106: Chapter 106 True God's Soul

The Black-robed Person also gradually relented, realizing he had encountered a knowledgeable and purchasing-power-wielding major client, making it impossible to sell at an exorbitant price anymore.

After several rounds of tug-of-war, the Black-robed Person finally relented and blurted out the final transaction price: "3.8 billion credit points each. All one hundred in-stock items, sold completely! This is the lowest price!"

3.8 billion each.

Compared to the initial exorbitant price of 10 billion, it was directly slashed by more than 60%, maximizing the cost-performance ratio instantly. Although it was still considered a top-tier massive investment, for S-grade soul fire, it was already an absolute conscience price on the ground.

Lin Ye quickly calculated the total price, feeling slightly assured in his heart, and stopped dragging it out, simply replying: "Very well."

After finalizing the unit price, Lin Ye took the opportunity to lock in a long-term supply source and added an order: "I will take all one hundred in-stock items. In addition, I am pre-ordering three hundred more for ten days later, still to be settled at this unit price, and I will come here for delivery in ten days."

Three hundred pre-ordered and one hundred in-stock, totaling four hundred S-grade soul fire sources, completely solved the difficult problem of nurturing his thralls' intelligence for a long time to come.

The Black-robed Person nodded slightly and replied in a hoarse voice: "Very well! Within ten days, I will prepare three hundred in-stock items, and we can trade here then. Today's one hundred items will be delivered on the spot."

As the voice fell, the Black-robed Person waved his hand, and ninety-nine identical dim green soul fires instantly floated out from the gloomy corner. Added to the one originally on the table, a full one hundred S-grade soul fires suspended in mid-air, their dim green micro-lights intertwining into a sheet. The pure and majestic divine soul origin rushed straight at them, its aura far surpassing all low-tier soul fires.

Lin Ye's gaze was steady as he immediately mobilized the massive credit points in his account, settling the 10-billion huge sum in one go and completing the full-payment transaction.

In the blink of an eye, one hundred extremely rare S-grade high-tier soul fires all fell into Lin Ye's exclusive storage divine seal, categorized and sealed away with spiritual Qi restrained, quietly awaiting subsequent nurturing of thralls and elevation of intelligence.

Wang Hu on the side watched the whole process with his heart pounding. The ten-billion-level massive transaction and top-tier resources priced at a casual 3.8 billion per unit completely refreshed his cognition.

With the transaction finalized, the stone hanging in Lin Ye's heart completely landed, and a rich trace of joy flashed across the depths of his eyes.

Having stowed away the one hundred S-grade soul fires, he did not stay any longer, turned sideways and raised his hand to signal Wang Hu to follow, preparing to turn around and leave this gloomy corner to completely exit the black market and return.

But the moment the two of them moved their footsteps slightly, that dead and hoarse voice behind him suddenly sounded again, steadily blocking his path.

"Little friend, hold on."

Lin Ye's footsteps paused, his gaze narrowing slightly as he slowly turned his head.

It was still that mysterious figure completely wrapped in a black robe, with the gloomy and dead aura around his body unchanged, except that his tone carried a hint of covert probing: "You are purchasing S-grade soul fires in large quantities, which should be to nourish divine souls and elevate thrall intelligence. Presumably, you belong to a demonic path practitioner? Since you want soul fires, I wonder if you also want thrall souls, or even divine soul origins?"

The instant the voice fell, Lin Ye's mind suddenly shook, and alarm bells instantly rang loudly in his heart.

Soul fires were mostly derivatives of divine kingdoms, and a few special environments could also derive soul fires. However, complete thrall souls and pure expert divine souls were the supreme nourishing tonics for nurturing Soul-Devouring Owls and refining divine soul origins, far exceeding ordinary high-tier soul fires in value.

Of course, the method of killing living beings and taking their souls was too cruel and intolerable to the world. Generally, not many people dared to use it, let alone dare to sell it!

A guy who dared to openly peddle complete souls and deities' divine souls in the black market was definitely no good person.

This guy either annihilated other true gods or annihilated deities from another world.

This person was definitely a desperate scoundrel whose hands were stained with blood, decisive in killing, and ruthless, giving him the confidence to hoard such taboo and scarce origin resources.

The muscles across Lin Ye's body tightened slightly, his guard fully raised, yet he did not have the slightest panic, nor did he have any thoughts of confronting him directly.

He was well-versed in the black market's ironclad rule — inside the black market, private use of force was strictly prohibited.

This place was a mix of dragons and snakes where various forces gathered. If anyone dared to break the rules without authorization and fight privately, it would instantly trigger the bottom-layer restrictions of the black market, causing all traders present to attack en masse. At the same time, the top-tier administrators hidden in the black market would immediately suppress them, and no one could be an exception. Without this iron rule to check and balance, the black market would have long since degenerated into a slaughter purgatory, and no one would ever dare to come here for trade and treasure hunting again.

Precisely because the rules provided a safety net, Lin Ye felt fully confident in his heart and was completely unfazed by the other party's gloomy aura.

Even if the other party harbored hidden killing intent and had a bizarre background, they would never dare to make a move against him in the hinterland of the black market.

Suppressing the guard in his heart, Lin Ye calculated rapidly in his mind as a trace of burning passion quietly swept across the depths of his eyes.

Soul fires could only slowly nourish intelligence and polish the surface of the divine soul, but complete thrall souls only retained pure spiritual origins. For thralls like Soul-Devouring Owls that lived by devouring souls, they were top-tier nourishing tonics far surpassing S-grade soul fires.

If they could absorb pure souls in large quantities, the transformation speed of the thralls' intelligence would skyrocket by several times over!

As for the divine souls of true experts, they were even more supreme treasures that could hardly be found. Even in a fragmented state, they contained high-tier Dao rhythms, enough to help his thralls completely break through the shackles of intelligence and sprint towards an adult's mature mind!

Figuring this out, Lin Ye completely suppressed his guard, maintained a calm expression, turned back around, and walked back to stand in front of the small wooden table, speaking in a deep voice: "You have goods? Name your price."

The hood around the Black-robed Person's body moved slightly, and his hoarse voice sounded unhurriedly, crisply reporting the bottom price without any probing of falsely inflating prices: "S-grade thrall pure souls, lowest unit price 200,000 credit points each. A-grade thrall pure souls, unit price 80,000 credit points each."

"All souls have had their intelligence completely excised and residual obsession wiped away, with no impurities, no backlash, and no lingering resentment. Only the purest soul origin remains, which can be directly devoured to nourish the thralls' divine souls."

Pausing slightly, the Black-robed Person's aura fluctuated slightly, revealing a hint of heavy fatigue, and he continued to toss out his trump-card supreme treasure: "In addition, I have a fragmented True God's Divine Soul in my hand."

"The origin belongs to an other-worldly deity, and the cultivation stopped at the Third Revolution True God realm. It was severely damaged after going through a great battle, leaving only a small half of the divine soul origin. All intelligence and self-awareness have also been completely erased, leaving only the pure divine soul foundation without any risk of losing control. Priced at 80 billion credit points."

Hearing this, Lin Ye breathed a sigh of relief. If the souls' intelligence had not been erased, they would be living beings, which would be somewhat troublesome for Lin Ye to handle, but since their intelligence had been erased, they were simply resources.

Of course, ordinary people simply didn't dare to want them; getting caught with this stuff wasn't something that could be settled with a simple punishment.

As the words fell, the Black-robed Person's body trembled slightly, and he lowered his head to cough violently twice, a trace of faint blood qi leaking from under the black robe. Clearly, his own injuries were extremely severe, making it impossible for him to use his power for long periods, which was also the core reason why he was eager to unload this batch of top-tier goods.

Taking in the other party's morbid state, Lin Ye instantly seized the bargaining initiative in his heart. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly spoke to finalize the procurement quantity while precisely cutting the price: "For S-grade and A-grade thrall souls, I want ten thousand of each to test the waters first."

"As for the other-worldly True God's Divine Soul, 80 billion is too expensive, far exceeding the actual value of a defective product. I will only offer 50 billion credit points."

Monopolizing a massive supply of souls at once and ruthlessly slashing the exorbitant price of the divine soul, Lin Ye's tone was resolute and unyielding, quietly waiting for the other party's reply.