Fang Yuan had not actually expected Liu Nan to leave like just that. Knowing Liu Nan's prior nature, he had expected the man to further even increase the price. He was not a person who liked hearing 'no' from what Fang Yuan understood.
He also did not expect for Liu Nan to leave him a 'gift', though he was rather wary about taking it. It was a Rank 2 information-type storing gu worm, though he would need to verify that it contained no traps before he would dare use it.
As it was, it did not matter how much of a price Fang Yuan was offered; the value of the Righteous Virtue Physique eclipsed that of a few million prival stones and so he would absolutely not part with Charity Gu. What use were cultivation resources compared to securing one's future? Of course, it would be incredibly short-sighted to sacrifice long-term gains for short-term rewards.
"Fang Yuan, what is Charity Gu?" Bai Ning Bing asked, turning towards him.
"I haven't the slightest idea," Fang Yuan said.
"Why was he so adamant that you had it, though?" Bai Ning Bing pressed. "It seed crazy to put down such a price if he hadn't been sure that you had it."
"Don't be ridiculous," Fang Yuan said. "He's probably just hallucinating sothing. You know how he is, no? He's rather deranged and, I think, not right in the head. One of his poison gu must have affected his brain sohow, leading him to these kinds of delusions."
Bai Ning Bing was 99% sure that Fang Yuan was gaslighting her, but trying to poke deeper into Fang Yuan's sches was like wading into a swamp which only got deeper and deeper the further out one went. If one wasn't careful, they would drown within it.
"And what is in that information-type gu worm?" Bai Ning Bing asked.
"I haven't checked yet," Fang Yuan said. He needed a guinea pig to make sure it was absolutely safe though. "You can go ahead and take a look for yourself though, if you're that curious."
"No thanks..." Bai Ning Bing said, recognizing what Fang Yuan's sche here was. "Let's just hope that you can pay back in ti." Bai Ning Bing turned around and focused on her own cultivation.
As it turned out, she would get a replacent for Frost Arrow Gu quite soon. Wei Yang ca by to visit them, removing a gu worm from his aperture.
"It took a while for to see if this could be obtained and I had to use so of my contacts, but I was able to get this," Wei Yang said, placing a Rank 4 Frost Arrow Gu on the table in front of Fang Yuan.
Since Frost Arrow Gu could be used even at Rank 3 to so extent, given its limited prival essence usage, it was a very expensive gu, difficult to find even if one had the appropriate amount of prival stones.
Bai Ning Bing's eyes flashed as she saw it. As per her agreent, Fang Yuan had to give her back the Rank 5 Frost Lance Gu, not just Rank 4 Frost Arrow Gu. However, this was the first step in obtaining the latter, and with this, her performance in the battle arena would greatly increase, allowing her to finally recoup so of her funds. After all, she had lost a good amount of prival stones betting on Fang Yuan.
"I understand that Brother Fang Yuan is currently in need of prival stones, so I can give this to you on credit," Wei Yang offered. There was a reason why he was being so generous: both Bai Ning Bing and Fang Yuan were potential external elders of the clan. He also felt sowhat guilty for misleading Fang Yuan like he had given how much of an upstanding person Fang Yuan was.
As it was, he was not offering Fang Yuan a massive favor; he was still asking for the amount to be returned. The only loss to him was the strings he'd had to pull to get the Frost Arrow Gu, but that could be compensated for by slightly increasing the price.
"Hmm, rather than trading in prival stones, could you accept this as an appropriate trade?" Fang Yuan asked Wei Yang, giving him so of the Flesh Bone Lord's gu recipes.
Wei Yang went through the recipes. It contained only 10% of the actual recipes, and that too of re Rank one and Rank two gu worms.
"I can assure you that there are Rank 3 and Rank 4 recipes in the final product as well," Fang Yuan said.
It was difficult to appraise gu worm recipes simply because one could not be sure about the authenticity or the completeness of the information before trading them when it ca to mortal trades. When one beca an Immortal, Yellow Treasure Heaven appraised the completeness of many recipes for people - but there was no likewise equivalent in the mortal realm.
But, the seller couldn't give the recipe away either for perusal before the sale. Thus leading to a deadlock in these situations, whereupon trust was important.
Wei Yang said, "This gu recipe list is worth more than Frost Arrow Gu." Frost Arrow Gu was valuable, probably worth about 100,000 prival stones at most give or take ten or twenty thousand given the difficulty in obtaining it.
"That is not a problem so long as you can get several sets of refinent materials for the Frost Lance Gu. Wait, let write them down," Fang Yuan said.
Fang Yuan had obtained many of the refinent materials for Rank 5 Frost Lance Gu from the Bai Clan remnants within Bei Gu Mountain, who were currently under him with Bai Ning Bing acting as a diator.
As long as he had several sets of refinent materials, he could always try to refine it again.
"So of these materials are difficult to obtain, Fang Yuan, even for soone like ," Wei Yang said.
"Not a problem," Fang Yuan said. "You can give it to us in pieces and over ti."
The agreent was simple: Fang Yuan handed him the gu recipes. Wei Yang would provide Fang Yuan with Frost Arrow Gu as well as six sets of refinent ingredients for Frost Lance Gu.
In this way, Fang Yuan bypassed Shang Ya Zi in selling those recipes.
With that, their business was concluded. Fang Yuan handed Bai Ning Bing the Frost Arrow Gu.
"Now, surely you're happy."
"What happy!?" Bai Ning Bing asked. "Fang Yuan, don't forget that I have shared profits from you selling these gu worm recipes as well as per our agreent. This cannot be said to atone entirely for everything! At minimum, even if you refine Frost Lance Gu again, you still owe 200,000 prival stones considering the price of the recipes you sold!" The ingredient sets were enough for several tries, but there was still a chance of the refinent failing. The 200,000 stones was considering the best-case scenario. On top of which was the 200,000 she had lost betting on him. Without a doubt, she was not in a good mood thinking of all of her losses.
"Bai Ning Bing, you are far too greedy," Fang Yuan said, shaking his head. "As it is, I've already given you Scouting Hive Gu as collateral. Just give ti, and I will, of course, pay you back. On that note, actually, Bai Ning Bing, I wanted to borrow so prival stones from you, don't worry, I'll give them back to you," Fang Yuan said.
Bai Ning Bing's eyes flashed open, glaring at him. "You shaless-!" She would've said more before realizing there was no point to scolding Fang Yuan for his shalessness. She took a deep breath before adding, "No way! No way am I lending you anything until you pay back your current debts!"
"Truly, I did not think that you'd be so small-minded, Bai Ning Bing," Fang Yuan said, shaking his head. "Does our relationship an nothing to you compared to a few thousand prival stones?"
"Small-minded? I know what kind of snake you are," Bai Ning Bing said. Even now she was half sure that Fang Yuan was taking advantage of her in so way or the other. She just didn't know what the scam was yet. She just knew that the more business dealings she had with Fang Yuan, the greater the likelihood was that she would end up losing if not getting outright scamd.
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