Free Web NovelChapter 437: Chapter 243: Tracing with a Talisman
"This is the complete Flower Roster."
Cheng Zongyang looked at the new booklet and set it aside, saving it for the Celestial Break Gang to use later.
In the future, this Flower Roster could be used to weed out spies and identify the loyal. That was why he had ultimately decided to buy it.
While he was examining the Flower Roster, Luo Dingran finished calculating the total amount of Points earned from the market’s recent opening.
"Sir, the numbers are tallied. Would you like to see?" Luo Dingran asked, holding out the booklet in his hand.
Cheng Zongyang shook his head. Walking over to a pile of items, he said, "Just give me the summary. I can’t be bothered to read it."
Seeing Cheng Zongyang walk toward the pile of goods, Luo Dingran knew he was eager to start his research and began to speak.
"We sold ten types of items. Total revenue came to 1,062,410 Points. After deducting the 14% service fee, our net income is 913,673 Points. The fee was 148,737 Points. The fish catch brought in 1,720 Points of that total..."
Cheng Zongyang was shocked to hear that the "turnover" from just ten types of items had reached over a million.
’No wonder I still have Points left over after that spending spree. But a service fee of over 140,000... that’s terrifying.’ Cheng Zongyang felt a sharp pang of regret.
’One hundred and forty thousand Points... that’s enough to buy ten First Grade Cultivation Immortality Techniques.’
’It’ll be a long time before I can get the service fee down to the minimum. But after a transaction this big, I should be able to upgrade my account, right?’
He glanced at his Points balance:
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Points: 368,560
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’Did I go on a wild spending spree, or was I actually being conservative? To think I still have over 360,000 Points left.’ Cheng Zongyang didn’t know what to make of it.
Call it a splurge, and yet he still had over 360,000 Points remaining.
Call it frugal, and yet he’d just spent five or six hundred thousand Points without feeling a thing.
It was like the difference between money in a bank account and cash in hand. Even with a million dollars in your account, you don’t really feel it when you spend; it’s just a number on a screen.
But when you’re holding cash, you watch it dwindle, and that’s when your heart starts to ache and the panic sets in.
Still, he was clear on one thing: he’d rather spend less than waste a single Point.
Everything he bought were items usable in both the Wilderness World and the outside world. Besides, there was another reason for his spending pattern: the next time the market opened, these Secret Techniques might not sell as well.
He didn’t believe the number of hosts in the Jade Stone Market was infinite; there had to be a finite number.
’Factor out those who don’t want them, subtract those who’ve already bought them, and then account for potential competitors copying and selling the same secret formulas next time. The number of potential buyers will likely be much smaller.’
This meant that the three secret formulas that were his biggest earners this time might not be so profitable in the future.
Furthermore, he had to save some Points to purchase Soul Crystal Stones. He hadn’t seen any for sale in the market this time.
Now, he was pinning his hopes on the Wilderness Rice.
If it could produce high yields in other worlds but couldn’t be re-seeded... then he wouldn’t have to worry about Points anymore.
’With over 360,000 Points, I can keep buying Soul Crystal Stones in bulk,’ Cheng Zongyang thought. He then said to Luo Dingran, "Continue purchasing Low Tier Crystal Stones. With 360,000, we can buy a great deal."
"Yes, sir." Luo Dingran replied, clasping his hands in a gesture of respect.
Next, Cheng Zongyang, Luo Dingran, Zhang Jinquan, Ding Xing, Luo Zheng, Emperor Ye, and the others began to sort through the items they had purchased.
Elixirs, Spirit Medicines, and formulas; Cultivation Techniques, Martial Arts, and Secret Techniques; Magical Artifacts, technology, and tools; seeds, produce, and beasts... it was safe to say their purchases covered a wide range.
The group split up the work, with each person taking charge of an area they specialized in. Cheng Zongyang took responsibility for the Magical Artifacts, technology, and tools.
Luo Dingran, meanwhile, was tasked with cataloging all the items—classifying, appraising, and recording them in a master list.
With so many items to process, time flew by as they worked.
After sorting through his own pile, Cheng Zongyang couldn’t help but shake his head.
He realized that if he were to study each item individually, it would be incredibly time-consuming—not a task of just a day or two.
Aside from three technological products, the Flying Shuttle Magical Artifact, and the Celestial Secret Talisman, Cheng Zongyang decided to wait until Luo Dingran had fully cataloged everything before studying the rest.
For now, he would focus on the technological items.
The Gatling Gun, the Drone, and the Holographic Simulation Experiment Platform.
There had been many technological items available, but most weren’t what he was looking for. In the end, he’d settled on these three.
He wanted to try out the first one for himself, the second was for exploring the Wilderness World, and the third he intended to give to Zhang Jinquan.
The platform was the most immediately useful; it could be used to research medicinal formulas. It came with its own nuclear battery, which would last for over a decade.
If it turned out to be useless in the end, he could just resell it.
"I’ll leave you to handle things here for now. I’m going to go try something out."
Cheng Zongyang said to Luo Dingran, "Find a place for these tech items. That machine, in particular—just leave it in the cabin for now. The door’s not big enough to get it out. You can figure out what to do with the rest."
"No problem," Luo Dingran nodded. He then took out a cloth pouch and said, "Sir, what should we do with this Storage Pouch? It seems we can’t use the other Magical Artifacts, either."
Cheng Zongyang looked at the palm-sized cloth bag in Luo Dingran’s hand. It had a plain, unremarkable appearance, but it was a Storage Pouch worth fifteen thousand Points.
According to its description, it contained a hundred cubic meters of space and could hold a great many things. The problem was, without Mana or Divine Sense, it was unusable.
It wasn’t like the Flying Shuttle, which could be powered simply by inserting Spirit Stones. And speaking of which, the Teleportation Array Plate came with plenty of High Tier Spirit Stones that they could use.
Cheng Zongyang said, "Just set it aside for now. This Storage Pouch is the only item we bought that requires Mana or Divine Sense to operate. The other few are powered by Spirit Stones, so it’s not an issue."
