317: Buy out your spot and head to the Ruins

"Alright, if you buy out the slots, it's five billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones per person."

"May I ask, will the honored guests be paying with Spirit Stones, or calculating the value using treasures?" Hearing Night Owl mention buying out the slots with Spirit Stones, the Woman in Black Dress showed no surprise.

After all, Night Owl and the others were people who could afford to drink enlightenment tea; they wouldn't choose the second option of risking their lives to help others search for treasure.

"Five billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones?" This figure from the Woman in Black Dress stunned Night Owl and the others.

They had expected the slot to be expensive, but they hadn't expected it to be this costly.

One must know that five billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones could already buy an ordinary emperor pill. In other words, the registration fee alone for the eight of them amounted to eight emperor pills. This Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild really was intent on making a killing.

"Fellow Daoist, seeing as there are so many of us, could you possibly give us a discount?" Gu Chen was the first to react, starting to haggle with the Woman in Black Dress with a smile.

In his Storage Space, besides the tens of billions of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones won in Zhongzhou, there were also some treasures obtained from the azure emperor inheritance, and items looted after destroying that Half-step Great Emperor Family in Zhongzhou.

All these things combined were probably worth roughly five billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

But they now had eight people, and not everyone could necessarily produce Spirit Stones or treasures of equivalent value.

Therefore, if the Woman in Black Dress could offer a small discount, they wouldn't have to use enlightenment tea leaves for the exchange.

After all, although they still had quite a bit of enlightenment tea leaves, it was best to save such things for themselves to drink unless absolutely necessary.

"That's right, Fellow Daoist, can't you give us a better discount since there are eight of us?" Mu Xueqing also spoke up and asked.

Although Night Owl and the others remained silent, they all stared intently at the Woman in Black Dress, waiting to see if she would offer a discount.

"This..."

The Woman in Black Dress deliberately put on a troubled expression, pondered for a moment, and then sighed, saying, "Since there are eight honored guests, and this is a large transaction, our Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild will treat it as making friends with you all, and we will reduce the price by one billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones for everyone."

After speaking, the Woman in Black Dress displayed an expression suggesting she had suffered a great loss.

Although her face showed this expression, she was already overjoyed internally.

A large transaction like this—forty billion—her branch sometimes couldn't complete one in several years. Although she reduced the price by one billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones for Night Owl and the others, this was well within her acceptable range, and there was absolutely no heartache involved.

Seeing the Woman in Black Dress look as miserable as if her parents had died after reducing the price by one billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones, Night Owl and the others did not say anything further.

Instead, they took out everything in their Storage Rings except the enlightenment tea leaves, allowing the Woman in Black Dress to calculate the value herself.

They weren't afraid of the Woman in Black Dress calculating unfairly. With Huyan Xiaoyao, the President of the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce, present, the Woman in Black Dress couldn't take advantage of them.

After the Woman in Black Dress finished tallying the Spirit Stones and treasures of Night Owl and the others, she finally quoted a total price of forty-five billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

After receiving confirmation from Huyan Xiaoyao.

Night Owl, Gu Chen, Mu Xueqing, and Qin Fei'er—the few who had gone to Zhongzhou for training—each recovered some Spirit Stones to maintain their Storage Rings, thus completing the payment for the registration fee.

"Hehe, thank you, honored guests, for concluding this transaction with our chamber of commerce. I shall now lead you all to the location of the Ruins."

"Honored guests, please follow me."

Putting away the large amount of treasures and Spirit Stones.

The Woman in Black Dress happily beckoned Night Owl and the others, walking toward the back courtyard of the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild, preparing to use the Formation inside to teleport directly near the Ruins.

Seeing the Woman in Black Dress walk out of the reception hall with a beaming smile.

Night Owl and the others said nothing more, following behind her toward the back courtyard of the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild.

When the group arrived at a large hall filled with teleportation Formations.

A middle-aged man in the Saint Realm respectfully stepped forward, cupped his fists, and said, "Greetings, President!!"

"Mm." The Woman in Black Dress nodded and said, "Steward Mao, open the teleportation to Yaoguang City for this President. I need to take the honored guests to the Ancient Pill Sect Ruins."

"Yes, President!!"

Steward Mao responded, immediately walked to a Formation at the deepest part of the hall, took out Spirit Stones to fill it, and struck in a series of activation Incantations.

Following Steward Mao's sequence of actions, the Formation quickly lit up with intense light, forming a teleportation space.

"President, the teleportation Formation has been activated. The honored guests may now teleport." After setting up the teleportation Formation, Steward Mao came before the Woman in Black Dress to report.

"Mm." The Woman in Black Dress replied, then turned around and said to Night Owl and the others with a smile, "Honored guests, please proceed. Once we reach Yaoguang City, we won't be far from the Ancient Pill Sect Ruins."

"Alright." Night Owl and the others wasted no words, nodding slightly before walking together into the teleportation space of the Formation.

Seeing that Night Owl and the others had entered the teleportation space, the Woman in Black Dress immediately followed them inside.

Although the Ancient Pill Sect Ruins were currently open to the public, without her, the person selling the slots, to Guide them, Night Owl and the others wouldn't be able to enter even if they knew the location.

This was because the Great Emperor Peak Experts from the three Emperor-level powers were all guarding the vicinity of the Ruins, and they only recognized the Guide.

Standing properly inside the teleportation space, the Woman in Black Dress nodded slightly toward Steward Mao outside the Formation.

Seeing the Woman in Black Dress nod, Steward Mao knew what she meant and quickly struck a stream of power into the Formation, activating the group's teleportation space.

"Buzz! Buzz!"

As Steward Mao's stream of power entered the Formation, the entire teleportation space erupted in dazzling light, then carried the Woman in Black Dress and Night Owl's group away, disappearing from the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild in Feiying City.

The instant the group vanished.

At the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild branch in Yaoguang City, on a teleportation Formation in the Teleportation Hall.

The figures of Night Owl's group and the Woman in Black Dress slowly materialized upon it.

Seeing that it was the Woman in Black Dress who had teleported over with people, an old man in the Saint King Realm in the hall immediately stepped forward, cupped his fists respectfully, and said, "So it was President Hu who arrived! What major business required President Hu to personally accompany them using the teleportation Formation?"

After the old man spoke, he curiously examined the cultivation levels of Night Owl and the others.

When he saw that the cultivation levels of most of Night Owl's group were beyond his perception, he secretly guessed their purpose, knowing they had come to enter the Ancient Pill Sect Ruins to search for treasure.