The internal discounts were generally only offered to fourth-rank Jijiu Daoist masters and above.0

This meant that the same Jade Liquor that sold for as much as 1,500 Taiping coins to outsiders would cost only 1,000 Taiping coins for a fourth-rank priest.0

So Qi Xuansu could exchange for one bottle of Jade Liquor and other items worth 1,000 Taiping coins.0

Su Yan offered this discount because she also knew that 2,000 Taiping coins for this arm cannon was indeed too low a price. Arcane Alchemy was a rare Western technique, and objects like that were hard to come by. Converting its cost price from the Eagle silver coin to the Taiping coin, this arm cannon would be worth at least 10,000 Taiping coins. However, she only offered one-fifth of the price. Even if it was a second-hand item, it was still too low.0

She could only offer 2,000 Taiping coins because that was the maximum...0