Secular Immortal of the Nine Realms Chapter 40: Thievery

Seeing that Fang Chen wasn’t falling for his scam, the vendor quickly rose up and exclaimed, “Wait, brother! The prices are negotiable.”

Fang Chen ignored the vendor. He disliked dealing with unconscientious merchants, not to mention there was no lack of vendors selling cinnabar, talisman papers, and brush anyway.

Soon, Fang Chen arrived in the vicinity of the old woman and sat down. He took out ten Strength Talismans, Flitting Talismans, and Protection Talismans, and laid them out.

The old woman was not seeing a lot of customers at her store. Shock flickered across her eyes when she saw the talismans laid out before Fang Chen, and she remarked, “It must have taken a lot of time to draw those talismans!”

“It took me a year to collect them,” Fang Chen replied with a nod.

“A year? That’s a waste of time. You could have spent it on furthering your cultivation instead.” The old woman shook her head, but her gaze remained fixated on the talismans. There was a hint of greed in her eyes.

Those talismans were worth a considerable sum, comparable to the value of a three daosoul imprint artifact.

It didn’t take long for customers to come looking around his store.

He had set his prices to 2 low-grade ki stones per talisman. It was more difficult to draw the Flitting Talisman and Protection Talisman, but the market price for talismans of his quality was around there.

Some of them shook their heads and left after enquiring about the prices, seemingly short on money.

Some of them didn’t hesitate to buy multiple talismans in a single breath.

In less than half a day, Fang Chen sold all of the talismans in front of him. Clearly, talismans were a popular consumable for cultivators.

The Purple Lightning Talisman is probably worth several times more, Fang Chen thought.

However, he didn’t see anyone selling Purple Lightning Talismans in this market, which showed just how rare and valuable they were. Out of prudence, it would be best for him not to sell them, lest he catch unwanted attention.

In contrast, the old woman’s b

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