Chapter 895 - Spirit Boat! (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Xie Haiyang might be the proud owner of many secrets, but even he had no idea that he had just allowed the chance to get the best help he could slip him by. If he had shared everything with Wang Baole when the latter had asked and had said plainly that he would pay anything for Wang Baole’s help… there was a great chance that Wang Baole might be tempted by the deal. After all, he wasn’t afraid of letting Xie Haiyang know his relationship with his senior brother. Xie Haiyang was the one in need now and the one who was intimidated by his senior brother.
There was a great chance that Wang Baole would have extended a helping hand at the appropriate moment.
Besides, Wang Baole’s help wasn’t going to cost him a lot. Because… Wang Baole wouldn’t be able to quote too high a price based on his past experiences with Red Crystals. The highest he would go would likely only be a few million Red Crystals.
Of course… this was before Wang Baole entered the market!
Even though he had visited the market in the past, he hadn’t known about Red Crystals then and thus hadn’t paid much attention to how much things cost in Red Crystals. After returning from the Flame Patriarch’s mission, he had used Red Crystals to purchase a fair bit of materials, but he hadn’t been at the Spirit Immortal realm then, so he hadn’t been able to gain access to certain areas in shops that were reserved for special customers. The items in those reserved areas would cost an arm and a leg to ordinary cultivators, though the truly powerful cultivators wouldn’t bat an eye at their price tags.
But this time… things were different.
Now that he was at the late-stage Spirit Immortal realm, he no longer cared for the materials that he had bought earlier. In fact, he was of the view that he was a rich man now. When entering a shop that looked reputable and had a sizable range of goods, he believed that the release of his cultivation would send the shop owner running to greet him deferentially. He would then be personally escorted into the section of the shop an ordinary cultivator wasn’t permitted to enter.
Wang Baole appeared composed as he stood in the reserved section of the shop. But in reality, he had suffered multiple shocks since he had stepped into the section…
Nine Heavenly Thunder Spirits… a hundred and fifty thousand Red Crystals!
Heavenly Stream Vapor… two hundred and seventy thousand Red Crystals!
North-South Spirit Boat… for three hundred and ninety thousand Red Crystals. What the hell?
Wang Baole reeled in shock. He wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t looked at those price tags. He no longer felt rich. In fact, he felt extremely poor.
Fortunately, he had great control over himself. The expression on his face remained composed. In fact, he would show the occasional dissatisfaction, as if he weren’t concerned with the price of the products but their quality. He kept the appearance up as he went in and out of the reserved sections of a few shops. At the end of his visits, he stood on the street, his face glum as he sighed.
I’m so poor… Wang Baole patted his storage bag. The feeling of poverty made him feel especially sorrowful. He had his eye on a flying boat, but its price had been a seven-digit figure. He had shuddered at the sight of the price tag.
The Planet realm storage ring that he had peeked into popped up in his head unexpectedly. He remembered the mysterious bottle that he had seen and the words “a rich person” that he had read on the piece of paper in the bottle. Realization dawned upon Wang Baole then.
Does the bottle have the power to make a person rich? Wang Baole thought in surprise. His breathing quickened. He had half a mind to take another look into the storage ring, but this really wasn’t the place for that. In addition, his location was exposed every time he opened the storage ring. There was no way to get around that unless he removed the seal on the storage ring completely so that the dangers that came from unlocking the storage ring were eliminated once and for all.
But his current level of cultivation was clearly still lacking. That was beyond his current abilities.
Wang Baole left the market sulking and steeped in regret. His suspicions about Xie Haiyang’s departure began to grow.
Was he worried that I might ask him for a loan? Is that why he found some random excuse to run off? Wang Baole snorted before burying those suspicions in his heart. He got himself a considerable quantity of Spirit Stones with the Red Crystals in his pocket before leaving the market and racing off towards the Divine Eye civilization.
He didn’t make use of his Dharmic Battleship for the journey back. The Dharmic Battleship’s speed couldn’t match his own. That was why he had gotten himself Spirit Stones—so that he could replenish his energy during the trip back. His Emperor Armor also needed to feed on Spirit Stones to regain its power.
He could have resorted to Red Crystals instead, but the crystals were too powerful. He would have to use his own spirit energy to moderate the crystals’ power for his Emperor Armor to absorb the latter more easily. Time passed steadily as Wang Baole sped across the cosmos.