Chapter 217: The One I’m Toying With is Precisely You

“One thousand Spiritual Stones.”

Lou Mu Yan’s voice wasn’t too loud nor too soft and it perfectly spread throughout the entire venue.

Yun Zi Mo and the others who sat around her couldn’t resist revealing some smiles. They knew that she wouldn’t let things go like that.

As for whether she had any Spiritual Stones, they weren’t worried at all. They all knew that with her temperament, she definitely wouldn’t let herself suffer.

Seeing the provocative look that Lou Mu Yan looked at her with, Mu Tong narrowed her eyes and bid: “One thousand two hundred.”

“One thousand five hundred.” Lou Mu Yan raised an eyebrow at Mu Tong.

“One thousand six hundred.” Mu Tong bid.

“One thousand seven hundred.” Lou Mu Yan revealed a slightly pained expression.

Mu Tong shouted with extreme hate in her heart: “One thousand eight hundred.”

“One thousand nine hundred.” Lou Mu Yan was silent for a while before slowly shouting. Her little face was scrunched together, but also revealed an unwillingness to lose against Mu Tong.

Mu Tong sucked in a deep breath, looked at the Black Crystal Diamond in the hands of the big man with a deep look. Such a price had long exceeded the value of the Black Crystal Diamond, but the unyielding anger in her heart had been suffocating her, plus she really did need it, “Two thousand.”

This was her baseline price. If this woman exceeded two thousand, then she wasn’t going to bid again.

In fact, after bidding, she already regretted a little. This was two-thirds of her savings. She suddenly hoped that the woman opposite would buy it and she could then snatch it when she had the chance.

So she also cast a provocative look at Lou Mu Yan, pretending that she was bound to win.

In her heart, she had long believed that Lou Mu Yan was just using Luo Li’s Spiritual Stones to compete with her. As long as she was a little more forceful, that woman would definitely continue to bid.

Lou Mu Yan burst out laughing. Her originally wrinkled little face instantly bloomed into a beautiful smile.

Her clear, lively voice poured out of her lips, “Young Miss Mu indeed has a lot of money. Congratulations on buying a Black Crystal Diamond with two thousand Spiritual Stones. If this Black Crystal Diamond is made into a pair of earrings and worn on your ears, it would indeed match very well.”

She revealed the expressions of giving up, and also being conflicted to win, so the other party would definitely be fooled no matter what. But she ensured that she didn’t overdo it. If it were higher than two thousand Spiritual Stones, Mu Tong definitely wouldn’t continue to follow, so she gave up when the price reached the limit of the other party.

It would definitely not only anger this woman to death, but also make her ‘bleed’ heavily.

As soon as the gloating in her words were revealed, as long as those present weren’t fools, they all knew that Mu Tong was toyed with this time.

“HAHA, two thousand Spiritual Stone black earrings might make her not look so ugly.” Luo Li immediately smiled and added a stab.

Mu Tong’s face burned red. It was out of anger. She pointed at Lou Mu Yan and said angrily: “You were toying with me?”

“The one I’m toying with is precisely you!” Lou Mu Yan folded her arms with a bright smile on her face, not afraid of her at all.

“You…” Mu Tong didn’t know what to say. She just wanted to kill Lou Mu Yan immediately, but she hadn’t lost her reason yet.

She suddenly revealed a smile on her face, “This Young Miss has no shortage of Spiritual Stones and spends my own Spiritual Stones with a peace of mind. Unlike someone who uses a man’s money to be prodigal with. When you lose your appearance one day, I sure want to see what capital you have to be so arrogant.”

“Is she talking about herself?” Lou Mu Yan shrugged and asked Luo Li with a smile.

Luo Li looked Mu Tong up and down and said with disgust: “With just her looks, she thinks she’s worthy for a man to take out money for her to use? You’re thinking too much, if there’s such a man, his eyes definitely would be covered with gunk.”

After speaking, he glanced at the man in brocade sitting next to Mu Tong.

The people below listened to the taunts of the two and could hardly suppress a smile. But because Mu Tong came from a distinguished clan from a superpower kingdom, many people still held back and didn’t laugh.

For the first time in her life, Mu Tong encountered such embarrassment and humiliation. Now she just wanted to tear the two people into thousands of pieces.

“Mu Tong, sit down.” The handsome brocade-robed man that led the team furrowed his brows and said.

As soon as Mu Tong lowered her head, she met his displeased and stern gaze. Her heart trembled. She calmed down, then sat down, revealing the arrogant attitude of a daughter of a distinguished clan again.

She had finally managed to snatch over the betrothed of that lowly elder sister of hers, so she definitely couldn’t make him resent her.

The Luo Clan was much stronger than the Mu Clan, but if she only dealt with that wild woman who came out of who knew what random small kingdom, it would still be as easy as stepping on an ant. She couldn’t lose her bearing.

Although she thought so in her heart, she couldn’t help but bleed. The purchase of a Black Crystal Diamond exceeded her expectations by one thousand two hundred Spiritual Stones, which made her hate the two even more deeply.

But she didn’t even think about who provoked who first.

When the next person came up to introduce, Luo Li asked: “Why don’t you want that Black Crystal Diamond? Often wearing it can really increase the Mental Energy of an Alchemist.”

“That Black Crystal Diamond is of no use to me.” Lou Mu Yan said with a light smile.

Her Mental Energy had already reached the point where it was being suppressed by this interface, so it was useless even if she wore an even more advanced Black Crystal Diamond.

Remembering that her Mental Energy was still dormant, she couldn’t resist furrowing her willow brows.

If she couldn’t find suitable Spiritual Items in this space, then she must spend some time after leaving to quickly promote the breakthrough of her Mental Energy, otherwise even refining Grade 3 pills would be difficult.

Luo Li didn’t suspect much either, but he thought that if he encountered something better of this type in the future, he would keep it for her.

Sitting in a corner of the Trade Fair was a stunning woman with a cold expression. Her appearance was not much inferior to Lou Mu Yan, with the two having their own strengths.

She exuded a coldness that felt as if it kept people thousands of li away. When she saw Mu Tong be humiliated and stopped by the handsome man, there was actually a hint of mockery on her lips.

She looked at Lou Mu Yan curiously before turning her attention to the person who was speaking on stage.

As the Trade Fair drew to a close, a black-cloaked man stepped onto the stage.

This way of dressing made the people below take a few more glances, but they weren’t that surprised.

Most people in such trade fairs would indeed use their original appearances to trade on stage, but there were also some people who didn’t want others to know their identities for various reasons. They would transform their appearance or do what the person on stage did and hide their appearance.

As soon as he took the stage, he went straight to the main topic, “I have a piece of Soul Nourishing Wood in my hand. I want to trade it for a Spar that must be able to be used to refine a Saint level tool.”

His voice was hoarse and sounded like an elderly man. He must have changed his voice on purpose.

After he finished speaking, he took out a Profound Ice Jade Box. After opening it, there was indeed a deep chestnut coloured branch with the thickness of an arm inside.

After seeing the branch, the people sitting below couldn’t help but be roused.

The name ‘Soul Nourishing Wood’ was as its name implied—it was a Spiritual Item that nourished the Soul. It was rare in this world, and each time it appeared, it would definitely create foul wind and rain blood1.

With the Soul Nourishing Wood, as long as the Soul of a Sword Master, above Sword Monarch cultivation base, wasn’t destroyed, even if they lost their physical body, their Soul could still be attached to the Soul Nourishing Wood to be nourished. Then after re-strengthening their Soul, they could search for a person who matched their eight characters2 and seize their body.

Possessing the Soul Nourishing Wood meant that one wouldn’t only be able to nourish their Soul and Mental Energy but could also save one’s life in a moment of physical destruction. Such a thing didn’t only make the elite pupils of large kingdoms desire it, but even Elder Xiao who sat there revealed an expression of desire.

Lou Mu Yan looked up at the Soul Nourishing Wood in the Profound Ice Jade Box. This was precisely the Spiritual Item she was looking for to help awaken her Mental Energy.

But she was just curious as to why this person was willing to put such a rare and peerless Spiritual Item for auction?

When her Mental Energy carefully swept across the Soul Nourishing Wood, a look of understanding rose in her eyes, but she also had a little more confidence in obtaining it for herself.

Translated product by May Our 梦 Come True

1cause chaos, basically. 2the ‘eight characters’ mentioned here (and you might hear quite often when talking about matchmaking), is basically an astrological concept that used eight characters to divine a person’s fate/destiny. The eight characters/words uses one’s birth year, month, day, and hour (of ancient times). In this case, they’re literally talking about finding a compatible physical body so that the Soul could then take over that body and kill the pre-existing Soul of the person (unless that person’s Soul’s already gone). In real life, it’s often used by Chinese matchmakers to decide the compatibility of two people who might be looking for a partner in marriage in life.