My Endless Life.

Chapter 266 Do you want to make a bet?

Spirit stone... Li Qi knew what that was.

It’s the universal currency in fantasy novels.

But what exactly is this spiritual stone?
Li Qi didn't quite understand. He took the spirit stone in his hand and checked it up and down but couldn't find anything wrong.

The young man reminded:
"Try injecting your inner energy into it."

"Ok?"

Li Qi was stunned. He looked up and looked at the young man for a moment, then began to inject internal energy into the stone as he said.

When the internal energy was injected into it, the surface of the round stone actually emitted a bright light, and at the same time a special power surged out from the surface.

The power was extremely strange. It didn't seem like the vital energy of heaven and earth, nor did it seem like internal force, but it seemed like a special thrust that was transmitted to Li Qi's palm.

Li Qi's eyes widened when he saw this, and the young man said very complacently:
"How's it going? Amazing, right?"

"What is this stone?"

"My Dragon Martial Pavilion's specialty, the Spiritual Energy Stone, is specially used to drive the Yanjia, but..." As the young man spoke, his proud expression gradually faded: "...but even if I use this thing to drive the Yanjia, the Yanjia can only be equivalent to the seventh level of the acquired realm at most."

"As long as I inject my inner strength into it, will this stone release its power source?"

Li Qi ignored that and continued asking questions.

The young man said, "That's right. And because it requires internal force to activate, many mechanisms cannot use it. It can only be used by Yanjia driven by people, so this thing..."

"How many of these stones do you have in Longwu Pavilion?"

Li Qi asked excitedly.

The boy thought for a moment and said, "The annual output is about 20,000 kilograms. But since this thing is not very useful, we have a lot in stock..."

"Can you give me some? I can buy it!"

"..."

Seeing that Li Qi's eyes seemed to be glowing, the boy couldn't help but be stunned.

After a while, the boy suddenly became excited and came up to Li Qi and said:
"You like Yanjia too, right? I can see that! Those who like Yanjia are not bad people! Since you want it, I can get it for you! Tell me, how much do you want!"

"one……"

"One hundred kilograms? If that's the amount..."

"Ten thousand pounds! Thank you!"

"...?"

The boy's smile froze. He met Li Qi's eyes and was speechless for a long time.

The annual output of Longwu Pavilion is only about 20,000 catties, sometimes even less than 20,000 catties. But now Li Qi asked for half of the annual output right away...

Although Longwu Pavilion doesn't use these 'spiritual stones' very often now, such a large amount is not something that an ordinary disciple like him can handle!

The boy looked at Li Qi, hesitated for a moment, and wanted to refuse tactfully.

But at this moment there was a knock on the door.

dong dong dong-

A quick knock on the door interrupted their conversation, and at the same time a cold female voice came from outside the door:

"Li Xuan! I know you are in there, open the door!"

"..."

Li Xuan's expression changed again. Li Qi watched his face change from white to blue and then to black, just like the Sichuan Opera's face-changing. After struggling for a while, he sighed as if he had given up, and then shouted to the outside world:

"Got it! I'll open the door right now!"

After that, he said to Li Qi:
"Um...your name...what's your name? Forget it, I'll just call you Brother Li. Brother Li, wait for me here for a while. I'll go take care of my personal matters, and then we can discuss the spiritual energy stone."

"Excuse me, who is that person outside the door?"

Feeling the aura coming from the person outside the door, Li Qi asked in surprise.

Li Xuan sighed and replied helplessly:

"That's my mother..."

.........

Li Xuan knelt on the ground obediently. Opposite him, the woman with silver hair but young face, and Li Qi sat at the two ends of the tea table.

She looked at the helpless Li Xuan on the ground, raised her finger and pointed at him and said:

"Look at you. You don't practice martial arts properly all day, but make these messes!"

"It's Yanjia..."

Li Xuan retorted weakly.

The lady glared at him with her beautiful eyes: "How dare you talk back!"

Li Xuan immediately lowered his head and dared not speak.

Then the woman continued to scold:
"I've told you before that Yanjia is just an unorthodox method. No matter how proficient you are in Yanjia, is it possible that Qiqiao Villa is as proficient as them? Even Qiqiao Villa is good at making hidden weapons to fight against enemies. Look at what you made..."

The woman took the remains of the Yan armor on the table, put it heavily on the table, and then said:
"It's so clumsy and heavy. Once you climb up and control it, you'll be a sitting duck!"

The woman was still not satisfied, so she turned to face Li Qi:

"Young Master Li, you are from Qiqiao Villa, tell him if this is the truth!"

"..."

Faced with the woman's question, Li Qi didn't know what to say. After all, it was someone else's family affair and it was not appropriate for him as an outsider to interrupt.

Besides, the Yanjia that the woman looked down upon was exactly what Li Qi wanted. Li Qi told the young man that he wanted the spiritual stone, but the next moment he turned around and helped the woman to say bad things about him.

There is something wrong with this.

Li Qi was still thinking about how to tell the woman when he heard Li Xuan say unconvincedly:
"Brother Li is also very interested in this Yanjia! He just asked me about it!"

"Huh?" The woman was startled and turned to look at Li Qi.

Li Qi's expression remained unchanged as he explained:
"You also know that my Qiqiao Villa loves these strange and ingenious skills the most. Although the Yanjia made by your son is not powerful enough, it does have its merits..."

"I see. However, the Yanjia School has insufficient potential. Young Master Li, please don't follow the example of my rebellious son and go further and further down the wrong path."

The woman glared at Li Xuan as she spoke.

Li Xuan is seventeen years old this year, about the same age as Li Qi. He has good talent and has now reached the middle stage of the seventh rank.

But it depends on who you compare with.

Compared with those geniuses who broke through their innate abilities in their teens, Li Xuan's martial arts skills can only be described as excellent, not outstanding.

Of course, if it were just that, Li Xuan's research on Yanjia would not have made the woman so angry, but Li Xuan had a good talent and devoted himself to studying Yanjia.

If Li Xuan had focused on cultivation from beginning to end, he would probably be at the innate level now, not inferior to those geniuses in any way!
It was for this reason that the woman was very angry about Li Xuan's obsession with Yanjia, and felt that he was wasting his talent.

The woman's scolding of Li Xuan and her disdain for Yan Jia Yidao made Li Xuan even more disgusted.

He couldn't help but stood up from the ground and said:

"Why do you say this is the wrong path? Why do you say this path lacks potential? The mighty general I created can be used by anyone as long as they are a warrior! It can even be comparable to a seventh-grade warrior! As long as we continue to study and improve it..."

"That can't stand up to a slap from an innate warrior!"

The woman interrupted Li Xuan and said, "And, kneel down! Who told you to stand up?"

"Um... Elder Qi."

Finally, Li Qi couldn't bear to watch it anymore and said, "This Yanjia is not as bad as the elder said."

"Young Master Li, please don't speak for this rebellious son."

"Elder Qi, what I said is true. Your sect has a 'spiritual stone'. Can't you see the development of Yanjia?"

Li Qi brought up the spiritual stone.

Elder Qi sighed and said, "That spirit stone is just a more advanced toy. Although it can drive the Yanjia, it requires internal energy to replenish it. Ordinary people cannot use it. Although warriors can use it, it is like a chicken rib.

"Our sect is also good at mechanical devices. All the buildings and elevators on this mountain are from the Mechanical Device Hall. However, after having this spiritual energy stone for so many years, we have only used it as a tool to borrow power, so that our disciples can use less energy when using mechanical devices.

"Our sect has indeed made some research on Yanjia, and in the past, some senior experts have thought about making large Yanjia or even large land ships, using spiritual stones as the energy source to drive them.

"But what about now? What is the reputation of Longwu Pavilion in the martial arts world? I believe you should know it better than me."

That’s right, now when people in the martial arts world mention the art of mechanical devices, the first thing that comes to mind is Qiqiao Villa rather than Longwu Pavilion. This is enough to prove Longwu Pavilion’s failure in the art of Yanjia.

Elder Qi was talking to Li Qi, while Li Xuan lowered his head and clenched his fists, with an unwilling look on his face.

Li Qi thought for a moment and said:
"The past... that is the past after all. Today is different from the past."

"What is the difference?"

"Now I have it."

"?"

Elder Qi was stunned. She looked at Li Qi with a strange expression, then frowned and said:
"Young Master Li, don't joke..."

"I'm not kidding."

"..."

"..."

Li Qi and Elder Qi stared at each other for a while.

After a while, Elder Qi's expression turned colder, and she said to Li Qi:
"I thought Young Master Li was a reasonable person, but I never thought he was so ignorant."

"Elder Qi, don't you believe it?"

"..."

"In this case, I would like to make a bet with you, senior."

Li Qi suddenly said loudly.

Elder Qi's expression became even more gloomy, but probably because of Li Qi's status, she did not get angry in front of him. Instead, she asked in a deep voice:

"What are you gambling?"

"There are only seven days left before the Six Sects Martial Competition. I bet that in six days, brother Li Xuan and I will build a Yanjia that can rival the Xiantian!"

"impossible!"

Elder Qi said without thinking: "You are also an innate warrior. You should know the strength of an innate warrior. How can such a mortal be comparable to an innate warrior!"

"Nothing is impossible. Elder Qi, you just need to answer whether you want to gamble or not."

Seeing Li Qi's confident look, Elder Qi couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and finally asked:
"Okay, where's the bet?"

"The bet is simple. If I win by accident, I will have to share a portion of the spiritual energy stones produced by Longwu Pavilion in the future."

"Oh, what a big appetite, but what if you lose?"

Elder Qi asked with a sneer.

"If I lose..."

Just as Li Qi was about to answer, Li Xuan stood up from the ground again and said loudly: "If Brother Li loses! Then I will give up Yanjia from now on, concentrate on martial arts and never do these things again!"

After Li Xuan finished speaking, he stared at Elder Qi with his eyes wide open.

Elder Qi clapped his hands upon hearing this and said:
"Okay! That's settled then! We'll wait for you to create a Yanjia that can rival Xiantian's in six days!"

Seeing that Li Xuan had made the bet, Li Qi was not annoyed. He immediately changed his words and said:
"Then a gentleman's word."

"Hurry up and whip your horse!"

As the two clapped their hands, the bet was settled.

(End of this chapter)