Gold Cultivation for one hundred yuan, Deceive cultivator for three hundred thousand?
This price gap was a bit too absurd.
Sui Donglan looked Li Banfeng up and down and asked, "Are you really a Peddler?"
Li Banfeng snorted coldly. Ignoring Sui Donglan, he pushed his cart, shook his rattle, and continued forward.
Sui Donglan quickly stopped Li Banfeng. "Don’t be in such a hurry. Let me ask first, what kind of Taoist Sect is this Gold Cultivation?"
"A good Taoist Sect!" Li Banfeng declared. He took out a toilet and grabbed a toilet brush. "First, carry this on your back; this is for collecting Golden Juice. And this brush here, this is for mixing the Golden Juice!"
Li Banfeng hadn’t bought the spoon for scooping Golden Juice; that item was uncommon.
Sui Donglan shuddered and pushed the toilet aside, holding her nose as she said, "What kind of Taoist Sect is this? Isn’t this just for shoveling shit?"
"Such unpleasant words from a young lady! If you don’t want it, then forget it. Wait for next time!" Li Banfeng packed up the toilet and brush and continued to push his cart forward.
Sui Donglan chased after him. "I want to enter Deceive cultivator."
"Such a beautiful girl, in the prime of your life, why would you want to learn Deceive cultivator? I won’t sell it to you. Pick a good Taoist Sect next time."
The girl stopped Li Banfeng. "I just want this Taoist Sect!"
"You have quite the temper! So what if you want to enter this Taoist Sect? I’m still not selling it to you!"
Li Banfeng pushed his cart and walked away. Sui Donglan realized some of the rumors might be true.
She hadn’t seen the Peddler the first two times, not because of bad luck, but because the Peddler was deliberately avoiding her.
In Greenwater City, someone had once told her that Peddlers didn’t sell Medicinal Powder to make money, but to give it to the right person.
"I sincerely want to become a Deceive cultivator practitioner, please sell it to me!"
The more Li Banfeng refused, the more Sui Donglan believed he was the real Peddler. After much pleading, Li Banfeng reluctantly agreed.
"The Medicinal Powder is three hundred thousand, not a penny less."
Sui Donglan said, looking aggrieved, "I don’t have that much money."
"If you don’t have the money, then stop pestering me!"
Sui Donglan grabbed Li Banfeng’s arm. "Can you sell it cheaper? Will two hundred thousand do?"
Li Banfeng gritted his teeth. "Alright, since you’re so sincere, if you choose Gold Cultivation, I can even give you an extra bucket."
"I don’t want Gold Cultivation..."
"No bargaining for Deceive cultivator. It’s three hundred thousand."
Seeing that the Peddler wouldn’t haggle, Sui Donglan bit her lip and agreed.
Did she have three hundred thousand? Yes. Swindling money from Home Cultivators was easy, and she’d conned more than five hundred thousand from them in and around Iron Gate Fort.
Now, having to part with more than half of it pained her greatly. But if she could truly enter the Path Gateway, she could earn it all back quickly.
She returned to her residence, took out her stashed cash, and handed it to Li Banfeng.
Li Banfeng counted it and found no mistakes, then scooped a handful of ’Medicinal Powder’ from the jar and said to Sui Donglan, "Come on, hold out your face."
Sui Donglan was startled and asked in shock, "Why smear it on my face?"
Li Banfeng frowned. "Where else do you want to apply it?"
Sui Donglan rubbed her Peach. "Isn’t it always applied to the fleshiest part?"
"Have you no shame?" Li Banfeng scolded. "A young lady, baring her Peach in front of a man!"
Sui Donglan’s face didn’t even flush. "You’re a reclusive expert. A mere look means nothing to you. Surely you wouldn’t care about taking such a small advantage of me!"
Li Banfeng shook his head. "Other Taoist Sects apply it to the fleshiest parts. For Deceive cultivator, it must be applied to the thickest part of the skin. And for this Taoist Sect, the thickest skin is on the face."
Sui Donglan didn’t quite believe it; she had never heard of such things before.
Li Banfeng maintained his attitude. "If you don’t want to buy it, that’s fine. I’ll give you your money back."
Sui Donglan quickly stopped Li Banfeng. "I’ll buy it! I’ll listen to you..."
For some reason, the more conflicted Sui Donglan felt, the more she trusted the Peddler.
Li Banfeng took a brush from the cart, mixed the ’Medicinal Powder’ with water, and said to Sui Donglan, "Stand still! Don’t move!"
Sui Donglan didn’t dare to move.
Li Banfeng, holding the brush, wrote the character ’Deceive’ on her left cheek and ’Cultivator’ on her right cheek.
"You are now initiated into Deceive cultivator!"
The moment he finished speaking, Sui Donglan felt a surge of joy.
After the joy, unbearable, intense pain followed.
Sui Donglan clutched her face, crying in agony.
This was normal. Those Cultivators had said that the initiation Medicinal Powder hurt terribly even when applied to the Peach, let alone the face.
After a while, Sui Donglan felt as though her entire face had been skinned with a knife. It was so painful that her vision blurred, her body shook, and she couldn’t catch her breath.
After enduring a little longer, the terrifying pain spread from her flesh to her skull. At this point, Sui Donglan couldn’t bear it anymore and collapsed, rolling on the ground.
Tears streamed down her face as she looked at Li Banfeng. "It hurts too much! Do you have any pain medicine? It’s unbearable..."
Li Banfeng sat on the cart, smiling. "You know pain now? What about those honest people you deceived? Did you ever ask them if they were in pain?"
"You..." Sui Donglan finally realized she’d been conned. She lunged at Li Banfeng, intending to fight him to the death.
Li Banfeng dodged swiftly. Sui Donglan smacked into the cart, not even catching a glimpse of his shadow.
Seeing that a direct confrontation was futile, Sui Donglan quickly tried to defend herself.
"Peddler sir, I didn’t deceive them! I just sell flowers. They bought them willingly."
Li Banfeng laughed. "And what are you saying? Weren’t you willingly buying my ’medicine’?"