Chapter 389 - Trust (1/2)

Hao Xuan agreed and went where Ryfon had pointed without wasting any time. Ensis and Monk had been gone the entire night and they should have had some news by now.

He checked the spirit band but it didn't have any signals, which wasn't unexpected. It shouldn't work here since this was a different space altogether.

”Baracus, make the list of items you need. I'll give it to Ryfon so he can have it made while I'm staying here. I don't think I will have time to personally meet with the blacksmith. Also take into account any other things we might need in the future and buy them at once, money isn't an issue right now,” Hao Xuan reminded Baracus.

*Beep*

”Do you really trust the Satyr with something like that?” Baracus inquired about the deal Hao Xuan had made with Ysolt.

Back at the inn when he showed the purple liquid to Ysolt, he almost had a heart attack.

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”Where? S-Sell it to me!” Ysolt stuttered and actually bit his tongue in the process.

”Ouch! Damn it!” he spat out a mouthful of blood and looked at Hao Xuan with earnestly, ”Please, sell this to me, I'll give you howeve-WHATEVER you want! Please!” he almost fell down on his knees begging for it.

Even Hao Xuan himself was taken aback when he saw his reaction. Ysolt was a pretty high-level alchemist, able to create potions, elixirs and everything in between for cultivators of Profound Realm even. He surely wasn't lacking any gold or silver, that was for certain.

”Relax relax, calm down, jeez. Why do you need it so bad? I mean I know it's expensive but why are you so desperate?” Hao Xuan asked curiously.

Ysolt fell down on the chair behind him lifelessly, taking a few deep breaths to collect his thoughts and calm him down.

”Listen, since Ryfon introduced us, I'm not gonna lie to you. This thing is really precious, much more so than you realize but that's not why I want it. I want it for personal reasons, that's all I can say,” Ysolt wiped the blood off his face and knelt down.

”But if you sell it to me, I will owe you for the rest of life, I swear to the heavens above and hells below, and everything in between. I will be at your beck and call for as long as I live, that is my promise to you.”

His voice started cracking near the end and Hao Xuan realized just how badly he wanted this little vile that was a literal drop in the ocean for Hao Xuan.

He bent down and picked Ysolt up from the shoulders, ”A man shouldn't so quick to kneel. You have helped me today, so think of this as a gift, keep it. In exchange, if you can of course, tell what's the use for it and why you want it so badly? It's just to satisfy my personal curiosity to if you don't want to say anything then forget about it,” he winked and patted his shoulder before sitting down and lighting up one of the cigarettes for the first time.

Ysolt's eyes almost popped out of his sockets as he stared at the small vile in his hand, ”You...would really just....give it to me? Even after I told you how valuable it is?”

Hao Xuan took sucked on the herbal cigarette for the first time in his life and started coughing. His eyes turned red as he nodded while trying to stop himself from coughing his lung out.

*Cough*Cough*Cough*