"A hundred thousand?"
He Pingsheng jumped in fright. "Isn't that far too expensive?"
Just how cheap were first-grade immortal materials?
He Pingsheng did not know, because he had never bought any.
But he could make an estimate.
When He Pingsheng had bought the first-grade Immortal Spirit Pills, a batch of low-grade Immortal Spirit Pills had cost two Immortal Crystals.
Assuming five batches of ingredients produced one batch of pills, those two Immortal Crystals could buy a full five sets of ingredients for refining Immortal Spirit Pills.
Not five stalks, but five sets.
Altogether, there might have been dozens of stalks.
In other words, more than ten stalks of first-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were worth only one Immortal Crystal.
However valuable second-grade materials were, surely their price could not defy the heavens and reach a hundred thousand Immortal Crystals?
"Expensive?" the woman said. "It's not expensive at all!"
"True, under ordinary circumstances, one Ten-Jiachen Ginseng would only cost twenty thousand Immortal Crystals!"
"But both of us are facing bottlenecks in our breakthroughs!"
"To us, this is something we can only encounter by chance, not obtain by seeking it out. Asking you for a hundred thousand Immortal Crystals is hardly excessive!"
"Hand them over..." The woman held out her jade-like hand to He Pingsheng.
He Pingsheng sneered. "I admit it was my fault. I ruined your chance to catch the Ten-Jiachen Ginseng. But if I'm to compensate you, I should pay its actual value!"
"What justification do you have for asking me for five times its price?"
"Fine!" the man beside her said. "If you can produce twenty thousand Immortal Crystals, I'll agree to that too!"
"Otherwise!" A sharp gleam of killing intent shot from the man's eyes.
He Pingsheng nodded. "Fine!"
Then something stirred slightly on his right index