Chapter 69: How About I Have Master Speak With You Personally?
Immediately.
She put away her smile and feigned anger: "But let me warn you..."
Wang Xiu raised his hand: "Rest assured, Senior Sister. In the future, when I take on missions, I absolutely won't be overdue again!"
Is that the main point?
Xiao Qingyu slapped Wang Xiu's hand away and said, "This isn't about the mission being overdue. It's about you rashly interfering in a mission meant for Golden Core Stage demonic cultivators. That is extremely dangerous."
"If it weren't for your incredible luck this time—running into that demonic fiend having bad luck and being struck down by the wrath of Heaven—you probably would have been completely wiped out."
"We cultivators may not fear death, but we must not die in vain!"
"If you take such risks again next time, don't even think about accepting a single mission from me in the future. Just stay obediently on the mountain!"
Although it was a threat.
Wang Xiu was not a fool who failed to recognize good intentions. He could feel the deep concern within Xiao Qingyu's words.
He raised his hand to pledge: "Don't worry, Senior Sister. I know I was wrong. I definitely won't dare cause trouble like that next time."
That's more like it.
Only then did a smile return to Xiao Qingyu's face. She carefully held up the Soul-Nourishing Lotus: "What great fortune you have, Junior Brother. To actually find a Soul-Nourishing Lotus."
"With this Soul-Nourishing Lotus, we can heal one more Senior Uncle whose soul has been damaged."
Having said that.
Xiao Qingyu looked at Wang Xiu meaningfully: "Junior Brother, if I sell this Soul-Nourishing Lotus to the Alchemy Vein, you won't be angry, will you?"
After speaking.
The young woman looked at Wang Xiu and teased, "If you mind, I won't sell it."
Wang Xiu paused for a moment, thought for a while, and then smiled, "Since I gifted this lotus to you, Senior Sister, it is yours. You may dispose of it however you wish."
"However."
"I have one more matter I hope Senior Sister can help me with—to make some arrangements for me."
Xiao Qingyu smiled half-heartedly: "I knew your flower wouldn't be so easy to accept, Junior Brother. Speak! What is it that you want me to toil over for you now?"
Xiu~
The light of a spatial ring in Wang Xiu's hand flickered, and five wooden boxes appeared.
He gave a faint smile and said: "Here are five Soul-Nourishing Lotuses. I hope Senior Sister can help me sell them for a good price, and then use the proceeds to buy some things for me."
Xiao Qingyu: ???
Good lord.
Before, he gave four Soul-Nourishing Lotuses in one go, and now he's found six more?
Junior Brother really had some massive fortune during his trip to Maple City!
However, as the true disciple of Dragon Head Peak, Xiao Qingyu naturally knew what to ask and what not to ask.
Every cultivator has their own secrets; asking questions to the very end is an incredibly foolish behavior.
She opened a box and smiled, "Junior Brother truly has astonishing luck. The quality of these five Soul-Nourishing Lotuses is excellent. If sold as a package, the price can approach twenty thousand spirit stones."
"As for buying things, what does Junior Brother wish to buy?"
Wang Xiu smiled, "Still array flags. I hope Senior Sister can contact the Formation Vein and Artifact Vein for me to refine a set of 'Green Lotus Sky-Shrouding Array Flags' at the Top-Tier Magical Artifact grade."
Xiao Qingyu: ???
She looked at Wang Xiu helplessly and said, "Junior Brother, I can run this errand for you, but you probably won't get such a cheap deal as last time."
"After all, Uncle Lu already refined the Supreme Soul-Restoring Pill for us once for free. We can't just keep mooching off him, right?"
Wang Xiu nodded: "Don't worry, Senior Sister. I understand that."
"There's no need for an exchange at a premium; as long as the price of the array flags is roughly equivalent to the Soul-Nourishing Lotuses, it's fine. Even if I suffer a slight loss, it doesn't matter."
Favors.
Are they not about reciprocity?
Previously, when exchanging for the array flags of the Four Symbols Guardian Demon-Slaying Formation, Wang Xiu had gotten a huge bargain.
If not for the Four Symbols flags trading up and doubling their defensive power, Wang Xiu would have been in a very passive situation when facing the Thousand-Faced Evil Lord's attack at the Zhao Manor.
Perhaps, he would have been slapped to death before he could even finish reciting the incantation for the Heavenly Tribulation Incantation.
Since he had taken advantage of them, even if he suffered a small loss in this second exchange of goods, it was only right. How could one possibly monopolize all the good fortune in the world?
"Junior Brother's mindset is indeed excellent."
Xiao Qingyu smiled: "I will try my best to negotiate for you. There are quite a few Senior Uncles and Aunties in the sect with injured souls, so there is a lot of room to maneuver with these Soul-Nourishing Lotuses."
"If worse comes to worst, I'll go act spoiled with Master and ask him to help. Master's bargaining skills are much better than mine."
As everyone knew, among the Four Scourges of Three Purities, the Sect Master ranked first.
Relying on what?
Relying on his damn, god-tier bargaining skills, and his skill at moral kidnapping. Even if a celestial crane flew over Dragon Head Peak, it would have two pounds of feathers plucked off!
Even 'Luo Binglan, the Great Omen of Misfortune' and 'Dugu Qingqian, Sword Hidden in a Smiling Courtesy' couldn't compare to him at all!
Cough~
Wang Xiu said helplessly, "I appreciate Senior Sister's good intentions, but... for such a trivial matter, it's best not to trouble the Sect Master."
Good lord.
The old Sect Master popped his clog in that battle eight hundred years ago. It would be fine if he didn't have it in for the Divination Vein. I'm just a lowly disciple of the Divination Vein; should I go hopping around in front of him?
That's not how you seek death.
If I really attract the Sect Master's attention, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire pond of Soul-Nourishing Lotuses on Spirit Turtle Peak has to be handed over to the sect in exchange for 500 spirit stones and a silk banner.
After handing in the mission.
Wang Xiu left the Mission Hall and flew toward Spirit Turtle Peak.
Xiao Qingyu, on the other hand, took out a Memory Crystal, formed a seal with her hand and injected it into the crystal. Immediately, an image of Xiao Qingyu holding the Soul-Nourishing Lotus appeared on the crystal.
*Kacha~
The image froze within the Memory Crystal. The lotus was cold and beautiful, and so was the maiden.
Using a Memory Crystal to record the lotus my Junior Brother gave me.
Gently stroking the crystal, Xiao Qingyu smiled, closed all the boxes, then took a transmission token from her waist and sent a message.
"Hello~~~"
"Uncle Lu, it's me, Qingyu~"
"Don't hang up, don't hang up!"
"Uncle, what bad intentions could a fragile, pitiful little fairy like me have~"
"I just saw how hard you were working to refine the Supreme Soul-Restoring Pill, so I came to offer my condolences. You love drinking Peach Blossom Brew, right? I'll bring a few jars over later!"
"Oh~"
"Those four Soul-Nourishing Lotuses are almost finished refining? Twenty-seven pills formed, and the medicinal efficacy tripled?"
"Wow! Uncle, you're so amazing"
"What? It's mainly because you haven't refined Soul-Restoring Pills in a long time and were a bit rusty, so only six pills formed in the first furnace, but in the next three furnaces, seven pills formed in each?"
"Oh oh oh~"
"Mainly because the Soul-Nourishing Lotuses ran out, otherwise if you refined a few more furnaces, you're confident you can push for eight pills per furnace? And the quality of the Soul-Restoring Pills would be even better?"
"Uncle is so awesome~"
"Hehe, don't you think this is a coincidence~!"
"I just found another five... found six Soul-Nourishing Lotuses. Uncle, could you..."
"Beep~"
"Beep~"
"Beep~"
...
Looking at the transmission token which had clearly been hung up as its light dimmed, Xiao Qingyu sighed deeply.
She sent a transmission request; it was rejected. She sent another request; it was still rejected. After doing this three or four times, she finally gave up on the harassment.
Instead, she chose to leave a voice message—
[Uncle, I know you work hard refining pills, so this time it won't be for free. I will pay you a generous reward.
If that still doesn't work, then I can only invite Master to chat with you personally?]
Yes~
She gave up harassing.
And chose threatening.
As everyone knew, Xiao Qingyu, the true disciple of Dragon Head Peak, treated others with virtue and wouldn't go too far.
But if the Sect Master was disturbed... cough, that master truly has no shame.
When he starts crying poor, he can mooch you to death!
...
Lu Baicao: (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻
(End of Chapter)
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