Chapter 186 – The Sacred Fire Palace’s Fifth Rank Elder, Blood Gold, Slipping Quietly into Northriver - Part 3
Early spring.
The Red Ant Guild arrived as usual, led by the familiar Steward Wei. Li Yuan simply clapped his hands in greeting, said nothing else, and gestured for a maid to bring out a small box of gold as payment.
Steward Wei chuckled. “Patriarch Li, it’s the same as always. Without blood gold, I can’t show you the sixth rank catalog.”
Smiling, Li Yuan placed a pouch of blood gold on the table. Steward Wei blinked in surprise, picked up a piece to examine it, and then gave Li Yuan a curious look. Still, he didn’t bother asking idle questions. Instead, he silently took out a small booklet from his robe. “Here’s our sixth rank product catalog.”
Li Yuan returned his smile. “I don’t suppose I can see the fifth rank listings?”
Steward Wei quickly explained, “One needs to be a distinguished guest of our merchant guild to see that. Only with a personal invitation from our president, a special token, can you view the fifth rank catalog.”
Li Yuan wasn’t surprised. After all, these catalogs contained valuable information in their own right. Accepting the booklet, he flipped through it carefully. It was divided into several sections.
The first was sixth rank demonic beast meat, trading at about 20 taels of blood gold for 15 kg.
The second was sixth rank skills, a single manual costing anywhere from 100 to 300 taels of blood gold.
The third was sixth rank weapons. The basic ones cost around 30 taels of blood gold, and the better ones went for as high as 100.
The fourth was sixth rank puppets, which were extremely expensive, even more so than weapons.
Reading on, Li Yuan pondered how best to put this newfound blood gold to use.