Seeing the Melody Empress refuse, Xander Xuanyuan and Venerable Dragon Sword both showed expressions of regret and disappointment.
Tanner Nangong and the other two, seeing this, hurried forward, poured themselves a cup, and after drinking, finally understood why Xander Xuanyuan would shamelessly fight for a few bottles of wine, and why he and Venerable Dragon Sword were willing to trade eighth-grade Profound Pills for the wine.
Actually, these bottles were just ordinary wine—except Leon Huang had mixed in a Shed-Body Pill.
A single Shed-Body Pill could be diluted into a whole vat of wine, and one vat could fill a hundred bottles.
After returning from the high-martial world, Leon Huang had picked large amounts of spirit herbs in the Secret Realm, and the Shed-Body Pill was just one of dozens of pills he refined using the Pill Condensation Technique, rated fourth-grade.
After taking a Shed-Body Pill, the body constantly sheds and transforms, becoming more and more suited for cultivation. It also tempers the physique and purges impurities.
Once they realized the benefits of the wine, Xander Xuanyuan and the others quickly snatched the bottle on the table and drank it all.
"Little Huang, how much of this wine do you have left?" Xander Xuanyuan asked.
"Not much, just a few dozen bottles," Leon Huang replied.
"How about selling them all to me? I'll pay thirty thousand taels of silver per bottle!" Xander Xuanyuan squinted and said.
"Such good wine, and you dare offer thirty thousand taels? I'll pay fifty thousand per bottle!" Tanner Nangong sneered. With something this valuable, he wasn't about to show Xander Xuanyuan any courtesy, especially since the old guy had just tried to take his share.
"I'll pay a hundred thousand!" Venerable Dragon Sword's voice rang out.
Leon Huang waved his hand, and fifty bottles of wine appeared on the table. "All the wine is here, seniors. Divide it yourselves—the silver is on me!"
"I want ten bottles!"
With a big sweep of his hand, Xander Xuanyuan stored ten bottles in his Storage Ring.
"Shameless!"
Tanner Nangong cursed and pocketed eight bottles.
The remaining four each took eight bottles, which was at least fair.
"Ha! We've gotten so many benefits from Little Huang, it'd be wrong not to give something back. You're a sword cultivator, so here's a sword I don't use anymore—take it!" With that, Xander Xuanyuan tossed over a dazzling longsword forged from amethyst-like crystal, shining brilliantly.
Leon Huang reached out and grabbed it, feeling as if he'd caught a dragon. Instantly, a surge of power from the sword flowed into his body, boosting his strength all over.
"Is this a ninth-grade spirit weapon?"
Leon Huang looked at Xander Xuanyuan and asked.
Xander Xuanyuan nodded with a smile. "That's right. This Purple Thunder sword was my treasured blade in my younger days, but I don't need it anymore."
"Thank you, Senior Xander."
"I've got a set of armor I don't use either. Little Huang, take it!"
Tanner Nangong then waved his hand, and a set of flame-like armor, as if bathed in fire, flew over to Leon Huang's side.
"Is this also a ninth-grade spirit weapon?"
Leon Huang was a bit surprised.
"Little Huang, I don't have as much wealth as they do, so I won't give you a ninth-grade spirit weapon. Instead, I'll give you a Sword Puppet and three top-grade spirit crystals!" the Melody Empress said, handing over a puppet the size of a real person.
The Melody Empress continued, "I've already wiped the control imprint from this puppet. You just need to brand your soul imprint onto the memory crystal in its head, and it'll obey your commands. But the puppet consumes a lot of energy—a top-grade spirit crystal only powers it for fifteen minutes. Its body is extremely tough; even ordinary Martial Saints can barely break it, and it can unleash late-stage Grandmaster strength."