The days passed one by one, and the weather gradually warmed. On the small hillside, tender yellow-green shoots poked out of the earth.
In the eastern district of the Market at the foot of the mountain, Hundred Items Pavilion.
"Ninety? Wasn't a Water Repelling Bead worth ninety-five White Jade Coins?" Chen Mu glared displeasedly at the short, stout shopkeeper, Lei Hong. "Don't tell me you're deliberately lowballing me because I'm a new face and think you can push me around?"
Lei Hong repeatedly waved his hands. "A misunderstanding, sir. You've misunderstood."
"It really was ninety-five White Jade Coins before, but recently, too many people have been coming in to sell Water Repelling Beads."
"This month alone, I've bought forty-three Water Repelling Beads."
"This artifact is something the Affairs Office urgently needs. If I buy too many, I'm afraid I'll bring trouble upon myself. I have no choice but to lower the price." Lei Hong's face was full of helplessness.
Forty-three?
How many Crimson-Eyed Ghost Pattern Beads had I sold to Hundred Items Pavilion altogether?
Thirty-nine?
Damn!
Was this actually my own doing?
Chen Mu could not help feeling guilty.
"Who would have thought the Lower Courtyard was full of hidden talents? So many people can actually refine Water Repelling Beads." Lei Hong sighed. "The Qi Refining cultivators in the Upper Courtyard don't have such a high refining success rate."
Chen Mu felt rather awkward at that.
Water Repelling Beads truly did not have such a high success rate, but he was refining Crimson-Eyed Ghost Pattern Beads.
With the Tongyou Method Incantation at perfection, he could easily connect with Crimson-Eyed Ghost Marks. Coupled with the immense Yin Spirit Divine Power granted by the Heavenly Demon Body, as long as he wished, refining eight or nine Crimson-Eyed Ghost Pattern Beads a day