Chapter 132: An Exorbitant Bounty

For over an epoch, Luo Feng had focused solely on cultivation after consuming the Primal Crystal Spirit Fruit.

Now that the fruit’s effects had waned, Luo Feng found himself with leisure, indulging in delicacies at Yu Jiufang’s, and refining his heart with the melodies and illusions of “Whispering Pavilion.” The various powers in Chu Capital noticed that Great Sage Luo He was frequently venturing out.

One day, Luo Feng arrived alone at the Shadow Hall of the Yanfeng Guild in Chu Capital.

“Great Sage Luo He,” the Master of the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall greeted him personally. The Master was a woman in ordinary-looking gold robes, concealing her aura, but in reality, she was a peak Chaos realm existence, Marquis Xinhuo. Being conferred a marquis title without being a member of the royal family was exceptionally rare in the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom.

“This is your first visit to our Yanfeng Guild since arriving in Chu Capital, Great Sage Luo He,” the gold-robed woman said with a smile. “Please, have a seat.”

They sat facing each other.

Attendants brought forth fine wine and fruits.

“Master Xinhuo,” Luo Feng said, savoring the wine, “I’ve come this time to sell some treasures.”

“Oh?” Master Xinhuo smiled. “Great Sage Luo He is a direct disciple of an Emperor. Our Yanfeng Guild will surely offer the highest price for any acquisitions.”

For ordinary customers selling treasures, the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall would often try to lower the price to maximize profits.

But the Yanfeng Guild was backed by a group of Emperors and some Divine Kings from the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom. As a direct disciple of an Emperor, he naturally received special treatment.

“Take a look first,” Luo Feng said, waving his hand and producing the spoils he had gained from his one-versus-five battle.

There were three formation diagrams radiating terrifying auras, several broken golden hoops, three black nails, and a long weapon staff. Luo Feng even took out Marquis Liuyin’s saber and Great Sage Beiyu’s double-bladed axe.

“Hmm?” Master Xinhuo smiled upon seeing the long weapon staff. She instantly recognized it; it was Lord Chuyuan’s Divine King weapon, which was much more valuable.

“This double-bladed axe?” Master Xinhuo’s expression changed slightly.

The death of Great Sage Beiyu remained a mystery to this day.

Seeing Great Sage Beiyu’s weapon now, Master Xinhuo understood. “It seems Luo He killed Great Sage Beiyu.”

All transactions in the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall were recorded and strictly confidential. Even as the Master of the Chu Capital branch, Master Xinhuo would face severe punishment from the Yanfeng Guild if she leaked any information.

The Yanfeng Guild spanned a large portion of the Origin Continent, and its rules were naturally strict.

“Buzz.” An invisible light enveloped the treasures in the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall, appraising them and determining their value.

“Great Sage Luo He is truly remarkable,” Master Xinhuo exclaimed. “Great Sage Beiyu was also a peak Chaos realm expert and exceptionally skilled in the Dao of Life Source, possessing formidable survival capabilities. Yet, he still perished at Luo He’s hands.”

Luo Feng smiled, neither confirming nor denying.

“We will not leak any of our clients’ transaction information,” Master Xinhuo said, looking at the items. “These three formation diagrams are exceptionally valuable. The Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall can acquire them for 26 billion universe sand.”

In truth, the original owner of the three formation diagrams, Great Sage Tianyu, desired to purchase them. But after that battle, Great Sage Tianyu had become impoverished and couldn’t afford the price.

“These golden hoops are broken and need repair,” Master Xinhuo said. “We can only offer thirty percent of their original value, 9 billion universe sand.”

Luo Feng muttered to himself.

He should have held back a little. He had unleashed his power too freely, causing the golden hoops to break.

“These three black nails can also be valued at 9 billion universe sand.”

“The remaining saber and double-bladed axe can be collectively valued at 9 billion universe sand.”

“Adding it all up, the total is 53 billion universe sand,” Master Xinhuo said.

Luo Feng nodded. He had only brought out some of the more valuable treasures. There were still many small spoils that he hadn’t bothered to bring, since the total value of all those odds and ends was limited.

“As for the most important item, this Divine King weapon,” Master Xinhuo said, pointing to the weapon staff, “This is Lord Chuyuan’s Divine King weapon. It’s a first-level Divine King weapon, relatively simple to craft. According to the Yanfeng Guild Shadow Hall’s purchase price, it would be just the minimum of 50 billion universe sand.”

Luo Feng knew that even among first-level Divine King weapon treasures, armor and sabers were naturally different in value compared to a staff.

Palace-type treasures like the Star Tower were worth even more. At critical moments, one could hide inside the ‘palace-type treasure’ to escape. Of course, Luo Feng’s physical body was too powerful, and no one had forced him to hide inside the Star Tower to escape so far.

“There might even be Divine Kings who would bid to purchase a Divine King weapon,” Master Xinhuo said. “I suggest you ‘consign’ this staff through the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall. Given your status as Great Sage Luo He, our Shadow Hall will only charge the minimum consignment fee of half a percent. The starting bid for consignment would be 60 billion universe sand! You’ll definitely earn more than if the Shadow Hall were to purchase it directly.”

“Then consign it!” Luo Feng said.

“The shortest consignment period is one day, and the longest is one epoch,” Master Xinhuo said, looking at Luo Feng. “How long do you choose for the consignment period, Great Sage Luo He?”

“Ten thousand days will suffice,” Luo Feng said.

An epoch in the Origin Continent was a billion days long. There was no need to consign it for too long.

Master Xinhuo smiled. “Rest assured, we will inform all our important customers about this consignment news.” There were not many customers in the Origin Continent who could afford to purchase a Divine King weapon.

…

The news of the Divine King weapon consignment spread to many customers in the Origin Continent. Within Chu Capital, it stirred up some turmoil, since everyone knew it was once Lord Chuyuan’s weapon.

“Consigning my weapon?” Lord Chuyuan gripped his wine glass, crushing it to powder. His eyes flashed with thunder. “That Luo He!!!”

He was furious, but he had been reduced to liquid in their previous encounter.

Buzz. Lord Chuyuan immediately contacted his most trusted friend, Lord Chuji.

“Chuyuan, are you looking for me because of your weapon?” Lord Chuji knew his brother’s temperament well.

“Brother, that’s my weapon. If he hadn’t consigned it, it would be fine, but now he’s publicly consigning it… I must buy it back,” Lord Chuyuan said through gritted teeth. “It would be a disgrace for my weapon to fall into the hands of other cultivators.”

Lord Chuji replied, “Alright, I’ll help you.”

“I can only scrape together 50 billion universe sand,” Lord Chuyuan said. “When bidding to purchase it, I’ll probably need you to lend me some.”

“Alright,” Lord Chuji replied.

Even first-class marquises of the royal family needed to expend a large amount of resources for their cultivation. Lord Chuyuan had exhausted every means to gather 50 billion universe sand. If he needed more, he would have to borrow it!

Time flowed by, day by day.

Chaos crystals and chaos stones could naturally condense and form in the Chaos Ruins.

However, universe sand had to be condensed and formed through cultivation by Divine Kings. Each grain of universe sand contained pure power, and within each grain, there was the prototype of a universe. Even Divine Kings needed to put in effort to refine it.

Universe sand had many uses. It could be used to cleanse the bloodlines of some Eternal True Gods, to arrange formations, to nurture treasures of heaven and earth…

The most crucial use was to shatter the universe sand and observe the essential ‘composition of the Dao.’ Each grain of universe sand had to possess at least a ‘complete branch of the Dao’ in order to form.

Therefore, universe sand was quite valuable. Even Divine Kings would purchase some when cultivating unfamiliar branches of the Dao.

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In the blink of an eye, the consignment period ended.

Luo Feng arrived at the Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall, and Master Xinhuo greeted him warmly. “Great Sage Luo He, the final price for the Divine King weapon consignment was 70 billion universe sand. After deducting the half-percent fee, that’s 66.5 billion universe sand.”

Luo Feng was quite satisfied. Consigning such a valuable weapon was indeed much more worthwhile.

“Do you want the universe sand in physical form, or will you temporarily store it with our Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall?” Master Xinhuo asked.

“Store it temporarily,” Luo Feng said. “Also, I need to purchase perfect-level Chaos layer biological materials, materials exceeding one-millionth of the body will do. I’ll offer 10 billion universe sand for each material.”

Perfect Chaos layer biological materials were too difficult to obtain!

Luo Feng chose the simplest method: an exorbitant bounty!

An ordinary Divine King weapon generally started at 50 billion universe sand! He was offering 10 billion universe sand just to purchase some Chaos layer biological materials. He believed it would be tempting for some.

“I’ve already obtained a piece of material from the ‘Golden-Winged Divine Bird’,” Luo Feng said. “I only need one material from each perfect Chaos layer creature. This bounty is limited to ten kinds of perfect Chaos layer creatures.”

“Is there a time limit for the bounty?” Master Xinhuo asked.

“No, the bounty ends after I’ve acquired ten kinds of materials,” Luo Feng said.

Master Xinhuo understood. “The bounty handling fee is half a percent.”

“Agreed.”

Luo Feng didn’t mind. In the past epoch, his “Life Spirituality lineage” had reached the peak of the Chaos realm, while his “Life Body lineage” and “Life Source lineage” had both reached the top tier of the Chaos realm. Even so, Luo Feng still had many doubts about the “Trinity” when comprehending the feathers of the Golden-Winged Divine Bird.

Like the Golden-Winged Divine Bird, which possessed ordinary intelligence but could wield Chaos realm threshold moves and possess peak Chaos realm strength. This showed how terrifying these perfect Chaos layer creatures could be when cultivated to their limits.

If his “River Transformation Art” could also reach the Trinity level and reach its perfect limit, a single River blade light wielding ordinary moves would possess ‘peak Chaos realm strength.’

Then what kind of power would it be when ten thousand blade lights raged and overwhelmed? Even Chaos realm Transcendent or those just entering the Divine King level would probably be directly cleaved and have their Divine Bodies shattered.

“Pushing the Transformation Art to the perfect Chaos layer creature level is also a type of application of the Life Source Dao,” Luo Feng saw the prospects of this path and naturally wanted to continue down it.

…

“One hundred billion universe sand just to purchase a portion of a perfect Chaos layer creature’s material?” The Yanfeng Guild’s Shadow Hall transmitted the news to important customers, causing many to be tempted. Even Chaos realm Transcendent existences needed to expend a lot of effort to earn 10 billion universe sand.

At this moment, within the Myriad Worlds Nation.

Within the Myriad Worlds Nation, there was a world that had been opened up, raising many special creatures, including Divine King-level exotic beasts, perfect Chaos layer creatures, and some specially cultivated terrifying creatures.

“You need our body materials?” A towering rock-like creature and a silver-hooved beast were both looking at their keeper.

The keeper, a man in yellow robes, chuckled. “I only need a portion of your body materials, exceeding one-millionth of your bodies. After these body materials are sold, they cannot be actively annihilated.”

“Looks like he wants to research our body materials,” the towering rock creature and the silver-hooved beast looked at their keeper. Having reached the perfect level of Chaos layer creatures, they possessed high intelligence and could even wield some Chaos realm threshold moves.

“As long as you two agree! In the next ten thousand epochs, I will send over one “Blood Spirit Wine” every epoch,” the keeper said. This kind of matter required both perfect Chaos layer creatures to actively agree; otherwise, the materials would be annihilated with a thought.

“Two Blood Spirit Wines,” the silver-hooved beast held up two of its claws.

“Three!” The towering rock creature glanced at the silver-hooved beast. They had been casually captured from the Chaos layer by the Lord of the Myriad Worlds Nation long ago and had been kept for countless years. Body materials? They didn’t care. They just wanted to eat and drink well.

“I’ve already tried my best to get one Blood Spirit Wine,” the keeper shook his head repeatedly.

After arduous negotiations, the towering rock creature and the silver-hooved beast sold a small portion of their body materials at the price of “one and a half Blood Spirit Wines per epoch, continuously supplied for ten thousand epochs.”