After a brief silence, sighs of regret rose throughout the crowd.
Everyone understood that the Jiang Family's mysterious mighty expert stood beside this girl, his overwhelming power enough to erase an Immortal Platform Realm expert in an instant!
The Seven-Colored Medicine King had become the Luo Family's prize beyond all doubt. No one dared covet it anymore. With that cautionary example before them, nobody wanted to become the next lump of charcoal...
Luo Qingying carefully put away the Medicine King, which streamed seven-colored radiance and exuded tremendous vital essence. His movements were solemn beyond measure.
Then he stepped forward, his cloud-patterned robe stirring without a breeze. His eyes swept across the crowd like blazing torches as he declared, "This Medicine King is a treasure that will extend our patriarch's life. I hope you will all forgive us."
His voice carried a note that brooked no argument.
Together with the terrifying threat lurking in the shadows, capable of burning Immortal Platform experts as easily as paper, it thoroughly extinguished the hopes of the holy land elders and renowned figures from great families who had still been considering approaching the Luo Family privately to buy the Medicine King.
The Luo Family's third uncle then turned toward Luo Yue. Rare warmth appeared on his stern face as he smiled. "Little Yue, we owe this to you. The old man can be saved now."
Luo Yue nodded without saying anything. Instead, her ice-blue eyes swept across the entire Heaven-Class Stone Garden again.
To her, the stones emitting bright or dim treasure light of various colors, all carrying astronomical prices at the Great Evolution Stone Workshop, were treasure chests waiting to be opened.
She and the Great Evolution Sacred Land had now become mortal enemies. Given the sacred land's habit of avenging even the slightest grievance, thunderous retaliation would inevitably follow.
Since this feud is already beyond reconciliation, I might as well go all the way. Luo Yue considered it, then settled on a plan.
After all, people of Shrouding the Heavens, souls of Shrouding the Heavens-leaving anyone a way out afterward had never been part of the equation.
It seemed she had already been assimilated without realizing it.
With that thought, Luo Yue raised her little hand and pointed at a stone in the Heaven-Class Stone Garden. It shone with rich crimson treasure light and resembled a phoenix spreading its wings. She said:
"Auntie, I want that fire-bathed phoenix stone."
"Huh?"
Luo Qingluan froze, then caught on. Her eyes lit up as she exclaimed excitedly, "Right! Why should we only open one?"
"Little Yue, keep going! Cut out all their good stuff and anger those Great Evolution Sacred Land bastards to death!"
Luo Qingying and Jiang Wei exchanged a glance, each seeing the astonishment in the other's eyes before it gave way to a trace of helpless agreement.
Jiang Wei smiled and nodded. "Very well. Little Yue, pick whichever stones catch your eye. Uncle Wei will cover the cost."
The fire-bathed phoenix stone was priced at twenty-eight thousand jin of source.
Luo Yue wielded the blade herself. Ice-blue divine power flowed around her little hands, and the stone's outer layers peeled away like ice and snow.
Crimson radiance shot skyward, revealing a basketball-sized lump of variant source, as clear and lustrous as a ruby. Though inferior to divine source, it was extremely pure and contained vast, concentrated fire-aspect source energy. Its value exceeded the marked price several times over.
"Gasp! Phoenix blood source!"
"Heavens, another priceless treasure!"
"Even extracting a few drops of phoenix blood from it would bring enormous benefits!"
The cultivators who had left regretfully when the spectacle ended, but had yet to go far, turned back at the commotion. Cries of astonishment immediately erupted among them.
The Great Evolution Stone Workshop's steward and remaining disciples turned green, yet dared not let out so much as a fart. They could only watch helplessly.
Luo Yue did not stop. Her little hand pointed again, this time at a vast sea tide-rising stone, blue throughout with rippling halos of light inside. Its price was nineteen thousand jin of source.
With a light touch of divine power, stone chips scattered, and another valuable lump of variant source emerged, deep blue throughout and emitting dark blue light.
Next came
another outrageously expensive stone priced at thirty-three thousand jin of source.
When it was cut open, ten thousand rays of purple radiance revealed a piece of [purple jade gold essence] covered in natural Dao patterns. Though only fist-sized, it was immensely heavy, weighing a thousand jun. Legend held that it was a supreme sacred material used by ancient sages to refine Saint Weapons. Its value was likewise immeasurable.
The [green jade python-pattern stone] yielded a basin-sized piece of pure [variant Yimu source], brimming with vitality.
When the [blackwater black tortoise stone] was cut open, it actually contained a pool of [earth-milk spirit spring], capable of tempering the muscles and bones and strengthening the Dao foundation.
One extraordinary heaven-class stone after another was opened beneath Luo Yue's little hands, which seemed capable of penetrating everything. Every single stone yielded a profit, without a single miss!
Auspicious, radiant light continually shot into the sky, illuminating the entire Great Evolution Stone Workshop as though a divine treasury had emerged.
Treasure light of every color intertwined, while the dense essence nearly condensed into tangible spiritual mist.
Luo Qingluan's face flushed red with excitement as she directed the Luo Family guards to carefully put away the various types of variant source and other treasures they had uncovered. All the while, she kept muttering:
"We're rich, we're rich! We've really struck it rich! Little Yue, you're our Luo Family's God of Wealth!"
Jiang Wei looked at the mountain of rare treasures before him. Even as a member of the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family, he felt his heart pound with alarm.
This little niece's methods were practically digging up the Great Evolution Sacred Land by its roots!
Although Great Evolution owned more than one stone workshop like this, every workshop with a heaven-class section was a piece of the sacred land's heart. Losing even one was an enormous blow...
"A Source Arts prodigy! A true Source Arts prodigy!"
"The Great Evolution Sacred Land has lost both the lady and its troops this time!"
"More than that! Their entire pot's been carried off! Their coffers are about to be emptied!"
Gasps sounded one after another.
Some people soon came to their senses, however. An Immortal Platform elder from a holy land called out:
"Young friend Luo Yue, would you sell that pool of earth-milk spirit liquid to this old man? Even half would do! Our Wanchu Holy Land offers twenty thousand jin of source!"
"The Yaoguang Holy Land offers thirty thousand!"
Everyone quickly caught on. That peerless Medicine King was a treasure one could only encounter by chance, but the other items were still open to negotiation! The atmosphere heated up once more as astronomical bids rang out.
Luo Yue had not expected such enthusiasm from them, much less an impromptu auction on the spot. After some thought, however, she decided to auction off a portion of the treasures before her.
"You can trade for them, but you must offer variant source. I don't need ordinary pure source," Luo Yue said.
Having already tasted such fine fare as divine source and ice soul jade marrow, Luo Yue truly no longer thought much of ordinary pure source.
It might sound a little like humblebragging if she said it aloud, but there was nothing she could do...
That was simply the truth!
"Little Yue, could you spare half of that [earth-milk spirit spring] for your big sister? My Yao Family is willing to exchange a ten-thousand-year ice moon lotus for it. Would you be willing to part with it?"
Fairy Yao Li deeply regretted failing to obtain the Medicine King, but after seeing that pool of earth-milk spirit liquid,
she could not help entertaining another idea and pleaded with Luo Yue.
That treasure had remarkable effects when strengthening the Dao foundation and refining one's aptitude. It was crucial to her little sister Yao Xi's cultivation.
The moment Yao Li finished speaking, little Yao Xi's large eyes lit up. She leaned her head slightly forward and stared unblinkingly at the spirit liquid Luo Yue had already stored in jade bottles.
The aura of that pure spirit liquid inspired an instinctive sense of affinity and longing.
Beside her, little Yao Xi's face was filled with anticipation. She even unconsciously poked out her little tongue to lick her lips, looking adorable and as eager as a greedy little kitten.
This little girl came too?
Luo Yue was somewhat surprised. Little Yao Xi had been hiding behind her sister's backside all this time, so she had not even noticed her.