"You're not buying it anymore?"
Yun Chuan's expression was somewhat surprised to hear the young girl in front of him actually take a step back. As far as he knew, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's young miss shouldn't be so easy to talk to at this time, right? Could it be that he had mistaken her? This girl in front of him wasn't Ning Rongrong?
"What, does my initiative to concede surprise you?" Ning Rongrong couldn't help but chuckle, looking at the boy's stunned expression.
"It is indeed very surprising." Yun Chuan nodded honestly, then put on a curious face and leaned closer to the girl, asking, "May I ask for your name, young lady?"
Their faces were almost touching, and they could even smell each other's scent.
Looking closely at the boy's ordinary face and his exceptionally clear and beautiful black eyes, Ning Rongrong should have been angry at such closeness, but gazing into the young man's clean and clear eyes, her heart suddenly beat very fast for some reason, and she even felt her cheeks subtly heating up.
This unprecedented and unfamiliar feeling made Ning Rongrong feel a little flustered and at a loss. She quickly turned around. As she walked away, she said, "...My name is Ning Rongrong."
"Ning Rongrong… It really is that unruly little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School." Yun Chuan watched the girl's receding figure, muttering to himself, "It seems the original work's description was too one-sided. A person's temperament cannot be summarized in just a few words. As expected, seeing is believing."
After watching the girl's figure disappear.
Yun Chuan turned around, holding a small bag of gold coins, and said, "Since she's unwilling to bid, then this crystal should be mine, right?"
Seeing the big fat sheep leave, Flender couldn't help but pout, then he lazily lay back on his recliner, closing his eyes and slowly saying, "You don't have enough money."
Hearing this, Yun Chuan frowned and said, "This is one hundred gold coins, correct."
Flender didn't even open his eyes, and said faintly in an indistinct voice, "That was the price just now. Now my crystal costs two hundred gold coins."
Yun Chuan's frown deepened.
At this point, he had recalled more details from the original work and knew that this person would try to extort money from anyone he could. Two hundred gold coins was definitely not the final price.
"Two hundred gold coins, are you sure you won't change it again?" Yun Chuan's voice instantly turned cold. He wanted to see just how greedy this scoundrel in front of him could get.
Flender's heart was overjoyed when he heard there was an opening. On the surface, he still maintained his lazy demeanor, not even opening his eyes as he said, "Alright, five hundred gold coins. Pay up and you can take it, otherwise, please leave."
Yun Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly, but didn't immediately react. Instead, he put away the small bag and instantly took out a larger one. It contained exactly five hundred gold coins, no more, no less. If Flender knew when to quit, he would pretend nothing happened. But if he remained insatiably greedy…
"Here are five hundred gold coins, I'll take the item." He placed the bag of money on the table and turned to pick up the crystal.
Who knew that at this moment, the insatiably greedy Flender spoke again.
"You heard wrong, this crystal costs two thousand gold coins!"
This time the price had directly tripled!
Yun Chuan's forward steps halted. He turned around and coldly glared at him, saying, "While it's true that no merchant is without cunning, doing business at least requires basic integrity. Don't you think it's too much to repeatedly go back on your word and change the price?"
"The price is the price. Buy it if you want, otherwise, get lost!" Having already concluded that two thousand gold coins was probably this person's bottom line, Flender's attitude was exceptionally arrogant. He wasn't worried at all that this person wouldn't buy it.
"Heh."
Yun Chuan couldn't help but laugh.
Watching the original work, he didn't feel anything, but now that he encountered this situation himself, he realized how annoying this guy truly was.
Yun Chuan's eyes showed disdain. Then, ignoring everything, he walked directly towards the crystal, picked it up, put it into his spirit tool, and started walking towards the door.
"Hm? You haven't even paid, and you're trying to run off with the item?!" Flender, who had been secretly watching Yun Chuan, saw this scene and instantly leaped from his recliner, his fingers curled into claws, rushing towards him.
But Yun Chuan, with his back to him, felt the strong wind coming from behind. With a movement of his foot and a slight shift of his body, he easily dodged the attack.
"Do you think you can escape just because you're a Spirit Master?" Flender's whiskers twitched as he saw this, and he let out a cunning, cold laugh.
"Whoosh!"
Amidst a surge of powerful energy, a pair of brown-yellow giant wings unfurled from his back, covered in feathers like steel plates. At the same time, two yellow, two purple, and three black spirit rings rose from his feet, emitting dazzling light!
"Young man, since you're willing to pay five hundred gold coins for this seemingly ordinary crystal, its value must far exceed two thousand gold coins. Charging you two thousand gold coins shouldn't be excessive, right?" Flender's expression was all smiles after his Spirit possession, but his words were quite sharp. From his unhesitating and coherent tone, it was clear he had done this more than once or twice.
"Whether this matter is taken to the Soto City court or Spirit Hall, you won't gain any advantage. Just pay up obediently. In fact, you're not really losing out."
In the Balak Kingdom, or rather, the entire Douluo Continent, in any country, the law has always favored high-level Spirit Masters and great nobles.
Flender saw that Yun Chuan was young and assumed he was at most a Spirit Elder, or perhaps a Spirit Ancestor at best. As a dignified Spirit Saint, if it really came down to official channels, he, the Spirit Saint, would definitely be in the right. After all, there's a saying: the bigger the fist, the more righteous. What a powerful person says is always right, always correct.
However, facing Flender's display of spirit rings and his blatant threat, Yun Chuan's expression remained unchanged, revealing deep displeasure and profound disdain.
"You could have just quoted two thousand from the start. But you had to be faithless and repeatedly change the price. This is truly the first time I've encountered such a shameless scoundrel. And to think you're a Spirit Saint, you've completely disgraced all Spirit Saints!"
As soon as his voice fell.
"Boom!!"
In an instant, circle after circle of gloomy black spirit rings slowly emerged around Yun Chuan's body. Finally, seven black ten-thousand-year spirit rings rose from him, and an overwhelmingly domineering aura instantly filled the entire shop, making all the items on the walls tremble and shake. The damaged spirit tools among them even suddenly emitted colorful, vibrant Spirit light.
At this time, Yun Chuan's spirit power level was as high as seventy-nine, and especially since all the spirit rings he absorbed were ten-thousand-year ones, the profoundness of his spirit power had long been no different from a Titled Douluo.
Therefore, as soon as he released his spirit rings, their profound and majestic spirit power pressure almost scared Flender silly.
Looking at the seven deep spirit rings around the young man's body and feeling the invisible terrifying pressure around him, Flender suddenly felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head, and he shivered with a chill.
"Seven ten-thousand-year spirit rings? What kind of monster is this, Nima?!!!"
Flender looked at the seven black ten-thousand-year spirit rings floating around his body, felt the spirit power pressure that almost suffocated him, and secretly cursed his bad luck. He had really overplayed his hand this time!
At this moment, feeling that Yun Chuan was not to be trifled with, Flender's cunning and arrogant expression instantly vanished, replaced by an embarrassed look. He hastily smiled and said, "Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! I didn't realize that little brother is also a Spirit Saint. It's my, your elder brother's, fault for being blind and unintentionally offending you. I hope little brother will forgive me. You can take this crystal, and feel free to take anything else you like in the shop. Your elder brother won't take a single coin, consider it an apology."
"If apologies and compensation worked, what would the Empire's court be for?" Yun Chuan sneered, looking at his obsequious appearance.
"Then, what does little brother wish?" Flender asked tentatively.
"It's very simple…"
Electric light gradually flickered all over Yun Chuan's body, with crackling sounds of electric arcs, and then his entire being was gradually enveloped in blue electric light! He had transformed into an electric man—Thunder Body!
"…I just want to give you a good beating right now!"
Boom!!!
The entire small shop shook violently.
Immediately after, from the doorway, one could still see electric flashes inside, and occasionally hear a hoarse middle-aged man's pleas for mercy, along with the sounds of furniture, tables, and chairs being smashed.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom…
The entire shop facade shook repeatedly, continuing for quite some time.
A young man in white, with long black hair, walked out contentedly, a refreshed expression on his ordinary face. He seemed as if he had just had a great spa treatment.
And inside the small shop at this moment.
The surrounding furniture had been smashed, and spirit tools were scattered all over the floor. Even the walls had many cracks, but the worst off was the shop's floor tiles, which were now completely shattered into a mess. Especially in the center, there was a large pit, and lying in it was a… pig-headed man whose hair stood on end, face as black as coal, bruised and swollen, with even his clothes charred and carbonized.
Although very angry, Yun Chuan did not kill Flender. After all, having read the original work, he still had a good impression of this character. Why kill him? A good beating was enough.
Yun Chuan was not a bloodthirsty person.
Moreover, this trip he also obtained a crystal, which seemed to be able to help him advance further. He was in a good mood, so naturally, he wouldn't kill him.
"Now, the top priority is to find a hotel first and explore what this crystal can actually do." Yun Chuan had just arrived and didn't have a temporary place to stay. So he decided to find a hotel first, settle down, and then slowly explore the uses of this crystal.