The massive body of the iron-rock alligator, several meters long, directly occupied half of the room's floor. The entire body, except for the wound on its abdomen, was almost intact, and the abdominal wound was hidden from view. If it weren't for the fact that it had no breath left, one would have suspected that this ferocious beast was still alive.

  "Director Sun, I won't go into details about how we hunted down this Ironrock Crocodile. This crocodile only has some wounds on its abdomen where there are no scales covering it, but the rest of its body is intact and undamaged. Director Sun can inspect it for himself." Li Hui said calmly.

  "Hehe, no need to check, this Ironrock Crocodile's body is indeed very intact!" Sun Zhanggui said with a smile, but in his heart he was secretly wondering how this "Wooden Daoist" had managed to hunt down the Ironrock Crocodile.

  The demon beast's physical size and color vary at different stages of cultivation. This Iron Rock Crocodile is clearly a late-stage foundation-building demon beast, with an iron armor that rivals the strength of top-grade spiritual artifacts. Ordinary foundation-building cultivators would find it difficult to break through this crocodile's defenses.

  Generally, only Golden Core cultivators or a team of five or more Foundation Establishment cultivators can hunt and kill an Iron Rock Crocodile. This Wood Dao friend was able to do so with just two people, this strength is truly astonishing!

  In an instant, this Son Zhanggui had already made a rough estimate of Li Hui's strength and even more so, he had the intention to make friends with him.

  "Wooden path friend, such a complete Iron Rock Crocodile corpse is rare, let alone it's a late-stage foundation period demonic beast. The back shell and claws of this Iron Rock Crocodile are all top-grade materials for refining equipment. I wonder if you want to sell the entire corpse or keep some for yourself to refine equipment?"

  "Let's sell it together, Master Sun will give us a price." Li Hui said calmly.

  Sun Zhan'guan fell into deep thought, stroking the small horizontal mustache on his upper lip. After a while, he spoke up, "This Iron Rock Crocodile's body is so massive, I won't hide it from you, friend. Just its back shell alone, if handed over to our store's Lu Dashi for refinement, would likely be enough to craft several sets of top-grade spiritual armor. Those crocodile claws, sharp teeth, and tail could also be refined into quite a few spiritual instruments."

  He said that at this point, he seemed to be making a decision, and after pausing for a moment, he continued: "Our humble shop hopes to cooperate with Daoist Wood in the long term, so we can't lose out on Daoist. Together with the materials on the table, we'll give you 15,000 low-grade spirit stones. What do you think?"

  Li Hui's heart skipped a beat as he estimated the value of the Ironrock Crocodile's body in his mind. If it were refined into a spiritual instrument and sold, it would probably fetch tens of thousands of spirit stones. However, he didn't know how to refine instruments himself, and even just as a material, the price offered by the Divine Workshop wasn't low either.

  "Alright, then sell it to Manager Sun at this price!" Li Hui said calmly.

  Sun Zhanggui's eyes lit up with a smile, this deal he made was absolutely profitable. The price he gave to Li Hui was not low, but using the body of this Ironrock Crocodile, not to mention its back shell, just those four crocodile claws, could probably be refined into one or two top-grade spiritual instruments. Calculating it out, conservatively estimating, he could make a profit of over 20,000 lower-grade spiritual stones from this Ironrock Crocodile's body!

  "Haha, Mu Dao is really great, it's an honor for our humble shop to cooperate with Daoist friends." Sun Zhanggui clapped his hands and laughed loudly.

  Li Hui also smiled slightly, but didn't show too much emotion, picked up the teacup and took a light sip, looking not at all anxious.

  Sun the shopkeeper looked at Li Hui's appearance and was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly with an enlightened expression: "Look at my memory, I was so excited that I forgot about Daoist friend's matter of refining equipment. Changshan, quickly go to the workshop in the back and invite Master Lu." The last sentence was shouted down from upstairs.

  After a cup of tea, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, and then a small old man with disheveled clothes and a few sparse yellow whiskers came up under the accompaniment of Xiaoshan, the little servant downstairs.

  "Hurry up and speak, I'm busy in the back!" The old man looked impatient, as if he would turn around and leave immediately if Manager Sun couldn't give a reasonable answer.

  "Lu Da Shi, this is..."

  "Hmm, such a large Ironrock Crocodile... Hmm, this carapace is surprisingly intact, with care it can be made into five sets of top-grade armor... These claws..."

  Mr. Sun was about to introduce Li Hui to the old man, but the old man's eyes had already landed on the massive body of the iron rock crocodile lying on the ground, and his eyes lit up with excitement. He suddenly became ten times more energetic, and in a flash, he appeared beside the crocodile's body, examining it up and down while muttering to himself.

  Li Hui looked at the old man with interest, it seemed that this should be Lu Dashi. Looking at his crazy appearance, he was likely to have some real skills under his hands.

  "Wooden Path Friend" Sun Zhanggui's face showed a few points of embarrassment: "This is our humble shop's Lu Daishi...Lu Daishi, what are you doing?"

  Suddenly, Sun Zhanggui's face changed color and he flashed in front of the staircase.

  The Lu Dashi, after examining the body of the Iron Rock Crocodile, suddenly waved his hand and put the corpse into a storage bag, then hastily went downstairs.

  "What are you doing? Don't delay my cultivation!" Master Lu's face sank, his small yellow mustache twitching with impatience.

  Sun Zhangang couldn't help but wipe his forehead with his hand, although not a single sweat bead was present: "Lu Dashi, this Iron Rock Crocodile still belongs to that Wood Daoist friend of mine. I haven't even handed over the Ling Stone to him yet."

  "Then hurry up and pay the spirit stone to others, what does it have to do with me?" Lu Dashi said impatiently.

  Sun Zhanggui wiped his forehead again and said, "Wood Dao friend still wants to find you to refine a few top-grade spiritual instruments." His eyes rolled around and he continued, "The truly good materials are all on Wood Dao friend's body."

  Lu Dashi's eyes lit up as soon as he heard about the top-grade material, and he turned to look at Li Hui: "Are you going to refine equipment? Come on, let's go to my workshop. This broken place has nothing, it's not convenient for us to talk."

  Sun the shopkeeper listened with a twitch of his mouth and thought of wiping his sweat again, turning to look at Li Hui: "Wooden Daoist friend, this..."

  Li Hui smiled freely: "No matter, I'll just follow Master Lu for a trip!"

  She looked back at Han Xue and saw her nodding in agreement as she stood up too.

  Sun Zhanggui naturally had no opinion, the Lu Dashi in front had already hurriedly walked downstairs, Li Hui and Han Xue also followed behind him, he quickly followed up.

  ……

  In a spacious refining workshop filled with all sorts of materials, several Qi Refining stage disciples were busy cutting and arranging various ores and demon beast materials. Master Lu led the three of them hastily through these busy disciples until they reached a small hut with a huge furnace in the middle and a stone pedestal made of unknown material on which various tools were placed around it before stopping.

  "Wooden path friend, this furnace of mine is cast from the crystal stone of cold marrow. Even the temperature of a Golden Elixir cultivator's alchemical fire can be withstood." Master Lu said with great satisfaction, pointing at the furnace, and then picked up a hammer from the stone pedestal, "This hammer of mine is also an extraordinary spiritual artifact!"

  Lu Daoshi returned and first showed off his equipment to Li Hui, rarely with a smile on his face. He didn't invite the three of them to sit down or anything, actually there was no place to sit anyway.

  Li Hui was somewhat moved, even the tools were all top-grade spiritual artifacts. This Lu Dashi really was obsessed with refining artifacts.

  "Mù Dào Yǒu, what kind of top-grade spiritual artifact do you want to refine? Hurry up and bring out the materials! A suitable spiritual artifact must be custom-made. Only those ignorant fools would buy two off-the-shelf artifacts from him!" Master Lǔ immediately got down to business, and referred to buying spiritual artifacts from Sūn Zhǎngguì as something that "ignorant fools" do, forgetting that those artifacts were also refined by him.

  Sun Zhanggui heard this and had an urge to wipe his sweat again.

  Li Hui smiled calmly and took out the damaged Qian Huan Bao Yi from his storage bag: "Master, is there still a chance to repair this treasure?"

  He came this time mainly to see if he could repair the Qian Huan Bao Yi, and also to see if he could make one or two good spiritual instruments and armor for Han Xue. After listening to Lu Dashi's words, he temporarily did not plan to refine them, and went back to ask Han Xue's opinion, preparing some suitable materials before coming again.

  The best material for refining armor would be the scales of the Bi Shui Jiao, but that thing is too eye-catching, let's think of a way to deal with it later.

  Lu Dashi lost interest as soon as he heard that Li Hui was only repairing a precious garment, and casually took the Qian Huan treasure garment to take a look. However, his face changed in an instant: "The refining technique of this treasure garment is indeed exquisite!" He said, carefully examining it back and forth.

  Li Hui's heart was filled with joy, it seemed there was a glimmer of hope. He asked, "Master, is it still possible to repair?"

  "Repairing it is absolutely no problem, I just need a few more rare materials which I don't have on hand at the moment, so you'll probably have to wait for some time!" Master Lu's eyes didn't leave the precious garment in his hands.

  Li Hui felt a sense of relief: "It doesn't matter, Master, just take your time to recover!"

  Lu Dashi didn't respond anymore and instead stared at the Thousand Illusion Treasure Robe, lost in thought. After a while, he suddenly got up by himself and walked to one side to pick up some small tools, slowly studying them.

  "Mu Dao You, Lu Da Shi is just like that..." Sun Zhanggui explained to Li Hui with some embarrassment.

  "It doesn't matter, there's nothing going on so I'll just leave now and come back later to pick up this precious garment."

  "Please come this way." Sun Zhanggui hastily invited.

  The three of them returned once again to the living room on the second floor.

  "Muddy Daoist friend, here are 150 middle-grade spirit stones. Please accept them as a gift from our humble shop to help with the repair costs of that precious robe." Sun Zhanggui smiled and pushed the spirit stones across the table.

  Li Hui nodded and scanned his spiritual sense briefly before collecting it without hesitation: "Then, Manager Sun, I won't disturb you anymore!" He stood up and was about to leave.

  "Slow down, old friend!" Sun Zhanggui stood up and blocked Li Hui's way.

  Looking at Li Hui with some confusion, he patted the storage bag and took out a jade token: "Next month on the 15th, our small shop's annual auction will be held. Fellow Taoist can bring this jade token to attend, whether it is to sell some rare items or buy something back, all are possible. This auction has many real treasures appearing, as for the details, fellow Taoist can check in this jade token after returning."

  This jade card is not only a certificate for participating in the auction, but also a jade slip that introduces relevant information.

  Li Hui nodded calmly, took the jade plate and threw it into the storage bag, and turned around to go downstairs with Han Xue.

  After seeing off Li Hui and the other, Sun's face revealed a subtle and meaningful smile. This wooden Taoist friend was absolutely not simple, probably still hiding some good things that hadn't been brought out yet. If he pulled him in closer, he would definitely be right.

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