Chapter 618 (1/2)

Chapter 618

Sending off Zheng Wenlong and seeing his helpless expression, Long Chen was also a bit speechless .

Perhaps this brother of his would be incredibly depressed now . As soon as Long Chen had stated that number, Zheng Wenlong’s excited expression seemed like it had been struck by a hammer . That marvelous change was truly indescribable .

However, Zheng Wenlong had said that one million middle grade spirit stones were absolutely impossible . Even he didn’t have the authority to get such a sum from the Huayun Sect .

As soon as he returned, he would gather one hundred thousand middle grade spirit stones for Long Chen, but the rest would have to be gathered slowly . Hopefully, he could quickly announce the auctions for the Meridian Opening Spirit Cliff Trees and get a large sum quickly . Then he could send Long Chen some more money .

Zheng Wenlong had told Long Chen that he had given the Huayun Sect quite a few resources, and those resources would bring in a great deal of money in the future .

But the future was the future . From a business standpoint, the Huayun Sect had already given Long Chen an advance payment on several years’ worth of profit .

For example, the Bone Tempering Pills had once been monopolized by the Pill Tower . But now that Long Chen had given the Huayun Sect the pill formula, they had taken up thirty percent of that market .

Although it was only thirty percent, when compared to how large the world was, it was practically an oceanic sum of money . But that money wouldn’t be received immediately . It was something that would come in over the years .

So the Huayun Sect had already been very generous to give him an advance payment of several years’ worth of profit, but Long Chen’s requirements had already far surpa.s.sed that amount . So Zheng Wenlong had had to vouch for him, asking for more resources from the Huayun Sect for Long Chen .

Right now, Zheng Wenlong’s businesses were growing larger and larger, but he found that he himself was growing poorer and poorer . Furthermore, the immense amount of debt he owed made him speechless .

However, businessmen all enjoyed his kind of heart-pounding kind of gambling . So, to Zheng Wenlong, this was also extremely exciting .

After sending off Zheng Wenlong, Long Chen took a trip to Guo Ran’s seclusion room . Guo Ran was completely focused on smelting the Treasure item’s fragments .

There was a huge furnace on the forging table that was currently at work . Long Chen couldn’t help being startled . This forging table’s origins were truly too terrifying . It was even able to smelt Treasure cla.s.s material .

Crack… crack…

Long Chen turned in the direction of a certain sound . He saw that at the bottom of the forging table, there was a formation with dozens of middle grade spirit stones . Their originally crystalline bodies shattered and burst apart, becoming a pile of trash .

Once those middle grade spirit stones shattered, the furnace’s flame began to weaken . Guo Ran hastily threw in a new batch of spirit stones .

As for the old spirit stones, he threw them in the trash . Long Chen saw that his trash can was already filled with the bodies of over a hundred middle grade spirit stone .

Forger was truly a money-burning profession . A plate-sized fragment had required over a hundred middle grade spirit stones to smelt .

What Long Chen didn’t know was that this result was only because of the ancient forging table . Otherwise, even if all the Xuantian Supermonastery’s Forging Masters gathered, they wouldn’t even be able to smelt this plate-sized fragment . It could be said that Guo Ran’s forging table was an extremely heaven-defying treasure . It was simply that Long Chen and Guo Ran were still unaware of that .

Long Chen might not know how heaven-defying this forging table was, but he knew that forging items cost a heaven-defying amount of money .

Guo Ran was completely focused on smelting the material . He had already entered a special state, a state where he had no emotions, a state where he had no self . The only thing in his eyes was that material .

Seeing that there was no way he could help, Long Chen hastily left the room . He carefully closed the door and ordered that no one was to disturb Guo Ran .

When he returned to his residence, he saw Meng Qi chattering with Little Snow . Seeing Long Chen arrive, Meng Qi turned slightly red and stood up .

“Is there any activity from Wan-er?” asked Long Chen .

“No . But the fluctuations coming from the room are becoming more and more stable . Refining that Dao Rune Fruit should only be a matter of time . ” Meng Qi smiled .

“Then that’s good . Meng Qi, just wait for me to obtain another fruit . Then you can also quickly become a Celestial,” comforted Long Chen, holding her hands .

Meng Qi smiled and teased, “What, you think I’ll get jealous?”

“No, no, definitely not . I just feel sorry toward you,” said Long Chen hastily .

“Long Chen, there’s nothing for you to feel sorry about . You’ve already put in enough for us . We’re all aware of it . We’re all cultivators, not mortal women . On the path of cultivation, there are countless trials and tribulations . We have to cherish each person by our side, right?” said Meng Qi gently .

“If you put it like that, I’ll feel a bit upset inside . It’s like you feel very bewildered and helpless toward the future,” said Long Chen .

“This isn’t being bewildered or helpless but a kind of att.i.tude . The fact that we could meet and stay together is a kind of destiny . I don’t want to wait until that destiny is over to feel regret . All I hope is for us all to be together . I… I don’t want to experience what happened last time again . ”

Saying that last line, Meng Qi sobbed . She hugged Long Chen, crying into his chest .

Meng Qi had a gentle and tactful temperament . She rarely expressed her own emotions like this . Now, after spending all this time with Long Chen, she finally unburdened her heart .