SCT-Novel #157 - Two stingy snakes, I can't kill you with my digging!
#157 - Two stingy snakes, I can't kill you with my digging!
“Okay, you said it yourself!”
Hearing the black dragon say he wanted them all, Xu Chengxian beamed with joy.
Immediately, he raised his blood-qi-formed hand and patted his waist.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he untied the hemp rope that had been binding his waist.
From the hemp rope, he took off two yellow-skinned gourds.
And a small string of small, azure jade bottles.
He was about to put the items on the table when Hong Lie quickly and attentively pushed the eaten plates to the side.
Clearing some space.
“I have a total of one hundred Transformation Pills here.” Xu Chengxian placed the items down and pointed to the gourd on the left.
Then, he pointed to the gourd on the right and said, “Inside here are Spirit Replenishing Pills, also one hundred.”
The sheer quantity of these two types of pills made Hong Lie and the black dragon's hearts skip a beat.
Such a quantity was rarely seen, even at general trade fairs, let alone the large chambers of commerce within the royal city.
If added together, it would be enough for a small auction.
However, neither of them spoke, because there were still the remaining small jade bottles that had not been introduced.
Xu Chengxian then pointed to each of the small jade bottles.
Announcing the pills inside:
“Three Purple Fire Obstacle Breaking Pills.”
“Three Golden Sun Yin Breaking Pills.”
“Three Lihuo Evil Breaking Pills.”
“Three Myriad Treasure Detoxification Pills.”
“Three Mind Cleansing Spirit Purifying Pills.”
“Three Xuanming Evil Dissipating Pills.”
“Three Delicious Fasting Pills.”
“…”
“…”
“Say, Brother Xu, wouldn't the first two characters of the names of these later pills all be additions of your own?” Hong Lie couldn't help but laugh.
At first, he was quite surprised by the pill names Xu Chengxian mentioned, as if he had never heard of them before, so he listened with extra attention.
But as he listened, he began to sense something was off.
He was no stranger to these Obstacle Breaking Pills, Yin Breaking Pills, and Evil Breaking Pills.
They were all common pills within the demon race for entering dangerous places, such as ancient or archaic ruins, cave dwellings, mutated spiritual veins, or when setting out to slaughter Chaos Beasts, especially before entering the Endless Sea and Chaos Secret Realm.
Xu Chengxian's pills, however, simply had two extra characters in front, which sounded extremely profound, but whose meaning was incomprehensible.
It was definitely to raise the price.
The black dragon even revealed a sneer.
He had seen through it long ago.
This time, he was more awake than Hong Lie.
Xu Chengxian's behavior of not using a storage bag, but instead tying the gourds and bottles to his waist with a rope, was enough to show—he was pretending to be poor!
The purpose of pretending to be poor was naturally to earn more, so that his family would not be so impoverished.
“Aiya! Old Hong, you see through it but don't expose it, it's hard to be brothers like that.” Xu Chengxian was not at all embarrassed by having his scheme exposed, and grinned casually, “Come, come, don't mind those details. Let's still look at the pills.”
“The pills are guaranteed to be good pills. This isn't our first time doing business, you all know it in your hearts.” When he said it wasn't the first time, he naturally thought of the first time.
At that time, he had no experience.
Ling Xiao had Cat Nineteen inquire about the market price of pills within the royal city.
Knowing the approximate price, and combined with the quality of the pills refined by Ling Yunzi, he slightly increased the price and set the selling price.
It was just that how to sell and who to sell to was difficult to decide.
There were no familiar channels.
Rashly going to sell them might attract some trouble.
Ling Yunzi had changed to a new pill furnace, and the pill production rate was higher, and with the addition of dragon essence blood, one furnace of pills could produce several more pills.
He also wanted to take advantage of being in the Marquis's mansion to use all the extracted dragon essence blood for pill refining as soon as possible.
This would inevitably lead to a batch of pills that were temporarily not needed accumulating in his hands.
If it weren't for this, Ling Xiao wouldn't have thought about selling them.
Everything the Empress sister decided was based on improving her cultivation as a prerequisite.
So rather than saying it was selling, it was better to say he wanted to exchange resources.
Middle-grade spirit stones were also one of them.
As their cultivation continued to advance, low-grade spirit stones would become more and more useless.
Whether used for cultivation or for exchanging for other spiritual plants and materials.
Or rather, it was because low-grade spirit stones, in the eyes of existences with stronger cultivation, had no value in improving cultivation, so they lost the qualification to exchange for high-grade spiritual objects.
So selling some pills would instead attract unnecessary trouble, and he could only receive low-grade spirit stones, so it was better to keep them for his own use.
Wait until a suitable opportunity.
Anyway, with Xu Chengxian, such a bottomless pit, any amount of pills could be consumed.
And there was no need to worry about the trouble of pill toxins.
But Ling Yunzi had to continuously refine pills, but needed more spiritual plants and materials.
If the refined pills were not sold, where would these things come from?
Moreover, although Xu Chengxian could swallow pills all the time to cultivate, the others in the family could not do this. They had to have days to dissolve the pill toxins before they could continue to take them.
Therefore, it was better to sell a portion of the pills.
Xu Chengxian volunteered at this time, saying that he might be able to help solve it and find a reliable buyer.
Moreover, it had almost been agreed upon before.
So, he brought the pills and the heart of making friends to find the black dragon.
He didn't expect this guy to live with Hong Lie.
With a clear-eyed person by his side, things would be easier.
He entered the bargaining stage very smoothly.
It was also in this link, because he was also not very skilled, Xu Chengxian directly quoted the bottom price he had thought of on the road, slightly raising it on the basis of the originally agreed price.
Unexpectedly, the black dragon agreed in one gulp.
He actually! Agreed! In! One! Gulp!
Seeing the undisguised excitement on this guy's face, Xu Chengxian knew that he had lost out.
Moreover, it could be seen from this that the pills on the market were more scarce than imagined.
Especially when the other party inspected the goods and saw the pills, he blurted out: "Sure enough, the heavenly Dao appraisal of pills we saw a few days ago!"
Moreover, the black dragon and Hong Lie gave middle-grade spirit stones very readily.
From this point, it was not difficult to conclude—high-quality pills were even more scarce.
He was going to lose out!
The price was going to be lower!
This made Xu Chengxian almost unable to sleep after going back.
But the price had been agreed upon, and it was not good to arbitrarily raise the price for no reason.
Although this demon character was not very important, it was not good to be too unprincipled.
So he seized the opportunity and wanted to fleece some benefits from the black dragon.
What was wrong with eating this guy's fruit snacks?
What was wrong with treating him as a simulated combat training NPC?
This was all paid for!
Even so, who lost out and who took advantage was still hard to say!
“Hiss, hiss!”
Every time he thought of this, Xu Chengxian wanted to grind his teeth.
Moreover, he clearly showed it, just waiting for one of the two great demons on the opposite side to take up the conversation, so he could go along with the flow, bring up the old matter, and re-price.
It didn't necessarily have to raise it too high, anyway, it had to be raised a little.
Otherwise, he would not feel comfortable in his heart.
But these two goods on the opposite side were more able to pretend than the other!
“Whoa! Water player, look quickly!” Hong Lie picked up one of the bottles, which was the bottle containing the Delicious Fasting Pills, opened it and glanced at it, and said in surprise, “Look at this faint azure qi, at least five or six spiritual patterns!”
“Is that so? Let me see!” The black dragon hurriedly took it over.
Then the two of them, one bottle after another, checked all the pills.
Of course, the most important were the Transformation Pills and the Spirit Replenishing Pills.
“Wow! This Spirit Replenishing Pill actually has one with a full eight spiritual patterns!”
“Fellow Daoist Ling Yunzi! Truly extraordinary!”
“Extraordinary, right? If you're satisfied, the price…”
“Aiya! Look quickly at this Transformation Pill, half of them are emitting yellow light!”
“Looks good, right? If it looks good, then can our price…”
“…”
…
An incense stick later, Xu Chengxian, carrying the spirit stones, came out of the black dragon's courtyard.
While walking, he hummed and cursed, “Two stingy snakes, I'll squeeze you to death!”