655: A Hundred Million

Now that Yan Zi had brought it up, Xu Yi remembered it again.

"Nothing could be better."

Marquis Anqing was delighted. He pulled out eight gold notes and slapped them down on the stone table, as if he had just shaken off a tremendous burden.

Yan Zi put away the gold notes and smiled. "Marquis, don't celebrate too soon. I still have fourteen demon corpses here for you to handle: one peak of Sapience Golden Eagle corpse, two Golden Eagle corpses close to the peak of Sapience, four late-stage corpses, four Mid Enlightenment Stage corpses, and three Early Enlightenment Stage corpses. I'd trouble you to exchange all of them as well."

Marquis Anqing was so startled that he dropped heavily onto the stone stool. He had thought that after all his hard work, this miserable errand was finally nearing its end. Who could have guessed it would be like a mouse dragging a shovel—the biggest load was still to come.

The battle at the Void Divine Palace, especially the battle at Monster Hunting Valley, had effectively opened a gateway to the demon realm for Great Yue.

Never before had the entire Cultivation World of Great Yue seen so many demon corpses appear at once.

Their sudden appearance had set the major merchant houses scrambling to buy them up, and their value kept climbing.

In theory, when a product appeared in large quantities, its price should fall. How, then, could it rise?

The reasoning was simple.

First, this so-called abundance of demon corpses was only abundant compared to the past. The overall number was not large, and no more than a few hundred had appeared on the markets of the Divine Capital.

The main reason things had turned out this way was the six ancestors, including War Son of Heaven.

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