Chapter 19

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Finally, after staring at each other for a long time, Tong Mu and the old man from the Array Pavilion couldn’t help but speak up.

“Old guy, what are you looking at? You dumb array nerds. Would your cultivation base increase without our pills?”

Tong Mu blew his nose and stared at the old man as he spoke angrily.

“Haha. The Pill Pavilion is so shameless. How dare you think so highly of yourself?”

“Tell me. Without the Array Pavilion’s protection arrays, what’s going to protect your run-down Pill Pavilion?”

Jiang Chen, who was writing down the materials, naturally heard their argument.

However, he didn’t intend to pay any attention to them. After all, Jiang Chen had seen the conflict between the Pill Pavilion and the Array Pavilion several thousand times before.

Moreover, it was now the norm for the Pill Pavilion and the Array Pavilion to be at odds with each other.

Array masters spent their entire lives comprehending the Dao of array formations. They barely invested their time in cultivation.

Therefore, in the eyes of the alchemists, they were the backbone of all the array masters’ cultivation.

In the eyes of array masters, whether it was the Pill Pavilion, the Martial Arts Pavilion, the Talisman Pavilion, all kinds of protection arrays, including trivial Spirit Gathering Array, they were all incomplete without array masters.

Just like that, both parties thought that they were better than the other and refused to give in.

As time passed, the appearance of Tong Mu and the elder of the Array Pavilion did not seem too strange.

“Lou Shan, if you provoke me again, I will double the charges of all purchases made by the array masters in the entire Sunnywood Town!”

Tong Mu opened his eyes wide and said domineeringly

As for why Tong Mu was so confident, it was not only because he was the only third-grade alchemist in Sunnywood Town, but he was also the Pavilion Master of the Pill Pavilion here!

As the Pill Pavilion Master, he could really make these array masters unable to afford to buy pills.

When Lou Shan heard that, his face immediately turned livid with anger.

It was at this moment that Jiang Chen finished writing down the materials.

“I’m done. These will be all!” Jiang Chen handed the list to the elder of the Array Pavilion.

When the elder saw the dense list, he couldn’t help but exclaim on the spot.

“That much!? Are you trying to set up an array or what?” As he spoke, Lou Shan took a quick glance at the materials on the list.

Sky Mystic essence soul, earth treasury veins, a thousand-year-old refined iron, space wood!

The more he looked at the list, the more shocked Lou Shan’s gaze became. These were not ordinary materials. They were all extremely rare. Moreover, these materials could only be used to refine an extremely high-grade array formation.

“Lou Shan, bring us the goods. We don’t have to deal with your bullsh*t!”

When Tong Mu saw the elder of Array Pavilion asking all sorts of questions, he immediately began to urge him.

This time, Lou Shan unexpectedly did not fight with Tong Mu. Instead, he revealed a teasing smile and immediately went to bring the materials.

An hour later, a waiter brought the materials upstairs.

“Old Tong, since you are the one paying, then quickly pay!” As he spoke, Lou Shan handed the price list to Tong Mu.

The next second!

Tong Mu saw the price list and immediately shouted.

“What!? 30,000 high-grade Spirit Stones? Lou Shan, are you bullying me? These materials cost three thousand high-grade Spirit Stones at max. There’s no way it is worth 30,000!”

“Do you think that I, Tong Mu, am easy to trifle with?” Tong Mu glared daggers at Lou Shan and roared fiercely.

“Why? Can’t I?”

“Your Pill Pavilion has already sold your pills for twice the amount of their actual value. Why can’t I sell you the materials at ten times the value?”

Lou Shan looked at Tong Mu rather mockingly, and the smile on his face widened.

“Lou Shan…”

Tong Mu was at a loss for words. It seemed that he was the one who had started it. This was always going to end in a disaster!

Tong Mu turned to look at Jiang Chen, but he found him shaking his head and smiling.

It seemed Jiang Chen had expected this outcome.

“Grandmaster, I-I don’t have that many Spirit Stones at the moment.” Tong Mu held his head in embarrassment. After all, 30,000 high-grade Spirit Stones was way too much.

Even if he sold a section of the pills in the Pill Pavilion, he could not get 30,000 high-grade Spirit Stones…

The most important thing was that he, Tong Mu, couldn’t gather that many Spirit Stones!

“Humph! What are you pretending for? How dare you come to my Array Pavilion to buy materials when you’re broke?”

“Also Old Tong, according to the rules, all returns are subject to a 10% returns fee!”

“Haha! Pay 3,000 high-grade Spirit Stones. If you can’t… then you won’t be able to step out of the Array Pavilion!”

Tong Mu’s face turned pale.

Although he had said he would double the charges for the people of the Array Pavilion, he didn’t expect this old man Lou Shan to be even more scheming than him.

He had to pay 10 times more!

Jiang Chen had seen enough of this. 

He stood up and said, “We’re out of Spirit Stones. How about a barter trade?”

Lou Shan was immediately interested.

“Oh. And what would a pauper like you have to offer me?”

Lou Shan didn’t refuse Jiang Chen. After all, he had only been hostile to Tong Mu, the third-grade alchemist, from the beginning.

Jiang Chen pondered for a while. He quickly recalled the low-level array formation he had created.

After a long time…

Jiang Chen finally remembered an array formation he had created at the last minute when he had just stepped into the Dao of array formations.

“Alright. It’s up to you!”

Jiang Chen said in a low voice. Then, he stretched out a finger and started to draw rapidly in the air with his True Qi.

“Look closely. I’m only going to do this once!”

Lou Shan, who was standing not far away, was surprised by Jiang Chen’s drawing.

“This… Array Formation!”

Jiang Chen had only drawn a few strokes, but Lou Shan was extremely shocked. As an array master, he could clearly sense that this array formation diagram was extraordinary!

After a few breaths’ time, Jiang Chen withdrew his finger. The array diagram, which had been drawn with his True Qi, immediately disappeared.

“How about it?” Jiang Chen asked calmly.

Lou Shan swallowed hard and said, “Could you do it once more? I didn’t memorize it properly…”

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, “I told you I was only going to do it once, didn’t I? You only have yourself to blame for not memorizing it properly.”

He paused for a moment and then continued mockingly, “I suppose I could do you a favor. But don’t you think you should show me some sincerity too?”

Lou Shan didn’t agree right away. Instead, he said calmly, “If it were just any random array, our Array Pavilion has plenty of those. If I agree to it and it turns out to be just a random array, then I’ll be at a great disadvantage.”

“Have you ever heard of the Nine Mystics Array?”