Cultivator in the Last Days-Chapter 140: Trade

Chapter 140: Trade
But Mu Ting Ye didn’t think too much about this and simply made his way to the agreed location, an abandoned gym. It was relatively closed and the door was big, so even if they brought the demonic beasts’ corpses inside, they could still transport it back easily.
He made his way to the gym while contacting Lin Yuan.
After all, the one who managed the trade personally was Lin Yuan and Mu Ting Ye didn’t have that much knowledge over all areas.
He only participated occasionally.
Because it was fun to see Lin Yuan managed to secure a deal that was far higher than their expectation. From time to time, Mu Ting Ye would also gave his own suggestion to Lin Yuan and then they would split the profit.
Naturally Lin Yuan took the bulk since he was the one who did more.
Mu Ting Ye didn’t care that he got less since he’s just joining in for the sake of the fun and all.
Swish!
When Mu Ting Ye arrived at the gym, he saw that Yu Shi Lan was already there. In front of her was a large carriage containing a few mutated animals’ corpses. Judging from the condition of these mutated animals, they should have been killed in less than a few hours.
It seemed that Yu Shi Lan’s fighting efficiency was really high.
"You’re here..." Yu Shi Lan paused after greeting Mu Ting Ye.
She looked at the man in front of her and blinked her eyes in surprise.
Because she could sense the Qi was attracted into Mu Ting Ye’s body. And it was the pure Qi and not the demonic Qi that affected these animals and transformed them. Natural Qi existed even before the earthquake but the amount was too small for people to notice and use them.
Yu Shi Lan herself had to look around to find a place to meditate when she first came back because the Qi concentration was simply too thin.
And the scene like Mu Ting Ye where the Qi would be attracted to a cultivator without them doing anything was incredibly rare.
Moreover...
She could see that Mu Ting Ye didn’t realize it at all. The Qi entered his body and helped to strengthen his body slowly but surely. If he had a spiritual root, it would slowly let him become a Qi Refining Cultivator even without him doing anything.
Yu Shi Lan: "..." she suddenly become envious.
If she could have such a physique, she would have long become a Qi Refining Rank 4 cultivator!
Unfortunately, such physique was rare and even in the cultivation world, Yu Shi Lan didn’t remember meeting many of them.
Most of them were people with ordinary physique.
What they have was spiritual root that would allow them to become cultivator and their own determination to practice. Because the path of cultivators are extremely long and thorny.
Without enough willpower, they will never be able to walk until the very end.
"Did you wait for long?" Mu Ting Ye saw that Yu Shi Lan suddenly paused and gave a sheepish grin. "I was training for a bit before coming here. I come here as fast as possible after receiving your message."
Mu Ting Ye looked like he was about to swear that he was not trying to delaying time and was extremely sincere, so Yu Shi Lan quickly stopped him.
"No, it’s not because of that. I’m just wondering whether you will come earlier or Lin Yuan," Yu Shi Lan quickly said.
No, this is also a lie.
She just couldn’t tell Mu Ting Ye about the existence of Qi unless he already knew about it. If she were to reveal to him that she knew about this matter... she might end up attracting the attention of other cultivators who are also present on the Green Planet.
Yu Shi Lan didn’t want that.
"Oh." Mu Ting Ye breathed a sigh of relief and then frowned.
Why did he not want Yu Shi Lan to misunderstand him?
It was not like he was late for a long time?
"Anyway, can I take a look at the mutated animals first?" Mu Ting Ye suppressed the strange thoughts in his brain and pointed at the carriage containing those mutated animals’ corpses.
"Sure." Yu Shi Lan nodded and moved away, allowing Mu Ting Ye to come forward and check the content.
These demonic beasts were all killed in clean blows and Yu Shi Lan had already taken out their beast cores. These beast cores were not that useful for her but Yu Shi Lan had no plan to let others took advantage of her.
Mu Ting Ye checked the corpses for a moment and his eyes flickered slightly. "Hmm, the price might not be as high as usual, Yu Shi Lan."
"Oh, why?"
"Hmm, these mutated animals had some kind of core that seemed to be the source of their mutation." Mu Ting Ye held his hand to form the shape of a ball and then added, "The cores are what the researchers mainly try to research. From what I know, they didn’t seem to be able to do anything to it yet."
Yu Shi Lan blinked her eyes.
It seemed that the people on the Green Planet were not so stupid.
They could still notice that these demonic beasts’ cores were the spruce of these demonic beasts’ power. But it was wrong to say that these beast cores were the source of the demonic beasts’ mutation.
The demonic beasts’ cores were formed just like how cultivators formed their golden core, but much earlier and much weaker.
It was the place where the demonic beasts store their energy.
Humans also have dantian where they stored their energy, but it would remain relatively fragile until they reached Golden Core Stage.
...Well, a Golden Core Cultivator could still have their dantian shattered if the blows are too big, though.
For demonic beasts, their beast cores are the place where they stored their demonic Qi and it would replenish as time passed, especially in places with thick concentration of demonic Qi.