Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 606: Bargain Hunting at the Trade Fair

Chongxiao excitedly stroked the Eight Formation Diagram in his hand. This was his first Peerless-Grade Dominator Artifact, holding extraordinary significance.

However, no matter how much he treasured it, it couldn’t compare to the kindness of Su Yuan’s guidance.

Thus, Chongxiao respectfully presented the Eight Formation Diagram to Su Yuan with both hands.

“Once again, I thank Master Seven Stars for your guidance. Please accept this Eight Formation Diagram; it’s a token of my gratitude.”

Su Yuan glanced at the Eight Formation Diagram. A Peerless-Grade, twenty-fifth-order Dominator Artifact, its power rivaled a twenty-seventh-order Dominator Artifact, yet its value was several times, even over ten times, greater than a twenty-seventh-order artifact.

This single Chaos Dominator Artifact was worth tens of millions of billions of Chaos Jade, equivalent to one Kalpa unit (64 billion * 129,600 = 829 trillion).

“You’re truly willing to give this to me? The material cost alone is worth tens of trillions of Chaos Jade! And it’s not like you succeed every time you forge one!”

Master Chongxiao gave a slight smile. “This small value naturally cannot repay the kindness of Master Seven Stars’s guidance. It’s just a small token of my appreciation.”

Clearly, Master Chongxiao had misunderstood.

“In that case, I’ll accept it!” Su Yuan nodded, taking the Chaos Dominator Artifact. This Dominator Artifact wouldn’t be easy to sell off, but placing it in the shop could serve to attract customers.

Another person couldn’t help but step forward and say, “Master Seven Stars, may I also seek your advice?”

Su Yuan waved his hand. “This time was free. From now on, there will be a fee. Wanting guidance once doesn’t cost much, just one Kalpa unit will do!”

Upon hearing this, everyone’s expressions froze. This price wasn’t cheap, but no one felt it was particularly expensive either.

The effectiveness of the previous guidance was already enough to prove that Su Yuan’s advice was worth far more than its cost.

That person also said awkwardly, “Currently, I don’t have enough money. Next time, after I’ve gathered enough funds, I’ll come to seek your guidance!”

“Fair enough!” Su Yuan nodded.

Others who had sufficient funds also had their eyes light up. However, they didn’t seek Su Yuan’s advice right now, preferring to wait for a private opportunity later. They didn’t have the boldness of Master Chongxiao and still wanted to keep their own forging techniques somewhat secret.

That person retreated.

The exchange in the venue continued. Su Yuan also occasionally spoke a sentence or two, each one making people’s eyes light up and leaving them with a sense of great gain.

When the exchange had lasted for three years, Master Youhe finally continued, “The exchange is over. Next is the trading session! Although the Merit Points Mall has many treasures, the price tags for many items are excessively high. We don’t have that many Merit Points to exchange for them, so trading amongst ourselves within the city becomes inevitable.”

His words were essentially an explanation for Su Yuan; everyone else naturally already knew this.

“I, as the judge, can appraise the value of items. Everyone can barter goods for goods, or use Chaos Jade for exchange!”

Master Youhe paused, then said, “Now, everyone can display the treasures they wish to sell and list the items they need!”

Su Yuan saw that many people directly placed the treasures they wanted to sell on their own desks. Their list of desired items was also displayed on the side, waiting for someone to initiate a trade.

Su Yuan swept his gaze around and saw many good items, a lot of them excellent forging materials, though there were also some treasures of other types.

Su Yuan spotted a special beast egg, which turned out to be from a peculiar ancient beast that naturally contained a Chaos realm within its body.

This ancient beast, born from Nothingness itself, made Su Yuan’s eyes light up.

He had always had a question before: where did the initial Chaos come from? Every Chaos Dominator breaks through from within a Chaos, so there must have been that first Chaos realm, right?

He never expected an explanation to appear at this trading meet.

Since there are ancient beasts born naturally containing a Chaos realm, there are also spiritual plants that naturally give birth to Chaos. Su Yuan thought of the Chaos Flower he obtained from the Heavenly Fate Chaos before. He originally thought it was some kind of secret method condensed by the Heavenly Fate Child, but now it seems it really might have been a spiritual plant from Nothingness!

The Heavenly Fate Child’s luck was truly good, to encounter something like that.

Such treasures were extremely precious. For that beast egg just now, that artificer was asking for three Kalpa units!

Su Yuan marveled at the high prices of these items.

Suddenly, Su Yuan discovered a special item on one person’s desk.

Activating his True Name Power, information about this item entered his vision.

[Item]: Nothingness Ark Hull Fragment

[Grade]: Ninety-Seventh-Order War Colossus (Damaged)

[Effect]: Possesses extremely strong defensive effects, can resist all attacks below the ninetieth order. Also has a certain weakening effect against attacks below the ninety-third order.

It was a snow-white hexagonal shield that looked like a complete treasure. But under the scrutiny of Su Yuan’s [True Name Jade Disc] and Chaos True Name Power, this was clearly a fragment of a colossal ship, and a very damaged one at that.

Su Yuan couldn’t help but move over, standing before this cultivator’s stall.

Green Forest Recluse, seeing Su Yuan standing before him, was also taken aback.

“Master Seven Stars, what guidance do you have?” Green Forest Recluse couldn’t help but ask.

Su Yuan pointed at the hexagonal shield. “What grade is this treasure? What effects does it have?”

Green Forest Recluse explained, “This is a defensive Supreme Treasure I obtained by chance. Its defensive effect is comparable to a twenty-ninth-order Chaos Dominator Artifact. However, this Supreme Treasure seems unable to be bound to a master, but it can be used directly, basically able to unleash all its functions. It’s just that its energy consumption is a bit high, over a hundred times that of other treasures of the same type!”

Hearing this, Su Yuan showed a surprised expression. “It can block twenty-ninth-order attacks? And the consumption is huge?”

“Exactly!”

Green Forest Recluse responded, thinking to himself that the consumption was truly too exaggerated. He already possessed twenty-ninth-order treasures himself and didn’t care about this one at all.

“May I examine it?” Su Yuan asked.

“Master Seven Stars, please go ahead!”

Su Yuan took it in his hand and then infused it with Chaos Origin energy.

Sure enough, the hexagonal shield emitted a faint fluorescent glow.

Su Yuan casually launched an attack, unleashing twenty-ninth-order strength.

The shield indeed barely managed to block it, but the consumption was indeed a hundred times that of a same-order Chaos Dominator Artifact!

For example, the consumption of his own True Name Heavy Armor was even just one-thousandth of this shield’s.

But Su Yuan saw the true nature of this shield. The upper limit of this fragment was the ninety-third order!

Its inability to display stronger defensive effects was actually due to falling into a misconception!

This fragment was damaged, and the attached Chaos Secret Pattern was fundamentally incomplete. Being able to unleash twenty-ninth-order power was already incredibly impressive. In reality, this shield didn’t need to consume Chaos Origin energy at all. Relying solely on its own material composition, it was sufficient to resist ninety-third-order damage.

This was truly a case of being blind to what’s right under your nose!