Unbeatable! Invincible! Unparalleled!

"Ahhh! Uncle!" Cheng Mao screamed with a ghastly look as his uncle was exposed naked to the public.

Due to being too rattled that he was defeated even after taking his sword and using his famed swordplay, not to mention against someone one realm lower than him, and that his prized emerald sword was shattered to pieces in the end as if it was a cheap imitation product, it took Cheng Chi a few moments before he realized his current state.

"Nooo!!" Cheng Chi screamed as he knelt down and covered his little brother that was dangling freely in the air.

How is this possible? How did this happen? Why?!

He was confident that at least with his skills in swordplay, no one in this little Jiu Empire would be his match..

To think that not even his dignity was spared in the end..

Ah! I want to die!

"Damn you! How dare you do this! Don't you think this is over!" Cheng Mao shouted at Duan Li with fiery eyes that was filled with immense hatred, that if looks could kill, perhaps Duan Li would..

No, if his eyes dared to even try, a fate worse than death would befall Cheng Mao!

Shaa!!

Draping over his uncle with a large robe that he took out from his spatial ring, Cheng Mao's bodyguard then quickly took them away and quickly departed with their heads lowered as Duan Li shouted behind them;

"If you guys dare to come back, I'll make you two become renown eunuchs in the Tian continent! You hear me?!"

Hahahahaha!

The crowd finally burst with laughter as they saw their retreating figure. Somehow, they felt that great justice was delivered today!

After all, they need to be able to show those damn outsiders on what will happen if they dare to go overboard, and this would be the perfect example!

...

Soon after, the crowd finally died down, grew disinterested in staying any further and dispersed before everything returned back to normal.

Business as usual.

"Brother, do you think that they will really come back to go after you?" Shen Lu asked as they strolled around in the marketplace.

"Eh? I don't really care.." Duan Li replied casually, treating the previous matter as something not even worth remembering.

"Hmph! I dare them to come again!" Guo He snorted when he recalled the pair of shameless nephew and uncle.

In his opinion, unless they were fools and wanted to be humiliated again, not even their shadow would want to linger in the Jiu Empire anymore!

Hmm?

Suddenly, Duan Li felt something strange happening within his spatial ring. Immersing his consciousness into it, he found that the Treasure box that was given to him by Fei Jin Fang, the Supreme Knight of the Imperial Palace was giving off vibrant light and was trembling incessantly!

What's happening? Why is it suddenly reacting like this?

"Brother, what's wrong?" Shen Lu looked around warily when Duan Li abruptly stopped walking in front of them.

Perhaps those two bastards are back and stalking us from behind?

"No.. it's nothing.." Duan Li replied slowly as he looked around.

When his eyesight landed on a certain stall to their left, the reaction from the Treasure box became more intense!

"The Treasure box is reacting in that direction?" Duan Li cupped his chin and pondered for a while before deciding.

Hmm.. let's take a look!

Walking towards the stall, the seller saw them approaching his stall by the distance as he beckoned them with his hands and wide smile.

"Aiya, Brother over there! Did something caught your interest? I'll give you a huge discount if you buy any of my wares today!" Said the salesman as he rubbed both of his hands together.

When Shen Lu and Guo He saw this seller, they almost had the urge to smack the latter in the face!

After all, this stall was no other than the infamous antique collector!

Na Zem Xi, the outsider with a weird name from the distant land that sold the antiques here was known to be a very shrewd businessman!

Any unsuspecting customer would usually be baited with the latter's tactic of huge discount. In reality, Na Zem Xi would just jack up the original prices to an unbelievable amount before giving a discount of more than half of the price!

In the end, the price would be sold at its original price and the customer would be none the wiser.

What discount? This fellow is just looking for trouble!

"Brother, this fellow here is a known scammer! We shouldn't buy anything from him!" Shen Lu said as he narrowed his eyes when looking at Na Zem Xi, who appeared to be unperturbed by it.

"Hais! I don't know where you guys heard of such a biased rumor from, but I am definitely not a scammer!" Na Zem Xi sighed as he shook his head helplessly.

Turning his attention back to Duan Li, he observed that Duan Li was looking at each of his wares carefully, as if inspecting them. This caused him to become elated and his eyes brightened!

While he did not want to admit that he indeed jacked his price all the time, each of his wares was at least a true antique!

This was something that he had absolute confidence of, and was also the reason why people still buy from him despite the negative rumors about him!

"Brother, do you get to the Cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don't! Here, let me introduce you to some of my highlighted items on that shelf!" he continued.

Oh?

"Since the Treasure box is something mysterious, then the item that it resonated with shouldn't be of lower quality also.." Duan Li thought inwardly.

Besides, he could not possibly comb through every objects here as they numbered in the hundreds. That would be a total waste of time.

Nodding slightly, Duan Li replied, "Alright, show me!"

They then walked around the counter and stood in front of a certain shelf.

"I have ten unique antiques here that dates back to the most ancient era of the Tian continent! You can be rest assured about their authenticity, and if you don't believe me, just take a look at each of their tags!" Na Zem Xi pointed towards one object on the shelf that has a tag with the symbol of the Jixue Knights Academy on it!

"They are.. actually identified and approved by the academy?" Shen Lu was flabbergasted as he stared at the tags, where every single one of them was approved.

Unless this fellow is tired of living, he wouldn't dare to fake all these tags..

Then they are really authentic!

But..

"Hmph! Even if they are all authentic, the price tag on each of them are astronomical!" Guo He complained.

"Look at this! Everyone would know at a first glance that this is nothing more than a bucket to hold water, yet why is it priced at 10 Medium quality spirit stones? Do you think that spirit stones grow on trees and people are idiot? Only fools would buy it!" he pointed angrily.

"Ah? You mean that this price here is expensive? This brother here, you sure like to joke around! While this may be a bucket, its mysterious material used to built it and the square space instead of the usual circle are truly designed with artistry in mind!" Na Zem Xi said in his defense.

He then added, "Besides, its from the Era of the Empyrean Empire, dated to be around 50,000 years ago! But look at it, the condition is still pristine! It's obvious that an object like this should cost even more than 10 Medium quality spirit stones! Don't you see that I'm already selling it at a loss here?"

Just as he was about to reinforce his statement more, he suddenly heard Duan Li beside him said something that almost had him bit off his own tongue.

"I'll buy it!"

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