Chapter 9: Luck

Regardless, since Luo Bi had this idea, Hua Ran naturally wouldn't refuse. He had a mother to take care of, so he couldn't die, and he didn't want to die either; no one doesn't cherish their own life.

"A third-grade elixir costs five million interstellar coins. I only have at most three hundred thousand in my hands, and adding Father's five hundred thousand, that's only eight hundred thousand. It's far too short."

Luo Hang frowned and estimated, "This house can probably sell for over two million. Tomorrow, I'll make a trip to the main residence to see if the old man and your eldest uncle can help out a bit, and Hua Ran can try to scrape some together from friends."

"Father, go to the old residence if you want, but I think it's hopeless; going there would be a waste of time. Our Zhihuang Planet Luo family only looks good on the surface; in reality, it's an empty shell with very few assets." Luo Bi smiled, holding no hope for her father's trip to the old residence, then said seriously, "The house is where our family lives; it cannot be sold."

Hua Ran gave a desolate smile. He knew this girl wasn't just being kind-hearted for no reason. The house was the most valuable thing the Luo family currently owned. If they didn't sell the house, the shortfall in interstellar coins would be even greater. How much could they really borrow from relatives and friends?

After talking for so long, it turned out she just didn't want to buy the elixir. He had almost believed Luo Bi just a moment ago.

Just as Hua Ran was losing hope about buying the elixir, who would have thought...

"I have one million," Luo Bi dropped a bombshell.

Guan Zhuting and her son were stunned, and Luo Hang was clearly very surprised as well: "Where did you get so many interstellar coins?"

"I saved them myself," Luo Bi replied.

"Your pharmacy only pays five thousand interstellar coins a month. Even if you didn't spend a single coin for ten years, you wouldn't be able to save a million." One million was not a small amount for an ordinary family; Luo Hang had to ask clearly to be at ease.

"You should know I often go to the mining area. I saved it bit by bit from selling jadeite stones." Luo Bi gave a half-truthful explanation. Unless absolutely necessary, she wouldn't reveal that she had awakened her spiritual power. She found the status of a noble Awakened Practitioner incredibly annoying and had no desire to be one.

"Is picking up scraps in the mining area that profitable?" Luo Hang believed her, his mood instantly lightening. He said quite proudly, "Our A-Bi has had good luck since she was little."

Luo Bi chuckled. Where in the world is there good luck without a reason? It was nothing more than her awakened spiritual power being able to sense the jadeite inside the ore. However, she wouldn't say that. She lived just fine without being an Awakened Practitioner; who would want to be one anyway!

Awakened Practitioners were noble, but she didn't know what those people were thinking. They didn't wear proper clothes; they wore nothing but gauze or hollowed-out silk garments, revealing everything, half-exposed—what kind of nonsense was that?

Just for the sake of those seductive clothes, she wouldn't be an Awakened Practitioner.

Mainly, the people in that circle were sinister. Luo Bi rejected it from the bottom of her heart; otherwise, she wouldn't be bored enough to hide the fact that she had awakened.

"Now we have 1.8 million. Let's try to find a way with relatives and friends tomorrow. If we really can't scrape together five million interstellar coins, then we'll sell the house." Luo Bi didn't know if her family could borrow enough from the outside, so she considered it and said.

"That works, let's do that," Luo Hang agreed.

Afterward, the family talked for a while longer. Hua Ran couldn't hold on any longer and went back to his room to rest. Luo Bi checked the time, went into the courtyard, and dialed Wu Yue's terminal. Under the cover of night, Luo Bi spilled everything about her family's situation, not holding back a single detail.

"Your grandfather is really being unreasonable," Wu Yue said bluntly at first, then sighed: "I'll lend you one hundred thousand interstellar coins; I'll transfer it to you in a moment."