After entering the city, Li Chen split up with Ning Hua and his sister and headed alone towards the largest dicine workshop in the entire commandery.
A young Taoist saw a custor approaching and hastily ca out to greet him.
"Esteed guest, may I ask what dicinal materials you require?"
"A stalk of Dragon Saliva Grass, a Fourth-level Fire Elent Demon Beast Core, as well as Blue Silver Grass, Ice and Fire Fruit..."
Li Chen listed more than a dozen high-level dicinal materials in one breath, leaving the young Taoist stunned and speechless.
After being dazed for a while, the young Taoist put on an apologetic smile and said, "Esteed guest, please wait a mont. These are all high-level dicinal materials, and I am not capable of handling this. I need to ask my master to co over."
Li Chen understood this and gestured for him to go ahead, saying, "Then go."
In less than half an hour, the young Taoist returned, leading an elderly, silver-haired man who looked age-worn and decrepit.
The elder sized up Li Chen carefully and introduced himself, "I am Gu Chen, the manager of this dicine workshop. May I ask why the young master requires these high-level dicinal materials?"
Li Chen gave a slight nod as a return courtesy.
"I need them to concoct so pills!"
Hearing Li Chen’s response, Gu Chen courageously asked, "The dicinal materials the young master requires are all for concocting Fifth-grade Spirit Pills. May I ask if your esteed teacher is a Fifth-grade Alchemist?"
Li Chen was taken aback at first, but he quickly recovered. He frowned slightly and said sternly, "Manager, I’m just here to purchase so dicinal materials. If you have them, then good; if not, I will simply go to another place. What is the aning of probing into every detail as soon as we et?"
Hearing Li Chen’s questioning, Gu Chen hastily offered an awkward smile in apology.
"It was my indiscretion, young master. Our shop has most of the materials you require. However, the Dragon Saliva Grass and that Ice and Fire Fruit are extrely rare; we have long run out of stock in the shop."
"However, tonight, there will be a large-scale auction at the Heavenly Pride Tower. If the young master truly needs it, you might try your luck there!"
Li Chen nodded slightly and said, "Good, thank you for informing , shopkeeper. In that case, bring out the Spirit dicine you have first!"
Gu Chen said "Okay" and asked Li Chen to sit for a mont and have a cup of tea to rest, while he personally went to the secret chamber of the dicine workshop to fetch the Spiritual dicine.
After Li Chen drank two cups of tea, Gu Chen brought over the Spiritual dicine.
Li Chen opened it to check, ensuring that the other party didn’t substitute inferior goods to deceive him, and then nodded in satisfaction.
"How many Spirit Stones?"
"523,000 Spirit Stones, but being the boss here, I’ll round down the 3,000, so you only need to pay 520,000!"
Li Chen sneered and said, "Manager, 520,000 Spirit Stones, don’t you think that’s a bit too high?"
With the face of an old fox, Gu Chen chuckled and said, "Young master, you must understand that these are all high-level dicinal materials, they’re among the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. The price I’ve given is already the absolute lowest on the market; I can’t reduce it any further."
Li Chen raised an eyebrow and with a hint of teasing in his smile, he asked, "Are you sure?"
Gu Chen felt uneasy under Li Chen’s gaze. He hurriedly wiped his forehead and offered with a forced smile, "How about this? Seeing that the young master is sincerely interested, I’ll sell at a loss – take them for 500,000 Spirit Stones, how about that?"
Li Chen shook his head as he laughed, emitting a "hehe" of cold laughter.
Gu Chen’s forehead creased slightly and he asked, "May I ask, young master, how much can you offer?"
Li Chen thought for a mont, stretched out two fingers, and said, "200,000 Spirit Stones, how about this price?"
Hearing Li Chen’s harsh bargaining, Gu Chen’s face imdiately turned ugly.
Although he was accused of deliberately raising the price and fleecing custors, those were all high-level pills, with the lowest value being 250,000 Spirit Stones. Li Chen casually pressed the price down to 200,000, which was sowhat hard to accept.
Gu Chen even suspected that the other party was intentionally causing trouble. However, before he could react, Li Chen deliberately revealed an item, causing Gu Chen’s body to stiffen on the spot.
It was a jade token the size of an infant’s palm, carved with an exquisitely intricate Cloud Sea pattern.
This was the Sect Token of Ling Shuanghua, which had been snatched away by Yuj Longzi.
After Li Chen killed Yuj Longzi, he picked it up along the way. Finding the material quite good, he did not return it to Ling Shuanghua but kept it with him instead.
Li Chen took a gentle sip of tea, looking at Gu Chen with a smirk, and asked with feigned seriousness:
"Shopkeeper, I’m asking you, what do you think about the 200,000 Spirit Stones?"
Gu Chen, terrified and respectful, said: "Little brother, oh no, immortal, isn’t the price of 200,000 Spirit Stones a bit too low? Could you consider adding a bit more?"
Li Chen said: "180,000!"
Gu Chen’s face darkened instantly, sweat the size of beans began to drip down his face.
"Immortal, this..."
"150,000!"
"Alright, take the 150,000, please take it!"
Under the nace of the Cloud Sea Jade Token, or more precisely Li Chen, Gu Chen, the wily fox, finally chose to submit. If he dared to say another word, he would likely suffer a huge loss.
Seeing the other party so understanding, Li Chen nodded in satisfaction.
"That’s more like it. There are 100,000 Spirit Stones in this Purple Crystal Card, take it first. The remaining 50,000 Spirit Stones, I’ll have soone send them over another day, or you can go get them from the Yingzhou Cloud Sea Sect headquarters!"
"Ah!"
The shopkeeper really wanted to cry. With 150,000 Spirit Stones, he was already at a 50% loss and now the other party was still asking for credit. What kind of place was the Cloud Sea Sect? Even if he was given ten tis the courage, he wouldn’t dare to demand paynt there.
"Immortal, the value of these materials is at least 300,000; selling them to you for 150,000, I can’t even explain it to my boss. Is this really..."
"If you can’t explain, then don’t bother explaining."
Before Gu Chen could finish his sentence, Li Chen snatched the Purple Crystal Card back.
Gu Chen was so angry his face turned red, and just as he was about to erupt, a casual remark by Li Chen doused him with a bucket of cold water.
"Not long ago, Dragon Control Castle behaved similarly to you, a little disobedient. They should have been wiped out by now, right?"
There have been two explosive news stories on the Cloud Sea Continent recently. One was the mysterious disappearance of the thousand-mile Daqing Mountain.
The other was the annihilation of Dragon Control Castle in East County, which offended the Cloud Sea Immortal Power. Overnight, more than 8,000 people from the sect were slaughtered, regardless of age or gender, causing everyone on the Cloud Sea Continent to feel insecure.
Looking at the terrified face of the old fox, Li Chen coldly smiled, "How about this, shopkeeper, I’ll leave an IOU here for you so that you can have sothing to report to your boss!"
Gu Chen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and repeatedly said: "That would be good, very good, thank you, immortal!"
Li Chen gave a slight smile, and actually did write an IOU. He also used Ling Shuanghua’s Jade Token to dip in ink, leaving a bright red handprint.
"Thank you for your troubles, shopkeeper!"
After leaving the IOU, Li Chen slowly got up and strode out the door, heading straight to the Heavenly Pride Tower...
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