At this moment, a line of female servants in pink uniforms walked up from the stairway, each holding a tray, taking lotus steps to the center of the inner sea geniuses.

"Haha! It's the annual Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit Banquet. These spirit fruits ripen once a year and can only be tasted at this time!"

Jian Chen laughed and walked up, and the other inner sea geniuses gathered around, their mouths watering at the sight of those spirit fruits on the tray.

In the trays held by the female servants, each contained only one green fruit, emitting an enticing fragrance. Just a whiff was refreshing.

This Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit was specially cultivated by Queen Huanxin. Consuming this spirit fruit greatly benefits the nurturing of divine sense.

One of the leading female servants in pink softly said, "Honored guests, these are Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruits prepared by Queen Huanxin for everyone. If you wish to taste, you can do so for a corresponding amount of elemental crystals."

Saying this, the servant took out a Spirit Storage Ring, indicating that only after payment could they taste the spirit fruits.

Although each of the inner sea geniuses drooled with desire, few were willing to directly pay to taste the fruit. After much hesitation, they'd retreat to the back rows.

Ling Feng glanced over and couldn't help but smile inwardly. No wonder these inner sea geniuses, with their noses in the air, looked complicated; it turned out that the price of the Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit was extremely...

Exploitative! Yes, blatantly exploitative!

The spirit fruits varied in size; the large ones were fist-sized, and the small ones were like grapes, with their prices differing vastly.

The largest, roundest spirit fruit was priced at a full two hundred thousand crystals!

Even the smallest grape-sized Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit cost ten thousand crystals!

Though the Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit indeed had efficacy in nurturing the divine soul, these tens of thousands of crystals were too costly for the inner sea geniuses.

However, such fruits could only be eaten on Tianhuan Island, essentially monopolized by Queen Huanxin. Plus, in such a gathering of elites, no one wanted to lose face, so Queen Huanxin dared to set such high prices to extort these face-saving inner sea geniuses.

Sure enough, everyone looked at one another, expressionless, but if you looked closely, you'd see them calculating the crystals in their pockets.

The attendees could afford several tens of thousands of crystals, but to spend thousands on just one fruit, did they have mines at home!

Seeing the atmosphere was a bit cold, Young Master Jian Chen gritted his teeth, bravely laughed, and said, "Haha, I won't be polite! This biggest one is mine! Don't be shy, everyone, take one for yourselves!"

Saying this, Jian Chen took the largest spirit fruit and painfully transferred two hundred thousand crystals into the ring.

With him leading the way, the other geniuses, not wanting to lose face, also gritted their teeth and painfully took the spirit fruits. For the sake of face, even the lowest ones picked fruits worth at least a hundred thousand crystals, and those under fifty thousand weren't even touched.

"Honored guest, how about you?"

The pink-dressed female servant took elegant steps forward, finally standing before Ling Feng, smiling sweetly.

Ling Feng glanced at the spirit fruits; they indeed had some efficacy, but spending tens of thousands was quite exaggerated.

Thinking about it, Ling Feng planned to let both Tuoba Yan and himself have a spirit fruit each. Anyway, these crystals were nothing to him. Not to mention his absurdly large balance on the Supreme Black Diamond Card from the Sky Alliance Commerce, just the fortune he had recently confiscated from Tianluo Ancestor was already several million crystals.

However, at that moment, Young Master Jian Chen chuckled and came over, smiling at Tuoba Yan, "Miss, the delicacy of the Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit is rare. Feel free to pick one, and I'll pay for it, as a token of friendship, what do you say?"

As he spoke, Jian Chen did not forget to throw a provocative glance at Ling Feng, meaning: 'Pauper, I've got money, do you?'

Tuoba Yan didn't even glance at Jian Chen but instead looked at Ling Feng and calmly said, "No need to trouble you, he'll buy it for me."

"Hmph!"

Jian Chen clenched his fist, furious at Tuoba Yan's consistent disregard. However, in the Heroic Pavilion, he dared not directly cause trouble and could only watch Ling Feng, to see how much he'd spend on the spirit fruits under everyone's gaze.

Ling Feng merely smiled faintly, ignoring Jian Chen's antics like a jumping clown, casually choosing two spirit fruits and transferring two thousand crystals into the pink-dressed servant's Space Spirit Ring.

The pink-dressed servant gracefully bowed to Ling Feng, then turned and left with the tray.

But Seeing Ling Feng had chosen two fruits worth a thousand each, Jian Chen couldn't help but sneer, "Hmph, truly a pauper. Miss, don't you feel it's shameful to stand beside such a poor fellow?"

The face-saving inner sea geniuses all laughed and said, "Young Master Jian Chen, not everyone can throw money around and acquire the largest, most expensive Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruit like you."

"I don't know what kind of bewitching potion that kid fed the lady for her to be so loyal!"

"Women these days only look at the face. That kid is just a bit fair-skinned. When finding a man, it should be someone like Young Master Jian Chen, rich and powerful!"

...

The so-called inner sea geniuses, chiming in, made Tuoba Yan so angry she almost exploded.

But, unfortunately, Ling Feng remained unmoved, merely shaking his head with a faint smile, "Since when did spending ten or twenty thousand make one rich? Does someone have a misunderstanding about what it means to be wealthy?"

Upon hearing this, Jian Chen turned his head sharply, glaring at Ling Feng, and sneered, "You dare to speak arrogantly while only buying the cheapest fruit?"

"Finding joy in being a sucker, some people make me feel like my intelligence is being insulted."

Ling Feng chuckled, gently tapping the table, throwing a fond look of concern at Jian Chen.

"Hmph, can't admit being poor, how ridiculous!"

Jian Chen snorted; just then, an older maid entered, carrying a lidded tray from downstairs.

This maid seemed to have some status, dressed differently from the previous maids. She walked to the center of the hall and smiled, "Dear guests, earlier we only served some ordinary-grade Heavenly Illusion Spirit Fruits. This time, carefully cultivated by Queen Huanxin, we have finally produced a top-quality Heavenly Phantom Spiritual Fruit for your appraisal."

"Top-quality Heavenly Phantom Spiritual Fruit?"

The inner sea geniuses looked at one another in amazement that this year there's actually a top-grade spirit fruit!

Ling Feng squinted slightly, intrigued by this top-grade spirit fruit.

If it proved to be worth the value, he didn't mind flaunting a little wealth to make these lofty inner sea geniuses understand who here was the real pauper.

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