935: Chapter 936: As many as you have, I'll take them all.
This city is named Fuyao City, and it is the most prosperous major city close to the Supreme Ancient Tomb.
The city walls are cast from ancient astral divine gold, and ten thousand paths of Heavenly Venerate Talismans are engraved upon the city gates.
Cultivators coming and going are endless, Heavenly Monarchs can be seen everywhere, and there are even quite a few Heavenly Kings riding clouds into the city.
Gu Changge brings Xiaobai and Jimie, stepping slowly into the city gate; the Spiritual Qi within the city is noticeably denser than outside.
The shops along the street are filled with Heaven And Earth Treasures, with hawking and bargaining intertwining into a cacophony, presenting a thriving scene.
Jimie follows silently in a gray robe, with not a shred of aura leaking from his whole body, just like an ordinary guard.
Xiaobai has transformed into the appearance of an ordinary black-robed youth, with all Dragon Qi retracted, looking around with eyes full of curiosity.
Yet his mouth is not idle: "Master, do you think those Heavenly Venerates will be so angry they vomit blood right now?"
"Fighting desperately for half a day, so many people died, but in the end they didn't even get a single Spirit Stone; if it were me, I would also be furious to the point of exploding."
"Whether they are angry or not is their business." Gu Changge's tone is calm, his gaze sweeping across the shops along the street, "It has nothing to do with us."
"However, Master, that ray of vitality you left at the end..." Xiaobai lowers his voice and leans closer.
"Why did you save that Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow? It has no relations or ties with us?"
"It guarded the Supreme for endless years. Such a loyal and righteous beast should not end up being besieged and killed." Gu Changge says indifferently.
"Master, there really are quite a few good things in this city."
Xiaobai's gaze sweeps across the street stalls, which are laden with various Spirit Medicines, Ores, and Magical Artifacts; although their quality cannot be considered top-tier, they are quite diverse and abundant.
Gu Changge nods slightly, but his gaze does not linger on those street stalls, instead looking straight toward the center of the city.
There, a huge pavilion stands a hundred zhang high, built entirely of a light cyan jade, glowing with a warm luster in the sunlight.
Above the main entrance of the pavilion hangs a plaque inscribed with three gilded characters—
"Treasure Pavilion".
There is actually a Treasure Pavilion here as well. Gu Changge looks at the three gilded characters on the plaque and ponders inwardly whether it comes from the same lineage as the Treasure Pavilion in the market of the Tianyuan Sect.
However, the pavilion before him is magnificent in every way, with the hundred-zhang jade building layered upon layered. Its scale and foundation far surpassed that market branch of the past; they are completely on different levels.
He thinks no further and steps into the pavilion gates with Xiaobai and Jimie.
As soon as he enters the main hall, a wave of Spiritual Qi washes over them, so dense it almost turns substantive.
The main hall is extremely spacious, with a dome reaching ten zhang high, hanging eighty-one glazed palace lanterns that illuminate the entire hall as bright as day.
Hundreds of transparent jade cabinets are embedded in the walls on all sides, displaying various treasures within—Spirit Medicines, Ores, Magical Artifacts, Talismans, and Incomplete Manuals of Cultivation Techniques, dazzling the eyes with everything one could expect.
In the center of the hall also stands a three-zhang-high jade monument, scrolling and displaying today's acquisition and sales list, the characters flowing with golden light, quite imposing.
Cultivators coming and going are endless, quite a few wearing luxurious clothes, and there are even a few Heavenly King-level powerhouses with abyssal auras standing in front of a counter talking with attendants.
A beautiful female attendant, seeing that Gu Changge has an extraordinary demeanor, steps forward quickly at the first moment to greet him with a bow, her attitude humble and polite.
"Senior, I wonder what kind of treasures you need. This Junior can introduce them to you one by one."
Gu Changge takes out a Jade Slip from his sleeve and casually hands it over:
"As for all the medicinal herbs on the list, however many your storehouse currently has in stock, I will take them all."
The attendant receives the Jade Slip with both hands, sweeps her Divine Sense into it, and on the spot her pupils shrink violently, her expression completely freezing.
Densely listed on the list are hundreds of spiritual materials, spanning a huge range of tiers.
At the very front are the ordinary medicinal materials needed to refine the Tongtian Pill, such as thousand-year-old blood ginseng, ten-thousand-year-old spirit lingzhi, scarlet flame fruits, and the like, in massive quantities that started at least from a thousand catties at every turn.
The middle part consists of High Grade medicinal materials needed to refine the Heavenly Venerate Pill, such as Nine Heavens Xuanhuang Ganoderma, Prochordial Divine Vine Roots, Star Stamens, and so on.
Every single one of them is a rare treasure hard to find in the outside world, and the age requirement is casually over ten thousand years.
And at the end of the Jade Slip, several names that she had never even heard of abruptly appeared—
"Great Dao Azure Lotus Root", "Innate Purple Qi Vine", "Reincarnation Other-Shore Flower"...
These names, she has never seen in any ancient texts, and even their pronunciation feels unfamiliar.
The attendant takes a deep breath, tries hard to calm her mood, and bows as she says:
"Senior, there are too many types of medicinal materials on this, and the amount is too huge. This Junior cannot make the decision. Please wait a moment, I will go invite the manager to talk with you in person."
Gu Changge nods casually.
The attendant leaves in a hurry, her footsteps obviously much more hurried than when she came.
Not long after, a sound of footsteps comes from the second floor.
An old man dressed in a dark cyan robe walks quickly down the stairs, followed by the female attendant from just now.
The old man has white hair and beard, a thin and refined face, but a pair of eyes shooting with sharp light, obviously his cultivation is not low.
He walks up to Gu Changge, cups his fists in a salute, his tone polite yet retaining proper measure:
"This old man is surnamed Liu, serving unworthily as the manager of the Treasure Pavilion here. Hearing that Senior has a big business to discuss, please move to the VIP room upstairs to talk in detail."
Gu Changge nods slightly and goes upstairs with him.
The VIP room is set on the third floor; the room is not large, but the layout is extremely elegant.
After taking their seats as host and guest, Manager Liu personally pours a cup of tea and pushes it in front of Gu Changge before speaking:
"The attendant has just informed me of Senior's list. This old man will boldly ask, of those medicinal materials listed by Senior, do you want all of them, or only a portion of them?"
"All of them." Gu Changge picks up the tea cup and takes a sip, his tone flat, "As many as you have, I want them all."
Manager Liu's eye corner twitches slightly.
He has been in the medicinal material business for most of his life, and has seen countless wealthy patrons.
But someone like the one before him, who opens his mouth to buy out over a hundred kinds of medicinal materials at once, among which there is no lack of peerless treasures, is the very first time he has ever encountered it.
He ponders for a moment, and asks tentatively:
"Senior, the value of these medicinal materials is quite large.
Especially the last few ones, to be honest, even if this pavilion tries its best, it could only scrape together a small fraction of them. Moreover, regarding the price..."
Before he finishes speaking, Gu Changge raises his hand to interrupt him.
"Money is not a problem."
With a casual wave of his hand, a Storage Ring appears in his palm and is gently placed on the tea table.
"Inside here are three million High Grade Heavenly Stones, considered a deposit."
"You first give me all the medicinal materials you can bring out, and the remaining balance will be settled according to market price. Not a single cent will be missing."
Three million High Grade Heavenly Stones.
Even though Manager Liu is knowledgeable and experienced, hearing this number still makes his pupils shrink.
He takes a deep breath, reaches out to pick up that Storage Ring, and sweeps his Divine Sense into it.
Packed full, they are all High Grade Heavenly Stones, piled into a small mountain.
The spiritual light is dazzling, almost blinding people.
These Heavenly Stones were all casually collected by Gu Changge from the Supreme tomb; a Supreme's lifetime collection can be described as vast.
Coupled with the mountains and mountains of top-grade Heavenly Stones in his own System space, it can be said that what Gu Changge lacks the least is this.
Manager Liu subconsciously glances at Gu Changge's cultivation, but finds that he can not see through it at all, causing his heart to shudder.
He silently puts down the ring, stands up, and makes a deep bow toward Gu Changge:
"Senior is magnanimous, this old man admires you. Please wait for half an hour, this old man will personally go to the storehouse to retrieve the goods."
With that said, he turns around and leaves quickly.
This time, his steps are obviously much more solemn than before.
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