Chapter 3136: Need Proof

Ye Liuyun looked at four Martial Cultivators he favored; one of them, a Da Huzi Martial Cultivator, had a Core twice the size of an ordinary person's, and his bearing seemed like a Leader‑type figure.

A more composed middle‑aged man, also wearing army boots, had especially condensed True Essence, and it also contained a strong Mysterious Qi, very similar to Ye Liuyun's previous Mysterious Origin.

A young man, looking terrified, didn't seem like a soldier, but his Divine Soul Power was not only strong, and his Core bore a special rune. Ye Liuyun didn't know the rune's function, but guessed it was a special power.

There was also a cold‑faced man, his eyebrows lowered, not looking at anyone, yet Ye Liuyun saw him probing the surroundings by feeling, like a highly perceptive assassin.

Ye Liuyun chose these four people, and also selected a few slaves who looked like Leaders, again two or three per Xing Xi.

Upon reaching the early Unified Realm area, Ye Liuyun no longer needed to ask the slaves which Xing Xi they came from; each realm had more than thirty solid middle‑aged Martial Cultivators selected. He thought older people might know more about wars and could also be kept for women and Leader Yu Xiaofeng to spar with.

When he reached the Zhuanzai Jingjie, he directly bought over five hundred Martial Cultivators of the Zhuanzai Ninth Layer, almost buying out all slaves of that realm, making the Administrator think he was a mine owner of a Mineral Vein, intending to buy slaves for mining.

"They'll be practice partners for the family's juniors!" Ye Liuyun casually explained this to him and Qingyu, dispelling their suspicion.

For Martial Cultivators of other realms, Ye Liuyun thought buying them was useless, but he still scanned around, found no chance to pick up leftovers, and could only give up.

"Probably many strong ones in the Huo Yin Star System, so even if there were leftovers, they'd already have been bought in advance!" Ye Liuyun sighed internally.

After buying the slaves, Ye Liuyun had Qingyu take him to browse the ferocious beast market. He didn't expect there to be a dedicated area selling Monster Beasts and Demon Beasts.

Qingyu explained to Ye Liuyun: "The Monster Beasts and Demon Beasts here are also captives taken by the Dynasty Army, but Monster Beasts have higher intelligence and are more popular, so high‑realm ones are quickly bought, and even low‑realm ones are priced especially high. Some aristocratic youths like to buy them as flaunting assets."

"As for those Demon Beasts, the merchant guild also has a headache. People despise them for low intelligence, hard to manage, need feeding, and aren't as sellable as ferocious beasts, so their prices are lower. Now the guild feeds low‑realm Demon Beasts and unwanted slaves to high‑realm Demon Beasts; only this many remain."

Ye Liuyun looked, those Demon Beasts were all locked in one cage, at least several thousand, all of Unified Fifth and Sixth Layers; if given to a Demon Race army, they could boost its combat power. Even if they can't be tamed, they could serve as food for the Demon Race's massive army.

So he told Qingyu: "I'd like to buy all these Demon Beasts, to feed my own Demon Beasts!"

Qingyu heard this and replied: "If Young Master Li can buy them all at once, the price might be negotiable, after all these Demon Beasts are hard to sell, and the guild keeping them only incurs growing loss."

She also suggested to Ye Liuyun: "Our merchant guild also sells Primordial Power infused with Demon Qi; if Young Master Li has Demon Beasts, perhaps you can buy that too, maybe the price can be lowered a bit."

Ye Liuyun nodded: "Fine. These resources are hard to come by. Arrange it, see who can negotiate with me. But the price must be low, otherwise I have no reason to stock so much at once!"

"Also, ask how many ferocious beast and Martial Cultivator corpses you still have here; I can buy them together to feed the Demon Beasts."

Buying corpses to feed ferocious beasts is common in this world; Qingyu didn't doubt and immediately agreed, letting Ye Liuyun rest first while she went to find the merchant guild Administrator.

Ye Liuyun wandered the ferocious beast market again, found truly no chance for bargains, met no good ferocious beasts, and returned to his residence to wait, leaving Qingyu to handle the arrangements.

Not long after, Qingyu

brought a merchant guild Administrator over.

After a brief chat, the Administrator asked Ye Liuyun: "Young Master Li, what kind of Demon Beasts are you raising?"

"What? You sell Demon Beasts and Primordial Power, and you're probing my Demon Beast type?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"That's not it!" the Administrator quickly explained: "It's just that recently within the dynasty some Demon Race and Demon Beast uprisings occurred, and the dynasty has issued orders to massively purchase Primordial Power with Demon Qi, all of which need verification."

Ye Liuyun knew they referred to the Demon Race army and the Demon Beasts around him, so he didn't argue and said: "Two Magic Flood Dragons."

Hearing it was Magic Flood Dragons, the Administrator relaxed, but still said somewhat awkwardly: "If they really are Magic Flood Dragons, then there's no problem…"

Ye Liuyun, puzzled, asked: "Why, do I still need to prove they're Magic Flood Dragons?"

"Sigh, the dynasty has been tightening checks on these resources lately. If Young Master Li can't bring them over, we can send people to verify. Of course, any delay costs you, we'll definitely compensate you."

"Those Demon Beasts, we'll sell them to you at normal beast‑meat prices; the Primordial Power with Demon Qi, we have over two thousand in stock, and we'll sell them to you at half price."

"As for the ferocious beast meat corpses and Martial Cultivator corpses, we usually strip the Core and sell it to others to feed ferocious beasts, then sell the Core separately. We can also sell the whole thing—including the Core—as ferocious‑beast food to you, at half price."

"Does that satisfy you?"

Ye Liuyun nodded: "If it's like that, the price is indeed reasonable, but how many of those ferocious beast and Martial Cultivator corpses do you have? What realms are they?"

The Administrator, seeing Ye Liuyun's agreement, felt relieved; those Demon Beasts and Primordial Power with Demon Qi were already hard to sell, and the dynasty's odd regulation made it even harder.

Customers like Ye Liuyun are exactly what they need; they don't want this deal to fall through.

He immediately replied to Ye Liuyun: "We have over twenty‑thousand ferocious beast corpses, all from the Zhuanzai Jingjie and Unified realms, none diseased or poisoned."

"Martial Cultivator corpses are even more; at least five hundred thousand have been brought back from battlefields, all dead in combat, both enemy and our own soldiers, ranging from Zhuanzai Jingjie down to the Unified realm."

"That many?" Ye Liuyun hadn't expected such a volume; these people had actually transported so many corpses back.