Chapter 415: Chapter 184: Awaiting the Return

"What’s the price for this Moon Pattern Carp?"

The woman asked in a low voice. Her tone was flat, making it impossible to tell if it was a casual question or a genuine inquiry to buy.

Chen Cheng deliberately altered his usual tone and timbre as he spoke.

"Five thousand taels of silver."

He didn’t actually know the market price; he was simply quoting the exchange price from the Mountain and Sea Sect’s Fishing Pavilion resource catalog.

This kind of Tier Two Treasure Fish was mainly used in medicine. It was exceptionally effective for healing internal injuries, not only speeding up recovery but also leaving almost no hidden damage.

It was hard to find on the open market. Even when exchanging for it at the Fishing Pavilion’s General Affairs Hall, one had to wait one or two months to get it.

According to what Lü Qinyi had said before, the buyback price for resources at the General Affairs Hall was thirty percent lower than the exchange price.

The market price usually fell somewhere between the two.

Therefore, Chen Cheng’s plan was to quote the exchange price first and wait for her to counter-offer.

As long as her counter-offer was higher than the General Affairs Hall’s buyback price, he could accept.

"I’ll take it."

The woman had no intention of haggling at all. She pulled a stack of Silver Notes from her robes, drew one out, and handed it to Chen Cheng.

"Give me the change."

"Change...?"

Chen Cheng froze for a moment. He took the Silver Note and saw it was a ten thousand tael denomination.

It was the first time he’d ever seen a note of such a high value. He held it in his hands, turning it over and over to inspect it carefully...

After confirming it was genuine, he looked up and said,

"Please wait a moment. I’ll empty this leather pouch to put the Treasure Fish in for you."

As he spoke, he took the large leather pouch off his back and shook all its contents out onto his stall.

CLATTER CLATTER.

Two Tier One Treasure Fish rolled out first, followed by all the loot he had taken from the corpses after the battle on Feidang Mountain: Antidotes, Healing Medicine, Auxiliary Cultivation Pills, Treasure Beast Dried Meat, and so on—a whole pile of miscellaneous items.

"What’s the price for these two Treasure Fish?" the woman asked directly.

"This Cyan-fin Carp is five hundred taels, and this Red-Scale Carp is seven hundred taels," Chen Cheng said.

"I’ll take them."

The woman didn’t hesitate.

’A loss?’

Chen Cheng’s heart sank slightly.

’Why isn’t she haggling at all? Did I set the price too low?’

’But I clearly quoted the exchange price, which should be at least ten to twenty percent higher than the market price...’

’No, I can’t just think about the price.’

Chen Cheng composed himself.

Although his asking price was higher than the market rate, the problem was that even with this amount of money, she might not be able to buy these kinds of Treasure Fish on the open market.

To put it bluntly, it was a rare encounter with scarce resources. Opportunities like this don’t come often. For all he knew, while she was busy haggling, someone else might have been willing to buy them at his asking price.

As a distinguished guest of the Valley of Oblivion, she was incredibly wealthy. Faced with a ten to twenty percent premium, she probably decided to just accept it to save time and avoid any unforeseen complications.

That was Chen Cheng’s speculation.

And the facts proved that his judgment was more or less correct.

In just a few moments, at least three different groups of people had gathered, their gazes fixed on the three Treasure Fish.

If the woman had tried to bargain, it was entirely possible someone else would have snatched them up.

After all, anyone who could enter the Valley of Oblivion was not short on money.

At this thought, Chen Cheng secretly decided he could quote higher prices in the future.

"One moment, I’ll pack them up for you."

Chen Cheng steadied himself, placed all three Treasure Fish into the large leather pouch, tied it shut, and was about to hand it over.

The woman, however, was in no hurry. She began to rummage through the pile of miscellaneous goods again.

Soon, she picked up two medicine bottles that looked very high-quality. She opened them one by one, brought them to the nostril-holes of her mask, and sniffed gently.

These two medicine bottles were the ones Chen Cheng had looted from Dong Chuo’s corpse.

Chen Cheng didn’t know what kind of medicine they contained.

But given Dong Chuo’s nasty disposition, Chen Cheng wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised if it was poison.

Just then, the Vertical Eye Mark suddenly grew warm.

In an instant, information about a brand-new Skill appeared.

[Yin Fragrance Technique]: Entry Level (0/300), Traits (None)

’This is...’

Chen Cheng’s heart trembled. He never expected such a pleasant surprise.

He had merely seen the woman’s action of sniffing the medicine in the bottle, and he had instantly reached the Entry Level of this new Skill.

It was a Skill for identifying poisons through the sense of smell.

For ordinary poisons, a mere whiff was enough to discern their effects and grade.

What was even more profound was that this Skill had a higher, more advanced level. By using the so-called "yin fragrance," one could smell out rare poisons that were colorless and odorless.

However, to be able to smell this "yin fragrance," one had to reach the Divine Storage Realm and have the support of Innate Divine Qi.

Although Chen Cheng had already generated the Tai Chi Qi, that strand of Qi—half-black, half-white, and ceaselessly circulating—had been beyond his control from the very beginning. He couldn’t activate it in the slightest, let alone use it.

He had already figured this point out. ’If I don’t break through to the Divine Treasure, how can I use Divine Qi?’

"These two bottles of medicine, what’s the price?" the woman asked again.

Chen Cheng replied in a casual tone, "You’re a straightforward person. Just give me what you think is fair. If the price is right, take them."

"Keep the change," the woman said.

"Deal."

Chen Cheng nodded, his agreement exceptionally decisive.

Originally, he was supposed to give the woman three thousand eight hundred taels of silver in change.

Now that he didn’t have to, he simply folded the ten thousand tael Silver Note and carefully tucked it away against his body.

The woman took her things and left without another word.

「Some time later.」

The rest of the items on Chen Cheng’s stall gradually sold out.

He didn’t ask for high prices, as these items weren’t particularly rare.

The key thing was that ordinary Martial Artists all had a use for them. They were essential resources, so he had no trouble finding buyers.

In the end, he made a total of over three thousand taels from the miscellaneous items.

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