"The prerequisite for trading the Thousand Year Stone Rock and Earth Hiding Spirit Sand is a transaction of at least five hundred top-grade Spirit Stones with this old man. Fellow Daoist may name the conditions as you please. So long as they are reasonable, this old man can agree to them all."
The Fish-Patterned Old Man turned around once more, his burning gaze fixed on Su Shi'er as though he had seen straight through him.
"You jest, Fellow Daoist. I have only one top-grade Spirit Stone in hand. How could I possibly produce five hundred of them? It seems that today's transaction will end with neither side gaining anything."
Su Shi'er smiled faintly, his expression unchanged and his heart unruffled.
He became even more certain that the other party had come prepared!
As for being tempted, he was not tempted in the slightest.
It was true that he intended to profit from the price difference between top-grade Spirit Stones and lower-grade Spirit Stones by selling the former.
But by using Ning Caiyun and the others to carry it out discreetly, even if someone took notice, they would have no way of estimating the exact amount.
Yet if he dared to produce five hundred top-grade Spirit Stones at once, then once word spread, he would likely not be far from death.
Wealth stirred men's hearts!
Such an enormous quantity of top-grade Spirit Stones would likely alarm even Nascent Soul Stage cultivators. Even if they did not act, they would certainly cast covetous eyes his way.
This was absolutely not the result he wanted.
It was also the outcome he feared most. Becoming a target for all, standing beneath a crumbling wall—neither was good for any cultivator.
The Fish-Patterned Old Man smiled calmly and directly exposed the matter. "Returning empty-handed? Why speak