"One hundred?" Yang Chen fell into thought.
He could not say whether he was dissatisfied with that number or not. By his estimation, the Top-grade Profound Heaven Treasure was worth about that much, perhaps even less. What he was considering was how to make up the remaining hundred divine stones.
Elder Yu said, "Young friend, these hundred pieces are already an amount this old man personally decided to add. It is mainly because you wish to buy materials. Otherwise, if you took this treasure to another merchant association, heh, you would get at most ninety divine stones."
Yang Chen knew Elder Yu was not deceiving him. "A hundred, then."
"Young friend, you are still short by half of those hundred pieces. If you have no other Top-grade Profound Heaven Treasures, then you can only take half the materials," Elder Yu said politely.
Yang Chen smiled bitterly, feeling rather helpless.
Now that the item was practically in his hands, it would not be so easy for him to give it up with a few light words.
Was he, a grown man, really going to be stumped by pills?
As Yang Chen pondered, he suddenly noticed three words written on a room some distance away: "Alchemy Room."
Yang Chen's brows rose. "May I ask whether your merchant association allows one to refine pills on the spot in exchange for divine stones?"
"Oh?" Elder Yu said. "Our merchant association has always treated alchemists well, and we especially go to great lengths to recruit alchemists with superb skills. But, young friend, you heard it yourself—the Alchemy techniques must be up to standard. Merely possessing Alchemy techniques is not enough. The pills you refine must be at least Earth-grade before you may exchange them for divine stones here." He spoke bluntly, not believing for a