Not long after Ning Cheng stepped out of the Star Treading Building, the Tai Su Grand Competition qualification token hanging on his waist emitted a vibration. When Ning Cheng grabbed the qualification token, a row of words suddenly appeared on it, “Grand Tournament time and place, Tai Su Post Calendar 38,602 Era, 619 Years, October 23rd, Tian Su Sacred City Square. When you receive the news, go to the Tai Su Clan Alliance to record it immediately.”
The Tai Su Era year Ning Cheng had understood, it was the way to chronicle the years here. According to this date, it was exactly three days later.
The Tai Su Sect Alliance was very close to the Star Treading Building, and Ning Cheng only took a few minutes to arrive at the Sect Alliance.
The Clan Alliance was an organization jointly established by some large and small clans in the Tai Su Domain, and generally comprehensive actions in the Tai Su Domain, such as the Tai Su Grand Tournament, the Secret Realm and so on, all needed to go through the Clan Alliance.
When Ning Cheng arrived at the Tai Su Sect Alliance, many people had already gathered here. Ning Cheng immediately saw several familiar faces, the cultivator who owned the Flame Hive was among them. Ning Cheng remembered that guy’s name, something called Yatian, which sounded somewhat western.
Yatien had also entered the quota for the Great Tai Su Competition this time, and his purpose for coming here was obviously the same as his own. Ning Cheng wanted to trade the Flame Hive with him, so he sped up to the registration desk for the Grand Tournament entry and handed in his qualification token.
The registration here was very fast, and in just under a minute, Ning Cheng retrieved his registered qualification token. Then, he quickly walked towards the cultivator named Yatian.
Yatien’s cultivation level was at the Eternal Realm Perfection, and his stature was extremely tall, appearing to be fully two metres tall.
At this moment, he was talking with another cultivator about something, and when Ning Cheng suddenly walked over, these two also stopped talking and looked at Ning Cheng at the same time. Both of them could tell that Ning Cheng was coming towards their side.
Ning Cheng clasped his fist. With a smile on his face, he said, ”Fellow Daoist Yatian, please, my name is JI He. I am an alchemist and would like to talk to fellow Daoist about some matters. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Yatian can give me some time?”
Seeing that Ning Cheng had come to see him, Yatien also nodded and smiled, “I know you, Dan Emperor JI He. You have made very good gains in the secret realm and I admire you. I wonder what Daoist JI He is looking for me for? I can’t get away for the time being.”
Among the cultivators who came out of the secret realm, the divine spirit herbs on display could be ranked in the top ten, and none of them were weak. If they didn’t rob to get it, then they were just lucky. Finding a place where divine spirit grasses were in patches. Even if JI and were trapped in the secret realm for tens of thousands of years, it wasn’t easy to do that.
However, despite his polite tone, Yatian obviously did not really see Ning Cheng in his eyes. One only had to look at the fact that he hadn’t managed to squeeze in even a little bit of time, and hadn’t even given his name, to know that.
Ning Cheng did not care and simply said bluntly, “I want to exchange Flame Hives with Fellow Daoist, if you are willing to do so, please name the price you need.”
Yatian smiled faintly, “Thank you very much for taking a fancy to my Flame Beehive. My name is Yatien. I took out the Flame Hive with the intention of exchanging it. This friend is also looking for me to exchange the Flame Hive, as for the price. Of course I will exchange it to whoever offers the highest price.”
This cultivator who was talking with Yatian frowned when he heard that Ning Cheng had also come for the Flame Bee Nest. If Ning Cheng had come a little later, they might have all traded successfully.
Ning Cheng said to himself, “No wonder this guy took out the Flame Bee Nest when he was counting the harvest from the Secret Realm, this kid is very resourceful. Now he didn’t say the price and let the others offer each other, just wanting to reap the maximum benefit.
Ning Cheng took out a forbidden jade box and handed it to Yatian. “I’ll exchange this item with you, how about you see?”
After understanding that there was also someone who wanted Yatian’s Flame Hive. Ning Cheng felt that he should be quick about it. He could know that Yatien would be coming here, and other cultivators who wanted to exchange with Yatien. They would also know that Yatien was coming here.
Yatian reached out and grabbed Ning Cheng’s jade box, not opening it, his divine sense casually swept through it. When he saw a spatial crystal, his eyes instantly lit up. This was a truly good item that would be hard to buy with divine crystals.
“Not a bad item, the price is slightly lower.” Yatian said with his mouth, the jade box in his hand was not handed back to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng secretly sneered at Yatian’s greed, the price of the Flame Hive would definitely not be higher than the Spatial God Crystal. The Spatial God Crystal was one of those treasures that sometimes could not be found even if one wanted it, while the Flame Hive was indeed also very rare, but its use was too restricted. From the moment Yatian grabbed the jade box without handing it to him, he understood what was going on, this fellow wanted the Spatial Crystal badly.
He reached out and grabbed the jade box from Yatien’s hand, put it away and said, “That’s the price I can offer, if fellow Daoist doesn’t want it, then forget it.”
After saying that, Ning Cheng turned around and left. Even without the Flame Hive, he could still make the Exploding Gold Bee advance through other means, it would just waste a lot of time and energy. With his experience in bargaining, Yatian would definitely catch up with him.
“Wait ……” Sure enough, Ning Cheng had just turned around when Yatian called out from behind.
Yatian was lacking Spatial Divine Crystals, so how could he let Ning Cheng get away. As his mouth was shouting, he was already rushing up to stop Ning Cheng in front of him.
The other cultivator who was talking to Yatien took one look at the situation and knew that it was not good. He had talked to Yatien up until now and naturally knew how difficult Yatien was and how greedy Yatien was. From the beginning until now, Yatien had not shown any half-hearted interest in his bid. Now as soon as Ning Cheng arrived, Yatien went after him, naturally eager to obtain what was in that jade box.
He knew that once something like a deal was lost, it would be very difficult to get it back again. He did not go after Yatian, but instead sent out a direct message.
When Yatian came after him, Ning Cheng knew that it was a done deal. He also saw the other cultivator send out a message, and it looked like the deal had to be made as soon as possible.
After understanding this, Ning Cheng did not continue to take it, but stopped, “Fellow Daoist Yatian, do you want to trade?”
Yatian nodded, “I’ll trade with you for that jade box of yours, plus fifty thousand divine crystals.”
“Deal.” Ning Cheng did not return the offer and without hesitation, he handed the jade box and the storage bag containing fifty thousand divine crystals to Yatian.
Yatian simultaneously handed the storage bag containing the Flame Hive to Ning Cheng, the Flame Hive was so large that it had to be filled with a storage bag before it could be traded.
The two inspected each other’s things and both expressed their satisfaction.
“Hold on.” Before Ning Cheng could put away the storage bag containing the Flame Hive, two figures rushed over and landed in front of him and Yatian.
“It’s you again?” After the visitor saw Ning Cheng, his face sank and he coldly snorted.
Ning Cheng also saw the cultivator who came over clearly, it was none other than Ji Pingzhong who had robbed the room with him at the Star Treading Building, this fellow seemed to like brown clothes and was still wearing a set of brown clothes. Following this fellow was the cultivator who had just spoken to Yatian, and it looked like Ji Pingzhong had been called over by him.
“Bring out the Flame Hive, and I’ll give you double the amount of divine crystals.” Ji Pingzhong said coldly as he towered over him. He did not look at Ning Cheng in the eye, because Ning Cheng had needed to compromise even when facing a mere Deacon Huang at the Star Treading Tower, and now when facing him, Ji Pingzhong, one of the Twelve Sons of Tai Su, he dared not compromise?
Ning Cheng compromised at the Star Treading Tower because Deacon Huang was willing to pay back the divine crystals double. And also knew that even if he did not compromise, there was nothing he could do about it. If Ji Pingzhong thought that Ning Cheng would compromise even here because of his status, it was really because he thought too highly of himself.
Without panicking, he put away the Flame Hive before Ning Cheng said in a light voice, “By the way, if I am unwilling, will you bring this matter back to the Desolate God Palace in its original form?”
When Ji Pingzhong heard Ning Cheng’s words, how could he not know that Ning Cheng was ridiculing him for using the Desolate God Palace to threaten the Star Treading Tower Master? He had indeed reported this matter, and as a result, instead of sending a strong person to help him out, the Desolate God Palace had instead berated him and then sent an elder to the Star Treading Building to express his apologies.
For Ning Cheng to say this now was simply a naked slap in the face.
In fact, Ning Cheng had been staying at the Star Treader Tower for almost a month, and since the Star Treader Tower was calm and quiet without any noise, he knew that the Desolate God Palace did not dare to do anything to the Star Treader Tower. This was still the case when Ning Cheng did not know that the Desolate God Palace had gone to the Star Treading Tower to express their apologies, if he had known, his words might have been a bit more in your face.
If he could do something here, Ji Pingzhong would have already sacrificed his magic treasure and prepared to finish off Ning Cheng. However, he could not do anything here, so he could only say with an iron face, “So you are unwilling to hand over the Flame Hive?”
Ning Cheng’s tone was calm, “Why should I hand over my stuff to you? Are all those who come out of the Desolate God Palace as shameless as you? Forcing yourself to ask for other people’s things?”
Ning Cheng’s voice was not small, and the cultivators around them who heard it all gathered around. Both mortals and cultivators had the same mentality towards watching the hilarity.
Ji Pingzhong seemed to know very well that Ning Cheng would not compromise, and he turned his gaze towards Yatian. He did not speak, but his eyes had already given pressure.
Yatien smiled faintly and simply ignored Ji Pingzhong as he turned around and walked away.
Ji Pingzhong did not call out to Yatian and just stared at Ning Cheng and said, “I know that you will also participate in the Great Tai Su Competition, I hope that you can live a long life in the Great Tai Su Competition.”
Ning Cheng likewise didn’t even bother to pay attention to Ji Pingzhong and walked straight out of the sect alliance. This fellow should be used to being respected by others and thought that casual cultivators would have to stoop to his level when facing him.
After being ignored by Yatian and Ning Cheng one after another, Ji Pingzhong was so angry that his hands were shaking, and he knew that continuing to stay here would only add to the laughing stock.
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Walking out of the Tai Su Sect Alliance, Ning Cheng was not much happy about getting the Flame Hive. As for whether or not he had offended Ji Pingzhong, he hadn’t put it on his mind, what he was thinking about was the woman in black from the Star Treading Tower.
For the Desolate God Palace to be ranked as one of the Ten Great Sects, it must have had a mixed Yuan powerhouse. The woman in black didn’t even give a damn about such a sect, while not receiving reprisals, her strength was just too strong. He was carrying the Xuanhuang Pearl, shouldn’t he continue to live in the Star Treading Tower?