Chapter 19: 018 Grandma Yushen (2/3)

“Madam Wang said it would take about a week for the paperwork,” Gale said. “When do you need me to make the payment?”

“As soon as you can,” Grandma Wang answered. “That kid of the Han Family will want to create problems if he can, so the quicker we can go forward the better it would be.”

“If there’s a problem, you can pay in instalments,” Xiaolin stated from the side.

“Money isn’t an issue.” Gale rubbed his fingers and calculated, considering how many marks he had with him. “Sadly, it seemed I don’t have that many iron marks.”

“That’s unfortunate,” Grandma Wang intoned.

Gale didn’t think so. He asked, “Can you make it happen with Silver marks?”

Wang Yushen was momentarily stunned, but it was so faint that others thought their eyes were playing a trick on them. “The exchange rate is a hundred to one. If you can produce that many, we can go forward immediately.”

“Great.” Gale closed his eyes and all the contents of the void lock came into his mind. There were a lot of items inside, from useless stuff that he poured he didn't know when to earthly and heavenly treasures. In one corner were a few piles of spirit coins.

Most of them were gold marks, the highest grade of spirit coins. Still, they weren't Gale's most valuable collection. Gale's eyes drifted towards a hefty heap of silver marks.

With a thought, he opened a hole in the middle of the veranda and let silver marks fall out of it. They were similar to iron marks, silvery crystals perfectly carved into coins. Thin smoky white mists drifted around them slowly, pulling a different vibe around them.

Gale only needed seven hundred and twenty of them, but he let it free until the number reached close to four digits.

Even though the fate-lock worked on command, it wasn't efficient enough to produce the exact number of coins on command. Well, it was mostly Gale’s fault. If he wanted, he could’ve made it happen, but it would take more time and energy.

Gale was patient, but not to the point that he would waste time on such a nuisance.

“You really aren’t someone who cares about wealth,” Wang Yushen read. “Xiaolin, go fetch a scripted lockbox. Each second you waste, you lose a few copper marks.”

Xiaolin was stupefied at the revelation of Silver marks at first and then at Grandma Wang’s word. She didn’t understand why she would lose money, but she trusted Grandma Wang enough to lurch up from her spot to scurry into the inn.

“Sorry, I forgot that the natural density of energy here is low.”

Grandma Wang gave him a flat look which told quite clearly: that’s why you’re still a boy.

Gale looked away and turned to his fingernail. They grew quite long. He took a mental note to groom them well.

A couple of minutes later, Xiaolin came back, barely carrying a metal chest with carved runic patterns in them. She gasped, dropping the lock box next to the pile of coins. She wasted no moment on collecting her breath and collected the marks into the chest.

“You only lost about a couple of iron marks.” Gale smiled.

“Why is that?” she asked, failing to contain her curiosity. “I didn’t see such a manifestation with copper or iron marks. Is it something unique to silver and gold marks?”

“Nah, just some energy ‘exosmosis’.” Gale paused, unable to come up with a familiar term in the common tongue. “Or something similar.”

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“Exo, what?”

"I don't know the word in the common tongue."

“The energy flow of this region is a lot lower than what is contained in those concentrated silver marks,” Grandma Wang answered. “Energy density always wants to get into equilibrium, and such low destiny in the natural ambient energy causes all the non-concentrated energy inside the coins to flow out. The ambient energy density isn’t low enough to cause this to iron marks, though it tends to happen over time.”

“Oh,” Xiaolin nodded heavily as the realisation dawned on her.

“You should have realised all this on your own. Now quit wasting time and collect your money.”

Gale watched the interaction quietly and then suddenly his eyes widened like saucers. Those white mists—the energy that drifted out of the coins—Xiaolin was absorbing them. No, it wasn’t like how a dry sponge absorbed water, as she wasn’t doing it intentionally, but it was something.

Gale couldn’t do that when he was barely an initiate or even a copper.

“Are you seeing this?” Gale couldn’t help but ask.

Grandma Yushen nodded as if it was nothing new to her. “If it wasn't for her faulty meridians,” she sighed, “Xiaolin would already be an iron ranker.”

“It's not faulty,” Gale murmured, eyes glued to the smoky energy soaking into Xiaolin’s skin. “Meridians were meant to transfer energy. The problem is that she couldn’t store it.

“She wasn’t even doing it intentionally. The energy was flowing on its own. It's like a natural ‘endosmosis’ process.”

Xiaolin turned her head to look at him, probably wondering what the hell Gale was murmuring about. “Is there something wrong, Senior?”

“Your condition is more unique than I thought,” he said. “You have no trouble absorbing energy above your rank, do you?”

Xiaolin considered for a second and shook his head. “Energy builds pretty easily, but at some point, they leak no matter what I do.”

Gale frowned. The energy has not transformed her body in any way, but she should be capable of using them through some skills. “You can apply the Qi in skills, like strengthening the body, starting any construct, right?”

“I can, but all the Qi lost in the application is lost for good. Qi doesn’t recover unless I cycle and absorb energy again from the start.”

Basically, she would probably need half a minute to waste a full day’s progress. If Gale had such a problem, he probably would be dead, mining spirit coins miles under the earth.

“From the looks of you, I can guess you haven’t applied Qi in any physical enhancement arts, keeping your physique fragile like a mortal girl.”

Xiaolin perked an eyebrow, but didn’t question. She was utterly conflicted about using her Qi, as her tank would hit zero in no time. All she was hoping for was to hold the Qi long enough to reach copper, after that she would decide what to do.

 

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