DRAGON EMPEROR

Chapter 8 This Class is Too Low

The Heavenly Army Pavilion, a place in the market of Fire Wind City where weapons were sold. They had weapons for ordinary citizens and spiritual weapons for martial artists.

Spiritual weapons, forged from precious materials, as sharp as razors, were so powerful that they could easily slice through metal like mud. It was the perfect weapon for martial artists as they could also improve the fighting abilities of its users.

Spiritual weapons were like Lu Ming's father's sword, the same as those taken by Lu Chuan.

Spiritual Weapons were categorized into nine different Levels, and within each Level, those weapons were broken down into Inferior, Mediocre, and Superior qualities.

This half, Lu Ming intended to purchase a spiritual weapon to practice his sword techniques.

Lu Ming and Qiu Yue entered the Heavenly Army Pavilion together.

They are greeted by the sight of beautiful young girls in two rows of – salesmen in charge of serving guests.

However, when Lu Ming and Qiu Yue entered the store, this salesman frowned. No one wants to go out to serve them.

Lu Ming and Qiu Yue were not expensively dressed. Lu Ming was wearing simple and rough clothes while Qiu Yue was wearing servant clothes. No matter how experienced these salespeople were, they already knew that the two people who had just entered were not rich.

No one wants to serve both.

Lu Ming frowned slightly, then continued to inspect the items being sold, unaffected.

Most of the items sold in the Heavenly Army Pavilion were ordinary weapons. First Level spiritual weapons sold were extremely rare, and most were of inferior quality. There were only a few whose quality was mediocre. After inspecting the entire store, Lu Ming only found three mediocre quality spiritual weapons.

Lu Ming did not like any of them. If he makes a purchase, he wants something a little better.

“What can I help you with, Young Master? I can recommend something to you.”

A timid voice sounded.

Lu Ming's

turned to look at a young saleswoman, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, but a little confused facing her.

She's new to her job as a saleswoman at the store. He is basically shy and has a poor sales performance. He had mustered his courage to come forward because he saw that no one was willing to serve Lu Ming.

“That girl didn't get any sales this month. To serve people like this, he had to despair. From my experience over the years, it would be surprising if the boy could afford a metal sword for ten taels of silver.”

“It's not like that? I would rather stand and rest here than serve a countryman like him.”

Not too far away, a few salespeople looked towards Lu Ming and whispered amongst themselves.

His voice was not too loud, but it did not escape the ears of Lu Ming and Qiu Yue.

“Young Master..” Qiu Yue pulled up Lu Ming's sleeves.

“Nothing,” Lu Ming flashed a smile at Qiu Yue. These were just ordinary people and he did not want to humble himself to their level.

Just as he was about to ask the round-faced saleswoman if there was a higher quality spiritual weapon, she was interrupted by a dissonant voice.

“Yo yo yo, isn't that Lu Ming, Oldest Young Master Lu? What brings you here?” The voice was followed by a man and a girl as they entered.

The man had a pockmarked face, not too tall, but wore a glamorous silver robe.

The girl looked above average but had an aura of arrogance around her as she walked in with her nostrils lifted.

“Lu Bing, Lu May.”

Lu Ming's expression changed.

The Lu Family consisted of eight branches, namely the Main Branch and seven other Auxiliary Branches.

Lu Ming knew these two people, one of whom was the son of the Fifth Auxiliary Branch, and the other was the daughter of the Sixth Auxiliary Branch. The one speaking was Lu Bing.

Lu Bing assessed Lu Ming and said in a dismissive tone, “Why, Lu Ming, I heard you failed to awaken your blood meridians and you cannot even cultivate Essential Qi, either, but here you want to buy a weapon like the others? Are you looking for a kitchen knife to slaughter chicken? Ha ha ha!"

“Soide, Lu Bopeng, you are blocking the way.”

Lu Ming replied indifferently.

“A-what did you say, Lu Ming?” The so-called pockmark was the most upsetting thing for Lu Bing, and being greeted by Lu Ming in such a way in front of so many young and beautiful girls, especially in front of Lu Mei instantly enraged him.

Pockmarked face, I said move aside! Lu Ming exclaimed coldly.

“You want to die, Lu Ming? Do you still think that you are the young master of the Main Branch? After the House Meeting is over, Miss Yao'er will become the Sovereign of the family. You're a nobody, you understand me? You dare offend me? Come on, suck me right now, kowtow and apologize. In that case, I might still give you a bowl of rice.”

Lu Bing barked like a distressed stray dog.

“Just wait, Lu Ming.”

Lu Bing's eyes glowed with a sinister cold fury, he took a deep breath to calm himself down.

Right after, “Lu Ming, I was right about you wanting to buy a kitchen knife to slaughter chicken, right?? If that's true, what quality items can a person like you afford?” Lu Bing sneered.

“Young Master Lu Bing, thank you for cheering us on with your presence. Please let me help, for whatever.”

Lu Bing was already surrounded by a few salesmen, smiles coaxing all over their faces.

“Hehe!”

Looking at the only round-faced saleswoman by Lu Ming's side, Lu Bing sneered proudly and said in a deliberately made loud voice, “Today is my brother Lu Mei's birthday, Lu, and I want to buy him a spiritual weapon as a gift. Tell me, what spiritual weapon do you recommend?”

He puts extra emphasis on the word “spiritual weapons”.

“Young Master Lu Bing wants to buy spiritual weapons!”

Instantly, the salespeople's eyes sparkled and gave their recommendations to Lu Bing with everything they could.

“Young Master Lu Bing, what do you think of this Pine Sword? Inferior First Level spiritual weapon with pine mark inside.”.

“This Silver Ice Sword is made quite well too.”.

At the sight of these spiritual weapons, Lu Mei shook her head in dislike, showing that she disliked any of them.

Lu Bing gritted his teeth and exclaimed, “Don't trick me with this Low First Level spiritual weapon, take out the mediocre First Level spiritual weapon!”

“Young Master Lu Bing wants to buy a Mediocre First Level spiritual weapon ?!” The salespeople trembled with excitement and their eyes shone as bright as the sun. They circled around Lu Bing and promoted crazily, as if their lives depended on him.

A mediocre quality spiritual weapon was worth at least eight hundred taels of silver, and its commission would not be small. How could they not be excited?

On Lu Ming's side, the round-faced saleswoman looked on with envy. He was naturally shy and timid, he could never compete with those salespeople.

After intensive promotion, Lu Bing chose the Light Breeze Sword, an Mediocre First Level spiritual weapon that was worth a thousand taels of silver.

Lu Bing deliberately waved the two pieces of five hundred taels of silver money into the air as he looked at Lu Ming with a look of disdain on his face, and paid the sum in full with a dull pain in his heart.

"Why? Have you not chosen the weapon you wish to buy, Lu Ming? Or are these weapons of too low class for you? Ha ha ha!" laughing Lu Bing arrogantly.

“Of course, Brother Lu Bing, he is the Young Master of the Main Branch, how can a Mediocre First Level spiritual weapon be to his liking?” lu Mei giggled as she inspected her Light Breeze Sword fondly.

“How did you two know? I sincerely think that the weapons here are of too low quality,” Lu Ming said suddenly, pretending to be surprised.

He turned his head towards the round-faced saleswoman and said, “Nona, do you have a Superior Level One spiritual weapon? Let me see it.”

"What?"

Silence swept through the entire shop. Everyone, including the round-faced saleswoman, Qiu Yue, the other saleswoman, Lu Bing and Lu Mei gawked towards Lu Ming.

"What's? Lu Ming, you wish to purchase a Superior First Level spiritual weapon? Don't you know how much it costs? Don't just talk empty, can you buy it?”

Lu Bing's eyes flashed as he shouted at Lu Ming.

A Superior First Level spiritual weapon was easily worth several times the amount of an Mediocre First Level spiritual weapon, he refused to believe, even if his life depended on it, that Lu Ming could afford such an item.

“Young Master, did you say that you want to buy a Superior First Level spiritual weapon?” asked the round-faced salesman in disbelief.

“Why, you don't have a Superior Level One spiritual weapon here? Or are you afraid I don't have enough money?”

Lu Ming grinned and took out a stack of silver banknotes, each silver banknote was worth five hundred taels, and there were at least ten or so silver banknotes.

“In-where did you get so much money?”

Gazing at the pile of silver banknotes in Lu Ming's hands, Lu Bing's eyes almost popped out of his head.

The eyes of Lu Mei and a few other salespeople were almost out of their sockets.

Qiu Yue gaped and gawked towards Lu Ming.

“It looks like Young Master did experience a supernatural encounter,” thought Qiu Yue.

The author wrote? that is Tang Fang, but from the context the author should be referring to Lu Ming.