Ding Hao’s martial skills was the Nine Layers Blazing Palms, but the palm technique could be used as a fist technique.
The manual noted that, of the nine layers, the first eight could be used as fists, and then the ninth layer would suddenly turn into a palm technique to unleash spiritual flames, causing it to be harder to defend.
Because of that, the Spirit Storing Gloves were extremely suited to Ding Hao.
The Nine Layers Blazing Palm was always a fierce style, coupled with these powerful gloves, the power would be even more terrifying.
Ding Hao was interested, so he asked, “How much for these gloves?”
Shang Yun said, “Relax, let’s look at the third treasure first.”
She opened the third cloth, and it was a set of gloves underneath. It was bigger than the earlier ones, and able to wrap the entire hand. The difference with the Spirit Storing Gloves was, it did not have celestial metal on it, but rather claws from a certain spirit beast.
Shang Yun said, “These are the Cloud Leopard Gloves, they had the claws of a Cloud Leopard on them, which is extremely sharp, and a treasure onto itself. These gloves might lose out to the Spirit Storing Gloves in terms of power and quality, but it had a certain benefit…”
Saying that, Shang Yun took out a grey colored stone-like object, and put on the gloves. She held the stone in her palm and said, “The greatest benefit for these gloves is the ability to absorb beast stones to replenish your own spiritual energy. You are only at Innate Stage level three, even if you are a genius, your spiritual energy would still not be enough. These gloves are more suited for you, and they are cheaper by a few hundred Yuan stones, what do you think?
Ding Hao nodded and asked, “How much are those two Supreme Treasures?”
Shang Yun said, “The Spirit Storing Gloves are a thousand Yuan stones, the Clouded Leopard Gloves are six hundred Yuan stones.”
Ding Hao said, “Then I want the Spirit Storing Gloves.”
Even though Shang Yun came from a good place, Ding Hao did not really need to conserve his spiritual energy. The Spirit Storing Gloves were a bit more expensive, but he could keep using them until the later levels of the Innate Stage! Ding Hao could unleash spiritual energy when he mastered the Nine Layers Blazing Palm! The Spirit Storing Gloves only covered the fingers, and the spirit fire could easily come out from his palms. The Clouded Leopard Gloves covered his whole palm, and would prevent him from using his spirit fire.
“Very well.” Shang Yun motioned for the other two trays to be taken away, leaving the Spirit Storing Gloves behind.
Ding Hao did not rush to pay, smiling as he said, “Manager Shang, I was good friends with Boss Shang downstairs in Wuzhou, could you please give me a better price?”
Shang Yun said, “Sir, one thousand Yuan stones is already the friendliest price! I might be a manager here, but my power is actually very limited.” Shang yun then said, “Nine hundred and fifty Yuan stones, that’s the lowest I can go! Any lower and you can forget it!”
Ding Hao said, “Manager Shang, I intend to buy your Monkey Tail Sword eventually. Just treat me a bit better and I will definitely take care of your business in the future! Please make it cheaper.”
Shang Yun had an exasperated look, saying, “Nine hundred, any cheaper and who really won’t need to talk anymore.”
Even though Ding Hao said he would come back to buy the Monkey Tail Sword, she treated it as a joke.
The sword was five spirit stones, how many people could afford that.
Ding Hao saw it was already at that stage, so he stopped asking for discounts and said, “Then could you give me a few hand crossbow arrows as well?”
The arrows were not valuable, Shang Yun got someone to bring out fifty arrows. Of course, the free ones would be lower grade arrows, not even comparable to the ones he stole from Mi Yunjing.
DIng Hao smiled bitterly, “Manager Shang really is savvy, the free arrows are way too cheap.”
Shang Yun said, “Sir, you’re the one who’s savvy, our shop is making a loss dealing with you!”
Even if she said that, Ding Hao knew her words were hollow. Who would do businesses that made a loss?
He immediately took out ten Yuan stones and said, “Give me a few better arrows.”
In a moment, a few steel tipped arrows were brought out. These arrows could be used a few times, and would cause continuous bleeding if they hit someone’s body. It was very sharp and powerful.
Shang Yun said, “These arrows are worth one Yuan stone each, but since master Mi is an old customer, we’ll give you one for free.”
Ding Hao received the arrows with satisfaction. It was true what they say, that war is a battle of money. After spending so much to get his gear, his abilities had improved significantly. Those arrows could even pierce through moderate grade armor!
If the white-faced man Mi Yunqing had used these arrows, DIng Hao might not have been able to block them with his Tengjia Grass!
Ding Hao had spent nine hundred and ten Yuan stones on his weapons, there was only a little more than a hundred Yuan stones left in his storage pouch!
The Yuan stones he had painstakingly earned in Wuzhou City for two months were spent away just like that!
Shang Yun asked, “Do you have anything else you need?”
Ding Hao asked, “The beast stones you used just now, how much are they?”
Ding Hao managed to get some beast stones from the hunter’s storage pouch, it was dug out from the bodies of strong or special spirit beasts.
Those beast stones had quite a bit of spiritual energy, but there were too many impurities inside, so humans could not use them. They were normally just used to enhance certain weapons, so they were very cheap.
Shang Yun said, “These can be bought at the general counter, and are very cheap. However, I have to remind you that reckless use of those stones could turn you into a monster cultivator, and that would be a great loss.”
“I understand.” Ding Hao was quite satisfied. Even if he really wanted to Monkey Tail Sword, it was too expensive. He would get it in the future.
He went down to the spiritual rice counter. Boss Shang did not ask about the weapons he bought, since combat ability was usually a personal secret. When he heard that Ding Hao wanted beast stones, he brought Ding Hao over. Of course, Boss Shang did not forget to give a few words of advice, overuse of beast stones could turn one into a beast like existence, and turn into an evil cultivator. At that time, the Heaven’s Will System would reject him, and he would be finished.
Ding Hao did not plan on using it himself, so it was not an issue. Those things were actually very cheap, he spent fifty Yuan stones and bought a bunch of beast stones.
Ding Hao found the spirit poison that Mi Yunjing had used in the general counter, they were three Yuan stones a bottle. He bought two bottles and plucked out two metal arrowheads to soak in the bottles.
At that time, Ding hao had thirty Yuan stones left in his storage pouch, Ding Hao smiled and said, “Boss Shang, do you know of any restaurants or inns around. I don’t plan on bringing the last of my Yuan stones back, so let me buy you a drink.
Boss Shang smiled and said, “Then please treat me well. There’s a small tavern in the middle of the city, very near to the battle stage. Let me arrange some things and I’ll be right behind you.”
…
When Ding Hao and Boss Shang were heading to the tavern, inside the Tang Family store there was a conversation.
“What, there was an Innate Stage level three that went looking for Shang Pei?”
There were a lot of spies among the stores, and Wuzhou City’s Boss Shang had long been in their sights.
Upon receiving the secret report, Du Lang immediately called Zhou Genwei over.
“It must be him! Which other Innate Stage level three would dare step into this city alone? It’s definitely him! Shang Pei had good relations with Ding Hao in Wuzhou City. This brat really is cunning, he must have changed his looks!” Zhou Genwei determined.
Du Lang had a solemn expression, “These useless guards, they don’t even know they let the guy into the city! If not for our spies in the merchant’s clan, that brat would have left after buying his stuff without us knowing!”
Du Lang shook his head, “That’s something the merchant’s clan keeps very secret, so we can’t possibly know. He’s just an Innate Stage level three, what could he possibly buy? It’s definitely just some foundation building forbidden medicines to help his cultivation.”
Zhou Genwei smiled coldly, “The piece of trash is still planning on raising his levels, doesn’t he know he’s about to die? Let’s see how he improves! He dared to bully me, he really doesn’t know the meaning of death!”
Du Lang said, “If that brat stays in the merchant clan’s dormitories and doesn’t come out, who would not be able to do anything. Would we just let him hide in there and cultivate?” Thinking of that, he stood up abruptly,”No, I will meet the head of the store and ask him to apply pressure on the merchant clan, asking them to hand the man over!”
Zhou Genwei said worriedly, “What if they refuse?”
Du Lang said, “The Tang Family store is the biggest in Indigenous City, we are this year’s city lord! If the head is willing to help, the merchant’s clan would cave under the pressure for sure! Everyone is just doing some business, they have no reason to look for trouble just for some Innate Stage level three! The key problem right now is convincing the head shopkeeper!”
Zhou Genwei nodded, “We must not delay. You go convince the head shopkeeper and I will get a few people to look around the corners of the city to prevent that brat from slipping out under our noses again!”
“Not bad! Let’s split up!”
Du Lang left the room and quickly went to a quiet courtyard in the store. After waiting for a while, an old voice could be heard, “Enter.”
After that, the courtyard’s door opened by itself, and Du Lang walked inside.
The most powerful man in the store was not the head shopkeeper, but the elder. However, the one making the decisions was still the head shopkeeper. To put it simply, the head shopkeeper determines who to beat up, and the elder does the beating up. Because of that, the head shopkeeper held a lot of power.
The head shopkeeper for the Tang Family store was Tang Kongming, he was a celestial at the middle levels of the Energy Forging Stage.
Tang Kongming sat inside the room, asking, “What is the matter?”
Du Lang said, “Head shopkeeper, it’s like this.The young prince wants to get the first place for the Jiuzhou Academy entrance exams in Wuzhou City. However, a teenage genius suddenly appeared in Wuzhou City, so the young prince ordered us to…:”
“What evil ways!” Tang Kongming said coldly, “Tang Yingyu, that brat has liked to play these little tricks since he was young. He felt that Wuzhou did not have as many talents and Tangzhou, so he went to take his exams there. However, now that there’s another genius in Wuzhou, he wants to pull tricks like this, how absurd!”
“Head shopkeeper, you’re right.” Du Lang felt like Tang Kongming had no intention to get too mad, so he let out a sigh of relief. He was worried the head shopkeeper would not help, but thinking about it, killing a little genius from Wuzhou did not amount to much.
Du Lang smiled and said, “The young prince has no choice, in Tangzhou, Tang Pengcheng and Tang Tianmei are top tier geniuses of our family. The only way was for the young prince to go to Wuzhou. Furthermore, we couldn’t possibly allow the third level celestial world promotion to be snatched away by an outsider.”
“Of course!” Tang Kongming said, “Wuzhou is under King Tang’s rule, so how could our family give away something we want? If we didn’t want it, then it doesn’t matter, but now it’s something we do want, so wouldn’t we lose a lot of face if we failed? Go, get that man over here!”
Du Lang happily said, “Thank you, head shopkeeper!”