316: Black Wind Sect!

He took a folding fan out of his Storage Pouch, held it in his hand, and gave his wrist a slight flick.

With a "swish" sound, the fan opened, revealing the three large characters "Liangtian Fan".

This was a Dao-grade Top-Quality Magic Treasure, but Lu Hao had suppressed its aura, so to outsiders, it looked like nothing more than an ordinary folding fan.

Lu Hao held the fan in front of him; at this moment, he looked quite like a righteous scholar, though unfortunately, in the world of cultivation, reading books could not help one get ahead.

"Old man, may I ask where the nearest tavern is?"

Lu Hao was walking through the city when he saw an old man hawking Magic Treasures, so he asked with a smile.

"Turn left three li ahead, then go straight for two li, and you will find a tavern. That tavern has a type of wine called 'Yingri Hong', which has a unique flavor. You should go give it a try, young brother."

Hearing this, Lu Hao closed his folding fan and said:

"Alright, thank you, old man. I will take all of these Magic Treasures of yours."

Without further ado, Lu Hao swept up the dozens of Magic Treasures in front of the old man and then took a Spirit Stone from his bosom to hand to the old man.

The old man, seeing Lu Hao give him just one Spirit Stone, had wanted to say something, but he immediately realized what it was.

"This... this is actually a Top-Grade Spirit Stone?!!"

He had never imagined that someone would pay a Top-Grade Spirit Stone for his Magic Treasures, and he was instantly filled with immense excitement.

After all, those Magic Treasures of his were just some unranked Earth Rank Magic Treasures; they were simply not worth that price.

By the time the old man looked up, intending to say he couldn't provide change, Lu Hao's figure had already disappeared from the street.

Seeing this, he could only happily and nervously put away the Top-Grade Spirit Stone:

"My luck is really good today! I just set up my stall not long ago, and I actually met such a wealthy person!"

...

Lu Hao looked up at the tavern; its name was indeed Yingri Hong.

Clearly, its main attraction was that signature wine.

Lu Hao walked into the tavern and casually found a place to sit down:

"Boss, bring me one jar of every type of wine you have in your tavern!"

As Lu Hao's voice rang out, the boss immediately walked out from the back, smiling broadly as he said:

"Greetings, customer. Did you just say you wanted all the wine in our shop?"

"Yes."

"It is like this: our shop's wine is calculated by its age. The older the vintage, the higher the price. I am not sure if you mean one jar of each type of wine, or one jar of every vintage for each type of wine?"

Hearing this, Lu Hao gently shook his folding fan and said with a smile:

"Naturally, I want one jar of every vintage. I have never tasted aged wine before!"

Hearing Lu Hao's words, the boss's smile deepened slightly, and he continued:

"Customer, it is like this: our wine is an industry of the Li family in this city. Each type of wine generally comes in ten-year, hundred-year, thousand-year, ten-thousand-year, and the highest, thirty-thousand-year vintages!"

"For every level of difference, the price increases a hundredfold. Especially the most expensive thirty-thousand-year vintage wine, which requires me to personally go to the Li family to collect it, which is quite troublesome."

"So if you require it, customer, I hope you can pay half of the deposit in advance."

Hearing this, Lu Hao also developed a strong interest in this wine. Selling wine so mysteriously? He wanted to see what was so extraordinary about this wine.

"Boss, roughly how much will it cost?"

"There are one hundred and thirty jars of wine in total, costing a total of two hundred and forty-eight Top-Grade Spirit Stones. So, customer, you only need to pay one hundred and twenty-four Top-Grade Spirit Stones first."

Lu Hao was somewhat stunned upon hearing this and blurted out:

"So expensive?!"

This time, before the boss could speak, a middle-aged man drinking nearby said:

"Fellow Daoist, this price is actually quite fair. Their wine is worth this price."

"You must know that things are valued for their rarity. That thirty-thousand-year vintage wine already has very little stock. Furthermore, the Li family suffered a major incident over ten thousand years ago, which led to many resources being plundered."

"Naturally, this includes this famous wine, Yingri Hong, so the current price has naturally risen accordingly."

"So that is how it is."

Lu Hao said with a smile.

"Since that is the case, here are all the Spirit Stones. You can take them directly, saving the trouble. I will just wait here for you to bring the wine over!"

Upon receiving the Spirit Stones, the boss was grinning from ear to ear, nodding and bowing repeatedly:

"Good, good, good! Thank you, customer. You are generous. Please wait here for a moment; I will go to the Li family to get the wine for you immediately!"

After saying this, the tavern boss headed straight for the Li family.

At this moment, the middle-aged man beside him spoke again:

"Fellow Daoist, are you not afraid that person will take your Spirit Stones and run away? Two hundred and forty-eight Top-Grade Spirit Stones is already a huge sum of money. An average person might not be able to resist the temptation."

Lu Hao said with a smile:

"It is no problem. In this Thousand Stars State, there is no one who dares to take my Spirit Stones and run."

Lu Hao said this calmly and lightly, his words revealing an extremely powerful self-confidence!

Hearing this, the middle-aged man's eyes narrowed.

What a confident young man to dare to say such things. Could he have some incredibly deep background?

He doesn't look like it at all.

"Fellow Daoist is full of confidence; you must surely be a dragon among men. My surname is Shan, given name Hongshen. May I ask how to address you, Fellow Daoist?"

"My surname is Lu, given name Hao!"

The middle-aged man had originally been full of smiles while talking to Lu Hao, but when he heard Lu Hao state his name, the expression on his face froze instantly.

Lu Hao? Isn't that the person the Sect just issued a notice to find not long ago?

What a coincidence? I just came out for a drink and managed to run into this person called Lu Hao?

This person looks very young; why would he have the ability to make the Old Ancestor personally issue an order?

"Fellow Daoist Shan, what is wrong?"

Lu Hao saw that the person opposite him had a strange expression, so he asked in confusion.

"Er... nothing, nothing. I just thought of something else. Fellow Daoist Lu, since we are idle, why don't we have a drink together?"

"Forget it, I prefer drinking alone."

Lu Hao refused him.

He felt that the person opposite him was a bit strange, so he did not really want to get involved with him.

Seeing that he had been rejected, Shan Hongshen felt a bit awkward. He immediately stopped speaking, finished the wine on the table in one gulp, and then hurriedly headed towards his Sect.

Black Wind Sect.

This was a second-rate Sect in the Thousand Stars State, but it was still considered a very powerful Sect. The only ones that could firmly suppress them were the Five Great Powers.

At this moment, in front of the Black Wind Sect's Sect Master, Shan Hongshen was kneeling on one knee, reporting information regarding Lu Hao.

"Sect Master, when I was drinking at the tavern, I met a young man. His name is indeed Lu Hao. Moreover, this person is extremely generous; he spent over two hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones without even blinking, just to drink!"

"Furthermore, I feel that this person's strength and background are definitely extraordinary. That kind of natural, unforced self-confidence is something I have rarely seen in others."

"I am afraid..."

"Afraid of what?"

"I am afraid that I have only seen this kind of extremely confident feeling in the leaders of the Five Great Powers."