Me and My Cold CEO Wife

Chapter 2054 - 2043: Stripped Clean

After taking a few deep breaths, Ning Fan's expression changed rapidly like a chameleon, "Vivian, you see, I have no strength now, and this world is not peaceful. I'm afraid...""Don't worry, I can protect you."

"If it weren't for you, my Golden Core wouldn't have disappeared, and I wouldn't have lost all my strength like this."

"No need to worry. As long as I return to the Divine Realm, I'll definitely have my father teach you the most top-tier cultivation techniques and personally help you ignite the Divine Fire and condense your divine nature..."

According to Vivian, Ning Fan's process of transforming from a person to a god requires cultivation techniques and believers... She would handle everything, completely removing his worries about becoming a god.

She even bestowed divine duty and divine name on him, allowing him to preach openly.

Such conditions are incredibly favorable, almost maddening, but to Ning Fan, it's all nonsense.

"Since you're pretending to be ignorant with me, don't blame me for being unkind."

Ning Fan sighed and lamented, "Recently, I don't know what's wrong; maybe my strength has decreased, but I've been feeling mentally unsettled, and my spiritual power has become somewhat unstable."

Vivian, who was bowing her head selecting magic crystal stones, slightly changed her face, then smiled brightly and said, "If that's the case, how do you like these intermediate and advanced magic crystal stones?"

Ning Fan said flatly, "Isn't this too forced? After all, you're using these to restore power."

"Not forced at all, not even a little. These intermediate and advanced magic crystal stones are not very useful to me."

After speaking, Vivian hurriedly clawed a few times, selecting some magic crystal stones.

Ning Fan glanced at the magic crystal stones that Vivian picked; all of them were the most dazzling in appearance, but grade wasn't within her concerns.

"I'll give you all these, what do you think?"

Vivian pushed a large number of intermediate and advanced magic crystal stones, totaling about a hundred, to Ning Fan.

Ning Fan continued to sigh, "Recently, finances have been a bit tight; I'm afraid I don't have enough jewels to trade with you."

Ning Fan didn't want to be so stingy, but he was furious after falling into Vivian's trap earlier.

"Then let's do nine times."

"One times."

"Eight times."

"One times."

"Five times. If you don't want to trade, let's forget it."

"This number is too big, it has sparked me, I've already felt my spiritual power start to float, becoming somewhat unstable."

Vivian gritted her teeth and said, "Three times. I can't go any lower."

She was a dragon with principles and could never let anyone trample them recklessly.

If Ning Fan kept lowering the price, she would rather endure the risk of painful death.

Speaking of which, after these many days, Vivian began to suspect the divine power backlash was gone, since she hadn't experienced it.

Ning Fan certainly didn't know about Vivian's reckless thoughts; he only knew that continued bargaining would backfire.

"Deal."

Counting the 176 magic crystal stones in hand, which were evenly split between intermediate and advanced levels, it was an unexpected delight.

"Suddenly becoming so agreeable, should I seize the opportunity and push further?"

But next, no matter how he threatened or enticed, Ning Fan even agreed to build a nest of Gold for Vivian in her Dark Dragon form, but he couldn't sway her decision.

Those twenty-three top-tier magic crystal stones, no matter what was said, Vivian wasn't willing to let go.

Reluctantly, Vivian even gave Ning Fan an added bonus.

Vivian threw out a keychain-type object, adorned with a tiny Cross Sword, "This is for you, it seems to match the armor you found."

"A match?"

Looking at the armor, taller than anyone by three measures, then at the Cross Sword in hand, which is merely as small as a pinky finger, Ning Fan asked with a darkened face, "Are you sure it's a set? Don't you think this weapon is too small?"

Vivian pouted, "Magical Artifacts certainly need activation to use."

"So, this set of armor equally requires Holy Power, then."

"I suppose so."

"Truly deceitful."

Judging from the fluctuation of Holy Power, this keychain Cross Sword was deemed the strongest, even surpassing the Six-winged Projection Angel by three measures.

There's no doubt that this set of armor is a rare treasure.

But without Holy Power, this set of armor is no different from scrap metal, and its size surely doesn't fit.

"No wonder this armor is placed by the bedside, used merely as decoration."

Ning Fan had to admit he suffered a major loss today.

He won on volume, lost on quality.

Glancing at the door, Ning Fan resisted the urge to rush out, kindly saying, "Vivian, can we negotiate further? You see, there are still so many houses, why don't we split evenly and regardless of the outcome, I'll compensate you with jewels. How do you like my idea?"

"No problem, it's settled then."

Seeing Vivian agree readily, Ning Fan revealed a helpless smile.

There was no choice; due to unfamiliarity with Holy Power, Ning Fan seemed disadvantaged in the subsequent treasure hunt.

To ensure fairness, the two entered the houses together for thorough searches everywhere.

The gigantic seven-layer staircase, encompassing a total of 320 manors, was finally scoured by the two of them after spending several sleepless days.

Whenever there was an anomaly with Holy Power, they adopted a stance of digging deep.

However, the result wasn't pleasing.

Especially the last four layers, not even a magic crystal stone was found, merely some rusted metals, not worth Ning Fan's interest.

Should they be easy to carry, it would be fine, but all were just cold weapons, even hiding them was inconvenient.

Not to mention, taking them from the Main Hall of the Church of Light would be ostentatious.

If high-ranking Holy Church members were here, they'd certainly fight them desperately.

Those cold weapons were all Holy Artifacts cherished over years by the Holy Church.

Holy Artifacts were transformed from Mortal World weapons into divine weapons through the pure Holy Power of ascetics, day and night.

Now referred to as rusted metals, if ascetics' spirits existed, they'd probably jump out to fight.

Holding these Holy Artifacts, even regular believers could wield Holy Power.

Frankly speaking, if the White Robe believers had these Holy Artifacts back then, the whole situation would change drastically.

The power of Holy Artifacts could indeed kill life created by divine spirits.

"This is the disgusting part of the Church of Light, preferring to hide these things than let the lower people use them."

Upon hearing this, Ning Fan sneered inwardly, "You're no different, only caring about appearance, letting the pearl gather dust."

Ning Fan's resentment wasn't without cause.

The treasures of the Church of Light seemed utterly centralized around the Pope.

In subsequent searches, besides finding an Angel Wing Amber on the second layer, no more top-tier magic crystal stones were discovered.

The count of intermediate and advanced magic crystal stones dramatically reduced.