CHAPTER 418: CHAPTER 402: THE 39TH CARAVAN OF CLOUD CROWN MOUNTAIN (4K SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST)_2

The one waiting beneath the grape arbor must be Bug King Yanguan.

Spiny Mulberry suddenly became sensible, her tentacle pointed lightly, and she introduced in proper order: "Bug King Yanguan, this is the Mountain Lord White Ivy, and this is Lord Melde."

"Greetings, Bug King Yanguan!"

White Ivy and Melde greeted together.

"Welcome to Cloud Crown Mountain. Make yourselves at home, come closer and let us talk."

"You’ve come from so far away, you must be hungry, yes?"

Bug King Yanguan instructed Spiny Mulberry: "Take your combat squad to the northern forest, catch a few black deer and bring them back, and make sure our noble guests from the mountain and below are well received."

"Yes!"

Spiny Mulberry hurried off again.

"Bug King Yanguan, you are too generous..."

Melde replied with false modesty.

White Ivy deftly removed the carapace spider silk bag from his back and handed it forward: "Bug King Yanguan, this is a divine-grade Night Fragrance Fruit, please take a look first."

Bug King Yanguan accepted it, opened it to inspect, his expression gradually becoming solemn.

From experience, he judged the fruit to be produced by a Peak Tree King, and the output would not be high.

Bug King Yanguan asked, "I heard from Spiny Mulberry that earlier you were selling things to Purple Back Mountain?"

White Ivy said, "The elder of Melde and I was named ’Carpesium’. Long ago, five hundred years in fact, he had a stable trading relationship with Mud Ke Bug King of Purple Back Mountain. After Carpesium passed away, I inherited his trade with Purple Back Mountain. So, once I secured the stable rights to trade the divine-grade Night Fragrance Fruit, the first that came to my mind was the Banded Assassin Bug Tribe."

Bug King Yanguan: "For sale?"

White Ivy: "In gratitude for the Banded Assassin Bug Tribe’s care for me through the years, I sold them the divine-grade Night Fragrance Fruit at Source Stone price, at an ultra-low rate. However, such an extremely unbalanced trade, I could not maintain it for long."

Bug King Yanguan: "The price?"

White Ivy said honestly: "Ultra-low price, 500,000 Source Stones per fruit."

"!!!"

Bug King Yanguan almost couldn’t restrain himself from jumping up: Such a valuable thing, and you sold it so cheap?

"This Night Fragrance Fruit is soul-type? Does it grant an ability? What specific ability?"

Bug King Yanguan couldn’t help but suspect something was wrong, lowering his head to examine it again.

White Ivy: "It bestows a soul-based illusion ability called ’Night Fragrance.’ On the soul level, it gives an insect the illusion of smelling a fragrant scent, and the fragrance type changes with the environment. In practice, it matches perfectly with the waterwood dual-system illusion ability granted by your tribe’s Spotted Embrace Fruit."

"Oh!"

Bug King Yanguan pondered briefly and instantly understood.

The ability this Night Fragrance Fruit grants is rather superfluous; precisely because it’s so minor, a small Mountain Lord-level roving merchant could get their hands on it.

The caravan stumbled on a bargain!

Night Fragrance and Spotted Embrace—these two abilities are a perfect pair.

Purple Back Mountain made quite the haul.

However, the Banded Assassin Bug Tribe of Purple Back Mountain had shallow roots; lacking divine-grade fruits, even without the wealth to keep this trade running for long.

The caravan had now come to Cloud Crown Mountain, seeking an exchange for divine-grade goods.

Bug King Yanguan felt a surge of excitement and probed, "500,000 per fruit?"

White Ivy: "Since we’ve come all the way to Cloud Crown Mountain, we certainly can’t sell for only 500,000 per fruit anymore. We hope to exchange them for the divine-grade Spotted Embrace Fruit."

Melde promptly added, "We’re pricing Night Fragrance Fruit at 1.5 million Source Stones, and appraising Spotted Embrace Fruit at 2 million Source Stones, trading one for one. We can make up the difference with Source Stones."

"No! No! No!"

Bug King Yanguan shook his tentacles vigorously and said, "Lord Melde, that’s not right. Divine-grade fruit exchanges can’t be reckoned this way."

Bug King Yanguan said bluntly, "Originally, this Night Fragrance Fruit is really only worth 500,000 Source Stones, an almost useless divine-grade. It’s only because a divine-grade Spotted Embrace Fruit exists that its value... still doesn’t reach 1.5 million, it’s only worth 1 million Source Stones per fruit."

Bug King Yanguan: "By the same logic, Spotted Embrace Fruit isn’t worth 2 million Source Stones either. Its ability is good, but requires the waterwood dual-system potential, and awakening either a water or wood element talent to use. These harsh usage conditions limit its applicability; on its own, Spotted Embrace Fruit is only worth 1.5 million Source Stones. But with the soul-based illusion ability bestowed by Night Fragrance Fruit, its value rises and can be worth 2 million Source Stones per fruit."

Bug King Yanguan: "A single Spotted Embrace Fruit, paired with a Night Fragrance Fruit, together can rival top-level divine-grade fruit in value, and can fetch up to 3 million Source Stones at most."

Bug King Yanguan concluded, "Both sides benefit; by value, two Night Fragrance Fruits for one Spotted Embrace Fruit—this is a fair, balanced exchange where neither side loses."

Bug King Yanguan: "What do you say?"

White Ivy: "Even the Bee King who supplies me with Night Fragrance Fruit has learned about Cloud Crown Mountain’s Spotted Embrace Fruit. With the next harvest, he will mark up the price to 1 million Source Stones."

Melde: "Then we won’t be making any profit."

Bug King Yanguan: "Were the goods purchased with Source Stones?"

White Ivy: "How could that be. We paid a divine-grade price as well."

So it wasn’t just a fast deal? Bug King Yanguan was inwardly startled, but calmly asked, "Do you have other divine grades in your grasp?"

White Ivy: "Of course."

Bug King Yanguan: "Would you mind telling me?"

White Ivy: "I’m afraid I can’t..."

Melde was afraid of offending the Bug King before them and quickly supplemented, "Life-extending divine goods, they’ve all been traded away, so none left on hand for the short term."

Bug King Yanguan fell silent.

After a while, White Ivy took out a jar of Azure Bee King Honey from his carapace, opened it, and introduced:

"The Bee King who commands the divine-grade Night Fragrance Fruit has deep ties to me. He also holds a superior Divine-Given Seed called ’Azure,’ of which I control almost the entire share. I do not trade in conventional Origin Force Food, only Origin Force Honey; this honey is brewed by that Bee King himself."

White Ivy: "The Deep Blue God-Given Seed comes from the depths of the ocean, unique on the whole continent, and its flavor is matchless. Bug King Yanguan, this jar of Azure Bee King Honey, is for you."