Everyone exchanged glances. Suddenly, someone stepped out of the Demonic Path group-it was Sun Xing. Without a word, he walked forward and took a small bag from his Storage Pouch, counted out fifteen mid-grade spirit stones, and handed them to the Golden-Armored Cultivator. "I'll take three!"
"Haha! Certainly!" The Golden-Armored Cultivator laughed, accepted the spirit stones, then said to the Golden-Armored Cultivator beside him, "Give him three!"
"Here!" That Golden-Armored Cultivator took a small wooden box from his Storage Pouch, removed three crystal-clear beads the size of soybeans, and handed them to Sun Xing. "Just hold one in your mouth when you dive!"
Sun Xing accepted the beads and returned to the crowd without a word. He kept one Water Spirit Pearl for himself and handed the other two to the two other Fire Dragon Palace disciples who had made the final eighteen. They exchanged glances, then accepted them delightedly, thanking Sun Xing again and again. Five hundred spirit stones was no small sum even for cultivators at the peak of the True Cultivation Stage.
Sun Xing merely chuckled and said nothing more.
Seeing someone make a purchase, the others stepped forward to buy theirs.
Li Xiaoya was also about to step forward. Five hundred spirit stones meant little to him-he was a wealthy man with over two hundred thousand spirit stones to his name.
Just as Li Xiaoya moved, someone caught hold of him from behind. He turned to find Dong Santong.
"Junior Brother Li! Buy one for me too. I don't have enough spirit stones on me. I'll pay you back once we're out!" Dong Santong looked at him awkwardly, his lips moving as he transmitted his voice. He had been in a hurry when he left and had brought relatively few spirit stones, though he still had