Beneath the Sky Screen.
Bright Village.
After Nie Li explained the uses of dragon soul stone on the spot, many people beat their chests and stamped their feet. What a waste, what an utter waste!
On the Sky Screen.
As Nie Li browsed, he came to a stall run by an old man in badly worn clothes. The things laid out on his stall were rather shabby too.
Yet among them, he spotted a translucent, crystalline object glowing blue.
The sight left him dumbfounded.
The legendary Wind Snow Spirit Pearl-he had never expected it to turn up here.
The old man explained that it was an ancestral treasure passed down in his family for five hundred years. If his family had not fallen on hard times, he would never have been willing to sell it.
When asked the price, the old man hesitated, then held up five fingers and said, "Five sacks of grain."
That stunned Nie Li. Five sacks of grain could buy the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl, one of the Nine Spirit Pearls? Even a bargain could not possibly be this cheap!
The old man thought Nie Li's strong reaction meant five sacks of grain were too expensive, so he hurriedly lowered the price to three.
Nie Li thought about it and understood. After all, this was after the dark years, and the uses of many treasures had been lost. He suspected the old man did not even know what the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl was.
The old man had no choice either. If he could not even fill his stomach, what good was clinging to something left by his ancestors?
He knocked another sack off the price. That was his final offer; he absolutely could not go any lower.
After putting the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl into