Chapter 1275 – Earth Jiao Tendon
”I don’t have much strength, so I can’t use such a heavy weapon.” Han Li withdrew his gaze and shook his head without moving.
”Then how about Your Excellency take a look at this Moon Arc Sword, this sword is refined from purple copper, not only is it as light as nothing, it’s also exceptionally tough, making it a rare top-grade soft sword.”
”It’s too short to fit in the hand.” Han Li lightly glanced at it, again not looking at it.
”Too short?” The fellow’s face, which had originally been compensating for a smile, couldn’t help but stagnate, and he seemed to be at a loss as to how to interface below.
”What is that thing, it seems quite interesting.” Han Li suddenly walked a few steps over and pointed at an object on another table, slowly asking.
The thing he was pointing at was clearly this mass of coiled together ebony soft cords, thumb thick and thin.
”This is the Gnarled Dragon Cord, it is refined from gold silk and is specialized for binding. It’s the low-priced demonic beasts with infinite strength that can’t easily break free when bound by this rope.” The fellow was dumbfounded at the sight of this object and then opened his mouth to explain.
”Gnarled Dragon Rope, let me take a look.”
Han Li nonetheless reached out and took this item into his hands, slightly shaking it, and after a “whoosh” sound, the black rope became straight and incomparable, as if it were a thin stick.
Standing next to the fellow saw this scene, eyes a little straight.
He has entertained many guests in this weapon store, and naturally has some eyesight. To be able to easily drive such a soft rope to such a point, the other party was definitely not an ordinary person, most likely a body refiner, his face could not help but show a point of awe.
”This is quite good, but it’s still a bit too thick. Are there any finer such things?” Han Li gently swung it twice, still asking with a frown.
”Finer, this …… store doesn’t have it, I’m afraid.” The fellow muttered twice, returning with some embarrassment.
”Oh, want a finer one? I do have an item here, would Your Excellency be willing to take a look, but the price of this item is not cheap.” A rough voice suddenly came from behind Han Li. Han Li’s expression stirred as he slowly turned around.
Only to see that behind him stood two large men, one with a tall figure and long hair draped over his shoulders, giving off a dangerous beastly aura. The other had a yellowish face and was slightly withered.
These two people are wearing leather robes, cloaked hair behind the man carrying a long golden gun, shoulder and a huge package, thin people are single-handedly carrying a few feet long wooden box, look somewhat hazy.
What made Han Li’s eyes light up was that the fingers of one hand of the duo each carried a finger ring inlaid with spirit stones, but this object was obviously much rougher than the one on Zhang Kui’s hand, and the spirit stones on it were also smaller than the one on the other.
”Spirit tool.” “Body refiner.”
These things surfaced in Han Li’s mind, and in the blink of an eye, he recognized the identity of the two, and said with a slight curl of his mouth, “As long as the item is suitable, the price won’t be a problem.”
”That’s good, but this is not the place to talk. Your Excellency should first talk with my brother in a quiet place.” The withered man sized up Han Li and spread a smile.
”No problem!” Han Li nodded without hesitation. Immediately, he followed the duo out of this weapons store and back onto the street.
This duo seemed extremely familiar with the neighborhood, and after leading an east turn and a west turn, they even walked to an inconspicuous alley.
There were no shadows here, and it was quiet.
”This is the place. Sage Brother Xin, take that thing to this brother and show it to him.” As soon as the three of them stopped here, the withered man instructed the big man.
”Got it, big brother Bao!” The taller man agreed and grabbed one of the packages off his shoulder before shaking it.
After a burst of clanking and clattering, a large pile of items fell to the ground. Inside were both some bottles and cans and other things, as well as some animal skins and horns.
The withered man bent down and picked up another palm-sized wooden box from inside.
”Your Excellency take a look. This is the demonic beast tendon that my brother and a few other Body Refiners obtained from killing an Earth Jiao. This thing is not only slender and tough, but also flexible enough to easily stretch and elongate several times over.”
”Earth Jiao?”
Han Li naturally does not know what kind of demonic beast is this so-called ground jiao, but it also looks like a low-ranking demonic beast, immediately the face of the slightest color did not show, reached out to receive the wooden box, and opened the lid.
A thin milky yellow thing, was a red rope tied into a ball, honestly placed in it.
Han Li also did not polite, fingers in the red rope on a pinch, suddenly the rope inch broken open.
Then “poof” sound, originally coiled into a ball of animal tendons ejected, one end straight to Han Li face door shot.
Han Li single hand lift, obviously seems to move slowly, but somehow five fingers grabbed the beast tendon end, and then finger movement, straight beast tendon suddenly soft and limp down, as if the moment elasticity is lost.
Then this cut off two zhang long thing, get in front of the eyes.
The withered man across from him saw Han Li move so deftly, and the cloaked man on the side couldn’t help but glance at each other.
By this time, Han Li had already scrutinized this cutoff of Earth Jiao Tendon.
With his eyesight and insight from killing countless low-ranked demonic beasts back in the day, he naturally saw the nature and characteristics of this tendon at a glance, as well as how it could be slightly modified to be more suitable for his own use.
Han Li fiddled with it for a while before shaking the object with one hand.
Beast tendon a burst of fuzzy fluttering, coiled in the wrist a whirlwind of rapid winding, turned into a light yellow bracelet.
Arm a droop, long sleeve a put, suddenly the beast tendon cover tightly, from the outside the slightest difference can not be seen.
”Not bad, this material is indeed a rare material in the low level demonic beasts. However, this kind of thing is not very useful to cultivators, it is most appropriate to be used as a bowstring, and the same applies to me as well. As long as the two of you don’t ask for a lion’s share, I can buy it.” Han Li looked at the opposite duo and said indifferently.
”Hehehe, seeing as Your Excellency should also be a Body Refiner as well. In that case, naturally, you’ll need to settle with spirit stones. This Earth Jiao Tendon will cost thirty spirit stones!” Hearing Han Li say this, the withered man revealed a smile on his gloomy face and quoted his price.
”Thirty spirit stones? A bit high, but not unacceptable. Your Excellency take it.”
Han Li already knew from his contact with Liu’er’s four daughters that although mortals in the Spirit Realm still used yellow and white objects as currency, among them, Body Refiners traded special items with spirit stones just like cultivators because their spirit tools required the consumption of a large amount of spirit stones.
Only in the Spirit Realm, the value of low-grade spirit stones wasn’t as great as it was in the Human Realm.
Whether it’s spirit tools or cultivator training, most of them are based on medium and high level spirit stones. After all, this world is far from the human world dense spiritual qi can be compared, is the top order of the very high quality spirit stone mine in this world is not no, just mostly in the hands of those high-ranking cultivators and big forces.
But that’s it, thirty low-ranking spirit stones for a low-ranking demonic beast’s ribbed material science, or some slightly higher.
Although Han Li had left his storage bag and all his treasures in the desert that day, being in the spirit world, the importance of spirit stones would naturally not be forgotten. Just in case, he had also left more than ten middle-ranked spirit stones on his body as a backup.
Now he reached into his bosom and with a flourish of his hand, a yellow-orange spirit stone was thrown out.
The cloaked haired man took a step forward, and with a big hand, he grabbed this piece of spirit stone into his hand. After a brief inspection, he nodded with satisfaction.
Seeing this, the man surnamed Bao revealed a hint of a smile on his yellowish face. Immediately, he pulled out an ordinary small leather pouch from his body, from which he counted out seventy low-grade spirit stones, wrapped them in a piece of animal skin on the ground, and threw them at Han Li as well.
”These are for Your Excellency. If your brother is so forthcoming, we might as well work together if we have the chance.” The withered man said with a hefty smile under his breath.
”Cooperation, there might be opportunities in the future. But right now, I have something to do, so I’ll take my leave.” With a faint smile, Han Li clasped his fists at these two and calmly turned around to leave.
Seeing Han Li flash and disappear from the alleyway entrance, the big man looked at the middle-order spirit stones in his hands, then looked toward the alleyway entrance, his eyes suddenly flashed with a fierce light, and he asked in a low voice to the withered man beside him, “Big brother Bao, this person’s face is so unfamiliar, and his wealth is not expensive looking. Do we want to ……”
”Put that little mind of yours away. Can’t you see that this person doesn’t have a spirit tool in his hand? Alchemists who would do this are either too poor to afford spirit tools at all, or they are self-conscious that their cultivation is high enough that ordinary spirit tools are no longer of much help to them and don’t care to use them. Which one do you think this person belongs to?” The withered man’s face sank as he asked a rhetorical question.
”This person’s generosity naturally isn’t the type of poor body refiner, but didn’t he just buy the Earth Sculptor Tendon from us?” The hair-cloaked big man was a bit hesitant and said with less certainty.
”Xin Xian Di, can you be sure that the other party bought Earth Jiao Tendon just to use it as a weapon, maybe it’s just a material that the other party wants to use to refine a special spirit tool. Nowadays, An Yuan City can be flooded with quite a number of foreign body refiners, and there is no lack of some extremely fearsome existences. Although the two of us are not weak, but still do not take risks. After all, I only have one small life to live.” The man surnamed Bao was silent for a moment, but he sneered.
”There is some truth in big brother’s words, it was me who was a bit impatient because I was too lacking in spirit stones. But the beast tide is coming soon, and without middle-ranked spirit stones to replenish our spirit tools, we’ll be in equally great danger.” Being said so by the withered man, the big man surnamed Xin finally calmed down, but was still greatly embarrassed.
”What are you afraid of, as long as the beast tide comes, the city lord of An Yuan City will definitely employ all the body refiners in the city, and will naturally hand out a sum of spirit stones. As long as we save it, it will be enough to keep us alive.” The withered man said in a confident manner, as if he had a plan in mind.
”That’s true, according to the agreement between the Three Emperors and the Seven Demon Kings, cultivators above the JieDan level aren’t allowed to help the major cities fend off the beast tide. If you want to keep your city, who else can these city lords rely on if not us Body Refiners?” Upon hearing this, the cloaked big man’s spirit also perked up.
”It’s good that you know. In fact, this agreement is also relative, and similarly there will not be any high level demonic beasts above level five in the beasts. It’s not really easy to say who actually took advantage of this agreement.” The withered man lamented somewhat.
The big man with the cloak of hair also murmured.
Not long after, the two of them packed up the things on the ground and walked out of the alleyway again, disappearing into the crowd on the street.