281 Fruitless Flower (1/2)

In reality, the Free Trade Zone in the Huatian Palace had long been established as the largest trade market in the ancient martial arts world. Many ancient martial art factions were manipulating the trades behind the scenes.

For example, some shipped their sects' resources to the Huatian Palace for trading through the Huatian Palace's Executors, who then earned many Contribution Credits that were used to redeem items from the Huatian Palace Redemption Main Hall.

For the outside ancient martial art sects, all the resources available in the Huatian Palace were things that were highly sought after. Every item was a rare treasure. Because they didn't have the right to redeem items directly in the Huatian Palace, they could only ask for the help of the Huatian Palace Executors.

In reality, many ancient martial art sects would constantly send the Huatian Palace their talents. They were hoping that the Huatian Palace would accept these people, then they could utilize their connections in the Huatian Palace to trade treasures.

After Chen Zi explained this to him, Mo Wen was surprised. It turned out that there was such a place in the Huatian Palace. Since the Huatian Palace had allowed the Free Trade Zone to exist for such a long time, it meant that they had silently agreed to it. In other words, they had agreed to trade with the outside ancient martial art sects and did not care about the loss of the items in the Huatian Palace to the outside world.

Within a few minutes, Chen Zi had led Mo Wen to a huge space. It was like a giant market square and was about the size of a soccer field. It was further divided into a few floors.

In the square, there were many cubicles that were separated using basic paperboards. Each cubicle was like a small shop with a shopkeeper available for trading.

Mo Wen felt like he had walked into a mall. However, even though this mall was simple, the items traded there weren't.

”Follow me!” Chen Zi pulled Mo Wen as they ran up to the second level. Then, a large screen appeared with line after line of words on it. The screen kept scrolling, constantly refreshing itself.

”Do you see it? Actually the Huatian Palace is also purchasing the medicinal herbs that you are talking about. Every day, the Huatian Palace purchases a large amount of medicinal herbs and other ingredients from the ancient martial art sects.

”Under normal circumstances, these ancient martial art sects will sell their items to the Huatian Palace. However, it seems the price offered by the Huatian Palace is not high enough, so there are some people who choose to not sell to the Huatian Palace. Instead, they put the items in a shop, hoping that people who need the items will buy them at a higher price.”

What Chen Zi had explained was simple. Most of the raw materials, including medicinal herbs, were purchased by the Huatian Palace. If Mo Wen wanted to buy medicinal herbs, he could only purchase the leftover medicinal herbs that had not been sold to the Huatian Palace because the owner felt like the price offered was too low.

On the large screen, there was indeed a list of various types of raw materials. There were price tags attached at the side. The list was divided into a few large categories including minerals, medicinal herbs, special metals, and special items.

All sorts of medicinal herbs were listed in the medicinal herbs category. The list had thousands of types of medicinal herbs, with 90 percent of them being spiritual medicines. The Flame Flower and the Blood Lingzhi Mushroom were listed, too. As for the common Silver Tooth Grass and hundred-year ginseng, they were categorized as the lowest grade medicinal herbs.

On top of that, there were items under the minerals and special metals categories. Mo Wen glanced through and noticed that most of the items listed were useful in the Immortal Cultivation world. They were raw materials that could be used for manufacturing refined weapons, talismans, and stratagems.

It was no wonder that the Huatian Palace did not stop the Free Trade Zone from existing. Now, Mo Wen finally understood. Those sects from the ancient martial arts world had all thought that they had taken advantage of the Huatian Palace. However, when it came to winning, they did not know that, in the end, the Huatian Palace was the greatest winner.

Each item on the list was of unimaginable value. All of them were items that could be used in the Immortal Cultivation world.

The Huatian Palace was practically robbing the entire ancient martial arts world. It let all the ancient martial art factions search the entire world to find and gather Immortal Cultivator resources for it.

No wonder the Changtian Sect that he had met in the Changbai Mountain sent its disciples out to find and gather medicinal herbs in the mountains all year long. They clearly could not use spiritual medicine, but they guarded a stalk of Flame Flower as though it were a treasure.

From the looks of it now, probably all of it was used for trade with the Huatian Palace. With so many ancient martial art factions gathering resources for the Huatian Palace, no wonder the Huatian Palace did not worry at all about its outflow of resources. Compared to the things it obtained, its expenditure was but a drizzle, not even a drop in a bucket.

Mo Wen took a glance at the prices of the items. His mouth twitched slightly, and after a while, he only uttered this one word, ”Cheating!”

The Huatian Palace was cheating with its prices, and not just ordinary cheating. On the list, the price of a stalk of fully matured Flame Flower could only be sold for 70,000 Contribution Credits. On the surface, it seemed like a lot, but in reality, when compared to the Huatian Palace's item redemption price, it was practically trash.

Just now, the pills that he saw in the Four stars Redemption Main Hall were priced at around 60,000 Contribution Credits. It was almost the same price as a stalk of Flame Flower.

The value of this kind of pill was not even that of a leaf of the Flame Flower. Even Mo Wen could concoct many of them. Placed in the Huatian Palace Free Trade Zone, it could actually be used to redeem a stalk of Flame Flower. It was too miraculous.

The Huatian Palace had the perfect setup. They bought spiritual medicine at an extremely low price but sold it at an extremely high price. Judging from Chen Zi's expression, it seemed that the ancient martial art factions were more than willing to sell to the Huatian Palace, so they always had a steady supply of spiritual medicine.

Now, he could only sigh. Ignorance was truly very frightening.

”You mean to say that some of these shops have some of the medicinal herbs on the list, but don't sell them to the Huatian Palace?” Mo Wen suddenly realized, since the Huatian Palace could cheat and swindle, buying spiritual herbs and medicine for low prices, didn't that mean that he could also exploit this loophole? Just thinking about it made Mo Wen instantly excited.