Chapter 681 - Bargaining In The Market
Chapter 681: Bargaining In The Market
In the Beast King Sect’s market, the ratio of the stalls by human cultivators and beast cultivators was 2 to 1.
Nonetheless, the majority of the wanderers in the market were humans. According to Ou Yangming’s observation, human cultivators would first look at the stalls set up by beasts, whereas beast cultivators were more interested in the stalls set up by humans.
At this moment, what attracted Ou Yangming was not items that were sold at the stalls, but a burly vulture. In particular, he was extremely pleased with its long feathers.
It would not be easy to refine a flying carpet. Perhaps Venerable Blacksmiths could refine flying carpets using the fur of formidable spirit beasts but given Ou Yangming’s strength at the moment, he could not achieve that easily. If he wanted to refine the same flying carpet, apart from the overall raw material used, he also needed to add some auxiliary items.
Before this, Ou Yangming thought about Fat Antelope’s wool.
He was familiar with it, after all, hence there would not be a big problem for him to refine a flying carpet with it.
Even so, when he saw the vulture, he could not help but wonder, ‘If one wants to fly in the sky, what will be more suitable than a bird’s feathers?’
The vulture in front of the stall turned its neck uneasily. Being a powerful spirit beast, its sensing ability must not be underestimated. If not, it would have long been eliminated in nature by the law of the jungle, where the strong preyed on the weak.
Therefore, the vulture sensed it when Ou Yangming kept scanning its body.
It suddenly turned to stare at Ou Yangming.
A fierce look could be seen in its black eyes. Although it dared not attack anyone in this place, it would be fine for it to warn someone with its eyes.
Ou Yangming was slightly stunned. He smiled embarrassedly and looked away.
He also understood that what he did earlier was untimely. Besides, he was simply looking for the feathers of a mighty bird. As long as it was a bird, it would not matter what species it was.
The young fellow browsed the items at the stall, but he finally looked at the spot in front of the vulture again.
This time, Ou Yangming did not stare at its feathers without looking away. Instead, he noticed a sheet of skin in front of it.
It was a beast’s skin, which was not too large, but it was undoubtedly perfect as a material to refine a flying carpet.
Ou Yangming smiled bitterly because he had accidentally caused animosity between him and the vulture. He initially did not want to deal with it anymore, but this was the only stall within his visible range that sold suitable materials.
He shook his head and walked over.
The vulture was alert. It stared at Ou Yangming with a fierce look in its eyes as though it wanted to scare him away.
Nevertheless, Ou Yangming was a man that had witnessed the appearance of the dragon and the phoenix, so he would not surrender to a Venerable One’s momentum, let alone this vulture.
Ou Yangming arrived at the vulture’s stall and pointed at the beast’s skin without any hesitation. “What’s the price for this?”
The vulture was startled for a while before it scoffed coldly and answered, “100 spirit ores.”
Ou Yangming was dumbfounded. Honestly, he was not familiar with the market price here, thus he did not know how much the piece of skin was worth. Despite that, he noticed that the vulture was disdainful when it told him the price. Moreover, judging from its frivolous tone, it did not sound like it disclosed the real price.
The young fellow looked around and realized that the people nearby were smiling scornfully.
At this point, as dumb as a person was, one would know that the price was too high.
Ou Yangming cleared his throat and responded, “Brother, that doesnʼt sound like a very sincere price.”
The vulture fanned its wings a little and looked up to ask him, “How much are you offering?”
Ou Yangming twitched his mouth as he really did not know how much the item was worth. He was slightly regretful at this moment, and he thought, ‘Had I known this was going to happen, I shouldn’t have come alone; I should’ve asked Bai Zhiyi to send a disciple that’s familiar with the market to accompany me here.’
Just as he was feeling uncertain, a sonorous voice was heard. “30 spirit ores should be enough.”
Ou Yangming was struck dumb. The voice sounded rather familiar, and he could not help but laugh when he turned to look; Tian Yinghao was standing somewhere behind him.
The blacksmith from the Beast King Sect put his hands behind his back and looked coldly at the vulture.
Ou Yangming raised his eyebrows. Tian Yinghao was entirely different from the yes-man he was at the library. He stuck out his chest with bright eyes and displayed great momentum.
In terms of cultivation base only, Tian Yinghao was equivalent to a Supreme Great Ancestor from the lower realm, and he was not even a Spiritualist.
Having said that, he was wearing clothes unique to the Beast King Sect’s disciple, where a flame mark that represented a blacksmith was also embroidered on his outfit.
Inside this market, his identity as a blacksmith from the Beast King Sect had indeed given him a lot of confidence, which was why he underwent an enormous change as though he had a new lease of life.
The vulture had a cold look in its eyes, but it instantly curbed its momentum when it spotted Tian Yinghao’s clothing, as well as the flame mark on it. This was the Beast King Sect’s territory, after all, so as unruly as it was, it could not be impolite toward a blacksmith from the sect.
“Young master, 30 spirit ores are really too little—this whole sheet of skin belongs to a spirit beast!” The vulture suppressed its anger and added, “I won’t sell it if you don’t offer at least 50 spirit ores.”
Tian Yinghao went forward and bowed at Ou Yangming. “Greetings, Brother Ou.”
Ou Yangming was taken aback. “You know who I am?”
“Brother Ou, you’ve been in the library for so many days, so it’s hard not to recognize you.” Tian Yinghao smiled bitterly.
The vulture’s eyelids could not help but twitch because it obtained a lot of information from their conversation.
‘This young human, who has an ordinary outfit and was staring at me for a long time, is qualified to enter the Beast King Sect’s library for many days?’
Even though the vulture was not human, it knew what kind of a place the library was as it was a spirit beast. Given that one could enter the library for so many days and caught someone else’s attention, one must be unordinary.
All of a sudden, the vulture was anxious. ‘I didn’t accidentally offend an influential person, did I?’
Ou Yangming nodded and turned around to say to the vulture, “I’ll take this piece of skin for 50 spirit ores.”
The vulture immediately nodded and replied to him, “Okay, young master, it’s yours.”
Ou Yangming shook his wrist to retrieve one of his interspatial bags, then he counted 50 spirit ores for the vulture, which quickly accepted them and carefully placed them in a huge bag.
The bag was also sewn using a king of beast’s skin, and it looked incredibly solid.
However, Ou Yangming could tell at one glance that the fellow was embarrassingly short of money because it did not have an interspatial bag at all.
Ou Yangming accepted the beast’s skin and nodded satisfyingly after he inspected it. He took a fancy to the item because it was fresh enough, and there was also remaining killing intent on it.
The killing intent was not favorable for other people as time would be required to get rid of it. That said, the flying carpet that Ou Yangming planned to refine was extraordinary, where a bit of killing intent would not pose negative effects on it at all.
After pondering for some time, Ou Yangming blurted, “Do you happen to have feathers that have come off of your body?”
“Young master, you’re looking for fallen feathers from my sect, am I right?” The vulture asked him in return after some time.
Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up, and he answered with a smile, “Yes, that’s right.”
Any part of a bird powerhouse’s body was considered a treasure. Among them, a bird’s fallen feathers could be exceptionally useful in certain aspects. In the beginning, the Birds were unaware at all, thus they did not bother when their feathers fell.
As they became more acquainted with the Humans, they eventually knew their worth, so their fallen feathers also became one of the items that they collected.
The vulture chuckled and retrieved a big sack from a corner at its stall. As soon as it opened the sack, feathers of different colors could be seen.
“Young master, are these enough?” The vulture added proudly, “These will be all yours for 100 spirit ores.”
This time, Tian Yinghao did not say a word. Normally, a beast’s skin’s price was definite. It might fluctuate, but there would not be too much of a difference. On the other hand, feathers did not have a fixed price. They did not know how many feathers were inside the sack, so 100 spirit ores sounded like an acceptable price.
Who knew, Ou Yangming shook his head. He reached out to grab a handful of feathers from the sack, then he gently let go of them. Other than about 10 feathers, the rest drifted to mid-air and spun a few rounds before they descended to the ground.
Ou Yangming chuckled and said, “Your Excellency, I only need feathers from Spiritualists.”
The vulture blinked and responded, “A tenth of the feathers here are fallen feathers from Spiritualists. We won’t ask for much, but you must offer at least 50 spirit ores.”
“Okay, deal,” Ou Yangming uttered with a smile. He retrieved another 100 spirit ores without any delay.
The vulture accepted them carefully, then it shook its big sack. It could not help but laugh out loud when it heard the clear sounds of spirit ores knocking against each other. “I have enough now, I have enough now.”
Ou Yangming found it funny. It turned out that the vulture’s hard-earned money was going to be used to purchase something.
Curious, he asked the vulture casually, “Your Excellency, what are you planning to buy?”
The vulture hesitated for a brief moment, then it glanced at Tian Yinghao’s outfit and answered as if it had made up its mind, “I’d like to buy an interspatial bag.”