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Chapter 361 Do We Need More Spiritual Items? (4K)

The Rebellious Immortal Alliance has recently encountered a series of misfortunes.

Especially the operations in the north have repeatedly failed.

The first plan was to rob Guiyun Market, but it was forced to be canceled because people from the Holy City suddenly arrived.

The plan to send more people to attack the Twin Jade Gathering was immediately interrupted due to the death of the red-bearded giant.

Despite mobilizing a large number of people, nothing was achieved.

This gave Su Bai Zhenjun, who was in charge of directing the operation, quite a headache, and he was frowning.

It should be noted that the Reverse Immortal Alliance is already severely lacking in cultivation resources.

The fact that supplies have not been replenished for so long is bound to cause resentment among the subordinates.

If this situation doesn't improve over a long period, it might become difficult to manage the team.

Fortunately, there's always a way out.

Just when Su Bai Zhenjun was at a loss for what to do, he suddenly received a tip.

A cultivator was secretly selling spiritual items at a secret market, and happened to be encountered by an informant from the Reverse Immortal Alliance, from whom he purchased spiritual herbs that were previously strictly prohibited from sale at a fair price.

Even though it's only a reasonable price, it's already quite remarkable for them.

Under normal circumstances, due to the suppression from various blessed lands, they often had no choice but to purchase spiritual items through high-priced bribes.

Moreover, the number of spiritual items that can be purchased each time is very limited, otherwise the blessed land would easily detect it.

Therefore, True Lord Su Bai immediately took this situation seriously and personally went to investigate the truth of the matter.

He soon discovered that the person secretly reselling spiritual items was none other than Zhang Cunfu, the newly appointed warehouse manager of Guiyunfang Market.

"As expected, this blessed land can only produce a bunch of scoundrels!"

The Earthbound True Monarch, who had come to investigate with him, scoffed, "He's only just taken office and he already dares to privately resell sect spiritual items for profit. What audacity!"

"How about we rob him and replenish our supplies?"

With their strength, they could easily make Zhang Cunfu, who had secretly slipped out of the market, disappear without a trace, never to return.

However, True Monarch Su Bai shook his head: "Don't be impulsive, this is an opportunity for us."

“If we kill him directly, the newly appointed cultivators might not dare to resell the sect's spiritual items on their own like he did.”

"Since the enemy has chosen such a greedy person, we might as well make good use of him."

"Since he likes spirit stones, let's give him spirit stones, pretend to cooperate with him, and try to get this guy to bring out more spirit items for us."

Cooperation?

Earthbound True Lord wasn't optimistic about this idea: "You want a slow and steady approach? But is that really going to work?"

"No matter how well we disguise ourselves, as long as we purchase those distinctive spiritual items, he will definitely be able to guess our identities."

"They might even set a trap to harm us."

His concern is not unfounded; in fact, more than one aquarium has used similar methods for fishing before.

"Let me give it a try first. I'll go and make the deal with him myself."

Su Bai Zhenjun also had his doubts, but he didn't have many options left.

Even if it might be a trap, you have to give it a try.

However, you won't know until you try, and what you find is astonishing.

Zhang Cunfu was not just bold, he was incredibly audacious!

He not only dared to resell spiritual herbs, but also dared to sell finished spiritual pills, refined spiritual ore, and even precious demon cores!
Each of these items is a prohibited item that the Holy City explicitly forbids from being sold.

What's even more outrageous is that Zhang Cunfu not only dared to sell them, but also stole more than one or two items.

"Who is this guy? Does he have a death wish?"

After several encounters, Su Bai Zhenjun was astonished by the spiritual object in his hand.

You should know that even their undercover agents who had infiltrated the blessed land before wouldn't dare to leave the warehouse open like this and move things out.

After all, this thing can't withstand any inspection.

If the higher-ups at Fudi discover that the key supplies in the warehouse don't match the records, death would be the least of their worries; they'd likely have to endure all sorts of torture before being executed.

However, Zhang Cunfu was different.

He seemed completely unafraid of Guiyun Sect coming to inspect the market warehouses.

They had to attend at least four gatherings every day, masked, and bring the spirit Kuku to sell themselves.

The word "arrogant" perfectly describes it.

Such outrageous behavior left even True Lord Su Bai somewhat bewildered.

Dude, what's your background? Are you the illegitimate son of Guiyun Zhenjun?
However, this issue is neither crucial nor important.

All he knew was that with this channel, he could acquire many spiritual items.

To this end, Su Bai Zhenjun personally disguised himself as a merchant from the wilderness, followed Zhang Cunfu to the market, and deliberately created several chance encounters.

Then, take the opportunity to befriend the other party and gradually propose to buy the spiritual items in bulk from them.

He originally thought the process might be quite difficult.

But to my surprise, Zhang Cunfu agreed very readily.

Thus, in just a few days, True Lord Su Bai purchased goods worth more than nine million spirit stones.

Although, in order to avoid suspicion, half of the items were not contraband.

However, they still obtained a rare spiritual item worth nearly five million spirit stones.

If such transactions could happen more often, it would be much more convenient than trying to rob the market warehouses.

Unfortunately, this was destined not to last.

After all, no matter how powerful Zhang Cunfu was, he couldn't possibly empty the market warehouses and sell them all to them.

Thinking of this, True Lord Su Bai couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

He also arranged to have dinner with Zhang Cunfu at a restaurant this afternoon to discuss the deal, and he guessed that this should be the last one or two rounds.

I don't know how much more stuff they can bring out.

Hopefully, we can get more refined spirit ore.

At the same time, in the market town.

Zhang Cunfu also asked, "Senior, it seems they want a lot more refined spirit ore."

"Judging from his tone, it seemed like he wanted as much as he could get."

"Do you think it would be convenient for us to just sell everything to them?"

To be honest, this stuff is really hard to sell in bulk.

The main uses of refined spirit ore are either for crafting artifacts, for building array bases, or for constructing large spirit ships.

These things have almost nothing to do with the wandering cultivators of the wasteland.

Unfortunately, Xiao Chen also brought out boxes and boxes of spirit ore, which made Zhang Cunfu feel quite troubled.

Now that a merchant actually wants them, he'd love to get rid of them all at once.

Buying in small quantities is one thing, but such large-scale reselling definitely requires prior approval.

He couldn't bear the consequences if he acted rashly and caused any problems.

"A trader in the wilderness?"

After listening to his story, Xiao Chen didn't think so.

If nothing unexpected happens, these merchants are mostly imposters from the Reverse Immortal Alliance, and only they would be in such dire need of a large supply of refined spirit ore.

However, this may not necessarily be a bad thing.

After all, no matter who the buyer is, as long as they are willing to pay spirit stones readily, they are good customers.

It just so happens that Su Bai Zhenjun and his group always exchange money for goods, and they never had any intention of buying on credit.

Moreover, in order to make it look more convincing, they hardly pick and choose the other half of the goods at all.

They only did a symbolic check before accepting everything. As a result, dealing with the other spiritual items also became much easier.

It's safe to say that this is a perfect shipping channel!

"Not bad, you've done a good job this time."

Xiao Chen considered it for a moment and thought it was a good thing, so he agreed immediately: "We can sell it to them directly, but you need to be discreet."

"Don't let outsiders, especially the Guiyun Sect, find out that you're reselling spiritual items."

"Also, remember to ask them if they need any more spiritual items."

"Not only refined spirit ores, but also other spirit herbs and the like."

"It just requires prior reservation, and then we need some time to prepare the goods."

what?
Zhang Cunfu was taken aback. "You have even more spiritual items?"

Is this right?
However, after thinking about it, he decided not to say anything more and instead carefully wrote down Xiao Chen's instructions.

After all, the schemes of the True Lords must be extremely complex, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they are far-reaching and have hidden threads for thousands of miles.

It's normal that he can't understand it for the time being; he just needs to follow instructions and do what he's supposed to do.

The deal for the spirit item has been finalized.

Xiao Chen changed the subject and said, "The reason I called you here is because there are two things that need to be taken care of."

"The first thing is to help me deal with a bunch of clutter."

"They're all just cheap stuff, you can decide what to do with them yourself."

As he spoke, he handed over the small storage ring containing the pile of odds and ends.

Then he continued, "The key point is this second thing. I remember you said that we could gather intelligence within the Guiyun Sect, right?"

Zhang Cunfu was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

Then he quickly explained, "Senior, please forgive me, I am indeed already gathering information."

"It's just that the Double Jade Gathering is taking place these days, so fewer people from the sect have returned. Therefore, it may take another two days before the information can be sent out."

He's been so busy selling goods lately that he hasn't had time to entertain guests or give gifts to cultivate relationships.

"Hey, I'm not rushing you."

Xiao Chen reassured him, "You've done very well these past few days, I'm very satisfied."

"But I suddenly realized that we shouldn't only know about the current True Monarchs, we should also get to know those genius cultivators from the past."

"So next, you will help me copy down the information about the genius cultivators of the Guiyun Sect throughout the ages."

"Especially those cultivators who later achieved great things, copy them as thoroughly and comprehensively as possible."

He actually only wanted the part about the Sword-Dai Venerable.

However, single-name targeting seems too obvious; it would be better to bring out a couple more pieces of intelligence.

Although doing so will increase some additional expenses.

But it doesn't matter. With the Reverse Immortal Alliance as a channel, earning spirit stones will be much easier from now on.

Xiao Chen could easily return to the Compassionate Sea to purchase goods from the Heavenly Gang Sect and the Ink Peak Sect, and then resell them for a profit of hundreds of millions of spirit stones.

Moreover, he doesn't need to worry about anything during this process.

All you need to do is purchase the items according to the pre-ordered list and then return them to Zhang Cunfu.

All you have to do is move things around; it's practically like earning spirit stones while lying down.

"Is there anything else?"

Xiao Chen asked, "If not, let's call it a day."

Zhang Cunfu shook his head. He had already told everything, and there was nothing more to report.

"By the way, you need to pay half of the spirit stones as a deposit to reserve a spirit item."

Xiao Chen added, "You need to make this clear to them beforehand, and insist that you won't give in."

He suddenly realized that the deal with the Reverse Immortal Alliance might not be very stable.

It's more reliable to collect a deposit.

In this way, even if the other party suddenly changes their mind, or if some unexpected event prevents the transaction from continuing, the transaction will be completed.

He could quickly dispose of those spiritual items at half price without incurring any loss.

Zhang Cunfu noted this down before respectfully taking his leave.

I went back to the warehouse to sort out the accounts for a while.

In the afternoon, he took the spirit ore and went alone to the restaurant to meet the generous merchant.

Both parties exchanged the spiritual items as previously agreed.

Su Bai Zhenjun also brought a bottle of so-called "spiritual wine from his hometown" this time, and while waiting to inspect the goods, he raised his glass to taste the wine.

"The items are fine, what's the next step?"

After inspecting the spirit mine, Earthbound True Lord secretly asked, "Are we really going to let him go back?"

"If you ask me, we might as well just kill him. Maybe we can get all those spirit stones back."

The Reverse Immortal Alliance is truly not wealthy. Although it is not to the point of having no spirit stone reserves, the total amount is relatively scarce compared to other blessed lands.

Furthermore, according to their secret estimates, Zhang Cunfu only had about this many spiritual objects at his disposal.

Moreover, once this big deal is done, the other party should not continue to resell spiritual items for a long time to come.

Therefore, Earthbound True Lord had the idea of ​​double-crossing others to recoup some of his costs.

He had mentioned the idea once before he came, but it was rejected.

"Forget it, there's no need for this."

Su Bai Zhenjun shook his head again: "Although this wave should have been mostly sold off, we might still be able to do business with him again in a few years."

"The more greedy a person is, the less they can control themselves."

"As long as he doesn't get caught, he'll definitely try to resell spiritual items again in the future."

"The situation within the alliance is still under control. A gradual approach is better than killing the goose that lays the golden eggs."

After the discussion, he came over with a storage ring containing spirit stones: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, this transaction was very pleasant."

"Here's the payment for this order. Take a look."

However, to Su Bai Zhenjun's utter surprise, Zhang Cunfu did not directly check the storage ring.

Instead, she looked up at him and said, "Manager Bai, you're a straightforward person!"

"When I'm doing business with you, it boils down to two words—comfort!"

He then took the initiative to ask, "Do you need any more spiritual items?"

"To tell you the truth, I have quite a lot of stuff here."

"We can discuss not only refined spirit ore, but also other materials."

what?
More spiritual objects?
Are other things negotiable too?

Wait, what's going on?
Su Bai Zhenjun was completely bewildered.

He stared blankly at Zhang Cunfu.

No, do you really intend to empty out everything in the market warehouse?

Then a thought suddenly popped into my head.

Could it be that the other party intends to sell all the supplies in the market warehouse for spirit stones, and then run away with the spirit stones?
You know what, this pays way more than being a warehouse manager.

As long as you don't get caught, you'll basically have enough to live on for a lifetime.

Of course, it was not appropriate for True Lord Su Bai to ask directly about the specifics, as this was a taboo subject.

It's fine if I guess wrong, but it's really bad if I guess right.

However, Zhang Cunfu's willingness to offer more spiritual items in the transaction was undoubtedly good news for them.

(End of this chapter)