Fang Ruotang, a frail and unremarkable girl from the Prime Minister’s household,
one day found herself pestered by a tiny, cutesy creature called the Mirror of Reversal—
and it star...
"I said I'm not selling! Can't you understand human language?" The little girl's voice was a bit impatient, and a burly man was standing opposite her.
Fang Ruotang was immediately drawn to the voices of the two people.
"He's so tall and strong!"
Fang Ruotang felt that if she stood in front of this man, he could punch her ten times over.
"He is a body cultivator, and he is taller in appearance."
"oh……"
Fang Ruotang looked at the man, then at Gu Yanjin and the other six, especially Gu Nancheng, and said solemnly, "You're good-looking, but don't go down the wrong path. I don't like that kind of thing."
Gu Nancheng silently withdrew his gaze, pretending that he hadn't envied the other person just now.
After all, he's a man!
Who likes someone who looks like a slutty, cheap woman?
The man opposite them had the physique that they had been training to grow up to be.
Unfortunately, Fang Ruotang didn't like it.
"Who are you calling heretical!" The body cultivator turned around immediately. His strong features and physique gave people a sense of absolute security.
"You misunderstood. I didn't mean to belittle you. It's just that I'm quite petite, and seeing you makes me feel intimidated and a little scared. I feel like if you punched me, I might die." Fang Ruotang opened her big eyes and said sincerely.
The male cultivator's angry expression suddenly vanished.
"Young lady, you have such a nice voice! But don't worry, I'm not an unreasonable person, why would I bully a young lady like you who has no cultivation?"
"Why does everyone think I have no cultivation? Can't I just look powerful at first glance?" Fang Ruotang asked, looking for a small mirror, somewhat indignant.
Isn't it good to play dumb to outsmart others?
【not good! 】
Fang Ruotang has the mentality of a child. She's the kind of person who, when playing cards, will immediately play her royal flush if the opponent plays a pair of threes.
She doesn't like to intimidate people with her appearance, but rather she gets slapped in the face and then retaliates. After all, she didn't do anything wrong, and the slap she received must have hurt!
"What were you talking about just now?" Cui Shixu deliberately changed the subject, looking curiously at what the seller was holding, which looked like a stick of incense.
"This is the Transmission Incense. Lighting this incense allows you to transmit messages across realms," the seller said proactively, afraid that this group of people would be like the body cultivator from before, not believing her words and trying to drive down her price.
"Who can know if it's true or false? I asked you to try lighting one, but you wouldn't. I wanted to buy it cheap, but you wouldn't agree. The advancement channels in this world have been cut off for over two thousand years. There are no more ancestral spirits from the upper realm to warn future generations. Who knows if what you're saying is true or false?"
"Huh! Can we contact the Immortal Realm?" Fang Ruotang suddenly became interested.
Those who know this place have excellent hearing, so she switched to communicating with everyone through her inner voice.
[Does this mean that by lighting this incense, my brother-in-law can summon friends from the upper realms? If we encounter someone we can't defeat, my brother-in-law can send people down to help us!]
Yu Sheng was stunned. He felt that this made sense, but every time he faced the young lady, he felt a strong sense of unworthiness.
He was always afraid that Fang Ruotang was wrong. If he wasn't a celestial being descended to earth, would the young lady regret it, would she abandon him, or would she feel that he had defiled her?
"Yes, that's fine," the seller replied confidently.
Fang Ruotang also learned from the small mirror that this thing really worked, and immediately asked, "How much does this cost?"
"Ten high-grade spirit stones," the seller tentatively offered.
The burly body cultivator watching the commotion was displeased and said disdainfully, "How can you, little girl, raise the price so blatantly? You just told me it was only three high-grade spirit stones, but you yourself weren't entirely sure you could use them. You're lying to this little girl. Can a girl with no cultivation possibly come up with ten high-grade spirit stones?"
Fang Ruotang blinked, and the smile on her face faded.
The seller, a shameless girl, said matter-of-factly, "The price will be different for different people. Buy if you want, or get lost!"
"If Sect Leader Fang is interested, I'll go and talk to her," Qin Fen said appropriately.
Fang Ruotang frowned and said somewhat unhappily, "Ten high-grade spirit stones are quite cheap, but she only told this man three, and now that everyone is standing here, she's telling me ten. If I buy them too, I'll look stupid. I don't want them anymore."
"Never mind, let's go look somewhere else." Fang Shengtang glanced at Yu Sheng and then pulled Fang Ruotang away from the stall.
Yu Sheng's thoughts are easy to guess. Perhaps it's because of his background that he's insecure. But it has to be said that a man's insecurity is more effective than any beauty pill.
"Hey! You don't want it anymore?" the seller called out, stretching out his hand.
She saw that the girl asking the price looked innocent and was obviously from a prominent family, so it was impossible for her to be without spirit stones as the male cultivator had said.
On the contrary, this person must have plenty of spirit stones on them, which is why she asked for an exorbitant price.
Shouldn't a girl from such a family be thoroughly humiliated and then arrogantly smashed with a spirit stone in her face?
Why aren't you following the usual procedure?
Will she be able to find a sucker to buy her incense and sell it?
"No, you're not honest in business at all. You're going to be in big trouble soon, you'll get robbed." Fang Ruotang turned around, her dark, grape-like eyes fixed on her as she answered.
The seller's expression changed instantly, and he turned hostile.
"Pah! Fine, I won't buy it then. How dare you curse me? What a piece of trash!"
Fang Ruotang: ...
She was telling the truth.
I just saw it in the small mirror.
Well, this girl is too straightforward, so straightforward that she got scolded for no reason when she bought something. She doesn't like it and doesn't want to say anything more to remind her.
Qin Fen, however, took these words to heart. He summoned the patrol team, randomly called over a guard, and whispered some instructions to him.
This opportunity presented itself to him, allowing him to verify whether Fang Ruotang's fortune-telling was accurate.
"Are the prices at your market all set so casually?" Gu Yanjin asked.
He didn't say much, offering to buy it back for Fang Ruotang.
Fang Ruotang had so many spirit stones that she could use them to throw at people.
But she didn't want to pay the ten spirit stones because she didn't want to be taken advantage of.
The seller wanted to extract spirit stones from their pockets, but was too stingy to give them a friendly look.
His decision to buy it against her wishes would only upset Fang Ruotang.
Fang Ruotang has always acted this way; everything must make her happy, otherwise, there's no point in discussing anything.
In fact, if the seller were a little sweet-talking, Fang Ruotang wouldn't care whether it was three spirit stones or ten.
"Well! That's mostly the case. The main reason is that people pay protection money to enter the market to buy and sell, so there won't be any fights. As a result, some people become... a bit willful."
Qin Fen didn't know how to describe it.
Anyway, the stalls are all mobile, so they basically just grab any customer they can and try to rip them off. They all ask for exorbitant prices and then try to bargain on the spot.
They just bargained down to three high-grade spirit stones, and the seller will still happily sell it to them, since almost no one would fall for this Transcendent Incense.