Bargaining in Reverse

"How many spirit stones?" Shen Jing asked.

Jiang Ping'an flashed a brilliant smile. "I'll give you a special price—five hundred spirit stones."

Shen Jing's smile instantly froze. "Too expensive. You'd better sell it to someone else."

With that, she made as if to leave.

But Jiang Ping'an did not call her back.

His Illusory Prison Poison Heart Array was indeed expensive, more than twice the price of a top-grade Magic Tool, but it was worth it. It allowed its wielder to defeat the strong while weak.

Top-grade Magic Tools were powerful, but they required sufficiently abundant spiritual power to use. In essence, it still came down to competing in spiritual power.

Moreover, Formation Masters capable of refining the Illusory Prison Poison Heart Array were few and far between.

After pretending to walk several steps away, Shen Jing saw that Jiang Ping'an had not called after her and had no choice but to return shamelessly.

"Martial Uncle Jiang, I'm one of your regular customers, at least. Don't I deserve a word of persuasion to stay?" Unable to save face, she instead turned around and blamed Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Ping'an smiled. "Martial Niece Shen, you've wronged me. I already gave you my lowest price. My costs alone exceeded six hundred spirit stones to refine this formation array."

"Who are you trying to fool?" Shen Jing did not believe him in the slightest.

Jiang Ping'an began calculating the account for Shen Jing. "The formation jade slip alone cost three thousand merit points to exchange from the Skill Repository Hall. I earned all my merit points through stockpile missions, so their cost was extremely high. Ten merit points cost more than three spirit stones."

"The Skill Repository Hall lets you substitute spirit stones for seventy percent of it," Shen Jing said. "So you only