Luo Chen had taken on very few missions ever since he joined the Society. In particular, he had never once taken the common task of hunting demonic beasts, so he was not quite familiar with how such transactions were handled.0

Within Peaceward Fortress, several Initiates were still appraising the demonic beasts he had brought out, the work already dragging on for half a day. Whenever they encountered something they could not evaluate, they would turn to transmission artifacts to consult more experienced appraisers elsewhere. Only after much back-and-forth did they finally come to a conclusion.0

The merit points gained from the transaction would also be enough to raise Luo Chen's demon hunter rating from five stars to six. This was well within Luo Chen's expectations; after all, these were four late-stage Demon Kings, each comparable to a late-stage Adept. For most people, killing even one would be a lifetime achievement, yet Luo Chen had slain four in a single shot. If anything, it was weird they didn't raise his rank straight to seven stars.0

What caught his attention was the price—the four demonic beast corpses could be sold to the division for 2.6 million spirit stones. Over the years, he had handled enough transactions to develop a good grasp of market value. A typical first-tier demonic beast corpse was worth around 1,000 low-grade spirit stones; second-tier ones usually fetched about 10,000, provided the corpse remained intact. As for third-tier demons, they were far more valuable, but the prices varied wildly. Early- and middle-stage Demon Kings each had their own price ranges, while late-stage ones were worth several times more, even tens of times more in special cases. In any case, the average price for a middle-stage Demon King corpse would be somewhere around 1-200,000.0

Of course, that was the market in...2