Chapter 468 - 214: Gao Changgeng: Where the Hell Did He Come From?
Chapter 468: Chapter 214: Gao Changgeng: Where the Hell Did He Come From?
Xiao Chen was a little speechless. How had this turned into a bidding war?
To be honest, he really didn’t want to get any more involved with such a major power.
Under any other circumstances, he would have just given up.
But the Qianyuan Creation Pill was a matter of his success rate in Nascent Soul Formation!
A ten-percent increase might not seem like much, but it was actually quite significant.
This was especially true for Xiao Chen. His inferior-grade Spiritual Root was no help at all; in fact, it was a hindrance.
Without the aid of other Spiritual Objects or Rank-Breaking Spirit Pills, there had never been a precedent in history of a cultivator with an inferior-grade Spiritual Root successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.
Even with a Rank-Breaking Spirit Pill, such a success was incredibly rare—perhaps only one every few thousand years.
Therefore, he absolutely could not afford to miss any opportunity for an extra advantage.
He rummaged through his Storage Ring and spoke again. "I’ll add three more Purple Gold Bodhi Fruits."
???
This time, the eyes of the entire crowd were drawn to Xiao Chen.
’What the hell?’
Hou Xingyao’s eyes went wide. Purple Gold Bodhi was a top-tier Tier Four Spirit Fruit. To take out three at once?
’What kind of luck is that? Did he find a whole Bodhi Tree?’
Lu Lihui was stunned. ’No, wait a minute, who the hell are you?’
He finally realized that Xiao Chen hadn’t participated in the bidding for ordinary Spirit Pills earlier, not because he lacked the resources as Lu Lihui had thought.
On the contrary, the man simply looked down on common Spirit Pills.
’Damn it. He’d been so busy chatting with the two Elders from the Five Thunders Temple that he’d completely ignored the one person he should have been trying to win over.’
Lv Jingfu, on the other hand, had anticipated this. He even began to wonder if the Hidden Dao Lineage backing Xiao Chen had planted a Bodhi Tree—or more than one.
’How many more Spirit Medicines does he have?’
’Is it possible for them to strike some deals regarding Spirit Medicines in the future?’
Whenever rare resources began to circulate, profits would naturally follow.
Even Tideng True Monarch, who had just been watching the show, turned serious. He happened to be collecting Spiritual Objects like Purple Gold Bodhi.
’How are there three of them right here?’
He had originally considered speaking up to propose a trade, offering other Tier Four Spirit Grass in exchange.
But on second thought, it would be a bit of a loss of face, so he decided against it.
He simply gave Xiao Chen an extra glance, planning to ask him after the banquet if he had any spare Purple Gold Bodhi.
If he did, Tideng was willing to buy them at a premium.
Gao Changgeng frowned, a rare sight. He looked at Xiao Chen and searched his memory, confirming that he really didn’t know such a person.
’Where the hell did he pop up from?’
The crucial problem was that he didn’t have enough Tier Four Spirit Grass on hand either.
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He actually used to have enough, but Gao Changgeng, in his quest for fame after exiting the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, had passed off his own Spirit Grass as spoils from the realm.
He had publicly exchanged them for some Nine Luminaries Profound Pills in front of everyone, using up five stalks of Tier Four Spirit Grass in the process.
As a result, he no longer had enough Tier Four Spirit Grass.
But no matter what, he couldn’t lose face.
Gao Changgeng tried to impress Ji Shengcun with a lavish offer. "I can add one million Spirit Stones!"
Faced with the astronomical price of a million Spirit Stones, most cultivators would have been tempted.
Unfortunately, Ji Shengcun wasn’t swayed. "My apologies, Senior, but this junior only wants Tier Four Spirit Grass."
"You..."
Gao Changgeng instinctively wanted to demand, ’Do you know who I am?’
But this was the City Lord’s Mansion, and City Lord Huo was right there in the pavilion, so he didn’t dare say it out loud.
Instead, he just tossed his head and snorted coldly.
A few of his junior brothers and sisters nearby immediately started comforting him in low voices.
This only made Gao Changgeng even more furious, and he began to resent Ji Shengcun for being so tactless.
’Refusing a million Spirit Stones... He’s shamelessly disrespecting me.’
’And that Xiao Chen is just as clueless about his own mortality.’
’Publicly snatching my Spirit Pill, making me lose face.’
’He dares to take anything, doesn’t he? He’d better not get burned.’
Seeing that Gao Changgeng had seemingly given up, Ji Shengcun walked directly over to Xiao Chen to exchange the items.
The many cultivators present watched with wide eyes as he took out three Purple Gold Bodhi Fruits, deep purple and light violet in color.
Many looked at this somewhat unfamiliar face, wondering about his origins.
They, too, wanted to know: where on earth had Xiao Chen come from?
Some felt the desire to recruit him and planned to make inquiries after the banquet ended.
Others, equally perceptive, made the connection to a Hidden Dao Lineage.
And still others looked at those Tier Four Spirit Grass with eyes red with envy, beginning to size up Xiao Chen’s strength and plot the business of Tribulation Cultivators.
With the final transaction complete, the Spirit Medicine Banquet drew to a close.
City Lord Huo was as crisp and efficient as ever, declaring the banquet over after just two sentences.
But at the very end, he added one more thing. "Would Golden Light please stay for a moment? I have two small questions I’m curious about."
The cultivators who had planned to either recruit or trail Xiao Chen after the banquet were all dumbfounded.
Once the crowd dispersed, none of them would dare to linger near the City Lord’s Mansion to keep watch.
After all, trying to pull tricks right under the nose of a Nascent Soul Cultivator was simply asking for a death wish.
"Young friend, don’t be alarmed. I don’t bite."
After everyone else had left, City Lord Huo said with a smile, "Come, come, over to the pavilion."
"Actually, I’m asking these two questions on behalf of Tideng."
"May I ask, young friend, do you have any more spare Purple Gold Bodhi?"
"If you do, would you be willing to make a trade?"
An ordinary cultivator would have probably panicked at this point.
But with the Blade of Night as his backing, Xiao Chen felt reasonably confident and answered in a manner neither servile nor overbearing, "I dare not hide it from you, True Monarch. This junior does indeed have more Purple Gold Bodhi."