Chapter 29 (Part B) – The Battered Jade Book

Half a day had passed, Bi Fan had visited several stall, but hadn’t found anything interesting so far.

“Little brother, you need Dan pellets? I have all kinds available with me, all kinds of Dan pellets, as long as you have the money to pay for them.” A fat middle-aged man said.

Bi Fan glanced at the stall; there were several jars inside the stall, so maybe it was worth a look.

“Do you have a purifier Dan?”

“Purifier Dan? Do you want a regular purifier? Or something even better? I have a lot of variety here, even sunset jade purifier Dan.” The fat man enquired with a smile.

Sunset jade Dan is capable of purifying all most all kinds of poisonous substances, and is a top quality purifier Dan.

As soon as he heard Sunset jade purifier, Bi Fan was interested in knowing more, Yellow springs purifier was the best one but Sunset jade purifier was one of the best alternatives.

“Only sunset jade? How about Yellow springs?” Bi Fan asked.

He asked this with the intention of letting the shopkeeper know that he isn’t an amateur and knows what he’s talking about.

“Little brother knows his purifiers; there is no doubt about that.” The fat man laughed. “One Sunset jade purifier costs eighty spars (low quality), that’s definitely worth the money!”

Bi Fan shook his head with a wry smile, he didn’t know the market price of Sunset jade purifiers, and at eighty spars a piece, he wouldn’t be able to buy a large quantity.

Sunset jade purifier would be very helpful in preparing Bi Fan to enter the devil’s territory.

“Okay, I think I’ll ask around that come back to you later.” Bi Fan replied, as he wanted to enquire around a little bit more.

“Don’t worry brother.” The fat man smiled at said. “The price can be discussed, how many tablets do you require? If the amount is significant, I can give you a discount.”

“The price is too high, I need a hundred of them, but I don’t have enough money.” Bi Fan said.

The Fat shopkeeper squinted, thought about it for a while and said: “I’ll give you the best price, five thousand spars for one hundred tablets of Sunset jade purifier Dan. You can ask around, my price is the best you will get.”

The fat man had a very serious look on his face, one could make out that he wasn’t lying.

Bi Fan knew that at a critical time, these purifiers could turn out to be a lifesaving commodity, but he didn’t have enough spars for a hundred of them.

However, he needed these purifiers quite badly, so he wanted their price to go down a little further, as he didn’t have enough spars with him. But if he sold out everything he had to spare, he could manage to get around seven thousand spars in total.

Bi Fan had managed to kill a few people, and had collected the spoils from the battles, these he knew would fetch him a few thousand spars at least.

Bi Fan knew the value of spars, and they weren’t very easy to come around either, so he needed to save as much as he could for the future.

“Can you try to reduce the price a little?” Bi Fan asked, in hope of reducing his buying cost.

The fat man shook his head: “If I reduce the price any further, I will make a loss. I can’t do that.”

“Is it possible to exchange for magical tools?” Bi Fan thought of the weapons and tools that he had in the Yin Yang pouches. He knew that some of them were useless to him and would be better off being traded for purifier Dan pellets.

The Fat boss replied: “Of course, take out the things, let me take a look. And I’ll give you a valuation.”

Bi Fan started taking out the various things that he had gathered, in total he had about twenty eight items, amongst which, four were top grade instruments.

Bi Fan needed the light-ray sword and the silver armor for himself. Also he wasn’t willing to part with his championship reward. The machete was also valuable to him, and so was the devil’s bell. But the others, he was willing to part with them.

As the fat man saw Bi Fan take out all these items, he was almost in a state of shock. His eyes seemed as if they would pop out.

It took him a while to compose himself. After he did so, he started looking at the items one by one and started their valuation.

Bi Fan was aware of their market worth, but for reasons beyond Bi Fan’s comprehension, the fat man was valuing these items slightly above their market price.

Ultimately, the fat shopkeeper valued the items at four thousand and two hundred spars, so Bi Fan took out the remaining eight hundred spars to complete the transaction and made the purchase.

With the deal done, the fat shopkeeper looked very happy: “Little brother, what is your name?”

“I don’t wish to disclose my name.”

Bi Fan didn’t want his name linked to the sale of these items, if anyone ever came looking and found out about him, then he could get into trouble.

“Little brother, whenever you come to Ting Feng valley in search of Dan pellets, always enquire from me once.” The fat man called after him loudly.

Bi Fan had purchased everything he needed, but didn’t want to leave the Ting Feng valley immediately afterwards. He hasn’t sure when he’d be able to visit again, so he wanted to stroll around a bit more.

Bi Fan visited almost every stall he could, enquiring prices, and tried to memorize them.

Bi Fan knew that the more he knew about the prices of various items, the lesser the chance of being fooled.

Bi Fan asked the price of Sunset jade purifier at another stall, but still couldn’t figure out why the fat man was so happy after the deal.

Bi Fan was trying to take a look at as many books as possible, in the hope of memorizing their contents to some extent.

But the shopkeepers normally didn’t appreciate this, as soon as they realized that someone is trying to read or even carefully inspect the book, they would take it back, so people couldn’t read them properly.

Bi Fan must have looked at almost ten books, but as soon as he read past a few pages, the books were recovered by their owners, and nothing good came off it for Bi Fan.

“Little brother, this book is talks about various animals and beasts. Would you like to buy it? It costs only five spars, it’s very cheap.”

“I’ll take it.” Bi Fan took out the five spars and bought the book.

This was a very commonly available book that spoke about the various types of animals, beasts, goblins and other creatures that existed in the world. This was something Bi Fan needed to know about.

When it came to items he needed, Bi Fan was never stingy.

Bi Fan continued to roam around, buying whatever he thought was necessary, like bandages to dress wounds, basic items needed to set up traps, hooks, cables and ropes to climb cliffs etc.

Everything was in order, Bi Fan had everything needed, he had entered ‘inner organs’, and now he was fully prepared to take on the devil’s territory.

(Mustang: This marks the end of the first volume of the ‘The Six Immortals’.)