“Then how about this, I have a favor to ask of you. If you agree, this green bamboo pen can be your reward. What do you think?”
Shen Juanxiu said with a smile. Chen Mobai was puzzled. He wondered what this wealthy senior could possibly need from him.
“Go ahead.”
“Do you know about the ‘Foundation Establishment Treasure’ app?”
“I don’t.”
Chen Mobai answered honestly. Shen Juanxiu took out her phone, opened the app, and showed him the icon.
“This is an app developed by the Immortal Gate, led by the four Taoist academies and the ten scholarly palaces. It’s also the most well-received app within the entire Immortal Gate.”
Shen Juanxiu explained what the “Foundation Establishment Treasure” was.
After listening, Chen Mobai was astonished. He hadn’t expected such an app to exist within the Immortal Gate.
As long as you import your personal panel into this app and then add the spiritual objects you have that assist in Foundation Establishment, the “Foundation Establishment Treasure” will give a probability of successful Foundation Establishment based on your internal conditions such as the realm of your cultivation method, as well as external spiritual objects like the three treasures of Foundation Establishment.
The actual result of Foundation Establishment and the data analyzed by the “Foundation Establishment Treasure” have a discrepancy of less than 1% in the samples of the past thousand years.
However, this “Foundation Establishment Treasure” app requires the use of the supercomputing power of the Immortal Gate, and not every user can use it at will.
To avoid wasting computing power and to ensure that the app is used by those who truly need it, ordinary users of the “Foundation Establishment Treasure” can only import their personal panels.
Since cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage do not need this app, most users are Qi Refining realm students.
Among them, students from the four Taoist academies have the first priority to use the Foundation Establishment Treasure, followed by the ten scholarly palaces.
In the remaining hundred and twenty prefectures, only a very few slots are available, and you need a recommendation from someone like the Red Robe Taoist master to be queued up for the use of the supercomputer’s computing power.
“So you’re saying, if I enroll in the Taoist academy and use my chance to import your personal panel to see your probability of successful Foundation Establishment.”
After listening to Shen Juanxiu’s explanation, Chen Mobai finally understood her meaning.
“Correct. Students of the four Taoist academies can apply to use the supercomputer’s computing power once every two years before Foundation Establishment, using the Foundation Establishment Treasure to calculate their probability of successful Foundation Establishment. Students of the ten scholarly palaces need to wait three years for their turn.”
“However, every new student can directly queue at the front to use the Foundation Establishment Treasure.”
“Given your performance in this competition, you can choose any of the ten scholarly palaces. What I’m asking you for is this.”
After Shen Juanxiu finished speaking, she nervously looked at Chen Mobai.
She had failed at Foundation Establishment once before. Although her family was wealthy, she had at most two more chances at Foundation Establishment.
If she failed at Foundation Establishment twice in a row, her vitality and essence would be depleted too much. Even if she attempted the third Foundation Establishment before the age of sixty, the success rate would be greatly reduced.
So for Shen Juanxiu, she must succeed in this second attempt at Foundation Establishment.
While she was collecting spiritual herbs to recover the essence she lost from her first failed Foundation Establishment, she was also slowly collecting the three treasures of Foundation Establishment. At the same time, she sought help from many people for the chance to use the Foundation Establishment Treasure app.
But no matter who it was, they were unwilling to give her this opportunity. After all, if they could successfully establish their foundation, it would be a leap to the heavens.
As for seeking help from the Red Robe Taoist master to queue up, that was even more impossible.
The Golden Elixir Taoist master was a person of great importance. Even if Shen Juanxiu’s family was wealthy, they wouldn’t have such influence.
“You’re currently at the seventh level of Qi Refining. It will take at least several years to reach the ninth level. After enrolling, you can give me the opportunity you get immediately, and queue up again after three years. By then, you should have reached the perfect state of the ninth level of Qi Refining and can attempt Foundation Establishment.”
“If you agree, not only will I give you the green bamboo pen, but I’m also willing to give you three pounds of second-grade Danzhu Spirit Sand.”
Shen Juanxiu didn’t beat around the bush and directly stated her terms.
Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai didn’t hesitate at all and immediately nodded in agreement.
“Ah!”
His quick nod left Shen Juanxiu, who had prepared a lot of persuasive words, stunned.
“Don’t you want to think it over?”
It was Shen Juanxiu who felt a bit embarrassed now.
But Chen Mobai had thought it through clearly. After all, he had the turtle treasure to act as a proxy. What might be a precious opportunity for others was just a matter of switching accounts and aliases for him.
Moreover, this wealthy senior had bought his Spirit Ascension Powder, providing him with startup capital.
It was precisely because of this money that he was able to buy enough medicinal herbs for Qing Nv to refine the Qi-Replenishing Spirit Water, which allowed him to improve his realm in such a short time, stand on the stage of this competition, and compete for the opportunity to enter the Taoist academy.
From this perspective, she had also helped Chen Mobai.
And what she said made a lot of sense.Given his current state, even if he had enough Qi replenishing spirit water, it would take at least three to four years to achieve perfection in Qi Refining in preparation for Foundation Establishment.
Therefore, this opportunity to earn resources was actually better for him.
Moreover, the second-grade Danzhu Spirit Sand was a valuable item that not even Good Deeds could necessarily buy.
The most famous things in Danxia City, apart from the “Jade Phoenix Tree”, were this “Danzhu Spirit Sand”.
This type of spirit sand was an excellent spiritual item used to prepare talisman ink, equivalent to the spirit essence in the refining of elixirs. Adding it to the talisman ink could greatly increase the success rate of blending and refining, and also improve the quality.
On the market, this Danzhu Spirit Sand could only be purchased by talisman makers registered with the Immortal Gate.
The first-grade Danzhu Spirit Sand was relatively cheap, only requiring 5000 Good Deeds to buy a pound.
But the second-grade one, the price skyrocketed to 100,000 Good Deeds per pound, and it was also limited in quantity.
As for the third-grade, it was a priceless treasure that would not circulate on the market.
The spirit sand mine in Shen Juanxiu’s home could only refine a few ounces of third-grade spirit sand every ten years, and such a spiritual item was impossible to exchange for a small Foundation Establishment treasure software success rate.
After all, knowing the result sometimes can be a blow to people.
The largest spirit sand mine in the whole Danxia City was under the name of Danzhu Academy, and together with the Jade Phoenix Tree, they were known as the Twin Treasures of Danxia, the biggest name card of this blessed land in the Immortal Gate.
“Wait a moment, I will bring the Green Bamboo Pen to you right away. I only have one pound of second-grade Danzhu Spirit Sand on hand now, I will go home to get the goods tonight.”
After getting the promise, Shen Juanxiu was overjoyed, and regardless of whether Chen Mobai had entered the Daoist Academy or not, she wanted to give him the reward first and reserve this opportunity.
“There’s no need to trouble Senior Sister Shen, why don’t we convert the remaining two pounds into market price and give me Good Deeds instead.”
Chen Mobai was not modest and accepted it directly.
He was in need of Good Deeds recently, and one pound of second-grade Danzhu Spirit Sand was enough for him, a novice talisman maker, to use for a long time.
“Alright, wait for me.”
Shen Juanxiu was quick in her actions, and immediately pulled Chan Si back to her cave dwelling to get the items.