Chapter 27: A Tooth for a Tooth

  "Triple! I'll give you triple the silver coins! You hand it over to me..." To get the Purple Lingzhi, Du Yutiao didn't hesitate to bleed heavily, adding another fold to the price!

  The five-hundred-year-old Purple Lingzhi was of high grade, so the Xianling Square had marked out a price of 50,000 taels. She had originally just been passing by and had made a temporary decision to come over and take a look, but unexpectedly she saw the treasure that she urgently needed.

  Unfortunately, she didn't get that much money at that time!

  50,000 taels... tripled is 150,000 taels!

  150,000 taels is not a small sum of money... Du Yu Die regretted for the umpteenth time why she didn't reveal her brother's identity back then and have them send the goods to the Prince's residence instead. It wouldn't have ended up benefiting this cheap woman otherwise.

  Looking at her determined expression, the sharp glint in Qin's phoenix eyes flashed by, and he smiled slightly, saying in a low voice: "I won't sell it to you, even if you offer me ten times the price."

  Du Yu's chest heaved violently as she bit her lip and turned to one side, her expression unreadable. Chu Yixiu's gaze remained on Qin Luoyi, seemingly deep in thought, without any intention of speaking up for her.

  She felt a pang in her heart, knowing that with her brother's temperament, he would not tolerate her strong demands in public, so she had to hold back and continued: "Then what do you want me to do for you to sell it to me?"

  Qin Luo Yi smiled in her heart.

  She was slightly taller than Du Yuxiang, and when they stood together, she had a head start in momentum. She looked at her with a somewhat condescending tone: "Hehe, miss, don't you understand my meaning yet? I've already made it very clear! This purple spirit mushroom is useful to me, not for sale!"

  If she weren't Chu Yixiu's cousin, she would be afraid of not giving the two of them face and attracting Chu Yixiu's attention, so she secretly sent someone to investigate her... She had long since washed her hands of the matter, why would she still bother with her for so long.

  Du Yu's face darkened, and she gritted her teeth in silence. A flash of viciousness flickered across her eyes, but it disappeared before anyone could notice. Her slender hand clenched into a tight fist within her sleeve.

  "Cousin, since this girl also wants the purple ganoderma, let's go upstairs and take a look again. It's not necessarily that we must have the purple ganoderma, there are many spiritual plants in Xianling Square, you can choose a few more...” Looking at the girl in front of him who was completely ignoring him, Chu Yixiu's deep eyes became even more interesting.

  The corners of his lips, slightly cold, rose slightly, like a fleeting will-o'-the-wisp, too short and too fast, so that people couldn't see it before it disappeared silently.

  He had already seen that the girl didn't have any spiritual energy... and he also didn't know what use there was in spending such a large sum of money to buy this Spiritual Energy-filled Purple Spirit Ginseng. Or perhaps it wasn't for her own use, but rather for an elder in her household?

  Thinking of this, I couldn't bear to let my cousin continue to bully her, so I spoke up and called my cousin away.

  Du Yucui heard this, and was even more unwilling in her heart. However, under the watchful eyes of everyone, she could only step aside, watching with open eyes as Qin Luoyi calmly walked past her side. The apricot-colored exquisite long skirt swept across her eyes with a beautiful arc, so dazzling.

  A flash of fierce and sinister energy flickered in his eyes, taking advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, his fingers moved lightly, a faint stream of spiritual power suddenly swept under Qin Luo's feet.

  Qin's body no longer had much spiritual energy, but in modern times, she was a cultivator who had broken through the innate boundary, with extremely keen senses. The sudden and slight fluctuation made her feel that she had sensed danger, and when she glanced at Du Yuzhe's eyes, she saw a faintly triumphant glint. Her heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly let out a cry of alarm, stumbled, and her body was about to tumble down the stairs...

  "Be careful, miss!" After a slight pause, Chu Yixiu seemed to understand something and quickly glanced at his cousin before reaching out to grab Qin Luo's clothes.

  Who would have thought that Qin Luoyi was shaking her body to stabilize herself, and her two hands were dancing wildly in the air. He didn't grab her arm, but his cousin's arm fell into her hand.

  "Let go of my hand, what do you want to do?!" Du Yu Die glared at Qin Luo Yi with disgust, a chill flashing across her pretty face as she shouted.

  Qin's eyes, as black as lacquer, flashed with a hint of unusual cunning, and instead of letting go of her hand, he grasped it even tighter.

  Du Yu Die's anger intensified, and with a surge of strength in her hand, she was about to fling her away... but suddenly, she felt a numbness in her arm, as if the spiritual energy within her had congealed, rendering her unable to move even an inch.

  "My heart was greatly shocked, my eyes wide open, staring at Qin Luo Yi like I had seen a ghost. My voice trembled with a hint of panic: 'Let me go... hurry up and let me go, what do you want to do, let me go...' "

  On one hand, he was shouting loudly, on the other hand, he stretched out his other hand, without any spiritual power, just using his instincts, fiercely pushing Qin Luo's clothes, wanting to push her away from his side, best to throw her downstairs and cripple her!

  Of course, it would be best if she could die from a fall. However, the staircase here only has about ten steps, so it's probably a bit difficult for her to die from a fall...

  Qin Luo's eyes flickered as she saw the situation, a cold glint flashing in her eyes. Her hand tightened around her wrist, and her face was even more flustered than Du Yuxiang's.

  Du Yu stretched out another hand in a flurry to push her, and she also quickly stretched out another hand, seemingly without any rules, but extremely accurately grasped the hand that was trying to push herself down.

  The two of them were instantly entwined together.

  Just as she was about to fall down, Chu Yixiu was shocked and then didn't care about anything else. He suddenly stretched out his arm and steadily hugged Qin Luoyi's slender waist.

  "Girl, don't panic, I won't let you fall!" He leaned close to Qin Luoyi's ear and whispered softly, trying to calm her down. Her panicked and helpless look on her face, as well as her low cry of surprise, was like a small stone that cast a faint ripple in his heart.

  Scorching breath fell on her ear, Qin Luo's pupils contracted, she couldn't believe that Chu Yixiu would actually hug her, shouldn't he have saved his own cousin first?

  However, at this time she couldn't care about the reason why he did so. After her body stiffened for a moment, it quickly softened and fell into his arms. Her hand that was holding Du Yuxiang's hand also loosened its grip. She turned around and tightly grasped Chu Yixiu's arm, with a look of lingering fear on her face.

  The spiritual power in Du Yucui's body couldn't move, and Qin Luoyi's foot happened to kick her leg as she turned around. Her body uncontrollably fell towards the downstairs.

  "Ah!"

  Seeing Du Yuxiang fall straight down to the ground, Chu Yishu's face darkened, and he tightened his grip on Qin Luoyi's hand instead of loosening it.

  "Shadow!"

  He raised an eyebrow and let out a soft shout, as a lean black figure suddenly floated in through the window like a wisp of smoke, catching Du Yuxiang's falling body just in time.

  She stood up with his support, and the black shadow bowed to Chu Yixiu before drifting away like a wisp of smoke.

  Du Yu's heart was racing with anxiety and he couldn't believe that he had actually fallen from the building.

  If it weren't for the timely arrival of the shadow, she was afraid that she would really fall to the ground... At that time, these people in Xianling Square would not know how to laugh at her.

  Gritting his teeth, he lifted his head to look at his brother-in-law on the floor above, who was still embracing that woman. And in that woman's eyes, there was a hint of obvious mockery and ridicule.

  The anger in his heart surged even more violently, and he secretly took a few deep breaths before temporarily suppressing the rage in his heart. With a wronged expression on his face, he said: "Big brother... she kicked me!"