"Not very," Feng Jun said decisively, shaking his head. How could money from a major Heaven-tier merchant be so easy to owe? Feng came from an era of information overload; he did not even apply for credit cards, much less something like this. "I'm not used to owing people."
"All right, I was joking." Huangfu Wuxia smiled faintly. "Do you want a manual with an imprint?"
"I'll take that." Feng Jun nodded. He understood this level of underworld jargon too. An imprint actually referred to a soul mark.
A soul mark was a mark left upon the soul. Generally speaking, if one bought the right one, manuals carrying soul marks were more reliable than the manuals openly sold by the Tiantong Merchant Alliance, though they could not see the light of day.
Soul marks had many uses, but manuals with soul marks could only be read once. More importantly... they required someone to die.
Broadly speaking, Soul Mark Manuals came about in two ways. One was when ancestors, for various reasons, willingly left behind one-use manuals for their descendants. The other was... through Soul Search!
Thus, the Tiantong Merchant Alliance did not merely conduct legitimate business. There were almost no pure white lotuses among successful merchants.
"Then... five hundred Spirit Stones," Huangfu Wuxia said, offering him half price.
"Forget it, I still can't afford it." Feng Jun shook his head. That Flower Lord was not even worth five hundred Spirit Stones, so why bother?
In truth, he remained somewhat wary of soul marks. There were too many great cultivators on the Phone Plane. Only Golden Core cultivators could be called True Adepts, and anything involving the soul could have grave consequences if tampered with. He had to remain highly vigilant.
Huangfu Wuxia looked at him impassively. "Then how many Spirit