Chapter 517: Huge Sum, Sudden Wealth |
This... this... Ding Mo was Pale with Terror. In front of this Golden Ape, he only felt he was so insignificant, that thick arm seemingly ready to press down from the top of his head at any time.
"You!"
He staggered back, only hearing a crash as he bumped into the table.
The illusion before his eyes faded. He panted heavily, looking at that so-called Duan Ye, who was staring at him with A Half-Smile.
"What's wrong with you, Brother Ding?"
This guy... is a Morning Star himself! Ding Mo's body stiffened, and for a moment he actually didn't dare to move.
Although his advancement to Morning Star back then could be considered a lucky coincidence, with years of accumulation, he had already Refined six streams of Morning Fire. Yet just now, facing that giant ape, he actually had a feeling of being unable to resist.
"I saw Brother Ding's aura surging all over just now, with an expression that looked somewhat Harboring Ill Intent. You couldn't have had some improper thoughts, could you?" Su Chen said Unhurriedly, "I only came here out of trust in you."
"This..." Ding Mo only felt his scalp tingle. Facing a Morning Star Spokesperson, facing a Morning Star, and facing a Morning Star far stronger than himself were completely three different situations.
Fortunately, having controlled the Top Hat Black Market for many years and dealt with all sorts of people, he didn't freeze for too long, smiling bitterly: "With Your Excellency having this kind of strength, why didn't you show it earlier? You almost made me go astray."
He spoke quite frankly.
"Didn't I pull you back before Brother Ding went astray?" Su Chen smiled, "I just thought, we've interacted many times, we should have some basis of trust between us."
You... Ding Mo was speechless. He ran a Black Market. Although there was professional ethics, it wasn't like he absolutely had to abide by it.
"Who knew..." Su Chen sighed, "It turns out our trust is so weak. I misjudged you."
Ding Mo's eyebrows twitched, and he suddenly realized. This guy deliberately hid his strength, only revealing it when he almost couldn't control himself. Could he have done it on purpose?
He had harbored greed first and offended the other party. If he still wanted to continue negotiating, he had to show some sincerity.
His expression changed several times, forcing himself to say: "I still have to thank Your Excellency for not letting me lose my professional ethics. How about this, the price for the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow, I can..."
He paused, gritted his teeth and said: "I won't take a commission, I'll sell it to you at the original price, how about it?"
"Brother Ding is so polite..." Su Chen pondered thoughtfully, but turned his hand and put away the Metal Case on the table, smiling: "If I suddenly don't want to sell the Azure God Metamorphosis Materials to you anymore, is Brother Ding still prepared to apologize?"
This guy... Ding Mo's face twitched, already realizing that this guy in front of him and the previously frivolous and casual Duan Ye were absolutely not the same person.
At this moment, he even suspected if the other party taking this thing out was deliberately tempting him to pull such a stunt, in order to bargain.
The Materials inside might even all be fake.
"Naturally... naturally, you can!" His mind was tense, that Violent Golden Ape flashing past his eyes, and he nodded vigorously.
"Hah... Brother Ding indeed has professional ethics." Su Chen gave a thumbs up and took the box out again, "Just a little joke, Brother Ding doesn't need to take it to heart."
A joke... Ding Mo remained silent, boasting of being Adept at Being All Things to All People, but under the condition of drastic emotional fluctuations in a short time, he also felt a sense of depression and anger. Fortunately, he quickly suppressed it.
He was even more surprised that the other party seemed really prepared to sell to him. Could these Materials not be fake?
His thoughts flashed by, and he heard the other party say: "I just don't know if Brother Ding has the financial resources to swallow it."
Ding Mo took a deep breath, "Could you let me verify the authenticity of the Materials first."
"Please, be my guest..." Su Chen stretched out his hand, returning to his previous casual appearance.
Ding Mo carefully stepped forward, opened the box, took them out one by one, and held them in his hands to examine closely. At this moment, he had long lost any other thoughts, only wanting to confirm the authenticity of the Materials.
A long time later, putting down the last piece of material, the shock in his eyes hadn't faded yet. They were all real, Unimaginable!
He slowly exhaled a breath, suppressing his emotions, "There are no problems with the Materials. I wonder what price Your Excellency expects?"
"I checked previously, these scattered Materials added together are worth approximately nearly forty thousand Faith Essence." Su Chen said slowly and methodically.
Forty thousand... Ding Mo's throat moved. This was the theoretical value, but this complete set must have a premium.
Sure enough, he heard two words he didn't really want to hear.
"However..." Su Chen said slowly: "This is a complete set of mine, saving who knows how much collection work. I think doubling it shouldn't be a problem, right."
"Double?" Even though Ding Mo was mentally prepared, hearing this sentence, he couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Your Excellency..."
Seeing the other party glance over, his voice lowered again and again, helplessly saying: "You are right, this complete set is indeed very convenient, but it shouldn't just directly double, right."
"As everyone knows, this Azure Deity Metamorphosis is not without any danger. A single misstep means Body Dead, Dao Dissipated, so..."
"How about this, let's not pull back and forth. Give me an honest price." Su Chen waved his hand and said.
"Fifty thousand?" Ding Mo said probingly.
Su Chen sneered, and was about to get up.
"Sixty... sixty thousand!" Ding Mo hurriedly said, his back molars almost shattering from biting, "This is my limit. Even if you go to the Five Pillars to sell it, you probably wouldn't get this price. They aren't in urgent need of this."
Of course, this sentence also had another layer of implication. If the other party could directly sell it to the Five Pillars, it would be impossible to come find him.
With such a large investment, it wasn't like he had no profit to make. Anchoring his sights on the Five Pillars would definitely not make money, but anchoring on other Factions was hard to say.
Especially those Factions where a Radiant Moon was about to fall and were fiercely competing for The Chosen, but this required time and energy to find, and also required connections Acting as a Liaison.
"Hmm..." Su Chen sat back down again. After some consideration, he nodded with feigned reluctance: "Seeing that you were quite sincere before, then let's go with this price."
"The Spirit-Nurturing Marrow offsets six thousand, which means there are still fifty-four thousand portions of Faith Essence left..." When Su Chen said this number, he couldn't help but hesitate a bit.
It was truly a huge sum.
"This..." Ding Mo hesitated and said: "This quantity is truly somewhat too much. Could I ask Your Excellency to give me some time to raise it."
"Are you playing with me?" Su Chen narrowed his eyes, Golden Light faintly flashing.
"I wouldn't dare..." Ding Mo hurriedly said, "Right now, I have a large batch of goods piled up on hand. It's really not enough, I need time to cash out."
"How much can you take out right now?" Su Chen frowned and asked.
"At most thirty thousand..." Ding Mo calculated for a while and said.
"How about this..." Su Chen thought for a moment, and picked out four of the Materials from the box, "Then I'll give these things to you."
"This..." Ding Mo lowered his head and glanced. Thirty thousand in exchange for four Materials, the apparent price was definitely a loss.
But this was also quite reasonable. He had borne a portion of the bargaining, and he must get all of them to make a profit.
And what the other party had left in their hands, if split up, wouldn't sell for much. The only trading target for both sides was each other.
Therefore, he only pondered slightly and agreed: "No problem."
"Out of this thirty thousand, take five thousand of it and exchange it all for Divine Blood for me." Su Chen added. With a thousand drops of Divine Blood in hand, he wouldn't have to worry about this thing in the short term.
Divine Blood again... Ding Mo nodded, "The quantity is somewhat large, please wait a moment Your Excellency..."
"Also, when can you get the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow?" Su Chen asked.
Ding Mo's eyes flickered, and he asked probingly: "How about exchanging another piece with the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow?"
"You already got it?" Su Chen suddenly realized this.
Ding Mo's expression changed, and he said helplessly: "It's impossible for the seller to keep the goods for a certain person. I bought it immediately by offering a price."
"It's just that previously, in order to prevent Your Excellency from bargaining with this, I didn't speak frankly."
Seemingly helpless, yet it gave Su Chen no room to continue pressing.
This guy is truly cunning enough———— Su Chen didn't care. Since the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow was in Ding Mo's hands, it actually saved him time.
"Then let's exchange for another piece."
Ding Mo breathed a sigh of relief. This way, he got five out of the eight Materials. With such a large investment, he naturally wanted to gather everything into his hands as soon as possible to avoid accidents.
"Please wait a moment Your Excellency..." Ding Mo bowed slightly, then hurriedly left to prepare various things.
Su Chen waited here boredly for a few hours, during which he even thought about what to do if the other party gathered people to attack and kill him, and how he would break out of the encirclement.
He was only halfway through his thoughts when Ding Mo returned, directly handing Su Chen a compression Comm-Bracelet, "Twenty-five thousand portions of Faith Essence, one thousand drops of Divine Blood, plus the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow, are all in here."
Su Chen naturally had no scruples, verifying the goods on the spot. After confirming there were no problems, he sighed.
"What's wrong, is there a problem?" Ding Mo's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked.
"No, I just thought Brother Ding might bring people to attack and kill me." Su Chen explained with a smile, and also picked five Materials from the box.
"Haha..." Ding Mo smiled awkwardly. Being able to open a Black Market in Five Pillar City, he naturally wasn't a lone wolf.
It's just that, after realizing the other party's strength, he extinguished any thoughts of foul play, honestly earning what he deserved.
Taking the Materials, Ding Mo also verified them before carefully putting them away, asking with seemingly hesitation and probing: "I accepted these Materials, no one will come looking for trouble, right?"
"Don't worry, the things inside here were all collected by me one by one expending my heart's blood. Who would come looking for trouble with you?" Su Chen explained casually.
"That's good..." Ding Mo seemingly breathed a sigh of relief, but cursed inwardly, I'd be weird if I believed you, collected one by one.
But what he wanted was exactly Su Chen's perfunctory words. It wasn't like he had no one behind him. Even if a certain Pillar came to condemn him, naturally someone would deal with it.
"Still twenty-four thousand Faith Essence short, just send me a message after Brother Ding has raised it." Su Chen took his leave directly. Ding Mo originally wanted to see him off personally, but was politely declined.
"That seemed to be a Four-Armed Golden Ape, a special type of Nether Realm Creature, could it be someone from the Great Heaven?" Ding Mo stood in front of the window, watching the departing Su Chen, his imagination running wild.
"The Spirit-Nurturing Marrow is also in hand, now only the Spirit Fetus is left. I wonder what the situation is with Ni Zhan."
Spending a little more time, the Main Body and Avatar met. After handing over the items, Su Chen took this Four-Armed Golden Ape back into his body.
Later, he might still need to rely on the blessing of this Four-Armed Golden Ape, so he wasn't prepared to release it in the short term.
Returning to Five Pillar City, he summoned the Formless Heavenly Gate, entered Xuan Shu, and spent five hundred Faith Essence to purchase ten portions of Flame Dragon Potion.
"Although Faith Essence is extremely abundant right now, I can't squander it arbitrarily. First compare it with Morning Star Embers to see how the effect is." Su Chen put away the Formless Heavenly Gate, then directly left the Nether Realm and returned to Bronze Heaven.
Projecting the Holographic Screen, Chu Lingyuan had already replied, but only said he was coming to find him.
"Old Chu is quite cautious..."
This internal network of High Heaven was in the hands of the High Three Heavens. Although the High Three Heavens had always claimed they wouldn't view the private information of any member, if the matter was crucial, it basically wouldn't be transmitted in text on it.
"Come." Su Chen replied.
Soon, Chu Lingyuan arrived. Entering the Grand Hall, meeting Su Chen face to face, he couldn't help but be stunned. He had a rather strange feeling, but didn't know where it came from.
Old Chu can faintly perceive it too, the Flash-Shadow Body can't keep up, Su Chen pondered secretly.
Chu Lingyuan didn't investigate this subtle feeling coming from nowhere, went straight to Su Chen's side, sat on the big rock, and said: "Ni Zhan already went to the Great Heaven long ago and hasn't returned yet. However, news has come that the progress is quite smooth, and it should be soon."
Chu Lingyuan added: "That Mystic Origin Spirit Fetus is a thing the Great Heaven never sells externally. If you want to obtain it, you can only rely on connections."
"I understand." Su Chen nodded, "About how long will it take?"
"I didn't ask in detail, but listening to the meaning revealed in his words, I estimate there will definitely be results within half a year."
Su Chen nodded. As long as Ni Zhan didn't take two or three years, he could accept it.
Otherwise, he could only try to obtain the Recognition of the Radiant Sun with his unprecedented True Brilliance Talent, but it would probably cause greater hidden dangers.
Actually, even after Evolving into an Azure God and then gaining Recognition, Su Chen had some hidden worries. But with the Buddha Land Harboring Ill Intent, he could only speed up.
Thinking of this, his heart stirred, and he asked: "Recently, has there been any movement regarding the Sovereign of the Purple Zenith?"
"Movement?" Chu Lingyuan hesitated, "No big movement, everyone else is Proceeding step by step, as can be seen on the Selection Ranking List,"
"Besides that, there are some evil rumors saying that the Five Pillars are secretly using Methods to influence the Spirit of the Vast Sun."
"Five Pillars?" Su Chen was stunned. After learning the Buddha Land was Harboring Ill Intent, he had expended quite a bit of energy using his Avatar in Five Pillar City to spread this matter.
For this, there were even some minor twists and turns, but the news was finally spread out.
But the Buddha Land was secretly causing trouble, how did it become the Five Pillars causing trouble?
"Yeah, not sure where it spread from, causing each of the Five Pillars to send Radiant Moons to the Tower of Spirit to hold down the fort." Chu Lingyuan treated it as an amusing anecdote and mentioned it casually.
But Su Chen gradually figured it out. It was probably the Buddha Land muddying the waters in the dark. Someone said they were secretly using Methods, so the Buddha Land spread that the Five Pillars were all using Methods.
Truly cunning... Su Chen sighed secretly in his heart. He didn't know if the Buddha Land had stopped faith poisoning, but it probably wouldn't stop that simply.