146: Level 8 Jiao Zhengqing!

Lin Chuan, still unwilling to give up, sent another message: "You tell him, if he dares to lie to me, he'll face the consequences!"

After another two or three minutes, Jiao Zhengqing finally replied: "Ahem, he did change his mind, but he said that if you, Boss, want the qing ling fruit from him, you'll at least have to exchange it for an S-Class talent crystal ball..."

An S-Class talent crystal ball?

Heh, it seems Yin Xi also knows that the victor of a duel receives a talent crystal ball as a reward.

This guy has some nerve, asking for an S-Class Talent right off the bat!

Lin Chuan himself only has 5 S-Class Talents, okay!

However, he still has 14 talent crystal balls obtained from the Evil Dragon and Warrior Secret Realm.

It's just that Lin Chuan isn't sure of the grade of those talent crystal balls.

But he quickly replied: "Alright, but not now. Tell him to keep the qing ling fruit safe for me!"

Jiao Zhengqing on the other end instantly couldn't hold back: "Holy crap?! Boss, you really have an S-Class talent crystal ball? Do you have more? I want one too!"

Lin Chuan: "Do you also have qing ling fruit?"

Jiao Zhengqing: "How do I get that fruit? I'll figure something out!"

Lin Chuan: "It's easy to get, just kill a God Chosen and it'll drop."

Jiao Zhengqing: "Excuse me, I'm leaving!"

Just then, someone actually came to Lin Chuan to trade for 10-grade Crystal Nucleus!

And it was 10 pieces at once!

Lin Chuan instantly became alert!

For 10 10-grade Crystal Nucleus, he directly asked in the private chat channel: "You're planning to buy auxiliary potions, right?"

The customer quickly replied: "It seems the big boss has also upgraded the customer level on the vending machine to Level 2."

Lin Chuan didn't care, and directly asked: "What are you planning to trade with?"

Customer: "10 10-grade Crystal Nucleus, according to your exchange rate, big boss, converted to 9-grade, would be 1000; 8-grade, 50,000; 7-grade, 2 million; 6-grade, 60 million."

Upon seeing this, Lin Chuan truly realized firsthand how astronomical and despair-inducing 10 10-grade Crystal Nucleus currently were!

Converted to 5-grade Crystal Nucleus, it would even require 1.2 billion!

1.2 billion, tsk tsk!

Such a massive quantity of Crystal Nucleus could only be afforded by major powers who had cleared Nesting Secret Realms, right?

And even if they could afford it, it would be a huge drain, very painful!

But that was none of Lin Chuan's business.

What he cared about was that 60 million 6-grade Crystal Nucleus could be synthesized into 6000 10-grade Crystal Nucleus!!!

10 pieces directly turning into 6000 pieces!

It was a huge profit! A massive profit! The kind that would make him wake up laughing in his dreams tonight!

But then the customer suddenly changed his mind and asked: "Can I trade with other items?"

Lin Chuan's expression instantly turned cold, and he decisively replied: "No."

No other item could compare to 6000 10-grade Crystal Nucleus!

The other side, however, sent a message: "What if I said, an A-grade skill book?"

Lin Chuan's eyebrow twitched, and he was immediately tempted!

However, he naturally wouldn't show his interest.

Instead, he feigned dissatisfaction: "So what if it's an A-grade skill book? Learning skills requires skill points! If I don't have enough skill points, even if I have a skill book, I can't learn it right away."

Customer: "Skill points can always be accumulated slowly, but an A-grade skill book isn't something you can just get whenever you want!"

Lin Chuan, of course, knew this. He quickly asked again, pretending: "Alright, tell me, what kind of A-grade skill is it? If I'm not interested, then it's off the table."

Customer: "A-grade skill: Shadow Clone! This skill allows you to have an extra clone! Not only can it give you a two-on-one advantage in combat; but for some dangerous missions, you can also completely let the clone complete them for you!"

Shadow Clone!

The customer on the other end was still vigorously promoting this skill.

In his heart, Lin Chuan was actually 120,000% tempted!

Because he himself had the A-grade Shadow Clone Talent!

As long as he learned the A-grade Shadow Clone skill, the effect! It would definitely be even more heaven-defying than using the Talent Mutation Fruit before!

However, a standalone Shadow Clone skill was actually quite useless.

Like the Shadow Clone Talent, the clone's attributes needed to be split from the player's own!

For players whose attributes weren't high at this stage, who would be willing to split their attributes to a clone?

And without enough attributes, the clone would basically be useless.

So, Lin Chuan directly ignored the other party's various promotions, and with an impatient tone, he decided: "This trash skill, at most, I'll reduce it by 20 million 6-grade Crystal Nucleus. Any more, and it's off the table!"

20 million 6-grade Crystal Nucleus, for Lin Chuan, was 2000 10-grade Crystal Nucleus.

It looked like he was taking a huge loss.

But in reality, anyone with a discerning eye knew that Crystal Nucleus would depreciate significantly.

On the other hand, things like skill books would basically not depreciate!

In fact, perhaps with the development of the times, some early useless skills might directly become divine skills later on!

It was precisely because of this that the customer on the other end took a full five minutes before finally gritting his teeth and replying: "Alright! 20 million it is! Then this trade will be 40 million 6-grade Crystal Nucleus, plus the A-grade skill Shadow Clone, in exchange for 10 10-grade Crystal Nucleus!"

Lin Chuan: "OK, happy cooperation!"

After both parties set up the trade terms, the transaction was completed directly.

In front of Lin Chuan, a large number of Crystal Nucleus instantly appeared!

They piled up and filled an entire reading room table, even falling onto the floor!

Lin Chuan put a portion into his space, and slowly synthesized the rest!

At the same time, he saw a message from Jiao Zhengqing: "Boss, you still haven't told me what to do if the Jiao Zhengqing of this world really levels up to 8 and comes to fight me!"

Lin Chuan glanced at the time; it was less than two hours until midnight.

He sent a message to Jiao Zhengqing: "If I give you 10 more Strength attributes, and at the same time, make you immune to level suppression, do you have the confidence to defeat your 8-grade self at 5-grade?"

Jiao Zhengqing immediately replied confidently: "Yes!"

The biggest advantage of 8-grade against 5-grade was level suppression!

Secondly, it was 3 attribute points.

Without level suppression, and with an additional 10 Strength attributes, Jiao Zhengqing naturally had the confidence to fight an 8-grade at 5-grade!

Lin Chuan nodded, and quickly said: "Alright, then I'll trade you an Intermediate Attribute Fruit and a warrior badge. But you have to trade me the corpse of an S-Class Talent powerhouse."

Jiao Zhengqing: "Many powerhouses have indeed died here in Sakura Country, but I don't know who among them is S-Class. As for living S-Class Talent powerhouses, I probably can't defeat them for now."

Lin Chuan: "Then first trade me the corpses of powerhouses you can obtain. As for the corpse of an S-Class Talent powerhouse, put it on account, you owe it for now."

...Alright."

After agreeing on these, Lin Chuan waited for about a quarter of an hour before Jiao Zhengqing collected over two hundred corpses and completed the transaction.

Almost immediately after he completed the transaction with Jiao Zhengqing.

An anomaly appeared on the level ranking again!

The original top three on the level ranking were—

1st Place: Lin Chuan (Level 10)

2nd Place: Terao Yuina (Level 8)

3rd Place: Belle (Level 7)

But now, Belle, who was in 3rd place, was pushed to 4th place.

Taking over 3rd place was the Level 8 Jiao Zhengqing!

At the same time, the Level 5 Jiao Zhengqing, who was originally ranked 10th, was pushed to 11th place!