His junior sister, Lin Muyao, was even more stunned. Her almond-shaped eyes went wide as she cried out:
"Eight thousand high-grade spirit stones?! Shopkeeper, you-you're charging daylight robbery prices! All these broken odds and ends cost that many spirit stones? Are you robbing us?!"
The girl was blunt and spoiled, unabashedly foolish, and utterly incapable of hiding her feelings. She immediately began protesting on her senior brother's behalf.
Yun Qing's smile remained gentle, without a trace of anger or irritation:
"You're overstating things, miss. Business is a matter of mutual consent. If the young master thinks they're worth it, he can pay the spirit stones and take them. If he doesn't, he can simply put them down. I would never force a sale."
Ye Tianchen's expression shifted several times. Outwardly, he maintained the bearing of a peerless prodigy, while inwardly, he swiftly communicated through divine sense with Elder Mu inside his jade pendant.
"Elder Mu, we misjudged him. This shopkeeper is definitely no ordinary street vendor."
"What should we do? Come rob him tonight, or...?"
Elder Mu's divine sense gathered within the jade pendant, reaching across the void to settle on Yun Qing and scrutinize him.
The longer he looked, the stranger it became.
During his initial examination, the young man before him had seemed utterly unremarkable from every angle, gentle and harmless no matter how he looked at him. At most, he was a little better-looking than most.
Yet now that he looked again... he still could not discern anything.
It was just that an immensely vast, hazy barrier seemed to envelop him, like a great sun blotting out the sky, shutting out layer upon layer of immortal light and permitting no scrutiny.
Even his remnant soul, which had swept across the Immortal World through countless ages, could not