Chapter 47.1 : The Big Shot Really Did Appear! (Part 1)
A violent crimson glow attracted all the stall owners and passersby in the entire street market area. One after another, they revealed shocked expressions.
Yet Tang Qingmo was the only one without any reaction. He even used his bare hands to split the stone apart to either side.
A blood-red "gem," as large as a clenched fist, was revealed!
"Th-This is…!!"
The middle-aged man running the neighboring stall gasped in shock. "Is this a Blood Red Stone?!"
Blood Red Stone—a type of spirit stone naturally formed after absorbing spiritual energy!
It was commonly used by martial artists to replenish blood energy and stamina, usually hidden inside ordinary rocks.
The old man wearing a straw hat stroked his nonexistent beard and spoke in an unfathomable tone:
"This isn't an ordinary Blood Red Stone. It's the highest-grade one—Blood Moon Stone."
"What the hell are you talking about?!" someone suddenly blurted out in a southern dialect.
Blood Moon—besides absorbing dense spiritual energy, it had also absorbed the blood of mutated beasts. It was the highest-tier and rarest existence among Blood Red Stones!
Normally, just a single sip of its energy was enough to fully restore the stamina and blood energy of a third-rank martial artist!
If used during cultivation, the power contained within could even act as protection, greatly increasing the chances of successfully breaking through to a new realm!
In short, even a small piece of Blood Moon Stone could sell for over 100,000 Dragon Coins on the market. In the black market or at auctions, its value was practically immeasurable!
And now, what Tang Qingmo was holding was the size of an adult man's fist!
!!!
Everyone present was stunned.
"I didn't expect you'd actually bet right," the old man said calmly as he lifted his straw hat.
But if one looked closely, they would notice his fingers gripping the hat were trembling!
Damn it!!
If only I'd sold it for more!
No—if only I had been the one to buy it!
Four hundred bucks—he'd lost everything but his underwear!!
Tang Qingmo exhaled softly and clenched the glowing red stone in his palm.
[System, it looks like you really can find treasures at street stalls. Do you think some big shot will show up next and ask to buy this Blood Moon Stone from me?]
[Uh, Host…]
Even though the system couldn't be seen, its tone sounded like it was breaking into a cold sweat.
[What is it?]
[The "big shot" you mentioned… has already arrived.]
???
"Make way! Make way!!"
As if on cue, two bodyguards dressed in black and wearing sunglasses suddenly appeared, forcing the crowd blocking the stall to move aside.
Why do bodyguards in this world all like dressing in jet-black like this?
The two bodyguards cleared a "grand avenue," and then an elderly man walked down it.
He was neither tall nor short, his face aged and wrinkled, yet he exuded an invisible pressure.
Behind him followed a young man and a young woman, both around twenty years old.
The woman looked proud and slightly disgusted as she frowned at her surroundings, while the man remained expressionless.
The elderly man tapped his cane lightly as he stopped in front of Tang Qingmo and asked with a smile,
"Boy, did you draw that Blood Moon Stone yourself?"
"..."
[System, who is he?]
There was no memory of this old man in the original owner's recollections.
[Host, he is the current president of the Martial Arts Association of Demon City—Lu Rongsheng! The two behind him are his daughter Lu Zhaozhao and his adopted son Lu Tianren!] the system explained.
Lu Rongsheng—according to the original plot, after the original owner's strength skyrocketed, this man would recruit him into the Martial Arts Association and promise him abundant cultivation resources.
The honest original owner agreed.
And then began a series of… errand-running monster-hunting missions!
Sent into forests to search for high-grade medicinal herbs, tasked with protecting this or that person, dispatched to defeat powerful mutated beasts…
In short—
A toolman who said yes to everything.