As the Spirit Stones were paid out, a pleasant notification chimed in Xiao Jing’s mind.
He temporarily set aside the astonishment and clamor of everyone in the hall.
[Host has purchased a Beast-Control War Chariot for the Cultivation Target, successfully spending 32,000,000 Spirit Stones.]
[Congratulations to the host, gained 32,000,000 Cultivation Points.]
[Host bought the chariot at cost, saving resources and earning great value. Bonus reward: 10% extra Cultivation Points.]
[Congratulations to the host, received an additional 3,200,000 Cultivation Points.]
[Current available Cultivation Points: 36,530,500.]
Time to level up again!
Previously, he had only a little over 1.3 million Cultivation Points left. Now it had skyrocketed past 30 million!
“System, consume Cultivation Points to raise my Realm.”
[Congratulations to the host. 2,000,000 Cultivation Points consumed. Advanced to late-stage Profound Understanding Realm.]
[Congratulations to the host. 3,000,000 Cultivation Points consumed. Advanced to peak Profound Understanding Realm.]
[Congratulations to the host. 6,000,000 Cultivation Points consumed. Successfully broke through to early-stage Clarity of Mind Realm.]
[Congratulations to the host. 10,000,000 Cultivation Points consumed. Advanced to mid-stage Clarity of Mind Realm.]
[Notice: Insufficient Cultivation Points for further advancement.]
[Remaining Cultivation Points: 15,530,500.]
[To reach late-stage Clarity of Mind Realm, 20,000,000 Cultivation Points are required.]
Xiao Jing felt a wave of satisfaction.
The Crown Prince was currently also at the mid-stage Clarity of Mind Realm.
Using system funds, he had snatched the Crown Prince’s chariot and humiliated him in public.
And now, he had raised his Realm to match the Crown Prince’s!
Grinning, Xiao Jing turned to Mu Lanchu and said, “This war chariot and the Purple-Winged Griffin are now yours. Go ahead and contract the big lioness.”
“Mm.” Mu Lanchu nodded and stepped lightly toward the griffin.
“Big Lioness, my husband has bought you. I can take you away now. You’ll never need to fear the Crown Prince forcing a blood contract again. From now on, I’ll protect you—and my husband is also your master, alright?”
The griffin let out a soft growl, lay down before Mu Lanchu, nuzzled her affectionately, and then looked at Xiao Jing with gratitude.
Mu Lanchu smiled and reached up on tiptoe to gently stroke the griffin’s head.
With a shared thought between the human and spirit beast, in an instant, the Spirit Contract was formed!
Seeing the Fifth Princess form a Spirit Contract with the Purple-Winged Griffin so effortlessly shocked the beastmasters at Windborne Workshop.
This griffin had been in the shop for over three years and had never shown goodwill toward any human!
The Crown Prince had tried for years to force a blood contract and failed. Yet the Fifth Princess bonded with it in the blink of an eye!
She truly possessed the most refined Gold Crow Bloodline!
“Your Highness Xiao.” Shopkeeper Huang Qian respectfully invited Xiao Jing aside, presenting him with a golden manual titled Instructions for the Purple-Gold War Chariot, offering it with both hands.
“The chariot’s internal structure is intricate, with multiple mechanisms and arrays. Please review this carefully with the Fifth Princess. If you have any questions, our craftsmen are at your service and will come to your residence whenever needed.”
“And one more thing. When the Crown Prince commissioned the chariot, he had our craftsman inscribe a theft-triggered self-destruction talisman in the Spirit Stone compartment. Should we remove it?”
“So, if someone steals it, it’ll blow up?”
“Exactly.”
“If we remove it, how long will it take?”
“About one to two months. The internal Spirit Arrays and inscriptions are complex and intertwined. Mishandling them could require us to remake the entire Spirit Stone compartment.”
Xiao Jing understood. The Spirit Stone compartment was essentially like the engine-fuel tank assembly in his previous life.
And it really was quite complicated.
Hearing that it would take that long…
“Forget it, too troublesome.”
He already had the Cultivation Points from the system. Nothing else mattered.
Besides, having a built-in anti-theft measure wasn’t such a bad thing.
He casually tossed the golden manual into his storage space and returned to Mu Lanchu.
Mu Lanchu, still communicating with the griffin mentally, turned to Xiao Jing and said, “Husband, the Big Lioness said she doesn’t like pulling carriages. For daily travel, we can just ride on her back.”
Xiao Jing looked at the griffin’s broad back—enough to carry two or three people easily.
Griffins were proud and ferocious by nature. Pulling a chariot couldn’t be comfortable anyway.
He nodded.
Buying the chariot was mainly to farm Cultivation Points and irritate the Crown Prince.
Whether they used it or not didn’t matter.
He turned to Shopkeeper Huang and said, “We’re taking the griffin out for a stroll. Have the chariot delivered to the Fifth Princess’s residence and hand it over to the steward.”
The old carriage they came in this morning—Xiao Jing casually gifted it to the steward Wang Defu.
He told the steward and a few servants to take the old carriage back to the residence.
Once the Purple-Gold Chariot arrived, it could just be stored in the rear garden.
Anywhere was fine.
After arranging everything, Xiao Jing and Mu Lanchu mounted the Purple-Winged Griffin and left Windborne Workshop, continuing their stroll through Chongyang Market.
The streets were wide, allowing easy passage for beasts and chariots.
Pedestrians on the road paused in surprise at the sight.
“Isn’t that the Purple-Winged Griffin from Windborne Workshop?”
“Fiery physique, a bright red flame-like tuft on its head—easy to recognize!”
“Who are the two on its back? Don’t recognize them.”
“Seriously? One is the Fifth Princess, the other is the Third Prince from the Liang Empire—her husband!”
“The Fifth Princess? Haven’t heard that name in ages.”
“I heard that last night, on their wedding night, the Third Prince broke through the Dragon Gate with a single thrust of his spear and unblocked the Fifth Princess’s sealed meridians—her bloodline awakened, and it’s the strongest Gold Rank!” You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.
“What? That really happened?”
“As real as it gets! At noon in Immortal Spirit Restaurant, plenty of people witnessed her releasing her bloodline aura!”
Xiao Jing listened to the gossip and quietly chuckled.
It was getting more and more exaggerated…
Mu Lanchu blushed, her pretty eyes slightly misty as she looked shyly at Xiao Jing.
“Husband…”
“Ignore the rumors. What matters is, now that the whole city knows your bloodline has recovered, you can’t fall behind. You must raise your Realm quickly.”
Xiao Jing took Chuchu to a pill shop and bought a large batch of pills—Body Refining Pills, Foundation Establishment Pills, Spirit Gathering Pills, and more.
All essential for Mu Lanchu’s current stage of cultivation.
He also bought a dozen bottles suitable for Liu Lingxue’s Realm back at the residence.
Total spending: over 100,000 Spirit Stones.
It met the system’s spending requirements.
Cultivation Points obtained.
[Current available Cultivation Points: 15,665,700.]
Next, they visited a magical weapon store.
After browsing, he bought Chuchu a Heaven-grade close-fitting defensive soft armor.
It was the best ready-made item available in Chongyang Market.
At least good enough for her to wear for protection.
Spent over 3 million Spirit Stones.
Cultivation Points obtained.
[Current available Cultivation Points: 19,095,700.]
Seeing the balance of Cultivation Points, Xiao Jing began calculating.
He was just shy of the 20 million needed to advance to late-stage Clarity of Mind Realm.
Besides, learning martial techniques and methods would also require more points.
So what should he buy next for Chuchu to spend another million or a few million Spirit Stones?
While thinking, a new system prompt suddenly popped into his mind.
[Binding Target Liu Lingxue is very angry. She thinks something is wrong with your brain.]
??
Xiao Jing was stunned.
He had been out of the residence all day and hadn’t seen that Miss Liu even once.
He had just bought her some pills earlier.
Why did such a message suddenly pop up?