"This is it. This whole street is full of shops owned by the Liu family. Just name whatever you want, and as long as the price is right, we can get it!"
"It's still the air-raid shelter, still the familiar trade fair," Liu Zhaodi said, pointing to the various shops in front of her and patting her chest as she assured them.
"Really? Is your Liu family's business really that big?" Jiang Yuan was very skeptical of whether what Liu Zhaodi said was true.
This time he was going to purchase quite a lot of items: first, forging materials, then array materials, and finally, a large amount of resources.
"It's alright, under my brilliant leadership, it's just barely trending towards becoming the number one shop in the south of the city!" Liu Zhaodi seemed very 'modest'.
Jiang Yuan: "..."
"It's really just so-so. You don't know there's a trading company in the capital that's hundreds of times bigger than my Liu family. There's no comparison!" Liu Zhaodi said, clearly dissatisfied.
Jiang Yuan smiled faintly. After spending a few days with Liu Zhaodi, he had come to know her somewhat. Her competitive spirit was no less than that of a man. She was a girl whose name was the opposite of her personality.
“You shouldn’t be called Liu Zhaodi!” Jiang Yuan nodded.
"What should we call it then?"
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, then walked and laughed, "Wouldn't Liu Shengnan be more suitable!"
"Liu Shengnan?"
Liu Zhaodi muttered the three words to herself several times, and only realized what they meant after Jiang Yuan went into the nearest shop.
"Stop! How dare you say I look like a man? How am I like a man?!" Liu Zhaodi chased after Jiang Yuan's retreating figure.
"Welcome...wait, it's the Second Miss?"
The shop manager, dressed in a suit, was about to greet her, but upon seeing that it was Liu Zhaodi who had entered, he immediately forgot to even say hello.
"It's okay, don't worry about me, I came with a friend!" Liu Zhaodi waved her hand to indicate that she didn't need to worry about her, and then quickly went over to Jiang Yuan's location.
"Friend!" The shop manager looked at Jiang Yuan, who had just stepped into the shop. "This is a male friend! Could it be that Miss is shopping with her boyfriend?"
"Manager, look here!" Another employee came over and glanced at Liu Zhaodi, seemingly waiting for the manager to speak.
"Arrange it!" The store manager snapped his fingers, a smug smile spreading across his face.
This is a building materials store. You could say that all the strange and unusual things that can't be sold in the southern part of the city are in this kind of store. The goods are all-encompassing.
"You brat, stop right there! You said I look like a man!" Liu Zhaodi grabbed Jiang Yuan's pants.
Jiang Yuan remained silent, but turned around and looked at Liu Zhaodi with an extremely sharp gaze. Liu Zhaodi, upon being looked at like that, subconsciously let go.
"That's not right! Why should I, a ninth-level cultivator, be afraid of him!" Liu Zhaodi felt extremely regretful after letting go.
"Do you have any combustion-supporting materials?" Jiang Yuan asked as soon as he entered the shop.
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
A shop assistant immediately came over, opened the sample brochure in his hand, and pointed to the three stones on it, saying, "This is ironwood charcoal, two first-grade holy spirit stones per pound."
"Change it!" Jiang Yuan shook his head.
"Oh, then take a look at this, sir!" The shop assistant pointed to the second type and introduced, "This is black sulfur balls. They're several times more expensive, but the effect is much better than ironwood charcoal!"
"I want this one!" Jiang Yuan pointed to the third type in the brochure, directly rejecting the second type of material recommended by the shop assistant.
"This is a firestone, it's very expensive, and most people only use it as an energy core!" The shop assistant thought Jiang Yuan didn't know, so he quickly explained.
"Take as many as you want!"
Jiang Yuan shook his head. Having inherited the forging skills of the Sun and Moon Saint King, he was extremely knowledgeable about forging materials. The flame produced by the spontaneous combustion of the Flame Stone was one of the best forging flames.
"And the black Ryukyu Islands, pack me several thousand kilograms of those too!"
While fire stones are nice, they are too extravagant for beginners, so it's essential to have some black ryuki balls to practice with.
"Why are you looking at me? Just give it to me!" Liu Zhaodi said irritably when she saw the shop assistant staring at her.
"Second Miss, but we don't have many sparklers left in this shop!" The shop assistant was already prepared to be scolded.
"Go and check, if you can't find it, empty out the inventory! But don't let it get out, lest the other two companies raise their prices!" Liu Zhaodi instructed.
The shop assistant gave Jiang Yuan a serious look, but Jiang Yuan, dressed as an assassin, showed no expression. He was particularly curious about who could make his second young lady take him so seriously, since the second young lady of the Liu family was known for being indifferent to men.
"By the way, are there any other unusual metals?" Jiang Yuan asked while looking around.
To be a qualified blacksmith, one must have a blacksmithing table and a blacksmithing hammer, and the materials must be of good quality. Although it is not required to conduct energy, it must have sufficient hardness.
"Strange?" The shop assistant was a little unsure of Jiang Yuan's thoughts. He tentatively asked, "I wonder what aspect of strangeness the customer is referring to?"
"Hardness, toughness, weight!" Jiang Yuan said, word by word. He wanted a metal similar to meteorite gold, since Little Fatty's shield was the most powerful metal he had ever seen.
"Second Miss, I know that!"
Before the shop assistant could decide which metal would be suitable, the previous shop manager immediately came over, "Someone sent over a piece of metal for consignment yesterday, and that metal is very similar to what this young master described!"
"Consigned?" Liu Zhaodi raised an eyebrow and asked softly, "Which faction owns it?"
"It was delivered by an unknown squad!" the shopkeeper said.
"Should we go take a look?" Liu Zhaodi asked, adhering to the principle of consulting Jiang Yuan first.
"Take us to see it!"
Jiang Yuan nodded. Finding a suitable metal is very difficult, so it's perfectly normal to learn more about it.
Following the shop manager to the backyard of the shop, an irregularly shaped object taller than a person was covered by a thick black cloth.
"This is it!" The store manager hurriedly went to unveil the curtain.
When the curtain was lifted, a large, dark brown, spotted rock appeared before them, and an extremely heavy aura rushed towards them.
"This thing looks like a stone, but after testing, it's actually solid metal!" The shopkeeper gently patted the spotted boulder, his expression full of appreciation for the treasure.
"Starry Sky Stone!"
After being examined by the Sky Eye, Jiang Yuan learned the name of the giant rock: Starry Sky Stone. It is one of the most common minerals in the universe. It is a concentrated metal that can only be obtained by polishing a large meteorite. Although it is not very valuable, its hardness is second to none among ordinary minerals.
"The lowest price that team can offer for this boulder is one hundred ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones!" the shopkeeper stated.
"Too expensive!"
Upon hearing the price, Jiang Yuan shook his head. Although Starry Sky Stone was very suitable for the forging platform, the price at this stage clearly exceeded its due value.
"Is it too expensive?" The shop manager looked bitter. He didn't dare to lower the price because of the people the second young lady brought, otherwise he wouldn't have quoted the bottom price.
"But I bought it!" Jiang Yuan didn't want to waste time, so he tossed out a bag of Holy Spirit Stones and put the Starry Sky Stones into his personal space.
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