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Chapter 12: 012
Chapter 12: 012
Chapter 12
The Xuantian Mirror had two functions: one-on-one communication and access to the Xuantian Garden.
In the Xuantian Garden, cultivators from all corners of the world gathered together, sharing various discussions and even posting or accepting tasks, buying and selling items.
The sword cultivator said to Jian Huan, "Master, you need to choose a Xuantian ID first so I can find you."
The Xuantian Mirror was essentially a simple version of a phone, and Jian Huan quickly got the hang of it after a brief understanding.
Hearing the sword cultivator's words, she wrote a few characters on the mirror's surface with flourishing strokes, then told the other party her ID: "Rich Talisman Seller."
Soon, ripples appeared on Jian Huan's mirror surface, showing that cultivator [Jian Tianxia] had become her friend.
Jian Tianxia contentedly put away his Xuantian Mirror and cupped his hands towards Jian Huan: "Master Rich, I'll go get my sword first. We'll keep in touch for future talisman needs."
Jian Huan, busy fiddling with her Xuantian Mirror, didn't even look up as she replied, "Go ahead, go ahead."
After Jian Tianxia bid farewell and disappeared into the crowd, three or four people almost simultaneously emerged from the same crowd.
They approached Jian Huan with their newly repaired weapons, taking out their Xuantian Mirrors: "Master, could we add your Xuantian ID?"
Jian Huan: "?"
Her gaze swept over these people, then across the nearby crowd, and she nodded thoughtfully.
She certainly wouldn't refuse new connections.
These were all potential customers.
They traveled far and wide, slaying monsters and beasts, with great demands for weapons and talismans.
But she didn't believe there wasn't someone behind their simultaneous approach to add her.
As for who that person was, it went without saying.
When the moon rose above the willow tops, Shen Jizhi pushed open the door.
With a creak, moonlight spilled in behind him.
Inside, Jian Huan, who was drawing talismans, looked up and casually greeted him: "You're back?"
"Mm." Shen Jizhi placed two large sacks he'd been carrying against the wall.
Previously, he had kept these things in the Equipment Forging Hall.
But now that there were many broken swords and damaged blades he'd collected, it wasn't convenient to do his private work openly in the Equipment Forging Hall, so it was better to do it at home.
After all, she had already discovered it.
After putting down the sacks, Shen Jizhi straightened up, his gaze falling on Jian Huan.
Noticing his gaze, Jian Huan looked up with slight confusion: "Why are you looking at me?"
Shen Jizhi withdrew his gaze, took out a meditation mat, and sat down.
The hair bun on his head had become somewhat disheveled, so he simply removed the wooden hairpin, letting his long hair fall instantly, cascading over his shoulders.
His loose hair softened his cold and frosty temperament, making his face appear even paler. That flawless face, in the candlelight's reflection, looked like fragile colored glass.
He casually gathered his hair and looked at the items beside her: "You bought a Xuantian Mirror?"
Here it comes.
She knew he would be the first to get restless!
She'd make him pay dearly for this!
That talisman brush, with all sorts of hints that it was made by other senior brothers from the Equipment Forging Hall, was clearly his handiwork!
And secretly forging equipment at the Immortal Storage Tower, claiming to be on night duty every few days recently and not coming home: he was just secretly making extra money behind her back.
Now that she had discovered it, he suddenly didn't need to be on night duty tonight and even brought both sacks home.
Such a dishonest man.
Jian Huan turned her face aside, her long thick eyelashes casting down... she picked up her brush again to draw talismans: "Yes."
Shen Jizhi retied his hair: "That's good, how much did you pay for it?"
Jian Huan was drawing particularly smoothly, and replied without hesitation: "Two thousand spirit stones."
Shen Jizhi's eyelashes flickered slightly, clearly not believing it: "Heh."
Jian Huan glared at him: "What are you 'heh-ing' about?"
Shen Jizhi pointed at the Xuantian Mirror from where he sat: "The cheapest one at the Treasure Pavilion is eighteen hundred, and you definitely couldn't have bought one more expensive than that at the Immortal Storage Tower. Yours cost at most a thousand spirit stones."
Jian Huan: "..."
Jian Huan finished the last stroke, put aside the freshly made transportation talisman, and turned her back to him, making faces at the air: "What does it matter to you how much I paid? Why do you care if I bought it for one thousand or two thousand? What if I wanted to pay two thousand?"
After a moment of silence, Shen Jizhi slowly revealed his intention: "I've asked my customers to add your Xuantian ID. If anyone contacts you about repairing magical tools and such, please let me know. Half the cost of the Xuantian Mirror can be added to the account book."
Jian Huan spread out a new talisman paper, and hearing this, she simply mimicked his earlier response: "Heh."
Dream on!
Shen Jizhi: "..."
Shen Jizhi sighed softly: "Then what do you suggest?"
Jian Huan had already thought about this on her way back: "Record one thousand spirit stones in the account, and you give me ten percent of every transaction through the Xuantian Mirror."
Shen Jizhi sneered: "You only paid one thousand spirit stones for it."
To record the full thousand in his account and still want a commission?
Jian Huan shrugged, indifferently: "If you don't want to record it in the account, then you can give me five hundred spirit stones now."
With that order number twenty-one, who knows when she'd get the money he owed her?
Shen Jizhi: "..."
Silence fell between them.
After a while, Shen Jizhi made the first concession: "Recording one thousand is fine, but no commission."
Jian Huan rolled her eyes: "I plan to make this Xuantian ID big and strong, I need to promote myself extensively in the Xuantian Garden, and when your customers find me, I need to respond to them promptly. Doesn't all this take effort? If your equipment forging wasn't decent, and if we couldn't expand our business scope and capture the market by working together, I wouldn't even want to share a Xuantian ID with you!"
Hearing this, Shen Jizhi frowned, carefully considering.
Some of the terms she used seemed to be her own creation, requiring some interpretation.
But he understood the general meaning of her words, and soon, Shen Jizhi agreed.
Seeing him nod, Jian Huan immediately added an entry to the account book.
The original hundred thousand spirit stones had been reduced to just over ninety-nine thousand nine hundred, and now it was back up to a hundred thousand nine hundred plus.
Jian Huan was secretly overjoyed.
Days passed quietly between cultivation and drawing talismans.
Ten days later, Shen Jizhi successfully split the storage pouch into two, greatly improving their living conditions.
Previously, their small wooden house had been cramped with many things, but now everything that could be stored was kept in their respective storage pouches, making the space much brighter.
That evening, Jian Huan was learning to draw invisibility talismans, but it wasn't going very well.
She threw down her brush, fell back, and shifted her body to prop her long legs against the wall.
Her skirt immediately fell, revealing moon-white pants and slender, fair ankles.
Jian Huan bunched up her skirt and pressed her waist against the wall corner.
In modern times, Jian Huan had liked to use this position while using her phone.
It was said to help slim down legs and waist, a habit she had maintained since college.
She lifted her head, brushing aside her troublesome long hair, the black glossy strands half-suspended in the air, floating slightly.
...
Shen Jizhi quietly observed her movements, finally withdrawing his gaze without saying anything, and continued his handwork.
After adjusting to a comfortable position, Jian Huan took out her Xuantian Mirror and began browsing the Xuantian Garden to change her mood.
This time before bed was particularly lively in the Xuantian Garden, with all sorts of messages. Jian Huan would linger longer on anything that caught her interest.
[Useless Cultivator: What should I do? I wasted another day, didn't cultivate at all, just lay in the fields all day, slept all day, now I'm really anxious.]
[Most Handsome in Nine Realms: Are there any beautiful female cultivators? Message me, let's cultivate together through dual cultivation.]
[Heaven's Chosen: Who's that ahead? Are you Shen Jizhi? Are you the Buddhist Disciple? Are you Li Wen Xiu? How dare you claim to be the most handsome?]
[Little Fox: Hahaha the Buddhist Disciple would never call for dual cultivation, Senior Brother Li is in life-or-death seclusion and has no time for Xuantian Garden, and Senior Brother isn't that type of person. Don't know about Shen Jizhi though. Any Jade Clarity Sect disciples here to tell me what Shen Jizhi's Xuantian ID is?]
[Heaven's Chosen: I want to know too, that sword practice scene a fellow daoist posted three years ago was truly breathtaking, but there's so little information about Shen Jizhi.]
[Jade Clarity Is My Home: Uh, Senior Brother Shen doesn't have a Xuantian ID, and besides, Senior Brother Shen has a fiancée, so everyone should give up.]
[Little Fox: What?]
[Heaven's Chosen: What??]
[Useless Cultivator: What???]
Jian Huan glanced at the person who was hammering away at spirit iron, and wrote casually.
[Rich Talisman Seller: What if they're just pretending to be married?]
[Jade Clarity Is My Home: Impossible, they live in the same house. A few days ago, my flying sword passed by accidentally, it was very late, but there was still candlelight in their room, and some... sounds, if you know what I mean.]
[Little Fox: What? What sound? Fellow Jade Clarity Sect disciple, please explain in detail!!]
[Jade Clarity Is My Home: You know, that kind of... um, that sound, creaking and squeaking... I won't say more, I'm going back to my room.]
[Heaven's Great Task: !!!]
...
Instantly, countless onlookers emerged to flood the chat, expressing their shock.
Jian Huan: "..."
[Money Master with Talismans: Is it possible that the creaking sound is them sawing wood??]
[Little Fox: Money Master, do you also like Shen Jizhi? I like him too, but let's not fool ourselves - who saws wood in their room late at night? My heart is broken, such a handsome man is already taken, wuwuwu...]
Jian Huan: "..."
Just as Jian Huan was feeling utterly speechless at how ridiculous the situation had become, that familiar sound came from the room again:
"Creak—Creak—"
Jian Huan glanced over.
Shen Jizhi was sitting in the corner, seriously sawing a piece of wood with a saw.
Jian Huan put her feet down, nimbly crawled off the bed, and couldn't help but shout: "Can you be a bit quieter?!"
Immersed in his equipment forging world, Shen Jizhi's hands paused at the shout.
Aliali: 67497f30c4f3f33ac4879907He looked up, his eyes tinged with a hint of confusion: "?"
Just then, Senior Tiger Fang, who was flying past overhead on his sword, suddenly halted.
He poked his head out from his sword, looked down at the wooden house below, flew back to his own courtyard, and immediately took out his Xuantian Mirror.
[Jade Clarity Is My Home: I'm home now, and I heard it again when passing by... um... Senior Brother and Junior Sister are very loving, everyone should stop having any ideas. Also, I'm at the Treasure Pavilion of the Jade Clarity Sect, if anyone needs any spiritual equipment, feel free to find me.]
Upon seeing this post, Jian Huan: "..."
She looked at the person who continued sawing wood and fanned herself with her hand, very annoyed: "Can't you saw faster?"
Shen Jizhi observed her expression, and finally gave a slow "Oh."
He sped up his movements, and instantly, the creaking sounds came one after another.
Jian Huan: "..."
She raised her hand to cover her face, not wanting to speak anymore.