Ning Caiyun smiled broadly, looking as though she understood everything. "What if... they had connections on the inside? Top-grade spirit stones are rare, and a thirty-percent premium is the highest price publicly offered. In reality, the actual price has always fluctuated with spirit stone production in the Endless Sea."
"The major factions have many people and complicated affairs. Some offer higher purchase prices than usual; we simply might not know about them all or have access to them. Besides, if someone worked things from the inside and arranged it with someone outside, a forty-percent premium-or even more-would hardly be impossible."
"Cultivators pursue immortality, but they aren't truly immortals, after all. And no one knows what an immortal really is. The countless cultivators in the Cultivation World can't escape their human instincts, either."
"Besides, even if they gained no spirit stones from it, delivering top-grade spirit stones alone would earn them favors from the various factions."
Understanding dawned on Mu Feiyan's face. "Big Sister, you mean those two just now... had ulterior motives? But what... could they be after?"
"We don't know their purpose yet, but anyone who asks for thirty top-grade spirit stones right off the bat leaves only one conclusion: they definitely have something up their sleeves." A sharp glint flashed in Ning Caiyun's eyes.
"Sunset City was jointly established by the Thirteen Docks of the East Sea. Fish and dragons mingle here, with eyes and ears everywhere. We can never be too careful."
As she grew older, she had clearly become much more seasoned in dealing with people and affairs than she had been back in the Yemo Cloud Market.
Mu Feiyan nodded in agreement. "You really are our big sister. Without you looking after me, I'd probably have become a handful of yellow earth long ago."
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