Phoenix Destroyer
43. Meteorite

A group of young people moved to the tea pavilion.

After conversing for a while, Xiao Jinxi chased the others away under the pretext of resting, then sent Feng Mo and Kong Li back. "Let's take a break today, I'll take you around town tomorrow. Last time we came in a hurry."

Feng Mo and Kong Li did not refuse. "OK, trouble Brother Xiao."

The two returned to the guest room they had occupied before.

Xiao Jia is a family with a purification heritage of hundreds of thousands of years, and has dominated the magic weapon market. Among the five great families, only Gu Jia's Alchemy inheritance had a history equal in length to Xiao Jia, who could match him.

The main residence of Xiao Jia is to the north of the city. Originally Xiao Jia occupied most of the land in the city, but over time Xiao Jia moved his basecamp behind the scenes, and only used the land in the previous city as a shop.

Now with the support of Xiao Jia, the once small town had now become a big city, and was renamed Hongshi.

Hongshi City was a big city, with the involvement of Xiao Jia, the majority of the population other than ordinary humans were cultivators who worked as spiritual tool purifiers. More than four-fifths of all the shops in the city were selling magic weapons or refining materials.

It could be said that Hongshi City was the center of refining materials from the entire continent.

Xiao Jinxi took Feng Mo and Kong Li out of the house and took a walk in the prosperous region of the city. While Xiao Qimiao and Meng Shize followed behind.

Four handsome young men and one beautiful woman walked by domineeringly on the street.

Some pedestrians blushed when they saw people who looked handsome and beautiful. Some openly appreciate beauty. But after all, some people recognized that they were the children of Xiao Jia and did not dare to provoke.

Xiao Jinxi stopped in front of a large shop.

"This is our family shop. Usually we sell all the spiritual tools made by other fellow members here. We also offer magical weapons deals with other people. All kinds of spiritual tools and purification materials are available inside. And our shop also traded all sorts of rare refining materials." Xiao Jinxi had restored Young Master Xiao's temperament and introduced the origin of the shop to the two.

"How rare is that?" Kong Li asked curiously.

"As long as you provide spiritual stones, even if our shop does not have them here, we will send people to find them."

"Let's see."

A group of people entered the shop.

The shopkeeper was about to greet the guests when he saw that the people who entered were Xiao Jinxi. Although not all of Xiao Jia's members could tell, the shopkeeper still recognized Xiao Jinxi's face.

Xiao Jinxi is the Young Master, and the future Patriarch. The shopkeeper came from a branch family, he had enough ability to be able to become a shopkeeper here.

"Young Master."

Xiao Jinxi nodded. "We'll take a look around for a while, you don't need to follow."

"Yes." Yeah."

Another reason why Xiao Jia could develop into a big one was also because of the education received since childhood. Not much internal strife can shake the foundation of the family, and when facing an enemy, they will soon be united.

Young people have been taught about punishment and rewards.

There were not many families large and small that were able to educate like Xiao Jia. Some families were clearly divided into several factions and powers. They are still fighting over resources with their own families.

The Xiao Jia refining shop occupied an extremely large area.

The shop is divided into two parts. The front is dedicated to selling spiritual tools, and the back is used to trade purification materials. Special shelves were placed to put all sorts of purification materials.

The Xiao Jia purification shop also received orders, anyone who wants to make personal spiritual tools, please come with the required materials.

Xiao Jinxi brought them behind.

"This is the raw material usually used for... "

"This is a level 7 monster bone, many high-level purifiers use it to make weapons... "

"This is a meteorite rock, this thing is highly sought after, because this thing is a good material for fusion."

"Fusions?"

"Yes, not all refining materials can be combined easily, there are even some materials that are mutually exclusive and mutually restraining, we need meteorite stones to help smooth the merging."

Feng Mo nodded in understanding.

Then Xiao Jinxi brought them to the place of the finished product.

Some spiritual weapons or tools are lined up in a display case. From the low level to the top level.

Kong Li took a look around and found a spiritual tool that attracted him. It was another folding fan made from peacock tail feathers.

Kong Li did not know which type was willing to sell his fur. Because usually the peacock demon clan would not easily sell its falling feathers.

"I want this one."

Xiao Qimiao saw that Kong Li was interested in a fan. He was not surprised, because previously he had also fought with Kong Li over the matter of clothes. He realized that some of those handsome personal preferences had a lot in common with him.

"This fan is made of the Peacock Demon feather, this thing has a 30-point attack bonus, and has a hidden formation, as long as you activate the formation, no one will recognize your aura." Xiao Qimiao introduced happily.

"This peacock feather, how did you guys get it?"

Xiao Jinxi came from behind. "We have a special channel, usually we get some Peacock feathers every few years."

"Special?" Kong Li was a little suspicious.

"We trade with the Peacock Patriarch. At first we wanted Phoenix feathers, but Phoenix feathers weren't easy to get, so we could only switch on second best feathers." Xiao Jinxi said it easily. But if it was someone else he wouldn't even say it in the slightest.

Kong Li: " ... " Is that the reason why the father often visited the nursery? However peacock babies often shed their hair when growing hair.

Feng Mo in the back: " ... " You guys are so big-mouthed to ask for Phoenix fur.

"In the contract described, if your side cannot send the meteorite stone in the agreed amount, we will not give you a magic weapon this year, until you give the rest of the meteorite rock."

"We have sent such a huge sum before, how could it be insufficient?! You guys are too deceiving!"

"Cousin calm!"

The quarrel in front of the counter attracted everyone's attention.

Other visitors stop their activities and watch the excitement.

The shopkeeper still maintained his professionalism when facing the two guests who were making trouble. "This Young Master, please pay attention to your words, our Xiao Jia Refining Shop has never deceived a client."

"Shopkeeper please calm down. We didn't mean that, we just wanted to ask about the previous batch of weapons."

"In the contract, a magic weapon set could only be provided when the number of meteorite stones was met."

"Can't we take it a little?"

"Sorry."

The young man's forehead wrinkled from thinking too much. But the other young man who had a fight with the shopkeeper did not look troubled, even a little annoying.

"Young Master."

The shopkeeper saw that Xiao Jinxi had come and immediately explained, "This is Young Master Han from Hua Kingdom, Young Master Han is coming for a collection of weapons." There was no need to mention the other party as a prince in the territory of others.

Xiao Jinxi looked at the two youths who looked younger than Xiao Qimiao. But to their cultivators, faces could not determine age.

The other person saw that someone from Xiao Jia suddenly appeared, he was a little uncomfortable.

"Young Master Han can mention the matter."

Han Yilang was the youngest Prince of Hua Kingdom, he was sent by his father, the Emperor, to go to the Xiao Jia region. This time, the magic weapon problem was very urgent. This tapu was the first time he had come out of the imperial city, so he was a little lost.

"The Hua Kingdom has been sending out large quantities of meteorite stones every year, but the magic weapons we received are decreasing year after year, we came to want to know what happened."

Han Yilang had the green face of a youngster, he looked honest so looked easily bullied.

Xiao Jinxi nodded, she had also heard this matter from her other subordinates when they were talking about it.

Hua Kingdom has decreased some of its shipments from year to year.

"Who was responsible for the delivery of the meteorite stone earlier?" Although Xiao Jinxi understood, but she was still a businessman.

"It was the imperial uncle."

"You brought the seal?"

The faces of the two young men were ugly. "We met with a robbery on the way and the seal was gone." Although there were now many teleportation arrays, but some places were still unreachable by arrays. Also because of this there were still rampant bandits, and they lost some bodyguards.

The storage ring containing the imperial seal was also lost. Either fell or stolen.

Xiao Jinxi did not ask any more, she said to the shopkeeper, "Bring the cash book here."

"Yes, Young Master."

The shopkeeper walked to the back and returned after a while with a book.

Xiao Jinxi flipped through the records about the meteorite stone.

"A few decades ago, shipments of meteorite rocks had dropped within a certain range that was quite normal. But since ten years ago, meteorite rocks have only survived in the minimal range, how many times this year did they send?"

"Only 180 kati out of 250 kati." The shopkeeper replied.

Han Yilang's face immediately turned pale.

Xiao Jinxi showed generously the cash book on the two. The imperial seal is seen in the transaction.

"No way!" The young man next door reacted violently, his face flushed red with anger. He wanted to continue quibbling but was immediately stopped by Han Yilang.

"Can we copy the cash book? We want to investigate what happened."

"Okay, wait a minute." Xiao Jinxi did not mind it, however her shop still wanted a meteorite stone. There are actually several other resources that could aid fusion refining, but meteorite rocks are the easiest materials to find.

The shopkeeper copied some of the transactions in the information jade and gave them to the two.

The two people no longer made trouble and immediately left.

After the two left, Feng Mo and the others approached and happened to hear Xiao Jinxi's conversation with the shopkeeper.

"Something happened to the Hua Kingdom?" Some people are pressing for a magic weapon.

Hua Kingdom was the weakest Kingdom of the top three kingdoms. The number of internal disputes about power struggles, makes them forget about external things.

Suddenly they were urging magic weapons, so something big must have happened.

The shopkeeper thought for a moment. "It may be time to put up a large-scale beast."

Xiao Jinxi was immediately enlightened.

"What is an animal?" Feng Mo suddenly felt interested.

The shopkeeper explained, "The Hua Kingdom borders the forest of the demon clan territory, in addition to the demon cultivators, many savage beasts without intelligence are coming in and out of the forest. Those ferocious beasts were always breeding very quickly, so the resources in the forest became scarce.

They did not dare to enter the territory of the demon clan so they attacked the nearest human kingdom to obtain resources.

Usually every few decades there will be pairs of small animals, then every hundred years there will be pairs of large-scale animals. Every time the tide of large-scale beasts, Hua Kingdom had to pay a very high price."

That was why the Hua Kingdom could not develop at all. The continuous strife and tide of beasts that occurred once every few decades.

"No force will help?"

"Of course there is, but everything they do and find will have nothing to do with the Hua Kingdom."

Feng Mo understood, even if anyone helped, no one would give his hunting results to the Hua Kingdom. Hua Kingdom still had to rely on itself.

"Since there will be pairs of large-scale beasts, we will have to send some juniors to practice." Xiao Jinxi suddenly thought about it.

"Yes." Yeah."

They did not discuss the matter anymore, after getting some things they wanted, they went out of the store and looked for a restaurant.

Meanwhile Han Yilang and his cousin were having a fight in the rental yard.

"King Ren is really outrageous! He used an imperial seal to darken the meteorite rock!"

"Cousin! Imperial uncle is not like that! Something must be happening... Maybe he doesn't even know there are things like this. Imperial uncle is still guarding the border city!"

The cousin was pouting. "Then how should we say this to the Emperor?"

"We requested a copy of the transaction from the Imperial Uncle's subordinates and showed the two transcripts to the Emperor. As for anything else, it is not our authority to investigate."

"Okay, let's go back soon. It turns out the outside world isn't as beautiful as it seems."

"Ms."

Han Yilang saw his cousin coming out of the room, his face immediately became serious. Although he was not cultivated as a successor to the throne, Han Yilang was still a serious Prince.

He still knows the intrigue in court.

The embezzlement of meteorite stones could not be Imperial Uncle. Imperial Uncle had been guarding the border ever since his cultivation qualification was fulfilled. So that he was well aware of the dangers that the Hua Kingdom would face if the border was broken.

And the meteorite stone mine had nothing to do with Imperial Uncle, he was only responsible for surveillance and escort. The transaction seal was indeed in his hands, but the imperial uncle did not use the seal too much to avoid suspicion.

Han Yilang looked at the copy of the cash book seriously.

The embezzlement of the meteorite stone should begin when the Crown Prince disappears.