Chapter 1860: Tears Fall When I Learn the Truth
Among the old Dao Heaven masters present, who didn't have some family assets? One after another, they clattered out ceiling-level Spirit Beads and stuffed them straight into Jiangnan's arms!
Those who didn't have any went directly to borrow from Xiao Chuihuo and Mi Ye!
Old geezer Dao Heaven like Craig, Merlin, Piers, and Miyazaki also had Jiangnan sell them Incense Beads!
This time Jiangnan really gave it his all!
One by one, they held the Incense Beads in their palms like they'd found a treasure, and fiercely sniffed them under their noses!
Even Odin couldn't resist such temptation. With a fawning expression, he sidled up to Jiangnan and kept winking!
(˵ಡ˘ಡ) "Good big brother! Good big brother of Lan Xing! Sell me one too, okay? I also want to live another three to five hundred years!"
Jiangnan raised an eyebrow: (๑◔～◔ิ๑) "You? Forget it. How old are you? You're in your prime, still Transcendent, with infinite potential. Giving you an Incense Bead would be a waste!"
"These are humanity's assets. I'm using them to trade for treasures outside; I can't waste them!"
Odin said teasingly: (˵ꆤ.̫ꆤ) "Aiya~ What's the use of saying all that? Don't I know you? I'll add money! I'll add money right now!"
As he spoke, he pulled three top-grade Spirit Beads from his backpack and stuffed them into Jiangnan's arms!
Jiangnan coughed twice lightly, and without changing his expression, stuffed the Spirit Beads into his own Alternate Dimension!
He said sternly: (ಠĹ̯ಠ˵) "What kind of person do you take me for? This is a major matter concerning humanity's future! Is this something that can be sold just by adding money? This is a matter of principle! Go on, go on. When there's stock later, I'll think of you first. Next time for sure!"
As he spoke, he pushed Odin aside!
Odin: "??? What the heck, next time? You damn well won't sell me, then give me back my three Spirit Beads! You just swallowed them? I worked so hard to get those, damn it!"
"Not... I..."
Jiangnan said impatiently: (︶～︶*)ﾉ "You what you? Think of it as bringing you some souvenirs, okay? Here! Take these two pairs of shorts as a souvenir! Don't delay my business here!"
Odin looked at the two pairs of cool shorts in his hand, his face darkened: "So my three top-grade Spirit Beads bought two pairs of shorts? And damn it, they're women's style?"
[From Odin, Resentment Value +777!]
On the other side, Merlin and Craig were both there slurping away! Big cherished the bead, put it in his mouth to suck, then spit it out to see if it had shrunk, then put it back in his mouth to suck again! Piers was pinching the Incense Bead with his fingers, sticking out his tongue and licking it wildly with a "peilou peilou" sound. Everyone was eating it in different ways, giving Jiangnan a shudder.
(٥￣益￣) "Damn! That's not how you use it! The effect will decrease like that. You need to use it with a dedicated Incense Ball! One Incense Ball only costs 10 tons of money~"
As he spoke, he quickly pulled out the Incense Balls and looked at everyone expectantly. (๑⁰̷̴◡⁰̷̴)✧
Wang Zong, eyes reddened, grabbed a Dull Sack and vanished in a flash like a puff of smoke: (◞ﾟ口ﾟ)ﾂ "Wait for me! I'll go to the bank and rob a few tons for you right now!"
"Hey Old Wang, bring me ten tons too!"
Jiangnan chuckled happily. He had used the Vendor Cloth in the Void Sea before and owed a vendor fee. This time he just happened to get a few tons of money to pay it off! Along the way, he could save up some skill points. Who knows if he might need them when he goes to Thousand Stars City later? In the current situation, getting money is easy, right?
However, Piers and the others showed no intention of moving! Jiangnan frowned: (๑･᷅～･᷄) "Why aren't you going?"
Piers looked smug: (◞ꈍٹꈍ) "I don't believe you. You just want to sell Incense Balls and make us run errands for you, right? I'm not going. Gotta say, after licking this Incense Bead, my thoughts are clearer. I'm really an old clever ghost!"
Jiangnan rubbed his brow: "Clever my ass? This thing really isn't meant to be licked!"
Lan looked mischievous: ↜(⃔っ՞ں՞C)⃕ "If they knew the true origin of the Incense Beads is actually... Mmph—"
Before she could finish, Mila directly covered her mouth: (≖﹏≖٥) "Shh~ Be a human, will you? Give them a happy and complete old age! Some truths are better left unknown!"
Just then, a violent tremor came from the ground, and a shadow loomed over the sky! Xing Cheng came rushing back, wriggling her enormous body, her eyes fixed straight ahead! Opening her huge mouth, she charged straight over here. Her instincts made her completely unable to control herself, and she smashed through the newly built city wall! "Cheng Bao'er wants to eat too!"
Everyone's face turned pale at the sight of Xing Cheng charging over! But Jiangnan looked at her with a pained expression: (。ớ₃ờ)ھ "Look how skinny this child has become. She's malnourished. It's big brother's fault for not even being able to let you have a full meal! Come~ I'll give you one to eat too!"
As he spoke, he tossed an Incense Bead into Xing Cheng's mouth!
Ever since she reverted to her original form in the Rainforest Maze, she hadn't turned human again, because she didn't know how... Xing Cheng's intelligence also needed to be improved. She couldn't stay stupid forever, right?
Everyone's mouths twitched. You call this skinny? Malnourished? I spit on that! There's a kind of skinny called "Nan Shen thinks you're skinny"?
Little did they know they had never seen how big Xing Cheng's brother was, otherwise they would definitely think Xing Cheng was skin and bones. Swallowing the Incense Bead in one gulp, Xing Cheng looked fully satisfied. A long-term meal ticket is really good! But the taste was off—smooth on entry, a single stream down the throat. Hmm~ Not produced by herself?
Just as she was thinking, Xing Cheng's eyes suddenly widened, her scales bristled all over, and a violent rumble came from her stomach! Her tail refining vent opened, and a surging orange fragrant wind burst out from the tail nozzle!
In an instant, the One-Eyed Species let out earth-shaking cheers, and one by one they widened their nostrils and charged toward the tail nozzle! Zhao Dezhu and the others roared and launched a sprint: "Damn it! Fresh? Whoever fights with me over this, I'll fight them!" While running, they did nose-widening exercises. Wang Zong, carrying a sack of money, ran back and exploded at the sight: "Damn! Why didn't you call me for such good stuff? I almost missed out!" With a sprint, he plunged into the fragrant wind and sucked fiercely, turning into a human-shaped fart-sucking machine!
Xing Cheng also panicked: "No snatching! This is mine, I just farted it out!" So she hurriedly turned around to suck it back up, but her huge body moved too slowly and wasn't agile at all! In her panic, her body actually began to emit specks of starlight and started to transform into human form?
Jiangnan was stunned: "Good heavens, the Incense Bead wasn't wasted on her after all? She can turn human now? But it seems her intelligence hasn't improved much... Indeed, eating is the primary driving force!"
At this moment, Piers, Big, and the others all looked horrified: "Holy crap? No way? These Hua Xia pioneers have such heavy tastes? What's there to suck in farts?" "Exactly, exactly? And they're damn well fighting over it? It's disgusting! They already have Incense Beads, why are they still fighting over farts?" While complaining, they continued licking their Incense Beads as if nothing had happened.
In the next moment, an orange-yellow Incense Bead was expelled from the tail nozzle! Xing Cheng fully transformed into human form, starlight enveloping her. She grabbed the Incense Bead and ran off: (๑ᵒ̴̶̷◠ᵒ̴̶̷) "This is my poo-poo, not for you to eat, mine!"
Xing Cheng had just returned from a big meal over at Ying Guo. She hadn't excreted in a long time, and happened to come back just in time! Zhao Dezhu, Wang Zong and the others quickly sucked all the fragrant wind clean, looking refreshed and savoring the aftertaste: (◞⁼̴◉◉⁼̴) "Eh~ What a pity, we didn't get any!"
However, at this moment, Piers, who had been licking the Incense Bead with a "peilou peilou" sound, froze. His tongue stuck to the bead, and cold sweat poured down his forehead: (乛ㅂ乛‧̣̥̇) "Uh..."
Merlin, who had been slurping the Incense Bead, turned pale. Big had even been chewing it like bubble gum... =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇) "Um... Don't I think that Incense Bead looks a bit like the one Xing Cheng just excreted? Didn't she just say, this is my poo-poo?"
Craig continued slurping, looking perfectly natural: (◞་⍸་) "Take away the 'feeling'! This is it!"
Piers fell to his knees and vomited violently. He had been licking for half a minute, dammit! How had no one ever told him? Merlin knelt on the ground with a dejected expression: "I was even afraid of finishing it in one bite and not tasting the flavor, so I was slurping it!" Big's face darkened as he stood frozen like a stone statue...
"This bubble gum is way too intense! Cheating my love, bearing a debt of conscience! Tears fall when I learn the truth!"
[From Piers, Resentment Value +666!]
[From Big...]
In an instant, the resentment values flooded wildly. One by one, they glared at Jiangnan with red eyes.
Jiangnan coughed twice: (｡･ˇกˇ･｡:) "Ahem~ Um, didn't anyone ever tell you that these Incense Beads are a refinement product of the Star-Devouring Giant Worm?"
Piers wept: "When did you ever tell us? If I had known the source, I wouldn't have been licking it!"
Piers silently stepped forward, pulled out ten tons of dollars from his Alternate Dimension, and placed them in front of Jiangnan: (̿▀̿益▀̿̿◟) "Just... just give me an Incense Ball! Even knowing the source, I can't not use it, damn it! After all, the effect of the Incense Bead is real! Today, I really will be Old Eighth!"
So they all paid money and bought Incense Balls. Using it to smell is still less psychologically stressful than eating it directly...
Mila rubbed her forehead: "So they ended up learning the truth after all! Good thing they don't know how the Rabbit Vomit Pills are made, or else the area of their psychological shadow would be hard to calculate!"
Meanwhile, Martin, who was in the sack, was going crazy: (´థ益థ) "Hey hey! What's that smell so fragrant? What good stuff are you secretly eating behind my back? Let me out! I want to eat too!"
Martin had no idea that everyone was secretly eating shit behind his back. (*꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ) "Woo~ Let me out quickly! If you don't let me out, I'm going to shit myself!"
His voice was already tearful, but no one heard him.
In the blink of an eye, most of the goods on the Vendor Cloth were sold. Jiangnan made a huge profit again. Everyone also stocked up on strategic materials like Ginseng and Durian.
Jiangnan couldn't remember how many Spirit Beads he had raked in this time, but it should be enough to support him reaching Transcendent or something, right?
Goose heh~