The second floor of the Exquisite Ghost Market teemed with people.
Foundation Establishment cultivators occasionally bent down among the rather tightly packed stalls, making quiet inquiries.
Benefiting from the dense crowds, Wang Ba soon had a reasonably attractive female cultivator stop before his stall to ask curiously about his wares.
"This is spirit cuisine, all made from first-tier low-grade spirit chickens. Its effects rival medicinal pills, but without any pill toxins..."
Hearing Wang Ba's explanation, the woman's eyes lit up. "I've never heard of such a thing. May I try some?"
Wang Ba hesitated, but did not refuse.
Most rogue cultivators had never encountered this sort of spirit cuisine. At most, they had tried spirit rice and spirit wine.
It was perfectly normal for them not to know about it.
The woman took a small sip, then nodded in delighted surprise. "It really is! Although it's far less potent than medicinal pills, it's much easier to refine. With enough of it, it really could rival pills!"
"How many spirit stones for this basin of Spirit Chicken Essence?"
Wang Ba hesitated, then named a price he thought reasonable:
"Forty middle-grade spirit stones for this basin."
In fact, on the first floor of the Exquisite Ghost Market, he had sold it for around thirty per basin.
But he figured Foundation Establishment cultivators had a little more to spare and should accept a slightly higher price.
Sure enough, the woman barely haggled upon hearing the price. After weighing it briefly, she readily handed Wang Ba forty middle-grade spirit stones.
Soon, someone else took an interest in the Spirit Chicken Essence and asked its price.
"Too expensive. An Earth Essence Pill costs only ten middle-grade spirit stones. This basin is worth two or three of those at most."
The customer haggled.
Wang Ba, however,