Doomed from the Start: Cultivating in the Wasteland
Chapter 1893

A Preemptive Move

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Five days later, Yan Xuemin came to Red Leaf Ridge again.

The Tiger-Human Nascent Soul Realm corpse had sold at auction for 11,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones.

After deducting the 550 commission and the 3,000 paid last time, Yan Xuemin brought 7,450 High-Grade Spirit Stones this time.

Although Wu Laoliu could not make the decision himself, he could not help marveling at how many rich people there really were.

The starting bid had been 7,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones, yet it had still gone 4,000 over. It was truly speechless.

Next, Yan Xuemin naturally asked about the price of the severed Nascent Soul Realm hand.

The Yan Family had helped introduce the channel and recover the remaining payment. Those favors should also be reflected in the price.

Wu Laoliu said that they could use this auction's price as a reference. The whole corpse had sold for 11,000, so charging his family 5% for one severed hand was not too much, right?

That was still 550 High-Grade Spirit Stones, which would conveniently offset the commission.

However, Yan Xuemin said that his family truly could not produce that many High-Grade Spirit Stones. Besides... this was not an auction, so there was nothing to compare.

He hoped for 250 High-Grade Spirit Stones, or three million ordinary Spirit Stones.

Wu Laoliu was interested in haggling. His appraisal skills were exceptional, and his estimates of an item's value would not be far off.

In the end, the two sides settled on 30,000 Medium Spirit Stones.

The Yan Family could not even produce that many Medium Spirit Stones all at once and had to pay in installments—perhaps they could have scraped it together, but they had to cry poverty.

Yan Xuemin's haggling was also partly a test.

He wanted to know what Red Leaf Ridge thought of the

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