Hearing Shen Lingjun say this, Chu Xuan instantly felt relieved.
The shyness and timidity in her eyes vanished, along with the restraint and reluctance. For a moment, Shen Lingjun wondered if he had misjudged her earlier.
This female changed her expression far too quickly?!
Shen Lingjun glared at her fiercely, but Chu Xuan didn’t notice, instead turning her gaze to Cheng Xu.
“So that day, when you asked me to meet outside the city, it was all prearranged by you and Lin Qinghui. You had already bribed assassins to kill me.”
Cheng Xu had just claimed in front of all the Beastmen that Chu Xuan had invited him, but the truth was that the original host had accepted Cheng Xu’s invitation. When she arrived at the location, Cheng Xu never showed up, and in the end, only those assassins appeared.
If not for her Beast Husbands’ exceptional skills, she would have died at the hands of those assassins that day.
No, the original host was already dead, and she was a soul from another world. Since she had borrowed the original host’s body to continue living, she ought to avenge the original host.
“So it really was you who kidnapped my Female Master?”
Mo Jingxing clenched his fists, glaring furiously at Cheng Xu.
The Male Beasts—Yu Jinglan, Jian Ze, Xie Xingwen, Shen Lingjun—all looked at Cheng Xu with killing intent in their eyes.
Their lives were tied to Chu Xuan’s; if anything happened to her, they would die too.
If this really was done by Cheng Xu and Lin Qinghui, they could not let these two off.
The surrounding Beastmen spectators roughly understood the whole story and couldn’t help but sigh.
“This Lin Qinghui is too vicious. Just because she fancied someone else’s Beast Husband, she tried to have their Female Master killed. Not only that, she even had her own Beast Husband seduce the other Female Master. Such despicable methods—how could she resort to them?”
“Exactly, in all my life, I’ve never seen such a malicious female.”
The Beastmen discussed among themselves, all siding with Chu Xuan. Cheng Xu’s face flushed bright red, wishing he could dig a hole and disappear.
Seeing the situation, Lin Qinghui gritted her teeth in anger, muttering under her breath, “Useless!”
Then she turned and left the Mutual Market.
Watching Lin Qinghui’s retreating figure, Chu Xuan curled the corners of her lips slightly. She believed that after this incident, it wouldn’t be long before she and Lin Qinghui would meet again.
When that time came, she would definitely eliminate Lin Qinghui.
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Cheng Xu slunk away from the Mutual Market. After the farce ended, the market continued.
As Chu Xuan strolled through the Mutual Market, she checked the Points she had earned today in her system.
A total of 214 Points, over twenty of which were contributed by Xie Xingwen. Today had been quite fruitful, and Chu Xuan was very pleased.
Suddenly, she stopped, her gaze fixed on a stall.
It was a stall run by a mermaid, displaying Jiao Silk, pearls, various marine goods, and… a black, lumpy object.
Chu Xuan recognized it at a glance—it was East Sea Mysterious Iron.
She happened to lack a handy weapon, and if she could obtain this East Sea Mysterious Iron…
She headed toward the stall, but someone appeared in front of it faster than she did:
“I’ll trade all my prey for this piece of Mysterious Iron,” Xie Xingwen said to the mermaid, standing before the stall.
The merman had a head of blue curly hair. Hearing this, he lifted his moist eyes to glance at Xie Xingwen and said with a smile, “This is East Sea Profound Iron. With just the little game you have, I’m afraid it’s not enough.”
“What if we add mine?”
Mo Jingxing suddenly stepped forward and spoke.
He had noticed Chu Xuan staring intently at that black lump and assumed she must want it. Though he didn’t understand why she’d desire such a shabby object, since she wanted it, he would find a way to trade for it.
“If that’s still not enough, you can have ours too.”
Jian Ze, Yu Jinglan, and Shen Lingjun all stepped forward in unison.
Chu Xuan: “…”
A bunch of spendthrift Male Beasts!!
East Sea Profound Iron would indeed be excellent material for forging weapons in the Cultivation World, but this was the Beastmen world.
In this world, Male Beasts were awakening abilities one after another, and hardly any Beastmen used weapons. Throughout the entire Mutual Market, aside from Xie Xingwen and the others, almost no one inquired about this East Sea Profound Iron.
This merman was clearly trying to scam them.
Chu Xuan stepped forward: “We don’t want this Profound Iron. Keep it yourself!”
“Why not? If we use this Profound Iron to forge a sword—”
“I said we don’t want it, so we don’t. Let’s go.”
Chu Xuan promptly cut off Xie Xingwen’s words and dragged him away.
Jian Ze and the others all followed Chu Xuan’s lead. Since she said they didn’t want it, then they didn’t.
Watching them about to leave, the merman quickly called out to stop them: “Alright then, I’ll give you a discount. Half your game, and this Profound Iron is yours.”
“Too expensive. No.” Chu Xuan refused without even turning her head.
This piece of Profound Iron had been in Su Jin’s possession for a full six months, with almost no interest at the Mutual Market. Today, finally having someone show interest, he had to find a way to get rid of this thing!
“Six high-level beasts,” Su Jin said.
Chu Xuan shook her head with her back to him, showing no intention of returning.
“Five…”
“Three!”
“Two, no less than—”
“Deal.”
In the blink of an eye, Chu Xuan was standing before Su Jin. She had Jian Ze hand over the game to Su Jin while she cheerfully pocketed the Profound Iron.
Su Jin watched her cunning smile and felt like he might have gotten the short end of the stick.
But the exchange was complete, and there was no room for regret.
“Pretty little female, would you like to take a look at this Jiao Silk? Made into clothing, it would look incredibly beautiful on you—so stunning your Beast Husbands wouldn’t be able to take their eyes off you.”
Hearing this, Chu Xuan’s gaze swept over the Jiao Silk. With just one glance, her eyes were glued to it. The Jiao Silk shimmered with iridescent colors and was indeed very beautiful.
No one could dislike beautiful things.
Jian Ze glanced at her and said, “We’ll take all of your Jiao Silk.”
Hearing they wanted everything, Su Jin was overjoyed. He hurriedly packed up all the Jiao Silk and stuffed it into Chu Xuan’s arms, then stored all the game Jian Ze gave him into his own space, as if afraid they would change their minds the next second.
Finally, he shoved a box of pearls to Chu Xuan: “This is my gift to you. Hope we can cooperate again next time.”
At the Mutual Market, most exchanges were for food and some medicinal supplies for emergencies. As for clothing, many Beastmen would skin the game they hunted to make clothes.
Only a very small number of Beastmen with abundant resources would use a small portion of their game to trade for fabrics and similar items.
Now that winter was approaching, the beastmen needed to stock up on food supplies urgently and naturally wouldn’t exchange for these flashy but impractical items.
Su Jin running into Chu Xuan today was like stumbling upon a fat sheep ready for shearing.
He needed to hurry back and prepare more exotic treasures from the ocean depths, planning to come back and fleece her again next time.
Su Jin happily packed up his stall early and headed back. Chu Xuan, having obtained the mystic iron and beautiful jiao silk, was also in high spirits.
Suddenly, she noticed Gui Lianjun holding a wild rabbit, preparing to trade it with a stall owner for a medicinal herb.