Chapter 122: The Knack of Creating Wealth (1/2)
“Green Lightning gems!”
Pan Tao exclaimed softly as he watched the Thunder Beast swallow the handful of green, jade-like gems. Then he looked into his bracelet of holding to see if he had similar spiritual materials with him.
He realized that that this fifth grade Thunder Beast had already developed its own intelligence. It was its own master and was not something that could be easily deceived.
The Thunder Beast was a lightning-attributed spirit beast, therefore its cultivation relied on the power of thunder and lightning. Even though the Green Lightning gems were just Elementary grade spiritual materials, they happened to be very suitable for the upgrade of the Thunder Beast’s bloodline since they had lightning power within them.
Pan Tao took a while to go through his belongings, yet couldn’t find any lightning-attributed spiritual materials. Then he cursed inwardly, “God damn! I didn’t store any Green Lightning gems.”
Nie Tian looked at the Thunder Beast with cold eyes, noticing that it stood up immediately after An Shiyi got on its back.
The Thunder Beast’s pupils shone with a greedy light as it stared at Pan Tao and the others, as if it were waiting for something.
“Three Green Lightning gems are not enough for you!?” Nie Tian scolded.
The Thunder Beast cast a cold glare at him, and then ignored him. Then it continued to stare at Pan Tao and the others, urging them along with its eyes.
It was telling them to follow An Shiyi’s example, and win its favor by offering it lightning-attributed spiritual materials. Only then would it agree to take everyone along with it.
“Hahaha!” Sitting on the Thunder Beast’s back, An Shiyi suddenly laughed, turning her delicate face into a blossomed flower. Dark pupils glittering with captivating, bright light, she seemed to have come up with a good idea.
“Here!” She took out three more Green Lightning gems, and passed them down along the Thunder Beast’s neck to its mouth.
The Thunder Beast swallowed all of them at once and let out a satisfied low-pitched cry, a joyous expression appearing on its face.
“Her!” An Shiyi lifted her lily-white hand and pointed at An Ying. She said, ”You can come up.”
An Ying went blank for a moment, but she soon realized what her sister meant and walked towards the Thunder Beast with a faint smile on her face.
The Thunder Beast once again gently crouched low and bent forward on the ground, letting An Ying climb onto its back effortlessly.
“This spirit beast is… quite interesting.” An Ying smiled charmingly as she mounted the Thunder Beast and sat behind her sister, curiously scrutinizing the creature from head to foot.
Not long after she sat down, the Thunder Beast abruptly stood up again and cast an angry look towards Pan Tao.
Pan Tao stood next to the Thunder Beast awkwardly and gave an embarrassed smile.
Originally, he had planned to secretly climb up the back of the Thunder Beast while An Ying made her way up. However, the Thunder Beast saw through his little scheme in time and had warned him to put a stop to his tricks.
“Brother Ye,” Jiang Lingzhu asked softly, “do you have any lightning-attributed spiritual materials with you?”
Ye Gumo shook his head and said while scratching his hair, ”I’ve looked through all my stuff, and can’t even find one thunder or lightning attributed spiritual material. Damn this Thunder Beast. I’m afraid it won’t allow us to climb up its back unless we feed it and please it.”
“I have long since heard about this beast’s snobbishness and greed for treasure,” Jiang Lingzhu said in a cursing tone, “but I’ve never thought it would go this far! We are disciples of the Cloudsoaring sect, and it’s a spirit beast reared by our martial granduncle. I can’t believe that it’s actually imposing its greed on us!”
An Shiyi’s dark pupils shone with brilliant light. “Well… I still have quite a few Green Lightning gems in my bracelet of holding.” Glancing at Pan Tao, Jiang Lingzhu, and Ye Gumo from the corner of her eyes, she said with a smile, “Pan Tao, we are both disciples of the Spiritual Treasure sect, so I won’t rip you off. You’ll just need to give me three Flame Crystals and I’ll offer you three Green Lightning gems in exchange. What do you say?”
“Is this the way to do business, Big Sister An?” Pan Tao almost sprung into the air with anger. He said, “Green Lightning gems are only Elementary grade lightning-attributed spiritual materials, but Flame Crystals are Premium grade fire-attributed spiritual materials! You couldn’t possibly be confused about the huge difference between a Premium grade spiritual material and a Elementary grade spiritual material, could you!?”
“One Flame Crystal could at least convert into seven hundred Green Lightning gems. Yet, you want to use three Green Lightning gems to exchange for three Flame Crystals from me. Isn’t that a bit excessive?”
An Shiyi pursed up her lips into a smile. Then she spread out her hands and said, ”So that means no deal?”
The appearance of the Thunder Beast had allowed her to see the opportunity to escape from the desperate straits. She knew that since this unusual beast was here, they would be able to get out of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range very quickly.
With that in mind, she put her heart at ease and decided to take the opportunity to plunder as much loot as possible.
“No, no deal!” Pan Tao said with decisiveness that could sever nails and chop iron.
“So be it.” An Shiyi showed an indifferent attitude.
Nie Tian, on the other hand, smiled widely, thinking to himself that the resourceful woman in front of him was the true An Shiyi.
An Shiyi seemed to be born with a knack for business dealings and gaining profits. Nie Tian had heard before that the businesses that she had previously managed for the Spiritual Treasure sect had all earned abundant profits.
Aside from her outstanding innate cultivation talent, her skill in the business field was what had caused the sect master to regard her highly.
Today, Nie Tian had finally witnessed An Shiyi’s remarkable ability to plunder wealth.
Pan Tao stared at An Shiyi angrily. He took out a Flame Crystal and held it near to the Thunder Beast’s mouth. “These are Flame Crystals! They are way more precious than those Green Lightning gems. I’m willing to use this Flame Crystal to exchange for the opportunity to leave Scarlet Flame Mountain Range!”
WHOOSH!
The Thunder Beast let out a puff of foul breath that was laced with fine strands of lightning bolts. It did not even spare the Flame Crystal a glance before turning its head to look towards the lava lake in the distance.