Taihuang Star Seal

Chapter 412 From compromise to deal!

After hearing Ding Chen's fake smile, Shi Xiaomei couldn't help but pout and frowned, "Brother Ding, I helped you so much, it's fine if you don't care about my kindness, but you actually said I was fooling you?"

"You...you are really too disappointing!"

After she said this, she turned around angrily, turned her face away, and even squeezed out two tears, looking like she had suffered a great injustice.

Seeing this, Ding Chen smiled coldly: "Haha, why don't you just stop acting here? It makes me feel embarrassed just watching!"

Upon hearing this, all the emotions that Shi Xiaomei had worked so hard to build up were released.

But she still said stubbornly, "Who, who played the role? Brother Ding, you are wrongly accusing me~ wuwuwu~"

"If you're not playing me, it just shows that you're really stupid!"

"With just four [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu], you want to exchange for all the resources I have displayed. This is simply ridiculous!"

Shi Xiaomei's face flushed red, but she still wanted to struggle: "Although there are only four, they are the main ingredients for refining [Small Heaven Tribulation Pill]!"

Ding Chen's face remained as cold as ice when he heard this, and he said bluntly: "Humph, [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu] is indeed a heavenly grade spiritual material."

“But no matter how you slice it, it’s just a main ingredient for refining the [Small Heaven Tribulation Pill], not the [Small Heaven Tribulation Pill] itself.”

"You and I should all know that the [Minor Heavenly Tribulation Pill] that can increase the success rate of breaking through the barriers and advancing to the 'Heavenly Gate Realm' is basically monopolized by various 'Superior Sects'."

"And this has led to a situation where the strong will always be strong in all the sects in the cultivation world!"

"Even if it is your [Tianci City], on the surface, it seems to have the strength and status comparable to a 'top-grade sect'."

"But when it comes to the reserves of [Minor Heavenly Tribulation Pills], which can continuously cultivate the younger generation and can be called 'long-term strategic resources', you are still far from the true 'top-grade sects'."

"It shouldn't be difficult for you to obtain and save some [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu] with the help of the 'Heavenly Treasures Auction'."

"But finding an 'alchemy master' who can refine this poison into a pill is as difficult as ascending to heaven!"

"Because for you, the cost of preparing all the materials and asking an 'Alchemy Heavenly Master' to refine a [Small Heavenly Tribulation Pill] is no less than directly purchasing one from a 'Superior Sect' at a high price, isn't it?"

When these words were spoken, not only Shi Xiaomei turned pale, but Yang Raosheng and Qi Dekai also felt guilty as if they were seen through.

As they are in the core elite layer of [Tianci City], they know very well that every word Ding Chen said is true!

Looking at the entire cultivation world, the monopoly of the [Minor Heavenly Tribulation Pill] by the upper-grade sects is extremely thorough.

The most puzzling thing is that what they monopolize is not the elixir itself, but the direct cutting off of the source of medicine production of "alchemists".

Those alchemists below the "Heavenly Realm" are still okay.

Once an alchemist steps into the "heavenly realm", as long as he shows his face in public, he will be targeted in a very short time!

Most of the people who were watching him were spies spread out in various places from the top-ranking sects.

They may be disciples or elders of a sect under the jurisdiction of a superior sect;

They may also be people in the business or cargo alliance who cooperate with them.

Then, there will be a steady stream of lobbyists from the sect coming to the door, offering various conditions and using all means to win them over to their own sect.

After waiting for a while for a price, the Taoist alchemist would often choose a superior sect and join it.

This is because they know very well that their profound attainments in the art of alchemy are both an amazing ability and a potential danger.

If they travel alone for a long time, they will easily be targeted by some powerful forces or evil cultivators.

Those ruthless guys, after they succeeded in robbing and scheming, will not be as polite as the cultivators from the top-grade sects who are in the open.

They would capture the alchemy master and bring him back to their lair, enslaving him like an alchemy machine until every last bit of his value was squeezed out...

This is because there have been such examples in history, and more than one.

In order to avoid such a tragic end one day falling upon themselves, the "Alchemy Master" will eventually choose to serve a powerful and superior sect.

They are responsible for refining elixirs and supplying medicines, while the sect is responsible for providing them with protection. Both parties get what they need.

Although these "Alchemy Masters" would be required to swear blood oaths such as "eternal loyalty, no betrayal, and no private alchemy for sale" after joining the top-grade sects, the future value of every Alchemy Master had been locked.

But these high-quality sects that are openly in the open will at least not enslave alchemists endlessly.

They will promise the "Alchemy Master" who joins their camp a respected status and treatment far superior to that of ordinary elders, so that they will willingly abide by the blood oath and dedicate all their life's cultivation to the sect!

It was also the restraint of the blood oath that made it difficult for the wealthy [Heavenly City] to invite the "Alchemy Master" to refine the [Small Heavenly Tribulation Pill] for it, no matter how high the price was...

"This boy is so young, but he knows all the secrets about [Small Heavenly Tribulation Pill], could he really be a true disciple of a top-grade sect?"

Yang Raosheng narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at Ding Chen again, thinking: "But why is he not wearing the sect's uniform?"

"Although a considerable number of cultivators who come to participate in the 'Heavenly Treasures Auction' will hide their identities and try every means to conceal their true appearance for reasons of self-protection."

"But for the 'true disciples' of the top-grade sects, it is actually safer for them to openly reveal their identities and backgrounds!"

"After all, looking at the entire cultivation world, there are only a very small number of people who would kill a true disciple of a top-grade sect just for a certain auction item or a little money."

"Whoever dares to do this will be like stirring up a hornet's nest."

“No matter how great a master you are at the fifth or sixth level of the Heavenly Gate Realm, you will still be hunted down and killed by the sect behind the True Disciple until you are in a miserable state and the fight never ends!”

"Who exactly is this young man?"

In fact, the reason why Ding Chen knew so much about the monopoly of the [Small Heavenly Tribulation Pill] by the top-grade sect was thanks to the memory of the "Heavenly Fire Ancestor".

For thousands of years, the power structure among the "superior sects", which are the top forces in the cultivation world, has not changed much.

On the contrary, in order to consolidate their own ruling power, the superior sects have built a "city wall" that is becoming increasingly tall and straight by means of monopolizing the [Small Heavenly Tribulation Pill] and other means!

now.

Seeing that Ding Chen did not fall into the trap she had carefully laid, Shi Xiaomei could only pout her red lips aggrievedly and whispered softly: "Okay, okay, Brother Ding, calm down. I really don't understand~"

"How about I go and negotiate with the elders to see if I can give Brother Ding an extra portion of [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu]?"

What the female cultivator was thinking was, "This rich and inhuman dog owner actually has a brain?"

"Tsk, it seems like I'll have to go through a lot of trouble to hook him this time~"

However, Ding Chen in front of him would not indulge this woman at all. He stretched out his hand, spread his five fingers and said, "I want five more."

Shi Xiaomei's expression changed immediately.

Four plus five equals nine.

Want to exchange Jiufen [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu] in one go? What a joke!

How can I make any profit from this?

At this point, Shi Xiaomei didn't even bother to pretend to be pitiful anymore, and directly retorted in a tough attitude: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"That's fine. I don't have to change."

Ding Chen was not in a hurry and shrugged leisurely, "Or, I can wait until the new 'capital inspector' comes tomorrow to take over the shift?"

Come back after the shift change?

Then wouldn't the credit that we have earned be lost? !

Who knows, I might even be ridiculed by the elders I once troubled...

Thinking of this, Shi Xiaomei’s back teeth were almost broken!

In the end, she had no choice but to compromise angrily. She couldn't make a high profit this time, but could only earn a small credit as a consolation.

In comparison, Ding Chen was having a great time——

He used the vast amount of wealth that he despised and even felt was too cumbersome to store in a pile of [Storage Rings] to exchange for nine portions of [Sanxin Golden Chi Gu]!

Just for this, we have to come up with something awesome!