Meeting the stall owner's expectant gaze, Xu Chunniang considered for a moment before naming her price.
"I don't have any immortal pills, but I have immortal herbs. Two low-grade Heavenly Immortal healing herbs, plus ten top-grade Earth Immortal Vein-Continuing Flowers, in exchange for your meteorite stone. How about it?"
Upon hearing this, the stall owner hesitated only briefly before preparing to agree.
Though immortal herbs were less effective than pills, in these times of scarce medicine and few remedies, having immortal herbs was already quite good.
In the past, trying to trade such a small amount of immortal herbs for a precious meteorite stone would have been nothing but a fool's dream. But times had changed; things that could preserve one's life were the hard currency.
Just as he was about to agree outright, the owner of the neighboring stall cut in, "Fairy, I have meteorite stone here too, and mine is several times larger than his. Might you be interested?"
As he spoke, he took out a walnut-sized meteorite stone from his storage space and held it before Xu Chunniang, his eyes full of eagerness and fawning warmth. "Rather than trade with him, why not trade with me?"
"Chen Lao San, shouldn't business follow the rule of first come, first served?"
The first stall owner resentfully grabbed his arm and said urgently, "This fairy clearly took a liking to my item. What are you doing sticking your foot in?"
Chen Lao San nonchalantly brushed his hand away. "What's yours and mine? What the fairy took a liking to was clearly meteorite stone. The piece in my hand is of better quality. Why should the fairy pass over the good one to trade for the inferior one? This is called fair competition."
"You!"
The stall owner was furious. Turning toward