Chapter 668 - 264: Xiao, I’m Here to Talk Business
Chapter 668: Chapter 264: Xiao, I’m Here to Talk Business
Hearing this, the man sneered, "No wonder he’s so clueless about the market."
"The most expensive Dao Crystal before this only sold for eight hundred thousand a piece, and that was under special circumstances."
"For him to ask for a million right off the bat... he’s simply dreaming."
However, Zhang, who was standing beside him, shook his head slightly. "Not necessarily, He. Do you know who that person in front of him is?"
As the two were speaking, a new voice came from a distance.
"A Dao Crystal isn’t worth a million Spirit Stones."
Xiao Chen shook his head slightly, then promptly changed his tune. "However, that depends on the situation."
He deliberately raised his voice. "An elder in my family happens to be cultivating the Path of Wood. This thing would make a pretty decent gift."
"A million it is!"
"If anyone here has extra Dao Crystals, feel free to come find me."
When the young man in the long gown heard the first sentence, his face had fallen in disappointment, thinking it was a lost cause.
He never expected such a sudden turn of events; Xiao Chen had actually agreed to his price.
He immediately and excitedly stretched out his arm, pushing the Dao Crystal in his hand forward again.
He practically shoved it into Xiao Chen’s chest.
The crowd watched as the two actually sealed the deal on the spot.
Especially the young man, who, after receiving the Storage Ring, was grinning from ear to ear.
All the onlookers’ eyes went wide.
Many Loose Cultivators were so jealous their eyes turned red, wishing they were the one who’d just received a million Spirit Stones.
The manager from the Feiye Commerce Association shook his head slightly, but inwardly, he felt a sense of relief.
Normally, if he had failed to acquire a Dao Crystal, even if he wasn’t reprimanded upon his return, he would surely be bad-mouthed by a few of his rivals behind his back.
But now, that didn’t matter.
With an unexpected turn of events like this, it couldn’t be considered a failure on his part.
There were only one or two Dao Crystals circulating out here to begin with. If someone else snatched one up for the high price of a million, what could he possibly do?
He, the man who had secretly mocked the youth in the long gown earlier, was now staring with wide eyes.
He immediately turned to the man beside him. "Zhang, hurry and tell me, who in the world is that buyer?"
Zhang smiled faintly. "This story starts with the auction from a month ago..."
Similar conversations were happening in several other places nearby.
Cultivators who had previously attended the auction began telling their companions all about Xiao Chen’s exploits.
This, in turn, shocked even more people.
Even a disciple from the Celestial Spirit Sect standing nearby felt a pang of regret.
’If I’d known it could be traded for so many Spirit Stones, I should have just secretly kept it for myself instead of reporting it to the Sect.’
Unfortunately, for safety’s sake, the moment he had left the Secret Realm, he had pretended to linger and watch the commotion while secretly using a Flying Sword to message his fellow sect members. It would be difficult to hide it now.
He could only watch Xiao Chen’s departing figure with regret, his heart aching with sorrow.
「An hour later.」
On a desolate island within the Tingtao Sea, Xiao Chen finished setting up a Defensive Array.
He then took out the two Storage Rings he had picked up in the basin and began to break the Restrictions on them.
’Oh, this is interesting!’
As soon as he started, he discovered that the Restrictions on these two rings looked simple but were in fact intricately linked.
They weren’t the cheap, mass-produced kind; they were high-end Storage Rings, almost on par with his Vast Sea Ring and extremely difficult to break.
But for him, this was actually a good thing.
If the Storage Rings were this high-grade, the items inside them couldn’t be too shabby.
Xiao Chen was even a little excited, hoping to find some useful Spiritual Objects inside.
Because the Restrictions were so complex, it took him a full sixteen hours to finally break them.
Out of habit, he first used his Divine Sense to count the number of Spirit Stones.
The Cultivators who entered the Cangran Secret Realm all came from decent backgrounds.
Therefore, unlike Loose Cultivators, they didn’t need to spend their Spirit Stones beforehand to maximize their combat strength.
As a result, Xiao Chen found a total of 635,000 Spirit Stones in the two Storage Rings.
He also found 1,050 Middle Grade Spirit Stones stored in a small box.
When converted, that averaged out to 370,000 Spirit Stones carried per person.
It might not seem like much compared to a special case like Xiao Chen, but for an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator, this was a massive fortune.
After all, Spirit Stones were liquid currency.
Next were a few Gold Talismans, about ten high-quality Defense Talismans, and four spare Spiritual Artifacts.
Xiao Chen tossed all of these items directly into his Miscellaneous Ring, planning to sell them off later.
Then there was a pile of small jade vials containing various Spirit Pills.
As disciples of a Major Sect, the Spirit Pills they carried were also out of the ordinary.
There were two vials of Ten Treasures Heaven Repairing Pills for healing, and five vials of Cyan Lotus Rejuvenation Pills for rapidly restoring True Essence.
There was also one vial of Yellow Dragon Antitoxic Pills for counteracting poisons, as well as a jar of Immortal Ganoderma Detoxification Ointment.
The only thing missing was any kind of Spirit Pill that helped accelerate cultivation.
Speaking of which, disciples of Major Sects and heirs of great families seemed to be very wary of such things.
Xiao Chen had asked around about this before but never got a definitive answer.
There was just a rumor that if a Cultivator had never consumed any cultivation-enhancing elixirs in their past...
...then the first time they used a Rank-Breaking Spirit Pill in the future, its effects would be far greater, making it easier to achieve a breakthrough in one go.
Although this rumor was unverified, it sounded somewhat plausible.
After all, for some exceptionally talented Cultivators, their cultivation speed was already fast even without the help of elixirs.
Unfortunately, the one thing Xiao Chen wanted most was elixirs to accelerate his cultivation; he wasn’t particularly interested in anything else.