Chapter 70: Flying Sword Blue Edge

"No, it’s still hanging in the store upstairs in my house."

Xu Jiayi shook her head and spoke.

"It’s not that I don’t want to help you, but the quality of your Qingfeng is a Treasure-level 7, its conductivity of Spiritual Qi is too low, and it leaks while using. If it were treasure-level 8 with the ability to grow, this flaw wouldn’t matter, and you could solve these problems through nurturing afterwards. But treasure-level 7 doesn’t have the ability to grow, it’s essentially half-wasted. You’re not willing to sell it cheaply and can only accept 20% off at the lowest, it’s hard to sell."

"This..."

Xiang Minghui showed a difficult expression, looking at Li Jing somewhat embarrassingly.

Before he could say anything, Li Jing asked with interest.

"The Qingfeng you two just mentioned, is it a flying sword or...?"

"Flying sword."

Xiang Minghui answered, then sighed lightly.

"You heard what Sister just said, Brother Li, the Qingfeng I refined has huge defects, it’s hard to sell it at the price of a treasure-level 7. But if I sell it too cheap, I’ll feel cheated. At worst, the quality of Qingfeng is treasure-level 7, and the lowest I could accept is the price of treasure-level 6."

"Hmm."

Li Jing nodded, confirming and asked.

"Treasure-level 6, the price is around seven million?"

"Yes."

Xiang Minghui replied.

"If there were no defects, selling Qingfeng for eight million definitely wouldn’t be a problem."

Just as she was about to say something else, Xu Jiayi interrupted.

"That makes sense, but the fatal flaw of your Qingfeng makes paying seven million equivalent to paying a stupidity tax. The conductivity of Spiritual Qi will directly affect the use of the flying sword, and its power will be greatly impacted. At the same price, it is more appropriate to buy a treasure-level 6 flying sword with no defects."

Having said that, she spoke calmly.

"If you really need money, I can agree to take your Qingfeng for a fixed price of four million."

"Sister, you are being extraordinarily greedy."

Xiang Minghui, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, turned his head and said.

"Four million, that’s the price of a treasure-level 3."

"In my opinion, your Qingfeng is only worth this much."

Xu Jiayi shrugged, nonchalantly.

"Even if I agree to buy your Qingfeng, the maximum profit I can make from resale would be two to three hundred thousand, and it’s not even guaranteed to sell."

Listening to Xu Jiayi’s words, Li Jing wore a strange expression.

Whether four million was too much or not, he wasn’t sure.

But he knew that Xu Jiayi, as a merchant’s daughter, is in it for the money.

There’s no such thing as a selfless merchant.

She’s clearly looking to make a profit when she offered to buy Qingfeng, hence the deliberate lowballing. The claim that there is no guarantee it would sell is purely sales talk.

Looking at Xiang Minghui’s troubled face, though tempted to sell due to the lack of cash but still reluctant to let it go, Li Jing said,

"I was just thinking about getting a flying sword recently. Could you bring Qingfeng for me to take a look? I want to see the exact defects of Qingfeng. If the defects are not too severe and within my tolerance, I’m willing to offer you fifty thousand extra, including the snake skin and the snake teeth, to trade with you."

Xu Jiayi’s eye twitched minutely when she heard this. Li Jing’s impromptu price offer made it difficult for her to maintain her composure.

Xiang Minghui, on the other hand, looked ecstatic and asked eagerly,

"Brother Li, are you serious?"

"Or am I making a joke out of you?"

Li Jing tilted his head.

"Deal! Bro Li, wait a moment, I’ll go upstairs to our sales department now and fetch Qingfeng."

Xiang Minghui quickly agreed, and without another word, headed toward the store exit.

Watching Xiang Minghui running off excitedly, Xu Jiayi rubbed her forehead.

"Are you sure? The defects of Xiang’s Qingfeng certainly exist. Unless you are willing to spend big bucks to hire an artifact refiner to remake it, its utility can at most only equal a treasure-level 4."

"It’s not a problem."

Li Jing smiled and replied.

"Whether to buy it or not, I will decide after a detailed look. If this deal is done, it would do Minghui a good turn. In the future, if I need something else, it may be easier to work with Minghui."

Hearing this, Xu Jiayi didn’t say anything more.

Her offer for Minghui was quite reasonable from a merchant’s perspective.

And as she said, taking the defect into consideration, Qingfeng’s functionality is equivalent to treasure-level 4.

But because it’s of treasure-level 7 quality, it far surpasses treasure-level 4 in terms of toughness and sharpness.

If she decided to buy, she would only make a small profit from the resale.

Li Jing’s willingness to purchase Qingfeng at the total price of six million seventy thousand is a good thing for Xiang Minghui.

Both parties are willing, so there’s not much to say.

After operating the computer in front of the counter for a while, Xu Jiayi looked up.

"The appraisal fee is fifty thousand."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing blinked.

"Can it be cheaper?"

"Tsk!"

Xu Jiayi clicked her tongue, spoke with a cold face.

"I already gave you half off, how much cheaper do you want it?"

"Ah, is that so?"

Li Jing coughed and brought out his phone to pay.

After confirming the commission was paid, Xu Jiayi spoke again.

"Do you need me to help you cut up the materials?"

"Does it cost money?"

Li Jing’s subconscious reply.

"..."

Xu Jiayi remained silent. She rolled her eyes without responding to him, picked up the serpent monster and walked away.

Ji Qing, who had been silent all along, chuckled softly at this sight, whispering,

"I didn’t realize it before, but you sure know how to annoy people."

"..."

Li Jing was speechless. He wanted to say that his reaction was purely instinctive, not an intentional attempt to irritate Xu Jiayi or anything of the sort.

Was it his fault if he was used to being poor?

Glancing at Xu Jiayi’s retreating figure heading to the backdoor of the store, Li Jing considered whether he should add her as a friend on Immortal Message.

As Lu Yangcheng once said, Xu Jiayi is a typical tough-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside type.

Despite her slightly toxic tongue, she’s actually a good person.

He hadn’t even said a word, and they had already given him a half-price discount on the appraisal fee.

They didn’t charge him for the material separation.

The materials professionally separated are far superior in terms of integrity and appearance than what any outsider could achieve.

For that alone, charging ten to twenty thousand wouldn’t be excessive.

As he was pondering, Ji Qing whispered.

"Li Jing, I understand if you’re short on money and want to buy a cheaper flying sword, but the flaws in Xiang Minghui’s Qingfeng are too serious, are you sure you want to make a move?"

"We’ll see when we get the stuff."

Li Jing smiled, operating his mobile phone to bring up the payment code.

"Didn’t you want snake meat? Pay for it."

"..."

Ji Qing.

Wordlessly took out her mobile phone, grumbling.

"Can you give me a friendly price?"

"No."

Li Jing firmly responded.

"Stingy!"

Ji Qing snorted, scanned the code and transferred eight hundred thousand, saying.

"Next time there’s cheap monster flesh and blood, remember to find me. I can’t afford anything too extravagant, but I’ll take the less valuable stuff to supplement my body."

"Sure."

Li Jing looked at the incoming eight hundred thousand with a happy smile.

...

A few minutes later.

Xiang Minghui briskly walked in from outside the door with a blue flying sword.

Presenting the flying sword to Li Jing and Ji Qing who were waiting in the store, he was full of anticipation.

"Brother Li, this is my Qingfeng."

"Hmm."

Li Jing reached out and took the flying sword.

Then, a notification sound rang in his ear.

"Equipment discovered: Flying Sword Blue Edge, a treasure-grade sword. Register as an exclusive equipment?"

Without rushing to confirm the registration, Li Jing transferred some spiritual power into the Qingfeng Sword.

As the spiritual power flowed in, the blade of the Qingfeng Sword trembled slightly and emitted a brilliant, dazzling light.

After a brief sensation, Li Jing slightly raised his eyebrows.

True enough, the spiritual qi transmission rate of the Qingfeng Sword was slightly low, and there was a clear sign of leakage of power.

Just the Qi transmission rate was not a problem for him.

His own spiritual power was more efficient than spiritual qi itself, so even if the transmission rate was a bit low, it did not affect its use, only gave a little obstruction feeling.

However, the leakage of power was somewhat troublesome.

In normal use, Qingfeng’s power would be diminished.

Having felt the defects, Li Jing silently logged in his mind.

"Log in successful, you’ve acquired equipment Qingfeng, treasure-level 7."

"With the current spiritual power intensity, it would take six days to upgrade to treasure-level 8."

Hearing the notification sound, Li Jing raised his eyebrows again, quietly calling up the status bar.

Host: Li Jing

Experience Points: 72/2566

Level: 15

Skill Points: 5

Spiritual Power Intensity: 240

Equipment: Qingfeng (treasure-level 789%)

Passive Skills: Momentary Space, Clothing Protection Spirit (5/5), Vanishing Skill (5/5), Spirit Control Skill (5/5)

Active Skills: Palm Thunder (5/5), Spirit Strike (5/5)

Seeing that the Qingfeng directly reached the level of 89% of treasure-grade 7 in the equipment column, and he was only 11% away from treasure grade 8, Li Jing was secretly delighted.

This was profitable!

The fundamental reason he was willing to pay for Qingfeng was that Qingfeng’s flaws could be improved by nurturing.

With the equipment slot in place, the threshold for nurturing artifacts is meaningless for him.

He could even nurture mortal tools, so how could nurturing precious items be a problem?

Admittedly, he could buy another cheap, low-quality precious item to nurture.

But nurturing precious items, wouldn’t it take a lot of time?

What if, like the auxiliary standard steel knife, he ruined it before he could raise it to the next grade? That wouldn’t be profitable at all, would it?

Treasure-level 7, very sturdy.

The difficulty of wrecking it is there.

Next, he speculated about his own efficiency in nurturing artifacts.

The efficiency of artifact nurturing in the equipment slot is determined by his spirituality.

With his current spiritual power, his efficiency in nurturing mortal tools is definitely high.

But when it comes to precious items of this level, the efficiency most likely drops drastically.

It was as he expected, Qingfeng was only 11% away from metamorphosing into a level eight treasure, but it would take six days to complete the nurturing.

Putting the Qingfeng away, Li Jing looked at Xiang Minghui.

"I’ll take this flying sword."

"Ah, this..."

Xiang Minghui hesitated, saying.

"Brother Li, don’t you want to take another look before deciding?"

Xiang Minghui was glad that Li Jing was interested in the Qingfeng Sword.

However, in his view, the former merely held the Qingfeng and tried it out before putting it away. How could he see anything from that?

"I’ve seen all I need to see, no need to look further."

Li Jing spoke mysteriously, taking out his mobile phone.

"Give me your Immortal Message, I’ll transfer five hundred thousand to you. Jiayi is inside, helping to separate the snake demon materials, and later you can take away the snake skin and fangs, and our deal will be done."

Seeing others being so decisive, Xiang Minghui was surprised and delighted, nodding.

"Brother Li, I owe you a favor this time. If there’s anything you need in the future, don’t hesitate to find me."

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