Chapter 3736 — The Trash King
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Before Wei Zhao could speak, the bearded man beside him grew agitated and glared at the fellow. "Trash King, you penniless wretch, what nonsense are you spouting? I offer two hundred spirit jade for this brother's Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard carcass, and you say it's a pity? Go on then, if you've got the skill, bid higher and let's see—never mind two hundred spirit jade, you probably couldn't scrape together twenty!"
The man called the Trash King flushed with embarrassment. Seeing everyone looking at him, he waved his hands in flustered discomfort. "I didn't mean it's a pity to sell for two hundred spirit jade—two hundred is indeed a very high price. But some things are found only by chance and never sought, and they are priceless. If the leopard's front claws and whip-tail were used for artifact forging, the weapon forged from them would be worth at least two thousand spirit jade!"
"Bah! Keep dreaming! You, the Trash King, forge a weapon worth two thousand spirit jade? Who are you trying to fool?"
The bearded man shot him an exasperated glance, then turned to explain to Wei Zhao, "Don't listen to this boy's ravings, brother. He's the most unwelcome inner disciple in the whole Qingyun Pavilion. His name is Wang Lanyue—good for nothing but forging artifacts, and he goes about calling himself a master forger. He's always buying up the leftover scraps of spirit beast carcasses from us, but he's never once forged anything decent—just piles of junk. That's why we've always called him the Trash King."
Hearing himself introduced this way, the Trash King went red in the face with agitation and hurried to defend himself. "That's because you don't understand artifact forging! In forging, quality always trumps everything. A true master forger will forge the finest divine weapon even from the basest materials—success rate is only secondary. Mine is merely a little lower..."
"From what I know, you've never actually succeeded at forging a single thing, have you? And you still dare call your success rate just a little lower?" The bearded man and the others in the know all burst out laughing.
"A forger speaks only of quality, never of success rate—what would you laymen know..." the Trash King went on, red-faced, though judging by the crowd's reaction, it was a completely futile effort.
Watching coldly from the sidelines, Wei Zhao could not help but smile. This Trash King was a curious character indeed—a veritable Kong Yiji of the cultivation world!
As the crowd was still laughing at the Trash King, Wei Zhao suddenly spoke up. "Brother Wang, you said just now that the Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard's front claws and whip-tail are good materials for artifact forging?"
Everyone present was struck dumb, staring at Wei Zhao with strange expressions and exchanging glances. Surely he wasn't actually going to believe the Trash King's nonsense?
Among them all, it was the bearded man whose face fell the furthest. He had sincerely meant to buy this Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard carcass from Wei Zhao as a showpiece, and to that end had been willing to sink two hundred spirit jade into it at a loss. He had been on the verge of getting Wei Zhao's nod when this confounding variable had to go and intrude—it left him grinding his teeth in fury.