On the third floor of the restaurant, Xing Ke and Jin Zha sat across from each other.

"By the way, brother, have you achieved anything in the Taoist Academy?"

After a few big dishes were served, Xing Ke's first question left Jin Zha speechless.

"Um...you asked this question, how should I answer it..."

Before Jin Zha even took a mouthful of the appetizing cold rice noodles, he put down his chopsticks in embarrassment because of Xing Ke's problem, shook his head and said:

"When it comes to [achievements], I am certainly the top senior brother among the hundred disciples.

But if you ask me about [achievements], I really don’t have any achievements that I can show off and boast about in front of my family.”

As he spoke, Jin Zha picked up his chopsticks and tasted the cold rice noodles and drunken shrimps in turn, took a sip of tea, and continued:

"What I usually do most is to find some problems that are disclosed in the weapon refining circle and try to solve them with my own methods."

"for example?"

Xing Ke chewed on the boiled cabbage heart and asked without paying much attention to table manners.

"...Recently I have just solved the problem of image distortion when low-level monks use long-distance teleportation mirrors.

After improving the refining method of the teleportation mirror, I sold it to a trading house in Chaoge City and made a profit of 600,000 spiritual stones."

"...Fuck." Hearing this, Xing Ke immediately cursed. He put down his chopsticks and looked at Jin Zha and said, "I hunt geese all day long, but I didn't expect that a goose pecked my eye today."

"Third brother, what does this mean?"

"I'm usually responsible for pretending to be invisible, but I didn't expect you to pretend to be invisible today." Xing Ke said with a bit of disgust.

Because this world has more than just human beings, the currency system is actually very confusing. The currency issued by the Shang Dynasty may not be easy to use in front of some high-level monks.

Therefore, Lingshi, a physical object that can be regarded as a universal energy source, has become the highest level of equivalent exchange.

For example, the table in front of Xingji is considered a luxury banquet. Not counting the service premium of the restaurant, it can only be sold for three spiritual stones at most.

The lighting, fuel, heating, and cooling costs of an ordinary person's home for a year are only two to three spiritual stones.

However, Jin Zha just downplayed that he had no achievements, while revealing that he just had a net income of 600,000 spirit stones...

Isn't this exactly like performing a disguised beta in front of the stars?

"Brother, you are really humble. Your income has long exceeded my parents' salary. Are you telling me that you have no achievements?" Xing Ke took a bite of the grilled lamb chop and said.

Personally, he is very unhappy about someone pretending to be a beta in front of him.

"No matter what, they are just projects for making a living. Real masters of weapon refining don't even bother to study these things." Jin Zha smiled bitterly and ate a piece of fried pork slices with chopsticks, shaking his head and saying:

"Third brother, you don't know that if a wise sage like my master Guangfa Tianzun were to solve the same problem as me, Tianzun might be able to see through everything at a glance.

But Tianzun really doesn’t care about this.”

Speaking of this, Jin Zha still waved to the waiter to serve him a pot of spiritual fruit wine before continuing:

"If you want to obtain cultivation resources, you must exchange something valuable.

But research projects that are valuable in the eyes of businesses are not necessarily interesting.

Not to mention it's complicated, and it doesn't provide any insightful help to your own practice and Taoism.

In the end, the only things I got the most were those spiritual stones."

Taking the wine glass from the child, Jin Zha took a sip of wine to moisten his throat before continuing:

"Isn't this the result? After a long period of stagnation in cultivation, the inspiration for refining weapons has dried up, and I was even forced by my parents to go on a blind date and get married..."

"Haha, aren't you experiencing the legendary mid-life crisis?"

Xingke smiled happily, listening to other people's complaints made him feel very good.

However, Jin Zha didn't care now. While eating meat, he said generously: "Heh, just laugh. Anyway, I won't get married until I become a true master of weapon refining.

What’s the point of just making fun of me?”

"Ahem, brother. You misunderstood." Xingke raised his hand and said, "What happened to you is actually not funny at all."

Although he didn't understand the situation in this world and didn't understand Jin Zha's pain, he had seen too many similar things and was no longer surprised.

It's just that this time it has a different background world, a new display method, and a theme skin, which gives him a somewhat novel feeling.

"Forget it, come on, let's continue eating." Xing Ke saw Jin Zha talking after a glass of wine, so he took advantage of the victory and pursued it:

"Today is the time for you, as a rich man, to pay the bill. If you don't eat more, wouldn't it be a loss?

And I will be responsible for listening to your complaints."

"Okay, then I won't hide it from your brother. In fact, I am quite prosperous in Wulong Mountain.

Let me tell you..."

——The following dinner almost became a story about Jin Zha’s heroic struggle history.

Xing Ke was really responsible for listening and eating as he said, and from time to time he complained about the logical conflicts in Jin Zha's words.

The meal lasted four hours, with six tables of wine and food, and it didn't end until late at night.

Jin Zha had been holding it in his heart for the whole day and poured out all the nonsense that he could not express in front of his parents.

And Xingke also fully understood what the world outside Chentangguan was like through Jin Zha's second-hand news.

Late at night, the two people with extremely high cultivation levels certainly did not eat up because of this small six-table banquet.

On the contrary, Jin Zha became a little groggy due to the several altars of spiritual wine directed at practitioners and his indulgence in himself.

So Xingji directly found an inn nearby and arranged for Jin Zha, who showed no resistance, to stay there and find two young ladies in the personal service profession to stay and serve him.

After all this operation, Xingke spent his own pocket money, and he lost a lot of money.

Then Xingke simply stopped practicing and went home alone, washed up and went to sleep.

As soon as I open my eyes, it's the next day...

Bang - Xingke's door was pushed open in a hurry by the maid Cai Que.

"Master, Master, get up quickly, I asked you to come over..."

With similar words in his mouth, Cai Que soon returned to the time of waiting for the third young master who stayed in bed to get up.

And when Xingji came to the lobby with Haqie, Li Jing and Mrs. Yin were already waiting here.

They all looked at Jin Zha, who was still a little dozing in the side seat, with complicated and strange expressions. In the middle of the lobby, there stood a man with a mustache who looked like a shrewd businessman with his head lowered.

...that little girl Nezha is definitely not here.

Seeing Xing Ke come in, Li Jing pointed at Xing Ke and asked the man with a mustache in a majestic voice:

"Look, Shopkeeper Qing, he found those two girls at your place last night?"

"Yes, yes, he is your noble master." The man's voice trembled as he replied.
Chapter completed!