The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 761 Down-to-Earth Princess Consort_1

Leading Jing Yan into the back room of the small store and helping her sit down by the bed, Li Qing seriously recounted what Dian Chunqiu had just told him to her.

"The gist of the matter is like this. Pressured by their limited lifespans, those old timers stuck in the Nascent Soul Stage have all set their sights on your Bronze Coffin. From what Dian Chunqiu implies, they seem to be determined to get it and are even joining forces to prepare to take on the Ninth Bureau and our Nine Truth Palace," Li Qing said in a deep voice.

After calmly thinking for a moment, Jing Yan said, "In truth, with their strength at the Nascent Soul Stage, it’s very difficult for them to truly enter the Underground Palace, unless dozens of Nascent Soul Stage elders join forces, supplemented with valuable treasures, or assisted by a Divinity Transformation Stage expert, there might be a possibility to breach the Underground Palace. Otherwise, they have no chance of obtaining anything from within it." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"But, can merely offering up a Bronze Coffin truly bring about a peaceful resolution to this matter?"

Li Qing nodded and said, "The matter of the Bronze Coffin must not be revealed to others. No matter whom you tell, there is and only will be one in the Underground Palace!"

Jing Yan nodded, "This concubine understands my husband’s meaning; it is indeed a valuable treasure."

"Therefore, if you agree to this, we must aim for extreme conditions and must not seem too eager, to avoid suspicion and unnecessary trouble," Li Qing said solemnly. "How many you have is your own affair, your secret. But to the outside world, we must create the illusion that there is only one, and it is difficult to part with."

Jing Yan gently nodded her head, "If this matter can be smoothly resolved and allow me to walk out into the world openly and uprightly, offering up a Bronze Coffin is not a big deal—after all... we truly aren’t lacking."

Li Qing found her haughty words to be both amusing and exasperating.

People outside were practically going insane, yet in her words, it seemed like she didn’t consider the item to be a big deal at all.

In the mundane world, Li Qing had achieved financial freedom through his own abilities.

Yet in the path of cultivation, it seemed like he was being kept.

"Since you agree, let’s think about the conditions well. What do you think we should ask for that would be appropriate?" Li Qing said.

Jing Yan’s bright eyes swept over Li Qing, "While you do have Li Yuanxian’s Soul-breaking Arrow, which is somewhat satisfactory in offense, you lack a defensive Magic Artifact. Let’s ask for that then, an Earth-rank Defense Artifact. And then some Elixirs to enhance our strength. It seems like there are no more Spirit Stones in this world, but if there are, asking for seven or eight hundred should be plenty."

Li Qing had never even heard of Spirit Stones.

He shook his head and said, "I don’t know if they exist, but I admit, this is the first time I’ve heard of them."

"Spirit Stones are crystallized from the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, extremely rich in Spiritual Energy. Cultivating with Spirit Stones is countless times faster than natural cultivation," Jing Yan explained. "They also have quality ranks; the higher the rank, the purer the Spiritual Energy."

"We can add this to the conditions. If they don’t have it, we can exchange for Elixirs of equivalent value. Let me think... The value of these items still seems a bit less compared to the Bronze Coffin. Anything else you’d like, my husband?"

Li Qing said with a wry smile, "It’s for your own conditions, yet you always ponder about what I could want?"

"But I have everything!" Jing Yan asserted confidently, "My strength seems to be among the foremost in the world, I don’t lack Magic Artifacts, and naturally, I think about my husband. Do you need money? Otherwise, let’s ask for some money. I see your sisters-in-law working quite hard to earn money."

"Money is actually not an issue at home, we can manage one or two million if we need to," Li Qing said with a helpless smile, "Although it’s tough work, what my sister-in-law and the others are doing, they wouldn’t stop even if you told them to. They just want to find something to do, I’ve already tried to convince them otherwise."

"Is that so? Then, is there anything else my husband is lacking?" Jing Yan asked.

"Lacking something..." Li Qing thought carefully, his current situation seemed quite good, it appeared he really wasn’t lacking anything.

"Since my husband can’t think of anything, we should ask for more money," Jing Yan suggested with a clap, "Right now my husband might not be lacking, but what about in the future when we might need to take on some big endeavor? Ask for one billion, then add the most important Earth-rank defense artifact and a thousand Earth-rank spirit stones, that should be about right."

The staggering amount made Li Qing blink in astonishment, but after thinking about the value of the Bronze Ancient Coffin, he suddenly felt their asking price might even be a bit low.

Why was the Bronze Coffin driving those ancient figures so crazy? Preserving life while in slumber, that was tantamount to indirectly increasing one’s lifespan, and after their slumber, they would also have the potential to step into the Divinity Transformation.

How could a stone coffin that could create one or even many Divine Transformation Realm experts be compared to those things?

"Ask for five billion!" Li Qing stated resolutely, "Increase the spirit stones to two thousand, and two Earth-rank magical artifacts. There is bound to be a bargaining process. We quote a price, and they counteroffer, we absolutely must not go too low."

Jing Yan turned her head towards Li Qing and smiled gently, "Then let’s do as my husband says."

"If such a treasure weren’t so tremendously valuable, I would really like to haul a few more of your Bronze Coffins out and rent them to those sects and noble families. We could make a fortune by then, and we would have all the cultivation resources we want," Li Qing said with a laugh.

"My husband could consider doing that!" Jing Yan said softly, "We really aren’t lacking anything. I have not counted exactly how many coffins there are, but back then King Qi spent countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures to make a total of ninety-nine. Over time, the formation patterns on some may have been destroyed, but there should still be a few dozen that are usable."

Li Qing was silently impressed and waved his hands repeatedly, "I was just saying, we can’t do that business. Although your strength is formidable, in the end, you are just one person. If I really did that, instead of exchanging it for a vast amount of cultivation resources, I might end up being killed for the treasure."

"You can’t just go along with whatever I think, that will cause problems, Yan’er."

Jing Yan smiled tenderly, "Naturally, I will comply with my husband’s wishes, a wife must echo her husband’s tune, not rebel."

Li Qing smiled helplessly and felt a sweet warmth in his heart.

For someone like Jing Yan, with her status and power, to be so devoted to him, was indeed very rare.

"By the way, the deputy director of the ninth bureau, who is my boss, wants to meet with you to discuss the specifics. What do you think—should we meet or not?" Li Qing suddenly remembered this matter and said earnestly.

"These matters, my husband can decide. It’s not necessary for me to make a public appearance," Jing Yan replied, shaking her head, "Tomorrow, I still plan to go pick vegetables in the greenhouse with Sister Yue’er, and then plan how to build the exterior of our residence. I’m quite busy."

Li Qing was suddenly at a loss for words. You’re the Queen Consort of Qi, do you really need to be so down-to-earth?