Li Mu looked back at him.
Ding Yi, the unreliable guy, had come back after a round of shopping. He was carrying a lot of things in a mess.
Li Mu was speechless when he saw his appearance.
"He doesn't know how to put them in the storage space. Why does he have to show them off? What's wrong with him?"
Sensing Li Mu's gaze, Ding Yi smiled smugly and said, "What's wrong? Can't I carry them on my back? Hehe, I like the feeling of returning with a full load. "
Li Mu didn't say anything.
Ding Yi shook his head again and said, "These b * stards are really evil. They are really ruthless in bargaining."
His talent of "inquiring" was fully exerted. He had already learned everything about the market. As soon as he heard these people's offers, he knew that the price they offered was far lower than the real value of the little beast.
Li Mu didn't say anything.
Even if Ding Yi didn't say it, he could guess it.
Amongst the people that came to Star Inn for the market, which one of them wasn't a shrewd person? All of them were wily old foxes, and they were vicious and merciless. When they spoke, every single one of them seemed as if they were chopping with a blade, and they haggled down the price fiercely to a horrifying degree.
Obviously, they saw that the little boy was alone and had no one to rely on, so they maliciously cut down the price.
The little boy was very stubborn. He wanted a Reset Elixir. He would refuse anything else, whether it was immortal crystals or barter.
Some people got impatient and threatened him verbally.
The old Taoist who had called out the little beast's name before chuckled and said, "Guys, this is not right. This little guy's grandmother is seriously ill. Only the Reset Elixir can cure her. That's why he insisted on this condition. Everyone has a heart. Guys, don't force him anymore. His grandmother is lying in the cave outside the market …"
When the little boy heard that, there was a trace of vigilance in his eyes as he looked at the old Taoist.
The old Taoist said, "Hehe, little fellow, don't worry. I didn't investigate you." He waved the banner in his hand and said, "There is nothing in this world that I can't predict. Don't worry, I don't have any ill intentions towards you."
After hearing such an explanation, the little boy's vigilance did not lessen at all.
He had a deep sense of wariness towards everyone.
The old Taoist ignored the little boy and turned around to say to the crowd, "We are all in Jianghu, so you should understand that in Jianghu, there must be principles in doing things. This Astral Origin Beast was raised by the little boy with his own essence and blood. He has been playing with it since he was a child, so he treated it like a family member and friend. He had no choice but to take it out to change the medicine and treat his grandmother.
Hearing what the old Taoist said, some people shook their heads and chose to give up.
In the past few months, the old Taoist had been in Gold Town. He made a living by fortune-telling. His divination was very accurate and he was a little famous. So some old people also showed him some respect.
However, not everyone gave face to the old Taoist priest.
"A Reset Elixir is a little expensive, but I can consider half of it." A fat merchant wearing a leather hat and two guards beside him touched his triple fat chin and said with a grin.
The little boy's expression loosened a little.
He had been here for almost half a day. Finally, someone offered him a Reset Elixir. He was a little tempted, but he soon thought of something and shook his head very firmly. "No, just one."
The merchant just smiled faintly and did not offer another price.
"If we kill this little thing and use its fur to make armor, we can definitely make a precious armor." Some people's eyes lit up. They had already seen that the secret of the little beast resisting the sword light of an expert in the Void-breaking Realm was all in its strange black fur.
When the little boy, who was holding the little beast to comfort it, heard this, his expression immediately changed. He hugged the cub named Flattop tightly in his arms.
As for the cub, it seemed that it could understand human language. It looked at the calligrapher and let out a low roar, revealing its white, dagger-like sharp teeth, and its eyes were full of anger and hostility.
The little boy and the little beast were like two souls who relied on each other in a desperate situation. They hugged each other tightly and held on to their stubbornness.
Li Mu watched from the side. He was also a little tempted by the Astral Origin Beast called Flattop. But on the one hand, he did not have an elixir called Reset Elixir. On the other hand, the little beast and the little boy were really close. As the old Taoist said, they were like family members. Li Mu could not bear to take the little beast away.
"I wish this little boy good luck."
Li Mu turned around and left.
Ding Yi shook his head.
The bloodline of the royal Astral Origin Beast was quite valuable. If the little boy revealed the rarity of this little beast in a hurry, it would probably cause some unexpected trouble.
The two of them wandered around in front of the other stalls.
Li Mu also bought a few small things, all of which were Taoist alchemy products. They looked quite exquisite and also had some strange small functions. But they were more for fun, so they were not very valuable. Li Mu bought them for gifts, such as Hua Xiangrong, Wang Shiyu, little Daji, and Qing Feng and Ming Yue …
It was a little token of his appreciation.
Ding Yi, on the other hand, revealed his nature as a shopaholic. He swept up all kinds of herbs, ores, broken ancient weapons and armor, and so on. He was interested in all of them.
"Maybe there are big treasures in them. Haha, I've picked them up." He was very excited.
Li Mu was speechless.
Who was the one who described this market as a vegetable market and the goods inside as rotten vegetable roots and leaves in the first place?
While wandering, Li Mu was suddenly attracted by a faint energy fluctuation coming from the front.
It was a very strange energy, which was between life and death. He had hardly seen it before.
Most importantly, this energy seemed to have a subtle relationship with the Xiantian Skill.
Li Mu's heart skipped a beat.
He followed the direction of this strange fluctuation and walked more than 20 meters forward. Then, he came to a small stall.
A piece of black cloth was spread on the ground.
There were dozens of irregular stones of various sizes on the cloth. The big ones were half a man's height, and the small ones were only the size of a baby's fist. They were of different colors, mostly black and dark green. They were placed randomly in a mess.
The stall owner was a mysterious man shrouded in a black cloak. He wore a black mask on his face, revealing only his eyes and nose. It was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. But judging from the look in his eyes, he should be old. His eyes seemed to have experienced all kinds of changes in the human world.
The strange fluctuation that Li Mu had sensed before, which echoed the Xiantian Skill from a distance, came from this pile of stones.
There were a lot of people around the stall.
"This Primordial Stone is good. There is an 80% chance that there will be a fairy crystal in it, and it should be a silver-quality one …" A middle-aged man who looked like a businessman said to himself, weighing a dark green stone the size of an adult's palm in his hand. Then, he asked the stall owner, "How much is this?"
Without raising his head, the stall owner said in a hoarse voice, like two pieces of rusted iron rubbing against each other, "A silver-quality fairy crystal."
"It's too expensive." The middle-aged man threw the Primordial Stone back into the pile of stones and said, "Even if there is a 100% chance that there will be a silver-quality fairy crystal in it, the size is just a silver-quality fairy crystal. It's not cost-effective."
The stall owner didn't say anything and just looked at Li Mu as if he didn't care whether he bought it or not.
It was not until then that Li Mu realized that these stones of different sizes were actually Primordial Stones of fairy crystals.
It sounded like the Primordial Stones of jade on Earth.
They were gambling on stones.
When these Primordial Stones were cut open, there was a certain probability that they contained fairy crystals. For cultivators, their value was much more important than the Primordial Stones of jade on Earth. Once they made the right bet, they could double the profit with little capital. But if they made the wrong bet, they could only admit defeat.
The stall owner, who was shrouded in a black cloak, should be a lone interstellar miner.
While Li Mu was observing for a while, more people began to choose stones.
It could be seen that choosing Primordial Stones of fairy crystals was also a very profound knowledge. These people observed the appearance, weight, lines, and other characteristics of the stones, made judgments, and then offered a price.
But in the end, the price offered by the stall owner was much higher than the psychological expectations of the buyers. Therefore, after half an hour, there were many people looking at the Primordial Stones, but in the end, no one made a deal.
The stall owner was very calm. He offered a fixed price and never bargained, which made the potential buyers around very angry, but there was nothing they could do.
"You can't do business like this," someone warned.
The stall owner said, "Buy it or leave it."
A faint energy fluctuation flashed across his body. It was powerful and terrifying. He turned out to be a cultivator in the Mortal Realm.
The person who gave the warning immediately quieted down.
Some people around who had other wicked ideas also gave up the idea.
In Gold Town, the cultivators in the Mortal Realm could already be regarded as the top group. They were all tough characters, and there was no need to provoke them easily.
Li Mu's interest was also aroused.
He squatted down and pretended to pick and choose among the stones.
In fact, he didn't know how to choose Primordial Stones. His main purpose was to find the stone that emitted the strange energy fluctuation.
But for some reason, when he got closer, the strange energy fluctuation became much weaker. He could only tell that it was in this pair of stones, but he couldn't tell which one it was in a short time.
Li Mu felt that this was too inefficient, so he quietly activated his Third Eye.
There were too many people here, so Li Mu was also very cautious. He opened his Third Eye as thin as a strand of hair. The light was restrained, and he lowered his head, so the others couldn't see the change.
He picked up a Primordial Stone and quietly observed it.
"Eh?"
Li Mu was surprised.
The power of the Third Eye couldn't penetrate the surface of the Primordial Stone in his hand and see what was inside.
"Interesting."
But on second thought, it seemed to be normal.
There were many cultivators in the universe who practiced all kinds of Magic Eyes. If they could see through the Primordial Stones with this, stone gambling would become a joke. Under the Magic Eyes, the quality of all the Primordial Stones could be seen at a glance, so there was no need to gamble at all.
Even the Magic Eyes and Third Eye couldn't see through the Primordial Stones.
Li Mu thought for a moment and was unwilling to give up. He continued to try with a glimmer of hope. He quietly ran the Xiantian Skill and injected the primitive natural qi into the Third Eye. A wisp of strange mist gradually appeared in the pupil of the Third Eye between his eyebrows.
A miracle happened.
The surface of the Primordial Stone suddenly seemed to have disappeared.
He saw that in the middle of the Primordial Stone, which was the size of an adult's palm, there was a ball of golden light, which was as dazzling as the golden light of the morning sun. It occupied about one-third of the entire Primordial Stone.
"What is this?"
Li Mu was very surprised and curious.
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