Free Web NovelChapter 458: Chapter 252: Purchasing; The Seventh Update
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[Bone-Breaking Axe x500 / 500 Points each] [First Grade Tyrant Skill x300 / 5,000 Points each] [High-grade Spiritual Soil x100,000 kg / 1 Point per kg]
[Spirit Mist Flower Tea Seedlings x100 / 1,000 Points each] [Dragon’s Tooth Rice x10,000 kg / 10 Points per kg] [Garbage-Degrading Bacteria x1,000 kg / 10 Points per kg]
[Spirit Liquid Collector x1,000 / 3,000 Points each] [Radiant Gold Ore x50,000 kg / 30 Points per kg] [Dragon Tooth Rice Seed x100,000 kg / 1 Point per kg]
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Looking at the nine new items, Cheng Zongyang wasn’t as excited this time. He summoned the interface and glanced at his Points.
Thanks to selling Red Blood Pills and other goods, his Points had returned to over 60,000, but he had just spent another 20,000 Points on two Demon Cores. He now only had a little over 40,000 Points.
This time, he didn’t plan on buying any Martial Arts Techniques; the family had enough.
As for the Cultivation Immortality Techniques, he just noted down their names. If he needed them in the future, he could try to buy them then. For now, neither he nor his Soul Slaves had any need for them.
’I don’t need the weapons, the Cultivation Technique, the Garbage-Degrading Bacteria, or the Radiant Gold Ore.’
’Spiritual Soil can be used to cultivate Spirit Medicine and also speed up the growth of normal crops. That’s not bad. I can buy three thousand kilograms to try it out.’
’Flower tea... this should be a type of Spirit Tea. Not bad. I’ll buy one plant and try to propagate it through cuttings later.’
’Dragon Tooth Rice Seed... I wonder if I can save seeds from the harvest in the Wilderness World or the outside world. I’ll buy a hundred kilograms to test it.’
’Spirit Liquid Collector... so it’s a Magical Artifact that gathers the free-roaming Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth and converts it into Spiritual Liquid. I should buy a few to try them out.’
After running through his analysis, Cheng Zongyang calculated the required Points.
He wasn’t buying much this time. The biggest expense was the Spirit Liquid Collectors; five of them cost 15,000 Points. The rest came to 4,100 Points, for a total of 19,100 Points.
’That’s quite a bit less.’
After making the purchases, Cheng Zongyang first took some time to learn about the items. He was mainly interested in the flower tea and the collectors; he only briefly familiarized himself with the rest.
Then, he handed them over to Luo Dingran and the others to be cataloged and processed. Afterwards, he continued refreshing the market.
He only had three refreshes left.
Time passed. With the next three refreshes, Cheng Zongyang discovered that some of the items were things he had bought before. This meant he wasted quite a few slots, which were also taken up by unwanted Martial Arts Techniques, some useless technological products, and a few weapons.
In other words, after filtering out all of the above, he didn’t end up buying many items from this market session.
There were also times when he didn’t have enough Points, and he had to wait for some of the items on his consignment list to sell before he could make a purchase.
All in all, this market session brought more joy than frustration. At the very least, the Demon Cores were a huge gain.
There was plenty of good news, too. Except for the Innate Qi Technique, of which only seven copies sold, all the other items on the consignment list were sold out.
After tallying everything, Luo Dingran reported, "Sir, the six types of goods sold for a combined 984,000 Points. After deducting the ten percent service fee, we received 885,600 Points.
"And counting the more than 70,000 Points you spent earlier, your total purchases cost 661,500 Points, leaving a remainder of 224,100 Points. The main expenditures were on Elixirs, prescriptions, secret formulas, Demon Cores, and Spirit Medicines."
Cheng Zongyang now had a clear picture of his finances. The Demon Cores had appeared in the market again during one of the refreshes, and he had bought another five as reserves.
And this transaction of over 660,000 Points... as expected, five minutes after the market session ended, a prompt for the seventh update appeared before him.
Cheng Zongyang said to Luo Dingran, "I’ll leave these for you all to inventory and manage. I need to deal with the two Demon Cores and the Soul Gathering Stele."
Luo Dingran cupped his hands. "Yes, Sir!"
So, Cheng Zongyang personally went to capture another wild boar. After the second Soul Gathering Stele finished its upgrade, he left the Wilderness World.
The Attributes of the second Soul Gathering Stele after its upgrade were identical to the first.
This was a bit of a letdown, as he had thought it might have different Attributes.
The next step was to upgrade the Soul Gathering Stele in the village.
After the upgrade was complete, the Soul Gathering Stele could provide the maximum level of protection for Cheng Family Village. As for whether it could trap an Innate Expert, that remained unclear. After all, he had no one to test it on.
By the time he finished with these matters, it was already evening.
When he entered the Wilderness World again, Luo Dingran had already cataloged all the items and had retrieved the ledger he had recorded them in.
He looked over the items in the ledger. He wasn’t concerned with most of them, instead leaving them for Zhang Jinquan, Luo Zheng, Luo Daoist, Emperor Ye, and the others to handle. Those tasks suited their particular Talents.
Afterwards, he took a few special Talismans, the five Spirit Liquid Collectors, the Collection of Heretical Dao, and some other items, and left the small cabin.
He placed the collectors in different locations—by the seaside and deep in the mountain forest—to test the collection speed and see if there was a difference in the Spiritual Liquid from each place.
At the same time, he instructed Luo Dingran to send someone to check on their progress once a day.
After taking care of these things, Cheng Zongyang returned to the outside world.
Looking at the items in his hands, Cheng Zongyang began to contemplate his future plans.
Ever since he learned the location of the Cultivators, he had been planning to turn Jade Peak County Town into an Immortal City.
He could use the Teleportation Array to leverage the resources of the two locations, as well as those from his own Wilderness World, ensuring the uniqueness and independence of the Immortal City. The plan was nearly complete, but there was still one issue—the most critical one.
The Soul Gathering Stele had already been upgraded. Its five-kilometer range was enough to encompass the entire County Town, but the only uncertainty was whether the Bewitching Array could trap experts of the Upper Three Grades, or even an Innate Expert.
If it could trap an Innate Expert, then Jade Peak County Town, Tiantuan Village, and Cheng Family Village would have nothing more to fear.
