Chapter 241: Telling lies in front of the Honesty Gu

Immediately, an old man rushed to the table in a hurry and shouted excitedly: "I have three thousand-year spirit herbs that meet the requirements. I want to trade for three Spirit-Gathering Pills."

He reached out excitedly, hurriedly grabbed three pill bottles, and poured the Spirit-Gathering Pills from the three bottles into his palm to check their authenticity.

Not long after, he showed a look of shock and said with emotion: "Your master is not simple. The quality of the spirit pills he refined is clearly much stronger than the spirit pills you sold before."

"It seems that Spirit-Gathering Pills only have a half-percent breakthrough rate, but in this master's hands, the breakthrough rate of the Spirit-Gathering Pills has actually approached one percent infinitely."

"There are very few people with this kind of alchemy technique. Someone who can refine this pill is definitely not an unknown person. Does your master come from the Pill God Hall?"

At this moment, the old man's eyes were different when looking at Long Xuan, filled with wariness.

Long Xuan smiled without saying a word; this was the effect he had deliberately created.

How could the quality of pills refined by a clone holding back be the same as pills refined by the main body with full effort?

By comparing the two, he was enough to shape a mysterious master with unfathomable strength, providing himself with a protective amulet.

This would save him from people harboring thoughts of killing him for his treasures after he released so many Spirit-Gathering Pills.

He stood there smiling without speaking. Naturally, the crowd below would think he was tacitly agreeing, so their gazes toward him were all different. Many people had already labeled him as someone not to be provoked.

At the same time, hearing that after these Spirit-Gathering Pills passed through the master's hands, the medicinal power had almost doubled, everyone became jealous and showed greed.

Those who were still thinking about whether the thousand-year spirit herbs were more valuable or the Spirit-Gathering Pills were more valuable no longer hesitated at this moment and ran toward Long Xuan one after another, fearing that if they were slow, there wouldn't be a share for them.

Even that Steward Mo was no longer calm at this moment. It was actually a Spirit-Gathering Pill with a breakthrough rate approaching one percent; that was truly worth trading for. He hurriedly said to the group of servants beside him:

"Hurry to the medicine garden and pull those dozens of thousand-year spirit herbs. Trading for dozens of Spirit-Gathering Pills of this quality is definitely not a loss. Spirit pills refined by an alchemist of this level are definitely worth researching. Trading them to other alchemists might make a huge profit."

Under Steward Mo's urging, the group of servants hurriedly ran toward the medicine garden to collect the spirit herbs.

Mo Bufan's face changed. He already had sixty-four Spirit-Gathering Pills in his hands, and yet he still wanted to trade. With so many Spirit-Gathering Pills, he was afraid that even if he wanted not to break through, it would be impossible.

At this moment, Long Xuan was busy and happy. Sure enough, the Essence-Refining Gu Masters attending this trading session were all rich as oil.

Thousand-year spirit herbs were so rare, yet so many people had them. Long Xuan's heart bloomed with joy.

Seeing this situation, he really might be able to collect all the materials for the Soul-Reviving Pill today.

Long Xuan received the thousand-year spirit herbs one by one. He didn't waste much time judging their authenticity and directly completed the trade after receiving them.

It wasn't that he was big-hearted enough to trust these people's character; this was entirely out of trust in the Honesty Gu.

In front of the Honesty Gu, no one could deceive him.

So even though he traded for many things, with his trading speed, he probably wouldn't have to stand here for long.

However, seeing him collect the spirit herbs without much inspection, some people's eyes rolled, and they harbored crooked thoughts, preparing to use fake thousand-year spirit herbs to get a Spirit-Gathering Pill for free.

"I have a thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng. Keep it well."

After a voice fell, he reached for one of the pill bottles, but Long Xuan immediately grabbed his wrist, his face turning ugly.

Because after this voice sounded, the Honesty Gu hidden in his clothes started acting up again, angrily trying to crawl out.

Clearly, this sentence was a lie, and once this sentence was a lie, this Yin-Yang Ginseng must be fake, even if it indeed had the progress of a thousand-year spirit herb in terms of progress.

"What do you mean by this?"

Old Sun was stunned. Could it be that he had already seen that this was a fake thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng? How could this be possible?

Very few people knew that there was a spirit herb in this world called Yang-Yin Ginseng, which looked exactly the same as Yin-Yang Ginseng and had extremely similar medicinal effects.

But the two were definitely not the same thing. Refining pills with Yang-Yin Ginseng would definitely explode the furnace.

Most alchemists attributed the failure of refining pills with Yang-Yin Ginseng to the success rate, thinking it was a normal phenomenon, and never thought that they had used the wrong spirit herb.

And only a third-grade alchemist could find the difference between the two through powerful soul power. A second-grade alchemist had no way to distinguish between Yin-Yang Ginseng and Yang-Yin Ginseng, so he dared to boldly take out the Yang-Yin Ginseng here to deceive people.

There were no third-grade alchemists here at all, so naturally, no one could see through his scam.

The plan that was originally foolproof had resulted in a mishap in the hands of this Master Ye. Old Sun's heart sank. Would he stumble again in his hands?

Long Xuan looked up at him. He hadn't expected it to be this person again. He was addicted to deceiving him; he really didn't have a long memory.

Long Xuan hooked the corner of his mouth and said mercilessly: "The thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng you took out is fake!"

"What?" As soon as these words were spoken, the whole scene went silent. Everyone looked at Old Sun with strange eyes. Was this being caught red-handed taking fake goods? Now there was a good show to watch. Everyone perked up, preparing to watch the fun.

As for the people sitting around the table preparing to trade for Spirit-Gathering Pills, they all subconsciously looked at the Yin-Yang Ginseng and showed strange expressions.

No matter how they looked at it, they couldn't see that this was a fake ginseng, and they didn't know how Master Ye saw at a glance that it was fake.

But considering Master Ye's fame, they all chose not to speak, feeling that laymen shouldn't speak in front of experts, so as not to make a fool of themselves.

Including several alchemists, they also looked at each other, showing puzzled eyes, but none of them rashly judged the authenticity of this Yin-Yang Ginseng.

Not to mention that there was no benefit in getting involved in such matters, once they really judged wrong, their reputation would be ruined.

At this moment, Old Sun was completely anxious. He slapped the table heavily and said furiously: "You're farting! Which eye of yours saw it was fake? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!"

"This is clearly a genuine thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng. If you don't believe me, go ask the other alchemists present! This old man is not someone you can slander just because you want to!"

After the words fell, before Long Xuan could speak, the Honesty Gu hidden in his clothes could no longer hold back.

This little old man lied again and again, making this Honesty Gu furious. It finally couldn't control itself and jumped out of Long Xuan's clothes, pouncing on the old man full of lies.

Long Xuan was startled and hurriedly grabbed its hind legs, pinning it down.

Long Xuan kept stroking its head, soothing its emotions: "Calm down, calm down!"

"This child! Why is its temper so big!"

The appearance of this Honesty Gu made the whole scene silent, and everyone was shocked.

Good heavens, someone actually brought this thing over.

Everyone looked at the dumbfounded Old Sun with strange faces. There was no need to argue. Once this thing appeared, it was a final verdict. Old Sun's act of using fake medicine to deceive people was completely confirmed, hammered to death.

Old Sun was completely dumbfounded at this moment. This person actually had the Qian Clan's Honesty Gu. If he had the Honesty Gu, why didn't he say so earlier? Why didn't he say so earlier?

If he had said so earlier and taken out this Honesty Gu earlier, there wouldn't have been so many things. Only a fool would dare to use fake medicine to deceive him.

Now he was played to death by him. In public, his reputation was ruined.

At this moment, he finally knew how this person knew that his Spirit-Gathering Pills were not enough.

He opened his mouth, but after all, he didn't spit out a word. The Honesty Gu was a lie-detecting artifact; he had no way to turn the tables.

"Hehe! I didn't expect this thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng to be fake. I was actually deceived by that unscrupulous merchant. I must go settle the score with him tomorrow!"

After Old Sun's words fell, the eyes of this Honesty Gu emitted strong light again. Daring to lie again, this Honesty Gu was even angrier. Long Xuan almost couldn't hold it down.

Old Sun's expression stiffened. Finally, he didn't dare to have any more sophistry, put away the fake Yin-Yang Ginseng, and left in a dejected manner. All the way, everyone stared at him with strange eyes, making him feel like he was on pins and needles.

After this farce, many Gu Masters secretly took back the spirit herbs they held in their hands.

Good boy, he actually has an Honesty Gu. Why didn't he say so earlier? This kid is too sinister.

Fortunately, Old Sun stepped on the mine first; otherwise, they would have really been trapped to death today. This young man simply traps people to death without paying for his life.

After this small episode, that Young Master Mo walked over holding a pile of thousand-year spirit herbs and traded away all the Spirit-Gathering Pills on Long Xuan's table. This trade finally came to an end.

However, just when everyone thought this Master Ye would walk down, he unexpectedly took out another list full of words and hung it in front of the table, and then continued to place over two hundred bottles of Spirit-Gathering Pills on the table.

Everyone widened their eyes, and they were all about to go crazy. There was more! He actually still had more! He actually still had over two hundred Spirit-Gathering Pills. Where did he get so many Spirit-Gathering Pills? Were the Spirit-Gathering Pills in his house overflowing?

At this moment, all the Essence-Refining Gu Masters in the whole scene were no longer calm and stood up together again...

Long Xuan smiled and scanned the circle, picked up the Honesty Gu and placed it on his shoulder, switched its soul, and said with a smile: "These are Spirit-Gathering Pills refined by my senior brother! Junior brother! Senior sister! Junior sister! And master's wife!"

"They are too lazy to take these scraps out to sell, so they asked me to sell them on their behalf."

"The quality of these pills is much worse than the batch of Spirit-Gathering Pills just now. After all, few people can match my master's alchemy technique. Everyone, please don't mind."

The Honesty Gu's big eyes stared at him without blinking and nodded. It liked such a good child who told lies; he was teachable.

Seeing that the Honesty Gu had no anger, everyone subconsciously believed his nonsense and couldn't help but wonder: who exactly were his senior brothers and sisters?

How many senior brothers and sisters did he have, and how many masters' wives, to be able to refine so many Spirit-Gathering Pills?

Also, this child claimed that his master's alchemy technique was unmatched by few. This Honesty Gu actually had no reaction, which meant that this sentence was not bragging. The evaluation of "alchemy technique unmatched by few" was simply too high.

Who exactly was his master, whose alchemy technique was unmatched by few? This child's background was unfathomable; he must never be provoked! Otherwise, it would be like poking a hornet's nest.

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