The Box Puppet took out those three items and displayed them right in front of Qi Ping.
First, it presented the Blazing Sun Tree Seed, clearly placing a seed radiating intense heat before Qi Ping.
【A Tier 3 Intermediate Blazing Sun Tree Seed, viable and full of vitality!】 the Box Puppet said in its mechanical voice.
“No problem!” Qi Ping nodded in agreement.
Next, the Box Puppet showed the second item. It was the Essence of a Spirit Vein, resembling a jade-like flood dragon, radiating a mysterious luster.
【Spirit Vein Essence… Its spirituality is not extinguished, and it can be further cultivated and upgraded!】
“No problem!” Qi Ping nodded again.
Finally, the Box Puppet brought out a small deer fawn with snow-white fur, but with a droplet-shaped, tri-colored mark on its forehead and fur. Its four hooves bore the same special mark as its forehead, and its two antlers exuded a unique charm of a “child of the forest.”
Legend has it that the divine beast, the Nine-Colored Deer, is the child of the forest, blessed and protected by nature. The Three-Colored Deer carries a trace of the Nine-Colored Deer’s bloodline, so it naturally shares this aura.
“Yoyo…”
The tri-colored fawn, held up by the Box Puppet, looked curiously at Qi Ping with wide eyes and let out a couple of “yoyo” cries.
“What an ethereal cry! ‘The yoyo cry of the deer’ truly describes it perfectly!”
Hearing this kind of ethereal and beautiful sound, Qi Ping couldn’t help but think of a line he had once read in the Book of Songs. His heart immediately filled with affection for this little Three-Colored Deer fawn.
He hadn’t made a wrong choice with this little one!
【Tier 3 Low-Level Three-Colored Deer Fawn, healthy and with normal vital signs!】
【Total: 103,000 Spirit Stones!】
“No problem!”
After confirming everything was fine, Qi Ping immediately summoned his bees to transport storage pouches from all directions.
Faced with this scene, the Box Puppet didn’t move at all, just waited quietly. Whether it was because it lacked emotions or consciousness, or because it had seen this kind of situation many times before, it didn’t react.
Qi Ping busied himself for quite a while before he finally gathered the 103,000 spirit stones and handed them over to the Box Puppet.
“Here are 103,000 spirit stones!”
The Box Puppet nodded its boxy head, then floated the three items over to Qi Ping and took his spirit stones inside.
Qi Ping then put the jade box containing the Spirit Vein Essence and the jade box with the Blazing Sun Tree Seed into his storage pouch, while the Three-Colored Deer fawn went into his spirit beast pouch.
【Transaction Complete!】
Just as the Box Puppet’s mechanical voice rang out and it was about to leave, Qi Ping quickly called it back.
“Excuse me, do you purchase items?”
【Purchase! Rare items are purchased at 80% to above-market price, ordinary items at 60% to 80% of market price. Do you wish to sell something?】
“Yes, please wait a moment!” Qi Ping nodded affirmatively.
After saying that, Qi Ping quickly summoned his bees again, transporting one storage pouch after another from all directions.
After bustling about for a long time, Qi Ping finally piled a large heap of miscellaneous items in front of the box-shaped puppet.
These items were mainly magical tools, elixirs… and some odd and curious objects.
He even brought out the weapon of the black-robed cultivator he had killed on Peak No. 7, Sector D, in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range back in the day.
He had truly gathered all the items that had been gathering dust, which was something Qi Ping had planned long ago. He didn’t want these kinds of random things cluttering his territory.
As for the spiritual herbs, spells, seeds, and the like, Qi Ping kept all of them. Those were useful to him.
They were what he needed to strengthen his territory and deepen his knowledge.
When all those items were placed in front of the Box Puppet, it merely glanced at them and divided them into two parts, incredibly quickly.
The Box Puppet first pointed at the smaller pile of things and said:
【We don’t want this pile. It has no value.】 Then it pointed at the other pile and said:
【These items can be valued at 53,200 spirit stones. Among them, ordinary items are valued at 60% to 80% of market price, totaling 46,800 spirit stones.]
Then the Box Puppet pointed at a peculiar, orange-yellow object and said:
【This is a rare item. We’ll purchase it at a 10% premium, valued at 6,400 spirit stones.]
【Sell all?】
Qi Ping was slightly surprised by this. The total value was a bit higher than he had estimated.
The main reason was that peculiar orange-yellow object.
The Box Puppet didn’t say what it was, clearly not wanting to act as a free appraiser.
But Qi Ping didn’t mind; it was already an unexpected gain for him.
He had no idea whether holding onto these unrecognized items would bring fortune or disaster. Asking others about them would also carry significant risk. So, for Qi Ping, it was more practical to just exchange them for spirit stones.
When it came to unknown risks or opportunities, Qi Ping would rather give them up or deal with them coldly. So being able to sell them for spirit stones was already pretty good.
“Sell everything!”
“Also, put 3,200 spirit stones onto the token!”
【Alright!】
After receiving Qi Ping’s reply, the Box Puppet took out 50,000 spirit stones, handed them to Qi Ping, and then left.
Qi Ping put away the 50,000 spirit stones and immediately checked his Mysterious Black Market token. He saw that the points on it had increased by 3,200.
Previously, Qi Ping had refreshed Foundation Establishment level missions twice, costing 400 spirit stones; refreshed Qi Condensation level missions eighty times, costing 1,400 spirit stones; and refreshed Tier 2 goods once and Tier 3 goods twice, costing 4,200 spirit stones.
He had spent a total of 6,000 spirit stones!
After his initial recharge of 10,000 spirit stones, only 4,000 remained. So this time, Qi Ping had to recharge another 3,200 spirit stones.
【Black Market Spirit Stones: 4000 + 3200 = 7200】
【Black Market Points: 4700】
“What a ripoff, even worse than those pay-to-win games!” Qi Ping cursed silently.
He had quietly spent 6,000 spirit stones! That was enough to buy an ordinary Tier 3 spiritual wood seed!
“Luckily, the product information I refreshed earlier is still there… I guess you could say information is priceless.”
If it weren’t for the Mysterious Black Market, he probably couldn’t have found a way even with several times more spirit stones.
Qi Ping could only console himself with that thought, but the value of information was indeed very important.
After dealing with all this, Qi Ping put that pile of miscellaneous junk back into a storage pouch and had his bees bury it in some desolate, bird-forsaken deep pit.
Then Qi Ping quickly left the area.
After finding another safe place, Qi Ping took out his token again and typed:
【Purchase: Tier 3 Low-Level Moonlight Tree, Tier 3 Intermediate Starwood Tree, Tier 3 Low-Level Dark Iron Tree】
【Arriving in one and a half days】
This time, the reply came a bit faster.
With the experience from the first transaction, the second one went even more smoothly. Qi Ping quickly received the three seeds he had purchased.
After getting these items, Qi Ping found another place to study them for several days. Only after confirming there were no problems did he bring them back to his territory. The token was hidden by Qi Ping far away from the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
Back in his own territory, a relaxed smile appeared on Qi Ping’s face:
“This haul was quite fruitful. Now it’s time to focus on improving!”
