Chapter 176 - : A Battle with Tuo Ku (1/2)

The Black Market.

A spacious hall.

Wearing robes that were white as snow, stood a young man with handsome features and an extraordinary aura about him. An elegant middle-aged man stood right behind him, looking humble and subservient.

Right now, a string of footsteps could be heard from outside the door.

Soon after, three figures appeared as they stepped into the great hall.

The leader amongst them was an old monk in a silver cassock. He was the Divine Light Sect’s third elder, and also in charge of the Black Market, named Tuo Ku.

As for the other men who followed behind him, one was a middle-aged man in plain clothes, and the other was another old monk in a red cassock.

For these two men to be appearing next to Tuo Ku in this place, it could be said that they held pretty high positions in the Black Market or the Divine Light Sect.

“Sir, are you a master now?”

As Tuo Ku entered, he recognized the young man, whom he had only ever seen in portraits before. He was sitting at the head of the great hall in a seat that was usually his, and his mood darkened ever so slightly. “That seat, is my seat. If you’d like to sit sir, please do take the seat to the right.”

At this point, Tuo Ku still had not gleaned much about the youth before him.

However, to a certain extent, the other party was provoking him with his behavior. It would undoubtedly be somewhat disgraceful for him to do nothing in response.

After all, he had two other elders of the Divine Light Sect with him.

If he were not able to handle this matter and news of this were to get out, how would he be able to show his face the same way again?

“This seat is not bad, in fact it’s quite comfortable, I won’t be moving.

“I’ve actually come to see you today to speak about something… and I’ll leave once I’m done. If you want to sit here, you can just wait until I’m gone, and then you can sit for however long you desire,” said Zhou Donghuang plainly.

Tuo Ku’s face immediately turned red with fury at Zhou Donghuang’s words.

“Brat!”

The middle-aged man in plain clothes spoke up from behind Tuo Ku, who was speechless with anger, wisps of Silver Essence starting to emit from his body. “By allowing you to take the next seat, the third elder was offering you some respect. If I were him, I would not be so generous… you, best not hesitate to do what you’re told before you’re forced to do more than you bargained for!” he said coldly.

“I could do with respect, but I, Zhou Donghuang, have never been forced… to do anything I didn’t want to before.”

Zhou Donghuang smiled slightly, then narrowed his eyes. “How about you show me how it’s done?”

“You!”

It was the first time that Zheng Yong had been scorned to such an extent, ever since he had reached the intermediate Primal Core stage and was promoted as the Divine Light Sect’s fifteenth elder. At that moment, the rage that filled him rushed to his head, and bright white light seemed to burst from his body like bolts of lightning, as if he was ready to make a move to attack Zhou Donghuang.

However, right at that moment, Tuo Ku stopped him.

At the same time, the shards of Silver Essence shot out from his body, as he looked at Zhou Donghuang with a restrained sense of fear and asked, “Why are you looking for me?”

As he regarded the fearless youth in white before him, he could not help but think about Liu Xuanyu, their seventeenth elder, who had just died two months ago.

At that time, he had suspected that Liu Xuanyu was killed by the late Primal Core adept who was standing by the young man.

“I’m here to make an exchange with you.”

Zhou Donghuang got right to the point.

“What sort of exchange?” Tuo Ku asked, brows furrowed.

“Make an exchange? Had this fellow, not always done business at the Black Market from the shadows? Why would he suddenly come out in the open with these demands? Could it possibly be that he knows that his identity has been exposed?” Tuo Ku thought to himself.

“I would like to sell a spirit weapon to the Divine Light Sect,” Zhou Donghuang said plainly.

As soon as Zhou Donghuang made this declaration, Tuo Ku and the others were dumbfounded and momentarily seemed to have lost their senses.

A spirit weapon?

No one in the whole of Ziyun had such a weapon, outside of the Divine Light Sect and one other sect.

The value of a spirit weapon was immeasurable, and one could not put a price to it so easily.

If the Divine Light Sect were to willingly put up their own spirit weapon for sale, the other three sects without one would possibly offer half of their entire stash of spirit stones from their treasury just for the chance to own it.

The energy yield of any spirit stone in existence on this planet was very low.

Even so, after thousands of years of accumulated inheritance, each of the five great sects of Ziyun would have amassed over twenty thousand spirit stones in their treasuries!

“You… you have a spirit weapon?!”

Tuo Ku was filled with disbelief.

“50,000 spirit stones.” Zhou Donghuang continued simply, “If the Divine Light Sect is not interested, I will approach the other sects.

“Of course, if I were to sell this to the others, I would not simply stop at 50,000 spirit stones. I’d start from 60,000 stones and up.

“On the account that I have been relatively satisfied with the past two dealings with the Divine Light Sect… This time, I’m offering the sect a preferential price to see if you might be interested.”

As Zhou Donghuang finished, he raised his arms, and a delicate little mound appeared in his hands. Infused with his essential core, the mound appeared to be encased in fine and concentrated strands of light that formed a complex pattern around it.

In a strong force of qi, the little streams of light seemed to explode from the sheer power of his essential core and started to unravel.

Without a doubt, the three people, including Tuo Ku, knew for sure that the little mount in Zhou Donghuang’s hands was indeed the genuine thing—a spirit weapon.