Li Yun did not hesitate and picked it up as well.
"Why is this guy still taking things?"
"The Profound Earth Crystal alone costs ten high-grade Spirit Stones. This Origin Water Stone is even more expensive, worth a full thirteen high-grade Spirit Stones. Does this bumpkin really think he is some wealthy young master?"
"He is showing off. He is definitely addicted to pretending. I really want to see what expression he makes when it is time to pay."
When Shen Ziyue and the others saw Li Yun pick up the Origin Water Stone, they were stunned for a brief moment before laughing even louder.
In their eyes, Li Yun was only a country bumpkin from the Southern Martial Domain. After taking the Profound Earth Crystal, he had actually dared to take the Origin Water Stone as well, acting as though he could truly afford them. To them, this was simply ridiculous.
No matter how Shen Ziyue and the others mocked him, Li Yun’s expression did not change in the slightest.
His gaze slowly swept across the third floor of the Hall of Rare Treasures and finally stopped on two fist-sized golden ores.
These two golden ores were low grade earth rank metal-attribute spiritual materials called Brilliant Gold Stones. Each one was priced at fifteen high-grade Spirit Stones.
"I will take these as well."
Li Yun picked up the two Brilliant Gold Stones and walked directly toward the checkout counter.
The person in charge of the counter was an elderly man with white hair. He looked to be around fifty or sixty years old, and his face was plain and ordinary, without any remarkable features.
He glanced at the spiritual materials in Li Yun’s hand and spoke in an indifferent voice. "That will be fifty-three high-grade Spirit Stones in total."
"This bumpkin actually went to pay the bill."
"Fifty-three high-grade Spirit Stones. Even if the five of us gathered everything we had, we might not be able to take out that many high-grade Spirit Stones. How could someone from a tiny place like the Southern Martial Domain possibly afford it?"
"Old man, you had better be careful. Watch him closely, or he might try to fool you with some worthless stones."
"Everyone, come and look. A country bumpkin from the Southern Martial Domain is actually trying to buy treasures worth more than fifty high-grade Spirit Stones. He even dared to walk up to the counter. Come on, everyone, let us see how this ends."
Shen Ziyue and the others followed Li Yun all the way to the checkout counter. They stood near him and laughed loudly without restraint, their mocking voices spreading across the entire third floor of the Hall of Rare Treasures.
Because of their deliberate shouting, everyone on the third floor could not help turning their attention toward them.
Clatter!
At that moment, Li Yun’s storage ring flashed, and a pile of glittering high-grade Spirit Stones fell neatly onto the counter with a crisp sound.
There were no more and no less.
Exactly fifty-three high-grade Spirit Stones.
That clear sound was like a heavy slap landing across the faces of Shen Ziyue and his companions. Their laughter stopped instantly, and their faces turned red at a visible speed.
This was a face slap.
A complete and merciless face slap.
All along the way, they had mocked Li Yun without stopping, ridiculing him for being unable to afford the treasures, and they had even attracted the attention of everyone present so that they could watch Li Yun become a joke.
Yet in the end, the ones who became the joke were not Li Yun.
It was them.
Li Yun had casually taken out fifty-three high-grade Spirit Stones, while the five of them looked like clowns who had been jumping around for everyone’s amusement.
At that moment, they could clearly feel the strange gazes around them. Some people looked amused, some looked contemptuous, and some did not even bother hiding the ridicule in their eyes. That atmosphere made Shen Ziyue and the others wish they could turn around and leave immediately.
"Hm?"
Just then, Li Yun’s gaze swept across the area and suddenly stopped on a counter in a secluded corner of the Hall of Rare Treasures.
That counter was placed in a rather hidden position, and it could only be noticed clearly from the direction of the checkout counter. Because of this, Li Yun had not seen it earlier.
On the counter lay ten identical swords. Each sword was a low grade earth rank precious sword. Their bodies were dark violet in color, extremely slender, and covered in a faint cold light that gave off a sharp and chilling aura.
"A sword array?"
Li Yun’s interest was immediately stirred.
A sword array was not simply a group of swords placed together. At the very least, the swords needed to share matching attributes and similar grades before they could be considered the lowest form of a sword array.
More advanced sword arrays were even stricter. Their swords were usually forged by the same artifact refining master at the same time, allowing each sword to possess a hidden connection with the others. Only then could the sword array truly display the effect of combining several swords into one formation, allowing its power to exceed the simple sum of its parts.
Although the sword array in front of him could not be considered a top-tier array, the ten swords were clearly of the same type and carried similar energy fluctuations. For Li Yun, it was still a decent sword array.
After seeing it, Li Yun immediately became interested.
"How many Spirit Stones does this sword array cost?"
Li Yun pointed at the ten violet longswords and asked calmly.
"The Violet Shadow Sword Array is worth eighty high-grade Spirit Stones."
The white-haired elderly man glanced at the swords and answered in an indifferent voice.
Hiss.
The moment these words came out, many people on the third floor could not help drawing in a cold breath.
Eighty high-grade Spirit Stones was not a small amount.
If converted into low-grade Spirit Stones, it would almost be equal to a million low-grade Spirit Stones. Such a price was already enough to purchase a relatively ordinary low grade earth rank spiritual artifact.
"Eighty high-grade Spirit Stones."
Li Yun frowned slightly and pondered for a moment.
Soon after, he nodded and said, "I will take this Violet Shadow Sword Array as well."
After speaking, Li Yun’s storage ring flashed again.
In the next instant, exactly eighty high-grade Spirit Stones fell onto the counter, and their brilliant glow immediately dazzled the eyes of those nearby.
"This..."
Seeing this scene, Shen Ziyue and the others felt as if their already burning faces had been slapped again, even harder than before. Their faces turned even redder, almost to the point where blood seemed ready to drip from them.
This face slap was too ruthless.
They had originally believed that Li Yun could not even take out ten high-grade Spirit Stones, but reality had proved that Li Yun could casually produce fifty-three high-grade Spirit Stones. Then, as though that was not enough, he had taken out another eighty high-grade Spirit Stones to buy a complete sword array.
Added together, that was a full one hundred and thirty-three high-grade Spirit Stones.
One had to know that even if all five of them pooled their wealth together, they could barely scrape up forty high-grade Spirit Stones. They could not even reach fifty.
Yet Li Yun, whom they had repeatedly mocked as a poor bumpkin from the Southern Martial Domain, had taken out more than one hundred high-grade Spirit Stones without even blinking.
How could he possibly possess such wealth?

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