Li Yan guessed that Sun Guoshu saw this and became bolder. At the same time, the other party should have observed for a long time and found that the girl was very concerned about the puppet in her hand and had no intention of selling it.
Especially with his sharp eyes, he saw the weakness in the girl's character and came up with this idea.
He would wait in secret until the girl sold all the puppets on the stall and placed the puppet in her hand on the table. Sun Guoshu would quickly check the surrounding situation and make sure that not many people were paying attention to this place before he took action.
Moreover, this timing was exactly what he wanted. Otherwise, if it was earlier, there might be other cultivators from the Wuliang Sect here, and he might not necessarily take action.
He walked out quickly, and as soon as he came to the table, he quickly asked the price, because he knew that even if he offered more spirit stones, according to the girl's previous behavior, she would not sell the puppet. He was just an inducement.
What happened next was exactly as Sun Guoshu had guessed. After the girl realized what was going on, she was not sure how she could sell the puppet.
As a result, Sun Guoshu insisted that the girl was talking about four hundred spirit stones, and he took advantage of the girl's weak character and poor speaking skills, so he pressed on step by step and refused to give in.
And the girl was just as he had guessed. She had never encountered such a thing before. She was usually taciturn and didn't know how to explain herself. The more anxious she became, the more clumsy her words became.
For a moment, others thought that she was using the identity of the Wuliang Sect to do something wrong.
Li Yan also guessed that Sun Guoshu would not want this puppet at all. His ultimate goal should be to take advantage of the fact that the monks of the Wuliang Sect raised the price, extort a large sum of money from him, and then leave immediately.
Seeing the girl slowly finish speaking, Sun Guoshu's eyes flickered continuously. He looked at the monks around him looking at him, some of whom were looking at him with mockery in their eyes.
Looking at the young man who turned to look at him, although Sun Guoshu knew that the truth had been revealed, he still looked unhappy and disdainful.
"Hehe, you and others are so numerous and powerful, you can say whatever you want now. It's useless to confuse right and wrong. Justice is in the hearts of the people."
When he said this, he had an expression that said, "No matter what you say, you are right."
"Oh? Your words are not correct! Exclusive sale, trading, there is selling before there is buying. Even if you have agreed on the price, what if my sister doesn't want to sell this puppet
Besides, what if she raised the price? The monks here were selling things for one spirit stone one moment and five the next. It was up to you whether to buy or not.
She just thought that she had sold enough for today and could close the stall. Can you force her to buy? Not to mention that this is a free market, even if the merchants don’t want to sell things to you, what can you do? "
Li Yan sneered, looked at Sun Guoshu, and spoke slowly.
When Sun Guoshu heard Li Yan's words, he knew that the other party was not comparable to that fledgling girl. He could only sigh that he had been confused by greed today. When he saw a young girl who had obtained thousands of spirit stones in a short period of time, he still ignored her identity and had evil thoughts.
Although he thought he had been careful enough, he walked around here several times, looked at every corner carefully, and confirmed the time, which should be the time when the Wuliang Sect began to return to the sect, so he took action, but he was still careless.
It seems that everything has been going so smoothly for me here over the years that I have started to become restless.
Moreover, this young man was very strange. In his eyes, his cultivation was clearly at the eighth level of Qi Condensation, but his spiritual awareness was unfathomable. He narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but sneered repeatedly, but he didn't say anything, as if to say, "You have power and you have the final say."
For a moment, he found himself in a weak position.
Seeing this, Li Yan knew that this kind of person was a tough guy who would be easily beaten if he wasn't careful. A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth and he said again.
"What did you do before? You kept saying how great my Wuliang Sect was. What do you want to do? Are you trying to destroy the reputation of my Wuliang Sect? I can send a message to Master Chen of Donglin, who is in charge here, or Master Bai of Piaoyun Valley.
Well, or maybe Uncle Fan from the Soul-Splitting Sect, let's see if they will give our sect an explanation, whether there are people with ulterior motives who come here to deliberately disrupt the reputation of our Wuliang Sect, and really want to turn black and white, and stir up a pool of clear water to make it turbid."
Li Yan's words were so powerful that they added layers of accusations, one after another. For a moment, everyone around was silent. Sun Guoshu felt a chill on his back, and cold sweat continued to form on his forehead.
He was also an old hand here, so how could he not know the methods used by the Wuliang Sect to deal with their spies? However, normally the Wuliang Sect was a giant, a behemoth, and would not take such trivial matters to heart at all.
But if this young man from the Wuliang Sect said this, it would seem as if he was a spy sent by the Wuliang Sect's enemy. Moreover, the market town would not investigate such matters in detail. In order to please the Wuliang Sect, they would directly kill him.
They could even add some titles to themselves and provide solid evidence, and maybe they could even get some benefits from the Wuliang Sect.
He had no sect or school, and it was only by chance in his early years that he embarked on the path to immortality. In addition, his aptitude was quite good, and he succeeded in building his foundation. With his intelligence, for a time, he was not as miserable as other casual cultivators, and instead felt a sense of success.
Especially when Li Yan opened his mouth, he mentioned several golden elixirs in the market town. They were faces that were very familiar to the other party.
Others don’t know, but he, Sun Guoshu, is one of the frequent users here. How could he not know when those golden elixirs came to take charge? What the young man said was extremely accurate. It was obvious that he was someone who often came to the market. But why was this the first time he had seen this person
Looking at the young man in front of her, the girl standing in the shop already had a face full of shock. She had never thought that some words could be said in this way and some things could be solved in this way.
She had just met Li Yan during the sect competition this year. Since she had just established her foundation not long ago, she was still interested in the Qi Condensation Stage competition, especially Li Yan's unpredictable methods of using poison, which made her admire him very much.
At that time, she even thought that if she could apply these poison techniques to the puppet, the puppet's power would definitely be greatly increased. It was for this reason that she had an impression of Li Yan.
At this moment, the young man stood with his back to her, as if blocking all the harsh gazes for her and smoothing out all the grievances in her heart, which made the girl feel safe. Sun Guoshu's face kept changing, he looked up and looked around, those monks, whether they knew him or not, had different expressions, some mocking, some disdainful, some hateful, some pitying, and so on.
Sun Guoshu took all these looks into his eyes, knowing that he might have caused a huge disaster this time. He gritted his teeth and no longer cared about his face. He forced a smile on his face, clasped his hands towards Li Yan, and bowed deeply.
"My fellow Taoist, today's incident was caused by my own ignorance. I, Sun, have been in Peiyang Market for decades and am not a spy for any party. The old customers and the city guards here know all this.
Everything that happened today was caused by Sun's momentary confusion. I just wanted to covet some spirit stones, so I had evil thoughts. I hope that fellow Taoist will let me go this time because of the difficulty of cultivating immortals. I will be punished and punished just because of your words..."
After half an incense stick of time, standing at the gate of the free market, looking at the slender girl beside him, Li Yan felt helpless, because the matter of Sun Guoshu had just been resolved.
Sun Guoshu was almost in tears and begged desperately. Finally, Li Yan saw that he was just greedy for some spirit stones and had no other thoughts. In addition, this weak senior sister saw that Sun Guoshu was in tears and snot.
He had long forgotten Sun Guoshu's previous arrogance and cast a pleading look towards Li Yan, which made Li Yan speechless for a while. Finally, he asked Sun Guoshu to take out a thousand spirit stones as a lesson and let the matter go.
Moreover, Li Yan himself knew that he was just using the tiger's skin as a banner. Even if the three Jindan cultivators who were in charge here spoke for them because they were disciples of the Wuliang Sect, they would probably sneer at them behind their backs and blame them for going to the adults for such a small matter.
Afterwards, Li Yan suddenly had an idea, so he called Sun Guoshu, walked aside, whispered a few words, took out a jade slip and several sound transmission notes and handed them to him. After thinking about it, he took out a thousand spirit stones and gave them to Sun Guoshu.
Li Yan saw the role of Sun Guoshu in this move. He did not have time to stay in the market for a long time to purchase some raw materials of "Gui Yi Fen Shui Ci", but Sun Guoshu could be regarded as a local tyrant here, hanging around here all year round.
Not only is he familiar with the free market, but he also knows all the shops inside and out. He is the perfect person to do this. As for someone like Su Hong, Li Yan has thought about it.
But he always felt that he could not see through Su Hong. Once he gave her the names of these materials, given the woman's knowledge, although Li Yan was not worried that she would be able to see through the details of the Five Immortal Sect, it was still better to be on guard.
As for Sun Guoshu, he was born as a casual cultivator, so his knowledge and background were not as broad as those cultivators from big sects. Even if he had some guesses, he only guessed that Li Yan was refining some spiritual treasures and magical tools.
What's more, the jade slip given by Li Yan was specially engraved with several irrelevant material names to confuse people.
The spirit stones that Li Yan gave were his own spirit stones, not the one thousand spirit stones he had just received from Sun Guoshu. Those spirit stones were to be given to the young senior sister.
Li Yan knew that this was far from enough, so he took out a few of the sound transmission notes he had bought earlier and gave them to him, asking Sun Guoshu to notify him immediately if he found anything.
Although these sound transmission notes can only transmit sound a thousand miles away, they are enough.
Li Yan had wanted to purchase some sound transmission talismans for a long time. He felt that it was necessary. The sect token could only be used to transmit sound within the sect. If something happened in the outside world, it would be unusable. Therefore, he had purchased ten of them in the store before.
Li Yan also told Sun Guoshu that among the one thousand spirit stones, seven hundred could be used as a deposit when suitable materials were found. He could send a message to him immediately and he would come over soon.
The other three hundred spirit stones can be considered as his errand fee. If he does a good job, he will not be treated unfairly in the future.
This series of actions made Sun Guoshu, who had already taken out a thousand spirit stones and was heartbroken and afraid that Li Yan would cause trouble for him later, unable to react for a while.
He also planned to hide as soon as Li Yan left. There was no credibility among cultivators. Today he had offended the Wuliang Sect.
Even if the young man in front of him really didn't want to seek revenge on him, maybe other monks from the Wuliang Sect would hear about this and take his life the next time they met him here.
When Li Yan offered to do something for him, Sun Guoshu was stunned for a moment before he reacted.
After a brief consideration, he immediately agreed. Firstly, it could make up for his mistake; secondly, it was equivalent to finding a backer for himself in the Wuliang Sect, which was what many cultivators dreamed of. This was the main reason.
Li Yan took out a thousand spirit stones and told him that three hundred of them were for his errand running. He looked at the thousand spirit stones in his hand and imagined the thousand spirit stones he had just taken out. Although he still lost seven hundred spirit stones in the end, the accounts were not calculated in this way.
This is completely different in the sense that even if there is no money for the 300 spirit stones, he will agree to it without hesitation.
Sun Guoshu carefully put several sound transmission talismans and jade slips into the storage bag, appearing to be more cautious than the one thousand spirit stones.
This is the foundation for him to get close to someone powerful in the future, so how can he not be careful? If someone takes away the jade slip and the sound transmission talisman at this moment, he will probably get red-eyed and fight with the other person to the death.
Thinking of how Sun Guoshu pointed to the sky and the earth, patted his chest loudly, and repeatedly assured that he would do his best to find the information before leaving, Li Yan's lips curled up into a smile again. It seems that this step of his is right, at least for now.
There was a reason why he gave the other party a thousand spirit stones. With Li Yan's experience in the Military Advisor's Mansion, he knew something about how to control people.
Just like treating Chen An and Li Yin, he has quite a bit of spirit stones now, but how much to give is a science. Too much will arouse Sun Guoshu's greed, and too little will make him lose interest in doing things.
The number of one thousand spirit stones happened to be Sun Guoshu's sore spot, which made him always remember the lesson and be in awe of him.