Mushroom Man

How many?!
Four hundred thousand silver coins!!!
You old codger, are you kidding me?
Upon hearing this, Young Master Zhenlong's eyelids twitched.

Four hundred thousand taels of silver is no small sum.

In the mushroom world, a rare and highly sought-after fifth-tier mushroom can fetch over 100,000 silver coins if sold on the market.

A full 400,000 silver coins; if you can find a good seller, you might be able to buy two or three level-five mushrooms.

Don't be fooled by this number; it may seem insignificant. In reality, many level 5 mushroom masters may not even have a few level 5 mushrooms.

While the Zhenlong caravan is indeed a large and wealthy enterprise, it is not impossible for them to come up with 400,000 taels of silver in one go.

The problem is that Young Master Zhenlong is not the actual controller of the Zhenlong Caravan.

The actual controller of the Zhenlong Caravan was his father.

The resources that Young Master Zhenlong can control are only 30% of the entire Zhenlong caravan.

Taking out 100,000 taels of silver at once was enough to make him wince.

Young Master Zhenlong could at most grit his teeth and gamble on whether the bubble fish business would be a big success, risking his life savings of about 200,000 taels of silver.

As for the 400,000 silver coins mentioned by Elder Shangxing, that's out of the question; it's simply impossible.

"Senior Shangxing, please don't joke."

“We’ve only just started discussing business, how can we possibly come up with 400,000 taels of silver?”

"Business needs to proceed step by step. Why don't we wait until we've traded the first batch of bubblefish and everyone has made enough silver before discussing such a big deal?"

Young Master Zhenlong chuckled and tentatively began to bargain.

However, as soon as he opened his mouth, Wu Liang shook his head and coldly refused without any room for negotiation.

"The conditions I just gave are my bottom line."

“You should know better than anyone the risks I am taking in negotiating this deal with your Zhenlong caravan.”

"If anything goes wrong, I will lose my position as an elder of the Star Palace."

"Did you take such a huge risk just for a hundred thousand taels of silver?"

“My conditions have been clearly stated.”

"Whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on your word, young friend..."

After Wu Liang finished speaking, he immediately closed his eyes, as if to say that there was no room for discussion.

Upon seeing this, Young Master Zhenlong panicked.

How could he let go of such a tempting prize that was already within his grasp?

This is crucial to whether he can inherit the family fortune!

Thinking of this, Young Master Zhenlong gritted his teeth and said, "To be honest, I really can't come up with that much silver."

"At most, I can only offer 250,000 silver coins for this transaction."

"However, I am willing to exchange the missing 150,000 silver coins for a fifth-rank mushroom. I wonder what Senior Star thinks?"

Five-stage mushroom!

Young Master Zhenlong has gone all out to make this deal.

The five-turn mushroom he mentioned was originally intended as a gift for his father.

In this way, even if he didn't achieve anything, his father wouldn't blame him.

Now that it's being traded, it's undoubtedly a desperate gamble, putting all their eggs in one basket with the bubble fish.

"Oh? A level 5 mushroom?"

"Which five-turn mushroom are you referring to, young friend?"

Wu Liang's eyes flickered, surprised that he had only applied a little pressure and yet had extracted such a pleasant surprise. If there were any level 5 mushrooms, he wouldn't mind using less silver water.

"Senior Star, please take a look..."

Young Master Zhenlong used his methods to retrieve the extremely precious fifth-rank mushroom from the Zhenlong Merchant Caravan's inventory.

This is a fifth-stage Wisdom Path mushroom, named the Dao Heart Demon Seed Mushroom!
This mushroom is a disposable type of mushroom, and its function is somewhat similar to the unpredictable nature of human nature.

The "Planting Demonic Mushrooms in the Heart of the Dao" technique, as the name suggests, can plant demonic seeds in the hearts of others.

This so-called "demon seed" is actually the user's own will.

Mushroom Masters can use demonic seeds to continuously corrupt the will of their targets until they are transformed into a puppet similar to an avatar.

Without a doubt, this is an extremely rare mushroom.

If this mushroom can be used properly, it can completely solve the problem that has troubled Wu Liang for a long time: being unable to be in two places at once.

However, the value of planting demonic mushrooms in the Dao Heart is not as high as imagined; at most, it is more suitable for him at this time.

If Wu Liang becomes powerful enough, he can elevate the unpredictable nature of human nature to the level of a fifth or even sixth-level killing move.

Even without relying on the Dao Heart to cultivate the Demon Mushroom, he can still transform others into his own incarnations simply by relying on the unpredictable nature of human nature.

Of course, this is all in the future...

In any case, using the Dao Heart to plant the Demon Mushroom to offset 150,000 silver coins is undoubtedly a deal that will make you a huge profit.

"it is good!"

"I never expected you to be so willing to part with it, young friend."

"Then I will grant you this favor, young friend. I will accept the deal: 250,000 silver coins plus this Dao Heart Seed Mushroom."

Wu Liang grinned and agreed without any hesitation.

After all, he had already made up his mind from the very beginning to try and get something for nothing.

That's right! Wu Liang planned to get something for nothing and had no intention of delivering the bubble fish as promised.

At first, he genuinely wanted to breed bubble fish and honestly sell them to the Zhenlong Caravan.

But then he thought again, if he were to trade honestly, he would still need to spend his own energy cultivating bubble fish.

Since he's going to run away in a month anyway, we might as well go all the way.

At that time, he will take the bubble fish he has bred, along with the deposit paid by the Zhenlong caravan, and run away with the money. Wouldn't that be better than doing business?
If you want to make money, then don't talk about morality.

As for whether his actions would anger the Zhenlong caravan and force them to do something desperate, he didn't care.

After all, he never revealed any information about his true identity from beginning to end.

Even if the Zhenlong caravan discovers they've been tricked, they'll only vent their anger on the Upper Star Elders, or even the Star Palace.

Even if they find out through their investigation that the person who came to discuss the deal was not an elder from Shangxing at all, they can only follow the clues and find Zhuo Buqun.

The real Zhuo Buqun had long since perished in the belly of a fish, leaving no place for his burial.

Under these circumstances, even if Wu Liang breaks his promise and plays tricks on the Zhenlong caravan, he will not get into any trouble.

Given this, he naturally had to go all out and overdraft all his credit within this month to cash out and support himself.

At the same time, Young Master Zhenlong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Wu Liang had finally agreed.

He was genuinely afraid that this greedy old man might come up with some outrageous conditions at the last minute.

To avoid any unforeseen complications, Young Master Zhenlong immediately spoke up.

"Since the elders are quite satisfied with this, let's sign the channel contract now!" (End of Chapter)