Mu Chen's group directly walked into the trading town, the clamoring noises along the way completely silenced. Quite a few people widened their eyes as they stared at the scene before them that caused them to involuntarily gnash their teeth in anger. Wen Qingxuan's reputation was just too great, and everyone knew how difficult it was to tame this proud phoenix. However, today, they had actually seen this proud phoenix take the initiative to pull a youngster's wrist.
While this scene caused the eyeballs of countless people to fall out of their sockets, unconcealable jealousy involuntarily gushed out from their hearts.
Where did this fellow pop out from, to actually be able to obtain Wen Qingxuan's favor?
Gazes after gazes seemed as if they wanted to kill.
In the end, Mu Chen was still unable to withstand the numerous murderous gazes. With a flip of his hand, he grabbed Wen Qingxuan's delicate jade-like little hand, and hastily pulled her into a small alleyway at the side.
After hiding in the alleyway, Wen Qingxuan hastily withdrew her little hand from Mu Chen's grasp. Her eyes widened as she glared at Mu Chen: "What are you doing?!"
There was some irritation on her face, and she could not help but rub her jade-like hand. She was a little mysophobic, and extremely disliked direct physical contact with the opposite sex. Even earlier, she had stealthily held onto the wrist covered by Mu Chen's sleeve, and did not directly touch his body. Who could have expected that Mu Chen would actually dare to grab her instead.
If not for Luo Li being at the side, she would have most likely been unable to restrain herself from taking action against Mu Chen.
"I haven't even asked you what you're doing. The next time you do something like this, can you first seek my and Luo Li's approval?" Mu Chen's mouth curled as he said.
"You're clearly the one who took advantage of me." Wen Qingxuan said somewhat angrily. This fellow, he was still acting innocent after taking advantage of her.
"Thanks, I'm not interested in taking advantage of you."
Replied Mu Chen in an unhappy tone, before pulling Luo Li along as they headed towards the depths of the transaction town. Luo Li gave a helpless shrug towards the somewhat angry Wen Qingxuan. Although she was somewhat astonished by Wen Qingxuan's actions, she clearly did not say anything about it. From what she could see, Wen Qingxuan didn't seem to have the favourable impression that other girls had towards Mu Chen. At the same time, Mu Chen seemed to have only treated her as a business partner.
Looking at the back figures of the two, Wen Qingxuan could not help stomping her feet as she lightly clenched her teeth. Pin 'er, Le' er and the rest quietly shifted their gazes away, not daring to provoke the current Wen Qingxuan. Previously, when they saw Wen Qingxuan extending her hand to pull Mu Chen's wrist, their hearts were filled with shock and astonishment. That's because they had an extremely good understanding of Wen Qingxuan. Ever since the start of the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament, they had also encountered some powerful groups that had tried to get close to them. However, those similarly outstanding youths, Wen Qingxuan had always maintained a certain distance from them. Although her smile appeared to be alluring and soul-stirring, there was a resistance that pushed them a thousand miles away in the dark.
However, at this moment, she, who did not like the opposite sex, had actually taken the initiative to pull a youth's wrist. How could they not feel astonished?
"You better remember this!"
Said Wen Qingxuan hatefully, before quickly following after him.
With the previous example, Wen Qingxuan did not dare to do such a thing again. On the contrary, she kept a distance of three steps from Mu Chen, with an emotionless expression present on her beautiful face. Clearly, she was still feeling a little angry in her heart.
However, Mu Chen did not care about her, with his gaze curiously looking around him. On the two sides of the spacious bluestone street, there were simple shops that had been constructed, with people walking to and fro. From the looks of it, the popularity of this place wasn't weak. The majority of these trade centers were newly established. After all, such places were indispensable to every group participating in the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament.
Within this shattered Shattered Continent, there were numerous large and small ancient ruins. Within them, there were quite a few treasures that had been left behind since ancient times. Although these ruins were rather well hidden, they would eventually be discovered by others. However, the treasures that were discovered might not necessarily be what one needed. Therefore, this was the reason for the emergence of these trade towns.
In this place, one could completely take out treasures that one didn't need, and exchange them for things that one needed.
The strolling footsteps of Mu Chen and his group finally came to a stop after a dozen minutes. Appearing before their eyes was a rather gigantic building, seemingly the largest building within the trade center. Furthermore, the number of people present within it appeared to be exceedingly exuberant.
Within the building, there were shops of various sizes. On the shops, there were all sorts of dazzling items that flickered with spiritual light. Surges of unique Spiritual Energy ripples were being emitted from those items. All of those items were emitting an ancient aura. Clearly, they should have been taken from those ancient ruins.
While Mu Chen looked around with interest, Wen Qingxuan walked up. Her gaze leapt across the shops, searching for the Spiritual Pills that she needed.
There were quite a few Spiritual Pills present here. What's more, they were constantly radiating with delicate fragrances, causing people to involuntarily cast covetous gazes over. However, Spiritual Pills were considered to be a rather extravagant item for the people here. Furthermore, the majority of them were bartered for other items. Furthermore, there were too many inferior Spiritual Pills that were used to make up the numbers. If one didn't know about them, it would be extremely easy for one to buy a fake one. Therefore, the number of people that could afford to buy them was in the minority.
Wen Qingxuan's beautiful eyes swept across the jade bottles that were filled with rather dense Spiritual Energy. Within the jade bottles, traces of medicinal pills could be clearly seen. However, what caused Mu Chen to feel somewhat puzzled was that Wen Qingxuan did not search for the Spiritual Pills that appeared to be so dense that they seemed to be about to radiate out. Instead, her gaze had locked onto a few ordinary-looking Spiritual Pills.
In the end, Wen Qingxuan's gaze rested on a somewhat broken jade bottle. The colour of the jade bottle had already turned slightly yellow due to the passage of time.
"This is a Spiritual Pill that I found from a historical remnant. I've tried it before, and it has a pretty good effect on the recovery of Spiritual Energy."
The person who was selling the Spiritual Pills was a skinny youth. Seeing that Wen Qingxuan's gaze was directed over, he hurriedly introduced it.
Taking the jade bottle with her jade-like hands, Wen Qingxuan poured out a Spiritual Pill from within. The Spiritual Pill was dark green in colour, perfectly round like a longan. However, the density of the Spiritual Energy within it seemed to be incomparable to those she had seen before.
"What's the price?" However, Wen Qingxuan seemed to be somewhat interested as she asked.
"Two High Rank Spiritual Artifacts. One offensive Spiritual Artifact, and one defensive Spiritual Artifact." The skinny youth immediately replied.
Hearing that, Mu Chen's eyebrows slightly twitched. What an exorbitant price. There were only five Spiritual Pills within the jade bottle. However, this fellow actually wanted to use them to exchange for two High Rank Spiritual Artifacts. Spiritual Pills were truly extravagant.
Wen Qingxuan hesitated for a moment, before decisively nodding her head. Waving her hand towards the quiet young lady by the name of An Ya, the latter waved her jade-like hands. In the next instant, two rays of light shot out from her hands and flew towards the skinny youth. The latter hurriedly received them and carefully appraised them. In the next instant, joy gushed out from his face.
Without saying anything else, Wen Qingxuan grabbed the jade bottle, turned around, and left.
"Those five Spiritual Pills are actually worth this price?"
Behind her, Mu Chen could not help but ask. Although he was not the one to be the spendthrift, if those two High Rank Spiritual Artifacts were to be equipped by Xu Huang and the rest, their combat strength would increase by quite a bit.
"What do you know?"
Shooting a glance at him, Wen Qingxuan replied, "Those Spiritual Pills should be Cyan Spiritual Pills. Not only can they quickly recover consumed Spiritual Energy, they can also temporarily increase the strength of one's physical body. If we're talking about it, their value isn't just this little bit."
"They can even increase the strength of one's physical body?" Mu Chen was startled.
"However, if you want to obtain such an effect, you'll need to use a special method to consume it. That's to pair it with another type of Spiritual Pill … However, that fellow simply doesn't know about this."
Clearly, Wen Qingxuan's understanding towards Spiritual Pills was much deeper than Mu Chen's. With a clench of her jade-like hand, two perfectly round Spiritual Pills appeared within her hands. "Furthermore, do you see the lotus Spiritual Runes on the surface of these Spiritual Pills? This is the symbol of the Pill God Clan. In other words, these Spiritual Pills came from the Pill God Clan."
"Pill God Clan?" Mu Chen gawked once again.
"Ignorant."
Wen Qingxuan replied in an indifferent tone, "Within the current Great Thousand World, there are three places that produce the highest quality Spiritual Pills. The Pill God Clan is one of them, the Ancient Myriad Grasslands, and the Endless Fire Territory. The first two have countless years of foundation, while the Endless Fire Territory has caught up later. Lord Yan Emperor, who hails from the Lower Planes, has grasped a unique alchemy technique. The Spiritual Pills that he has refined are things that even Sovereign realm experts would not be able to obtain. This is also the main reason why the Endless Fire Territory was able to become one of the overlords of the Great Thousand World in such a short period of time."
"This Yan Emperor is truly formidable." Mu Chen exclaimed in admiration.
Shooting a look at him, Wen Qingxuan's rosy lips gently curled upwards as she said, "Although I've never met Yan Emperor before, I've met his daughter once. Do you want me to introduce her to you in the future?"
Feeling awkward, Mu Chen could only choose to ignore her at this point in time.
With a flick of her jade-like finger, two Green Spiritual Pills shot towards Mu Chen and Luo Li. Sending a sweet smile towards Luo Li, she said, "Don't reject them. After entering the Divine Wood Mountain, I'm afraid that there will be no lack of battles. The stronger you guys are, the higher the chances of us obtaining the treasures."
Luo Li hesitated for a while, before nodding his head with a faint smile. "Then I'll have to thank Qingxuan."
Hearing the way Luo Li addressed her, the smile on Wen Qingxuan's lovable face instantly became much gentler. Compared to when she was facing Mu Chen, it was a completely different expression.
Receiving the Spiritual Pills, Mu Chen helplessly shook his head. Eating someone else's mouth would become soft.
"Let's go, we've obtained the Spiritual Pills." Waving her hand towards everyone, Wen Qingxuan prepared to leave this place.
Mu Chen nodded his head. However, just as he was about to move his feet, his expression suddenly changed. Turning his head around, he looked towards the depths of the building. From there, he could feel some unique fluctuations. Therefore, he gave a hand signal to Wen Qingxuan and the rest, before turning around and quickly walking towards the depths of the building.
(3rd update)