Chapter 370: 373. Chapter 373: Red Gold

373. Chapter 373: Red Gold

Xiu Xiang saw the silver exotic fruits handed over by Li Yi and couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise: "This is a God-Fruit, which only grows in the place where the gods are buried, and is a fruit produced by unknown old trees that have absorbed the power of the gods' remains. After eating it, one can acquire a small amount of life force. It is said that some God-Fruits can also make people awaken the god's bloodline."

"It's just that God-Fruits grow in forbidden places. Even though I often pass by that God-Canyon outside Shoushan Village, I dare not set foot in it, worrying about provoking the wrath of the gods and bringing endless disaster."

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

However, for Xiu Xiang, this caravan master, the God-Fruit was not a particularly valuable item. Placed in North Wasteland City, such a God-Fruit was only worth ten gold. But if it were a God-Fruit that could help people awaken the god's bloodline, then it would be precious, with one piece worth over ten thousand gold, a true treasure.

Because awakening the god's bloodline meant that one could have a God-Blood family in the future, passed down from generation to generation.

The exotic fruits Li Yi sent out were just ordinary ones, certainly not the large fruits that could awaken the bloodline, but his sincerity made Xiu Xiang very happy.

This showed that Li Yi was a person very willing to repay.

For Xiu Xiang, who was a caravan master, he liked dealing with such people, because this meant his sponsorship would never lose money.

"Good, Da Yi, I accept your sincerity."

Xiu Xiang took the silver exotic fruits, then signaled a servant to come over, and took a brand-new leather armor from the servant's hand: "As compensation for failing to help you this time, I hope you can take this leather armor."

That leather armor had black dragon scales, layered and indestructible, and the appearance was very familiar; it was exactly made after skinning the eight-hundred-year-old Jiao dragon he had bought before.

"I have already received much kindness from you, how can I take your valuable item again." Li Yi shook his head and refused.

Xiu Xiang said: "This is compensation for the caravan master's broken promise, please be sure to accept it. And this is not a particularly valuable item, please."

After finishing, he handed over this leather armor sincerely.

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Li Yi had to accept it. He felt an ancient quality and cultivation in this person named Xiu Xiang. Getting along with him made people feel that he was a person worth trusting. And in this world, caravan masters seemed to attach great importance to promises.

This point was completely different from the Earthlings who spoke and farted.

Seeing Li Yi accept the armor, Xiu Xiang was very happy. Afterward, he invited Li Yi to his home for a chat.

Taking things makes one's hands short.

Li Yi had to nod and agree.

"Let's go, home." Xiu Xiang ordered the servants, riding the exotic beast, ready to leave the market.

And while walking, Li Yi also continued to pay attention to the slaves sold in the market, seeing if he could do his best to find the traces of Jiang Mingtian and the others.

It was a pity.

He came late, and after strolling around, he still didn't find them.

Instead, before leaving, he saw several small slave owners pulling several slaves to sell on the side of the road. Originally, Li Yi didn't pay much attention, but the clothing on one of the men immediately attracted Li Yi's attention. That person was wearing modern clothes. Although tattered and stained with blood, it was indeed the clothing style that only existed on Earth.

Although that person was disheveled and covered in blood, his physique was completely different from the people of North Wasteland City.

"That's a cultivator from Earth." Li Yi stared for a few glances, and in his heart, he could almost confirm it.

However, he didn't recognize that person; he was a stranger.

Thinking about it.

Li Yi still suddenly flipped off his mount, then walked quickly to the slave merchant and said: "I want this person."

"One hundred coins." That merchant said immediately.

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

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

Li Yi knew he was at a loss, but he was too lazy to care about that much right now. He had hundreds of silver exotic fruits in his hand, so he didn't care about one or two. Afterward, he pulled the iron chain and walked away with large strides.

Xiu Xiang just smiled at this and didn't say much.

That cultivator's expression was a bit numb at this moment, being pulled along, and he no longer had the heart to resist, clearly having been fiercely educated by the slave merchant.

"What's your name, why did you come to North Wasteland City?" Li Yi asked while walking.

But that cultivator still kept his head down and didn't speak.

Li Yi lowered his voice and said: "Are you also from Earth, having crossed over?"

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

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

This person was a bit pleasantly surprised and said: "You also know Zhao Fangji? That's really great."

"A while ago, Zhao Fangji said that a cultivator named Qin Gang led a team into the depths of the danger zone. However, when we came over, we didn't find your traces. How are you all doing?" Li Yi asked.

"We encountered terrifying exotic 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 appearing in an unknown world. I originally thought about moving forward along that mountain, but I encountered a team of people on the road. I couldn't beat them, so I was captured, and then I drifted for a period of time before finally appearing here." Qin Gang kept his head down, telling his miserable experience.

The only thing that could be considered lucky was that he looked short and thin, so even if he became a slave, it was difficult to sell him.

Li Yi couldn't sympathize with him, because he was also very unlucky and almost died in this world, so finally he said: "Qin Gang, I am also powerless now and can only help you to this point. You leave North Wasteland City now, go to that canyon where the gods are buried, and then go back along the direction you came."

He unlocked the chain on Qin Gang's body and gave him freedom.

The two didn't know each other, and Li Yi felt that doing this was already benevolent and righteous.

Qin Gang hesitated and said: "Can I follow you? Even if I leave North Wasteland City in this state, 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 that canyon where the gods are buried, which I tamed. You go find that Shanyi, explain the situation, and it will send you back to Tianning City. This is the proof. When the time comes, you feed this exotic fruit to it, and it will believe it."

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

But Qin Gang, holding the exotic fruit, didn't leave North Wasteland City immediately, but instead turned back all the way, returned to the side of the slave merchant before, and then said something.

That slave merchant didn't know what words he heard, but was stimulated and flew into a rage, actually blasting Qin Gang's head open with one punch, blood splashing all over the ground.

Then this slave merchant carried Qin Gang's corpse and quickly caught up with Li Yi.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi was also stunned for a moment.

But he didn't expect this slave merchant to throw Qin Gang's corpse to the ground, salute, and say very shamefully: "This slave wanted to invite me to intercept and kill the guest outside North Wasteland City. The guest just gave him freedom, and not only did he not think of repaying, but he also wanted to bite the master. Such a person is more vicious than a jackal, so I killed him. As compensation, please accept this hundred gold."

After finishing, he handed over two silver exotic fruits and a piece of red metal shining with strange brilliance.

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

Seeing Li Yi accept the compensation, this slave merchant first heaved a sigh of relief, but afterward, seeing Qin Gang's corpse, he couldn't help but be furious, wishing he could whip the corpse.

After leaving the slave market.

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

"Your God-Fruit is worth ten gold. Before leaving the slave market, if a slave has a problem, the slave owner is responsible. But he killed your slave, so he must compensate ten times. If he doesn't compensate, or if you don't accept it, the slave owner will have his hand cut off and be expelled from North Wasteland City." Xiu Xiang said.

"So that's how it is." Li Yi understood. He didn't expect there to be such rules here.

"I saved that Qin Gang, but he returned kindness with enmity, actually wanting to unite with the slave merchant to intercept and kill me." Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head in his heart at this moment.

He had crossed dimensions so many times and found that the lowest moral standard still belonged to Earth.

It seems that in the future, it's better to deal less with Earthlings. Even if they are in an exotic world, Earthlings still think about internal fighting and harming each other. This is simply a world-shattering view, more villainous than villains, and even evil to the point of being incomprehensible.

Now Li Yi understood the remnant thought in the knife-coin more and more.

Earthlings are indeed deeply sinful, born evil, and hopeless. That kind of extremely flexible moral bottom line, as well as the style of harming others without benefiting oneself, and the behavior of harming compatriots, is simply an explosive view when placed in other worlds.

Qin Gang felt his behavior was very normal, but in the eyes of the slave merchant, it was heinous. He would rather pay ten times the compensation than kill this evil slave.

Perhaps at that moment, the slave merchant felt that he had sold slaves for a lifetime, and his sins were not even one ten-thousandth of what Qin Gang displayed. Killing him would allow him to be redeemed for a lifetime.

Soon, Li Yi didn't think about this matter anymore.

His attention was attracted by this red gold in his hand.

This coin was very peculiar. In the dark, it presented a faint golden yellow, but under the sunlight, it was as red as blood, shining with strange brilliance, very peculiar.

"Xiu Xiang, where is red gold taken from?" Li Yi still couldn't help but ask a question.

However, his question was very clever; he didn't ask directly what red gold was, to avoid attracting suspicion.

"Most of the red gold in the world comes from Kunwu Mountain, so red gold is also known as Kunwu Stone, which can refine divine weapons." Xiu Xiang said: "There are also other caravan masters who say that red gold is like blood, condensed from the blood of gods spilled on the earth, so among all metals, red gold is the most expensive."

"Can refine divine weapons?"

Li Yi stared at this coin and estimated in his heart. If he wanted to cast a sword, he would need at least thirty pieces of red gold. Considering that people in this world like large weapons such as axes, halberds, and large sabers, he estimated the consumption would have to be multiplied by ten.

At least three hundred pieces of red gold would be needed to refine a divine weapon.

And one piece of red gold equals one hundred gold.

That is to say, a divine weapon is worth at least thirty thousand gold.

Moreover, refining weapons also inevitably requires purifying the red gold, and he estimated this consumption would have to increase. If one adds other auxiliary materials and casting costs, the expense would be an astronomical figure.

However, once such a divine weapon is refined, it must be extremely powerful.

After all, the martial power of this world is very high, and what can be called a divine weapon is definitely not a simple item.

Carrying all kinds of thoughts.

Soon, Xiu Xiang took Li Yi to a residence in the city.

The houses in this world are not exquisite. Large wood is used for beams, bronze for pillars, and stone slabs for floors. There are no extra colors, very simple and practical, and at the same time, they reveal an ancient aura. ===== CHAPTER 371 =====