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Chapter 34 - Booking A Room And Buying More Weapons
Duan Ke went silent, and Jing Wei was lost in thought as well. Both of them stayed the same for an incense sticks worth of time until Jing Wei spoke.
"What did he want to do with the beast corpse?" asked Jing Wei.
Duan Ke broke her silence and looked up at her grandfather.
"He wants to sell the materials from the beast corpse and keep the meat for himself." Duan Ke replied.
"Hmm, you can’t give him the meat, we don’t know what effect it could have. Besides, if it is as you say, we have to investigate further." Jing Wei spoke.
"So what should I do grandfather?" Duan Ke asked.
Jing Wei thought for a moment before replying,
"Find a beast of equivalent strength and give its meat to him. As for the cost of the materials, you can decide that yourself."
"Yes, grandfather. I’ll do as you say." Duan Ke replied.
Jing Wei turned back and walked towards the manor. As he reached the door of the manor he stopped and spoke,
"Refine the beast corpse and use it to investigate any new traces that may turn up. We don’t want a repeat of last year’s incident."
Duan Ke did not speak and only nodded her head in acceptance. Jing Wei had entered the manor and disappeared from her view. Knowing what she had to do, Duan Ke waved her hand to make the beast’s corpse float. She then gestured and a small formation array appeared over the beast’s corpse.
Slowly flames bloomed on the corpse and the formation array started to turn.
"Refine!" Duan Ke spoke out loud.
The beast’s corpse was being reduced to a pool of blood. Once the entire corpse turned to blood, Duan Ke threw four small stones the size of pearls, which started to revolve around the pool of blood. The stones spun faster and faster, making the pool of blood to swirl as well.
After five minutes the four stones had stopped revolving and the pool of blood was converted into a small dark red marble. Duan Ke withdrew the four small stones and picked up the dark red marble floating in the air.
Done with the refining process, Duan Ke snapped her fingers and appeared in the small room behind the shop. She walked out of the door and waved her hand to remove the formations placed on the shop’s door. She then exited the shop and saw the crude-looking sled kept at the side. Ignoring the sled, she looked around for people. Seeing that there was no person nearby, she withdrew a paper talisman and tore it.
As soon as the paper talisman was torn in half, Duan Ke turned translucent and eventually invisible. The Invisible Duan Ke withdrew a sword that floated in front of her. She jumped onto the sword and flew away towards the Northern forest.
Duan Ke flew at such a speed, that if she was visible, she would only appear as a blur to the human eyes. She reached the depths of the forest in a couple of minutes. This was the region where spirit beasts were in abundance. No Hunters would ever dare to come this far, only a handful of cultivators would be able to survive in this region of the forest. One could hear the roars and howls of a myriad of beasts. The forest was dark and dense, sunlight could barely penetrate its canopy.
’I should return to the shop, it’s been around three and a half hours since I left it. Duan Ke said to return in three hours, so she should be ready now.’ Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu walked back to the shop and reached there in 10 minutes. He saw that his sled was still kept at the side of the shop.
"Guess no one would even bother to steal such a crudely made sled." Lin Mu spoke to himself with a little mirth in his voice.
He then opened the creaky door of the shop and entered the shop. He walked up to the counter and was about to ring the bell when the door of the shop opened. Lin Mu turned around to look and saw Duan Ke entering the shop.
’Huh, why was she outside?’ Lin Mu questioned himself.
"I’ll bring the meat, wait here." Duan Ke spoke to Lin Mu as she passed by him and entered the door behind the counter.
She returned a minute later with a sack that seemed like it was completely full. She put the sack on the counter, gestured to Lin Mu, and spoke.
"Here’s you beast meat. As for the money..." But before she could complete her sentence, Lin Mu interrupted her.
"Umm, instead of coins, I want some weapons." Lin Mu spoke.
"You want more weapons? Are you not satisfied with the short sword?" Duan Ke asked.
"No, I like the short sword. I just want more weapons in case I lose the short sword in a fight or something. And I also want to learn to use more kinds of weapons." Lin Mu Explained.
Duan Ke nodded and said, "As you wish, look around the shop and pick whatever you want. But if you want to get a proper appraisal, it will cost you extra."
Lin Mu went around the shop and picked up whatever caught his fancy. In the end, he had chosen 12 items from the shop. He brought them all and placed them on the counter. The total weight of all the weapons was nothing to Lin Mu, now that he had reached the 6th stage of the body tempering realm.
The weapons he had chosen were of multiple types. He had chosen a pair of battle gauntlets, a long sword, a slim and flexible sword, a normal broad sword, a large axe, a small hatchet, a buckler, a large shield, a spear, and three different types of daggers.
Duan Ke was a little surprised by the varied choice of weapons but did not show it on her face.
"Is that all?" Duan Ke asked.
"Yes, how much would this all cost?" Lin Mu questioned.
"It should be around the same price as the cost of the materials of that beast." Duan Ke replied.
Lin Mu nodded happily and piled all the weapons on the large shield before putting it on the sled outside the shop. He then carried out the sack of meat and left the shop. Duan Ke watched him leave.
’He’s a little dumb, isn’t he? He didn’t even ask how much the materials exactly cost.’ Duan Ke spoke to herself before waving her hand and sealing the door with formations.
She then entered the door behind the counter and left the shop.