This place was even more luxurious than the Myriad Treasure Pavilion in Beiwang Valley Market. The entire hall was decorated in a splendid and magnificent style. On both sides of the hall stood two rows of beautiful and attractive maidservants.
Two maidservants with standard smiles walked towards Lu Li and the other person: "Hello, honored guest, what would you like to buy?"
The rote greeting had seemed fine to Lu Li in Beiwang Valley, but now it felt somewhat perfunctory.
Wu De glanced at the two maidservants and said indifferently, "Estamos juntos. Call your manager. We need to sell some things."
One of the maidservants, upon hearing this, still maintained her unchanged smile and said, "Very well, honored guest. However, our Myriad Treasure Pavilion does not handle transactions below ten thousand True Essence Pills. Are you certain you wish to notify the manager?"
Wu De nodded, "Go ahead."
"Very well, honored guest, please wait a moment." After saying this, that maidservant turned and went upstairs to the second floor. The remaining maidservant also retreated to her original position. She only approached again with a smile when someone else entered, following that person into the trading area behind the hall.
"Ah, such perfectly good people, trained to be lifeless and unnatural. Truly pitiful and lamentable." Wu De shook his head and sighed.
"Indeed, far less amiable and warm than the aunties in our town." Lu Li nodded deeply in agreement.
Not long after, a middle-aged man wearing a cyan robe clattered down the stairs. Following behind him was the maidservant who had just gone upstairs. After descending, the maidservant whispered a few words to the middle-aged man and then returned to her original position.
The cyan-robed middle-aged man put on a smiling face and quickly walked towards the two men, cupping his hands in greeting: "I am Tong Yun, one of the managers of this Myriad Treasure Pavilion. Are you two Fellow Daoists looking to sell materials?"
This Tong Yun's cultivation had already reached the sixth level of Qi Refining, but his manner was extremely modest and humble.
Lu Li did not speak. He had never conducted transactions before; such matters were better left to Wu De.
Wu De smiled, "Exactly."
Tong Yun said with a smile, "Very well, how about you two Fellow Daoists follow me upstairs to discuss in detail?"
"Alright." Wu De nodded, his language concise.
Subsequently, the two followed Tong Yun to the second floor. The second floor also had a main hall, as well as many rooms with closed doors. Tong Yun directly opened the first room to the left of the stairway entrance, gesturing with his hand: "Please, two Fellow Daoists."
Wu De seemed unsurprised, walking in without thinking. Lu Li, however, perhaps being too cautious, hesitated slightly before entering.
Inside was an antique tea table, with two redwood chairs on each side of the tea table.
After gesturing for the two to sit down, Tong Yun finally sat across from them. He did not rush to discuss the transaction, but personally poured a cup of tea for each of them, smiling as he said: "Lingwu tea produced from Lingwu Mountain in Mu Province. Refreshing and invigorating, quite excellent. I only bring this out when entertaining distinguished guests. Would you two like to taste it?"
This was clearly a polite formality; he had never met these two before, so how could he know they were distinguished guests?
Wu De didn't mind either. He picked up the teacup, took a small sip, smacked his lips, and smiled, "Truly good tea."
Lu Li directly gulped it down like an ox drinking water. Although the tea was warm, once it entered his stomach, a cooling energy shot straight to the top of his head. His eyes couldn't help but brighten, "Truly good tea!!"
This action directly made Wu De stare wide-eyed, with an expression that seemed to say, "I'm not familiar with him."
Tong Yun, however, smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist is truly a person of genuine temperament." As he spoke, he poured another cup for Lu Li. After thinking for a moment, he simply pushed the teapot towards Lu Li. "If Fellow Daoist likes it, drink more."
Lu Li only felt that this tea had indeed reduced the oppressive feeling of many days. Upon hearing this, he didn't stand on ceremony, gulping down four or five cups in succession, only stopping when the transparent small teapot was nearly empty.
Only at this moment did the depression in his heart completely vanish. He thought to himself that this tea was truly a good thing in this oppressive Great Marsh filled with dense fog. If only he could take some with him. Seeing that both of them were looking at him, he couldn't help but feel somewhat awkward. "You're discussing the transaction, why are you looking at me?"
"Ah, right, right, right, discuss the transaction, discuss the transaction." Tong Yun came back to his senses and smiled as he looked at Wu De. "Fellow Daoist, I wonder what resources you are prepared to sell?"
Upon hearing this, Wu De didn't waste words, directly saying: "To be honest, Fellow Daoist, we two brothers have just come out of the Great Marsh. We hunted some three-headed snake gallbladders and have some Great Marsh Centipede carapaces we want to sell. I wonder what price Fellow Daoist Tong can offer."
Tong Yun was originally thinking to himself that this old man actually called a youth under twenty his brother. Suddenly hearing that the two had come from the Great Marsh, his face couldn't help but show shock: "You two Fellow Daoists actually entered the Great Marsh? Truly worthy of my admiration!!"
The Great Marsh was known as the forbidden land of Great Qian. It was said that most cultivators who entered rarely came out alive. Over time, even though there were many representative resources inside, no one dared to risk their lives to enter anymore.
"Hehe, just luck. We didn't go deep into the central part of the Great Marsh either, just wandered around the northern area a bit and came out." Wu De said casually.
Others didn't know, but he was very clear: that great war a thousand years ago directly turned the Great Marsh's land upside down. The powerful Demon Beasts inside all died out. The current Great Marsh was far less terrifying than it was a thousand years ago.
Not just the Great Marsh-that world-destroying war a thousand years ago directly set back the entire Eastern Wasteland cultivation world by a thousand years. To this day, they haven't been able to catch their breath.
"Wandered around a bit, huh." Tong Yun was half-convinced, half-doubting. "Could you let me inspect them?"
"Of course inspection is necessary." Wu De casually waved his hand, and an oval snake gallbladder with some black spots on a crimson-red background appeared in his hand. He handed it to Tong Yun: "Fellow Daoist, please look."
After saying this, he waved his hand again. A centipede corpse about six chi long, entirely gray, was also held in his hands. He rolled it into a circle and also handed it to Tong Yun: "This is a Great Marsh Centipede corpse."
When Tong Yun saw the gray centipede corpse, he immediately believed that the two had truly been to the Great Marsh. At the same time, the joy on his face became increasingly evident. A major reason the Myriad Treasure Pavilion was located here was precisely to target the resources within the Great Marsh.
It was just that in recent years, the amount of Great Marsh specialty products received had become less and less. It seemed his luck was good this time. If the quantity was large, perhaps he could obtain quite a bit of reward.
After just briefly inspecting them, he smiled and asked, "I wonder how many snake gallbladders and Great Marsh Centipede corpses Fellow Daoist has?"
Wu De said, "This kid and I together have a total of five hundred and twenty snake gallbladders and ninety Great Marsh Centipede corpses. See what price you can offer."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, instantly retrieving the Great Marsh Centipede corpse and snake gallbladder in front of Tong Yun, as if afraid they might be snatched away.
When he heard "five hundred and twenty," Tong Yun's pupils clearly contracted for a moment, apparently shocked. However, they immediately calmed down again. He lightly tapped the table and tentatively said: "For the snake gallbladders, I'll give you fifty True Essence Pills each. For the Great Marsh Centipede corpses, sixty each. What do you think, Fellow Daoist?"
Hearing this price, Lu Li thought to himself that Wu De truly had foresight-it was exactly as he had said earlier, not a bit off.
However, upon hearing this, Wu De immediately stood up with a whoosh. "Since Fellow Daoist has no sincerity at all, let's just forget it."
For a moment, both Lu Li and Tong Yun were stunned.
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