Chapter 12 Trading
Tao Ji was still mumbling about the black cat on the boat, "Pan Yun was so cruel to it, I wonder if he would abandon it to escape."

After all, a little girl with a black cat is quite conspicuous and easier to find out. If it were him, he might really leave the black cat behind in order to escape from the pursuers.

Tao Ji felt heartbroken whenever he thought about the black cat being stranded in the human world, suffering from hunger and cold, and lame on one leg. He thought about the possibility that when he saw the black cat again in the future, its hair would be tangled and its body would be dirty, and he would not recognize the old friend or the old cat.

Xuanmiao glanced at him and said, "Third Brother, you shouldn't just focus on alchemy, you should also learn some academic skills.

Pan Yun would not throw the cat away. Although I don’t know why, their fates are linked. The bond between the person and the cat is deeper than the bond between her and her father Pan Hong.”

Tao Ji: "Then when we get to Kaifeng, can't we just ask around about the little girl holding the cat and find her?"

Xuanmiao: "If she hides the cat, it will be hard to find it. Anyway, be careful and mainly ask for children around seven or eight years old who are alone."

Children of this age can become androgynous with a little bit of dressing up, so even gender cannot be locked in.

But they didn't expect that when they asked around in Zhuxian Town, they found out that there was no child aged seven or eight who had ever been to the pier alone.

One person got annoyed after being asked the same question twice, and said angrily, "Who would dare to let a seven or eight-year-old child take a boat from Damingfu to Kaifeng alone? Aren't they afraid of being caught by water ghosts and used as scapegoats?"

Tao Ji, who was yelled at, stood there with an innocent look on his face and turned to look at Xuan Miao.

Xuan Miao frowned, turned around and said, "Eat something first, and then look for it after you are full."

He found a stall and sat down. Xuanmiao took out a handful of copper coins, picked out the three cleanest and most undifferentiated ones, shook them in the palm of his hand, threw them six times in a row, and then made divination.

Tao Ji whispered, "Junior sister, didn't you say it's not good to predict the same thing over and over again?"

Xuanmiao: "There is no way forward, so we must use divination."

Xuanmiao looked at the hexagram with a frown. This hexagram was too strange. It showed that she was in danger, but the hexagram was not bad. After thinking about it, she simply started over.

The mysterious one is the simplest, and it only asks "Where is Pan Yun now?"

After the hexagram came out, Xuanmiao said, "We will go north after dinner. The hexagram shows that Pan Yun is to our north."

Tao Ji: "Could it be possible that she has already left Kaifeng and headed north? Then it would be faster for us to catch up with her by land."

Although Xuanmiao felt that something was wrong, she couldn't figure out what it was, so she could only nod and say, "Anyway, it won't be wrong to go to Datong. Her ultimate goal is to go to Datong to find Pan Hong and his son."

After eating noodles, Xuanmiao and Tao Ji went to the carriage and horse shop to rent horses.

That’s right, in order to chase someone, they finally generously rented horses.

A man and a horse rode north along the official road, glancing past the people in the north until dusk.

By the fire, Tao Ji added firewood and said in disbelief, "She wasn't there along the way. Did she rent a carriage like them? I remember she didn't have any money? Or did we make trouble for her?"

Xuanmiao was arranging the hexagrams, and after a moment he put away the coins and said in a deep voice, "She is still to the north of us."

Tao Ji wanted to say something but stopped.

Xuan Miao snorted and said, "I couldn't have calculated it wrong. She went south by water."

Then how did she get to their north so quickly?
Tao Ji's eyes widened. "Could it be a magical skill? Shrinking the ground to an inch, traveling a thousand miles?"

The more Tao Ji talked, the more excited he became. "It's really possible, Junior Sister. She can hide in the plum tree. You don't even know this kind of skill. It's a pity that she was very fierce along the way, so it's not easy to ask such a secret."

Xuanmiao was deep in thought, also considering this possibility.

But no matter what, she succeeded in arousing her competitive spirit, and she clenched her fists and said, "I must catch her."

Amid the flickering flames, Pan Yun completed the small circulation of energy and pressed the spiritual energy into his dantian to make it his own strength. The energy that could not be contained was dispersed into his limbs and torso, warming every part of his body.

The fatigue from the past few days of running around disappeared. She stood up and stretched her arms and legs, feeling relaxed and refreshed. "In the past eight years, I have never been as healthy as I am now."

The black cat lying on the leaves remained silent.

Pan Jun looked down at it, then sat cross-legged opposite it, choosing to talk to it face to face. "From the time we officially met until now, we have never had the space and time to have a serious talk. Now that there are no outsiders here, for the sake of our future, don't you think we should have a frank talk?"

The black cat raised its front body and sat on its butt like her, but its hind legs were fixed by the branches, so it could only stand with one leg apart, which made it look very undignified. However, it still meowed solemnly, "Okay, let's talk."

An embroidered spring knife suddenly appeared in Pan Yun's hand. The black cat was so scared that it leaned back and rolled over with a gurgle. It meowed angrily. Before it could say anything, Pan Yun had already placed the knife across his knees and said, "Look, I can get things out of the Three Jade Spirit Realm without you."

The black cat's anger paused and he said nothing.

"That is to say, the Three Jade Spirit Realm that has lost its spirit is just like the one in the research institute in my previous life. The sealed part can be used by people," Pan Yun said, "and now, it resides in my Niwan Palace and is one with my soul. Naturally, except for the sealed part, I can use the rest whenever I want."

Therefore, the realm spirit is more harmful than beneficial to her. Unless it can bring her enough benefits, it will be difficult to convince her to keep it.

The black cat followed her all the way, and knew that it would be useless to convince her by talking to her about love. She was a cruel person, and she resented it for eating her spiritual energy for eight years. It was unlikely that she would take it back to her mind just because of their support along the way.

"My memories are sealed too long ago, so I don't remember much," the black cat said, "but I can still remember the original intention of my creation." It sat up, looked at the moon in the sky and thought, "The human body is just a container, and the soul is the foundation. If the soul lasts forever, people can live forever. My creator wants to build me into a world that can accommodate the soul. In my world, these conscious lives can continue and transcend, and have extraordinary wisdom.

In my world, they can have eternal life!"

Pan Jun raised her eyebrows in surprise. She had not expected this direction of development.

She tapped the scabbard with her finger and thought, "Super AI? No, that's not right. To be able to live forever without a body, that's something even a super AI can't do."

Black Cat looked at her with disdain, "This is soul refining!"

Pan Yun glanced at it and asked, "Did you and your creator do it?"

The black cat lowered his head and said, "I don't know, I'm sealed.

But I know that the things I have unblocked now are just a small part of me. The space and storage card functions are insignificant compared to my other things. "

Seeing that Pan Yun did not refute it, the black cat said more sincerely: "This world is different from the previous life. The spiritual energy here is thin, and cultivation is more difficult than before. Moreover, the production technology here is backward, and there is an emperor who can decide life and death at will. It will be more difficult for you to obtain cultivation resources here than in the previous life.

But I am your resource!"

Seeing Pan Yun deep in thought, the black cat raised his head proudly and said, "You may not know yet, but there has always been a problem with the cultivation method you practiced in your previous life. The storage rate of the Qi you cultivated is very low, and it always dissipates around the body."

Pan Jun looked at it with disdain and said, "I know it. Not only do I know it, but people all over the country and the world know it."

The black cat's lofty words were instantly stuck in his throat.

Pan Yun: "Why else do you think the institute has put so many resources on you, wanting you to break the seal?

In our eyes, you are like a memory card, equivalent to the ancients' heavenly book. Many experts and scholars believe that you have the cultivation methods recorded by our ancestors."

Pan Yun looked at it coldly, "Now it seems that you really have it, not only do you have it, you still remember it, but you have been hiding in my Niwan Palace for many years, watching me use the inferior cultivation method without reminding me, is it because the spiritual energy is often absorbed by you before it has time to dissipate?"

The black cat was silent.

Pan Yun: "Okay, I agree not to seal you. Let's talk about the deal now. Don't say anything immature about my cultivation energy being half yours. You don't have enough chips in your hand to get this reward."

The black cat's shoulders slumped, and the small ball looked pitiful. "Then how much do you want to give?"

Pan Yun was silent for a long time, and then said, "One-fiftieth of it should be regarded as the cost of renting the Three Jade Spirit Realm."

The black cat's chest heaved, but when it met Pan Jun's gaze, it still gave in. This amount of spiritual energy was not so much the cost of renting the Three Jade Spiritual Realm as it was the cost of trading with it for practicing martial arts.

After all, it is not in the main body now, and she can still use the Three Jade Spirit Realm.

The black cat agreed, but couldn't help muttering, "It's so little, how long will it take me to break the seal?"

Pan Yun: "You can't just absorb the spiritual energy to unlock the seal. Wait for me to study the formation and talismans, and then see if I can unlock it from the outside."

Black Cat: "Your teacher, many experts and scholars who are better than you, can't do anything about it. How can you be better than them?"

Pan Yun: "I am talented. Haven't you heard of an old saying? The waves behind push the waves ahead. I am that wave behind.

Okay, no more nonsense, give me the technique."

She had to practice quickly, as she always had a sense of uneasiness in her heart, as if she had not escaped safety and was still under the Five Finger Mountain of humans.

The black cat's real body was in her Niwan Palace. Although it could not perceive her specific thoughts, it still had a feeling, as if they were in sync with each other.

It's unclear.

So it has that feel to it as well.

The black cat said: "The skills I know are recorded on my second jade piece. It has been unlocked a little over the years, but I sealed it again."

Pan Jun: "Oh, to prevent me from noticing, right?"

The black cat ignored this and said, "I will untie it now and you can see for yourself. But before I untie it, I have one condition."

Pan Jun gestured to it and said.

The black cat lay down, raised its hind legs and said, "In addition to giving me spiritual energy as rent, you must also ensure my safety, the safety of the realm spirit!"

It emphasized: "I will keep my promise and will never steal your spiritual energy again in the future. And you must also promise that you will never think of sealing me again, and you will not allow others to hurt me."

Pan Yun agreed immediately: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)