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Chapter 290 - 151 Comprehensive Cooperation (1/3)

Chapter 290: Chapter 151 Comprehensive Cooperation (1/3)

"This Demon Material..."

Facing An Jing’s proposal, Iron Hand’s expression was solemn, "It’s produced by a demon creature at the peak of Qi Refining... Moreover."

His prosthetic eye moved, examining the details of the Scale Armor that An Jing had taken out: "This is a juvenile demon—at least, it’s material from an undeveloped juvenile demon."

"In other words, if it fully matures, this demon could grow to a level comparable to a cultivator at the Immortal Foundation stage..."

As he said this, Iron Hand couldn’t help but take out a cigarette, light it up, and take a deep drag, "An Xuan... are you really planning to entrust material of this caliber to me?"

"I don’t have other channels."

An Jing appeared unconcerned: "And since Huo Qing says you have channels, I naturally trust him."

"Indeed, I do."

Exhaling a puff of smoke, his prosthetic eye’s red light flickered, Iron Hand was still conflicted, his voice grave, "I just don’t understand why you would trust me."

"If this Demon Material were thrown onto the Black Market, its price would at least start at nearly ten thousand goodness deeds. I was shocked by those Spiritual Objects you brought earlier, but compared to this Demon Material, they are but a small witch seeing a great wizard."

"And moreover, I’m merely the owner of a small recycling house; you believe me just because Huo Qing says I have channels? Is it not possible that I was just bragging to the younger generation?"

An Jing did not speak; he simply smiled and watched Iron Hand, causing the latter even more irritation.

Clearly, An Jing’s implication was ’you’re not as simple as you appear.’

Because he hadn’t paid much attention to the young man initially, Iron Hand also knew that he had revealed quite a few flaws in front of An Jing; although it was not clear whether the other party knew that he was a member of the Guiyi Army, at the very least, he definitely knew that he wasn’t an ordinary recycling shop owner.

Conversely, knowing this, An Jing still remained so composed... Could it be that, after his breakthrough in Qi Refining, he became so confident?

...Indeed, he did!

Since a while ago, Iron Hand had been using an Array to observe An Jing’s strength.

Then, he discovered that although An Jing’s Spirit Qi indicator was only at the standard level of early Qi Refinement, his physical strength was far superior.

It still wasn’t enough to match up to him, a cultivator in the later stages of Qi Refining in reality, but it was already enough to pose a threat to him.

Considering himself, even with the help of an Array, it would be difficult to detain An Jing.

And most importantly... the talisman given to them by the Guiyi Army to monitor those Sky Surveillance Bureau agents who might hide their identities, was currently releasing slight warmth.

This meant that An Jing either had a Foundation Establishment level Magic Artifact on him, or he possessed several Foundation Establishment level talismans!

Or even...

No. It’s impossible. If the Wilderness forces had an Immortal Foundation cultivator, they would be able to build a city, so how could it be a small sect!

A sect with a Foundation Establishment cultivator backing it... no wonder they are so fearless!

Realizing this, Iron Hand became even more cautious; a Wilderness sect with a Foundation Establishment cultivator was a different concept altogether—such a sect had already slightly broken the monopoly of the four major groups over magical practices and advancement resources, gaining the ability to construct their own small forces in the Wilderness and the Safe Zones.

Those Safe Zone gangs were initially factions that emerged when those lucky cultivators who broke the monopoly were recruited and underwent a change of image.

Take, for example, the ’Spirit Hex Gang,’ which was originally a Wilderness sect, whose leader gained a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment due to unearthing scriptures and elixirs from the Dao Sect era, and after being recruited, it became the Spirit Hex Gang.

For these lucky individuals and organizations that broke the lock, the conglomerates would actually offer appeasement, restricting them within their own sphere of influence. This was also to encourage more future fortunate individuals to choose to join them rather than setting up their own sects in the Wilderness.

"Perhaps the Floating Dust Plains is about to see the rise of a fifth major faction,"

After a long contemplation, Iron Hand let out a long sigh and tossed the cigarette in his hand into the trash can, "Alright, considering you’ve also helped Huo Qing, I’ll do this favor for you."

"However, as for your spiritual objects, our recycling cottage does small business and can’t handle pure goods worth thousands of Good Deeds. We can only sell them through online channels in bits and pieces."

"If you trust me, I can send them along with this demon material into the city, and while processing them, I’ll try to find some buyers on the side."

"Okay." An Jing actually didn’t care at all about these beast pelts, bones, spirit wood, and spirit beast meat, or things like Frost Jade. All together, they were worth about a thousand silver. With his current status as a true person’s disciple, earning money was as easy as drinking soup.

Seeing An Jing agree so readily, Iron Hand felt he needed to explain a bit more: "You don’t have to worry, though. These spiritual objects are bound to have buyers. There’s a demand for everything in the city. Cold Jade and raw beast pelts are indeed the easiest to sell... but yours are a bit too old, backlogged stock, huh? The city prefers newer items, freshly hunted, the more intact the better."

"Understood."

An Jing said with a smile, "I also hope, Iron Hand Boss, that when you sell them, you could help make a list of requests. If it’s possible to satisfy them, we definitely will try our best to do so."

"Okay." Iron Hand nodded, his eyes already glowing with the light of the Spiritual Network: "Then I’ll go negotiate with some people about setting up an online store for this batch of goods. Later on, Huo Qing and you can manage it yourselves..."

"By the way, I want to ask,"

The tall man stared intently at An Jing: "These spiritual objects... they don’t really mean much to you, do they?"

"I don’t want to lie." An Jing lifted his eyebrows and said calmly, "I can only say, this is just my personal channel."

Iron Hand stared hard at An Jing and then nodded: "Alright, then I’m off to negotiate. You two..."

He glanced at Huo Qing, who was full of energy and not showing a hint of nervousness. He wanted to warn him about something but then sighed, "Whatever, you have your own lives."

An Jing watched Iron Hand walk back to the rear room, the emotions on the man were overly complex—relief, reassurance, worry, the desire to advise, coupled with a hint of resignation... This old man surely had an extraordinary story.

But on this great land, who didn’t?

"Your uncle is pretty easy to talk to, huh."

An Jing remarked, while Huo Qing seemed puzzled, "Is... is that so?"

He thought for a moment but couldn’t figure out how his uncle, who had a high content of ’tough talk,’ could be described as ’easy to talk to.’

But he soon gave up pondering the matter, "Not to speak of words, Uncle is indeed a good person, but that’s assuming you’re good as well—I’ve seen Uncle use troublemaking faction members to fertilize the fields."

An Jing asserted confidently, "I indeed am a good person." Huo Qing agreed, "That’s for sure!"

"The Puppetry arrived a few days ago!"

Moving away from the topic of who was good or not, Huo Qing excitedly began to tell An Jing about his recent work achievements: "And I’ve already learned the Spirit Gathering Array! It’s really just as you said, not very difficult. As long as I complete the triple-loop nesting, I can try setting up a Seclusion Room over at the warehouse!"

"Oh! Well done!"

Hearing this, An Jing couldn’t help but perk up, laughing heartily and patting Huo Qing on the shoulder, "You’re learning so quickly, could you actually be a formation genius?"

"Not really..."

Hearing this, Huo Qing seemed somewhat embarrassed, scratching his head, not knowing if it was out of frustration or confidence, "I saw on the Spiritual Network that there are geniuses who can learn the Minor Five Elements Formation in just one day. The Minor Gathering Spirit Formation you gave me is a bit more complex; they might take about three or four days, I guess."

"And there I was, needing nearly a fortnight to learn it with on-site testing in a large area and scripture examples from you and another week to actually build it... No matter how you look at it, it seems dull."

—No way, it’s been how many years, and people still believe that online videos are real? Should I forward the chat logs and tell you that actually, some people can learn it in half a day?