Eternal Life: I Can Sell Everything

Chapter 237: Chapter 233: Opening Blind Boxes to Enhance Strength

Song Ciwan quietly left Wangjiang Cave Mansion under the cover of night.

She cast Escape into the Night, flying close to the ground as she sped through the streets. Afterward, she found an inn, changed her face one last time, and finally checked in.

It’s worth mentioning that finding an inn hadn’t been easy.

The first few places she checked were full, with no vacant rooms. She finally stumbled upon one, but only because two guests had gotten into a brawl over some argument. Both ended up injured, and the Shopkeeper had them taken to a clinic, freeing up two rooms.

Song Ciwan took the opportunity to book one of them, at last finding a place to stay in the crowded market district.

After all, Pinglan City was still far too lively this night.

The Night Parade of Hundred Demons had killed many people the previous night. While the families of the deceased were likely still grieving, this small group clearly didn’t affect the city’s overall prosperity.

The Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the first month, wouldn’t be canceled just for the sorrow of a few.

Song Ciwan locked her room door and cast the Great Derivation Birth Skill once more. The feeling of being watched vanished.

The Mortal World, deep within its bustling, chaotic heart, was also the perfect place to hide from prying eyes and Divination.

The jumble of chaotic energies, the fickle nature of human hearts, the endless greed, anger, and ignorance, love and hate, desire and attachment, the tangled web of relationships, joys and sorrows—even an Immortal would be rendered helpless by it all.

Song Ciwan allowed herself a brief moment of relaxation. Then, she sat cross-legged on the curtained bed, opened the Heaven and Earth Scale, and resumed her trades.

She had five more trades she could make before Midnight, and she couldn’t afford to waste them.

’Let’s see what I can sell—’

’Right, back in the Huai Xi Village Deceitful Realm, I didn’t just get Gao Xiaolang’s Mysterious Ghost Spirit. There were others. Sha Si, for instance...’

[You have sold a Village Level Mysterious Ghost Spirit (Hatred, Anger, Fear), weighing three catties and nine taels, and obtained the independent Array Formation method: Inversion Maze.]

In the Void Space, segments of Array knowledge flowed into Song Ciwan’s mind like a gentle rain.

Song Ciwan suppressed her delight and quickly focused on memorizing it.

The Inversion Maze Array was an independent Array. To put it bluntly, by obtaining this Array Formation method, Song Ciwan had only received this single Dharma Gate.

As for any foundational Array Dao principles, philosophies, or flexible application techniques, there were none.

She recalled how she had once obtained a copy of the *Reversed Seven Stars Array Daoist Book*. Judging by its contents alone, the book was undoubtedly comprehensive and remarkable.

However, its author, the Sorrowful Adept, had once written in its pages: "The path of the Dao in the Mortal World is at its end. Whoever is fated to find me and reads this book to its conclusion shall surely receive the world’s ultimate Array Dao inheritance, but they shall also suffer the endless torment of the Dao’s end!"

’—but they shall also suffer the endless torment of the Dao’s end!’

That single warning had been enough to dissuade Song Ciwan from studying the book back then.

In the Mythical Realm, some taboos were best heeded!

No matter how much Song Ciwan wanted to learn Arrays, there was no need to go head-to-head with some mysterious existence just for this one Array Dao inheritance.

And sure enough, the opportunity she had suppressed back then was now gradually coming back to her.

This Inversion Maze Array was an excellent start!

Filled with joy, Song Ciwan committed the Array to memory. Although she did so without seeking a deep understanding of its principles, she wasn’t in a hurry.

She even took out three Array Flags from her Vast Sea Grotto Heaven right then and there to try setting up the Inversion Maze Array—it was, of course, not very successful.

She had too few Array Flags. The Inversion Maze Array required at least twenty-one to even begin the initial setup!

The Array’s Level was considered Three-star, but its true power ceiling was higher. Its effectiveness depended on many factors: the strength of Song Ciwan’s own state during the Array Formation, the number of Array Flags, the level and material of the flags, and the level and material of the array’s core.

Song Ciwan didn’t take back the three Array Flags. She planted them around herself, figuring it was better than nothing, then operated the Heaven and Earth Scale once more, selling a ball of Sha Si’s essence.

[You have sold a Village Level Mysterious Ghost Spirit (Hatred, Anger, Resentment), weighing two catties and three taels, and obtained the Marvel: Hate Sea Sword Talisman.]

Hate Sea Sword Talisman: A Two-star Level Marvel, single-use. When used, if infused with Anger and Hatred Qi, its power can surge by ten or even a hundred times, potentially reaching a level close to Divinity Transformation.

This item sent a jolt through Song Ciwan, instantly energizing her.

’The description of the Hate Sea Sword Talisman is so unexpected. It’s just a Two-star Level Marvel, but its power can actually rival Divinity Transformation?’

’And the key is that it requires hatred and anger?’

’Then just what degree of hatred would be needed to truly make its power approach the Divinity Transformation realm?’

Pondering this, Song Ciwan carefully stored the item away and continued her trades.

To be honest, the matter of the green leaf left her with a persistent sense of unease. This anxiety pushed Song Ciwan to use every means at her disposal to raise her strength to the absolute limit. Operating the Heaven and Earth Scale to open these "blind boxes" was both a way to increase her power and a decent method of relaxation.

The surprise of a blind box was, more or less, always enjoyable.

[You have sold a Village Level Mysterious Ghost Spirit (Hatred, Fear, Terror), weighing one catty and eight taels, and obtained the Marvel: Netherworld Silk.]

Netherworld Silk: A Two-star Level Marvel, five uses. Possesses the ability to control Village Level and lower eerie entities, turning them into Puppets.

’A good item, but not very useful at the moment.’

[You have sold a Village Level Mysterious Ghost Spirit (Hatred, Hatred, Hatred), weighing two catties and one tael, and obtained the Marvel: Sea of Fury Stone.]

Sea of Fury Stone: A Two-star Level Marvel. This stone has no special use on its own, but because it grows in the Netherworld Abyss, it has the ability to contain a large amount of Anger and Hatred Qi.

The appearance of the Sea of Fury Stone stunned Song Ciwan for a moment, but then she was overjoyed.

Opening blind boxes... after opening so many and getting a pile of useless items, it had taken forever, but Song Ciwan had finally received something that suited her needs perfectly.

She felt like laughing out loud three times to express her joy. The Sea of Fury Stone seemed useless, but when paired with the Hate Sea Sword Talisman, wasn’t it a match made in heaven?

’Could it be that the Great Derivation Birth Skill has changed my luck?’

Coincidentally, she had just used up all her trades for the day. Seeing that there was only a quarter of an hour left until Midnight, Song Ciwan decided to forget about Cultivation for now. Instead, she took out the Ancestral Dragon Coins and quickly performed another Divination.

She divined the Celestial Secrets again; the feeling of being watched was gone.

Presumably, with the burning of that green leaf earlier and her timely relocation, the connection to that unseen spy had finally been severed.

What Song Ciwan didn’t know was that while she was repeatedly performing Divination to trace the source of the spy, in a mist-shrouded side hall in Pinglan City, a maidservant was holding a handful of leaves and counting them over and over.

"Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-seven, forty-two... fifty-six! What do I do? I’m still one short!"

The maidservant counted again and again to no avail. Finally, at a certain moment, she gritted her teeth, stamped her foot, and put the handful of leaves back into a glistening, verdant basket.

Then, she stealthily plucked one leaf from the basket and tucked it into her sleeve. In an instant, she cast the Earth Escape Technique, and her body vanished from the side hall.