Yuan Zhiyun was still somewhat unconvinced, but she didn't say anything more. She simply took the Heart-Questioning Stone out of her storage bag and handed it to her father.
Yuan Bi also knew that this daughter of his had a stubborn temper, so he didn't continue to scold her. He sighed softly, took the Heart-Questioning Stone, and left.
Meanwhile, in Yuanling City, after those who had been rescued by Lin Xiao like Yuan Zhiyun woke up and returned to the city, the news about the ice caves in the Icefield Mystic Realm that allowed entry but no exit spread rapidly throughout the city.
Because the Icefield Mystic Realm had been around for over a hundred years, this matter generated an extremely high level of interest in Yuanling City as soon as it came out.
Many people whose relatives and friends had entered the Icefield Mystic Realm years ago and never returned were guessing whether their loved ones had perished after being trapped in those ice caves.
Some people even made inquiries everywhere, hoping to find news about their relatives and friends from those who were lucky enough to escape this time.
In just a few days, the news that the Icefield Mystic Realm had trapped and killed many cultivators over the past century caused an uproar in Yuanling City.
Even many Golden Core cultivators would gossip and listen in on the rumors.
But all of this had nothing to do with Lin Xiao.
As soon as the agreed five-day delivery period with the Many Treasures Pavilion arrived, he went there bright and early.
At this time, the Many Treasures Pavilion had just opened its doors.
Shopkeeper Zhong, still wearing his amiable expression, stood behind the counter flipping through an account book.
Seeing Lin Xiao, he smiled faintly at him.
"Good morning, young Daoist friend. Your Heart-Questioning Stone has arrived."
Lin Xiao smiled and replied,
"Good morning, Shopkeeper Zhong."
Shopkeeper Zhong nodded at him and turned to instruct the shop assistant,
"Changsheng, go to the newly unloaded goods in the back and find the Heart-Questioning Stone."
"Right away! Please wait a moment, dear customer." The shop assistant named Changsheng answered Shopkeeper Zhong, then said a word to Lin Xiao before running into the back room of the shop.
Lin Xiao stepped into the shop, planning to browse casually while waiting for his Heart-Questioning Stone.
Unexpectedly, Shopkeeper Zhong suddenly spoke up,
"Young Daoist friend, our Many Treasures Pavilion doesn't just sell things; we also buy them."
Hearing his words out of the blue, Lin Xiao didn't react for a moment.
What did Shopkeeper Zhong mean by this?
His mind raced, and he seemed to understand, but unsure, he tentatively asked,
"If it's some relatively basic cultivation supplies, I wonder if the Many Treasures Pavilion would accept them?"
Seeing that he immediately understood his meaning, Shopkeeper Zhong nodded with a satisfied smile and said,
"As long as the goods are of high quality, we will take them. Rest assured, young Daoist friend Lin, the price will be absolutely fair."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao felt a surge of joy in his heart. Sure enough, Shopkeeper Zhong meant that their Many Treasures Pavilion would buy the things he brought in!
Although he didn't know why, Shopkeeper Zhong gave him a good impression. Coupled with the excellent reputation of the Many Treasures Pavilion in Yuanling City, Lin Xiao didn't think he would intentionally scam a young man like himself.
However, he didn't agree right away. He just put on a happy expression and said,
"Thank you for your care, Shopkeeper Zhong. I will go back and explain it to my elders, and I will give you an answer tomorrow."
"Of course."
Just as the two finished talking, Changsheng walked out holding a storage bag.
"Shopkeeper, the Heart-Questioning Stone is here!"
Shopkeeper Zhong took the storage bag and handed the Heart-Questioning Stone to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao then paid the remaining balance of one thousand and fifty spirit stones.
The transaction was complete.
Satisfied, Lin Xiao took the Heart-Questioning Stone, bid farewell to the two of them, and left the Many Treasures Pavilion.
Watching Lin Xiao leave, the shop assistant Changsheng asked Shopkeeper Zhong,
"Shopkeeper, why are you trying to rope in such a young little cultivator?"
Shopkeeper Zhong smiled and didn't answer him directly, but instead asked him a question in return,
"What do you think this young Daoist friend wants the Heart-Questioning Stone for?"
Changsheng replied,
"The Heart-Questioning Stone is naturally used to test one's character."
Shopkeeper Zhong nodded,
"Indeed. I have been a shopkeeper in Yuanling City for so many years, watching the people come and go in this city every day. However, this young man looks very unfamiliar to me, so I figured he must not be from our Yuanling City."
Hearing this, Changsheng looked thoughtful.
Shopkeeper Zhong looked at the flow of people coming and going outside the shop and continued,
"A young man who doesn't seem to have the slightest bit of cultivation, yet easily spends over a thousand spirit stones to buy a Heart-Questioning Stone..."
"Changsheng, it seems a new faction is about to emerge near our Yuanling City..."
Meanwhile, on Lin Xiao's side, he had already been going back and forth discussing this matter via voice transmission with Liao Pantu.
"Senior, what do you think?"
Liao Pantu, who had been nestled in the Soul-Nourishing Jade Pendant and heard the conversation between the two clearly just now, knew that Lin Xiao didn't give a response on the spot just so he could discuss it with him.
So he said,
"The backer behind this Many Treasures Pavilion is not that strong. The fact that they can establish a firm foothold in Yuanling City is entirely based on their quality and reputation.
You don't need to worry about being deceived. After all, you don't have anything worth them risking five hundred years of reputation to scam you out of."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao wasn't displeased in the slightest; instead, he nodded in strong agreement.
"That's exactly why I didn't refuse outright."
"I feel that our sect can't just sit back and eat away our fortune just because we have a mine. We have to have other sources of spirit stones, right? So I think our sect making our own pills and talismans to sell to the Many Treasures Pavilion is a pretty good idea."
"Furthermore, this Many Treasures Pavilion is an old establishment in Yuanling City. Being on good terms with them will definitely be very beneficial to our sect. Plus, their merchant caravans travel far and wide, so their sources of information must be extremely rich, which is also something our sect lacks."
Listening to him babble on with such high enthusiasm, Liao Pantu rolled his eyes inside the Soul-Nourishing Jade Pendant, though Lin Xiao couldn't see it.
"If you've already thought it all through, why are you asking me?"
Lin Xiao said as he walked back to the inn,
"An elder in the house is like a treasure, as they say. I was afraid there might be something inappropriate, so I wanted to hear your opinion."
After a good while, Liao Pantu sent him another voice transmission,
"Although I don't know why this little shopkeeper is willing to do business with you, no matter how you look at it, it's not a bad thing.
However, I reckon they probably figured out that you are going to establish a sect, oh, wait, they probably think the people behind you are going to establish a sect or something like that."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao said,
"So Shopkeeper Zhong thinks that my side is a new faction about to establish a sect, and is just routinely trying to build a good relationship."
After thinking about it, he added,
"Or maybe he just thinks highly of me."
Liao Pantu couldn't stand this narcissistic look of his and repeatedly urged him,
"Alright, alright, hurry up and deal with these matters so we can return to the sect early. My disciple is still waiting for me to go back and teach him alchemy."
Thus, the next day, Lin Xiao went to the Many Treasures Pavilion and gave Shopkeeper Zhong his affirmative answer.
The two had a rather detailed conversation regarding the various matters of their future transactions, and finally reached a pleasant agreement.
Afterwards, Shopkeeper Zhong gave him a token.
This would serve as the transaction credential for when Lin Xiao's side sent goods over in the future.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
