Azure Dream Butterfly Orchid

Zhang Shuai felt helpless. He knew that with a seller who only accepted hard currency, there was no point in saying more. After pondering briefly, he said to the old man, "Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. I'll be right back."

With that, he immediately left the plaza of street stalls and headed once more toward the purchasing shops around the edge of the square.

This time, he had a clear goal in mind and entered several shops that specialized in buying magical treasures, pills, and talismans.

He took out every finished magical treasure, pill, talisman, and other item he had no use for—the spoils he had seized from the storage treasures of the dozen or so Half-Saints he had previously suppressed—and sold them all at once, regardless of grade.

There were a great many of these items. Although none of them individually were worth as much as an eight-star immortal material, they made up for it in quantity, and they were all practical goods that the shops were happy to purchase.

After everything was counted, Zhang Shuai gathered another hundred thousand or so Chaos Crystals. Together with the several tens of thousands of Chaos Crystals already in his storage ring, he finally amassed 160,000 Chaos Crystals.

Zhang Shuai then quickly returned to the gray-robed old man's stall and handed over a storage pouch filled with crystals. "Fellow Daoist, 160,000 Chaos Crystals. Please inspect them."

The gray-robed old man swept the pouch with his Divine Sense and confirmed that there was no mistake. His expression remained unchanged as he silently pushed the piece of Primordial Yellow Mother Qi Root toward Zhang Shuai.

Holding this hard-won piece of Primordial Yellow Mother Qi Root and sensing the vast, dense Primordial Yellow Mother Qi contained within, Zhang Shuai's heart filled with satisfaction.

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