Conquer the game world

Chapter 42 Auction
"Come, young hero, have some of our finest tea."

Ye Feng and the manager arrived at a quiet room. Apart from a member of the Flying Dragon Merchant Guild bringing Ye Feng a cup of tea, no one else had entered or left the room. It seemed like a good place to talk.

"Hmm, not bad." Ye Feng took a sip of the tea in front of him and couldn't help but praise it. In the past, Ye Feng also liked to drink tea at home, which was influenced by his parents. Because his parents liked to drink tea, they had all kinds of tea at home. Ye Feng had also tasted all kinds of tea, and he could be said to have become more and more picky about the taste of tea. Now that the tea in front of him could suit Ye Feng's taste, it was obviously a good tea.

"That's good. This tea is a famous one, not commonly seen. By the way, I still don't know how to address you, young hero." While introducing the tea, the manager chatted amiably with Ye Feng. Regardless of whether Ye Feng actually possessed the internal energy fruit, the manager had witnessed Ye Feng beating up Young Master Xu. Although Young Master Xu was domineering and disliked by many, he was at least a fifth-level Spirit Light martial artist. Yet, he was beaten like a child in front of Ye Feng. The manager had a sharp eye, and at least maintaining a good relationship with someone like him was essential.

"Ye Feng".

"So it's Young Master Ye. You're so young yet you have such an extraordinary presence. You're sure to achieve great things in the future." The steward seized the opportunity to flatter Ye Feng.

"Alright, enough with the nonsense. Here's the Power Pill. Take a look and give me a price." Ye Feng didn't want to listen to this useless chatter. He took out the Power Pill and placed it in front of the manager. "Also, I'd like to buy some things. I wonder if your Flying Dragon Merchant Guild has any Flame Crystals or Frost Crystals?"

Ye Feng rattled off the names of several types of crystals, all of which were required for building defense towers in the Stardust Gate instance. He recited all the names.

"It really is a Power Fruit." The steward picked up the Power Fruit given to him by Ye Feng, examined it carefully, and confirmed that it was indeed a Power Fruit. A look of joy appeared on his face.

Ye Feng picked up his teacup and continued drinking tea without saying much. He knew he couldn't be too hasty in speaking at this time. If he was too eager, others would see that he genuinely wanted to sell quickly, which would inevitably lead to a lower price. Ye Feng understood this principle.

"Indeed, this is a good Power Fruit, Young Hero Ye. I'll buy it from you for ten thousand purple gold coins. How about it?" After considering it for a moment, the steward quoted a price. Although Power Fruits are precious, they can only be used by disciples of the Spiritual Light realm to improve their spiritual power. They are not very useful to experts. Generally, only wealthy families buy them for their disciples. Therefore, the price is not too high. The ten thousand purple gold coins quoted by the steward is actually a good price.

"Okay, deal. I have a few more here, let's sell them all together." Ye Feng didn't know the exact price, and had initially pretended to be deep-seated because he was worried about being bargained down. Now that the other party had offered 10,000, Ye Feng was too lazy to argue whether it was too high or not; he'd just sell them first. Besides, Ye Feng was quite satisfied with the price of 10,000, much better than the 600 purple gold coins he got for selling a Xuan-grade weapon for the first time.

While Xuan-grade weapons are decent, they are only slightly better than ordinary weapons and are not particularly valuable. Any slightly advanced weapon refiner can forge one, so Xuan-grade weapons are not very expensive.

Of course, another reason why Ye Feng's Xuan-grade weapon sold for such a low price was its improper crafting. It was supposed to be a short sword, but it was crafted into a weapon for mages, which greatly reduced its value.

"There's more?" The manager originally thought Ye Feng would be lucky to get one Power Fruit, since such things are rare and hard to come by. Unexpectedly, Ye Feng took out several more Power Fruits. After a brief moment of shock, the manager's eyes lit up with joy. He figured that if he resold these items, he could easily make tens of thousands of purple gold coins.

"Young Master Ye, please keep this safe. This is the purple gold coins for this transaction." The two quickly completed the transaction. Tens of thousands of purple gold coins was a large sum. Paying with purple gold coins would be difficult for anyone to handle. Therefore, Ye Feng received a gold card with 60,000 purple gold coins stored inside.

"Young Master Ye, if you ever have any good items in the future, remember to come to our shop. We'll definitely give you a fair price," the manager said amiably, clearly pleased with the successful transaction. "Alright, now let's talk about what I need to buy. If you have it, bring it up quickly," Ye Feng said, preoccupied with the crystal issue, and had no time for idle chatter with the manager.

"Young Master Ye, the crystals you mentioned are things that can only be obtained from mid-level magical beasts. Such things are very rare. After all, mid-level magical beasts are at least as strong as spirit-type martial artists, and in actual combat, their combat power is much higher than that of humans." The steward explained to Ye Feng, and at this point, the steward could tell that Ye Feng did not know much about the specifics of those crystals.

"Moreover, the number of mid-level magical beasts is very small. They can only be seen in dangerous areas inhabited by magical beasts, and their numbers are not many."

After listening to the manager's explanation, Ye Feng frowned. It seemed that this thing was more troublesome than he had imagined.

Seeing Ye Feng's expression, the manager continued, "However, young hero Ye, you are quite lucky. In a few days, it will be the joint auction day of our three auction houses. It is said that there will be Flame Crystals as auction items. However, unfortunately, the owner of the Flame Crystals is only willing to auction this item, so even I cannot sell it to you privately."

The person in charge initially emphasized the rarity of obtaining crystals to promote sales, and then announced the auction information to make Ye Feng pay more attention to the auction.

"In that case, I'll take my leave now and we'll talk about it on the auction day." Since there was no other way, Ye Feng could only wait for the auction day to arrive. However, whether he could buy it or not was uncertain, since the auctioned items would fetch high prices, and it seemed that the Flame Crystal itself was not cheap.

"Young Master Ye, please take some of this tea back with you. Consider it a small token of my appreciation." Seeing that Ye Feng was taking the auction seriously, the manager had achieved his goal and didn't try to persuade him to stay any longer.

Ye Feng accepted the tea offered by the steward. He had seen this kind of flattery many times before, so he generously accepted it without refusing and walked out.

"By the way, Young Master Ye, the guy who caused trouble before is the young master of the Xu family. You should be careful." The steward was clearly in a good mood and rarely brought up the matter, even reminding Ye Feng to be careful.

The person in charge also paid special attention to their words, for example, calling Xu Shao a troublemaker, which inadvertently put Ye Feng on the side of reason, even though it was actually Ye Feng who struck first.

However, regardless of the circumstances, saying it this way would obviously win Ye Feng's favor. Besides, there are only the person in charge and Ye Feng here right now, so they can say whatever they want. If it really gets out, they can just deny it to the death.

"The Xu family, hmm, I'll remember that." With that, Ye Feng left the Flying Dragon Chamber of Commerce.

(End of this chapter)