Chapter 80 - A Windfall
Chapter 80 – A Windfall
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
While Lu Xuan’s powers were far below what they had been in his past life, so much so that he was less than one one-hundred-millionth times what he had been, that blade had only had a rudimentary level of sentience to it, making it a precious blade with a will instead of a true power item.
That blade was, at most, a divine weapon.
As such, suppressing it would have been easy for him. It would have been ridiculous to even think that that bit of bloodlust could have affected Lu Xuan.
Nonetheless, that blade was still a handy weapon to him at the moment.
While the power of modern firearms was undeniable, he felt cold arms suited him better than firearms would have on a variety of occasions.
The third piece after those two was a piece of ginseng, which was larger than the 300-year-old piece Lu Xuan had gotten from Ling Huang. It sported a greater number of roots and looked more humanly shaped.
“This thing must be a king of ginseng, at least 500 years old.”
Lu Xuan sported an astonished look as he said so. He found it surreal that he was still able to find one such piece that was over 500 years old.
If it was to say that a king of ginseng of 300 years old was already exorbitantly pricey, then a 500-year-old piece would have been priceless.
One would not have even been able to buy such an item without certain connections and access to certain channels.
One might not have even heard of such a piece throughout their lifetime, and the price of one such ginseng would have been worth more than just twice the 300-year-old one. One could have paid ten times the price, and still, one would not necessarily have been able to get their hands on such a piece.
Anyone capable of getting their hands on it would definitely be a rich guy. And those people were not just commonly wealthy; they would have a wealth of astronomical proportions.
Items that needed two Martial Arts Legends present to be traded were really anything but ordinary indeed.
The fourth item was a wooden fish, which, from first glance, hardly looked any different from those used by monks in temples. However, when Lu Xuan took a closer look, he found the wooden fish to be glittering with a faint sheen, which was not something perceivable by ordinary folk. Only cultivators who had reached Lu Xuan’s level would be able to see such a sheen.
It was apparent that that wooden fish had once belonged to a very capable and revered monk. It saw astonishing transmutations due to being exposed to the chanting of sutras for a very long period of time.
The item would not have been any use to Lu Xuan, but a practitioner of Buddhism would have probably benefited hugely from it, as it was able to calm the mind of its owner considerably. This would further elevate one’s practice in Buddhism.
The item would have fetched a good price if it was sold to someone who needed one such piece.
The fifth piece was actually a bunch of items instead of a single item. It was ten pieces of spirit stones, all of them high quality, and every piece contained extremely pure spirit qi.
Lu Xuan would not have thought much of those stones in his past life, but things were different for him. After Liu Bowen severed the dragon’s vein, there was no longer any spirit qi found on the planet. Even if spirit qi began to be regenerated, they would not have gotten thick enough in a short period of time to give birth to spirit stones.
That was because spirit stones were a special mineral coalesced from spirit qi of the world culminated over eons. Earth, at present, lacked the time and history for such a phenomenon to happen.
As such, spirit stones were extremely precious at present, especially given how they would greatly boost a cultivator’s rate in cultivation, and the phenomenon would have been especially pronounced for mystics.
Even common grade spirit stones would cost over 100 thousand Yuan each, and even the worst of the worst kind—the kind that was hardly considered more than chipped residue—would have been worth over 10,000 Yuan each.
There was saying that went, “the poor resort to literature while the rich dabble in martial arts.” Cultivation would have cost more resources than practicing martial arts. Common families would not have been able to sustain the upkeep of cultivators.
Even if the golden age of cultivation was to be upon them and that some common folks were talented, their options would have still been limited nonetheless. They would have had to join a massive corporation like the Taichu Group or join the Special Task Force established by the government before gaining ample resources for furthering their cultivation.
Any piece of spirit stones of such quality would fetch a price of over 100 thousand Yuan per piece, at least.
Having ten around meant that the bunch would have been worth over ten million Yuan.
All of the items were pieces of extraordinary value.
It was especially so given Lu Xuan’s current situation, as the stones would have boosted his rate at cultivation exponentially, allowing him to make a breakthrough into Level Eight in the shortest time possible.
Other than the wooden fish, all the others would have been of great use to him by either furthering his cultivation or boosting his combat prowess.
Lu Xuan bagged all of those items without hesitation. It was rather convenient that the Coiling Dragon Ring was among them, which enabled him to easily store all of those things.
Lu Xuan accessed the Coiling Dragon Ring with his Spiritual Qi, and the space that he was able to open up at his current level, would have been equal to a house of about 100 square feet in area.
While the space was abhorrently small compared to what he would have been capable of back in his past life, it was nonetheless more than sufficient for him at the moment.
The space that he would have access to would become greater as his training progressed.
His effort at snuffing out a smuggling operation that time had given him quite a windfall.
He then walked out of the warehouse after packing up all those items. That female police officer was busy tending to her injured subordinates at the moment.
It was fortunate that they were not in life-threatening danger. While they had all suffered a fair of beating, they nonetheless were physically strong enough due to their rigorous training. Their injuries would have healed just fine with a few day’s rest.
“I didn’t expect you to be so powerful, Mr. Lu. My admiration for you is truly like that of a raging torrent.” Chen Nian went up to praise Lu Xuan as soon as he saw him.
Chen Nian’s lackeys would have had their jaws dropped to the floor if they were to see that arrogant, prideful Master Chen of theirs sucking up to someone else in such a coy manner.
Chen Nian, on the other hand, would have been indifferent to any of those remarks. The man who he directed his praise to was not an ordinary man, after all. What Lu Xuan demonstrated meant that he was at least of Martial Arts Legends level and that he might have been more powerful than Martial Arts Legends. He might have even been a master at the National Guardian level.
Most people would not have even had the chance of getting to suck up to someone with such formidable prowess.
It was an opportunity of a lifetime to Chen Nian.
“Shut up already.” Lu Xuan cut him off right away. He had had ample experience with people trying to get on his good side, and he was all too familiar with the unrefined variants of such efforts, as demonstrated by Chen Nian.
Chen Nian grinned sheepishly and did not mind any of it, retreating to the side as he did so.
A group of men in black appeared near the warehouse not long after that. The one taking the lead was none other than the Chief of the Sha City’s branch of Special Task Force, Wang Junming.
However, Yun Sheng—the Chief of the Fu City’s branch of Special Task Force—was present as well.
Lu Xuan was rather surprised to see the two of them present at the same time.
“Mr. Lu.”
Both of them greeted him.
The men they brought had begun to clean up the scene, disposing of the dead bodies deftly while working with the police.
“How come the two of you are together?” Lu Xuan asked.
“I just happened to be attending to something in Sha City, and I heard about this having to do with you, Mr. Lu, before I was able to leave. So here I am,” Yun Sheng knew that Lu Xuan was suspecting something, so he answered right away.
“That so, eh?” Lu Xuan nodded and proceeded to tell the two of them what just happened.
The two of them frowned hard immediately. A case with just one Martial Arts Legend would have been very tricky, and that particular case had two involved.
“Would the case this time be a lot of trouble?” Lu Xuan put his backs behind his back and asked in a laidback manner.
Yu Sheng paused for a bit and continued, “Truth be told, Mr. Lu, it wouldn’t have been much of a trouble if it was just the Flying Dragon Sect. They had been only on the Special Task Force’s blacklist, after all. Killing a Martial Arts legend from the sect would have definitely been of great help with no loose ends. The case with Master Ying, on the other hand, will be tricky instead.”