Chapter 2815: Suddenly Wealthy (1/2)
They dared not disobey the hall master, so all Dou Wujin and Tarot could do was carry it out. Afterwards, the two of them personally set off and visited the nine divine halls again.
“Bing Yuan, how much Ancestral Sacred Earth does our fifth divine hall have?”
Jian Chen asked Bing Yuan after Tarot and Dou Wujin had left.
“Hall master, our fifth divine hall has approximately one and a half catties of Ancestral Sacred Earth right now.” Bing Yuan clasped his fist.
“Only one and a half catties? Why’s there so little?” Jian Chen frowned. Compared to the high grade Godking grass, the quantity of Ancestral Sacred Earth was pitifully small.
“You may not remember the differences between Ancestral Sacred Earth and Godking grass, hall master. Within our race, Godking grass of the different grades grow constantly. We have quite the harvest every century. Combined with the fact that we almost have no use for high grade Godking grass, we’ve obviously built up quite a supply over the years. As for Ancestral Sacred Earth, not only is it even rarer than Godking grass, but its formation is extremely gradual too.”
“Aside from that, there’s another important reason—the outsiders highly value Ancestral Sacred Earth. Once it becomes available on the market, the outsiders will often offer astronomical prices and fight among themselves for the Ancestral Sacred Earth. As a result, our race basically takes out some Ancestral Sacred Earth to exchange with the outsiders every once in a while for what we need.”
“As a result, none of the ten divine halls have a particularly large supply of Ancestral Sacred Earth.” Bing Yuan explained to Jian Chen patiently. After all, the hall master before him was still suffering from amnesia. He had completely forgotten about everything that happened in the past.
Afterwards, before Jian Chen could even give him the order, Bing Yuan took the initiative to retrieve all the Ancestral Sacred Earth from the treasury, passing it to Jian Chen politely.
The Ancestral Sacred Earth was placed in a high quality jade box, which isolated all of its presence. It was impossible to sense its presence from the outside at all.
Jian Chen opened the box gently. After he had opened just a crack, surging vital energy immediately seeped out from the box. A dazzling, bright-red glow had even formed from the gathering of pure vital energy.
Jian Chen remained composed. The pure vital energy in the jade box did not astound him, as he had witnessed something with even greater vital energy in the past in the depths below the ground on the Desolate Plane. That was the fleshly core of Gusta, one of three dark gold ape kings of the Ancient Great Apes.
Compared to Gusta’s fleshly core, the vital energy in the Ancestral Sacred Earth seemed insignificant.
Only after inspecting the clump of blood-red Ancestral Sacred Earth in the box did Jian Chen carefully place it into his Space Ring. He asked Bing Yuan, “How much of the Ancestral Sacred Earth do you normally use to exchange with the outsiders?”
“Hall master, it takes an extremely long time for Ancestral Sacred Earth to form, so whenever the ten divine halls release Ancestral Sacred Earth onto the market, it’s always in extremely small quantities. Our race will probably exchange two to four taels of Ancestral Sacred Earth with the outsiders over the course of a century,” Bing Yuan said.
TL: Sixteen taels form a catty, and an extremely rough approximation of a catty is half a kilogram for metric and a pound for imperial. In other words, a catty and a half would be twenty-four taels.
Jian Chen was secretly shocked. Ancestral Sacred Earth was worth far more than he had imagined. He had never thought the outsiders would only obtain four taels of Ancestral Sacred Earth at most from the Darkstar race over a century.
Right now, he possessed a total of a catty and a half of Ancestral Sacred Earth. In other words, the outsiders would have to spend six hundred years at the very least to obtain the same quantity of Ancestral Sacred Earth from the Darkstar race.
Below, Bing Yuan was hesitant. He hesitated for a very long time before finally gathering the courage to say reluctantly, “Hall master, the Fruit of Nurturing Ways the emperor planted in the medicinal garden is currently evolving. Recently, the medicinal garden has been depleting divine crystals several dozen times faster than before. The divine crystals our fifth divine hall has gathered over the years is probably not enough to satisfy the medicinal garden.”
“As for the outsiders in the Hundred Saint City, they often offer extremely extravagant prices to purchase Ancestral Sacred Earth. As a result, please forgive me for my boldness, but I’d like to request the hall master to save some Ancestral Sacred Earth to exchange with the outsiders so that we can gather the divine crystals we need for the medicinal garden.”
Jian Chen raised an eyebrow and asked without concern, “How many divine crystals can you get from the outsiders with a tael of Ancestral Sacred Earth?”