Xu Mingyuan glanced over it and smiled faintly. "The Ge Household is certainly generous. But are you planning to make this a one-off deal with our Xu Household?"
"Not at all. Things have been rather unsettled in Guangling Commandery lately. Our household head consulted with the heads of the other branches, and they agreed to reduce the number of transactions to avoid attracting attention.
"Surely your Xu Household wouldn't want to draw the other aristocratic clans of Guangling Commandery down upon you over this?"
The Ge Household's Grand Elder stared into Xu Mingyuan's eyes, then continued, "Besides, producing so many resources at once will strain even our Ge Household to the bone. If anything goes wrong, the losses will be devastating."
Xu Mingyuan nodded, his gaze returning to the trade list.
Medium- and high-grade Detoxification Pills, Healing Pills, High-Grade Barrier-Breaking Pills, medium- and high-grade cultivation-boosting pills, and medium- and high-grade Origin-Restoring Pills.
As for the resources offered in exchange, besides spirit herbs, demon beast materials, spirit ore, and the like, there were also quite a few cultivation arts and secret arts.
"The Soul-Searching Art and Soul-Confounding Art—how do those two work?"
"With the Soul-Searching Art, if the difference in cultivation realm is small, the target can resist. It can succeed if they are badly wounded and weakened, but it will damage their soul to some extent. Only a sufficiently large gap in cultivation can prevent serious damage.
"For example, someone at the late stage of Qi Refining could use it on someone at the early stage of Qi Refining or a mortal, or someone in the Foundation Establishment realm could use it on someone in the Qi Refining realm.
"The Soul-Confounding Art has similar requirements, but they are stricter. There must be a gap of one major realm for a