Do You Need More Spirit Items?

The Rebellious Immortal Alliance has recently encountered a series of misfortunes.

Especially the Northern Operation, which suffered repeated failures.

The initial plan to rob Gui Yun Market was forced to be canceled due to the sudden arrival of people from the Holy City.

The plan to send more men to attack the Double Jade Assembly was immediately interrupted due to the death of the Red-bearded Man.

Despite mobilizing a large number of people, nothing was achieved.

This gave True Lord Su Bai, who was in charge of directing the operation, quite a headache, and he was frowning.

It should be noted that the Rebellious Immortal Alliance is already severely lacking in cultivation resources.

The fact that supplies have not been replenished for so long is bound to cause resentment among those below.

If this situation doesn't improve over a long period, I'm afraid it will become difficult to manage the team.

Fortunately, there's always a way out.

Just when True Lord Su Bai was at a loss for what to do, he suddenly received a tip.

A cultivator was secretly selling spiritual items at Dark Market, and happened to be spotted by an informant from the Rebellious Immortal Alliance, who bought Spirit Herb that were previously strictly controlled from him at a fair price.

Even though it's only a reasonable price, it's already quite remarkable for them.

Under normal circumstances, due to the suppression from various blessed lands, they often had no choice but to purchase spiritual items through high-priced bribes.

Moreover, the number of spiritual items that can be purchased each time is very limited, otherwise the blessed land would easily detect it.

Therefore, True Lord Su Bai immediately took this situation seriously and personally went to investigate the truth of the matter.

He soon discovered that the person secretly reselling spiritual items was none other than Zhang Cunfu, the newly appointed Warehouse Manager of Gui Yun Market.

"This blessed land can only produce a bunch of scoundrels!"

The True Lord Di Fu, who had come to investigate with him, scoffed, "He's only just taken office and he already dares to privately resell sect treasures for profit. What audacity!"

"How about we rob him and replenish our supplies?"

With their strength, they could easily make Zhang Cunfu had secretly slipped out of the market, disappear without a trace, never to return.

However, True Lord Su Bai shook his head. "Don't be impulsive, this is an opportunity for us."

"Kill him directly, and the newly appointed cultivators might not dare to privately resell sect treasures like he did."

"Since the enemy has chosen such a greedy person, we might as well make good use of him."

"Since he likes Spirit Stone, let's give him Spirit Stone and pretend to cooperate with him, hoping to get this guy to bring out more Spirit Awakening items for us."

cooperate?

True Lord Di Fu wasn't optimistic about this idea. "You want a slow and steady approach? But is that really going to work?"

"No matter how well we disguise ourselves, as long as we purchase those distinctive spiritual items, he will definitely be able to guess our identities."

"They might even set a trap to harm us."

His concern is not unfounded; in fact, more than one aquarium has used similar methods for fishing before.

"Let me give it a try first. I'll go and make the deal with him myself."

True Lord Su Bai also had his doubts, but he didn't have many options left.

Even if it might be a trap, you have to give it a try.

However, you won't know until you try, and what you find is astonishing.

Zhang Cunfu wasn't just bold; he was downright audacious!

He not only dared to resell spirit medicine, but also dared to sell finished spiritual pills, Refined Spirit Ore, and even precious Demon Core!

Every single one of these items is a prohibited item that the Holy City explicitly forbids from being sold.

Even more outrageous is that Zhang Cunfu not only dared to sell them, but also stole more than one or two items.

"Who is this guy? Does he have a death wish?"

After several encounters, True Lord Su Bai was astonished by the spiritual object in his hand.

You should know that even their undercover agents who had infiltrated the blessed land before wouldn't dare to leave the warehouse so open and move things out like this.

After all, this thing can't withstand any inspection.

If the higher-ups at Fudi discover that the key supplies in the warehouse don't match the records, death would be the least of their worries; they'd likely have to endure all sorts of torture before being executed.

However, Zhang Cunfu was different.

He seemed completely unafraid of the Gui Yun Sect coming to inspect the Market Warehouse.

They had to attend at least four gatherings every day masked, and carrying the spirit Kuku was for selling.

The word "arrogant" perfectly describes it.

Such outrageous behavior left even True Lord Su Bai somewhat bewildered.

Dude, what's your background? Are you the illegitimate son of Gui Yun True Monarch?

However, this issue is neither crucial nor important.

All he knew was that with this channel, he could acquire many spiritual items.

To this end True Lord Su Bai personally disguised himself as Wasteland Merchant, followed Zhang Cunfu to the market, and deliberately created several chance encounters.

Then, take the opportunity to befriend the other party and gradually express your desire to buy their spiritual items in bulk.

He originally thought the process might be quite difficult.

But to my surprise, Zhang Cunfu agreed very readily.

Thus, in just a few days, True Lord Su Bai purchased goods worth more than nine million Spirit Stone.

Although, in order to avoid suspicion, half of the items were not contraband.

However, they still obtained Scarce Spirit Item worth nearly five million Spirit Stone.

If such transactions could happen more often, it would be much more convenient than trying to rob the Market Warehouse.

Unfortunately, this was destined to be short-lived.

After all, no matter how powerful Zhang Cunfu was, he couldn't possibly empty the Market Warehouse and sell them all to them.

Thinking of this, True Lord Su Bai couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

He also arranged to have lunch with Zhang Cunfu at a restaurant this afternoon to discuss the deal, and he guesses this should be the last one or two rounds.

I wonder how much more they can bring out.

Hopefully, we can get more Refined Spirit Ore.

Meanwhile, in the market area.

Zhang Cunfu also inquired, "Senior, it seems they want a lot more Refined Spirit Ore."

"Judging from his tone, it seemed like he wanted as much as he could get."

"Do you think it would be convenient for us to just sell everything to them?"

To be honest, this stuff is really hard to sell individually.

The main uses of Refined Spirit Ore are either for crafting artifacts, forging Array Foundation, or for building large spirit ships.

These things have almost nothing to do with the Wasteland Rogue Cultivator.

Unfortunately, Xiao Chen also brought out boxes and boxes of spirit ore, which made Zhang Cunfu feel quite troubled.

Now that a merchant actually wants them, he'd love to get rid of them all at once.

Buying in small quantities is one thing, but such large-scale reselling definitely requires prior approval.

He couldn't afford the consequences if his recklessness led to something.

"Wasteland Merchant?"

After listening to his explanation, Xiao Chen didn't quite agree with him.

If nothing unexpected happens, these merchants are mostly imposters from the Rebellious Immortal Alliance, and only they would be in such dire need of a large supply of Refined Spirit Ore.

However, this may not necessarily be a bad thing.

After all, whoever the buyer is, as long as they are willing to pay Spirit Stone readily, they are good customers.

It just True Lord Su Bai and his group always pay on the spot, and never had any intention of extending credit.

Moreover, in order to make the presentation look more convincing, they were almost completely unselective about the other half of the goods.

They only did a token inspection before accepting everything.

Therefore, dealing with the other spiritual objects also became much easier.

It's practically a perfect shipping channel!

"Not bad, you've done a good job this time."

Xiao Chen considered it for a moment and decided it was a good thing, so he readily agreed, "We can sell it to them directly, but you need to be discreet."

"Don't let outsiders, especially the Gui Yun Sect, find out that you're dealing in spirit items."

"Also, remember to ask them if they need any more spiritual items."

"Not just Refined Spirit Ore, but other spirit medicine and the like are also acceptable."

"It just requires prior reservation, and then we need some time to prepare the goods."

ah?

Zhang Cunfu was taken aback. "You have even more spiritual items?"

Is that correct?

However, after thinking about it, he decided not to say anything more and instead carefully wrote down Xiao Chen's instructions.

After all, the schemes of the True Lord must be extremely complex; it would not be an exaggeration to say that Far-reaching Plan and had hidden threads stretching thousands of miles.

It's normal that he can't understand it for now; he just needs to follow instructions and do what he's supposed to do.

The deal for the Spirit Item Transaction has been finalized.

Xiao Chen changed the subject, saying, "The reason I called you here is because there are two things that need to be taken care of."

"The first thing is to help me deal with a bunch of clutter."

"They're all just cheap stuff, you can decide what to do with them."

As he spoke, he handed over the Small Storage Ring containing the pile of odds and ends.

Then he continued, "The key point is this second thing. I remember you said that we could gather intelligence within the Gui Yun Sect, right?"

Zhang Cunfu was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

Then he quickly explained, "Senior, please forgive me, I am indeed already gathering information."

"It's just that the Double Jade Assembly is taking place these days, so fewer people from the sect have returned. Therefore, it may take another two days before the information can be sent out."

He's been so busy selling goods lately that he hasn't had time to entertain guests or give gifts to cultivate relationships.

"Hey, I'm not rushing you."

Xiao Chen reassured him, "You've done very well these past few days, I'm very satisfied."

"But it suddenly occurred to me that we shouldn't only know about the current True Lord; we should also get to know those Genius Cultivator from the past."

"So next, please help me copy down the information on all the past Genius Cultivator in the Gui Yun Sect."

"Especially those cultivators who later achieved great things, copy them as thoroughly and comprehensively as possible."

He actually only wanted the part about the Venerable Dai Jian.

However, single-name targeting seems too obvious; it would be better to bring out a couple more pieces of intelligence.

Doing so will increase some additional expenses.

But it doesn't matter, with the Rebellious Immortal Alliance as a channel, earning Spirit Stone will be much easier from now on.

Xiao Chen could easily return to the Compassion Sea to purchase goods from the Heavenly Dipper Sect and the Ink Barrier Sect, then resell them for a profit of hundreds of Ten Million Spirit Stones.

Moreover, he doesn't need to worry about anything during this process.

All you need to do is purchase the items according to the pre-ordered list and then return them to Zhang Cunfu.

All you have to do is move things around; it's practically like earning Spirit Stone while lying down.

Is there anything else?

Xiao Chen asked, "If not, let's call it a day."

Zhang Cunfu shook his head. He had already told everything, and there was nothing more to report.

"By the way, a deposit of half the Spirit Stone is required to reserve a spirit item."

Xiao Chen added, "You need to make this clear to them beforehand, and insist that you won't back down."

He suddenly realized that the deal with the Rebellious Immortal Alliance might not be very stable.

It's more reliable to collect a deposit.

In this way, even if the other party suddenly changes their mind, or if some unforeseen event prevents the transaction from continuing, the transaction can proceed smoothly.

He could quickly dispose of those spiritual items at half price without incurring any loss.

Zhang Cunfu noted this down before respectfully taking his leave.

I went back to the warehouse and sorted out the accounts for a while.

In the afternoon, he took the spirit ore and went alone to the restaurant to meet the generous merchant.

Both parties exchanged the spiritual items as previously agreed.

True Lord Su Bai also brought a bottle of so-called "Spirit Wine from his hometown" this time, and while waiting to inspect the goods, he raised his glass to taste the wine.

"The items are fine, what's the next step?"

After inspecting the spirit mine, True Lord Di Fu secretly asked, "Are we really going to let him go back?"

"If you ask me, we might as well just kill him. Maybe we can get all those Spirit Stone back."

The Rebellious Immortal Alliance is truly not wealthy. Although it's not to the point of lacking even Spirit Stone reserves, its total reserves are relatively scarce compared to other blessed lands.

Furthermore, based on their secret estimates, Zhang Cunfu only had about this many spiritual objects at his disposal.

Moreover, once this big deal is done, the other party should not continue to resell spiritual items for a long time to come.

Therefore, True Lord Di Fu had the idea of double-crossing others to recoup some of his costs.

He had mentioned the idea once before he came, but it was rejected.

"Forget it, there's no need for this."

True Lord Su Bai shook his head again. "Although this wave of reselling should be almost over, we might still be able to do business with him again in a few years."

The more greedy a person is, the less they can control themselves.

"As long as he doesn't get caught, he'll definitely try to resell spiritual items again in the future."

"The situation within the alliance is still under control. A gradual, long-term approach is better than killing the goose that lays the golden eggs."

After the negotiations were completed, he came over with Storage Ring containing Spirit Stone: "Daoist Zhang, this transaction was very pleasant."

"Here's the payment for this order. Take a look."

However, to True Lord Su Bai's utter surprise, Zhang Cunfu did not directly check the Storage Ring.

Instead, she looked up at him and said, "Shopkeeper Bai, you're a straightforward person!"

"When I'm doing business with you, it boils down to two words—comfort!"

He then took the initiative to ask, "Do you need any more spiritual items?"

"To tell you the truth, I have quite a lot of stuff here."

"We're open to discussing everything, not just Refined Spirit Ore."

ah?

More spiritual objects?

Are other things negotiable too?

Wait, what's going on?

True Lord Su Bai was completely dumbfounded.

He stared blankly at Zhang Cunfu.

No, are you really planning to empty out everything in the Market Warehouse?

Then a thought suddenly popped into my head.

Could it be that the other party intends to sell all the supplies in the Market Warehouse for Spirit Stone, and then run away with the Spirit Stone?

You know what, this pays way more than being Warehouse Manager.

As long as you don't get caught, you'll basically have enough to live on for a lifetime.

Of course, it was not appropriate for True Lord Su Bai to ask directly about the specifics, as this was a rather taboo subject.

If I guess wrong, that's fine, but if I guess right, then I'm doomed.

However, Zhang Cunfu's willingness to offer more spiritual items in the transaction was undoubtedly good news for them.