‘Qi Laoshi’s Grocery Store’ was a few dimly written words that could not really be seen if one was not paying attention.
An old man with a dirty beard was nestled in the corner of the shop hammering away at something, when Mo Wuji walked in, he lifted his head a little and grinned, revealing a mouthful of black teeth.
Mo Wuji raised his head and looked around, some things that could not be seen as spiritual or magical artefacts were hanging messily on the walls, and it was even more difficult to see under the dim light.
Other than that, a cupboard with many broken holes had a few old porcelain bottles placed inside it, and it was not known if the contents were pills or something else.
What’s even more outrageous is that at the bottom of this cabinet there are dozens of dried spirit grasses, the spirit grasses are covered in dust, this kind of preservation of spirit grasses is obviously spoiling things.
Mo Wuji rubbed his forehead, he suspected that the mate had blackened his heart, after charging him six Earth Yuan Dan, he even brought him to this place. It was also said that it was some kind of Qi Laoshi’s shop, with the most genuine stuff.
The old man heckled again, “Feel free to look around, if there’s anything you fancy, I’ll give you a discounted price.”
Mo Wuji was speechless as he took a step back, just as he wanted to leave the shop, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. His gaze landed back on the pile of dried spirit grasses at the bottom of the broken cupboard, and interspersed amongst them, a piece of dry grass as if it was a stick attracted him.
It was familiar, even if it was dry, the scent on the spirit grass was somewhat familiar to him.
Soon Mo Wuji remembered that it was the root of the Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root, and he had many of these roots on him.
Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root, this was a seventh grade spirit grass, and a rare seventh grade spirit grass at that. Mo Wuji knew that the reason why he was able to open up ninety-nine veins was certainly because his Vein Opening Pill had worked. However, if he didn’t have the Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root silk, and just used the silk of the Treasure Blood Lotus Root, would he still be able to open up ninety-nine veins at once?
Mo Xue’s terrestrial spirit herbs recorded that the Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root was the best spirit chakra opening and repairing spirit medicine. It was a treasure that all cultivators craved for, and here it was thrown away by the old man and thrown away like rubbish in the bottom layer of this cabinet.
Mo Wuji forcefully held back his thoughts of checking with his divine thoughts, if that was really the Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root Stem, then this Qi Laoshi was definitely not really an honest person. In case he perceived that he had divine thoughts, that would be bad.
He retracted his retreating steps, his eyes once again checking around.
After a while, he pretended to be hesitant and said, “Shopkeeper Qi, I want to go to the Lost Heavenly Ruins because of my low strength and want to purchase something to increase my chances of staying alive. But you here, I really don’t see anything good ……”
Qi Laoshi held his knees and seemed to stand up with some difficulty, grinning and hemming at Mo Wuji again, casually pulling out a drawer from the middle of the broken cupboard. Once the drawer was pulled out, dust filled everywhere.
Qi Laoshi then didn’t feel the slightest bit of it, raising his hand and grabbing a bottle of elixir from inside the drawer, he said, “This is the most powerful antidote to poison, the Lost Heavenly Ruins are filled with poisons, and only my antidote to poison can undo it, the price is two hundred and sixty thousand earth grade spirit stones.”
Mo Wuji sucked in a mouthful of cold air, he had more than enough antidote pills on him, spending two hundred and sixty thousand Earth Grade Spirit Stones to purchase an antidote pill, he wasn’t crazy.
Qi Laoshi finished and pulled out another drawer, casually pulling out a piece of broken paper, “This is the most powerful group strike talisman I have here, even if it’s a more powerful opponent, this talisman can lock onto him and finish him off. This one is even cheaper, just three hundred and eleven thousand Earth Spirit Stones ……”
Three hundred and eleven thousand earthly spirit stones is cheaper than two hundred and sixty thousand is?
Seeing that Qi Laoshi was about to open the next drawer, Mo Wuji hurriedly stopped and said, “Shopkeeper Qi, I have the antidote pills, and I’m not quite used to the talismans, so I want to see if you have a map of the Lost Heavenly Ruins here. Or …… the general directions of some of the precious spirit items produced in the Lost Heavenly Ruins ……”
“This I also have here, you wait ……” Qi Laoshi kept pulling out a drawer from that broken cupboard to check.
If Qi Laoshi hadn’t pulled out these drawers one by one, Mo Wuji really wouldn’t have realised that there were so many drawers in this broken cupboard.
It was only after drawing out seven or eight drawers that Qi Laoshi grabbed a leather map and a thin book in the dust, “This is the most powerful map of the Lost Heavenly Ruins, I’m certain that there is no map of any Lost Heavenly Ruins that is more complete than this one, and this booklet contains all sorts of locations where all sorts of treasures of the Lost Heavenly Ruins are produced. The price is cheap, just ……”
Qi Laoshi was the best at every single thing, and Mo Wuji had long been immune to it. He didn’t wait for Qi Laoshi to finish his sentence before cutting off, “Shopkeeper Qi, can I just flip through it?”
Mo Wuji said and pointed at the thin book, he wanted to see if there were any Heavenly Locus Flowers inside the thin book. To him, the most important thing about going to the Lost Heavenly Ruins was the Heavenly Lore Flower.
Qi Laoshi hemmed and hawed, “It’s not impossible to flip through it, you have to purchase one of the things in front of me before you can flip through it.”
Mo Wuji was instantly speechless, this guy was not honest, he was simply treacherous as hell. He really wanted to see if there were any Tian Luo flowers in that thin booklet, so he had to say, “Shopkeeper Qi, although I still have some spirit stones on me, but they are all going to be used for cultivation with …… that, can I just purchase one of your antidote pills?”
The things that Qi honestly quoted just now seemed to be the only thing that was the cheapest, the Antidote Dan.
Qi Laoshi frowned and thought for a while before he said with a cold face, “In that case, then you can purchase one Antidote Pill, and I can let you flip through the thin book. Seeing as you’re poor, I’ll also give you a bit of a discount on the price of the Antidote Pill, it’s only 30,000 Earth Grade Spirit Stones.”
Flip-flopping was faster than flipping a book.
Mo Wuji cursed this old thing in his heart, a bottle of Antidote Pill was usually twelve pieces, this guy quoted two hundred and sixty thousand, and now one piece wanted him to ask for thirty thousand Earth Grade Spirit Stones. Even though his main purpose of purchasing the antidote pills wasn’t the antidote pills, but the thin book, he still felt upset in his heart.
If he hadn’t seen a Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root Stem here and thought that Qi Laoshi’s stuff might really be good, he would have definitely turned away a long time ago.
“Alright, thirty thousand Earth Spirit Stones then. But let me say the ugly words up front, I’m not really flipping through it, at least let me simply look at each sheet.” Mo Wuji had learnt about Qi Laoshi’s treachery and said in advance. He had seen many traps in this kind of words.
Qi Laoshi glanced at Mo Wuji in surprise, this kid was awesome, he actually heard his own trap, “No, at most I’ll give you three flips.”
Mo Wuji thought to himself that it was true, if he hadn’t brought up this trap, he would have definitely suffered another loss for nothing.
“Since that’s the case, then it’s just no business, I’ll go to another house to take a look.” Mo Wuji finished speaking and turned around. He had some doubts that the root of the Jade Toad Purple Lotus Root was not a trap left behind by this guy. There was also the fact that this house was dusty everywhere, was this guy making a show of making it look like a reclusive master, attracting people who knew what they were doing through such means.
But that’s not like ah, if he did not get the Jade Toad purple lotus root, he simply can not see that is the Jade Toad purple lotus root rhizome.
“Alright, I’ll let you flip it five times, if you still don’t agree then go ahead.” Qi Laoshi called out to Mo Wuji.
Maybe this guy was really a high ranking person, some seniors and great powers liked this. With a fluke in mind Mo Wuji somewhat unwillingly took out his spirit stone card and paid 30,000 Earth Grade Spirit Stones upfront, purchasing back a black and unappealing elixir that didn’t even have a bottle.
Luckily Mo Wuji didn’t care, he casually threw the antidote pills into his storage bag before he couldn’t wait to grab the thin book.
“Remember, five times ah, but you can’t pause for a moment ……” Qi Laoshi instructed Mo Wuji, then both eyes were fixed on Mo Wuji’s hand, lest Mo Wuji didn’t listen to him and flipped it one more time.
Mo Wuji took a look at this thin booklet, it was only six or seven pages at most, flipping through it five times was the same as reading most of the things in it.
He didn’t look at the first and second pages, the Tianluo Flower he was looking for was definitely not something ordinary, and if it wasn’t something ordinary, then it wouldn’t be in the front.
Mo Wuji directly flipped through the third page, Wind Meteor Bamboo, Purple Tong Fruit, Underworld Soul Crystal ……
All sorts of strange shaped treasures were written all over the two pages, many of these treasures Mo Wuji had never even heard of. However, as long as they were written up, without exception, they were all labelled in detail with the general location in the Lost Heavenly Market. In fact, what Mo Wuji wanted was something similar. This boosted Mo Wuji’s confidence, becoming more and more convinced that this old man was just pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger.
After flipping through the fourth and fifth pages …… Mo Wuji still didn’t see the Sky Lore Flower.
The sixth page was opened by Mo Wuji, if he still couldn’t see the Tianluo Flower on this page and the next, then there would be a question mark if he wanted this side of the booklet or not. Because without having to ask, he knew that what Qi Laoshi had here wouldn’t be cheap.
But the moment the sixth page was turned, Mo Wuji saw the Tianluo Flower. If it wasn’t for the fact that Mo Wuji had experienced too many things, he really couldn’t help but get excited.
He had experienced even more surprising things like being reborn, opening up his veins, and knowing about the Infinite Soul Renewal Flower, this little bit of excitement, he could still grasp it.
Once he was excited, even the slightest fluctuation could let this treacherous Qi Laoshi opposite him know. As long as Qi Laoshi knew his purpose, he would definitely have to raise the price. Even if he didn’t raise the price, he didn’t want Qi Laoshi to know what he wanted. Regardless of whether Qi Laoshi was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger or not, he wanted spirit stones but they were real and powerful.
Unfortunately, the Tianluo Flower’s labelling was too complicated, and his hand couldn’t stop at this page, plus he didn’t want to use his God’s thoughts in front of Qi Laoshi, so he could only hastily scan it.
With a disappointment that was barely visible to others Mo Wuji flipped over to the seventh page ……
Mo Wuji was certain that while others couldn’t see his disappointment, Qi Laoshi would definitely be able to see it.
The seventh page had just been flipped open when the mate who had brought Mo Wuji to Qi Laoshi’s shop earlier once again hurriedly ran over, he stood at the entrance of Qi Laoshi’s shop and saw that Mo Wuji had not left yet, he hurriedly made a slightly anxious wink to Mo Wuji.
