187: Chapter 187 His mouth is all black, what did he steal to eat?

Two talent awakening stones?

Chen Yichuan's expression shifted in shock.

In the next second.

A palm-sized stone radiating five-colored light appeared in Zhang Fan's hand.

With just one look, Chen Yichuan recognized it.

A talent awakening stone!!

That's right!!

"A talent awakening stone!"

"Fan-zi, where did this come from? Can you sell it to me?" Chen Yichuan's body trembled with excitement.

Hmm?

Seeing Chen Yichuan so excited, his joy was palpable.

Zhang Fan was stunned, not understanding why.

Beside him, Head Escort Qian sensed something different, connecting it to what Zhang Fan had just said.

A terrifying thought suddenly rose in his mind.

'Could it be that the talent awakening stone in Chen Yichuan's hand isn't for someone else? But for himself?'

'But... that's not right. talent awakening stones are clearly useless to those who have already awakened a talent. This... makes no sense.'

Head Escort Qian's gaze was fixed on Chen Yichuan, utterly perplexed.

Zhang Fan looked at Chen Yichuan, who was playing with the stone as if he couldn't put it down, and couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Chen Yichuan, this thing is useless to players like us who have already awakened a talent."

"What do you want it for?"

Haha.

Hearing this, Chen Yichuan chuckled and waved his right hand. "What for? Don't worry about that. Are you selling?"

"And where did these two talent awakening stones come from?"

As he spoke, Chen Yichuan ignored their strange looks and directly pocketed the talent awakening stone.

Seeing this.

Zhang Fan shook his head helplessly. "I'll sell it, of course I'll sell it. You've already pocketed it, what choice do I have?"

"My master gave these to me before I left... two of them."

Hmm?

Blacksmith Zhao gave them?

This... damn, Chen Yichuan's heart swirled with emotion. He wanted a master like that too.

If he had known, he would have tried to call Blacksmith Zhao 'Uncle.' He had missed out on a great opportunity.

With a hundred talent awakening stones, a talent could be strengthened again.

Chen Yichuan had always kept this in mind, but unfortunately, he had never found any. Now that one was right in front of him, he wouldn't let it go.

Even though one was a small amount, they could add up.

"They were actually from Blacksmith Zhao? Fan-zi, you have a good master..." As he spoke, Chen Yichuan turned his gaze toward Head Escort Qian.

The meaning was clear.

"Hey, hey, Brother Yichuan, don't look at me... I really don't have any talent awakening stones, but I do have some information."

Head Escort Qian waved his hands repeatedly.

"Information?"

Chen Yichuan and Zhang Fan both raised an eyebrow at the same time.

"That's right, it's about the talent awakening stones... There are actually quite a few of them in the Jiuzhou Nation, mostly held by some ancient, established families."

"The quantity is far more than the one thousand talent awakening stones revealed when the system first released the rankings."

"Headquarters suspects... that before Blue Star, Xuanyu might have already brought in several batches of players. Of course, these players arrived a long time ago."

At this point, Head Escort Qian shrugged. "They might be from parallel worlds or other worlds; that's the conclusion of the headquarters' Think Tank."

"Brother Yichuan, you should have the clearance for this... if you're interested, you can go take a look."

Hearing this news.

Chen Yichuan was stunned for a moment.

It was somewhat unexpected that players had landed in Xuanyu before.

But he quickly pushed that thought to the back of his mind, replaced by a surge of excitement.

If that was the case... the number of talent awakening stones scattered across Xuanyu and the Jiuzhou Nation was likely far more than 1,000.

After all, these things were completely useless to Xuanyu NPCs.

"Head Escort Qian, this information is vital to me..." Chen Yichuan then turned his gaze to Zhang Fan.

"Fan-zi, I won't stand on ceremony with you... take these pills first... in the future, if I have other pills or martial arts, I'll definitely give them to you!"

After saying that.

Chen Yichuan pulled out several items. The most precious was a lingfeng pill (Blue), which increased agility by 13 points.

Accepting the pills.

Immediately.

Zhang Fan's mouth dropped open in delight. "A pill that adds 13 agility, that's great... Chen Yichuan, I'll take this pill. As for the talent awakening stone..."

"Just give me whatever you think is fair in the future. I trust you!!"

Having accepted the pills, Zhang Fan was in a very good mood.

He didn't care much about what Chen Yichuan would give him later; he also trusted Chen Yichuan's character.

Trading a useless stone for pills and attribute points.

For Zhang Fan, it was a great deal!

This scene.

Made Head Escort Qian's eyes burn with envy. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and slapped his forehead.

"Brother Yichuan, I almost forgot."

"Someone bought those two flawed martial arts you put up for sale. You earned a total of 1,200 points."

"I'll transfer them to you once we're back in reality!"

flawed martial arts.

1,200 points.

If Head Escort Qian hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten.

However, Chen Yichuan didn't care much about these 1,200 points.

There was no other reason.

The headquarters' point shop didn't have many good things—just a few types of pills, most of which were the same as the ones he had already taken.

After a moment of thought, Chen Yichuan said slowly, "Head Escort Qian, transfer those points to Wang Xiaoyu and have her keep an eye out for talent awakening stones for me."

"Of course, if you have any news about them, you can contact me as well. I'm buying them in bulk."

Thump.

At these words, Head Escort Qian froze for half a second before nodding.

But after another moment, he looked deeply at Chen Yichuan and slowly muttered, "Brother Yichuan, you need so many talent awakening stones... could it be related to your talent?"

Haha.

Hearing this, Chen Yichuan didn't say anything, only smiled.

Seeing this, Head Escort Qian understood.

While the three were chatting, Fang Qing, who had gone to escort the prisoners, finally returned.

"Move it! All of you, behave, or you'll have a hard time, damn it!"

"Ptooey!"

Fang Qing looked disgruntled and spat in disgust.

The three looked over.

Fang Qing, who had been clean before they left, was now covered in dust, with a smudge of gray on his mouth that looked like mud or dirt.

Clearly, something had gone slightly wrong while escorting the beggars.

Seeing this.

Chen Yichuan couldn't hold back his smirk and grinned. "Yo, Qingzi, I asked you to bring the people here, so how did you end up sneaking a snack?"

"Your mouth is all black, what did you eat? Why don't you tell us?"

Haha.

At these words.

Head Escort Qian and Zhang Fan also joined in the teasing.

This immediately made Fang Qing even angrier, and his expression changed sharply.

He grabbed a beggar from the middle of the four—one who looked relatively fair-skinned with pale hands and feet.

"Damn it!"

"It was this beggar! I was happily heading over... but I wasn't careful and he ambushed me, throwing a handful of mud into my mouth!"

"What bad luck." As he spoke, Fang Qing got angrier the more he thought about it and kicked the beggar.

"Ouch!! My foot!"