"But don't be discouraged, fellow Daoist!"
The woman soon lowered her voice again. "Our Commerce Association is open for business, after all. How could we turn away business that comes knocking?"
"It's just that the higher someone's cultivation, the stranger their temper!"
"Some people feel disgusted at the sight of lowly ants sharing a room with them!"
"That is the main reason low-level cultivators aren't allowed into the higher-level areas!"
"But there are exceptions to everything!" the woman continued. "In this world, strength reigns supreme, after all. Combat prowess is strength, and wealth is strength too!"
"So the Commerce Association has another rule: as long as you can produce an item valuable enough to match the floor you wish to visit, and you're willing to trade with our Commerce Association, we can have a designated elder take you up!"
With that, the woman gave He Pingsheng a polite smile.
He Pingsheng did not agree immediately. Instead, he first looked around the first and second floors under her guidance. Only after confirming that there was indeed nothing that caught his eye did he take out a flying sword.
"This is the item I wish to trade!" He Pingsheng handed the flying sword to the woman. "This is my item. If your Commerce Association can offer something that tempts me, I can trade it!"
With that, He Pingsheng also fed a faint thread of divine power into it.
The tiny flying sword instantly unfurled eighty layers of restrictions.
The fluctuations of its aura were slight, not enough to disturb anyone else.
"This..." The woman paled in shock when she saw He Pingsheng's flying sword. "It's actually a third-grade flying sword?"
"And a supreme-grade one among third-grade divine artifacts!"
He Pingsheng withdrew the thread of divine power he had fed into the flying