I picked up the jade tablet, while the man prepared to turn and head downstairs. I smiled. "Wait."
"What? Master Xia, do you think the list I gave you might be fake? Or are you planning to force this immortal to stay? I'm a mid-stage Ascendant immortal. You probably can't stop me, can you?" The lecherous man stroked his chin and turned back toward me with a grin.
As I tapped the tabletop with the jade tablet, bored out of my mind, I asked with a chuckle, "You won't sell the Sky Market, so I wonder—will you sell the Earth Pavilion?"
"You... Heh heh, Master Xia, even the way you provoke people is so special. Who doesn't know how much spare money your Sky Pavilion has now? I'm afraid you're the only one who doesn't know, Master Xia." The lecherous man looked at me with disdain.
This man was Zhu Lan's trusted aide and controlled the Earth Pavilion. But even a trusted aide had to eat, and how could he dislike heavenly crystals?
I smiled and said, "Just tell me whether you'll sell it or not. Name your price, and let me make a matching pair of the Sky Pavilion and Earth Pavilion."
"Master Xia, that trick you use on others won't work on me, Han Lu. Of course, if you want me to name a price, I can do that. Zhu Lan, the Sky Market Master, gave me thirty thousand heavenly crystals in total to set up this Earth Pavilion. Even your Sky Pavilion can't come up with that much, can it? Let alone buy it outright. At your twenty-percent markup... Heh heh, you certainly can't afford it." Han Lu sneered.
"Thirty percent over the price, for a total of thirty-six thousand heavenly crystals. Will you sell it? If