The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 38 - The Sucker Mo Chuan

“I’ll offer…” the little boy opened his mouth to speak.

But all he could do was open his mouth, unable to speak, which made him so anxious that fine sweat appeared on his forehead.

Those in the know realized that the little boy had been silenced by a forbidden speech spell.

Immediately after, a fragrant breeze blew by.

A beauty in white clothes descended on a flying sword, with skin as white as ice and bones like jade, looking like a celestial being. She picked up the little boy and tossed him onto the flying sword, then turned around and flew away without a speck of dust beneath her.

The beauty came in haste and left just as quickly.

It was quiet for a good while before everyone came back to their senses.

Then, everyone looked towards Xie Jiuniang again.

There was no more competition.

And to think that a common wooden hairpin sold for eighteen thousand spirit stones was unthinkable.

Several divine senses swept back and forth over the wooden hairpin, and none could see anything unusual about it; it just seemed to have some age to it.

Xie Jiuniang’s little face remained calm.

Not elated by gains, and not saddened by personal losses.

This made some who were secretly paying attention to her nod, including Elder Chaoyan.

Xie Siuniang was not so serene!

She had been there when Xie Jiuniang bought the hairpin, which had only cost ten spiritual pearls. Now, the hairpin was about to be sold for eighteen thousand, which was how many times the original price?

Xie Jiuniang was truly calm.

This was just the beginning for her, having once exchanged one spirit stone for a hundred thousand.

Subsequently, Xie Jiuniang glanced at Gan Long with a sly gleam in her eyes.

Gan Long was anxious inside, frequently looking at her second brother. When she had come over earlier, she had already asked her second brother to notify Mo Chuan with a sound transmission talisman.

Just then, Gan Meng received Mo Chuan’s response— an immortal crane flew over holding a storage bag filled with spirit stones, indicating they should bid as they pleased.

Mo Chuan, the alchemist, was not short on spirit stones.

Cheng Huaixin said with a smile, “Then this hairpin is mine…”

“Wait, I bid fifty thousand,” Gan Meng suddenly came over to make a bid, jumping straight to fifty thousand.

Cheng Huaixin and Gan Meng locked eyes, sparks flying.

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Confirmed by their glance, do they have the same target?

Cheng Huaixin clenched his fist and suddenly received a familiar sound transmission in his mind: bid five hundred thousand.

“Five hundred thousand,” he said.

As soon as Cheng Huaixin spoke these words, the crowd erupted in surprise.

Those present were all at the Qi Cultivation Stage, mere fledglings, rarely witnessing such an exhilarating scene, mainly because of the high price for a mere wooden hairpin— were spirit stones so abundant that they had nowhere else to spend them?

Xie Jiuniang was excited inside, but she managed to keep a steady composure on the surface.

The wealthy benefactor had arrived!

“Xiaojiu, Xiaojiu…” Xie Siuniang’s cheeks flushed with excitement, unconsciously grabbing Xie Jiuniang’s arm, saying, “We’ve struck it rich, we’ve struck it rich…”

Xie Jiuniang’s lips curved up in a small smile.

Gan Meng said again, “I bid 550,000.”

As everyone was waiting for Cheng Huaixin to make an offer, he received a Sound Transmission Talisman telling him to give up. It must be said that Cheng Huaixin breathed a sigh of relief.

Bidding for a Wooden Hairpin of little value, and looking like a fool while doing it, had put a great deal of pressure on him.

Cheng Huaixin smiled and said, “Congratulations, I give up.”

Xie Jiuniang looked at Cheng Huaixin strangely. In her previous life, he hadn’t appeared, and she had no idea who his master behind the scenes was.

Gan Meng paid 550,000 Spirit Stones and successfully purchased the Wooden Hairpin. He then walked away with Gan Long, and the Wooden Hairpin was placed into a Storage Bag and carried away by the previously summoned Immortal Cranes.

Many witnessed this scene.

It truly was a marvel in the world — someone spending hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones on an ordinary Wooden Hairpin. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, nobody would believe it.

At the summit, inside Dongxu Hall.

Elder Chaoyan, with a smile, asked, “The person who bought the Wooden Hairpin seems to be from Danfeng, what do you think?”

“That hairpin… I couldn’t see through it.” The female True Person pursed her lips and silently chuckled, “True Person Gu Zheng just now used his Divine Sense to inspect it no less than ten times. Why don’t you tell us what the mystery is?”

True Person Gu Zheng’s face turned red, “I didn’t discover anything either.”

Using one’s Divine Sense to inspect others’ belongings was not something a gentleman would do.

Elder Chaoyan, out of curiosity, had also couldn’t resist using his Divine Sense to check the Wooden Hairpin. With his hundreds of years of experience, it indeed seemed to be just an ordinary Wooden Hairpin.

What was strange was why there were two parties vying for it.

Not only Elder Chaoyan and his peers were puzzled, but everyone else was too, except for the party concerned, Xie Jiuniang.

Xie Jiuniang, who had just made a fortune, was enthusiastically offering dried meat to a group of people curious about the origins of the Wooden Hairpin.

As a result, the crowd scattered.

Xie Xu, taking the dried meat, asked, “Xiaojiu, aren’t you worried that the hairpin might be a treasure?”

“What treasure? Fourth Sister knows where it came from.” Xie Jiuniang never considered the Wooden Hairpin to be a treasure; it was just an ordinary hairpin.

It was something she had been planning to use to fish for water fish.

Xie Si Niang took a bite of a red fruit, “Bought in Fangshi of Xi’an City, cost me ten Spiritual Pearls…”

Cough cough cough.

A round of vigorous coughing ensued nearby.

Clearly, quite a few people heard Xie Si Niang’s words. An item worth merely ten Spiritual Pearls had sold for 550,000 Spirit Stones!

Was this striking it rich?

Why was it always someone else who got lucky? The Little Profiteer made a killing during her assessment and now added hundreds of thousands more today.

Mother, I’m rich!

Xie Jiuniang, seeing the dried meat was rejected by everyone, didn’t mind and cheerfully put it back into her Storage Bag, along with the other items, and retreated back into the Small Isolation Array.

Without outsiders’ covetous glares, she felt much more at ease.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Lin Wangchen, upon hearing that Mo Chuan had been tricked, laughed heartily.

“Hahaha…”

“Mo Chuan! So you have today…”

The frustrations that had been accumulating in his heart vanished in an instant.

Having spent 550,000 Spirit Stones on a useless Wooden Hairpin, he wondered how splendid Mo Chuan’s face would look when he got the hairpin.

It’s a pity he couldn’t see it for himself.

Mo Chuan was unaware that Lin Wangchen, knowing Xie Jiuniang had bought another hairpin and having the precedent of the Broken Sword, had secretly arranged for someone to investigate the origins of the hairpin.

He successfully found out it was made by a skilled craftsman and had nothing to do with fortune or fate.

Knowing Mo Chuan’s men were watching him, Lin Wangchen deliberately set up a meeting with Xie Jiuniang, even accidentally leaking information that he was looking for a Wooden Hairpin, including a drawing of the hairpin.

Mo Chuan was indeed fooled!

Even though Mo Chuan wasn’t the one who bought the hairpin and very few knew it was his doing, Lin Wangchen still wanted to spread the word.

The usual high-and-mighty genius Pill Master was a complete fool, becoming the Sect’s joke overnight.

I wonder what he will think?