Lu Yang wasn't surprised by this.
Everything he had sold was Demon Materials below Tier Four, and they weren't worth much.
The fact that they hadn't paid him in gold or silver already left him quite satisfied.
That was still because the Demon Materials he had brought in were truly abundant.
Lu Yang had slain countless members of the Demon Race during the Beast Tide. With his storage space limited, the Demon Materials he had kept were all the finest specimens.
Considering the quantity and quality, and with Xu Ya putting in a good word for him, the master in charge of appraising and valuing the goods had finally agreed to give him one Spirit Crystal.
That made back what he'd just spent on the teleportation.
Lu Yang couldn't help finding it a little amusing.
He had fought tooth and nail during the Beast Tide, stockpiling all those Demon Materials, only for them to end up being worth a single Spirit Crystal!
One casual teleport within Qingzhou City had wiped it out completely.
The shift in the purchasing power of this common currency alone showed the chasm-like gap between low-level and high-level martial artists.
Lu Yang believed that the higher one climbed, the more pronounced this would become.
To take a closer example, there was himself.
Back when he was in the Grandmaster Realm, a mere Spirit Crystal had been enough to advance his cultivation by several levels.
But after reaching the Great Grandmaster Realm, he had to burn through a whole pile of Spirit Crystals just to barely raise his cultivation by one minor stage.
Lu Yang had already used up more than half of the Spirit Crystals True Lord Lei Wu left behind during his previous cultivation.
At this stage, if he wanted to improve his cultivation with