Chapter 240: Transaction with Bai Yaoyi
Seeing Ye Changsheng sitting down, the wealthy old man also sat down opposite Ye Changsheng and Bai Yaoyi.
"Since Brother Ye has just arrived here, I will repeat the rules of the South Sea Pavilion's intelligence trading that I just told Fairy Bai. I think Fairy Bai won't mind, right?" The wealthy old man glanced at Bai Yaoyi and said.
The woman in palace dress smiled softly and said, "Of course I don't mind, but your Nanhai Pavilion is so famous, and the trading rules have long been known to all Taoist friends. Do I need to repeat them so many times?"
The wealthy old man smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "Rules are rules. No matter whether others know it or not, I have to repeat it!"
As he spoke, he turned his gaze towards Ye Changsheng and said, "Brother Ye may have heard before that when our Nanhai Pavilion conducts transactions with cultivators of different realms, there are different rules!"
"The trading rules for selling information to a fellow Yuanying stage practitioner like Brother Ye are stricter than those for other realms!"
As he spoke, he took out a white jade slab, placed it on the table, and said:
"Brother Ye can write down what he wants to know on this. If our Nanhai Pavilion has obtained the relevant information before, then the reward that Brother Ye must pay to obtain this information will automatically appear on this stone slab!"
"After Brother Ye pays the corresponding reward, the information that Brother Ye wants will appear on the stone slab. I have no idea about the whole process!"
"In other words, I only know what kind of reward Brother Ye paid, but I have no idea what kind of information Brother Ye bought!"
"This is the approach we choose at Nanhai Pavilion to protect the privacy of our customers. I think Brother Ye should understand the benefits of this!" said the wealthy old man with a smile on his face.
Ye Changsheng's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and he sneered in his heart.
He didn't believe what the old man said, that he didn't know what specific information he had purchased.
However, what Nanhai Pavilion did can indeed dispel the doubts of many people and make people feel more at ease.
After all, in this world of cultivation, most of the information people want to buy is shameful.
"Nanhai Pavilion has a good reputation all year round and has never leaked any information about its customers. This is trustworthy, so I chose to come here to purchase intelligence!" Bai Yaoyi on the side suddenly said in a soft voice.
"What if the information I want to know is not in this white stone slab?" Ye Changsheng asked as he picked up the stone slab and looked at it for a few seconds.
"Haha, it was my negligence that I forgot to make it clear to Brother Ye that the intelligence we sell in Nanhai Pavilion is all related to the South China Sea area. Nanhai Pavilion will not accept any intelligence transactions beyond the scope of the South China Sea!" said the wealthy old man with a chuckle.
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng nodded secretly.
A sect that doesn't even have a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator is selling information about the inland. I'm afraid the ten major sects of the righteous and evil forces in the Great Jin Dynasty will not let this sect off easily.
The Nanhai Gate is also very smart, and the sale of intelligence is limited to the small area of Nanhai.
They can still hold their own here.
"If Brother Ye wants to buy information related to the South China Sea, and our Nanhai Sect does not have it, then our pavilion will compensate Brother Ye with 100,000 spirit stones!" the old man said again.
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes, smiled faintly and asked: "Nanhai Pavilion is so kind, aren't you afraid that others will make up something to take your spirit stones?"
The wealthy old man laughed when he heard this and said, "It's not like there haven't been any of us who have done this before, but since our Nanhai Pavilion is so confident in setting such a rule, we are naturally not afraid of someone doing this!"
"Whether it is a real thing or something made up to get our spirit stones, we can tell the difference. Once we find out it is a fabricated thing, this stone slab will give the answer that it does not exist. This can be regarded as completing the intelligence transaction!"
"And those fellow Taoists who fabricated the information will naturally have to pay for this information!" said the wealthy old man, stroking his beard with a smile.
"If someone wants to make trouble deliberately, I believe that unless he is a great cultivator in the late stage, he will not be able to fight against our Nanhai Sect on this island!" said the old man with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
It seemed like he was warning Ye Changsheng and the other two.
When Ye Changsheng and Bai Yaoyi heard this, they smiled indifferently and didn't care.
The wealthy old man added, "Also, once Brother Ye writes down what you want on the slate and the reward you want appears on the slate, Brother Ye must immediately hand over the reward in exchange for the information!"
"If Brother Ye cannot hand over the reward immediately, he will have to compensate Nanhai Pavilion with 300,000 spirit stones!"
After the wealthy old man finished speaking, Ye Changsheng heard Bai Yaoyi beside him smile bitterly and say:
"I don't know how many Taoist friends have had to pay a large amount of spirit stones to Nanhai Pavilion because of this rule!"
"Sometimes the rewards requested on this stone slab are very strange!" Bai Yaoyi said with a dissatisfied look.
Hearing this, the wealthy old man quickly defended himself: "Fairy Bai, you are really wronging our Nanhai Pavilion. We have always exchanged intelligence on an equal basis. We get the same level of reward for the level of intelligence we get!"
"Moreover, these rewards are definitely not particularly rare in the world of immortal cultivation, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many successful transactions in the past!"
He looked at the two of them with a serious expression and said, "You two should also know that our practice of selling intelligence is somewhat taboo among our fellow practitioners!"
"If you take such a big risk to do this, the reward must be high enough, otherwise the Nanhai Pavilion will not be able to continue!"
"But you have had enough examples of failure in the past. Just relying on this strange rule, I don't know how much spiritual stones your Nanhai Pavilion has earned from your fellow Taoists!" Bai Yaoyi said with a little dissatisfaction.
It seems that this fairy is very worried that she will not be able to pay the reward requested on the stone slab.
"You have to accept the consequences. Since you have chosen to trade with us, you must naturally bear the corresponding risks!" The wealthy old man said with a smile.
He looked at Ye Changsheng and Bai Yaoyi, chuckled, put the stone slab between them, and asked, "Fellow Daoists, who will go first?"
"Brother Ye, please come first. I still need to continue thinking about it!" Bai Yaoyi said with a bright smile.
Ye Changsheng nodded when he heard this and did not refuse.
Three hundred thousand spirit stones might be all the liquid cash on other Nascent Soul cultivators, but it was not a big number at all for him.
He could definitely afford the risk.
Picking up the slate, Ye Changsheng wrote the words "Level 8 White Spirit Mermaid" on it.
The next moment, a layer of faint white light rippled on the white jade slab, completely submerging the words, and then making a buzzing sound.
At the same time, in a secret room in the heart of Nanhai Gate, an old man with white hair and beard opened his eyes.
His eyes looked towards the opposite wall, where there was also a white jade slab, but it was much larger than the one Ye Changsheng had seen.
On the white jade slab, the words "Eighth Level White Spirit Mermaid" that Ye Changsheng had just written appeared.
"An eighth-level white spirit mermaid? This is very rare! If I hadn't seen such a monster when I visited Lord Aries a few years ago, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to answer this question!" The old man with white hair and beard showed surprise on his face after seeing these words.
Shaking his head, he murmured, "Junior Brother Chen said a few days ago that the furnace of elixirs he refined was still lacking a 3,000-year-old spiritual medicine as the main ingredient, so let him pay with this!"
As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and carved the words "Three Thousand Years of Elixir" on the white jade wall.
"Three thousand year old elixir? The price asked by Nanhai Pavilion is really high!" Seeing this information appearing on the white jade slab, Ye Changsheng frowned slightly.
However, he had no shortage of three thousand year old spiritual medicines. After thinking about it, he took out a jade box from his storage bag and took out the most common three thousand year old spiritual medicine.
There are still differences between spiritual medicines. Some spiritual medicines are three thousand years old, and Ye Changsheng can copy them with only one thousand spirit stones.
Some require four to five thousand spirit stones.
Since there were no specific requirements for the elixir here, he would naturally give the worst kind.
Seeing what Ye Changsheng took out, Bai Yaoyi on the side suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
If the price is of this level, then she can still afford it.
The three thousand year old elixir was indeed very precious, but as a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, she should not be so poor that she didn't even have this little wealth.
"Brother Ye, just put the elixir on the stone slab!" The wealthy old man said with a smile after seeing Ye Changsheng take out the elixir.
Ye Changsheng placed the three thousand year old elixir on the white jade slab as instructed. The next moment, a white light flashed and the elixir was swept away out of thin air.
Then, a line of words appeared on the white jade slab. After Ye Changsheng read it, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
"Aries Lord, one of the three overseas immortals, is raising an eighth-level white spirit mermaid? This is a bit difficult to deal with. It is said that this guy is not easy to deal with! " Ye Changsheng thought to himself, and he frowned slightly.
He had heard some rumors about this great monk from those foundation-building monks before.
It is said that this person is quite solitary and does not like to be disturbed. He lives in seclusion on Aries Island all year round, and few people can get close to the island.
The information on the white jade slab stayed for a moment and then slowly disappeared. Seeing this, Ye Changsheng put it down.
"It seems that Brother Ye has obtained the information he wanted!" said the wealthy old man with a laugh.
"I got it , but it's a bit difficult to get what I need!" Ye Changsheng said with a wry smile.
"Haha, the most difficult thing in this world is often to have a goal but not know where to take the first step. Now that Brother Ye has obtained the information, it is equivalent to having taken a step from zero to one. No matter how difficult the rest is, it will not be as difficult as this step!" said the wealthy old man with a big laugh.
Ye Changsheng smiled and did not respond when he heard this.
Bai Yaoyi, who was standing by, couldn't help but feel more confident when she saw Ye Changsheng's transaction was successful.
Then she laughed tenderly and said, "It's my turn next!"
As she spoke, she took the white marble slab and carved a few words on it.
As she was writing, white light emerged from the white jade slab, blocking other people's spiritual observation.
After writing, a white light submerged the font. After a moment, when Bai Yaoyi saw the price emerging on the stone slab, her face suddenly changed.
"Why, Fairy Bai, don't you have anything to pay the reward?" The wealthy old man asked with a strange look in his eyes when he saw this scene.
Bai Yaoyi smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Ye's transaction was so smooth just now that I thought the reward I would have to pay after my turn would also be something like a three thousand year old elixir. I didn't expect that now..."
Bai Yaoyi shook her head with some regret.
The wealthy old man saw this scene and laughed, saying, "In this case, Fairy Bai must admit defeat and hand over 300,000 spirit stones!"
Bai Yaoyi's face suddenly turned ugly when she heard this. She bit her lower lip lightly and was silent for a moment. Suddenly, she turned to look at Ye Changsheng and asked:
"I wonder if Brother Ye has any high-level wood-attributed spirit stones. I am willing to pay a high price for them!"
"A high-level spirit stone with wood attribute?" Ye Changsheng's eyes flashed when he heard this. He had quite a few high-level spirit stones with wood attribute.
Most of the spiritual stones mined from the spiritual mine on the Biling Island are of wood attribute, including some top-grade spiritual stones, not to mention high-grade ones.
"I happen to have a high-level wood-attributed spirit stone on me!" Ye Changsheng said with a faint smile.
Hearing this, Bai Yaoyi's eyes suddenly showed joy, and she quickly said: "As long as Brother Ye is willing to sell it, I can pay 200,000 spirit stones to buy this high-level wood-attribute spirit stone!"
According to the conversion method, a high-level wood-attribute spirit stone is only worth ten thousand low-level spirit stones, but when it is usually sold, the price is not converted in this way.
However, Bai Yaoyi directly raised the price by twenty times, which was indeed quite exaggerated.
Ye Changsheng took out a high-level wood-attribute spirit stone from his storage bag and said with a faint smile: "Ye doesn't need the fairy's 200,000 spirit stones, I just want a promise from the fairy!"
"Brother Ye, please speak!" Bai Yaoyi said immediately after hearing this.
"I may go to the far north in the near future. By then, I hope to use the power of Xiaoji Palace to help find something!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
"That's no problem. When the time comes, as long as Brother Ye brings it up, I will mobilize the power of Xiaoji Palace to help Brother Ye search for what he wants!" Bai Yaoyi said immediately.
"Okay, in that case, then I hope that the fairy can keep her promise!" Ye Changsheng said, handing over a high-level spirit stone.
Bai Yaoyi looked at him gratefully, and placed the spirit stone on the white jade slab just as he had done before.
After a flash of light , the high-level spirit stone disappeared, and a line of words appeared on the stone slab.
After Bai Yaoyi read the words attentively for a moment, a smile broke out on her face.
After she put down the stone slab, the wealthy old man spoke: "It seems that both of you have obtained the information you wanted. This transaction went smoothly. You are welcome to come again next time!"
