"Half a medium-sized, ninth-grade mineral vein!"
Shangguan Ya wore a confident smile.
"Why is it half a strip?" Little Fatty immediately voiced his opinion. This isn't a spicy strip, how can you tear it in half?
“Because the Northern Alliance needs half a piece!” Shangguan Ya said calmly.
"Talk is cheap, where is the vein?" Jiang Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't expected this woman to have such courage, mentioning half of a medium-sized, ninth-grade vein right off the bat.
Only veins with reserves between one and one million qualify as medium-sized veins, and the value of this half of a ninth-grade medium-sized vein is self-evident.
“You’ll understand where the mine is once you go to the ruins!” Shangguan Ya stared at Jiang Yuan calmly.
After a moment's thought, Jiang Yuan said unhappily, "Are you saying the mineral vein is also at the ruins?"
"Damn, isn't this like getting something for nothing?" Little Fatty said speechlessly.
"It was right there! Besides, do you even know what it means to get something for nothing? Isn't exchanging this information with you a kind of contribution?" Shangguan Ya glared at the chubby boy, clearly annoyed by his overreaction.
"How can I tell if what you're saying is true?" Jiang Yuan sneered. He was indeed going to the ruins, but he also wanted to get everything he was entitled to.
"Truth and falsehood are known to all!" Shangguan Ya stopped explaining and pressed on, "Now we just await your answer: are you going or not?"
The location of the ruins is still in her hands; this is her last bargaining chip.
"I don't trust partnerships that involve getting something for nothing!" Jiang Yuan shook his head.
"You!" Shangguan Ya was about to retort, but then she remembered that the Apostle was someone who wouldn't act without self-interest. After all, how could someone who would turn against others for a core be a good person? So she changed her tune and said, "Oh, then tell me, what will it take for you to choose to cooperate!"
"To show our sincerity, open your warehouse and let me choose three items!" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.
"OK!"
Shangguan Ya practically clenched her fists in agreement. She secretly sighed with relief that she had taken away the valuable items from the storeroom, otherwise, she would have been terribly ripped off by this guy.
"I feel like I'm getting ripped off by agreeing so readily!" Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.
The rest was much easier. Shangguan Ya put one hundred Blazing Blood Vermilion Fruits into storage and sealed them with a note, and then gave Jiang Yuan four thousand sixth-tier Holy Spirit Stones.
"Is your Northern City Alliance really that poor? You can't even afford a single ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stone, yet you insist on giving a batch of sixth-tier Holy Spirit Stones!"
Jiang Yuan was depressed when he received four thousand sixth-tier Holy Spirit Stones. Although there was no difference in energy between four thousand sixth-tier Holy Spirit Stones and five hundred ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones, everyone would prefer to have ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones in their hands.
"Do you think the Northern City Alliance is just a few people who have sworn an oath? There are thousands of of us who need to make a living. The Holy Spirit Stones we really have to hand over are only these low-level ones. We don't even have enough high-level ones for our own use. Who would be willing to hand them over!"
"Moreover, the price of the Crimson Blood Fruit is not fixed. It is a spiritual fruit that can be consumed from the first to the ninth rank, so it would be perfectly reasonable for me to give it a first-rank Holy Spirit Stone!"
Shangguan Ya's sharp tongue left Jiang Yuan speechless with just a few words.
"Then I'd rather exchange it for a Tier 1 Holy Spirit Stone!" Jiang Yuan muttered.
"Dream on! The current market price for a Tier 1 Holy Spirit Stone is already equivalent to that of a Tier 6 Holy Spirit Stone!" Shangguan Ya said irritably.
The first-tier Holy Spirit Stone holds a unique position. It is an item required for Spirit Awakening and is the most urgently needed item for the large number of unawakened individuals in the South City, so its price has skyrocketed.
"You have five minutes. Pick any three items from the warehouse!" After paying for the goods, Shangguan Ya continued to keep her promise and let Jiang Yuan choose items from the warehouse.
"Your warehouse is so big, where do you put all the good stuff?" Jiang Yuan didn't even remember Shangguan Ya's five-minute limit. He was joking. He finally got a chance to come in, and you're giving him five minutes to choose? Am I the kind of man who only has five minutes?
"No comment!" Shangguan Ya turned her head and took a few steps away from Jiang Yuan, afraid that he would try to get some information out of her.
Jiang Yuan secretly transmitted his voice: "Little Fatty, be careful, I'll be right back!"
Having the Heavenly Eye provided him with the greatest convenience in selecting treasures, and his target this time was the Elemental Vein.
The issue of Ning Yanlan's bloodline conflict has been dragging on for too long, and delays could lead to unforeseen complications; he must resolve it as soon as possible.
The warehouse was not large; the underground chamber, which was more than 2,000 square meters, looked extremely crowded after being filled with supplies, and there were very few places to store the spoils of war.
"Damn, no wonder you were so generous. It turns out your North City Alliance is also a poor bunch!" Jiang Yuan was speechless. He understood what it meant to have nothing to lose. Being so poor, it seemed that having three more items taken from him wouldn't make a difference.
Jiang Yuan looked left and right but couldn't find any treasure in the garbage heap. However, he did find several pieces of armor fragments, since armored monsters weren't only found in Iron Birch Forest, but also in other places.
"There are still quite a few core members!"
When Jiang Yuan reached the end, he was shocked to find a large row of neatly stacked cores on the shelf. There were many black iron and mithril cores, only a handful of radiant gold cores, and not a single crystal diamond core!
"It feels like I've entered a garbage dump!" Jiang Yuan regretted his choice. He had imagined that the warehouse of a powerful organization would be full of jewels and rare items, but he never expected that the North City Alliance would be so poor.
"Wait, it seems that one of the cores has an attribute vein!" Jiang Yuan stared at the highest-ranking seventh-order mithril core. Under the Heavenly Eye's identification, it actually had a water vein. Isn't this what he has been searching for?
"I want this one!"
Without any hesitation, Jiang Yuan grabbed the Mithril Core and held it in his hand; this was the first item he had chosen.
However, he encountered difficulties with the second and third items. Although there were hundreds of cores piled together, none of them were truly valuable. He casually flipped through them and was about to sigh and grab two pieces of armor to make do when he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.
"This is?"
Among the exposed cores was one that was dark in color and covered in scars, and Jiang Yuan was shocked the moment he saw it.
If there was anything that changed his initial fate, it was definitely the core that knocked him unconscious on the night of the cataclysm. Although he didn't open the core himself, he always remembered what it looked like.
The dark red core exudes a rich and pure divine blood red!
After calming down from his shock, Jiang Yuan realized that this core was quite different from the one that had smashed his head. Even after it was fully activated, his core emitted a rich, dark red color, while this core was extremely dull and only a faint pale red could be seen. Moreover, the core was covered with scars.
"Identified by the Heavenly Eye!"
Ordinary identification couldn't reveal the origin of this core; Jiang Yuan spent dozens of points of divine energy to identify its origin.
"The sealed Supreme Core: left behind by the previous host upon his death."
"This is Pandora's box that opens the path to supreme power. Without strength to match your luck, you will face an unavoidable misfortune."
"Supreme Core (Sealed), Usage Requirements: Chosen One, Items Obtained: Downgraded by One Level"
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