Chapter 108: Great Tidings
After purchasing the Ice Butterfly Ore, Song Jiulai placed the batch of ore into her Mustard Seed Bag.
She looked at the female cultivator and said enthusiastically, “Since we’ve gotten to know each other, I’m Song Jiulai, what’s your name?”
After all, we see each other every day here, with familiar Sects everywhere, so concealing one’s identity is unrealistic.
The female cultivator had never met a cultivator as enthusiastic as Song Jiulai and responded indifferently, “Xue Dan.”
Xue Dan?
I really haven’t heard of them.
Song Jiulai was still enthusiastic and instinctively extended her hand, “Hello, hello.”
As Xue Dan stared in surprise, she realized this was the Yunzhou Continent and silently retracted her hand, “It’s fine, I was just saying hello. Besides the Ice Butterfly Ore, what else do you sell? It feels like you sell a lot of miscellaneous things; you even had the Diamond Silk last time.”
“I only sell ordinary things.”
Xue Dan didn’t seem to like talking much, but she still patiently answered this returning customer with whom she had already completed two transactions.
Song Jiulai didn’t mind, “If you have any other common but rare materials, you can sell them to me, or anything similar to Ice Butterfly Ore, I’ll buy it.”
Xue Dan raised an eyebrow, “You’ll take anything?”
Song Jiulai: “Having more skills never hurts; I like to research everything.”
Mainly because there are many Players.
If I collect some rare items, maybe Players can create surprises for me?
Besides, the Sect’s exchange system needs restocking; we can’t always just sell what the System offers.
For example, the Ice Butterfly Ore she just acquired, she herself wasn’t very interested in it, so she put it up on the Sect’s Points exchange.
Eight Mid-grade items mean eight hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones; this alone is worth eight thousand Points.
I’m not taking a cut as an intermediary; I’m charging the original price. One ore for 100 Points, that’s reasonable, right?
System: “…As long as you think it’s reasonable, who dares to have an opinion?”
Song Jiulai retorted in her mind, “If I hadn’t haggled, they wouldn’t have sold it for eight! And Players aren’t coming here now, so I think it’s perfectly fine to earn back my travel expenses as a price difference!”
And Points exchange is good.
If I directly exchanged them for Spirit Stones and sold them, Players would feel ripped off.
But as long as it’s exchanged for Points.
Well, if I work hard, I can afford it.
Besides, Points were originally something Song Jiulai gave out for free. If she gave out too many, it would be like giving things away to Players, and in the long run, she’d be losing money, so she had to find ways to deduct from various sources.
A good market contributes to the Sect’s virtuous cycle.
After the Ice Butterfly Ore was listed, Fan Guozhou was the first to see it.
However, he deals in wine and wasn’t interested in this item.
Artifact Refining generally requires at least four ores to use; the less you use, the worse the effect. This item is purely a money sink, and current Players can’t afford it.
Just as Fan Guozhou was thinking this, he saw that four pieces of the Ice Butterfly Ore were gone.
Huh?
There really is a Sucker.
Fan Guozhou blinked. It seemed he had underestimated how wealthy Players were now.
He just wondered how they acquired the Points.
However, considering that Players’ Points can now be purchased with real money, perhaps some whales used their Money Power.
The one who exchanged for the Ice Butterfly Ore was Liang Xueyao.
He only started refining artifacts to understand why some Sects chose to specialize in one area.
Because this stuff is just too expensive.
Alchemy is also just as expensive.
If the consumed Materials fail and produce nothing, it’s a complete waste.
However, it is indeed useful. At least he clearly felt his Spiritual Energy beginning to advance, and even felt the speed was no slower than going out for Training.
The ore burned is just burned.
He hadn’t even started making Mustard Seed Bags, and the Artifact Refining Materials alone would cost nearly a thousand.
Of course, he didn’t have that many Points. He used his Money Power to find Players in the group and purchase 1000 Points.
Purchasing four pieces of Ice Butterfly Ore was essentially using up all his current resources.
It only produced one Mortal-grade Magic Treasure.
A small Butterfly Knife.
This Butterfly Knife only resembled one in appearance; its interior was naturally made of Cultivation World Materials, and its power was also stronger than in reality.
Sharp, pointed.
But in the Cultivation World, it was just an ordinary Mortal-grade item.
It couldn’t even cut through the skin of some Demonic Beasts.
This Butterfly Knife was a memory from his childhood, given to him by Jiang Tianya.
He had always liked playing with dangerous things as a child, but his family always forbade it. Jiang Tianya, behind his family’s back, gave him such a Butterfly Knife and wished him, “I hope your aspirations come true.”
Unfortunately, it was still destroyed by an accident.
The palm-sized Butterfly Knife slid back and forth between his fingertips; he could also control it with Spiritual Energy.
For example, at this moment, he controlled the Butterfly Knife to fly towards the Sect’s only Smurf.
The knife flew in front of Su Daqiang, who widened his eyes, “What are you doing? How dare you bully your Senior Brother! You’re disrespectful, be careful I’ll beat you!”
Liang Xueyao smiled, “Senior Brother, when will your blue skin return to normal?”
Su Daqiang was touched on a sore spot, “Mind your own business!”
Was it that he didn’t want to recover?
Su Daqiang saw his flying knife, “Did you refine this?”
Liang Xueyao nodded.
Su Daqiang looked at him with envy, “Rich guy.”
The Sect had built a refining room and an alchemy room two days ago. However, while refining was possible, currently, very few Players had the conditions to purchase alchemy furnaces for Alchemy. Chen Miaomiao was trying to research Grafting of Spirit Herbs and hadn’t gotten to these yet.
The Materials consumed in Artifact Refining are also a sky-high price for current Players. Those who can afford to refine must have bought Points from other Players.
Calling him a rich guy makes sense.
Liang Xueyao just chuckled, “I still want to go out and train for a while longer.”
As he spoke, A Wu suddenly ran over with surprise.
“It succeeded! It succeeded!!”
Seeing A Wu’s happy running demeanor, Su Daqiang immediately asked, “What succeeded?”
A Wu came over, extremely happy, “Miaomiao’s grafting method succeeded! Now half of the Experimental Field is filled with Tier 2 Spirit Herb Seedlings, it’s amazing! If this can be stabilized, our Sect will make a fortune!”
Su Daqiang’s eyes widened, “Holy crap, is this the power of Laboratory Big Shots? They can actually research this.”
Liang Xueyao thought, as expected.
This success might lead Chen Miaomiao down many more extraordinary research paths.
Let alone Tier 2, perhaps Tier 3 wouldn’t be a problem in the future.
Doing research in the Cultivation World, it sounds quite exciting.
Down the mountain, they had already started arranging to pave roads with cement. They had indeed found a Coal Mine. Although this thing pollutes, it seems the coal in the Cultivation World is a bit different from reality; they could extract a trace of Spiritual Energy from it, so its pollution might not be that severe?
As for why they were paving roads, it was said to be for Mortals.
Paving roads is for population. As long as Mortals can connect with Mortals from other Sects, meet each other in the future, and perhaps even intermarry, they can be better merged and managed.
The Sect Master went out to scout, and the Players couldn’t fall behind, so the logistical support had to be good.
Moreover, once the roads are paved and more people travel back and forth, the area in the middle of that long journey.
Doesn’t that count as Longevity Sect’s territory?
Owe 8K… This time I’ve learned my lesson from staying up so late and eating carelessly. ==
