Chapter 203: Cunning Rabbit
The Artifact Refining Guild had started off fairly smoothly, but problems gradually arose because Mo Hua heard Elder Yu cursing again.
Mo Hua went to the Artifact Refining Guild to inspect the Array Technique, then saw Elder Yu chatting with Yu Chengyi.
As they talked, Elder Yu began vehemently cursing Qian Hong again.
He called him things like "a bloodsucking roundworm," "an old turtle wearing a tortoise shell," and "a sinister beast."
He kept inventing new ways to curse him.
As Elder Yu cursed, he noticed Mo Hua eavesdropping nearby, listening while jotting something down, looking thoroughly engrossed.
He muttered under his breath, "You can curse people like that?" and "How had I never thought of that?" and the like.
Elder Yu coughed, stopped, and said to Mo Hua,
"You didn't hear anything."
"Mm." Mo Hua nodded. "I didn't hear anything!"
Elder Yu's anger gradually subsided. He found a chair and sat down with grave composure.
Mo Hua poured a cup of tea and brought it to Elder Yu. "Is the Qian Family causing trouble again?"
Elder Yu had grown accustomed to chatting with Mo Hua. By now, he no longer avoided discussing anything with him—except, of course, cursing people.
Elder Yu drank the tea Mo Hua had poured and let out a breath, nodding. "We can't sell our Spirit Artifacts anymore."
"No one wants them?"
"Of course cultivators want them. Spirit Artifacts like Vine Armor and Broadswords will always be needed. But I spoke to several merchants, as well as some Monster Hunters from other Immortal Cities, and they all thought our prices were too high."
Mo Hua was somewhat puzzled. "Wasn't our price quite cheap?"
Because the Artifact Refining Guild was large and its output high, their Spirit Artifacts were one or two Spirit