C23 Business

"We'll buy the item later. Before that, we have a business deal to discuss with the shopkeeper."

Li Yi smiled and said.

"Oh? Fellow Daoists, you want to discuss business with me? "

The shopkeeper was a bit surprised as he sized up Li Yi and Han Li. They seemed to be thirteen or fourteen years old, and they were at the 6th level of the Refinement Stage.

"Shopkeeper, do you accept demon beast materials here?"

"Accept, of course we will accept. Whether it is the materials, pills, spiritual treasure, or talismans, as long as it is something valuable, we will accept it all!" "I wonder what materials you want to sell, and how many are there?"

Li Yi didn't say anything. He just smiled at the shopkeeper and glanced at the interior of the shop.

"Oh, I'm Meng Lang. Fellow Daoists, please, let's talk slowly."

The head storekeeper was extremely shrewd. He saw through Li Yi's intention with a single glance and immediately apologized. He opened the curtain, inviting Li Yi and Li Jun to enter the room to speak.

Li Yi and Zhao Zilong looked at each other and smiled before following the shopkeeper into the inner room.

The inner room appeared to be a guest room. The four walls were all sealed and pasted with talismans that were presumably soundproofed. Of course, this didn't exclude the fact that there were offensive talismans within them.

The shopkeeper waved his hand and placed a soundproofing spell on the door. Then, he turned to Li Yi and Zhao Zilong and smiled, "You two, as for the three of us, we can take out your goods now, right?"

Seeing that Li Yi and Yue Yang still did not say anything, the shopkeeper's face became a little displeased: "You two are quite careful! The two of you should know that the master of our [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] is the master of this Qingfeng Valley, Daoist Qingfeng. "I am an untalented man, and I would rather die for the shopkeeper of the [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] than to do something that would ruin my own reputation like killing people for their treasures!"

"Shopkeeper Wang, you are overthinking. However, the two of us do not have a small amount of goods. Since this is our first time in your place, it is hard to not be cautious." "Shopkeeper Wang must have already seen that the two of us are only at the 6th level of the Mortal Realm. Our cultivation is low. If today's transaction is known by someone …"

Li Yi chuckled. Manager Wang was a smart person, so he naturally understood what he meant.

As expected, Shopkeeper Wang immediately said, "It's not like you two are unreasonable. Fine, I will make an oath that aside from my boss, I will not tell anyone else about what happened today. Otherwise, my cultivation will stagnate and I will have no chance at Core Formation!"

"Good, straightforward. With Shopkeeper Wang's words, we two brothers have nothing to worry about!" "Zi Long!"

Cultivators would not easily swear an oath, because once they made an oath, they would form a connection with the Heavenly Dao in the underworld. Once they broke it, the oath would definitely be fulfilled, so since Shopkeeper Wang said it like this, Li Yi naturally did not have any concerns and gave Zhao Zilong a meaningful glance, then the two of them simultaneously opened their storage bags and took out the demon beast materials one by one.

"Windstorm Beast, Lion Tiger Beast, Bone Devouring Dog, Black Water Python, Winged Tiger, and Demonic Gale Wolf …"

As the demon beast materials and corpses were taken out from Li Yi and Han Li's storage bags, Shopkeeper Wang's expression gradually turned serious. Although most of them were low-rank yellow-rank demon beasts, reaching mid-rank yellow-rank at most would not be a small number, but it was not like Shopkeeper Wang had never seen such a large number of high-rank demon beasts before. The ones who truly amazed him were Li Yi and Wang.

Li Yi and Li Jun were only at the 6th level of the Refinement Stage, but most of the materials they took out came from demonic beasts that were equal to the 10th or 11th level of the Refinement Stage.

If these demonic beasts were killed by these two youths, then their true strength would definitely far surpass their cultivation level. Even the elite disciples of the five great immortal sects might not have such abilities!

Even if they didn't kill them, for them to be able to get so much demonic beast material, these two youths definitely weren't ordinary little Qi Cultivation stage rogue cultivators!

"Fellow Daoists, please forgive me for my blabbermouth, but I would like to ask, how did you get these materials?"

Considering that he might have to work with the [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] in the future, Li Yi decided to be honest and said, "This is what the two of us obtained after spending two months hunting monsters in the Thousand Monster Forest. What? Shopkeeper Wang doesn't dare to accept it?"

"Collect!" Why not? I've said it before, as long as it is something of value, my [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] will not refuse anything! Fellow Daoists, please wait for a moment. I need to evaluate these materials before I can confirm their value. "

"Please feel free, Manager!"

Manager Wang's efficiency was very fast. He didn't have much time to complete the detailed list.

"Please take a look, here is the list of materials and their values. There is a total of 13800 low-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to a hundred and thirty-eight mid-grade spirit stones. Are you two satisfied with the price?"

Li Yi took the list and looked at it. The price was fair. Even if they set up stalls and sold their goods, it would probably not be much higher than this.

"No problem, Shopkeeper Wang's business is very fair. However, I have a small request. Can you exchange one hundred mid-grade spirit stones for one high-grade spirit stone?"

"This …"

Hearing Li Yi's request, Manager Wang was obviously hesitant.

The advantage of having spirit stones was that it was easy to absorb them. Cultivators could absorb the spirit energy within them to speed up their cultivation and reach a higher level faster. They could also absorb the spirit energy to recover quickly when their mana was depleted.

Spirit stones could be divided into low-grade spirit stones, mid-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones according to the purity of the world's spirit energy. Of course, there were also the legendary top-grade spirit stones.

In theory, a top grade spirit stone should contain the same amount of spirit energy as a hundred high grade spirit stones, a high grade spirit stone should contain the same amount of spirit energy as a hundred mid grade spirit stones, and a mid grade spirit stone should contain the same amount of spirit energy as a hundred low grade spirit stones. In the Immortal Cultivation World, this ratio was also used to exchange for items.

However, in reality, very few people were willing to use high grade spirit stones to exchange for low grade ones.

The reason was simple. Although the amount of high level spirit stones absorbed was the same, the rate at which high level spirit stones were absorbed was far greater than low level spirit stones. Especially when he was looking at the loss of Fa Li, if he could quickly replenish his Fa Li, it meant that he would have a slight advantage over others and would have a higher chance of surviving.

Moreover, there were side effects when absorbing spiritual energy from spirit stones to speed up one's cultivation growth. It was easy to cause one's foundation to become unstable, making it harder to break through bottlenecks. The higher the grade of the spirit stone, the fewer side effects it would have.

If someone continued to cultivate with top quality spirit stones or even top quality spirit stones, the side effects would basically be negligible. Of course, in the current cultivation world, no one could afford to use top grade spirit stones, much less top grade spirit stones.

In the current cultivation world, top grade spirit stones were basically in the hands of the various sects and were stored as energy sources to activate the grand protective magical formation or the ultra-long distance teleportation formation.

Thus, when Shopkeeper Wang heard Li Yi's suggestion to exchange a hundred mid-grade spirit stones for a high-grade spirit stone, he became hesitant.

Li Yi also saw Shopkeeper Wang's dilemma. He coughed lightly and said, "I know this request is a bit difficult, but I believe that Shopkeeper Wang will make a decision after reading this item!"

With that, he took out the wind element crystal core from his storage bag and waved it in front of Manager Wang.

"This is a crystal core!"

Shopkeeper Wang's eyes immediately became round. He wouldn't be that surprised even if Li Yi and the others took out a beast core.

However, these were crystal cores. Even if there were ten thousand demonic beasts below the Core Formation Stage, not even one would have a crystal core!

Although the spiritual energy in the crystal core was much less than the demonic beast's inner core, the quality of the crystal core was much purer.

The crystal core was basically made up of the concentrated spiritual energy, and inside the demonic beast's inner core, besides the spiritual energy, there was also a large amount of impurities.

"You guys actually have this kind of good stuff!" Fine, as long as you two dao friends are willing to sell this crystal core to us [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] or give it to us for auction, the Spirit Stones obtained will all be paid with high grade Spirit Stones. "

Li Yi smiled in satisfaction. His prediction was right, as long as he took out this wind crystal core, Shopkeeper Wang's attitude would definitely change, but he didn't expect such a huge reaction.

"Auction? Do you want to hold an auction here? "

Zhao Zilong, who had been silent all this time, could not help but open his mouth.

"That's right, three days from now, our [Myriad Treasures Pavilion] will hold a small-scale auction, at that time, there will be some precious medicinal pills, secret manuals, and all sorts of treasures participating in the auction. If you two are interested, I can personally gift you a VIP scroll, and then you two can participate in the auction in a special VIP room."

Manager Wang threw out an olive branch.

"Alright, since Manager Wang is so straightforward, we can't be too unreasonable." This Wind Crystal will be troubling your House for the auction! "

Li Yi laughed out loud and handed the Wind Crystal over to Manager Wang.

"It's from the Wind element?" Good, looks like this crystal is even more valuable! "

Manager Wang received the Wind Crystal Core and carefully put it away. He then handed over a storage pouch. "This is a spirit stone made from demon beast materials. One high-grade spirit stone and thirty-eight mid-grade spirit stones. The VIP jade slips are also included."

"Alright, then we'll take our leave, Shopkeeper Wang. See you at the auction in three days!"

Receiving the storage bag and putting it away, Li Yi cupped his hands towards Manager Wang.

"Three days later, I will be waiting for you two at the auction!"

Li Yi and Li Jun nodded, turned around, and walked out of the [Myriad Treasures Pavilion].

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"Shopkeeper, do you want to check the identities of these two people?"

After the two of them left, a hidden door appeared on the wall of the inner room. A black-clothed cultivator walked out and bowed to Shopkeeper Wang as he spoke.

"No need, these two are not ordinary people. They are either the elite disciples of the five immortal sects or the prized disciples of some old monster. Acting rashly would easily cause unnecessary misunderstandings." "You can go and find out the address of their lodgings. After the auction, everything will be decided by the boss!"

"Yes!" This subordinate understands! "

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