The smokey hand dissipated after writing the word 'valuables', and immediately after the slab disappeared and the insides of a cave could be seen.
As Tang Zhan stepped inside, a cozy chill wind grazed upon him as he looked around the small cave.
Lanterns were hung on the top of the cave, enveloping the cave in a warm glow, but what was more eye-catching was the singular lone shelf right in the center.
The shelf was made of ancient wood as it exuded a feeling of going through time. It had five rows, the bottom row was occupied by eggs of different colour and sizes.
The next row contained scrolls, glowing with a varieties of colour, and designed with a mysterious runic language. The middle row had badges, that glittered with tiny stars and let out little vibrations. The second was occupied with syringes, all of them filled with thick fluids.
Tang Zhan looked at the top most row, lined with fine set of vials, and right at the middle was a black vial, just like the one he had in his hand. He went closer to it and the information popped up before him.
[Energy essence; increases energy essence by 50 permanently.
price: can only be sold in pack of dozens for 20,000 killer points].
"Wait are you saying this because you know how much killer points I have?" Tang Zhan questioned feeling scammed.
"..." But he didn't get any replies like usual, but he just shrugged his shoulders. 'Perhaps he only speaks about business alone... Who knows".
"Okay then buddy... Give me three packs of energy essence" Tang Zhan ordered after making some quick calculations in his head.
[ Special offer; buy three packs of energy essence and or one attributed energy essence, can also be infused for you
Price: 60,000 and 10,000 killer points
(Accept) (Decline)].
'seriously I would want to suspect that this guy is just one hell of a greedy trader, he's giving me things that are exactly the amount I have left".
Tang Zhan thought hard about it before he then accepted it. After accepting it, a black bead lay on his palm, wisps of dark and purple aura seeped out of the bead.
He hadn't even had time to access what he bought when a rock bed rose from underneath him, before he could even get his bearings cloth like rock strapped him down onto the bed.
The bead then levitated as a stream of fire was poured into it, the source of fire was the bed tang Zhan laid on, fire immediately caught him without hesitation.
"Arrgh!... Why! The fuck are you burning meeegrrr..." His screams rang out loud in the small cave even making echoes.
[Fire makes infusion better, the higher the fire quality, the higher the infusion effect]
'Wait a minute, fire! I've got a better fire than this' Tang Zhan thought as he gritted his teeth in pain, after all he can't afford to show weakness on front of the dealer, who knows if he might become arrogant towards him because of it.
"Hey dealer... You know (grunt) I've got a pretty high level fire than this ordinary one, so can we substitute them for a better effect" Tang Zhan said through closed teethes, with his skin already suffering a high degree of burn and his HP was continuously dropping before his eyes.
[A higher flame level might kill you, but if that's what you want, then so be it].
Immediately the dealer spoke, a portion of Tang Zhan's soul left his body in the shape of a flame, a white one.
The appearance of the flame shook the whole cave, smokey hand frantically appeared and began shoving the shelve to the far back, as the cave showed signs of being on the verge of melting from the high intensive heat coming from the white flame.
Three packs of energy essence appeared in the air before disappearing again, only for a single essence vial to appear, the fluid inside it was also black like the energy essence, but this one was much darker, it was as dark as a moonless night sky.
Out of the corner of his burnt right eye, Tang Zhan peeked at the vial before him while an information panel showed up.
[Shadow essence: increases shadow attributed energy essence by 4,000 permanently.
Price: three packs of energy essence.].
"Wait dealer, this (grunt)...pant... uhn white flame is my direct phoenix fl...nngh!...flame right, but when I said I have a better flame I (grunt) meant my shadow phoenix flame, so use that." Although Tang Zhan saw the condition of the cave even with just his phoenix flames alone, but he didn't care because if truly his mother was that phoenix then he needed to be strong enough to get to her, and to also keep his earthly family safe.
Unknowingly, Tang Zhan mind was starting to get zeroed in on his phoenix mother. Maybe it was because he needed to get his mind away from the pain he was feeling or perhaps it was an affection he missed that was making him think back to his mother, but his white flames changed.
The white flames he had gotten from the first phoenix he saw and traced was starting to get replaced by a different flame. The new flame can only still be considered about like three percent complete but that three percent was enough to turn the whole rock wall into magma.
The dealer immediately removed the shelf out of the cave, but still the flames continued raging.
Few minutes later, multicolored flames rested above Tang Zhan's head but he was unconscious, if he saw the new flames then he would recognize it to be the same one he had seen around the body of his mother and little siblings.
Something else happened while the dealer could only stand there fascinated and shocked. What had happened, the previous white flames that got discarded, was simply about to leave until a string of shadow erupted from underneath Tang Zhan, the origin being his shadow. The string of shadow grabbed the escaping white flame and swallowed it whole then it returned back to Tang Zhan, but that wasn't all.
Tang Zhan's shadow was undergoing a change after swallowing the white flame, Tang Zhan himself was undergoing a change after the multicolored flame entered his soul, while the shadow essence he bought also started undergoing a change after a shadow version of the new multicolored flame came out.
These three were undergoing a change, but their endpoint was still Tang Zhan body, at this point the dealer itself appeared by the door of the cave staring in horror at the process it was witnessing.
Ever since the flame changed to multicolor, the dealer had lost control of the process and Tang Zhan was the one subconsciously continuing the process and it was even better than the dealer's.
'what is a peak realm entity doing in earth, I have to inform the superiors about this abnormally' The dealer thought to itself while it turned to go make a call to it's superior, but as it turned unaware a shadow sneakily lashed out and swallowed it whole...
... The dealer was gone.
•
In a previously mentioned galaxy filled with ethereal colours, the same middle aged female and old man were talking over a cup of unknown drink in the hall of a building that was built with a type of magical gold.
Suddenly someone ran inside, and knelt down immediately he got close to them.
"My lords, there is an urgent matter!"
"What is it?" The woman was the one who replied while the old man just awaited the response from the young man.
" A dealer died!"
... Silence
For about five minutes everything was so silent that the man felt compelled to look up, but he didn't.
"Did you say a dealer died?" The old man was the one who spoke this time.
"Yes my lord."
"Which of the low grades one died?" The old man questioned but this time the young man looked up.
"It wasn't a low grade, it was a purple dealer that died, even though it was killed his soul didn't return and his contract had burned up."
"A purple dealer died, didn't you say those humans were useless, how did a useless human kill a dealer, even if the dealer was overwhelmed it can hide inside it's stall and lock anyone from coming in so how did a dealer die along with its soul." The old man directed at the woman this time while the young man took that as his cue to leave.
The woman thought long and hard, before she then spoke up.
"An abnormally!".
...