After the Skyfall

Chapter 373 Red Gold
Xiu Xiang saw the silver fruit handed to him by Li Yi and couldn't help showing some surprise: "This is the God Fruit, which only grows in the place where the gods are buried. It is produced by an unknown old tree that absorbs the power of the gods' remains. After eating it, you can gain a little life force. It is said that some God Fruits can also awaken the blood of gods."

“It’s just that the God Fruit grows in forbidden places. Even though I often pass by the God Valley outside Shoushan Village, I dare not set foot in it, fearing that I will arouse the anger of the gods and bring endless disasters.”

He was very experienced and recognized the origin of the exotic fruit in Li Yi's hand.

However, to the merchant Xiu Xiang, the God Fruit was not something particularly valuable. In Beihuang City, such a God Fruit was only worth ten gold coins. But if a God Fruit could help people awaken the blood of God, then it would be very precious. One God Fruit would be worth more than ten thousand gold coins and was a real treasure.

Because awakening the divine bloodline means that there will be one more divine blood family in the future, which will be passed down from generation to generation.

What Li Yi gave away was just an ordinary exotic fruit, certainly not a big fruit that could awaken bloodline, but his thoughtfulness made Xiu Xiang very happy.

This shows that Li Yi is a person who is willing to give back.

For Xiu Xiang, a businessman, he likes dealing with such people because it means that his funding will never lose money.

"Okay, Dayi, I accept your kindness."

Xiu Xiang took the silver exotic fruits, then motioned a servant to come over and took out a brand new leather armor from the servant: "As an apology for not being able to help you this time, I hope you can take this leather armor."

The leather armor was covered with black dragon scales, layer upon layer, indestructible, and looked very familiar. It was made by skinning the eight hundred year old dragon that he had bought before.

"I have received so much favor from you, how can I ask for your valuables again?" Li Yi shook his head to refuse.

Xiu Xiang said, "This is compensation for the merchant's broken promise. Please accept it. It's not something particularly valuable. Please."

After saying this, he handed over the leather armor sincerely.

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Li Yi had to accept it. He felt an ancient quality and cultivation in this man called Xiu Xiang. When getting along with him, he felt that he was a trustworthy person. In this world, business owners seemed to attach great importance to promises.

This is completely different from the people on Earth who fart when talking.

Xiu Xiang was very happy to see Li Yi accept the armor. He then invited Li Yi to his home for a chat.

The handler has short hands.

Li Yi had no choice but to nod and agree.

"Let's go home." Xiu Xiang ordered his servants and rode on the exotic beast to leave the market.

While walking, Li Yi continued to keep an eye on the slaves being sold in the market, to see if he could try his best to find the traces of Jiang Mingtian and others.

Unfortunately.

He arrived late and after looking around for a while he still couldn't find it.

Instead, before leaving, he saw several small slave owners selling a few slaves on the roadside. Li Yi didn't pay much attention at first, but the clothes worn by one of the men immediately caught Li Yi's attention. The man was wearing modern clothes, although they were tattered and stained with blood, it was indeed a style of clothing that only existed on Earth.

Although the man was disheveled and covered in blood, his body shape was completely different from the people in Beihuang City.

"That's a cultivator from Earth." Li Yi stared at it for a few seconds and was almost certain in his heart.

But he didn't know that person, he was a stranger.

I thought about it.

Li Yi suddenly jumped off his mount, then quickly walked up to the slave trader and said, "I want this man."

"One hundred coins." The businessman said immediately.

Li Yi had no money, and he didn't want to trouble Xiu Xiang, nor did he want to expose some things on him that didn't belong to this world. He could only take out the smallest silver exotic fruit and hand it over: "Exchange it with this."

When the merchant saw the silver fruit, his eyes lit up, and he quickly took it away and handed the slave's chain to Li Yi: "Exchange."

Li Yi knew that he was at a disadvantage, but he was too lazy to care about it at the moment. He had hundreds of silver exotic fruits in his hand, so one or two wouldn't make a difference. He then pulled the chain and strode away.

Seeing this, Xiu Xiang just smiled and said nothing more.

The cultivator looked somewhat numb at the moment. He was dragged away and had no intention of resisting anymore. It was obvious that he had been severely taught a lesson by the slave trader.

"What's your name and why did you come to Beihuang City?" Li Yi asked as he walked.

But the practitioner still kept his head down and said nothing.

Li Yi lowered his voice and said, "You also crossed over from Earth?"

Hearing this, the man suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Yi: "You, you are also a cultivator on Earth? My name is Qin Gang, from Tianning City."

"Qin Gang? Are you Zhao Fangji's friend?" Li Yi remembered something.

The man was somewhat surprised and said, "You also know Zhao Fangji? That's great."

"A while ago, Zhao Fangji said that a cultivator named Qin Gang led a team of people deep into the danger zone. However, when we came here, we didn't find any trace of you. How are you doing?" Li Yi asked.

"We encountered terrible beasts before we even reached the place to pick exotic fruits. Some died, some fled. Although I survived, I lost my way. When I walked out of the forest, I found myself in an unknown world. I had planned to move forward along the mountain, but I met a group of people on the road. I couldn't beat them, so I was captured. Then I wandered for a while before finally appearing here." Qin Gang lowered his head and recounted his tragic experience.

His only good fortune was that he looked short and thin, and it would be difficult to sell him even if he became a slave.

Li Yi had no way to sympathize with him, because he was also very unlucky and almost died in this world, so he finally said: "Qin Gang, I am powerless now and can only help you up to this point. Now leave Beihuang City and go to the canyon where the gods are buried, and then go back in the direction you came from." He untied the chains on Qin Gang and gave him freedom.

The two men didn't know each other, and Li Yi felt that he had done the most he could.

Qin Gang hesitated for a moment and said, "Can I follow you? In my current state, even if I leave Beihuang City, it will be difficult for me to return to Tianning City smoothly."

"No, I have my own things to do. How about this? I have two exotic beasts near the canyon where the gods are buried. I have tamed them. You go find the good-winged beast and explain the situation. It will send you back to Tianning City. This is the proof. When the time comes, you can feed it this exotic fruit and it will believe it."

Li Yi thought for a moment, then stuffed a silver exotic fruit into Qin Gang's hand, climbed onto his mount, turned around and left.

However, Qin Gang did not leave Beihuang City immediately after taking the exotic fruit. Instead, he turned back and returned to the side of the slave trader he had met before, and said something.

The slave trader heard something that provoked him and flew into a rage. He punched Qin Gang's head and it blew up, and blood splattered all over the floor.

Then the slave trader carried Qin Gang's body and quickly caught up with Li Yi.

Li Yi was also stunned when he saw this scene.

Unexpectedly, the slave trader threw Qin Gang's body to the ground, bowed, and said with shame: "This slave wanted to invite me to kill a guest outside Beihuang City. The guest just gave him freedom, but he didn't want to repay, and he wanted to bite his master. Such a person is more vicious than a jackal, so I killed him. As compensation, please accept this hundred gold."

After saying that, he handed over two silver exotic fruits and a piece of red metal that shone brightly.

Li Yi fell silent for a moment after hearing this, then nodded, accepted the other party's compensation, and left without saying a word.

When the slave trader saw Li Yi accept the compensation, he was relieved at first, but then he became furious when he saw Qin Gang's body and wanted to whip his corpse.

After leaving the slave market.

Li Yi played with the glittering coin in his hand and couldn't help asking, "Xiu Xiang, why did the other party compensate me with a hundred gold coins? This is not a small amount of money."

"One of your divine fruits is worth ten gold coins. Before leaving the slave market, if something happens to a slave, the slave master will be responsible. However, if he kills your slave, he will have to pay ten times the compensation. If he does not pay, or if you refuse to accept the compensation, the slave master's hand will be chopped off and he will be expelled from Beihuang City." Xiu Xiang said.

"So that's how it is." Li Yi understood. He didn't expect that there was such a rule here.

"I saved Qin Gang, but he repaid my kindness with evil. He actually wanted to join forces with slave traders to kill me." Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head at this moment.

After crossing so many boundaries, he found that the lowest moral standard is still on Earth.

It seems that it is better to pay less attention to Earthlings when I meet them in the future. Even if we are in a different world, Earthlings are still thinking about fighting each other and harming each other. This is simply incomprehensible.

Now Li Yi understands the regret in the knife coin more and more.

The people on Earth are indeed deeply evil, born evil, and hopeless. Their extremely flexible moral bottom line, their style of harming others and not benefiting themselves, and their behavior of harming each other's compatriots are simply shocking to other worlds. They are worse than villains and even evil to the point that they are incomprehensible.

Qin Gang felt that his behavior was normal, but in the eyes of the slave traders it was an unforgivable crime. He was willing to pay ten times the compensation in order to kill this evil slave.

Perhaps at that moment the slave trader felt that the sins he had committed in selling slaves for his entire life were not even one-tenth of what Qin Gang had shown, and that by killing him he would be redeemed for the rest of his life.

Soon Li Yi stopped thinking about this matter.

His attention was drawn to the red gold in his hand.

This coin is very peculiar. It appears light golden in the dark, but as red as blood in the sun. It has a very peculiar glow.

"Xiu Xiang, where does the red gold come from?" Li Yi couldn't help but ask.

However, his question was very clever. He did not directly ask what red gold was, so as not to arouse suspicion.

"Most of the red gold in the world comes from Kunwu Mountain, so this red gold is also called Kunwu Stone, which can be used to train divine weapons." Xiu Xiang said: "There are also other business owners who say that red gold is like blood, which is formed by the blood of gods spilled on the earth. Therefore, among all kinds of metals, red gold is the most precious."

"Can I practice divine weapons?"

Li Yi stared at the coin and estimated in his mind that if he wanted to forge a sword, he would need at least thirty pieces of red gold. Considering that people in this world like large weapons such as axes and swords, the cost would probably be ten times higher.

It takes at least three hundred pieces of red gold to forge a magic weapon.

And one red gold coin is equal to one hundred gold coins.

In other words, a magic weapon is worth at least 30,000 gold.

Moreover, it is inevitable to purify the red gold in order to refine weapons. It is estimated that the consumption will increase. If other auxiliary materials and costs for casting are added, the cost will be an astronomical figure.

However, if such a magical weapon is practiced, it will definitely be extremely powerful.

After all, the military power in this world is very high, and what can be called a divine weapon is definitely not a simple stuff.

With all kinds of ideas.

Soon, Xiu Xiang brought Li Yi to a house in the city.

The houses in this world are not exquisite. They are made of large wooden beams, bronze pillars, and stone floors. There are no extra colors and they are very simple and practical, yet reveal an ancient atmosphere.

　I will update another chapter in the afternoon.

　　
　
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