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Chapter 1716 1716: Lavish Purchases
The faces of the people surrounding Jing Yan and Mo Ku were cold and sinister. Especially the leader, whose gaze kept darting back and forth between Jing Yan and Mo Ku.
Jing Yan frowned, feeling the man's gaze was invasive.
"Where do you two come from?" Just as Jing Yan was about to speak again, the leader among the cultivators spoke first.
"We are cultivators from the Floating Domain," Jing Yan replied, clasping his hands again.
While at the Shadow Clan Tribe, Ying Huixu and others spoke to Jing Yan multiple times about the situation in the Shamanic Clouds Domain.
In comparison, the Shamanic Clouds Domain is much more chaotic than the Floating Domain.
Among the Five Regions of the Witch Realm, the Shamanic Clouds Domain has the most powerful beings, and the quantity of five-star forces is also the highest. The other four domains cannot compare with the Shamanic Clouds Domain. However, the Shamanic Clouds Domain is also the most chaotic. In the Shamanic Clouds Domain, large and small clashes and battles occur daily.
Except for a few powerful forces that are relatively stable, one could say that forces under the five-star level might perish at any moment.
From Ying Huixu's accounts, Jing Yan learned that in the Shamanic Clouds Domain, basically every few hundred years, a relatively strong force would perish. By powerful forces, Ying Huixu referred to forces comparable to the Shadow Clan Tribe.
"Pay one Wizard Crystal each!" The leading cultivator said immediately upon hearing that Jing Yan and Mo Ku were from the Floating Domain.
"Why should we pay Wizard Crystals?" Mo Ku asked coldly, glaring at the opposite party.
These people, although not lacking in strength, with about half being Wizard level experts, were led by wizards. Their hostile attitude made Mo Ku quite unhappy. Now demanding extortion of Wizard Crystals, Mo Ku couldn't help but question them.
"Heh heh..."
"Why pay Wizard Crystals? You come from the Floating Domain to the Shamanic Clouds Domain, so naturally, you have to pay a toll. Enough talk, hurry up and pay the Wizard Crystals and scram!" The leading cultivator seemed a bit impatient.
"You..." Mo Ku's expression turned grim.
"Mo Ku!" Jing Yan stopped Mo Ku.
Jing Yan took out two Wizard Crystals and handed them to the other party.
"Can we leave now?" Jing Yan asked after the other party accepted the Wizard Crystals.
"You may, scram! Country bumpkin!" The leading cultivator sneered, waving them off.
"Such arrogance, Master, why not let me kill them?" Mo Ku whispered after they walked away.
"Forget it; less trouble is better than more. Wizard Crystals are precious, but spending two can prevent some trouble, and it's worth it." Jing Yan said, waving his hand.
Jing Yan and Mo Ku didn't immediately leave the city with the Super Transmission Array Formation; they soon turned to a bustling area with numerous stalls.
It was mentioned earlier that this place is more akin to a workshop than a city. Its development owes entirely to the presence of the Super Transmission Array Formation. So, many cultivators from the Shamanic Clouds Domain, especially adventurers, bring resources found during adventures here to sell.
Due to the Super Transmission Array Formation, cultivators from the other Four Domains occasionally come to purchase the resources they need.
Therefore, the place breeds some extortionists collecting tolls like the group Jing Yan and Mo Ku encountered. Naturally, a power must back them. Otherwise, just relying on their mere group would never dare to collect tolls without backing. Knowing that cultivators from the other Four Domains are at least Wizard Realm, and Great Witch level experts may appear, how could they dare collect tolls without backing? Moreover, the fee is quite high, with one Wizard Crystal per person. In the Witch Realm, Wizard Crystals are extremely precious, and ordinary wizards cannot afford them.
"This workshop is really quite large!" Jing Yan and Mo Ku commented while looking at a large array of stalls.
Jing Yan knew these stalls sold various resources, having heard about it from Ying Huixu and his group.
"Let's look around and buy the necessary resources. In three days, we'll leave," Jing Yan said to Mo Ku.
"Yes, Master!" Mo Ku naturally had no objections.
The resources displayed on these stalls mostly consist of Divine Grass. The Witch Realm indeed has an abundance of Divine Grass. This might relate to the Order Law of the Witch Realm. In other realms, the growing conditions for Divine Grass are extremely harsh. Even if there's a place that can grow some specifically, their numbers are usually limited. However, in the Witch Realm, Divine Grass grows in clusters. Large forces generally have their own medicine fields specializing in growing Divine Grass.
In the Wilderness of the Witch Realm, Divine Grass is abundant. The Divine Grass for sale here mainly originates from adventurers who accessed perilous areas, including many exceptionally precious ones for Jing Yan.
"What's the price for these Blue Star Grass?" Jing Yan casually approached a stall and pointed at over ten Blue Star Grass on it.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man clad in beast skin clothes, evidently at the Wizard Realm in cultivation.
In the Witch Realm, it seems common for cultivators to wear beast skin clothes.
Jing Yan learned that these beast skins come from Fierce Beasts and possess strong defensive capabilities. Ordinary cultivators cannot afford robes with powerful defenses, so they wear beast skin clothes instead.
The stall owner's eyes lit up seeing Jing Yan inquire about the price of Blue Star Grass. He sneakily sized up Jing Yan and Mo Ku, then grinned slightly.
"These Blue Star Grass are quite hard to acquire. To get them, I almost lost my life," the stall owner spoke without directly stating the price, choosing to recount the difficulty of acquiring the Blue Star Grass.
"Why don't you just tell the price directly?" Jing Yan interrupted the lengthy story.
Seeing the Blue Star Grass stirred Jing Yan's enthusiasm. This type of Divine Grass is virtually extinct outside, nearly impossible to find. Yet this stall holds over ten stalks. Blue Star Grass can be refined into an elixir that greatly accelerates the cultivation progress of God Lord Level cultivators.
"One fixed price: one Blue Star Grass for one Level Nine Divine Crystal!" The stall owner took a deep breath and quoted the price.
In the Witch Realm, Divine Crystals are the main resource used by cultivators for cultivation. As for Wizard Crystals, they contain more energy than Level Nine Divine Crystals, generally unaffordable for wizards, and even Great Witches might not use them freely.
"Expensive!" Jing Yan shook his head.
In reality, outside the Witch Realm, one can't buy even a single stalk of Blue Star Grass for just one Level Nine Divine Crystal, not even for ten thousand Level Nine Divine Crystals. Jing Yan claimed it's expensive not intending to avoid spending more Divine Crystals, but to prevent attracting unwanted attention. In this place, spending Level Nine Divine Crystals like that would undoubtedly draw attention.
"Not expensive, not expensive, this Blue Star Grass is quite rare. You should know, Daoist, that this kind of Divine Grass is typically monopolized by powerful factions. In the wild, Blue Star Grass is not commonly seen," said the stall owner.
These words are indeed true. The amount of Blue Star Grass in the Witch Realm's wilderness is relatively scarce. Even in the medicine fields of those powerful factions, the quantity planted is not very much.
"I won't waste too many words with you. I'll buy the Blue Star Grass here for two nine-level divine crystals. If you agree, then the deal is done. If you disagree, I'll just walk away," Jing Yan said, ready to turn away at any moment.
The stalls here are linked into one, and most of them have Divine Grass for sale; Jing Yan isn't necessarily set on purchasing Blue Star Grass.
"Alright, alright! As you say, this Blue Star Grass, a total of two nine-level divine crystals. Alas, such a loss, such a loss!" The stall owner had a melancholy expression.
Jing Yan said no more, took out two nine-level divine crystals, and tossed them to the other party, then collected more than ten stalks of Blue Star Grass.
Afterward, Jing Yan and Mo Ku came to the next stall. This stall sold more types of Divine Grass, totaling three, with two being extremely rare in the outside world.
While in the Floating Domain, Jing Yan had already obtained many Divine Grass resources. However, this trip to the Witch Realm wasn't facile, and Jing Yan certainly aimed to acquire more Divine Grass. Upon returning to the outside world, he could refine a large quantity of various precious Elixirs. These Elixirs could be sold, or used to enhance the strength of close associates.
After some negotiation, Jing Yan bought all the Divine Grass at the stall.
Going from one stall to another, Jing Yan purchased more and more Divine Grass, and soon, some cultivators approached him for business, having noticed Jing Yan's fervent acquisition of Divine Grass.
Jing Yan felt a stir in his heart, and decided to stay put, allowing cultivators with Divine Grass and essence materials to come over and discuss prices.
Jing Yan's behavior undoubtedly caused quite a stir in the workshop. Those cultivators were like sharks smelling blood.
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"How many nine-level divine crystals has that guy spent?" Outside the stall area, someone kept an eye on Jing Yan in the crowd, their gaze fervent, speaking in a low voice.
"A rough estimate would be several hundred nine-level divine crystals. Sir, these two just came to Shamanic Clouds Domain, they arrived from Floating Domain. Hehe, outside the Super Transmission Array, we encountered these two and managed to extract two wizard crystals from them. Sir, these two are absolutely wealthy; when I asked them each to pay a wizard crystal toll, they handed them over without hesitation," a cultivator said meekly.
If Jing Yan saw this person, he would surely recognize him as the leader among those ten or so cultivators who had previously blocked them.
"Hmm! But why are they buying so much Divine Grass?" The cultivator referred to as the 'sir' narrowed his eyes and nodded, looking somewhat puzzled.
"It is indeed strange. Although the Floating Domain is quite barren, those powerful factions must have their own medicine fields, and should be planting plenty of Divine Grass, thus it's unnecessary for them to come to Shamanic Clouds Domain to purchase Divine Grass, right? It would make more sense if they came to buy Divine Pills. So, these two are definitely not offspring of powerful factions," said the wizard cultivator slowly.
"Keep an eye on them, and be careful not to alert them," the 'sir' instructed.
"Yes, sir, rest assured, I will keep a close watch on these two," the wizard cultivator immediately responded.
Jing Yan spent three days in the stall area, acquiring countless amounts of Divine Grass. The nine-level divine crystals he had on him were nearly used up. Of course, most of the Divine Grass in this stall area had also entered Jing Yan's pouch.
Jing Yan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; if there were still a lot of Divine Grass, he might have had to take out Elixirs to sell.
Divine Grass in the Witch Realm is not valued, but Elixirs are incredibly precious.
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Inside a building!
"Second, are you sure those two spent thousands of nine-level divine crystals purchasing Divine Grass at the stall area?" A long-bearded middle-aged man, with twinkling eyes, looked at the person standing opposite him.
"Big brother, it's true. Those two are extremely wealthy; they take out nine-level divine crystals without hesitation, you haven't seen it with your own eyes!" Second emphasized.
This Second was the person who had appeared around the stall area earlier, instructing his subordinates to keep an eye on Jing Yan and Mo Ku.
"Seems they are two fat sheep indeed! Hmm, have you investigated their identities?" The long-bearded middle-aged man, eyes fiery.
These two individuals were both Great Witch Level powerhouses.
They were the leaders of a force called the Double Evil Gang. This city appeared to be under their control on the surface. The cultivators extracting tolls from Jing Yan were all members of the Double Evil Gang.
"Investigated. They came from Floating Domain, likely not offspring of a five-star force. More detailed information couldn't be found. Big brother, these two fat sheep seem to be preparing to leave; if we don't act, they might slip away," Second spoke hastily.
"Then let's take them down!"
"Second, come, bring the manpower," the elder brother stood up.
The two leaders of the Double Evil Gang, taking dozens of subordinates, secretly left the city. They planned to rob Jing Yan and Mo Ku. Naturally, they wouldn't act within the city. If they robbed within the city, the negative impact would be too great, enough to deter many cultivators from conducting business in their city in the future.
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Jing Yan and Mo Ku left the city.
"Master, someone has been watching us all these days!" During flight, Mo Ku said to Jing Yan.
"Hmm, I'm aware," Jing Yan nodded.
Those watching Jing Yan had cultivation realm at the Wizard level. How could they remain undetected by Jing Yan and Mo Ku?
Initially, Jing Yan indeed wanted to avoid drawing attention. But later, it became unavoidable, unless he refrained from purchasing Divine Grass and immediately left after emerging from the Transmission Array. Yet seeing so much Divine Grass available at such low prices, not purchasing would be too wasteful. Jing Yan's extensive buying in the stall area was also after giving it some consideration.
"These clowns!" Mo Ku cursed.
"Master, they definitely have ill intent. We might be intercepted upon leaving. Shadow Clan Leader said that Shamanic Clouds Domain is very chaotic; battles frequently occur," Mo Ku looked at Jing Yan and said.
"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty that we'll be intercepted. Let's move, first see what sort of people they are," Jing Yan and Mo Ku accelerated and continued flying.