[Before loading the game, you can choose to keep an item you had during your lifetime, and keep your current cultivation level.] …… Chapter 2: Jade Pendant and Money Last time, Xi Heng did not look closely at the many smaller square characters next to it, and directly touched the two words "Load File" in the center. This time she paused and looked at the surrounding text first. Biological age: 19/19 "I have only lived for two years in this life, which means that when I first crossed over, this body was seventeen years old..." Xi Heng stared at the smaller square characters on the side and muttered to himself. During these two years, a lot of things happened in the country she traveled to, called Da Zhao. For example, in the south, the Tianliang Army revolted and joined forces with the Huangmeishan, which gathered many martial artists who rebelled against the imperial court, and together they captured several cities.
One of them was not far from the village at the foot of Yaowang Mountain where she lived, and the war almost invaded her mountain village. Fortunately, after the city was broken, the Zhao court quickly sent the Ever-Victorious Army from the northern border to the south to retake the city. They fought a great battle with the Tianliang Army with tens of thousands of people, which prevented the war and disaster from spreading further. Xi Heng continued to look at the text below and noticed that she could keep an item and a level of cultivation before loading the file. She had no spiritual attainment at all, so she first thought carefully about what she wanted to keep - what was the most valuable thing she had. After thinking about it, there are only two. One of them is a round jade pendant that he had been carrying with him since the beginning of his journey through time. He could vaguely recall from his memory that it was an extremely important token that must not be lost. "What's so important?" Xi Heng shook his head. Until the end of her life, this broken jade pendant had no effect on her. Xi Heng had already decided to sell the jade pendant directly in exchange for money to practice martial arts. "But I will also have this jade pendant around my waist in my next life, so there is no need to choose this." She made the decision. As for the other item, it was the Turbidity-Transforming Pill given by the young lady guest who came from nowhere six days ago. It is said that this medicine can extend her life for seven days. Xi Heng had no need to extend his life in this life, so he didn't use it. "It must be a very valuable elixir that was able to prolong my life when I was already beyond medical help." Moreover, the packaging, surface color and smell of the pills are all quite extraordinary. The function of this medicine is to regulate blood and qi and dredge the meridians... "If I swallow this pill while practicing martial arts, it should be of some use." Xi Heng nodded: "Or if the jade pendant is not worth much, I can sell the pill to pay for martial arts tuition." "Just choose this one." Just as he calmed down, Xi Heng tried to reach out and touch the glowing text to operate it.
The three words [Huazhuodan] are already listed on it. Xi Heng then stopped, turned around and looked around, making sure that there was no other text that required attention, then reached out and pressed the [Load File] button in the center. An inexplicable suction and flushing feeling made her vision suddenly go dark. When she opened her eyes the next moment, she had arrived at a simple bedroom. What I saw when I opened my eyes was the familiar ceiling, with main and secondary beams stretching across my eyes and a pile of wood interlaced. She slowly stood up from the hard wooden bed and looked around the familiar little house. It still had the uneven walls and the peeling paint, the worn table top, and several dusty chairs stacked together. This difficult living environment did not make Xi Heng feel frustrated. Instead, he felt that he was still healthy and strong and smiled softly. When she was seriously ill before, she would be exhausted and out of breath just by picking up the medicine scale to weigh a few medicinal ingredients. And now, Xi Heng only felt that her body was relaxed and free, and she would not faint even if she ran 50 meters at full speed. She moved her body, and although her heartbeat was still a little violent, she no longer had abdominal or chest pains. Xi Heng let out a long breath, then put on the gray-white coat that was casually thrown on the bed, turned over the pillow, picked up the jade pendant underneath and put it around his waist. Then she ran to the corner of the room and found a rusty dagger. She sharpened it on a knife-sharpening stone until it seemed sharper. She ran to the cabinet and pulled out a drawer, poured the few ounces of silver in it into her hand, then looked for a small cloth bag for copper coins and stuffed them in. Everything was ready. Before leaving, Xi Heng looked back at the room where he had lived for two lifetimes, for a total of three or four years. Then he turned around, stepped out of the door, and immediately turned around and walked directly out of the village along the dirt road in the village. In this situation, Xi Heng subconsciously thought whether he should recite a poem. Before he was sure, a line of poetry appeared in his mind and came out of his mouth: "I laughed out loud at the sky and went out, how could I be considered an ordinary person——" "Wait a minute." Xi Heng stopped and looked down. Then he scratched his empty left hand. "Where is the Turbidity-Transforming Pill?" She remembered that she had left this item behind before loading the game, but now she couldn't find it. When she was wondering if there was a bug in the system, a series of dimly lit boxes appeared before her eyes. Only the square in the front has a pattern, which is the red box containing the elixir of transforming turbidity. Xi Heng blinked: "This is... an inventory?" She stretched out her hand, and the red box pattern turned into a physical pill box in her hand. "Wonderful." She fiddled with it for a bit and put the box back in place. The Turbidity-Transforming Pill turned back into the pattern in the inventory. Xi Heng tried to put the dagger hanging on his waist in as well, but it went right through. It seems that only items saved before loading the file can be placed in the inventory. After figuring out the function of this system, Xi Heng didn't pay too much attention to it and continued walking towards the village entrance.
Everything else doesn’t matter, the most important thing now is to practice martial arts! She never wanted to become as weak as she was before. It was early morning and there were donkey cart drivers pulling people and goods at the entrance of the village. Xi Heng knew the man, whose name was Jia Er. He often came to the pharmacy to get some plasters for back pain and waist pain. He often sprained his waist and could not run fast for fear of offending people. After approaching, Xi Heng took out a dozen copper coins from his pocket and said, "Jinshi City, can we go?" Jinshi City is the nearest big city to this village. Although it is not as prosperous as the big cities in the south, due to its special geographical location, it is one of the important transportation hubs between the north and the south. In the entire Great Zhao Kingdom, its area and population are also among the top ten. "Jinshi?" The hunchbacked driver was stunned, looked at Xi Heng and said, "Jinshi City is not accessible. The road is winding and difficult to travel. I've heard there are bandits there. I don't want to risk my life." "There are no bandits." Xi Heng remembered clearly that rumors about bandits were rampant in her previous life, and many people in the village moved away with their families. But in the end, there was no trace of bandits, and no one attacked their small village at the foot of the mountain. "You said it was gone, so it's gone?" The driver relied on his age and said to Xi Heng, "You are a herb collector from the south of the village, right? What are you doing in Jinshi City? Are you going to sell the good stuff you collected in the city?" Xi Heng ignored him and took out a tael of silver from the brocade bag on his waist and threw it to the driver: "Do you want to go?" "..." The other party hesitated. Xi Heng directly pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed it hard on the wooden board of the donkey cart he was sitting on. The sharp blade of the dagger penetrated three inches into the wood. "Go!" The old driver trembled all over when he saw the knife and quickly agreed. …… Everything was calm along the way. The half-day journey passed quickly in the bumpy ride of the donkey cart. Although there were some minor disturbances that would have startled the driver, in fact, nothing went wrong. The paths in the mountains and forests twist and turn, going up and down. Some places that look close by actually take half an hour to reach. Because of the rumors about the bandits, the driver traveled very fast, and the black donkey pulling the wood trailer was so tired that it was panting and foaming at the mouth. The long journey that originally required driving from early morning to dusk was completed in the early afternoon. The big city is next to the lake. The city walls and gates are tall and majestic. The walls are made of gray-blue bricks and stones, and there are many arrow towers erected at intervals. Even someone who doesn't know much about military affairs can tell at a glance that such a strong city is difficult to capture. A wooden plaque was hung high above the city gate, with the words "Jinshi" deeply engraved on it. There was a long line of people entering the city. Xi Heng got off the donkey cart and waited outside for more than ten minutes before it was her turn. "You have to pay forty cents to enter the city." The gatekeeper didn't even look at me and started collecting money. Xi Heng pinched out two old copper coins with a face value of twenty cents. The other party rubbed them a few times and then turned his head towards the city gate. No written records are required, and no documents need to be taken out. People are allowed in. After entering the city, Xi Heng casually strolled through the rare commercial street in this world, passing by jewelry shops, piano shops, jade shops and a bunch of street vendors, and went straight to a pawn shop.
There were two lanterns hanging at the door of the shop, and a big "Dang" character hung on the beam outside. After crossing the gate, you will come to a counter that looks like a prison with wooden railings separating the inside and outside. Xi Heng said nothing more. He directly took out the useless jade pendant from his sleeve and slapped it. The sound made the fat shopkeeper who was wiping the object shiver. "How much is this jade worth?" She was in no mood for small talk. "Jade? Miss, you can't bid for jade like that." The shopkeeper muttered, rubbed his eyes and carefully took the jade pendant that Xi Heng had thrown on the counter. "Fortunately it didn't break." He complained, lit a candle, and carefully examined the jade pendant in his hand in the light. As he looked at it, he touched it upwards with his palm and his eyes lit up. Then, he coughed twice and said, "Although this jade pendant looks good, its texture is not smooth, there are flaws and cracks between the textures, it has little light transmittance, and the carving is weird..." After talking about a bunch of shortcomings here and there, this guy finally said, "At most, ten taels of silver." Xi Heng snatched the jade pendant back, turned around and left without saying anything. No matter how much the shopkeeper behind him called out to him to stay, he ignored him. She then went to several pawnshops in the commercial street, and the highest offer was fifty taels. Then she turned around and went back to the pawnshop where she had come from, bid for the jade pendant again, and asked for one hundred taels of silver. The fat shopkeeper was so frightened that he trembled all over: "One hundred taels?!" "One hundred taels." Xi Heng nodded. "How can it be one hundred taels! I tell you the truth, this jade is worth thirty taels at most. I raised the price more because I thought the quality of the jade was good!" The fat shopkeeper was anxious. Xi Heng continued to turn around and walk away. "No! Fifty taels, fifty taels is okay?" The pawnshop owner finally realized that Xi Heng was not going to bargain with her according to the rules, so he immediately tried to keep her. Xi Heng prepared to go to the next pawnshop and ask for an exorbitant price. But when she was halfway there, she was caught up by the fat owner of the pawnshop, who was panting and holding a bulging money bag in his hand. "One hundred taels! Just one hundred taels..." The shopkeeper almost couldn't breathe when he stopped. He patted his chest and tried to calm his breathing. After more than ten seconds, he showed Xi Heng the money bag in his hand, which was full of small gold cakes: "Miss, Miss, the ten taels of gold in the bag are equivalent to a hundred taels of silver. Please count them." "Oh?" Xi Heng didn't expect that the jade pendant was really worth so much money. She was just talking casually. She looked around and saw that it was relatively safe and no one was around, so she casually picked up a piece of thin gold cake. There are teeth marks all over the cake, it must be real gold. In her previous life, when she was working as an accountant in a pharmacy, she had come into contact with a lot of gold and silver. She could tell the authenticity of some by just looking at its color and workmanship. She picked up the purse and weighed it, making sure it was exactly ten taels, then threw the jade pendant to the other party. The fat shopkeeper was surprised and happy at the same time. He took the jade pendant in his arms in a panic and almost fell to the ground.
When he finally steady himself and let out a breath, just as he was about to blame, Xi Heng had already walked away. …… Chapter 3: Admission to the Academy to Learn Martial Arts