Driving Down the Price, Making a Deal

Though pills were not as valuable as Great Medicine, they were still universally recognized as hard currency on the Eternal Continent—indeed, they were the mainstream. Like Great Medicine, eighth-grade pills had already nurtured spiritual intelligence of their own.

Many eighth-grade alchemists could not guarantee success with every refinement, let alone the fact that there were only so many eighth-grade alchemists across the entire Eternal Continent.

Thus, the price offered by the black-robed man could be called astronomical. No wonder a city like Bronze Stonefire City, which specialized in unearthing ancient relics, was so dilapidated.

There were no rules whatsoever governing transactions here. Wildly naming prices like the black-robed man had likely become the norm.

Bai Yu did not reply at once. Instead, he picked up the stone silkworm and examined it with interest. Even with the enhancement of his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes, he could see nothing unusual.

That meant the stone silkworm was completely dead. Even if it was the famed Nine-Eyed Heavenly Silkworm, the value of a dead thing was ultimately limited.

"What exactly is so strange about this thing?"

Bai Yu tried asking Su Muyue, but she did not answer immediately. Instead, she teased him with a playful tone.

"With the power of luck you have now, the fact that you actually came across this thing is, honestly, a little unbelievable to me."

"It is just as you see it, but I have a way for us to take a gamble. It just depends on whether you're willing to try."

Hearing that, Bai Yu was filled with disbelief. Take a gamble? Could it be that this thing was not dead yet?

That should not have been possible. The Nine-Eyed Heavenly Silkworm did not possess such extraordinary concealment abilities. Yet Su Muyue's words stirred a surge of determination in