Chapter 274: The Mysterious Buyer
Chapter 274: The Mysterious Buyer
In the eyes of the shopkeepers, this behavior was either utterly foolish or the eccentric whim of a powerful Nascent Soul expert.
Fool or eccentric, it did not matter.
Only an idiot would refuse such profit.
People across the entire street sprang into action.
Some mobilized their inventory, others gathered goods from storage.
The more clever ones even activated their wider business networks across the island, pulling in sea beasts and low grade spirit stones from shops that had not yet received the news.
For an entire afternoon, those who rushed over after hearing the news saw an absurd scene.
A wealthy and seemingly foolish old cultivator at the peak of late Nascent Soul sat at the entrance of the street beside a small sea beast stall, continuously taking out top grade spirit stones while collecting massive piles of sea beasts and heaps of low grade spirit stones.
Again and again, pile after pile, everything vanished into his storage item, which seemed like a bottomless abyss.
Each time people thought it must be full by now, he shattered their expectations without a care, storing everything with ease.
By nightfall, every last sea beast had been sold out, and even the spirit stone shops declared a shortage of low grade spirit stones.
Only then did this unprecedented transaction finally come to an end.
Xiao Shou felt quite pleased with himself.
Perhaps by tomorrow, rumors of a sea beast and low grade spirit stone being hoarded by an old madman would spread across Yingzhou Celestial Isle.
As he extending his divine sense, he once again sensed the surrounding Nascent Soul cultivators who had gathered and were itching to make a move.
A mocking smile curved at the corner of his lips.
With a subtle movement of spiritual energy, he quietly formed a hand seal.
In the next instant, a thick fog descended from the sky.
After it spread across several nearby streets, the thick fog dissipated within five or six breaths.
At the same time, the figure of the old cultivator at the late peak of the Nascent Soul stage also vanished.
The Nascent Soul cultivators who had been harboring various intentions exchanged their divine senses briefly, then carefully scanned the surrounding streets once more.
In the end, they withdrew unwillingly.
Among them, a handsome young male cultivator wearing a scholar’s hat headed straight toward the eastern hall of the imperial palace at the center of Yingzhou Celestial Isle.
Another one who is dressed in armor and slightly slower, also rushed toward and heading straight to the western hall of the imperial palace.
"Oh? Spending over twenty top grade spirit stones in one go, and only wanting low grade spirit stones in return. How interesting. Even I would not casually waste so many top grade spirit stones. Very well, I will go see Father Emperor and find out which notable figure has come to show off in our Yingzhou Celestial Isle."
The woman speaking had somewhat ordinary looks.
She wore her imperial robes carelessly as she lying on the lap of a handsome man while idly playing with another man in an intimate manner.
Inside the imperial palace, a domineering middle aged cultivator sat high upon his throne while idly playing with a glass like sphere in his hand.
After closing his eyes for a moment, he opened them and said, "There is no trace of the person you mentioned. The other party must have deliberately avoided the detection ability of the All-Seeing Luminous Pearl. Anyone capable of sensing and evading the All-Seeing Luminous Pearl is no simple figure. Do not provoke him."
Meanwhile, Xiao Shou,who had been the subject of their attention had already changed back into the appearance of a middle aged cultivator.
After returning to his rented cave dwelling, he set up three Tier 5 defensive formations in succession and completely blocking even external divine sense.
At that moment, he was happily rolling around on a bed made of low grade spirit stones.
After enjoying himself for a while, he finally began working seriously.
There was no rush to fuse the low grade spirit stones, but the sea beasts could not be left for too long.
He decided to start with them first.
Thus, Xiao Shou continuously carried out fusions.
Whenever his Absolute Fusion ability was depleted, he would cultivate, used Tier 5 Spirit Sand, and then rested to recover his ability.
At times, when he grew restless, he would study and develop new spells.
In this way, more than ten days passed.
Aside from contacting his disciple a few times using the communication jade, Xiao Shou did not step out of the cave dwelling at all.
Fortunately, this was normal behavior for cultivators, so he did not attract any suspicion.
On this day, after finally finishing the fusion of all sea beasts and low grade spirit stones, and successfully advancing his Absolute Fusion ability to Tier 6, Xiao Shou stored all the results into his storage ring.
He then walked out of the temporary cave dwelling he had rented.
He had planning to try the local spirit cuisine and also observe the effects of the information he had spread.
After leaving the cave, he swept the area with his divine sense and deliberately stepped back into the network routes.
Xiao Shou concealed his Nascent Soul aura and disguised himself as a low level cultivator.
He headed into a lively restaurant filled with many low level cultivators.
After entering, he ordered a pot of tea and several of the more expensive dishes on the menu. Then he sat there, sipping tea while listening to the conversations around him.
"Sigh, that old man still has not come to buy sea beasts. Mine are practically growing mold."
"Yeah, the nearby shops are forcing prices down too much. These are things we risked our lives to get. It hurts to sell them like that."
"Hey, do you think that old man might have been..."
"Probably not. Someone I know who works at the imperial palace said those people failed to catch him and even went to complain."