"Of course." Chen Mo said cheerfully. He reached out and took out the small jade box placed on his chest. Without opening it, he pushed it directly on the table to the white-haired old man who called himself Old Uncle Huang.
As soon as Old Man Huang put his wrinkled hands on the jade box, his expression became subtle: "It is actually made of ice jade. It seems that my little brother knows how to retain the medicinal properties of spiritual herbs."
He calmly opened the jade box, the old man's expression remained calm, and finally closed it with a "snap": "The age is not very high, only about seventy years old, but judging from the effect, it is refined into The beauty elixir can keep your appearance unchanged for thirty years, and at the same time it can remove some scars on your face, what I said is right."
This old man is at least eighty years older than Chen Mo. Although the two have the same level of cultivation, he has more knowledge than Chen Mo.
Chen Mo nodded and said: "Everything you said is right. So how much can you bid?"
Old Man Huang gestured with two fingers: "What do you think, little brother?"
"Another thousand more, it's yours." Chen Mo said calmly.
Old Man Huang laughed dumbly and said: "I'm afraid this won't work. Two thousand spirit stones are already a very high price. Except for some female nuns who care about appearance, this item has no other practical effects."
Chen Mo said, "Then give it to me. I won't sell it."
How could Old Uncle Huang watch this deal slip away before his eyes? But he couldn't let his opponent control his mentality at this time, which was a taboo in the business world.
He took the initiative to push the jade box to Chen Mo: "Little brother, take it, we can't do this deal." The topic changed: "But... the little old man has something that he doesn't like to say. I wonder if the little brother is willing to listen. no?"
Chen Mo said: "Tell me about it."
"Little brother, do you know that a man is not guilty of having a jade in his possession?" Old Man Huang gently twirled his beard and said slowly: "You have a valuable treasure. If you go to too many shops to ask for prices, it is inevitable that some quick-thinking people will do something wrong. Brain, it’s okay to have the support of your elders behind you, but what if you don’t?”
Seeing that Chen Mo didn't say anything, Old Man Huang thought he had persuaded him, so he struck again while the iron was hot: "I promise, the price quoted to you is definitely one of the best in Hengfu County. As the saying goes, if you ask for a high price, you will pay me back. I’ll add another hundred spiritual stones, two thousand and one hundred, you should think about it.”
After that, he picked a fruit on the plate and chewed it slowly, with a very calm expression on his face.
"Well, thank you, senior." Without saying a word, Chen Mo took back the jade box and walked out the door.
"Humph, I'm still pretending..." Old Man Huang sneered in his heart: "A young boy in his twenties is still a little too young to play hard-to-get in front of him! If he can't use three numbers, he has to be obedient. Submit!"
The door closed with a "bang" sound, and Old Man Huang also recited the numbers silently in his mind.
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"Dong dong..." A regular knock on the door suddenly sounded.
A smile appeared on Old Man Huang's old face. What did he say? "Come in." He tapped the table with his hand, confident.
The person who came in was the young waiter from before. He bowed to Old Man Huang excitedly: "Congratulations to Mr. Huang on making another deal. I'm very happy to congratulate you. I admire you!"
As the receptionist, he will also get a lot of income. The most important thing is to come in and flatter this immortal.
Old Man Huang stared: "Is the person gone?"
"Of course." The young waiter said in surprise: "What's wrong, Mr. Huang?"
"Idiot! Bring him back immediately!" Mr. Huang said angrily: "Go quickly! Follow the method I taught you, and if you delay this transaction, I will blame you!"
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
Chen Mo was walking on the street and had just recited three numbers in his mind. Then the boy who had entertained him ran out in a hurry and came to him panting: "Shangxian, why did you leave like this! Is it the price? Is it because of the negotiation?"
"Oh, you can make the decision?" Chen Mo asked.
"Of course I can't make the decision, but there are other buyers in this store, and the price they give should be higher than Mr. Huang. Now let me take you back for a tour, what do you think?"
"This..." Chen Mo hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Okay, let's go back and take a look again."
The two of them walked back to the shop. Old Uncle Huang had been waiting at the door for a long time. When he saw Chen Mo, he took the lead and said: "Little brother, I just thought about it. I just looked a little hastily, and some details are unclear." I didn’t pay attention, could you take out that spiritual grass again and let me have a look at it?”
"No matter how you look at it, it's still three thousand spiritual stones, not a penny less." Chen Mo unceremoniously kicked Old Man Huang's steps away.
"Haha..." Old Man Huang wasn't angry either: "Little brother, there are many people here, how about we go back to the secret room and discuss it in the long run?"
So, after some fighting, the two returned to the previous place. After a quarrel, Chen Mo sold the object for 2,800 low-grade spiritual stones, contentedly holding the bulging storage. The bag left.
"This little bastard! This deal is not worth it..."
Old Man Huang had a headache. The price of this ice muscle grass was just over 3,000 yuan. He wanted to bully this young man who was new to the world and take advantage of him, but he didn't expect that he ran into a tough opponent and threw it out to the store to keep. He got it. It only looks like dozens of spiritual stones.
But this is better than losing money from other stores. No matter how thin the mosquito legs are, they still have some flesh.
The sun is still shining brightly on the street.
Chen Mo walked towards the city gate while thinking about his next move.
"Fortunately, I once asked Master about the true value of Ice Muscle Grass, otherwise I would have been fooled by that old man." Chen Mo murmured.
"The quality of the elixirs at the stall is not as good as the ones I refine myself, but the alchemy furnace is too expensive. Even the lowest grade nine alchemy furnace requires two thousand spirit stones. This matter can only be postponed..."
Chen Mo had no choice but to select a few decent healing pills at the stall, spending nearly a hundred spirit stones.
The serious injuries he suffered in Qingyao Valley left two long scars on his body that could not be removed, but there were no other serious problems.
As they approached the city gate, there were gradually more monks preparing to go out in groups of three or three. Among the noisy voices, Chen Mo was mixed in and heard a lot of rumors about this casual cultivator conference:
"Did you hear about it? Yesterday, a counter-order card was found in the stone forest. More than three hundred monks fought hard to compete for places, resulting in countless casualties..."
"Tch, how could I not know? I was not far away at the time, and when the fight was fierce, a severed arm flew over and landed next to me!"
"It's so scary..."
Chen Mo listened secretly from the side and felt that it was a bit intrusive. How is this a token to change one's fate against the will of heaven? It is clearly the talisman of the Palace of Hell!
Just when Chen Mo was about to eavesdrop on some more substantive content, a soft voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Fellow Taoist is here alone, are you waiting for your friends to meet up and leave the city together?"
Chen Mo looked up and met the eyes of this simple-faced female cultivator. Like him at this time, she was at the tenth level of Qi refining.
"What's the matter?" Chen Mo didn't show any unnecessary expression on his face.
"Don't get me wrong, fellow Taoist, I don't have any ill intentions." The female cultivator said tentatively: "I wonder if you are looking for the counter-order card? I am also alone. How about we find a few more people who are similar to us and go together. How about that?"
Chen Mo glanced at something and immediately refused: "No." After saying that, he went back to his residence directly, with a neat and straightforward movement that even surprised the female cultivator.
"This kid...did he discover something?" The female cultivator's face was filled with uncertainty.
Not long after, a young monk wearing a green shirt came over and whispered in his ear: "How is it? Is anyone taking the bait today?"
"There was a boy at the tenth level of Qi Refining just now. He was very vigilant and left immediately!" The female cultivator snorted coldly: "How many more people do you need to kill?"
The green-shirted monk nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, keep working hard. Counting the unlucky ones in the first half hour, there are still seven people left to complete the sacrifice of the magic weapon... Hey, there is another order over there. The cultivator who is just a shadow, go and lure him out quickly, we should cooperate inside and outside!"
The simple female cultivator agreed and quietly walked to the monk again...
"This is too messy!"
Chen Mo had a rough idea of what kind of character she was after seeing fresh drops of blood accidentally staining her shoes. It was not that he was worried about traps, but that it was better to do less than to do more.
When the Master's Spiritual Pressure in the Foundation Establishment Stage was activated when he came, those Xiaoxiao people had already retreated away, but they couldn't do it now. What if dozens of Qi Refining monks came out during the battle with a few people and used spells to blast him wildly? How unjust it must be to die.
Chen Mo decided that it would be better to wait for Zhao Shu and Mu Zhanying to come back and ask about the details outside the city before going out. It was better than going it alone stupidly.
With the spiritual items injected into each other, Chen Mo sensed that they had entered the city at night, and ordered a few dishes of small dishes in a restaurant in the city. It was called a banquet, but it was actually to explore the situation outside.
"...It's so chaotic outside the city now! People are dying all the time!" Mu Zhanying sighed after finishing a glass of wine and putting down the glass.
Chen Mo said: "I heard today that more than 300 monks were fighting each other in the stone forest yesterday. Did you hear about this?"
Zhao Shu said with lingering fear, "Today is even more tragic! Three Qi Refining monks found two anti-order cards in a forest on the outskirts of Beihuang County! They could have hidden them secretly, but how could two anti-fate pills be enough for three? Personal points? Two people were planning to secretly join forces to kill that monk, but they didn't kill him, and the news that the other two were carrying counter-order cards leaked out!"
"The monks who came after hearing the news didn't care about this. They killed people when they saw them. After killing them, they rummaged through the storage bags. Then they messed up the trap. Nearly a thousand people were fighting in the suburbs. More than half of them died. One of the tokens was unknown. The other token was snatched away by an old man at the twelfth level of Qi Refining." Mu Zhanying continued what Zhao Shu had not finished.
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