Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 26
The azure sky was pierced by a beam of light, scattering layers of golden dust on the ground.
Inside the tavern, the shopkeeper was instructing the new waiter that if he saw that monk again in the future, he must not let him in.
The waiter had also witnessed the earlier scene, turned his head to casually glance outside, then paused in surprise, saying, “Shopkeeper, isn’t that the monk?”
The shopkeeper was fiddling with his abacus. Hearing this, he looked up and glanced, then his face twisted, saying, “Who told you to let him in again?”
At the doorway, Master Guixu smiled and chanted a Buddhist prayer, “Amitabha, please don’t be anxious, benefactor. This humble monk has come to pay his wine debt.”
“Pay his wine debt?” The shopkeeper adjusted his glasses, picked up the abacus in his hand, walked up to Master Guixu, and almost pressed it against his face. “The year before last, you came to our tavern 231 times, owing a total of 546 taels of silver. Last year, you came to our tavern 300 times, of which you entered through the front door one 110 times. The rest of the time, you sneaked in after closing, owing a total of 829 taels. Adding the damage to tables, chairs, benches, and wine cups and bowls last year and the year before last, totaling 25 taels of silver, the grand total is 1,400 taels of silver exactly.”
Having said that, he stretched out his palm, rolled his eyes, and said, “Pay up.”
Master Guixu smiled, stepped aside to reveal the person and the sword behind him, and said, “The two of you, please.”
The corner of Ling Chenyan’s eye twitched. She said, “It’s really hard on the shopkeeper that he was actually willing to let you enter the tavern through the front door last year.”
Master Guixu had a profound look on his face, curled the corner of his lips, and said, “It is the shopkeeper’s benevolence.”
Shopkeeper: “…”
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay him any attention.
Guan Luowei paid the silver neatly and also asked for a private room. Seeing that he had really received the money, the shopkeeper’s face immediately lit up with a smile. He immediately gave them the best private room and said, “Please let me know if you need anything at any time.”
Guan Luowei nodded faintly, not mentioning any requests. However, Master Guixu handed his empty wine gourd to the shopkeeper and said, “Please trouble the shopkeeper to fill this up with top-quality Nu’er Hong.”
The shopkeeper subconsciously looked at Guan Luowei. Seeing Guan Luowei nod, he then took the wine gourd, snorted coldly at Master Guixu, and turned to fetch wine.
Inside the private room.
Master Guixu sat opposite the person and the sword and said, “Thank you for your help earlier, Your Highness.”
“No need,” Guan Luowei said, “I hope you won’t forget what you promised me.”
“That is only natural.”
Earlier, outside the tavern, when Master Guixu saw the two of them, there was no surprise on his face. He simply said one sentence to Guan Luowei: “This humble monk knows why you have come here. This humble monk can help, but Your Highness must also do me a favor.”
At first, Ling Chenyan thought that the monk wanted them to do some great favor, but unexpectedly, this monk only asked them to pay his wine debt. She initially suspected that this matter was too simple, but when she learned the amount from the shopkeeper, she also rarely gave Guixu a thumbs-up.
There were many taverns in Xiling City, but he only targeted this one to fleece relentlessly. No wonder the waiters and the shopkeeper here couldn’t help but roll their eyes when they saw him.
Guan Luowei heard Master Guixu’s words and nodded, saying, “Within three days at most, we will gather the materials and come to find you.”
“Good,” Master Guixu nodded and said, “Then this humble monk will wait for Your Highness in my Buddhist Sect these two days.”
“Mm.”
Guan Luowei came to find Master Guixu naturally for the matter of molding a physical body for the silver sword. Because she knew that Ling Chenyan was a soul from another world, the usual method of spirit artifact transforming into human form would naturally not work for her. However, molding a physical body for her and allowing her soul to merge within it was possible.
Moreover, there happened to be an auction house in this Xiling City, and this auction house should be able to gather the materials she needed.
••••
After parting ways with Master Guixu, Guan Luowei took the silver sword straight to the largest auction house in Xiling City—Lingbao Pavilion.
Lingbao Pavilion was not just an auction house; it also did many other businesses, such as selling spiritual artifacts and pills, and selling some special products. In short, if you could think of it, it probably sold it.
Among them, the first floor was for ordinary sales, with some pills and spiritual artifacts that cultivators often used.
The second floor required a Lingbao Pavilion silver VIP card—that is, one certified by Lingbao Pavilion to have a net worth of 500,000 spirit stones—to enter. It mainly sold rare medicinal herbs and spiritual artifacts that were not available outside.
The third floor required a platinum VIP card—that is, one certified by Lingbao Pavilion to have a net worth of 100 million spirit stones—to enter. It mainly sold top-grade pills and spiritual artifacts. Each item taken out could cause many cultivators to compete for it. It was even said that some people brought treasures with awakened spirit souls to sell.
As for the auction house, it was on the top floor of Lingbao Pavilion, and you had to take a teleportation array from the first floor to get there. Unlike the strict requirements of the other three floors of Lingbao Pavilion, the auction house, depending on the treasures being auctioned in each session, allowed people to enter and participate in the auction as long as they paid a certain number of spirit stones.
Guan Luowei’s main purpose for this trip was to gather the medicinal herbs needed to mold a physical body for Ling Chenyan.
There were eighteen kinds of medicinal herbs needed to mold a physical body. Guan Luowei had already taken twelve kinds from the Demon Realm’s treasure vault. The remaining six were: seventh-grade Yin-Yang Flower, sixth-grade Dragon Beard Grass, sixth-grade Longevity Root, sixth-grade Soul-Stabilizing Grass, sixth-grade Ice-Fire Lotus, and sixth-grade Extreme Ice Spring.
These medicinal herbs, easily reaching the sixth or seventh grade, were naturally not within their consideration on the first floor.
However, thinking of the spirit stones needed to go up to the second floor, Ling Chenyan suddenly became a little worried. She quietly leaned close to Guan Luowei’s ear and said hesitantly, “Master, can we go up to the second floor?”
Guan Luowei had already noticed that the silver sword was a bit off just now. Hearing her say this, she realized that she was worried about this issue.
Guan Luowei shook her head with some amusement, then her eyes flickered slightly, and she said, “We probably can.”
“Ah?” Ling Chenyan said worriedly, “Probably? Should we not go up? I think it’s actually quite good like this.”
Guan Luowei pursed her lips to suppress the upward curve and didn’t speak.
Seeing her determined look to go up, Ling Chenyan, although worried, still followed her.
Seeing the people in front of them take out silver cards one by one, and one person even took out a platinum card, Ling Chenyan couldn’t help but feel a little envious.
She sighed to the system in her heart, [Alas, there are so many rich people in the world, why can’t I be one of them?]
The system said calmly, [Actually, you can also get rich on your own.]
[How so?]
[Stealing.]
[…]
Finally, under Ling Chenyan’s nervous gaze, it was their turn to step forward. Because weapons were not allowed to be brought into the second and third floors, Ling Chenyan shrank into a small sword a few centimeters long and inserted herself into Guan Luowei’s hair.
She watched with wide eyes as Guan Luowei handed over a black card, and her whole being felt like it had been struck by lightning.
No, even if you wanted to pretend to be rich, you should have taken out a white one to fake it, right? This pitch-black one, who wouldn’t see that it’s fake?
But unexpectedly, after she showed this card, a crack appeared on the originally cold and ruthless faces of the guards at the entrance. Visibly, a few of them became nervous.
One of them took the card in his hand and checked it, then tremblingly returned the card and said, “Respected VIP, your level is too high. Please allow me to report to the Pavilion Master.”
Guan Luowei stopped him and said, “No need, I’ll just go up and take a look myself.”
After saying that, she took back the card and went straight upstairs. The guards, after their initial daze, suddenly reacted. One of them hurriedly left, looking like he was going to report to the Pavilion Master, while another looked at the alarm showing someone entering with a weapon but didn’t try to stop her.
It wasn’t until Guan Luowei entered the second floor that Ling Chenyan slowly came back to her senses.
“Master, that card just now…”
Guan Luowei put away the card and said, “Grandfather gave it to me, I didn’t expect it to be quite useful.”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
You call that quite useful? The guards at the door just now were almost weak in the knees and about to kneel down to you.
Ling Chenyan deeply realized the pain brought by Versailles at this moment. Moreover, she thought about it again: even a platinum card required a net worth of 100 million to enter, so how much net worth did this black card require?
Unexpectedly, the big villain was actually a tycoon!
The two only found sixth-grade Dragon Beard Grass and Soul-Stabilizing Grass on the second floor. The Dragon Beard Grass was obtained for 150,000 spirit stones, and the other Soul-Stabilizing Grass was exchanged with a stall vendor for other items.
With four kinds of medicinal herbs left, Guan Luowei was thinking about whether to go to the manager of the auction house and ask him to help keep an eye out when a woman hurried over.
The woman wore a well-fitting cheongsam, a charming smile on her face, and every step she took was as beautiful and breathtaking as if flowers were blooming under her feet. Yet, despite being such a charming woman, her temperament was extremely dignified, making people not dare to have any other thoughts.
With her arrival, the entire second floor of the auction house became somewhat lively. Many people stared straight at her, and some even took a deep breath.
“Is that… Miss Qingtan?”
“Why is she here? Isn’t she the Pavilion Master of Xiling Lingbao Pavilion?”
“Is such beauty really something a human can possess?”
“…”
Various comments, neither too loud nor too quiet, could be heard by everyone present.
Led by the guards, Miss Qingtan walked up to Guan Luowei. “Respected VIP, hello. I am Qingtan, the Pavilion Master of Xiling Lingbao Pavilion. It is my fault as the Pavilion Master for not welcoming a senior like you properly. Today, for any items purchased by the senior in Lingbao Pavilion that belong to my Lingbao Pavilion, there will be an additional 30% discount on top of the existing discount.”
Qingtan spoke gently and considerately, making people develop a good impression of her without realizing it.
The first time Ling Chenyan saw her, she guessed, [System, is this beauty also one of the male lead’s harem?]
[How do you know?]
Ling Chenyan didn’t speak. Such a beautiful woman, and also the Pavilion Master of an auction house, it would be a waste of the original author’s ink if such a person had no connection with the male lead.
And with her subsequent self-introduction, Ling Chenyan became even more certain that this woman was indeed one of Mu Yunze’s harem.
Their intersection should have been outside Xiling City. Qingtan was leading her subordinates out to find medicine for her younger sister when they encountered bad people. Then the male lead suddenly appeared, defeated the bad people, and the two naturally got to know each other. Moreover, the male lead also cured her younger sister’s illness, so gradually, feelings developed.
Later, the male lead didn’t fail to use this relationship to get good things at the auction house. Even an item related to the Evil-Suppressing Heavenly Book, a divine artifact within the Silent Moon Secret Realm, appeared in Lingbao Pavilion. And before it was put up for auction, it was bought by the male lead’s discerning eyes.
Ling Chenyan’s eyes rolled, and she said to the system in her heart, [System, I have a bold idea.]
[How bold?]
[I want to snatch all of Mu Yunze’s harem before he gets to know them, and make him lose everything.]
[I suggest you ask the big villain for her opinion before you snatch them, to see if she’s willing to help you raise mistresses.]
[What mistresses? It’s not like I have a main wife.]
[Isn’t the big villain one? Aren’t you still the Demon Clan’s publicly acknowledged young madam? The scene that day, that guy, it was quite grand, with gongs and drums, firecrackers, red flags waving, and a sea of people.]
[…]
Author’s Note:
Ling Chenyan: The plan to snatch women has been shelved again.