Forty thousand Dragon Palace Shells—under normal circumstances, Ruyi Money, who was fairly familiar with Yu Ci, could exchange them one for one. Put more plainly, that was a top-grade magical artifact refined to sixty layers and reaching the tenth heavenly tier; to be even more precise, it was the primary battle artifact possessed by Void Stepping cultivators!
Yu Ci was beginning to understand what Wan Quan had meant when he warned him that the price would be "a cut above."
Even if this Wonderful Cave True Incense was one of the Eight True Incenses, a fine item for cleansing the spirit and honoring the gods, asking such a price was simply outrageous.
This was the downside of seeking to buy something. In the Northern Wasteland, there had never been such a thing as fair trade. Since you urgently needed it, they would seize your weak point, name a sky-high price, and make it clear they intended to carve a savage cut from you, unafraid that you would refuse.
Middlemen like Three Families Market, who took a cut from both sides, encouraged this sort of thing as well. Wan Quan was simply in too weak a position compared to him; otherwise, this fellow would certainly have taken another share too, making the cost even higher.
Yu Ci made a rough calculation. The asking price was forty thousand Dragon Palace Shells, but once he actually got his hands on it, the price would rise by another ten percent.
Over the past two years of hunting in the Sky Rift, the beast bones and demon cores he had obtained had only sold for sixty or seventy thousand in total. He had also spent heavily living in the Hundred Turns Guesthouse during this period, with no stable source of income. At this rate, after