That clerk had told him that the treasure had only been bought in around nightfall the day before they arrived at the shop. The shopkeeper had known they would come today, so why would he waste a precious Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman?
A Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman would only be used once it had been confirmed that a treasure was extraordinarily valuable.
This "Cloudfloat Wind Pearl" was only a suspected treasure, with no more than a forty percent certainty. It was extremely valuable to Golden Core cultivators, especially those cultivating wind-element techniques, but it was not valuable enough to warrant using a Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman.
Clearly, that bastard Yang Youxian wanted to acquire it first at the base price. Even if he had no use for it himself, if he later put it up at an auction house, wind-element cultivators would surely scramble for it.
The "Martial Uncle Liu" Yang Youxian had mentioned was another Nascent Soul martial uncle. Cao Lang was ninety-nine percent certain that Martial Uncle Liu knew nothing of this, but could he really go question a Nascent Soul cultivator? That excuse left him with no grounds to refute Yang Youxian.
Still, Yang Youxian might suffer a major loss from doing this. He was gambling that the purchased treasure was genuine. Even if he bought it at the base price, that was only relative; the spirit stones he needed to pay were still no small amount.
He did not dare take it for free. He could simply afford the loss if he ended up losing out.
Seeing Yang Youxian agree this time, Cao Lang still cursed him viciously in his heart. This tactic of his could occasionally work, after all. Yang Youxian could not truly burn every bridge.
Sometimes, Yang Youxian really would let Cao Lang