Chapter 92: The One-Zi Workshop, Seizing the Dog Lotus Opportunity! (1/2)

Qi Feifan chuckled. This divination master really knew how to do business. They hadn’t even entered the One-Zi Workshop yet, and he was already thinking about how to scam money from him.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard Ye Qingning’s voice: “Senior Brother Qi, his divination is quite accurate, and he’s someone I invited here. The entrance fee should be on me.”

“Besides, he mentioned you might experience financial loss today. I think Senior Brother Qi should be a little cautious and avoid impulsive spending.”

It’s often said that listening to good advice helps, so when the divination master said financial loss was coming, it’s better to take it seriously. Ye Qingning herself had suffered from such losses before.

She herself was a bit obsessed with divination; she always wanted to ask someone to predict the future before doing anything.

Since Yi Jiazi was the one she invited, and the One-Zi Workshop entry fee was something she suggested, it made sense that she would pay the fee herself.

Qi Feifan squinted his eyes. Having already decided that Yi Jiazi was a scammer, hearing Ye Qingning’s words made him even more skeptical.

“I’m the kind of person who only trusts myself. I’ve always had good luck, and others call me a gambling genius. Let’s see if I’ll experience financial loss without your guidance today.”

With that, Qi Feifan stepped forward, ready to enter the One-Zi Workshop.

As he was stopped by someone, he suddenly remembered that he had just broken through to the Golden Core stage and had never been to the One-Zi Workshop before. He awkwardly cleared his throat and walked with Ye Qingning and the others to a side compartment to handle the stone storage card verification.

Around a tea’s time later, the five of them had received their respective stone storage cards. Besides the hefty entrance fee of twenty high-grade spirit stones, each card required an additional thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones for entry.

Ye Qingning, who had originally thought she wasn’t poor anymore, found herself in a pinch. To bring Yi Jiazi inside, she had to get two storage cards, and in an instant, all the spirit stones she had were emptied out.

However, there’s a saying that big risks bring big rewards—six hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones! She was going big!

If she lost, she would eat dirt; if she won, her pockets would be full.

As they entered the One-Zi Workshop, they immediately noticed something was different.

The vast workshop, which should have been bustling with noise, was eerily quiet.

In other workshops, the source stones were piled up, but here, they were neatly arranged on long tables.

Next to each stone was a small plaque with the source stone’s origin clearly marked, and the weight was also noted.

In addition to the neatly arranged source stones, there was also a spacious area for selecting stones, with staff providing tea and snacks, offering attentive service.

The people selecting stones here were also quiet. Even if there was conversation, the voices were low, unlike other workshops where people shouted to make themselves heard.

“This doesn’t feel like a stone selection place; it feels more like a place to relax. Well, if that’s the case, I’ll enjoy myself too,” Li Taiqiang couldn’t help but exclaim.

Influenced by the environment, he lowered his voice and immediately found a spot to sit.

He wasn’t here to select stones anyway. First, he would enjoy some tea and snacks.

Twenty high-grade spirit stones was the equivalent of two thousand top-grade spirit stones! How many snacks and tea would he need to drink to make that worth it?

Wait, no—these aren’t ordinary snacks and tea! They’re made from spiritual fruits and special techniques to process spiritual tea and spiritual pastries.

Both the tea and pastries contained traces of spiritual energy. While not overly intense, their purity was perfect for cultivating the body of cultivators.

Ye Qingning saw that Li Taiqiang was fully ready to indulge and didn’t think much of it. She just wanted to say—”A person who loves food is truly extraordinary!”

Chapter 92: The One-Zi Workshop, Seizing the Dog Lotus Opportunity! (2/2)

She also began secretly observing the cultivators in the workshop.

If she hadn’t lived through it all before, she could never have guessed their identities just by looking at their faces.

Most of them came from large sects and families, with a few from hidden families that rarely left their homes.

There were several monks in robes, dignified and holding prayer beads. They were immediately recognizable as high monks from the Fahua Zen Temple.

The Fahua Zen Temple was renowned in the cultivation world, revered by Buddhist cultivators as a holy land, and produced many great monks, including those who ascended to the upper realms.

Unlike other sects or families, the Fahua Zen Temple’s disciples were all Buddhist cultivators. They didn’t meddle in worldly affairs or sect conflicts, focusing solely on cultivating Buddhist teachings to save all beings.

The current abbot, Master Kongwang, was admired for his deep Buddhist teachings and compassionate heart. During his youth, he gained the admiration of countless cultivators.

Every time he gave a Dharma lecture, a large number of cultivators came to listen, and many experienced breakthroughs or elevated their states of mind during the teachings.

However, meeting Master Kongwang in person was extremely difficult, and Ye Qingning had not expected to encounter Fahua Zen Temple monks today at the One-Zi Workshop.

At this point, the system suddenly recalled something and shouted in its 250-decibel voice: “Qingning, Qingning! Do you remember? The original novel says that after the true daughter, Ye Hanyue, broke through to the Golden Core stage, she bought a source stone at the gambling stone workshop and opened up an ancient artifact!”

“It also says that Ye Hanyue met high monks from the Fahua Zen Temple, which later led to her entering the temple to listen to Master Kongwang’s lectures! So, Dog Lotus Flower bought her source stone here!”

“Has Dog Lotus Flower arrived yet? If not, we can seize her opportunity! You’ve suffered so much for her, what’s wrong with taking her chance?”

Ye Qingning suddenly became excited. Since she and Ye Hanyue were from different sects, she had never known Hanyue’s whereabouts and had only read about her in the novel.

Indeed, the book mentioned that Ye Hanyue obtained an ancient artifact.

Ye Qingning wasn’t opposed to seizing it; based on the timeline, Hanyue should be recovering from a backlash in her heart veins, so she likely wouldn’t come to the One-Zi Workshop today.

Ye Qingning didn’t need to worry about Ye Hanyue coming for the artifact; after all, Hanyue wouldn’t know which source stone had the artifact since Ye Qingning wasn’t present back then.

In fact, the book mentioned that the source stone was very ordinary-looking, even unremarkable.

Its size was similar to an ordinary stone, with no special shape or features. It was a dull gray, like an ordinary river pebble.

Although smooth, it had no patterns or special energy fluctuations.

Among the many powerful and uniquely shaped source stones in the One-Zi Workshop, this one was like a speck of dust, hardly attracting attention and easily overlooked.

The book didn’t describe it further, likely to highlight the protagonist’s luck—she just happened to pick it and opened the ancient artifact.

She understood the tropes; she got it.

Now, she needed to search carefully, in case there were other seemingly ordinary source stones. That would be troublesome.