Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming

Chapter 74: Chapter 74: The Girl by the Creek

A moment later, the middle-aged man nodded with satisfaction, “Not bad, this is a fully intact middle-grade Artifact Refining Furnace.”

“Senior, please take a look at the other items.”

Qin Feng smiled and gestured.

Since the middle-aged cultivator had said “not bad,” then even if it were out of consideration for the Beast Taming Sect, he wouldn’t give Qin Feng too low a price. If the price was suitable, he would be too lazy to run to another shop to ask.

“Alright.”

The middle-aged cultivator picked up the Gold-Plated Slash and casually glanced at it. He slightly frowned, tapped a finger on the blade to listen to its ring, shook his head lightly, and placed it aside without much care.

He then examined the Artifact Refining Materials Qin Feng had taken out, estimated their value in his mind, and finally said to Qin Feng, “Since you’re a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, I won’t beat around the bush.

These materials are only used for making ordinary Spiritual Artifacts and aren’t particularly precious. Generally, when someone comes to sell items like these in the shop, we acquire them at about seventy to eighty percent of the outside price. I won’t take advantage of you—the materials I’ll price at two thousand Spirit Stones. What do you think?”

Qin Feng nodded.

Back in Tieling County City, he had already inquired about the prices of these Artifact Refining Materials, so he knew that the cultivator’s offer was very fair.

Seeing him nod, the middle-aged cultivator continued, “The craftsmanship of this Flying Sword isn’t very clever. If I’m not mistaken, it must have been made by a novice Artifact Refiner.

Normally, I wouldn’t buy such poorly crafted Spiritual Artifacts. After all, I mainly deal in the forging of Spiritual Artifacts, and selling such mediocre-looking items in my shop could easily harm my reputation.

However, since you are a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, I’ll give you a price of three hundred Spirit Stones for it, and including that other high-grade Magic Artifact hammer, let’s make it a total of five hundred Spirit Stones.

After all, I need to make a profit too. If you think it’s too little, you are welcome to sell it elsewhere.”

Clearly, the cultivator wasn’t very impressed with the Gold-Plated Slash crafted by the Huang Family Great Elder—so much so that he felt displaying such an ordinary Flying Sword in his own shop was demeaning. However, since the seller was from the Beast Taming Sect, and what he really cared about was the Artifact Refining Furnace, he reluctantly agreed to take the Gold-Plated Slash.

Finally, he turned his attention to the Artifact Refining Furnace and said, “This middle-grade Artifact Refining Furnace is very good. It just so happens that several of my disciples have reached the stage where they can craft Magic Artifacts independently.

In light of this, I’ll price the Artifact Refining Furnace at three thousand Spirit Stones for you, plus the rest, a total of five thousand five hundred Spirit Stones. What do you think?”

The price was actually a bit higher than Qin Feng had expected, so naturally he wouldn’t disagree. He quickly nodded, “Good, let’s go with the price you’ve mentioned, senior.”

“Very straightforward, young friend.”

The middle-aged cultivator laughed heartily and took out fifty-five middle-grade Spirit Stones directly from his Storage Bag and handed them to Qin Feng, who looked on with some envy.

These cultivators that did business in the market really did have money—instead of using low-grade Spirit Stones, they settled with middle-grade ones.

“Thank you, senior.”

After receiving the Spirit Stones, Qin Feng gave his thanks.

“There’s no need for courtesy, young friend. If you have any more good items in the future, feel free to come here. I assure you of a satisfying price,” the middle-aged cultivator said jovially. “By the way, would you like to take a look at the Magic Artifacts? Although you Beast Taming Sect disciples mainly control Spiritual Beasts, carrying a few Magic Artifacts for self-defense can sometimes have unexpected effects.”

“Uh… no need.”

Qin Feng quickly waved his hand.

Indeed, this was how business was conducted—whether it was a cultivator or someone else, they always thought about getting others to take out their wallets to buy their products.

Qin Feng was just a beginner who didn’t even have a Lifebound Spiritual Beast yet; the plan to promote his Swallowing Sky Toad hadn’t even been confirmed, so where would he have spare money to purchase Magic Artifacts!

At present, he needed to channel all his resources into his own cultivation and the training of his spiritual beast; regarding other matters, he’d think about them after he had an abundance of Spirit Stones.

Seeing him refuse, the middle-aged cultivator felt somewhat disappointed but did not say anything further. After all, disciples of the Beast Taming Sect did not have as great a need for magic artifacts as other cultivators.

In fact, if it weren’t for the opportunity to acquire materials from various spiritual beasts at a cheaper rate here, he would have left this place and gone elsewhere to do business.

Qin Feng left the Artifact Refining Shop with the middle-aged cultivator’s hearty farewells. @@novelbin@@

He strolled around the market for a while and eventually decided to visit the shop opened by his own Sect, where he spent nearly two hundred Spirit Stones to purchase two second-tier Spirit Talismans at a ten percent discount.

They were the defensive Golden Armor Talisman and the offensive Heavenly Thunder Talisman; one for defense, one for the attack, enabling even a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to withstand attacks for a moment.

With these two Spirit Talismans on hand, he felt a bit more confidence in his heart.

He dared not spend the remaining Spirit Stones, as he needed to save them to help his Swallowing Sky Toad integrate the Bloodline Divine Powers of other Spiritual Toads. Until that was successful, he felt uncertain, not knowing how many Spirit Stones he would have to invest in the Demon Refining Pot for success, so now was not the time for him to be spendthrift.

Having left the market, Qin Feng summoned the eagle, leaped onto its back, and flew towards Creation Peak.

Originally, Qin Feng thought that Spiritual Snake Peak was already an exceptional place for cultivation, but after arriving at Creation Peak, he realized that in terms of spiritual beauty, this mountain surpassed Spiritual Snake Peak by a notch.

The peaks were exquisite, the scenery delightful, streams burbled, ancient trees soared high, and everywhere was teeming with vitality, making anyone who saw it feel refreshed and uplifted.

Qin Feng did not dare to ride the eagle through Creation Peak haphazardly, so he landed far away, retracted the eagle into the Spiritual Beast Bag, and proceeded on foot.

However, Creation Peak was different from Spiritual Snake Peak.

The number of Outer Disciples on Spiritual Snake Peak was in the thousands; it was lively with people constantly coming and going.

But Creation Peak was the least populated among the One Hundred and Eight Peaks of the Outer Sect, rarely seeing a human figure, making it somewhat challenging even to find someone to ask for directions.

After walking for a while, he finally saw someone. It was a young girl, barefoot, sitting on a green rock by the stream.

The girl appeared to be around fifteen or sixteen, cute and delicate. Her pale little feet swung back and forth, kicking up strings of sparkling and translucent droplets from the water.

“Excuse me… Senior Sister.”

Qin Feng called out hesitantly, intending to ask her for directions.

“Senior Sister?”

The girl looked at Qin Feng in surprise, and upon seeing he was just a small Qi Refinement level four cultivator, she realized he must be a new disciple and asked, “What do you need?”

For some reason, Qin Feng felt a bit flustered under her curious gaze and quickly said, “I have a cousin named Qin Xi. She just became a disciple of Creation Peak this year. I came to find her for some urgent matters and wanted to ask where the new Disciples of Creation Peak are settled?”

“You’re Qin Xi’s cousin?”

The girl sized him up with her clear, large eyes, her lips curving into a mischievous smile, and pointed with her delicate fingers towards the right: “Just follow this path in that direction. About three miles out, there are a few small courtyards in a valley; that’s where you’ll find them.”

“Thank you for your guidance, Senior Sister.”

Qin Feng thanked her and turned to head in the direction she had pointed.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that the girl was still watching him from behind, which felt somewhat eerie.

He looked back, only to see the girl wearing an innocent smile on her face.

Though she looked harmless, her playful demeanor left him inexplicably with an uneasy feeling.