Shangguan Jing picked up the Xingmen Luoyun Spear and the Shanhe Seal one after another. After examining them carefully, she said, "This spear is a normal high-grade spirit treasure. Our Immortal Treasure Pavilion can offer six million spirit crystals for it."
"As for this large seal spirit treasure, it is an excellent grade among high-grade spirit treasures, quite rare. Our Spirit Treasure Pavilion can offer nine million spirit crystals."
"Alright, then what's the price for these three sets of Heaven-tier formation disks?" Zhang Fan asked. 138 Reading Network
"Heaven-tier formation disks?" Shangguan Jing couldn't help but be surprised. She had initially thought they were just ordinary formation disks, but she hadn't expected them to be Heaven-tier.
One had to know that to refine Heaven-tier formation disks, one had to at least reach the level of a Heaven-tier Formation Master. Could this young man be a Heaven-tier Formation Master?
"I don't understand formations, so I can't estimate their value," Shangguan Jing said, shaking her head.
"Your Immortal Treasure Pavilion can't even find a Heaven-tier Formation Master, can they?" Zhang Fan asked.
"Heaven-tier Formation Masters are extremely rare. I'm afraid that among the hundreds of millions of cultivators in Wuning City, it would be difficult to find even one," Shangguan Jing said regretfully, shaking her head.
Zhang Fan could only helplessly put away the three sets of Heaven-tier formation disks. Although Heaven-tier formation disks were precious, they could only unleash their power in the hands of a Heaven-tier Formation Master, and Heaven-tier Formation Masters were incredibly rare. Selling them would indeed be a difficult task.
Zhang Fan sold the two high-grade spirit treasures, obtaining another fifteen million spirit crystals.
"Besides those Golden Radiance Gauntlets, I also want to buy some treasures. Do you have them at your Immortal Treasure Pavilion?" Zhang Fan's confidence grew significantly after receiving the spirit crystals.
"Fellow Daoist Haotian, please, feel free to speak," Shangguan Jing said.
"Yuan Yi profound iron, blood phosphors, and the withered wood of the Du'e Tree," Zhang Fan said after a long period of contemplation, naming three precious items.
Upon hearing Zhang Fan's words, Shangguan Jing's expression changed slightly. She looked at Zhang Fan in surprise and asked, "Fellow Daoist Haotian, are you trying to refine a blood-tempered secret treasure?"
"Indeed," Zhang Fan did not deny it.
Yuan Yi profound iron was not an exceptionally rare refining material. Many master refiners used Yuan Yi profound iron as their primary material when crafting spirit treasures. However, when combined with blood phosphors and the withered wood of the Du'e Tree, it would instantly make people think of blood-tempered secret treasures.
When Yuan Yi profound iron is combined with precious blood phosphors and the withered wood of the Du'e Tree during the refining process, it imbues the Yuan Yi profound iron with a special growth potential.
"Yuan Yi profound iron is not particularly precious, and our Immortal Treasure Pavilion naturally has plenty of it stored. Although blood phosphors are rare, I can find them for Fellow Daoist Haotian."
"However, the withered wood of the Du'e Tree you mentioned last is temporarily out of stock at our Immortal Treasure Pavilion," Shangguan Jing said.
"I want a thousand jin of Yuan Yi profound iron and a hundred jin of blood phosphors," Zhang Fan stated directly.
"A thousand jin..."
Shangguan Jing did not expect Zhang Fan's appetite to be so large. Although Yuan Yi profound iron was not considered particularly precious, each jin still cost over ten thousand spirit crystals.
A thousand jin would amount to over ten million spirit crystals.
Coupled with a hundred jin of blood phosphors, even Shangguan Jing had to marvel at the man's immense wealth.
Shangguan Jing withdrew from the private room and returned after more than an hour, tossing a spatial ring and saying, "Fellow Daoist Haotian, the items you requested were indeed quite difficult to gather."
Zhang Fan's divine sense probed into the spatial ring, where the items he needed were neatly arranged.
"The selling price of Yuan Yi profound iron at our Immortal Treasure Pavilion is twelve thousand spirit crystals per jin, and blood phosphors are nineteen thousand spirit crystals per jin. Including those Golden Radiance Gauntlets, the total is fifty-seven million spirit crystals," Shangguan Jing said, handing Zhang Fan a jade talisman with a lotus imprint.
"For esteemed guests who spend over fifty million spirit crystals at our Immortal Treasure Pavilion in a single transaction, they will receive a Lotus Talisman. With this talisman, you will receive a 5% discount on all purchases anywhere in the Immortal Treasure Pavilion."
"A 5% discount, that's not bad," Zhang Fan said with a smile, taking the talisman and playing with it.
A 5% discount on fifty-seven million would save him nearly three million spirit crystals.
Having obtained what he desired, Zhang Fan quickly paid the bill. Although he had earned forty-seven million spirit crystals from selling spirit treasures at the Immortal Treasure Pavilion this time, he had spent over fifty-four million on Yuan Yi profound iron and other items. In the end, Zhang Fan had lost over seven million spirit crystals.
After the transaction was completed, Zhang Fan left the Immortal Treasure Pavilion directly.
Before he left, Shangguan informed Zhang Fan that their Immortal Treasure Pavilion would help keep an eye out for the withered wood of the Du'e Tree and would notify Zhang Fan through the Lotus Talisman if any news arose.
"Come in," Zhang Fan said after leaving. Shangguan Jing sat in the private room and called out.
"Elder Shangguan, do you wish to investigate the identity of that powerful individual?" the black-robed elder asked respectfully as he entered the room.
"No need to investigate," Shangguan Jing took out a pitch-black spear and gently stroked its surface, chuckling, "If I'm not mistaken, this spear should be the spirit treasure used by Ouyang Jing of Great Rock Star before his death, the Xingmen Luoyun Spear."
"This..."
The black-robed elder's heart suddenly pounded, and he whispered, "Then the young man just now... could he be..."
Shangguan Jing raised her hand to stop the black-robed elder from continuing. She said, "I didn't expect him to have come to Wuning City. This Dongguan Region is likely to become lively soon."
"Elder Shangguan, then what about us?"
The black-robed elder's heart pounded, unable to guess his master's intentions.
"What does it have to do with us?"
Shangguan Jing said calmly, "Our Immortal Treasure Pavilion is a business. It's best not to get involved in these disputes. Moreover, even the Old Sword Master couldn't do anything to Zhang Fan. Such a powerful individual is best left unprovoked. We can just watch the show."
"Elder Shangguan, your insight is profound!" the black-robed elder quickly nodded in agreement.
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After leaving the Immortal Treasure Pavilion, Zhang Fan roamed Wuning City for another round. However, Wuning City was simply too vast. Even with Zhang Fan's speed, it took several days to explore it completely, yet he still found no news of the withered wood of the Du'e Tree.
Therefore, Zhang Fan found an inn to stay in, as he sensed that his second Nascent Soul tribulation was imminent.
After stepping into the Nascent Soul stage and reaching a certain level of cultivation, one would vaguely sense each Nascent Soul tribulation. If one was confident in their strength, they could even trigger the Nascent Soul tribulation in advance.
As for some Nascent Soul cultivators whose foundations were not deep enough and lacked confidence in passing the tribulation, they would suppress the tribulation until they could no longer hold back and were forced to face it.
However, in such situations, the probability of passing the Nascent Soul tribulation was very low.
This was why there were many cultivators in the first and second tribulation Nascent Soul stages in the Wu Mountain Star Domain, but very few powerful cultivators beyond the third tribulation.
This was because many Nascent Soul cultivators died in the tribulation during their early stages of cultivation.
Through his cultivation during this period, Zhang Fan's sword dao rules and lightning dao rules had both increased. Both had broken through a thousand paths, totaling over two thousand paths of rules, a number comparable to an ordinary four-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator.
In his room, Zhang Fan carefully set up a defensive formation to block divine sense probes and conceal his aura, preventing external interference during his tribulation.
Zhang Fan sat cross-legged within the concealment formation. Inside his body, a white Nascent Soul, identical to Zhang Fan, also sat cross-legged. After this period of cultivation, the Nascent Soul had become even purer and more flawless. The Nascent Soul constantly absorbed spiritual energy, and the surrounding spiritual energy transformed into layers of white mist, enveloping it like immortal light.
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