Chapter 1450: The Drifting Sand Evasion Technique

After weighing it for a moment, Qin Sang decided to try. "I have a secret technique. It's incomplete, and extremely difficult to cultivate."

As he spoke, he swiftly produced a blank jade slip and inscribed the first stage of the Fire Seed Golden Lotus into it.

So it's come to this, making a living off selling secret techniques. Qin Sang shook his head. He would not have shared a top-tier technique like this with anyone short of absolute necessity, for fear of raising a rival against himself.

Still, if it won him the Seven-Master Buddha Seal, it was worth it.

He made no attempt to hide the flaw, since the other man would spot it easily enough.

Qin Sang raised his palm, and the jade slip drifted forward, passing through a layer of barrier he had laid himself to hang in mid-air beside the Dark Malevolent Bramble.

He did not release his spiritual consciousness to the others, though, and added, "I don't want an art. If this interests you, I'd like an earth-based evasion technique in exchange."

The man understood at once and laughed, his voice carrying no particular commitment either way. "An incomplete secret technique, and extremely difficult to cultivate. My only worry is that my aptitude is too dull to understand it!"

With that, he sent a strand of spiritual consciousness across.

Qin Sang kept the core contents hidden and allowed him alone to look.

A moment later, the man let out a soft sound of surprise, which pricked the curiosity of everyone else.

He hesitated briefly, then said in a measured voice, "This technique of yours is no ordinary thing, but its flaw is greater than I would have imagined. When you obtained it, was there anything else lying beside it?"

So he had guessed that a technique this dangerous might come with an art or an object to support its cultivation.

He had not refused outright either. Had he also subdued a spiritual flame of some kind, or did he believe he could steer clear of the danger?

Qin Sang's thoughts turned quickly, and he brought out the pretext he had prepared long before. "This method is a treasure of my sect. If I had such a thing, why would I be putting my energy into another road? Compared to that flaw, the second condition at least offers some hope of being met."

The second condition meant the spiritual flame. Anyone willing to spend the time could gather flames little by little and condense a fire lotus seed.

The "other road" meant body refinement.

As most Spiritual Infant cultivators understood it, someone stuck at a bottleneck might well turn to the physical body and the spiritual consciousness in search of an opening.

But even a prodigy with a Heavenly Spiritual Root could not attend to all three of essence, qi and spirit at once.

Qin Sang had made it plain that he meant to have the Seven-Master Buddha Seal, which said his attainments in body cultivation already ran deep. The path of spiritual consciousness must therefore be closed to him. Why else would he carry a top-tier spiritual consciousness technique and leave it uncultivated?

It was perfectly reasonable.

And who could have guessed that Qin Sang, leaning on the Jade Buddha, had mastered several arts and secret techniques that anyone else would have called impossible, and had walked a road entirely his own?

A long silence followed.

The man weighed it for some time before finally speaking, producing a jade slip as he did. "I have a Drifting Sand Evasion Technique, though it can't be called top-tier. I'm afraid it falls short of what he's asking for."

This one isn't simple. He really wants to buy the Fire Seed Golden Lotus! Qin Sang's thoughts raced. After securing the consent of both the man and Venerable Zhongtai, he invited the owner of the Seven-Master Buddha Seal into the trade.

The owner examined the Drifting Sand Evasion Technique, hesitated a moment, and asked Qin Sang, "Daoist, are you a body cultivator?"

Qin Sang laughed and answered something else entirely. "Don't get too greedy."

The man fell silent, then made up his mind. "The Drifting Sand Evasion Technique plus the Dark Malevolent Bramble, for the Seven-Master Buddha Seal!"

Qin Sang frowned.

His maneuver cut both ways. It had put the other man's doubts to rest, but it had also given the owner of the Seven-Master Buddha Seal the nerve to name an outrageous price.

These old-timers are all shrewd. There's no picking up a bargain here. Qin Sang thought.

Once he had reasoned that through, Qin Sang let go of his reluctance and swept a glance over the clusters of white light around him. "Two more drops of Heavenly Crown Heavy Liquid!"

"One drop!"

"Done!"

Qin Sang let out a breath. However the owner of the Seven-Master Buddha Seal meant to buy the Heavenly Crown Heavy Liquid was his own affair, so he turned to hash things out with the other man.

Before he could open his mouth, the man said, "Hehe. Even incomplete, your secret technique is comfortably worth more than the Drifting Sand Evasion Technique. What else do you want?"

He was refreshingly direct.

Qin Sang softened his tone. "Trade for that piece of Blue-Speckled Gold on my behalf, or the Cotton-Shaped Cloud Crystal."

The others watched in silence. They had guessed that Qin Sang wanted to refine an astra, but the three materials, similar in nature though they were, could hardly be mixed together like that, which left them rather baffled.

After a dizzying round of exchanges, the jade slip and the Dark Malevolent Bramble in front of Qin Sang's bamboo lodge vanished.

Three things had appeared in his hands. A jade slip, a fist-sized piece of Blue-Speckled Gold, black throughout and flecked with blue, and a jade vial holding a single drop of silver liquid, heavier in the hand than the Blue-Speckled Gold itself.

He sent his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip, skimmed the contents to confirm the supernatural ability was genuine, and put it away without examining it in detail.

Of everything the trade meet had seen so far, this trade of Qin Sang's was the most complicated, drawing in six Spiritual Infant cultivators from start to finish, since the owner of the Drifting Sand Evasion Technique had to pass through one more pair of hands to obtain the Blue-Speckled Gold.

Every party came away well satisfied.

More satisfied still was Venerable Zhongtai, who said with a smile, "The next Daoist, please!"

Three bamboo lodges withdrew.

Qin Sang glanced at his jade token, thinking that he had not arrived especially late, so why had his turn still not come?

A voice carried in from outside. "The Space-Locking Sword, in exchange for a top-grade astra!"

At that, Qin Sang quickly looked up. Even at the Myriad Devil Assembly, top-grade astras did not surface often.

Inside the white light hung a jade sword the size of a finger. It was pure white from end to end, without a single pattern on it.

The instant he saw it, Qin Sang found it strikingly familiar. It was the small jade sword from the hand of the skeleton in the Buddhist hall.

The Chaotic Devil Elder, or the Feathered Robe Primordial Lady? His gaze sharpened, as though he could see through the darkness to make out the figure inside that bamboo lodge.

He had already established that the one who entered the Buddhist hall alongside the Chaotic Devil Elder was a female devilish monster whose Dharma name was the Feathered Robe Primordial Lady. Whatever astras remained in the hall had certainly fallen to those two.

And it was a top-grade astra! Had he known, he would have carried the jade sword off himself and spared all the trouble of refining the Golden Sinking Sword.

The thought had barely formed when he heard someone challenge the seller. "This is plainly a high-grade astra. How can you ask for a top-grade one in exchange?"

A faint, unmodulated laugh came from within the lodge. "I have my reasons for asking. This sword is more than a high-grade astra. There is an unknown secret hidden inside it, though I can't unravel it for the moment. Let it meet the one it is fated for, and I'm certain its worth will be no less than a top-grade astra, and may well exceed it!"

That set off an uproar. He could not even solve the secret himself and still dared name such a price. It was the greatest joke under heaven!

Qin Sang was curious, but he showed not the slightest inclination to send his spiritual consciousness over for a look, and simply watched in cool silence.

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