Martial World's
Ch 1549 - Buying Treasure
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There were too many items scattered in front of the heavenly old secret master stall. It seemed like he was too lazy to finish these things and let them pile up.
Among these random items was a common piece of broken jade hidden by some other thing. If not for Lin Ming's incredible vision and the faint aura he felt from this broken jade, then he would have never realized it at all.
Lin Ming silently crouched down in front of the heavenly old secret master stall, quietly examining the broken jade.
After a while, he was able to confirm that he was not wrong.
Normally, someone as old and well-taught as this celestial old secret master vendor would have a huge amount of experience and it should be impossible for Lin Ming to find the hidden gems within the pile of random items. But, this broken jade was too special. Other than Lin Ming, no one else would feel anything special about it.
Although this broken jade was only an inch in size and was extremely fragmented, there were faint lines on its surface. These lines revealed an aura, which was exactly the same as the emperor jade that Lin Ming had obtained from the Wheel of Destiny!
When Lin Ming first entered the Asura Road, he had obtained the emperor jade. By relying on that, he had been able to enter the Great Desolate God Trove hidden in the depths of the Burying Ridge God. In the God Burying Ridge, the emperor jade had allowed Lin Ming to repeatedly overcome danger after danger, saving his life time and time again!
“Can the Asura Road Master leave more than one piece of emperor jade? Is there a pair, or even more than a pair? "
Lin Ming did not know why this emperor jade was broken. This small piece was not even a quarter of the size of a complete emperor jade, and it also lost the most important line of emperor jade. This would make perceiving something from him almost impossible.
This heavenly secret master must have accidentally obtained this broken jade from somewhere, and although he could vaguely sense it was unusual, he could not tell what it was. He probably thought it was just a fragment of an ancient top magic weapon, and thus he took it out for sale.
Lin Ming began to casually browse through every other item in the stall to prevent the heavenly elder secret master from finding his true purpose.
At this moment, the celestial secret master salesman opened his eyes, saying, “You are not a heavenly secret master and you also do not understand the materials I have, yet you are still lingering here. Do you like my stuff? Or maybe you think you found a treasure among my random items that you want to take from me? "
As the heavenly old secret master said these words, Lin Ming felt his heart chill. This old grandpa, he was too wary.
However, Lin Ming's behavior was completely unexplainable. What others wanted, Lin Ming had no, and as for the item placed, Lin Ming had no idea what it was. If he continued to wander around here and take a look around, then that could not be justified.
Lin Ming's mind changed and he immediately replied, "Senior shouldn't have said that. Although this junior is none other than an amateur layman when it comes to heavenly secret arts and I also do not have the materials that Senior wants, either, I still decide to become a heavenly secret master in the future. I ultimately need to understand what these things are, and there are always some things I have that Senior might need. For example.. god runes! ”
The god runes in the Asura Road were obtained through completing missions. Lin Ming had many rare blue soul runes as well as some black peak runes.
The heavenly secret art of a divine runic master required rare god runes. Just by combining these god runes with inscriptions formed a heavenly secret art.
Lin Ming guessed that heavenly secret masters were usually busy with their own matters every day so they almost never had time to go out on the greater Asura Road and complete missions. Thus, in order to obtain rare god runes they would trade for them here. This was why he was thinking of exchanging some treasures for god runes.
“You want to become a divine runic master? Hehe .. "The heavenly secret master vendor chuckled. Although it has not yet been evaluated, its meaning is clear. In his opinion, a human who wanted to become a divine runic master was no different from a frog who wanted to eat the flesh of a goose.
However, the celestial secret master vendor was indeed interested in Lin Ming's god runes. He asked, “Rune what god do you have? Let's see!"
Lin Ming did not take his god rune just yet. If this salesman saw that he had many rare god runes then he might ask for a ridiculous price.
Lin Ming said, "If I dare to speak like this, then I naturally have some of my supplies. ”
As Lin Ming finished speaking, he continued to look at random treasures. The initial idea was to casually pick up a few items and then easily take out the broken emperor jade as well. However, he immediately rejected this after he thought about it.
This was because other than the emperor jade shards, the other items did not need to be appraised at all. If he were to choose a lot of bargaining items and then add on this strange emperor jade fragment once again, it would definitely arouse the vendor's suspicions.
It was clear that this vendor did not understand what the emperor jade fragment was and that Lin Ming who lived around here was suspicious to begin with. If he were to take out the emperor jade fragment with many other things, then it would be too suspicious.
Lin Ming was just making things up on the spot. Where did Xiao Moxian have an uncle who needed an Empyrean spirit treasure to refine his life magic tool?
But, Xiao Moxian was a clever young woman; she immediately realized that Lin Ming wanted to hide his intention to buy this broken jade and avoid the old man's suspicions.
"Could this broken jade be a treasure?"
Xiao Moxian felt this was a bit too unbelievable. But, whether Lin Ming's decision was correct or not, he would not ruin his game. Without revealing a puzzled expression, he slapped the most helpless look he could. With a shameful tone of embarrassment, he said, “Master Lin, don't you think that this gift is a bit too sad? My uncle's celebration will make people come from all sides, and if you just take out a splinter of spirit treasures then .. don't you think it's a bit sad to let go? You should know that my uncle handles most of my family decisions. If he has a bad impression of you then I'm afraid our problem will be … "
Xiao Moxian immediately responded with her own game. Lin Ming was left somewhat stunned; wasn't his acting a bit too good?
Hearing Xiao Moxian call this gift a little .. sadly, the lips of the divine runic master vendor twitched. This was the same as saying that he was selling trash!
Just what kind of noble status was a heavenly secret master? He had lived to an advanced age and had many faces, yet he was currently humiliated by a little girl; how could he be happy about this at all?
"You want to buy it or not!"
The heavenly old secret master coldly coughed.
Lin Ming quickly apologized. “Senior has misunderstood the situation. Junior didn't mean it that way. I just mean to say that this magic weapon fragment has the lowest value of all Senior items, but even so, it will take out too much wealth from me. May I ask how far these magic weapon fragments are? ”
"Heh, you don't have to flatter me to forget!" The old man smirked. He looked at Lin Ming and then said, "10 blue soul runes!"
Lin Ming's heart skipped a beat as he heard this. He knew the approximate cost of the Empyrean spirit treasure fragment as well as the cost of the blue soul rune. The 10 blue soul god runes for this fragment were simply too outrageous. Even though Lin Ming was able to purchase 10 blue soul runes, he still felt that this old vendor was deceiving him. If he agreed, not only would he make himself seem suspicious, but this old man would not even sell it anymore.
“10 blue soul runes? Are you kidding me? As a senior, should you really try to slaughter a junior like this? The most I can offer is three! '' As Lin Ming spoke, he raised three fingers and three blue soul runes floated above his fingertips. Lin Ming had taken special care in choosing these three blue soul runes. Although their value was not very high, they were still extremely rare among the blue soul runes; they could not be bought with just money. Lin Ming wanted to arouse the interest of this heavenly old secret master.
However, Lin Ming had never thought that once the heavenly old secret master saw these three runes, he would immediately take back the emperor jade fragment!
Lin Ming inwardly grimaced. Could it be that this old man did not plan to sell to him anymore?
If the heavenly old secret master did not plan on selling to Lin Ming then Lin Ming had nothing else he could do; he could only leave. Otherwise, if Lin Ming offered a higher price, the old man's suspicion would be higher, eventually only having the opposite effect.
The old man turned the broken jade in his hand several times, carefully probing it and using his common sense to evaluate it. This process continues for the entire time of the incense.
This old man had already appraised this item many times before. In the Guild of heavenly Appearance Masters, the heavenly runic masters were generally on good terms with each other. When others evaluated this item, they also came up with similar judgments.
This kind of magic weapon fragment was likely of Empyrean spirit treasure rank.
This was not too tempting for the old man. If not for the strange line covering this piece of jade, he would have already overcome it.
Empyrean spirit treasures were priceless although complete; their value would be far inferior to transcendent heavenly powers. This was because a most Empyrean would be able to form one transcendent heavenly power in their life, if there was one. As for the Empyrean spirit treasures, they would make some of them.
An incomplete Empyrean spirit treasure was even less valuable. This only use was as Lin Ming had said, to bring out the artifact spirit and form his own treasure.
Finally, the old man handed the broken jade over to Lin Ming. He coldly said, “Three blue soul runes, for you. ”
Hearing these words, Lin Ming finally relaxed.
This old man was careful and stingy to the point that he could squeeze oil out of the sand. A junior had chosen one of his items and even provided a good reason to do so, yet he actually brought him back to look at it a few times!
The three blue soul runes were rather tall for an Empyrean spirit treasure fragment, but it was not too outrageous. Lin Ming was afraid that the runes he took out could not move the heavenly old secret master. If so, he could only leave. Otherwise, the more he tried to barter, the more suspicious the old man would become. It seemed that Xiao Moxian's performance just now was more effective than she had thought.
Lin Ming handed over the three blue soul runes and finally bought what he wanted. As for the old man, he was satisfied with the three blue soul runes that Lin Ming had said; he indeed needed them.