Chen Lin's request left the Traveling Merchant speechless.
He gave a dry laugh. "A trade is fine, but forget about owing me another favor. If you owe too many, I'm afraid you won't be able to repay them."
Then he added, "If there's anything you want to trade for, hurry up. Miss this opportunity, and running into me again won't be easy. I can make an exception this time and give you permission for three trades!"
Chen Lin looked at him, then nodded his thanks.
Under the Traveling Merchant's rules, each customer could only trade for one item per encounter. Giving him three chances was indeed preferential treatment.
"Then I won't stand on ceremony. Do you happen to have an Ascension Pill?"
He went straight to the item he needed most.
The Traveling Merchant shook his head. "It seems you've already found a way to resolve the hidden problem with your body. However, I don't have a special pill like the Ascension Pill, nor have I ever seen its pill formula. If you want to find one, you'll have to look in a plane belonging to your immortal cultivation system."
Chen Lin was somewhat disappointed.
He had pinned high hopes on the Traveling Merchant. If the merchant had nothing, he could only seek out that skeletal old man. But with the node to the Jingguang Realm gone, that lead had been cut off as well.
Still, the fact that the merchant knew about the Ascension Pill and had said this proved that it truly existed and could indeed resolve his hidden problem.
That counted as good news.
After a moment's consideration, Chen Lin asked again, "Then you should know ways to resolve incompatibility between the soul and the physical body, right? Could you tell me about them?"
The merchant had