In a living room on the second floor of Wanbao Building, Chen Wanrong and Li Xiuping were sitting opposite each other. A maid was waiting on them. Xu Bansheng, the old man from before, and the maid from Night Travel Division were standing beside them.
"Master Li, please wait for a moment. Mr. Luo, who is responsible for the appraisal, will be here soon." Chen Wanrong said with a smile.
Li Xiuping nodded and said: "It doesn't matter."
Chen Wanrong then asked: "Master Li, are you going to Huayang Sect?"
Li Xiuping nodded.
Chen Wanrong smiled bitterly and said: "I thought I could slay demons on the battlefield with Young Master Li. It seems that the next time we see you again, it will be at the Immortal Ascension Conference."
Li Xiuping was stunned and couldn't help but ask: "Is Miss Chen staying here to ward off the monster?"
Chen Wanrong nodded and said: "Although cultivators do not interfere in worldly affairs, my Chen family is different from other cultivating sects. It is just that this Chu Xincheng has a lot of property in my Chen family. Once Chu Xincheng is lost, for the Chen family,
It’s a big loss.”
Li Xiuping nodded and said nothing.
Chen Wanrong also fell silent, as if she didn't know what to say for a moment, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long, as a maid led an old man in.
After the old man entered the door, he looked around and then saluted Chen Wanrong.
Chen Wanrong stood up and said: "Master Li has brought something and asked Mr. Luo to appraise it and make an estimate."
Li Xiuping then stood up and took out the black bone vine.
The old man took the black bone vine and untied the black cloth wrapped around it, revealing the jet black vine that exuded a gleaming luster.
After the old man saw the black bone vine, he couldn't help but frown, and then he tapped lightly on the black bone vine with his finger. Suddenly, a violent force rushed out, like thunder.
The old man said: "It turned out to be the lightning strike wood, or the lightning strike wood in the black bone vine."
He looked at Li Xiuping and asked, "Where did you get this?"
Li Xiuping was stunned and said truthfully: "When I came from Qingyang County, I got it by killing a black bone vine."
He immediately asked: "Is this thing valuable?"
The old man nodded and said: "Rare things are naturally valuable. Thunder strike wood is a treasure used to refine magic weapons to exorcise evil spirits. It is hard to find for a thousand dollars. Yours is a thunder strike wood made of black bone vine, so the price will at least quadruple."
Before Li Xiuping could say anything, Xu Bansheng on the side exclaimed: "It's so valuable!"
After saying that, he couldn't help but walk up and observe the pitch black rattan carefully.
Chen Wanrong asked at this time: "I wonder if Young Master Li plans to take action on this thing?"
Li Xiuping was stunned, looked at Chen Wanrong, and asked, "Miss Chen, do you want this?"
Chen Wanrong nodded and said: "I just need a magic weapon now. If I use this thing to refine it into a magic weapon, I think it will be much better than ordinary spiritual treasures."
Li Xiuping was lost in thought, Xu Bansheng kept winking at Li Xiuping, signaling Li Xiuping not to sell such a good treasure.
The old man surnamed Luo said at this time: "This lightning strike wood is indeed precious, but it also requires the practice of thunder skills to be effective. In the hands of ordinary people, it is difficult to exert one-tenth of its power. My young lady happens to practice thunder.
It's a Qigong method, this thing really has a miraculous effect on my young lady."
He didn't seem to be afraid of Li Xiuping raising the price, and he told the truth directly.
Everyone looked at Li Xiuping, waiting for Li Xiuping's reply.
After a while, Li Xiuping nodded and said: "Miss Chen could give me a piece of cold iron ore before. Now that Miss Chen needs this thing, I should give it to you as a courtesy."
Xu Bansheng looked stunned, almost thinking that he had heard wrongly.
Chen Wanrong smiled and said: "I dare not accept such a valuable thing, and I can see that Mr. Li is very short of money now... In this way, on the basis of the market price, I will give you an additional 10% and thirty spiritual stones.
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Thirty spirit stones are equivalent to three thousand gold, Li Xiuping knew this. But he had only heard Mr. Ou Ye talk about spirit stones before, but had never seen it with his own eyes.
Li Xiuping nodded and said, "Thank you very much, Miss Chen."
Chen Wanrong smiled and said, "I should be the one thanking Mr. Li."
As he spoke, he looked at the old man aside. The old man immediately took out a bag and handed it to Li Xiuping with both hands.
Li Xiuping took the bag, opened it, took out a spiritual stone and put it on the table, saying, "This counts as my buying the cold iron mine before."
Chen Wanrong frowned and looked at Li Xiuping.
Li Xiuping smiled and said: "Since it is a business, it must be fair. Since Miss Chen spent money to buy my things, there is no reason for me to take advantage of Miss Chen for free."
Chen Wanrong said: "As I said just now, that thing is a way of repaying your kindness for saving me before. Why, is my life worse than a piece of cold iron ore?"
Li Xiuping quickly shook his head and said: "No, I used to be a member of the Night Travel Division. Killing monsters is my duty. Even if I didn't meet Miss Chen, I would still kill the three monsters, so..."
Chen Wanrong nodded and said: "In that case, I will accept this spiritual stone. However, Mr. Li seems to be injured. Please accept these elixirs, Mr. Li."
As she said that, she took out a jade bottle, probably because she was afraid of Li Xiuping's rejection, and then said: "These are all worthless things, so Mr. Li, don't delay any longer, otherwise I won't want this lightning-struck wood."
Li Xiuping could only accept the jade bottle: "Thank you very much, Miss Chen."
After the transaction was completed, Li Xiuping and others said goodbye and left. Chen Wanrong led everyone out to see them off. This made Li Xiuping, who had originally planned to buy some more magic weapons at Wanbao Tower, had to give up because he was really afraid that Miss Chen would give him something again.
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But before they even left the Wanbao Tower, an old monk hurried over with three disciples, and those three disciples were the Xuanyuan Sect disciples who had previously made things difficult for Li Xiuping and others.
After the old monk entered Wanbao Tower, he happened to meet Li Xiuping and others.
The old monk first bowed to everyone, and then said: "These three incompetent juniors, Lao Cao, bumped into Miss Chen before. I also asked Miss Chen not to go to the same place with them. If anything is damaged, I, the Xuanyuan Sect, will pay for it at the original price."
Chen Wanrong nodded and said: "As long as you are willing to compensate."
The old monk looked at Li Xiuping again, smiled more and more attentively, and said: "This must be Mr. Ou Ye's disciple, Mr. Li Xiuping, right?"
Li Xiuping nodded.
Xu Bansheng said at this time: "Why, do you still want to take revenge?"
The old man hurriedly said: "This young master is joking. This time, our Xuanyuan Sect made a mistake first, so how can we take revenge? It is their honor for the two of them to teach the underachieving disciples of my Huayang Sect."
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After speaking, he glared at the three disciples and said coldly: "Why don't you come over and apologize to Mr. Li?"
Li Xiuping said at this time: "There is no need to apologize, just don't do it again."
When the old monk heard this, his worried heart finally relaxed, and he quickly said: "That's for sure. I will definitely discipline him strictly when I go back to ensure that similar things will not happen again in the future."
Li Xiuping ignored the group of people and turned to Chen Wanrong and said, "Then let's say goodbye first."
At this time, Chen Wanrong took out a snow-white jade plaque and said: "This is a small gift from Wanbao House. The holder can enjoy Wanbao House's discounts. As long as the transaction reaches a thousand gold, Wanbao House will give one as a gift."
Li Xiuping took the jade token and walked outside. The four members of the Xuanyuan Sect hurriedly moved out of the way.
After Li Xiuping and others left, Chen Wanrong looked at the old monk of Xuanyuan Sect and said with a smile: "I was still thinking that I should quickly go to Xuanyuan Sect to claim the loss, lest Xuanyuan Sect become the next Jingde Sect.
It was too late, and now it seems that there is no need to be in such a hurry."
The old monk from the Xuanyuan Sect looked embarrassed and just kept laughing, not knowing what to say. Fortunately, Li Xiuping didn't seem to have any intention of pursuing the Xuanyuan Sect, otherwise what the Miss Chen said was not a joke.
Already.
So, a sect is not afraid of having disciples with outstanding talents. What it is afraid of is having disciples who cause trouble everywhere and bring disaster to the sect. Isn’t Jingde Sect a bloody lesson? They are similar to Jingde Sect.
The sect naturally had to deal with it carefully.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. Today it's Li Xiuping, and tomorrow I don't know who he will offend.
Naturally, Li Xiuping would not know that an incident involving Jingdemen had directly changed the atmosphere of the entire Yunzhou practice world...
"Why did you sell such a good thing as Thunder Strike Wood to Chen Wanrong? If you had gotten it from the Huayang Sect or sold it to those old Taoist masters, the price would definitely be better than now." After leaving Wanbao Tower, Xu Bansheng caught up with Li
Xiuping complained.
Li Xiuping nodded and said: "Then you have to be able to defend it."
Xu Bansheng was startled.
"My master said that treasures from heaven and earth can be obtained by those who are destined to get them. Since Chen Wanrong is still staying in Chuxin City, and we happened to appear in front of her with the lightning strike wood, it means that this thing is destined to her."
Li Xiuping said as he moved forward: "And you also said that if this thing had been sold to someone else, it would definitely be sold at a good price. That means there must be many people coveting it. It would be fine if those people were willing to pay.
If we don’t want to pay, we might even risk our lives.”
Xu Bansheng nodded and said: "That's true. With the abilities of the two of us, it's really easy to be spotted with this thing."
He continued: "Whether we sell it or not, there are so many spiritual stones, and on our journey..."
Li Xiuping interrupted: "Correction, this is my money, not yours."
Xu Bansheng frowned and said: "We are brothers now, both disciples of the Huayang Sect, so what is yours and mine? Besides, when I killed the monsters, I put in as much effort as you did, and my injuries haven't healed yet.
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Li Xiuping ignored him and continued to move forward.
Xu Bansheng chased after him and said, "Even if I don't have half, I should still have ten or eight yuan, right?"
Li Xiuping said: "Three yuan."
Xu Bansheng hesitantly stretched out his hand and said, "Five yuan."
"Deal!" Li Xiuping stopped, took out five spiritual stones and handed them to Xu Bansheng.
Xu Bansheng looked at the five spiritual stones and frowned.
"Don't pull it down." As he said that, Li Xiuping was about to take it back.
Xu Bansheng grabbed the spirit stone and curled his lips and said, "Why don't you want it? It's better than nothing."
"Brother Li seems to have gained a lot."
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.
Li Xiuping looked up and saw not far away, the monk named Chao was looking at them with a smile on his face.
Beside him, there was an old man in black robes, holding a magic weapon in his hand, which led to the flow of spiritual energy between heaven and earth. At the same time, runes were constantly lighting up on the surrounding walls.
Li Xiuping narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around, but did not see the other monks.
The monk surnamed Chao smiled and said at this time: "Don't look at it, you can't get out of this formation, and even a strong person with golden elixir will not know what is happening here."
The maid from the Night Travel Department looked pale. Even a fool would know what was going on in this situation.
Xu Bansheng said in a deep voice: "Chao, we are disciples of the Huayang Sect. Aren't you afraid that the Huayang Sect will settle the score with your Tianxu Sect later?"
The monk named Chao smiled and said: "Of course I know that you are Huayang Sect disciples. If you weren't, I wouldn't necessarily take action against you."
Xu Bansheng frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
The monk named Chao smiled and said: "Have I ever said that I am a disciple of Tianxu Sect? Besides, if you die here, who will know that I did it?"
Li Xiuping asked at this time: "Do you have a grudge against Huayang Sect?"
The monk surnamed Chao nodded and said: "The hatred is as deep as the sea."
The old man in black robe spoke at this time: "Those who are about to die, why are you talking so much nonsense to them? I can't hold on to this formation for long."
The monk surnamed Chao suppressed his smile, stretched out a hand and said: "Hand over all the spiritual treasures on your body, so that I can consider leaving a whole body for you later."
"Isn't it too early for two foundation-building monks to dare to say such big words?" From the beginning to the end, Li Xiuping's eyes were fixed on the old man in black robes.
Li Xiuping already knew the strength of the monk named Chao from the previous battle, but Li Xiuping had no idea about this old man who appeared from nowhere.
The reason why he said that both of them are foundation-building monks is because there are not many strong people in the Golden Core stage. Those who have reached this level are basically the heads of the same sect. It is impossible for this monk named Chao to just enter Chu Xincheng.
Found it immediately.
But even among foundation-building monks, there are differences in strength and weakness. For example, the monk named Yin, although he is also a foundation-building monk, is much stronger than the monk named Chao.
Of course, even if the old man's strength is similar to that of the monk named Chao, it would still be difficult to deal with them in their current situation.
The main way to get out of the current predicament is with the man in black robe, or rather with the magical weapon in his hand.
As long as the magic weapon is destroyed, the formation cover here will be destroyed. Others will definitely come by then. Even if no one comes to help, these two people will not dare to continue to attack them.
Just wanting to destroy the opponent's magic weapon is no more difficult than killing these two foundation-building experts. With his current physical condition, he can't deal with either one, let alone two.
Li Xiuping had thought of this possibility before, but he did not expect it to be in such a form, nor did he expect that the other party would directly attack Chu Xincheng. It can be said that he was not prepared at all.
No matter how you look at it, this is a doomed situation.
"I admit that you do have some abilities, but it's a pity that you are still seriously injured and have not recovered. If I want to kill you, it will be no different than crushing an ant to death."
After the monk named Chao finished speaking, he directly took out his magic weapon and killed Li Xiuping.