Chapter 541 - White Jade Ape
Chapter 541: White Jade Ape
It was no wonder that Foundry City was a base for artificers. There were several hundred weapon stores of various sizes here, and even more derivative businesses, like pawn shops and auction houses, could be found.
Seeing so many law weapons for the first time, Xia Fei almost fainted from shock.
Yu Hua brought Xia Fei to a place called the Fourth Great Uncle Comprehensive Exchange, pointing at the sign and saying, “Fourth Uncle can be considered a first-class individual of Foundry City. His original surname is Xu, and just like me, he’s obsessed with doing business. He’s been running this store in Foundry City for quite a few years now. It will be best if you trade in the things you have into crystals and then use them to buy law weapons.”
Xia Fei nodded. Those high-speed centrifuges could not be spent like money, and even if he needed to make medicine, just one would be enough. Bringing around too many useless things would just be a burden.
Once they entered, Yu Hua went straight to Fourth Great Uncle’s office as if he was an old hand. Most of the people who worked here were also members of the Yu family. They energetically greeted Yu Hua, their attitudes rather respectful.
In the office, Xia Fei encountered the boss of this exchange, the Fourth Great Uncle. This was a fatty wearing glasses, impeccably dressed in a western suit, several jeweled rings flashing on his fingers. He presented the classical figure of a successful businessman.
“Yu Hua, what wind blew you to my door?” The Fourth Great Uncle stood up from his chair with some difficulty and called to Yu Hua.
Yu Hua smiled and said, “Nothing at all! Couldn’t I just come and see my fourth uncle? I heard our sixth sister is finally about to get married. As an older brother, I have to deliver a congratulatory gift.”
Though the Fourth Great Uncle was without sons, he had seven daughters; of which, only his sixth, who had an extremely strong personality, was unmarried despite being over forty. This had left the Fourth Great Uncle’s entire family worried sick. Now that this old girl was finally leaving, the Fourth Great Uncle was very excited and his face was glowing red.
“That’s true. You’re the richest one in the clan, and it will be inexcusable for me not to get a little cut from you.” The Fourth Great Uncle was quite the entertainer, even joking that Yu Hua would buy a house as a wedding gift, but Yu Hua agreed without blinking an eye.
“This is Xia Fei, a new Law Warrior of my family. He has a few things that I will have to trouble your store to exchange for.” Yu Hua introduced.
The Fourth Great Uncle squinted his little eyes and then happily said, “So you’re Xia Fei! I heard about some excessively talented youth in the clan who managed to reach level 4 Law Warrior in only a month, even killing a Demon Chrysalis on his own. Extraordinary, extraordinary.”
Xia Fei said nothing. In the Law Realm, one’s lifespan frequently got into the hundreds. Yu Hua, though he appeared middle-aged, was probably more than a hundred, and it would even be appropriate for Xia Fei to call him grandfather. As for this Fourth Great Uncle, his seniority was even harder to estimate. For a moment, Xia Fei did not know how he should address this fat, old man.
Yu Hua softly laughed. “Fourth Uncle, what year is this news from? Xia Fei is already level 6, an Elite Law Warrior.”
The Fourth Great Uncle was flabbergasted. “Level 6! He’s advancing this quickly?”
Xia Fei gave a slight nod. Level was not money, and there was no point in hiding it.
The Fourth Great Uncle turned his head and looked at Yu Hua, a profound tone to his words as he spoke. “Back then, you made a record of taking twenty months to reach Law Sovereign, and then Little Bei came out of nowhere and turned that record into eighteen months. It seems like the record is going to change again.”
Yu Hua casually said, “It is a good thing for talented individuals to appear in the family. I really don’t care that others can break my record.”
The Fourth Great Uncle nodded. “That’s true. If a few more individuals like this appear in the clan, the Old Patriarch won’t need to hold things up all by himself anymore.”
A subtle gleam flashed in Yu Hua’s eyes as he softly said, “That’s true. It’s been very hard for the Old Patriarch, holding up the clan all by himself.”
“The people in the family all call me Fourth Great Uncle or Fourth Uncle Yu, and you can call me the same. If you have anything you want to trade, take them out now. Your fourth uncle is in a good mood today, so I’ll take everything you have and give you a good deal!”
Xia Fei nodded and handed over a ring that he had prepared beforehand.
Sending in his mental energy, Fourth Great Uncle said, “All of these are machines and ingredients used by apothecaries, and they’re quite a lot. You could start a factory with all these!”
Yu Hua chuckled. “Just a few spoils of war. Xia Fei has even more valuable things on hand. Take out those law weapons.”
Xia Fei frowned. “Wouldn’t it be better to keep the law weapons for myself?”
Yu Hua replied, “You don’t understand. Law Adepts primarily rely on their own cultivation to fight. Things like weapons shouldn’t be used unless absolutely necessary. Long-term use of a law weapon will create laziness and won’t benefit your cultivation.”
Xia Fei indicated that he understood. Law weapons were often forged by experts of high rank, so they possessed impressive power. A low-rank Law Warrior using a high-rank weapon would naturally be able to exhibit greater power, but this would also breed a dependent mindset.
“To a warrior, what’s needed in a weapon isn’t the quantity but rather the quality to decide victory in one blow. This is why many warriors will spare no expense to get a suitable weapon.”
The Fourth Great Uncle nodded. “Yu Hua is right. It’d be better to trade those weapons for a top-class one. At critical moments of a battle, a small difference in level might decide the outcome. Any weapon with special attributes and a high rank will be difficult to obtain, but once you do get one, it will provide more than just a simple multiplier to your fighting power!”
Xia Fei naturally understood this argument on weapons. After some thought, he came around to the idea. Since he had gone through so much trouble to collect all this money and resources, if he had the chance to trade them for one or two top-class products which could help him out in a pinch, it would obviously be better than having an entire basket-load of ordinary products.
Xia Fei took out the Lapis Killing Rain and Yuan Dian’s round shield. Besides that, he also took out some weapons that he did not frequently use, like the Immortal rank Butterfly Serpent.
Suddenly, as Xia Fei was exploring the contents of his spatial ring, he discovered something weird: a crystalline white ape.
This ring had contained all of Dark Ghost’s property, and it contained a variety of different items. Xia Fei had not gone through everything carefully before this, but now that he was starting to take things out, he discovered this strange ape.
He called it strange because when he released his mental energy onto the white jade ape, it produced a strange reaction. The mental energy that Xia Fei had scattered throughout the space suddenly began to converge. It seemingly had the ability to increase one’s focus by one hundred times.
‘It seems to be something good…’ Xia Fei thought to himself, deciding to leave this ape in the ring.
The Fourth Great Uncle looked at the law weapons Xia Fei had removed and said, “These weapons have rather decent grades, but none of them can be considered good quality. Weapons with an area of effect like the Lapis Killing Rain can be found in every store, so keeping it won’t do you much good. Selling them all for one or two quality products is the correct course of action.”
Seeing that the Fourth Great Uncle was sincere, Xia Fei said nothing. Everyone understood the principle that good steel was used on the blade, but Xia Fei just had no idea how much a quality law weapon would cost.
The Fourth Great Uncle called over a middle-aged manager and ordered, “Take all these things and exchange them for crystals. Try and get the best prices you can. We’re all brothers, so we won’t lose out in this as long as we come out even.”
The middle-aged man nodded in agreement. Taking the spatial rings, he went to the storehouse to check over the inventory and do the calculations.
Yu Hua smiled. “Fourth Uncle, do you have any top-class items available for selection?”
“It’s not like my main business is law weapons, so how can I have quality goods? A new store opened up in Foundry City calling itself Unique Pavilion. It has a grand built and sells only quality goods. You might as well go and look around.”
“Yu Hua stroked his chin. “Unique Pavilion from ‘unique and unmatched’. Quite the resplendent name, but who knows if they can really do it?”
Fourth Great Uncle mysteriously said, “I don’t know if the name matches the reality. After all, I’m not a warrior, so I only know a bit about law weapons. However, the tales say that this store sources its products from the Withered Mu Clan!”
“Withered Mu? That’s one of the Nine Great Clans!” Yu Hua gasped.
The Law Realm had many humans, and most of them lived in clans.
The nine most powerful families were known as the Nine Great Clans, and they were existences far above the Yu family.
These were the Brightsea Clan, the Withered Mu Clan, the Cruelwolf Clan, the Snowdrift Clan, the Moonward Clan, the Glacier Clan, the Shatter Wu Clan, the Nine Fan Clan, and the Noah Clan.
If the law weapons were really made by the Withered Mu Clan, they could not be lacking in grade. After all, the Nine Great Clans were second in status only to the two peak race standing at the top of the pyramid.
“However,” Fourth Great Uncle suddenly said, “while Unique Pavilion’s products are good, their prices are sky-high. The starting price of their weapons is one hundred grade 4 crystals!”
Xia Fei suddenly felt dizzy. One hundred grade 4 crystals could be converted to ten thousand grade 3 crystals, enough for him to cultivate for an entire year, but for Unique Pavilion, this was only the starting price!
Yu Hua smiled. “Quite interesting. Just the thought of a weapon produced by one of the Nine Great Clans makes one excited. Xia Fei, once things are done here, let’s go and take a look.”
Xia Fei nodded in agreement. The prices were truly astonishing, but Xia Fei could not help but be tempted to see what truly legendary top-class law weapons were like.
As before, Xia Fei took out tea leaves and other such specialties from his home and gifted them to the Fourth Great Uncle. The Fourth Great Uncle took the gifts with little hesitation, praising them as excellent tea after putting everything away.
It was not long before the middle-aged man returned, a list of items in his hand.
The Fourth Great Uncle had him read it out, and the middle-aged man cleared his throat and said, “Seventy-four high-speed centrifuges, each one with a converted value of fifteen grade 3 crystals. Thirty-one B-type purifiers, each one with a converted value of eight grade 3 crystals. Law weapon Shield of Solidification, with a converted value of 170 grade 3 crystals. Law weapon Silverwind War armor, with a converted value of 195 grade 3 crystals…
“In sum, a converted value of 53,129 grade 3 crystals,” the middle-aged man finally declared.
Yu Hua smiled. “Fourth Uncle is truly a generous soul. You’re going to take some losses on this trade.”
The Fourth Great Uncle smiled at Xia Fei. “We’re all family. Just call it the price of making a friend. Xia Fei, if you come across any rare items like the Demon Chrysalis, don’t forget about your fourth uncle here. I’ll definitely give you the highest price!”
Xia Fei repeatedly nodded his head and agreed to the affirmative.
Adding together with the crystals he had taken from Dark Ghost, Xia Fei’s fortune had soared to 913 grade 4 crystals. Xia Fei had the Fourth Great Uncle help him exchange six hundred grade 4 crystals and 31,300 grade 3 crystals, which he put away in his ring. After all, Xia Fei did not have a lot of situations where he would use grade 4 crystals, and he still relied on grade 3 crystals for cultivation.
Leaving the Fourth Great Uncle’s store, Yu Hua asked for directions and then headed off with Xia Fei to the mysterious Unique Pavilion.