Lie Yangfeng pondered for a moment, then looked up at Su Yueli. “Since you personally killed this Red-Tailed Venomous Scorpion, Miss Su, the two venomous stingers naturally belong to you. However...”
“My junior brother and sister did chase it for a whole day, causing it to suffer significant internal injuries. You did pick up an easy bargain at the end, Miss Su.”
“In my view, if you offer some compensation, we can let this matter go. As for you injuring my junior brother, since they were in the wrong first, we won't hold it against you.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Junior Brother Wu, who was collapsed on the ground, and the red-clothed female cultivator beside him grew anxious.
“Senior Brother Lie! How can we just let it go like this? She shattered my spiritual shield and almost took my life!” The male cultivator coughed up blood, his face filled with resentment.
The female cultivator also gritted her teeth. “Yes, Senior Brother! She is just a mortal martial artist. She stole our demon beast, so why should we back down to her?”
“Shut up!”
Lie Yangfeng's face darkened, and the blazing spiritual energy around his body surged slightly. A powerful pressure of the late stage Third Realm instantly enveloped the two.
“You two grew greedy upon seeing wealth and damaged the sect's reputation! Once we return, go to the Discipline Hall yourself to receive your punishment! If you dare say another word, do not blame me for disregarding our bond as fellow disciples!”
Rebuked by Lie Yangfeng, the two immediately shrank their necks in fear.
Although their eyes were filled with venom, they ultimately did not dare to say another word.
Su Yueli watched this and nodded inwardly.
This Lie Yangfeng was quite reasonable and acted fairly.
Still, she shrugged helplessly. “Fellow Daoist Lie, you act fairly, so I have no objections. In fact, I intended to compensate them from the very beginning. Unfortunately, your junior brother and sister not only refused to accept it, but also insisted on stealing my weapon, which forced my hand.”
Hearing this, Lie Yangfeng looked somewhat embarrassed.
He glared fiercely at the two, feeling completely humiliated.
Seeing this, Su Yueli swept a glance into her storage bag.
With this glance, the corner of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
She truly didn't realize until she checked, and the sight gave her quite a shock.
She was currently dirt poor, and the cultivators in front of her would definitely look down on mundane gold, silver, and treasures.
Aside from the many ancient weapons she had picked up while sitting in the Cangyun Ancient Kingdom ruins for decades, her storage bag only contained some herbs she had casually plucked in the forbidden area. She had no idea if any of them were useful.
With a thought, she clattered a large pile of rusty swords, spears, and halberds from her storage bag, all of them radiating the aura of time.
The red-clothed female cultivator glanced at the weapons on the ground, her face instantly twisting in disgust as she sneered, “A pile of junk! Mortal martial artists truly have no background. They can't produce anything good. How unlucky.”
Su Yueli's eyes suddenly turned cold. Inside her body, which was already somewhat depleted of blood, her Ji Dao fist force roared into motion.
She took a step forward, her entire being radiating killing intent, and Xiaohei, hidden in her right sleeve, instantly thrust out with a blinding, cold gleam.
“What are you doing?!”
The female cultivator was startled by Su Yueli's sudden, fierce posture.
Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly took three steps back, instinctively raising her flaming longsword to protect her chest as she assumed a combat stance.
Su Yueli stood in place, looking at her coldly, but she didn't actually pounce.
She was only scaring the woman.
If Lie Yangfeng weren't here, with this woman's loose mouth, she would have sliced her tongue out today no matter what.
Seeing this, Lie Yangfeng frowned slightly, walked over to the pile of weapons, and squatted down to examine a few of them.
Although these weapons were made of old materials, they indeed had some history.
“These weapons are somewhat strange; their material is very hard. If the mundane iron inside is refined and melted down, and they are all combined, they could actually make a decent immortal weapon prototype. However...”
Lie Yangfeng stood up and shook his head. “The spiritual energy inside is too scarce, and the weight of the materials is also insufficient. They cannot match the value of these two venomous stingers.”
Su Yueli was noncommittal.
No matter how many weapons Cangyun Kingdom had, they were ultimately just mundane objects. That was indeed the truth.
After a brief thought, she pulled out five oddly shaped herbs from her storage bag. “Fellow Daoist Lie, see if these will do?”
Lie Yangfeng originally only took a casual glance, but when his gaze fell on the outermost withered grass that was entirely dark blue with silver spots on its leaves, his body shook violently.
Although he tried his best to conceal it, Su Yueli still noticed a flash of shock and desire deep in his eyes.
Good stuff...
Su Yueli immediately felt reassured.
Although she didn't know what this withered grass she had casually pulled from the Cangyun Kingdom forbidden area was called, for it to make a Third Realm first disciple of the Chiyang Sect show such an expression, it was absolutely a rare immortal herb.
Su Yueli unobtrusively bent down, picked the dark blue withered grass back up, and casually examined it in her hand.
“Fellow Daoist Lie, this is a real treasure. Back then, to pluck this immortal herb, I almost lost half my life. It is very precious.” Su Yueli looked at Lie Yangfeng, starting to bluff him playfully.
“Using this herb as compensation is really a bit too much, isn't it?”
Seeing the herb being put away, Lie Yangfeng's throat bobbed slightly, and his expression grew somewhat unnatural.
Coughing, he asked tentatively, “Miss Su, are you willing to sell this Sky Blue Silver Spot Grass? To tell you the truth, I happen to need such a spiritual herb for my seclusion and alchemy. If you are willing to let me have this medicine...”
Hearing this, Su Yueli sneered in her heart. It really was good stuff.
“I risked my life to get this. I originally planned to trade it for blood qi spiritual pills for high-level martial artists when I got the chance. If I just give it to your Chiyang Sect as compensation, I would lose out too much.”
Su Yueli deliberately shook her head and sighed, making a motion to stuff it back into her storage bag. “I'd better find something else for you.”
“Wait!”
Lie Yangfeng hurriedly called out to stop her, his expression looking somewhat anxious.
He thought for a moment, and finally, gritting his teeth, pulled out a heavy blue qiankun bag from his robes.
“Miss Su, I won't take advantage of you either. Today, my junior brother and sister were in the wrong first. I will exchange three hundred mid-grade spirit stones for this spiritual herb! As for the compensation for the venomous stingers, we can count it as offset within this. What do you think, Miss?”
Three hundred mid-grade spirit stones?
Su Yueli thought about it. Exchanging cultivators' resources for things used by martial artists was very cost-effective.
Previously, Qi Feng had helped her find materials to refine three precious True Martial Blood Soul Pills, which probably cost some spirit stones as well.
These three hundred spirit stones would be enough for her to outsource a large batch of top-tier martial artist spiritual pills from Qi Feng in the future.
Thinking of this, Su Yueli nodded and agreed.
“Since Fellow Daoist Lie is so sincere, then it's a deal.”
Su Yueli tossed the dark blue withered grass over and caught the qiankun bag handed over by Lie Yangfeng.
When she was in Qingzhou City, she had heard the wine-buying cultivators say that a sect chores disciple's annual income was only about 2,000 low-grade spirit stones.
Three hundred mid-grade spirit stones were equivalent to thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones, which was fifteen years of income for a chores disciple. It seemed like a massive sum.
She looked at the many herbs inside her storage bag. As for the Sky Blue Silver Spot Grass she had just traded, she still had three more.
It seemed she was sitting on a little treasure trove...
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