Chapter 3629 — Star Ink Stone
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"That's right. This piece of Star Ink Stone is a fine thing. Think of a way to get it," said the blasted thing.
"Star Ink Stone?" Wei Zhao glanced left and right. There were only two or three exhibits along this side, and he quickly found the Star Ink Stone the blasted thing meant—except the Star Ink Stone had no label, only a price!
It sat in the farthest corner of the display cabinet, a lump of pitch-black stubborn stone the size of a fist. By its appearance it was thoroughly unremarkable, yet its price tag was startling: a thousand spirit jades.
Compared with the other high-priced exhibits, this thousand-jade Star Ink Stone was not only plain to look at but showed not the slightest hint of any use. To anyone else it was plainly a swindle of a item, and that was precisely why hardly anyone paused here.
But Wei Zhao knew this Star Ink Stone was anything but simple, for the instant he laid eyes on it, he felt that earlier throb in his heart once again—as though by some spiritual telepathy, this perfectly ordinary-looking stone was ceaselessly drawing him in.
Could this truly be some great treasure that others had overlooked? Wei Zhao was struck with awe at the mystery of it and asked the blasted thing, "Senior Ghost, what use does this Star Ink Stone have?"
"Telling you now would be useless. First find a way to get it in your hands, then we'll talk," said the blasted thing, and after that it paid Wei Zhao no more mind, leaving him staring blankly at the black stone before him.
Wei Zhao rolled his eyes in exasperation. Not even a word about what it was good for, just mysteriously telling him to get his hands on this stone—a thousand spirit jades, no less! As if it were so easy to get!
Thank goodness he had the jade pendant's space, that cheat of a divine artifact, to fall back on. Anyone else would have gone weak in the knees at the very mention of that price!
But grumble as he might, Wei Zhao knew that if he let this Star Ink Stone slip by, he would surely regret it one day! Even if the blasted thing had said nothing, that strange spiritual pull alone was no small thing to ignore!
Wei Zhao watched the Star Ink Stone in silence while he noticed that the Skyward Pavilion inner-door disciple beside him seemed, for some reason, to be quite interested in it as well. His burning gaze suggested he would have liked to buy it on the spot, but his expression was torn—most likely he did not have that many spirit jades on hand.
A thousand spirit jades was, even for an inner-door disciple of the Tri-Pavilion, a considerable sum. An ordinary disciple could never possess so many. Only someone of deep background like Xu Lingchong, or a high-ranking steward holding real power within the Tri-Pavilion, could possibly produce them.
Wei Zhao let out a quiet breath of relief. Thank goodness the Star Ink Stone's price was high enough—otherwise this man would already have snapped it up, and then he truly would not have known what to do.
Still, even if the man could not scrape together so many spirit jades at the moment, he hardly looked like an ordinary disciple. He gave the impression of being far above the likes of Meng Jueming—who knew when he might gather the full thousand? To obtain the Star Ink Stone, Wei Zhao would have to beat him to it. So even now, a not inconsiderable sense of urgency pressed upon him.
At present Wei Zhao had only a little over fifty spirit jades. At his current rate of secretly pocketing two a day from the mines, it would take at least a year and more to reach a thousand—plainly unrealistic! RS