Chapter 496 - 203: Treasure Pavilion! Shopkeeper Mu Shan! Crazy Extortion
Chapter 496: Chapter 203: Treasure Pavilion! Shopkeeper Mu Shan! Crazy Extortion
"Selling something."
Su Bai glanced at the old man.
In Chishui City, not counting Chiyun Immortal, there were only eleven or twelve Spiritual Image Realm Cultivators.
This old man was one of them.
However, he was quite old, and his own Martial Dao potential was inferior to that of the Lin Family’s Lin San and Lin Si.
Mu Shan looked at Su Bai, his expression hesitant, unsure how to address him.
’I could call him Young Master, but he seems to have no Cultivation—just an ordinary person.’
With his Spiritual Image Realm Cultivation, calling an ordinary person ’Young Master’ was something he found difficult to bring himself to do.
But after just a few glances, an inexplicable, bone-chilling sensation washed over him.
’What kind of monster is this?’
Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, he forced a smile and asked, "And what is it that you wish to sell?"
"The Celestial Dragon True Form Map."
Since Ye Yangfeng could not speak, Su Bai naturally spoke for him.
"The Celestial Dragon True Form Map..."
Mu Shan’s expression shifted slightly as he mulled over the words.
Then, he looked thoughtfully at the silent Ye Yangfeng beside him:
"So, it is Young Master Ye who graces us with his presence. However, I heard that you had already given the Celestial Dragon True Form Map to Young Master Chi. What is the meaning of this?"
Ye Yangfeng’s arrival in Chishui City could not, of course, be hidden from those who were paying attention, and the Treasure Pavilion was naturally aware of it.
"The treasure can be sold, and so can the method."
Su Bai held up five fingers. "Fifty thousand Spiritual Image Pills!"
"Too expensive."
Mu Shan immediately shook his head. "If you had both the method and the treasure, even one hundred thousand Spiritual Image Pills would be selling it cheap."
"But with only the method and not the scroll itself, it’s worth three thousand Spiritual Image Pills at most."
At the same time, he was rapidly calculating in his mind.
’The Celestial Dragon True Form Map is indeed precious, extremely so.’
’After all, the scroll of the Celestial Dragon True Form Map is itself a powerful Magical Treasure.’
’But having the Cultivation Method without the treasure greatly reduces the price.’
’The real price, I estimate, is about ten thousand Spiritual Image Pills.’
’But I must also consider that I won’t be the only one with this method; Chiyun Immortal has it too.’
’In that case, the value is halved again, making it worth five or six thousand Spiritual Image Pills at most.’
"Three thousand is fine."
Su Bai, who was perfectly aware of the man’s little calculations, nodded. "However, you’ll need to add an extra ten thousand Solidification Pills."
"Impossible. I can add five thousand Solidification Pills at most!"
Mu Shan continued to bargain.
"Done."
Su Bai couldn’t be bothered to haggle any further.
After he had finished probing all the various Spiritual Brands in the Treasure Pavilion, he simply nodded.
Ye Yangfeng, of course, had no objections.
’In any case, they were done after this one last shakedown.’
’A little more or a little less, he didn’t care.’
So, he handed over the prepared Celestial Dragon True Form Map and took the Qiankun Bag that a beaming Mu Shan passed to him.
He turned and left immediately!
From beginning to end, he never uttered a word.
"Shopkeeper, this Celestial Dragon True Form Map..."
Just then, an attendant who had been wiping down tables and chairs walked over with a worried look. "Did you perhaps give them too much?"
"It was a little extra, yes, but it was worth it."
The smile on Mu Shan’s face grew wider. "I heard that Lin Longbai is also looking for this."
"I can resell it to him and make a profit..."
’Is it a loss?’
’In our line of work, if you don’t make ten times your investment, it counts as a loss!’
’But in the business of buying and selling, it’s not just about the purchase; you have to consider how to sell it, and more importantly, who to sell it to.’
’That Lin Longbai made quite a scene before; he seemed determined to get it.’
’Now, Ye Yangfeng holds a grudge against him for wiping out his family, and Chiyun Immortal also possesses the method for the Celestial Dragon True Form Map.’
’No matter how capable Lin Longbai is, he won’t be able to obtain this legacy method.’
’If I present this map to him now...’
’Not only will I receive a tenfold reward, but I might even gain the appreciation of Lin Longxiang!’
"The shopkeeper is truly brilliant."
The attendant was stunned at first, then became filled with utter admiration.
...
While Mu Shan’s mental abacus was clattering away...
Su Bai and Ye Yangfeng ran into Lin San and his men at the entrance, who had come looking for them.
"The Elixirs are here. Where’s the item?"
Lin Si casually tossed over a Qiankun Bag, his face cold.
When he saw Ye Yangfeng open the Qiankun Bag and seemingly take inventory of its contents, his expression grew even colder.
"Who do you think the Second Master is? As if he’d care about your paltry items!"
Lin Si sneered.
Just then, Ye Yangfeng looked up, tossed the Qiankun Bag back, and drew two words on the ground with his foot:
"Not enough."
"How is that possible!?"
Lin Si’s expression changed. He immediately opened the Qiankun Bag and looked inside carefully.
Instantly, his face turned ashen!
"One hundred thousand Solidification Pills and one thousand Spiritual Image Pills! Not one more, not one less!"
"What do you mean, ’not enough’!?"
"The price went up."
Ye Yangfeng calmly shook his head. Then, he wrote a few more words with his foot and turned to go back inside.
After seeing what he wrote, the men were so furious they trembled all over, on the verge of erupting into a murderous rage!
It was Lin San who, with a grim face, finally spoke. "How much more?"
Ye Yangfeng paused, then drew another line of text with his foot: "Three hundred Spiritual Image Pills!"
"Why don’t you just fucking rob us instead!?"
Lin Si’s face flushed red, consumed by rage!
But in his heart, Lin San’s stomach dropped.
Because between the two of them, they had exactly three hundred Spiritual Image Pills.
His and Lin Si’s yearly salary was a mere fifty Spiritual Image Pills, and that was for both of them combined.
Three hundred Spiritual Image Pills was a full six years’ salary for the two of them.
Normally, they would never have had so many Elixirs.
They only had this much because they had been saving up to purchase a Divine Soldier, scrimping and saving for six long years to accumulate this amount.