Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 313 0312: Choice

Baili Xi smiled upon hearing this, and quickly waved his hand and said, "Brother Luo, you are joking. This is about the client's secrets, how dare I say anything nonsense?"

His expression was extremely sincere and his eyes revealed a firm look, as if he was showing his determination to Cheng Zongyang.

As a result, he signed and put his fingerprints on the spot, apparently to verify that he had no intention of leaking the information. His movements were clean and neat, without any hesitation.

Cheng Zongyang looked at Baili Xi's actions with a surprised expression.

He knew that this confidentiality agreement was extremely important to him, and in future transactions involving this type of transaction, he would use a contract to avoid any unexpected events.

Later, when I saw that the agreement actually came into effect so smoothly, I understood what the other party meant.

It seems that the other party does have some ideas about the Foundation Establishment Pill.

For him, the most important thing is that he takes out the foundation-building pill, and the other party cannot leak it or track and investigate. Since it is guaranteed that it will not be leaked, there is nothing to worry about. He immediately said: "If that's the case, then it's easy to talk about."

His tone became much more relaxed and a smile appeared on his face.

Cheng Zongyang took the animal skin back and said, "According to the total price, twenty foundation-building pills should be enough, right?"

His eyes were fixed on Baili Xi, waiting for the other party's answer.

Bailixi's heart stagnated when he heard this, and his breathing became heavier. A strong excitement surged in his heart. Twenty foundation-building pills! He tried to suppress his excitement and said with a slightly trembling voice: "Enough!"

He then realized that even the tone of his voice had become a little high, and this was despite his great efforts to suppress it.

Cheng Zongyang didn't care about the other party's attitude and emotions. He also knew that if the other party was so excited about something that was not his, it meant that the other party had ideas about the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Cheng Zongyang didn't bother to care how Baili Xi would deal with the foundation-building pill. It would be better if he had an idea, so that the confidentiality would be higher.

Moreover, the agreement has been signed, and the other party cannot say a word about his secrets. He has experimented with this on some people several times. Whenever the content of the signed agreement is involved, the words spoken by the person who wants to leak the information are completely different from what he thinks in his mind.

As for whether it will be leaked through soul searching, it is unknown. But if there is an intention to tell it, it means that the other party has violated the contract, and the result is that what is said is different from what is in the mind, and the price will be death!

Cheng Zongyang said: "Since it is feasible, then this is it. This is the deposit."

As he spoke, he took out a bottle containing a foundation-building pill and continued, "This is a deposit. We will trade after all the above materials are collected. I will come over when you are done."

Bailixi fell into deep thought upon hearing this. Spiritual rice, ice essence, fire essence, talisman making and alchemy are all relatively easy to collect, but the spirit gathering array needs to be customized, and other materials also need to be called. Therefore, he gave a time limit and said:
"The main thing is that the large-scale spirit gathering formation is a special formation and needs to be customized. In total... it will take about fifteen days, and you can come back then."

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly: "Okay. Then fifteen days. Oh, by the way, I still need 300,000 spirit stones and 5 million spirit crystals, also in exchange for foundation-building pills. You can also help me prepare them."

Although five million spirit crystals sounds like a lot, it is only fifty thousand spirit stones, the price of a foundation-building pill.

At this point, Bailixi was stunned again: "You need so many spirit crystals and spirit stones?"

There was a look of surprise on his face, and he obviously didn't expect Cheng Zongyang to make such a request.

"Don't you have any?" Cheng Zongyang was puzzled. "If you don't have any, can you help me go to the sect bank to exchange them? Then I can use the seven foundation-building pills to exchange them together."

There are a total of twenty supplies, and now seven more have been added. Baili Xi no longer wants to guess who Cheng Zongyang is working for.

The fact that he could easily offer twenty-seven foundation-building pills as a bargaining chip showed that he not only had sufficient spiritual medicines, but could also refine a large number of foundation-building pills. This was something that only the five major immortal sects could afford!

Which immortal sect sold it secretly?

The outside world had a foundation-building pill that everyone would fight for. His Baili family was a small family, and they had always wanted the foundation-building pill but couldn't get it. Last time, they were trembling with fear for several months because of those foundation-building pills. At this moment, they were really being traded casually like other more precious pills. Thinking about it, he felt it was a bit ironic.

But he quickly collected his thoughts and said, "Okay! I can help you prepare. But the transaction must be completed in one go after fifteen days, and there can be no delay. Otherwise, not only will you not get the supplies, spirit stones, and spirit crystals, but you will also have to leave behind this foundation-building pill as a deposit!"

His tone was firm and there was a hint of seriousness in his eyes.

Cheng Zongyang laughed when he heard this: "Not a problem."

Cheng Zongyang turned and left, leaving Baili Xi alone in deep thought.

Baili Xi looked at Cheng Zongyang's departing back, and the doubts in his heart enveloped him like layers of fog.

He had no idea what kind of powerful force was hidden behind Cheng Zongyang, but he understood clearly that this transaction was undoubtedly a huge opportunity and an opportunity that would definitely change the fate of his family.

Twenty-seven foundation-building pills!
When he thought about swallowing these foundation-building pills, he would have to face a huge problem - he would need the corresponding spirit stones to fill the bill, otherwise he would not be able to accomplish this task at all.

Not to mention that the materials can be delayed in being recorded, the 300,000 spirit stones and 5 million spirit crystals alone are a staggeringly huge amount of cash spirit stones.

He knew very well that his Baili family did not have such a huge wealth. Even among the immortal cultivation families in the East District, none of them could come up with so many spirit stones.

In the entire Zi'an County, the only two groups that can come up with such a huge sum of money are the Xiaoyao Immortal Sect and the Qinglong Chamber of Commerce.

The headquarters of the Qinglong Chamber of Commerce is in Licheng, and Zi'an County is just a branch. Although the Chamber of Commerce has sufficient spiritual stones and spiritual crystals as reserves, it cannot be taken out at will, otherwise the spiritual stones and spiritual crystals on the Chamber of Commerce's books are not enough for transactions, which will cause a series of troubles.

This made Baili Xi fall into deep thought. How should he proceed to successfully obtain these twenty-seven foundation-building pills?

Baili Xi paced back and forth in the room, constantly thinking of various plans in his mind.

But in the end, there was no way around the problem of paying with spirit stones.

Without thinking too much, Baili Xi immediately began to prepare the materials needed for the transaction.

He first sent people to integrate spiritual rice, ice essence, fire essence, and materials for making talismans and elixirs. These materials were relatively easy to collect, and could be prepared within fifteen days as long as some time and effort was spent.

He sold the spiritual rice to Cheng Zongyang and earned only 3 spiritual crystals per pound, which could be said to be an extremely low price.

Five hundred thousand jin means a profit of only fifteen thousand spirit stones.

The price of Ice Essence and Fire Essence was reduced by three Spirit Crystals again, to only 2.5 Spirit Stones per piece. This was also his lowest price. Spirit Rice could be sold by quantity, but earning only 50 Spirit Crystals per piece of this Ice Essence and Fire Essence material was already extremely low. However, the customization of the large Spirit Gathering Array Plate made him somewhat helpless. The Spirit Gathering Array that Cheng Zongyang wanted was a third-level one, which required a professional array master to customize it, and it took a long time to make. This was also the reason why he told him that it would take fifteen days.

Bailixi could only record the materials and supplies that needed to be called from the headquarters and prepare for subsequent one-time processing.

Bailixi began to worry about the spiritual stones and spiritual crystals again. Three hundred thousand spiritual stones and five million spiritual crystals were not a small amount, and he needed to find a way to raise so much wealth. Bailixi thought of going to the sect bank to exchange them, but he also knew that doing so might cause some unnecessary trouble.

After all, exchanging so many spirit stones and spirit crystals at one time would definitely attract the attention of the people inside the sect. The foundation-building pills were basically controlled and monopolized by the sect, and suddenly someone outside took seven foundation-building pills to exchange for so many spirit stones and spirit crystals, so they had to pay attention and investigate.

In the end, he couldn't figure out how to swallow these twenty-seven foundation-building pills without cooperating with other families, without being discovered by the Chamber of Commerce, and without being investigated by the sect.

The only way was for him to take out the spiritual stones worth 1.35 million and fill all the accounts! In this way, except for Cheng Zongyang who would not tell others, no one knew that he had 27 foundation-building pills!
He wanted to go to the sect's bank to borrow money, but without important treasures as collateral, the sect would not lend him so many spirit stones simply because of his so-called status as the head of the chamber of commerce.

If he didn't sell it later, he wouldn't have the spirit stones to pay back. After all, this thing was for his own use, not to sell it to make a few thousand spirit stones difference.

Just like last time, swallowing those foundation-building pills was to use up his savings of many years to make up for the loss, and no one knew about it.

"Alas." Bailixi sighed secretly. His excitement was in vain.

Even if he went to rob houses in half a month, he couldn't steal more than one million spirit stones. As for internal loans within the Chamber of Commerce, tens of thousands of spirit stones might be possible, but millions, needless to say, were impossible.

Therefore, the options available to him now were: first, he wrote down the whole story of a mysterious Jindan-level cultivator selling 27 foundation-building pills, and added his own speculation - this Jindan cultivator must have purchased so many resources in order to establish his own family power.

Then he would get resources and spirit stones and crystals from the headquarters, and he would also receive a considerable commission and contribution from this transaction.

The second option is to take the twenty-seven foundation-building pills to the sect's bank and exchange them all for spirit stones and spirit crystals at the price of fifty-five thousand spirit stones per pill.

In this way, he could earn more than 130,000 spirit stones, which was equivalent to the income of two foundation-building pills! But the second option was that once the Chamber of Commerce discovered it, his good days would be over.

Finally, after considering all parties, he chose the first option when he did not have any spirit stones to fill the account, and reported a price slightly higher than the normal price of 53,000 spirit stones per piece. He just needed to negotiate with Cheng Zongyang.

If the Chamber of Commerce owns these twenty-seven foundation-building pills, the profits it brings will be more than just spirit stones.

In this way, he can earn about 80,000 spirit stones, and get an extra commission. The total spirit stone income should exceed 100,000, as well as Chamber of Commerce contribution points and possible promotion.

Three birds with one stone.

All of this can be solved by simply pretending to know nothing about Cheng Zongyang's identity.

He believed that as long as he built good relationships, he might be able to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill in the future.

With this decision, Bailixi began to refine the plan to avoid any mistakes.

Cheng Zongyang didn't know that Baili Xi had arranged so many things in just over an hour after he left.

Looking back, he and Li Yihe got on a carriage after leaving the Chamber of Commerce. The driver was Li Cungang.

"Boss, with this amount, aren't you worried that something might happen?" Li Yihe asked in a low voice as soon as the carriage started moving.

Cheng Zongyang shook his head slightly: "Don't worry. The contract is the greatest means of confidentiality. Now I am curious about how Bailixi will swallow these 27 pills. Does he have so many spirit stones to fill the account?"

Li Yihe chuckled and continued, "That depends on how greedy he is in the Chamber of Commerce over the past ten years. In eighteen years, if he is a little greedy, it is not a problem for him to use spirit stones to fill the account and swallow those pills. If he is just averagely greedy, he can probably swallow half of it and find a good reason to pay the other half. If he is a little greedy, according to your previous transactions, the spirit stones have all been spent. Now he probably doesn't have many spirit stones."

Cheng Zongyang nodded in agreement with this speculation: "That's right. But this is the world of immortal cultivation, and it's hard to hide such things. Otherwise, if you use something to search the soul, or ask questions, everything will be revealed, and it can't be concealed. I guess it's just a little greed."

Li Yihe nodded. He was not familiar with the methods of the immortal cultivators, but if there were such methods, it was estimated that there would be few people in the entire chamber of commerce who dared to be corrupt. If a manager of a chamber of commerce had been corrupt for more than ten years, if he was capable enough, the higher-ups would turn a blind eye, which would make the other party work better and more motivated.

If you go too far, it will be useless even if you have sufficient ability.

Knowing when to stop and being content is the best way to survive.

"In this case, he won't be able to swallow it. The best way is to make a profit from the price difference. He can't not be able to eat the meat and not even have a drink of the soup, right? I guess he will come to you, the boss, to have a talk." Li Yihe analyzed.

Cheng Zongyang immediately understood what Li Yihe meant when he heard it. He smiled and said, "That's nothing. He has the ability to drink the soup, so just give it to him. It will help me conceal the truth and arrange supplies better."

"I think so too." Li Yihe smiled and then asked, "Then boss, do you really want to open a shop?"

Cheng Zongyang shook his head slightly: "Not for now, let's wait until Li Cungang becomes a cultivator. Cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce is temporary, it will be best to purchase supplies by ourselves in the future. Hmm?"

Suddenly, when he looked out the window, he unexpectedly saw a familiar animal car and immediately shouted outside: "Stop."

Then he looked at Li Yihe and said, "You and Li Cungang go back first. I'm going to do something."

"Yes, Boss!" Li Yihe nodded. Then he picked up the gift box beside him and said, "This is what Bailixi just sent. He said it is some spiritual fruit. You can take it and eat it."

Cheng Zongyang got off the carriage, feeling a little anxious. He subconsciously picked up the basket and left quickly, chasing after the animal cart that had just passed by.

After a moment, he successfully stopped the animal carriage and shouted to the people in the carriage: "Third sister, it's me."

The driver Cheng Zongyang also knew him. He was the old man who had always driven for Tan Sanniang. The old man looked at Cheng Zongyang with a kind smile on his face, but did not speak.

At this time, Tan Sanniang's lazy voice came from the carriage: "Come up."

Cheng Zongyang smiled when he heard this: "Okay."

He stretched out his hand to pull open the curtain, then bent down and walked into the carriage. In the carriage, Tan Sanniang, still wearing plain clothes, lazily leaned on the soft blanket. Her mature and charming face looked even more attractive in the soft light in the carriage.

When Tan Sanniang saw the exquisite basket in Cheng Zongyang's hand, she glanced at it and said jokingly, "Oh, you are so polite."

Hearing this, Cheng Zongyang paused, looked at the basket in his hand, and was a little confused. When did he take it?
His situation was like the situation in his previous life when a friend handed him something on the phone and he subconsciously took it, and was confused afterwards.

But he soon smiled, handed over the basket in his hand, and said calmly: "Of course not, this is something I carefully selected and bought for you. I was just about to go find it for you."

(End of this chapter)