NOVEL NEXT Chapter 68: Am I a Foolish Spender?
Even she only owned this one Tier 5 Demonic Beast corpse, so she didn’t believe at all that this woman in front of her could take out the corpse of a Tier 6 Demonic Beast.
“Let me? Do I need you to let me?” Lou Mu Yan raised her eyebrow and sneered.
“You really have the skin of a fire attribute Demonic Beast? You better not be teasing me?” Huo Xiao’s eyes lit up, but his voice carried a sense of warning. His good attitude today was almost worn out, so he hoped that this woman wasn’t playing him.
Xin Ying Xuan snorted coldly: “Then take it out. You can’t trade by just talking about it.”
She hated women who were more beautiful than herself. So looking at the woman in front of her who was a beauty that could cause the collapse of a country, that appeared indolent, and had a clever temperament, she hated her even more in her heart.
The surrounding crowd didn’t believe that Lou Mu Yan could take out an even higher-level fire-attribute Demonic Beast. After all, a Tier 5 Demonic Beast that represented a Sword Spirit Stage Sword Master was already difficult to kill, let alone a Tier 6 Demonic Beast equivalent to the strength of a Sword Monarch. For this woman who appeared to not have a strong cultivation base, she was probably only taking nonsense and causing dispute for her personal feelings.
So some people yelled in agreement, “That’s right, take it out and let’s see. Do you think that high-level Demonic Beasts are like cabbages that’re all over the street!”
“Let’s not talk about a higher-level Demonic Beast, I’m afraid that she couldn’t even take out another Tier 5 fire attribute Demonic Beast’s corpse.
“That’s right, she even asked her elder brother for the Water Crocodile just now.”
“…” For a moment, the surroundings became livelier.
Xin Ying Xuan hugged her arms, displaying a high, arrogant posture, certain that Lou Mu Yan couldn’t take out the skin of a fire attribute Demonic Beast.
Lou Mu Bai furrowed his brows and looked a Xin Ying Xuan. He had already guessed her identity in his heart, but he didn’t object to his younger sister going against her.
As for Yun Lan and the others, they only had curiosity in their hearts. Lu Mu Yan had given them too many surprises, and this time, they also inexplicably believed that she wasn’t just talking irresponsibly. But how did she obtain a Demonic Beast corpse with the strength equivalent to that of a Sword Monarch? The Lou Clan didn’t have any Sword Monarch experts at all.
Lou Mu Yan didn’t care about the discussions occurring about her. She originally had some uses for the Tier 6 Flame Unicorn Beast’s corpse, but she could only give it up for the stone that Mo Yan wanted. However, taking advantage of her wasn’t that easy.
With a thought, she moved the corpse of the Flame Unicorn Beast that Ming Xiu had killed onto the ground, but she had already taken away its blood essence and its horn a long time ago.
A pressuring fire attribute Demonic Beast’s aura spread throughout the air. The Flame Unicorn Beast died not long ago, so the heavy pressure of a high-level Demonic Beast had yet to dissipate, though it had been weakened. However, it still caused the people around them to pale with fright.
“What? It’s actually a Flame Unicorn Beast of Peak-Phase Tier 6 strength.” Those who came to explore the Glacial Mountain Range wouldn’t be that weak, so someone in the crowd recognised the corpse of the Demonic Beast on the ground.
“A Flame Unicorn of Peak-Phase Tier 6 strength? No way, that’s equivalent to the strength of a Sword Sovereign expert!”
“My eyes aren’t blurry are they? To be able to see a Tier 6 Flame Unicorn Beast in my living years, it truly was worthwhile to come!”
Meanwhile, Huo Xiao’s eyes stared, transfixed, on the corpse of the Demonic Beast, his body slightly trembling. The burning desire and excitement in his eyes formed a great contrast to his coldness earlier.
He eagerly walked to the Flame Unicorn Beast’s corpse and squatted down. He stroked it a few times with his shaking hands, as if cherishing a prized work of art. This was the best material for refining Magic Tools he had come across in his entire life.
Xin Ying Xuan also revealed a look of disbelief. She naturally knew what sort of existence the Tier 6 Flame Unicorn Beast was. She looked at Lou Mu Yan, who was calm and composed, with confliction in her eyes. She was confused—what exactly was the origin of this woman?
She was the Young Miss, born from the main wife, raised by the Xin Clan, one of the Ten Distinguished Clans in the Eastern Region. She had the capital to be arrogant, but she wasn’t stupid. Until she knew the identity of the woman opposite her, she wouldn’t do anything against her on the surface for the time being.
She sure didn’t want to offend a stronger force than the Xin Clan for a mysterious stone. Of course, if this woman had an average background, then she’d remember today’s grievances of her taking the stone, and eventually find this woman to make her repay.
Not only were the outsiders stupefied, but even Yun Lan and the others were shocked.
What was happening here? How could Lou Mu Yan possess the corpse of a Flame Unicorn Beast equivalent to the strength of a Sword Sovereign?
This Flame Unicorn Beast was of a superior Demonic Beast Race. The skin of its entire body was composed of pieces of fire attribute scales. It could be said that its defence was abnormal amongst Demonic Beasts, and its ability to escape was also extremely strong. Even a Sword Sovereign expert might not be able to kill it.
The strongest person’s cultivation base in Yan’zhou Kingdom was only the Sword Sovereign Ancestor of the Imperial Family that had long gone into Closed-Door Cultivation. The other distinguished clans and noble families had no Sword Sovereign experts, and the Lou Clan behind Lou Mu Yan didn’t even have a Sword Monarch expert. So how did she obtain such a super high-level Demonic Beast corpse?
It simply didn’t make sense, didn’t make sense at all! They couldn’t see through Lou Mu Yan more and more. Luckily they all had a very good heart, otherwise, with the way this woman was constantly stimulating them from time to time, they would be stimulated to the point they might even fall ill.
“Have you touched it enough?” Seeing Huo Xiao’s appearance as if he was some inexperienced person, Lou Mu Yan’s mouth twitched. This man was at least a Smith that wasn’t at that low of a level, yet now that he saw a Flame Unicorn Beast, his eyeballs appeared as if it wanted to be glued to the Demonic Beast’s corpse.
Huo Xiao swallowed, raised his head with excitement and pointed to the Spars on the table, saying: “I’ll trade. You can take all of these things. I’ll trade with you.”
“Wait. Don’t be so hasty yet. I didn’t say that I’d use the entire Flame Unicorn Beast’s corpse to exchange for whatever this stone is. As for those Spars, it’s even less worth it.” Lou Mu Yan raised her eyebrow, took the dark grey stone, and threw it up and down in her hand casually, with a look as if saying ‘it’s not like I’m an idiot’.
All the people present didn’t feel as if there was anything wrong with her attitude. Instead, this woman was truly a prodigal. With the corpse of this Demonic Beast, even if it were a few scales, it’d be much more valuable than that stone. They really didn’t know what sort of brain circuit this girl had to actually be willing to use it to trade.
“What do you mean? Just tell me directly, what do you want to do? I want this Demonic Beast corpse.” Huo Xiao blocked the Flame Unicorn Beast’s corpse with half his body as if a wolf defending its food. This kind of high-level Smithing material was superb. Whether he’d be able to chance upon something like this again in the future was uncertain, so he sure didn’t want to miss this chance.
“What do I mean? You tell me. Can you compare this Tier 6 Flame Unicorn Beast to the value of this ugly stone and that pile of Spars?” Lou Mu Yan asked instead. She had her own plans, and she wanted Huo Xiao to walk right into the trap she designed herself.
Huo Xiao wasn’t scheming, and his temperament was relatively straightforward. So after hearing Lou Mu Yan’s question, he nodded honestly: “It’s definitely incomparable. Your Flame Unicorn Beast is more valuable.”
“Then am I a foolish spender? This is obviously a losing trade. Will I be that dumb and give you the entire Flame Unicorn Beast for these ugly stones? If it were you, would you?” Lou Mu Yan continued to ask.
“I won’t.” Huo Xiao shook his head and added silently in his heart ‘only an idiot will’. But right now, he sure hoped that this woman before him was an idiot…
The surrounding crowd couldn’t help but roll their eyes upon hearing Lou Mu Yan ask this question. If you’re not a foolish spender, nor an idiot, then would you take out such a precious Flame Unicorn Beast corpse to trade for a random, ugly stone?
Xiao Zi Ang was even more speechless and murmured beneath his breath: “Prodigal lady, she’s really a prodigal lady!”
Translated product by May Our 梦 Come True
Note: Welp, what a reason for Xin Ying Xuan to hate Lou Mu Yan—for her beauty… But then I continued translating and realised she wasn’t the idiot I thought she was gonna be HAHAHA I’ve read too many cultivation novels with stupid young masters and young misses that just up and go ‘you’re courting death’ that I thought that was where this was going HAHAHA. But the Xin Clan… Still an enemy regardless. Man it really is like I’m reading this novel for the first time LOL