Long-Term Cooperation(1)

Chapter 14: Long-Term Cooperation(1)

"Uncle, what do you think of this quality?" Shengong Linfang asked Shang Guodu, his maternal uncle.

If Fang Yuan knew about this, the image of Shengong Linfang in his heart would grow even further. The Shang family was one of the leading families on the continent and no less powerful than the Shengong family.

Shang Guodu was the next in line of the family, so Shengong Linfang's identity can never be simple in the Shengong family or Shenhai Sect.

Shang Guodu was too busy to be present in Yellow Peach City, so Shengong Linfang was talking to him through his phone.

He then scanned a block of wood, and soon, its image appeared on the screen. The device in Shengong Linfang's hand was the most advanced mobile on the continent, and each one of these cost thousands of medium-level Spirit stones.

Shang Guodu doted on his nephew a lot, so he made some free time to accept his call. When he saw the wood on the phone, he slightly frowned since he was too busy to get disturbed by checking a block of crimson wood.

Shang Guodu was about to reprimand his nephew when suddenly he raised his eyes in surprise. "Where did you get this?" He asked.

Linfang's lips curled up since he expected that reaction from his uncle once he decided to make the call. The crimson wood sold by that boy was different because the wood contained a hint of fire laws and was completely untouched.

If this wood were to be used as talisman paper, the effect would grow as much as fifty percent. Shang Guodu was a businessman, so he immediately saw that opportunity.

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Back to the present,

"I knew you had more of that wood. Why don't you sell it to me?" Shengong Linfang commented, pointing at the bag in Fang Yuan's hands.

Fang Yuan's expression didn't look good since he fell into an unsolvable trap only on his first day. He wanted to slowly sell wood to earn money without getting any attention from others, but that failed right away.

At the same time, he also became curious about what made the wood in his hand better than the ones on the market. Someone like Shengong Linfang, who came from one of the major families on the continent, wouldn't like something simple.

But since he was the provider of the material, he couldn't ask the buyer for the extraordinariness of the item. That would further worsen his situation.

Shengong Linfang needed money, so when he saw an opportunity from the wood, he immediately wanted to capture it for his benefit.

He didn't want to give Fang Yuan any negative impressions of him, but since Fang Yuan seemed pretty adamant about selling him only thirty kilograms despite him giving the highest price in the market.

He came early to the market and trusted his intuition about Fang Yuan returning to the market. It took him hours of waiting, but he saw Fang Yuan. He was left with no choice but to bind Fang Yuan on the spot after seeing Fang Yuan immediately turn around to leave.

"Sorry for my rude behavior earlier," Shengong Linfang knew he was in the wrong, so he apologized.

'Even if you aren't sorry, what can I even do to you?'

Fang Yuan thought in his heart but only smiled on the outside.

Shengong Linfang knew what was in Fang Yuan's mind, but he didn't care. His only intention for Fang Yuan was either to know the location of the wood or to sell him the same.

"The wood in your hand contains a hint of law, so I desperately need it. Tell me your price. I will buy as much as you have," Shengong Linfang stated.

Fang Yuan couldn't control his surprise since he had heard of the laws. It was something incomprehensible to the likes of him, as only Golden Core could touch that barrier.

Cultivation knowledge was quite open to the cultivators on the Qingtian continent, so Fang Yuan had heard about things like laws. It was another factor that he only knew the name and that only the Golden Core level cultivators could come in touch with it.

At the same time, his breathing turned rapid. As much as Shengong Linfang and Shang Guodu saw an opportunity from the crimson wood, he saw the same. He had seen a jungle full of them in Crimson Wood City.

If he returned to the city after the timer ended, he would have that treasure in his hands. But he immediately calmed down.

He and his family had no background at all. His grandfather was an eighty-year-old seventh-level Qi refining, the highest cultivation level in the Fang family.

The highest cultivation level someone had attained in the history of his family was his maternal uncle Chen Yijun. He was a tenth-level Qi refining cultivator, whereas the boy before Fang Yuan had the same level of cultivation, if not higher.

If Shengong Linfang wanted to snatch things from his hands, it was extremely easy, so he started fearing the future. He didn't fear for himself but for his family. He didn't want them to face trouble because of something he did.

Shengong Linfang noticed the wild change of expressions in Fang Yuan's eyes. At first, he became excited, then calm, and then turned pale.

"I have more of the wood. I will give it all to you. Please don't hurt my family," Fang Yuan replied with a flustered expression.

He couldn't think of anything while fearing his and his family's future, so he decided to give the entire tree to Shengong Linfang and lie low after that. It would be a disappointment, considering the plans he had made, but everything would be futile if his family were to face grave danger.

Shengong Linfang was about to say something to calm Fang Yuan down, but he suddenly froze when he heard him flusteredly talk.

'Does he think I'm some sort of thug?'

Shengong Linfang cursed in his heart, but when he remembered the situation Fang Yuan was in and how he was brought to the restaurant, he understood why Fang Yuan would think something like that.

He had no intention to harm Fang Yuan for the crimson wood. To be precise, he couldn't harm Fang Yuan out of greed due to his precarious situation. Hurting Fang Yuan would come to bite him back terribly, so he wanted things to be peaceful for both sides.

The world was peaceful because the Federation of Sects took law & order seriously, and even the children of large families needed to be respectful of the law.

(Chapter End.)

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