing new to Dan Xiao; he had heard them countless times and was well accustomed to them.

Now, basking in the curses of Guo Kunnan and Dan Kaiquan, he didn’t feel bad at all. Instead, there was an unexplainable pleasure, as if he had won a battle, feeling victorious.

Guo Kunnan vented for a while, somewhat alleviating his frustration.

He rarely picked up a textbook and started to read.

His phone had run out of battery last night, and he had planned to charge it with the power bank this morning, but with the power bank gone, he couldn’t use his phone anymore.