"Dazhuang, who sold this 'nine-patterned bamboo' to you?"

Zhou Donghuang took out a medicinal material similar to green bamboo from a pile of medicinal materials that Dazhuang bought for him. It was about two fingers long, and from top to bottom, there were nine clearly visible carved patterns, which looked very special.

Jiuwen Zhuang, the most precious medicinal material among the batch of medicinal materials that Zhou Donghuang asked Dazhuang to help him buy is the main medicinal material he needed to refine a elixir, and it is also of the highest value.

Of course, the price fluctuates, usually around 100 medium-grade spirit stones.

One hundred medium-grade spirit stones are equivalent to ten high-grade spirit stones.

The core disciple of the Benlei Sword Sect can receive ten top-grade spirit stones from the Benlei Sword Sect in one month.

However, it takes ten months for the inner sect to receive ten top-grade spirit stones, because every month, the Benlei Sword Sect only distributes one top-grade spirit stone to the inner sect disciples... As for the outer sect disciples, there are even fewer, and it is said that there are only three middle-grade spirit stones.

"It's Pan Yilin, a disciple of Xia Gu."

Dazhuang glanced at the bamboo that Zhou Donghuang took out of a pile of medicinal herbs, thought for a moment, and then began to think about it.

"How many spirit stones did he sell to you?"

Zhou Donghuang asked again.

"One hundred and ten medium-grade spirit stones."

Dazhuang said.

"I have collected a lot of spirit stones."

Zhou Donghuang narrowed his eyes, and a cold light flashed through his eyes at the right time.

"What's wrong?"

Although Dazhuang looked a little stupid, he still knew how to observe his words and expressions. Seeing Zhou Donghuang like this, he vaguely felt something was wrong, "Is there something wrong with this Jiuwen bamboo...?"

"This is not Jiuwen Bamboo."

Zhou Donghuang suddenly opened his eyes, shook his head and said, "This is a six-patterned bamboo. The other three patterns are all artificially added... Although the nine patterns on it look no different, the arrangement is inconsistent."

"For normal nine-patterned bamboo, the distance between each pattern is basically the same."

"Look at it... If these three patterns are gone, the distance between the other six patterns is the same. However, the existence of these three patterns breaks the law of distance between patterns and becomes irregular."

As Zhou Donghuang said, he showed the nine-patterned bamboo in front of Da Zhuang, pointing to the three patterns on it and said to Da Zhuang.

"Although six-patterned bamboo and nine-patterned bamboo are only three different patterns, the value difference is extremely large... A nine-patterned bamboo is worth about 100 medium-grade spirit stones. If you buy real nine-patterned bamboo, one hundred and ten medium-grade spirit stones are not expensive."

"But, this is a fake nine-patterned bamboo."

"It's just six-patterned bamboo."

"The value of six-patterned bamboo is at most one-tenth of nine-patterned bamboo... This six-patterned bamboo is worth at most ten medium-grade spirit stones."

"You were cheated."

Zhou Donghuang shook his head and said.

Many people do not understand the specific characteristics of Jiuwenzhu except alchemists.

In the previous life of Emperor Donghuang of Zhou, many people were deceived by the Jiuwenzhu, which was pretended to be the Jiuwenzhu, but those who were deceived were some laymen or ordinary alchemists, and skilled alchemists. Even if they did not know how to identify Jiuwenzhu through this feature of Jiuwenzhu, they could judge it through other subtle characteristics of their bodies.

Those subtle characteristics, medicinal materials of a certain year, will be found in the same way.

Jiuwen Bamboo is no exception.

"Being cheated...?!"

After hearing Zhou Donghuang's words, Da Zhuang's face turned red, his eyes even more rounded, and anger began to rise deep in his eyes, "That Pan Yilin, did he actually lie to me? He actually lie to me?"

"no!"

"I'm looking for him! I'm going to look for him!"

Dazhuang's eyes were full of bloody red because of anger, as if they transformed into Hell Shura in this moment, and chose people to eat them.

"My junior brother... I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter!"

Da Zhuang was almost like snatching, and snatched Jiuwen Zhuang from Zhou Donghuang's hand. After talking to Zhou Donghuang with a red face, he turned around and left in a hurry.

"Shagu disciple, Pan Yilin?"

Not long after Dazhuang left, Zhou Donghuang stood up and followed him out.

The Benlei Sword Sect has a place dedicated to trading for people from the sect. Whether it is the senior sect or the disciples of the sect, they can conduct various transactions here. Once the things sold are sold, as long as the money and goods are in love, they will basically not be returned or exchanged.

Of course, if you sell the thing and feel it is not worth it later and want to buy it back, as long as the buyer doesn't let it go, you can't do anything about it.

The "trading square" of the Benlei Sword Sect is governed by the sect, fair, just and open.

"Senior Brother Lian, I will sell the fake Jiuwen bamboo to Dazhuang in Qiugu. Afterwards, I will definitely anger the senior sister He Mengxi in Qiugu... Senior Sister He Mengxi is the only daughter of the master of Qiugu. She settles the score with me. You must protect me and you can't ignore me."

On one side of the trading square, a young man in green clothes said to another young man in silver-edged gold robe.

The former has a medium figure and an ordinary appearance, and is the kind that can never be found if you are embarrassed.

The latter, tall and handsome, seemed to have always been bent, revealing a strange feeling.

"And, you asked me to do this."

The young man in green said with some fear.

"Junior Brother Pan, don't you believe me?"

The young man in golden robe glanced at the former and asked meaningfully: "Are you afraid that I will sacrifice you and please Junior Sister Mengxi?"

"No...no."

Although the former did think so, he did not dare to say it out loud, because the person standing in front of him was the disciple of the Lord of Xia Gu, and the absolute pride of heaven among Xia Gu. If he offended the other party, he would be unable to move in Xia Gu.

Once he is kicked out by Xia Gu, the other three Gu will never want him again. As long as he still wants to stay in the Benlei Sword Sect, he is destined to be able to stay in the Five Halls of the Outer Sect for the rest of his life.

Unless, he can become the core disciple of the Benlei Sword Sect.

However, he is still self-aware of this, because he is very difficult to become a core disciple.

"Pan Yilin!!"

Just as the young man in green was a little timid in the young man in golden robe, a roar like thunder suddenly came over the trading square, and the sound contained a thick true energy, deafening.

Suddenly, the eyes of a group of people in the trading square fell on the tall and burly figure above the square.

This is a burly young man over three meters tall, so tall that he doesn’t even look like a human. As soon as he appears, many people immediately recognize him, “It’s Dazhuang, a disciple of Qiugu!”

"What do you want to do in this Dazhuang in Qiugu?"

"I have heard that this guy was raised by the monster giant ape... Did he learn the ferociousness of the monster?"

"Who angered him?"

...

Above the sky, the tall and burly disciple of Qiugu Dazhuang successfully attracted everyone's attention.

"Dazhuang, what do you want to do?"

The young man in green was timid in front of the young man in golden robe, but in front of Da Zhuang, he looked up at Da Zhuang standing in the air and asked in a cold tone.

He was obviously Pan Yilin, a disciple of Xia Gu who Dazhuang came to visit.

"Pan Yilin, you sell me fake Jiuwenzhu!"

Da Zhuang fell in the air and arrived in front of Pan Yilin in a blink of an eye. Because he was too tall and Pan Yilin was only about 1.7 meters tall, he was completely looking down at Pan Yilin and questioned in a deep voice.

"Fake nine-patterned bamboo?"

Pan Yilin raised his eyebrows, "Dazhuang, you can eat randomly, you can't say anything randomly... The Jiuwen bamboo I sold to you is not fake."

"Isn't it fake?"

Da Zhuang's face turned red and took out the nine-patterned bamboo he bought from Pan Yilin and showed it to everyone who came around to join in the fun. "My junior brother said, your nine-patterned bamboo is fake, the distance between the lines is irregular, and the essence is just six-patterned bamboo."

"Six-patterned bamboo is worth up to ten medium-grade spirit stones, but you have collected me 110 medium-grade spirit stones!"

"You really think I'm Dazhuang and you're bullied?"

Da Zhuang glared at Pan Yilin, his tone became more and more low, and even the golden true energy around him involuntarily evaporated, as if he might attack Pan Yilin at any time.

"That's the nine-patterned bamboo?"

"It seems that it is really not the nine-patterned bamboo... the nine-patterned bamboo pattern should not be like this."

"It was a nine-patterned bamboo made of six-patterned bamboo. Pan Yilin actually sold the forged nine-patterned bamboo to Dazhuang, and also sold 110 medium-grade spirit stones? This is not very kind!"

"On ordinary people who don't know about Jiuwenzhu may be fooled by this fake Jiuwenzhu."

"This Pan Yilin is so bold? In our Benlei Sword Sect, who doesn't know that behind this Qiugu disciple Dazhuang is He Mengxi, the daughter of the Qiugu Valley Master? Although he does this, although he does not violate the rules of the trading square, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten, isn't he worried that He Mengxi will settle the score with him?"

...

Some people onlookers recognized that the nine-patterned bamboo in Dazhuang's hand was fake, but more people were surprised by Pan Yilin's courage.

How could this Xiagu disciple, who had not even entered the realm of Dharma, have the courage to deceive the person protected by the daughter of Qiugu, in this way?

Isn't he afraid of death?

"Da Zhuang!"
To be continued...