Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Hearing this question, the middle-aged man didn't answer. He simply tapped his fingers on the stone table a few times and said with a smile, "Esteemed guest, I will definitely tell you everything I can. But if there are things I cannot tell you, please don't ask about them anymore. After all, it won't be good for anyone. If you are interested in learning more, you can come back after you have cultivated to the Transformation Spring Realm. At that time, I will definitely answer your questions."

Hearing this, Chen Tian felt even more curious. What exactly was inside that fourth stone room?

"Alright, esteemed guest, let's not worry about these things. Let's talk about the transaction first." Seeing that Chen Tian was a bit distracted, the middle-aged man quickly spoke to bring him back.

Chen Tian's body shook, and he glanced at the middle-aged man thoughtfully, then said, "Okay, let's talk about the transaction first! You should know the number of demon cores I need, right?"

Hearing this, a hint of suspicion appeared on the middle-aged man's face again, and he said, "Yes, I heard Xiao Chen say that you want to buy five thousand demon cores, is that right?"

"That's right," Chen Tian nodded and asked, "Do you have them?"

"Esteemed guest, please wait a moment."

The middle-aged man cupped his hands towards Chen Tian, then with a flip of his left hand, he took out an account book.

After flipping through a few pages, the middle-aged man said, "In recent months, no major sects have come to purchase demon cores, so the inventory is relatively large. I've roughly checked and found that there aren't five thousand. There are only four thousand five hundred and sixty-three, including four thousand third-order demon cores, five hundred fourth-order demon cores, and sixty-three fifth-order demon cores. I wonder if that meets your needs?"

Saying this, the middle-aged man closed the account book and looked at Chen Tian.

Hearing his words, Chen Tian immediately became excited and said, "Great, that's exactly what I want. I want all these demon cores. Please help me get them out."

Saying this, the middle-aged man stretched out his hands again and took out an abacus, and started calculating rapidly.

His hands flew, as fast as lightning, and soon he calculated the total price, raised his head and said to Chen Tian, "The total is seven hundred and eighty-five thousand immortal crystals. Esteemed guest, will you pay now, or do you need to go back and get them?"

Although Chen Tian had long known that four thousand demon cores would definitely be a considerable expense, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart when he heard the middle-aged man quote seven hundred and eighty thousand immortal crystals.

Chen Tian patted the things placed on his chest and began to feel insecure. He didn't know if this transaction could be successfully carried out today.

The middle-aged man had seen countless people in his life, and Chen Tian's change in expression naturally didn't escape his eyes.

Chen Tian's actions were clearly a sign of being short of money.

Thinking of this, the originally very enthusiastic expression on his face suddenly diminished, and he said in a deep voice, "What's wrong, esteemed guest? Could it be that you can't afford it?"

Seeing his appearance, Chen Tian was immediately helpless, sighed inwardly, and thought, 'Let's just try my luck.'

Thinking like this, Chen Tian's expression returned to calm, and he said lightly, "To be honest, it's really impossible for me to take out more than seven hundred thousand immortal crystals at once!"

"Hehe, as expected." The middle-aged man sneered after hearing this and said, "I knew something was wrong with you. Who would buy so many demon cores at once? Since you can't afford the immortal crystals, then please leave. Our Qi Zhuang Trading Post is not a charity."

To be honest, because the uses of demon cores were very few, the Qi Zhuang Trading Post's warehouse had accumulated a lot of them, and they couldn't be sold.

So at the beginning, when he heard that someone wanted to buy five thousand demon cores, the middle-aged man was very happy, thinking that he could clear out the entire inventory at once.

It was precisely because of this that he gave Chen Tian such a low discount of 50%, hoping that he could buy all the demon cores at once.

But he never expected that after he quoted the price, Chen Tian showed a very dejected expression, which meant that Chen Tian simply didn't have the ability to pay.

This made the middle-aged man feel very angry. He felt that he had been played by Chen Tian!

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man suddenly stood up and said perfunctorily, reaching out his hand, "Alright, esteemed guest, come back when you have enough immortal crystals. Now, please leave first."

This was issuing an order to Chen Tian to leave!

But to the middle-aged man's surprise, Chen Tian was still sitting in the chair and hadn't gotten up, and his expression was still very calm.

This made the middle-aged man even more angry, and he said coldly, "Esteemed guest, I hope you can be self-aware and don't force me to take action, otherwise, it won't be good for you or me!"

Clearly, the middle-aged man was threatening Chen Tian.

Hearing this sentence, Chen Tian finally made a move. He first looked up at the middle-aged man, then reached into his arms and took out a stack of red spirit talismans.

Chen Tian pushed the stack of spirit talismans in front of the middle-aged man and said with a faint smile, "Shopkeeper, take a look at these things first."

Seeing Chen Tian take out folded spirit talismans, the expression on the middle-aged man's face suddenly became strange. He didn't continue to scold Chen Tian to leave, but sat down again and carefully observed them.

These spirit talismans were dark red in color, and a small sword was engraved on them with gold thread.

The middle-aged man floated his hand over them, and immediately, a sharp and chilling intent burst out from the spirit talismans, scaring him to instantly retract his hand.

"This... this is the Si Mu Severing Sword Talisman?"

The middle-aged man was knowledgeable and immediately guessed the origin of this spirit talisman.

The Si Mu Severing Sword Talisman was a medium-grade spirit talisman, containing a powerful sword energy. If it was activated with spiritual power, it could take a person's head from a hundred miles away.

Spirit talismans were already very scarce in the cultivation world, especially medium-grade and above attack-type spirit talismans, which were even rarer.

But Chen Tian took out twenty Si Mu Severing Sword Talismans at once, which made the usually calm and composed middle-aged man a little excited.

Chen Tian saw his appearance and then smiled slightly, and said, "Shopkeeper, you calculate how many immortal crystals these spirit talismans can be worth?"