Chapter 18: The Demon Refining Bottle
Dongfeng Tea Ceremony Club, a quiet and elegant room.
The two sat quietly on a futon, separated by a wooden table.
The private room is not very big, but the layout is very exquisite, quite ancient, screens, calligraphy and paintings and other things are scattered, a four-corner table in the middle, several plates of delicate snacks are placed on the case, two cups full of tea, the heat rises, curling like a fairy mist, which makes people intoxicated.
"Curious tea fragrance!" Bai Yu took a sip of the tea fragrance, and suddenly felt clear and refreshed.
"This is Wendao tea, in the legend, it contains Wendao inspiration, known as just one sip, you can have an epiphany, of course, this is not the real thing, just imitation, but it also has the effect of refreshing the mind. Shangguan Yun'er explained with a smile: "Wendao tea is rare in the world, and there are not necessarily a few people in the entire online literature circle who can afford to drink it, and I can't afford to invite you for the real thing." ”
"Hehe! Even so, I'm naked!"
Bai Yu smiled, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and for a moment only felt a clear stream down his throat, and the hairs on his whole body stood up, fluttering: "It's really good tea!"
"If you like it, I can give you a little, the real thing can't afford to drink, and there is still a little imitation. As he spoke, his jade hand flashed, and a delicate tea pot appeared, signaling Bai Yu to accept it.
Bai Yu was not polite, accepted the tea, and then said: "By the way, what will I call you in the future, I can't always call you editor, right?"
"Shangguan Yun'er, you can call me Shangguan!" she said generously: "I came to Qingzhou City this time, and I am specifically responsible for signing a silver contract with you, as well as negotiating new books, and representing the admission reward issued to you by the Qishen Academy. ”
"Admission reward?" Bai Yu's eyes lit up, he had been looking forward to this admission reward for a long time.
Shangguan Yun'er had a smile on her face, and she didn't talk nonsense, her hand flashed, and four items appeared on the coffee table, a bank card, a futon, a humanoid puppet, and a boxy box.
She pointed to the bank card and said, "There are 100,000 yuan in this card, which is considered the signing fee for you to enter my academy." ”
"One hundred thousand yuan!" Bai Yu hurriedly picked up the bank card, his eyes lit up, whether it was before or now, the money in his pocket has never exceeded five figures, and one hundred thousand yuan is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for him.
"Does every author who signs a contract with the academy have a signing fee?" Bai Yu asked.
"Naturally not!" Shangguan Yun'er explained, "The academy only has a signing fee for authors above the god level and newcomer authors with great potential. ”
"What is the signing fee for those god-level and above authors?" Bai Yu asked curiously.
Shangguan Yun'er looked at Bai Yu with a look of being a fan of money, and she replied: "Where will authors above the god level be short of money, their signing fees are all book coins. ”
"Book coins?"
Bai Yu was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that in the normal version of the online literature circle, when readers read novels, they can reward their favorite works according to their own hearts, and spend virtual currency subscriptions after the works are put on sale.
But it's different in the fantasy version of the online literature circle!
In the fantasy version of the online literature circle, although readers can also reward and subscribe to their favorite works when reading novels, for the author, readers' reward subscriptions will not be converted into real money in the real world, but under some kind of avenue rules, it will be converted into another kind of cultivation currency - book coins.
Book coins cannot be used as currency in the real world, but as a common currency in the cultivation world, they can be traded with others to buy most items such as pills, magic weapons, cheats, etc., and can also be used for alchemy, alchemy, refining, array, etc., and the function is similar to the spirit stones and spirit crystals in some Xianxia novels.
"You guys are treating you differently!"
Of course, Bai Yu will just talk about it, the gap between god-level authors and ordinary authors is there, and Bai Yu naturally won't feel uncomfortable.
Seeing this, Shangguan Yun'er nodded secretly in her heart, and then said, "In addition to the admission signing fee, I also issue other admission rewards on behalf of the academy. ”
"Other rewards?" Bai Yu looked at the other three items on the coffee table.
"100,000 yuan is just the admission signing fee, and better things are still to come. Shangguan Yun'er pointed to the futon on the coffee table and said: "After the author writes a novel or fights, the literary atmosphere will be consumed, this futon is called Yunwen futon, as long as you sit on it, you can recover the literary atmosphere faster and improve efficiency." ”
After speaking, he pointed to another humanoid puppet and said: "This one is a puppet, there are three spirit runes planted in the puppet, as long as the spirit rune is stimulated by the spirit of the voice, the puppet can help you fight and resist the enemy, a spirit rune is equivalent to the strength of a one-star author, if the three spirit runes are excited at the same time, the power obtained by this puppet can even be comparable to that of a two-star author, but this puppet master is a disposable item, and each spirit rune is only used once." ”
Bai Yu's face was shining, they were all good things!
Finally, Shangguan Yun'er pointed to the boxy box again, and said solemnly: "You created the book "A Chinese Ghost Story", and you were guided by the holy book "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" of the Liao Zhai family, which strengthened the power of the holy book, so the Liao Zhai family also has a reward, let me send it to you on your behalf." ”
"My "A Chinese Ghost Story" can increase the power of the holy book "Strange Tales from Liaozhai"?" Bai Yu was surprised, he had never thought of this.
"Of course!" Shangguan Yun'er said: "In the online literature circle, the power of those divine books and holy books is not immutable, they themselves can also be cultivated, once there are works that can resonate with their avenues, or broaden the genre they belong to, they can be guided by them and enhance their own power." ”
"Wasn't I taken advantage of, then?" Bai Yu muttered.
Shangguan Yun'er couldn't cry or laugh when she heard this.
"Do you still think of being taken advantage of? Do you know how many people want to be taken advantage of by the holy book when they squeeze their heads, but the holy book ignores it? Your "A Chinese Ghost Story" is guided by the holy book "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which means that "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" have a slight connection, and to a certain extent, they can borrow a very small part of the power of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which is what many people dream of?" She glanced at Bai Yu and said: " Moreover, whenever such a work is published, the family of the Holy Book will reward the author of the work with a treasure, be content. ”
Bai Yu smiled, and immediately felt a lot better, he looked at the last thing, the boxy box: "So the thing in this is the reward of the Liao Zhai family for me?"
"That's right!" Shangguan Yun'er smiled, and then said quite solemnly: "Among these things, this thing is the most precious, and it is a heavy treasure. ”
Bai Yu put away his smile and looked at the box.
Among the several items on the coffee table, only this one is in the box, and it is really the most special.
"This thing is the most wonderful, it is a fierce treasure, and it contains the spirit of killing. Shangguan Yun'er said cautiously opening the box and reminded: "Be careful!"
Click!
The moment the box was opened, Bai Yu only felt a killing aura coming from his face, enveloping him, like a sharp sword cutting down, suffocating.
Fortunately, this killing aura only lasted for a while, and soon disappeared and returned to calm.
Bai Yu looked at it and was stunned.
This heavy treasure that exudes a killing aura turned out to be a broken page.
At first glance, this page is not as large as an ordinary book, dry and yellow, with a crack in the middle, and even traces of insect moth, and the handwriting on it is blurred, and some handwriting such as fox demons and ghosts can be faintly seen.
"This page is called 'Demon Refining Bottle', which is one of the manuscripts of "Fox into the Bottle" in the second volume of the holy book "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", and has always been one of the treasures treasured by the Liao Zhai family, and it is easy not to leak out. Shangguan Yun'er said.
"Demon Refining Bottle?" Bai Yu was a little strange when he heard the name, but it didn't prevent him from feeling the extraordinaryness of this thing.
What's more, this thing is also one of the manuscripts of the holy book "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".
"Holding this thing, stimulated by the atmosphere, it can be like a canopy covering the sky, and it can be contained between Sumeru, and when facing the enemy, it can even be used to kill the words in it, and conjure up a bottle-shaped furnace to refine monsters, so it is called 'refining demon bottle'. Shangguan Yun'er explained: "However, this thing is not an original draft of Pu Songling, the first generation head of the Liaozhai family, but a handwritten manuscript by the descendants of the Liaozhai family. ”