231 Lets Sell All Nine Items! (2/2)
”Zhang Weiyuan, it is not me who claims that the Thousand-Year Red Wood is fake.”
Zhong Yin sighed.
”It is my senior who said that the Thousand-Year Red Wood is fake... I was looking for the Thousand-Year Red Wood as I wanted to ask my senior to help me create an ultimate Dharma spirit weapon that suits me. However, once his Wumei fire came into contact with the Thousand-Year Red Wood, the Thousand-Year Red Wood was immediately destroyed by the fire and turned to ashes and smoke.
”When the Thousand-Year Red Wood first reached me, my senior and I had both agreed that there were no issues with it at first.”
As Zhong Yin spoke to this point, he looked at Bai Liqing with an unfriendly gaze.
”Did you witness the Thousand-Year Red Wood change into smoke and ashes with your own eyes?” Bai Liqing asked with a cold smile.
”When my senior creates weapons, he does not like bystanders disturbing him... What do you mean by that sentence? Are you trying to insinuate that my senior kept the Thousand-Year Red Wood for his own use and then lied to me?” Zhong Yin asked in return.
”Who knows?”
Bai Liqing gave a twisted smile.
”Bai Liqing, you best watch your mouth before you stir up some trouble.”
Zhong Yin glanced at Bai Liqing coldly.
”If my senior wanted the Thousand-Year Red Wood, he could have just said so, and I would have automatically given it to him. He would not have needed to find such excuses to obtain it.
”If you do not believe this, I can bring him here to the Winter Valley, and you can argue with him yourself!”
The more Zhong Yin spoke, the colder his tone became.
”Brother, your words have crossed the line.”
Zhang Weiyuan shook his head as he spoke. ”Elder Ke Liang is at the Primordial Soul stage, he has no need to thirst over his disciple's Thousand-Year Red Wood!”
”Although Thousand-Year Red Wood is seen as precious in our eyes, to Elder Ke Liang, it definitely isn't worth much. Furthermore, at his current stage, the Thousand-Year Red Wood is mostly useless to him!”
Ke Liang was not only Zhong Yin's senior and the Lightning Sword Sect's inner elder but was also an elder of the Summer Valley.
”Senior Zhang, I was just making a joke.”
Hearing as Zhong Yin was offering to invite his senior over physically, Bai Liqing's heart dropped slightly. Now, as Zhang Weiyuan was stepping up as well, he began to defend himself with an awkward smile for fear of further trouble.
”Zhong Yin, did you hear that? Bai Liqing was merely joking around.”
Zhang Weiyuan glanced at Zhong Yin and said, ”Furthermore... Be it you or Fang Baiwei, the transactions between the both of you and Bai Liqing were legitimate and paid for, pestering him further also leads to nothing.
”You can't just ignore sect rules like this.
”If you continue to chase this matter, it will also not lead to any positive outcome for you. Even your senior, Elder Ke Liang, cannot go against our sect rules,” Zhang Weiyuan said.
”I am of course aware of this,” Zhong Yin replied in a low tone.
”Since I paid for the items, even if they were fake, I know that there is nothing I can do... I merely came here to ask Bai Liqing for an explanation as to why he wanted to cheat me of my money.
”Of course, I also thought about the possibility that Bai Liqing himself also did not know that the Thousand-Year Red Wood he sold me was fake.
”Just now, I heard that the Thousand-Year Red Wood he sold me was bought from someone else? It seems like this possibility is becoming more likely, then.”
As he spoke, Zhong Yin glanced directly at Bai Liqing.
”Bai Liqing, I am not asking for those 80 high-quality spirit stones back. However, I would like to know who sold you the Thousand-Year Red Wood,” Zhong Yin asked gravely.
He intended to approach the original seller who had given the Thousand-Year Red Wood to Bai Liqing and question him.
If it were only Thousand-Year Red Wood he had bought that had an issue, Zhong Yin may have brushed the whole issue off as a coincidence. Perhaps the person that had sold the Thousand-Year Red Wood to Bai Liqing had also been unaware that it was fake?
However, Bai Liqing instead mentioned that the Frozen-Blood Jade that his fellow disciple from the Summer Valley, Fang Baiwei, had bought, was also fake as well!
Furthermore, be it the Thousand-Year Red Wood or the Frozen-Blood Jade, both were from the same original seller!
This made Zhong Yin doubt the credibility of this seller, and he came up with the theory that the original seller had planned to trick him and Fang Baiwei at the same time.
This led him to then wonder what he and Fang Baiwei had in common.
Well, they were both disciples of the Summer Valley.
Of course, even so, Zhong Yin was still inclined to believe that the entire series of incidents was a coincidence... If not, it was hard to imagine what exactly could compel one to create fake Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade at the same time.
Could it be that coincidentally, the original seller had possessed both fake Thousand-Year Red Wood and Frozen-Blood Jade?
Of course, Zhong Yin wanted to investigate whether or not the entire incident was indeed a coincidence.
Just as Zhong Yin wanted to ask Bai Liqing for his source of the Thousand-Year Red Wood, from afar, a figure flew towards them in the air and landed somewhere near Zhang Weiyuan and Bai Liqing.
”Senior Zhang, Brother Bai Li, you are both here? Did you hear about what happened at the trade center?”
This person was a young-looking disciple of the Winter Valley.
”What happened?” Zhang Weiyuan asked curiously.
”On the bounty list of the trade center, out of the tens of items that the elders and disciples of the Summer Valley asked for... There are nine that have been cleared from the list today.”
The young-looking disciple of the Winter Valley sighed and said, ”Within a day, nine people from the Summer Valley managed to buy items that they have been searching for for a long time... The people of the Summer Valley are really lucky today. I'm so envious of them!”
Just as the words left the mouth of this Winter Valley disciple, Zhong Yin's face immediately changed, and he glanced meaningfully at Bai Liqing straightaway.
”Don't look at me!” Bai Liqing replied gravely. ”I only sold two things off the bounty list to you and Fang Baiwei. The other items were not sold by me!”
At this point, even Bai Liqing could sense that something was amiss.