Chapter 70: Shadow Mountain Troops (1/2)
Chapter 70: Shadow Mountain Troops
Since someone wanted to eat up his fifteen kilograms of starsilver essence, Su Chen had no qualms playing around with them.
On the second day, Su Chen and Li Shu went to the Flying Immortal Palace. Li Shu found the Golden Name Workshop’s head storekeeper and discussed the sale with him again and, under Su Chen’s orders, he specifically raised the price to 450,000 Origin Stones. After discussing for a long time, the other party actually agreed.
At that moment, Li Shu had confirmed that the other party wasn’t willing to pay money. Only someone unwilling to pay would agree so quickly.
He made an agreement with the head storekeeper that they would make the exchange at the Golden Name Workshop half a month later.
However, that same night Su Chen sold the starsilver essences to the Thousand Treasures Pavilion for 250,000 low-grade Origin Stones. He was missing thirty thousand because he had also setup a VIP card. He only needed to pay three hundred thousand Origin Stones to get an additional two hundred thousand Origin Stones worth of credit. This was also what the Thousand Treasures Pavilion had promised him before. However, Su Chen had only bought one item at the moment.
Su Chen went to search for Night Demon after returning to Northface City with his Origin Stones and his goods.
As soon as Night Demon appeared, she said unhappily, “Why are you looking for me again? It can’t be that you want to borrow Origin Tools to go to the Scarlet Mountain Range again?”
Su Chen laughed, “I’m in no hurry to go to the Scarlet Mountain Range. However, I do need to borrow your Origin Tools again.”
Night Demon opened her eyes wide.
Su Chen waved his hand and said, “Relax, relax. Is it not enough if I pay to rent it?”
Night Demon’s expression became more pleasant upon hearing this. “How much will you pay?”
Su Chen replied, “Two hundred low-grade Origin Stones every day. I will rent three items – the blunderbuss, the battle blade and the armor. I won’t need the boots anymore.”
The Cloud-Stepping Battle boots were already quite old. After Su Chen had used them twice, they were getting closer and closer to breaking. Who knows when they would break completely. Thus, Su Chen decided not to rent that one, only renting three of them instead. While the Flaming Hunter Blunderbuss had terrible accuracy, it was still quite effective against people who were unaware of it when used in a critical moment. Thus, Su Chen decided to keep it.
Two hundred low-grade Origin Stones to rent three Origin Tools for a day was not a shabby price. Night Demon’s expression became even less hostile. “This, we can consider.”
Su Chen continued, “I will also need to borrow some people.”
“Borrow people?” Night Demon’s eyes once again opened wide. “Why do you need to borrow people? Can you not hold off for a bit? Do you think we are easy people to take advantage of……”
“I will also pay for them, eight times the normal amount,” Su Chen replied.
Night Demon instantly shut her mouth.
Because Origin Stones were something that every Origin Qi Scholar could create, each one would also have their own corresponding reference value.
As a simple example, a Qi Drawing Realm Origin Qi Scholar with ten yellow stars could produce an Origin Stone every day. Thus, their reference value was one Origin Stone. This meant that to hire this Origin Qi Scholar to work for someone else required a payment of at least one Origin Stone a day. Otherwise, they could simply infuse any empty Origin Stone that they had without much effort. Why waste their effort working for someone else?
This was what a reference value entailed!
A reference value also meant that placing a price tag on an Origin Qi Scholar was also quite easy. One only needed to calculate the other party’s reference value and then consider the multiplier.
Without a multiplier, Origin Qi Scholars would not be willing to be hired, and how large this multiplier was depended on the person’s individual value and negotiation.
The lowest was two times, while the highest was unlimited.
Su Chen offered a multiplier of eight. This number was not too high, nor was it too low. It could only be considered normal. Although the Immortal Palace was rich and imposing and might not care too much about a thousand Origin Stones, business was still business. If they were unwilling to diligently earn small amounts of money, they would never be able to make a large haul.
In addition, they still had intentions of building up a relationship with Su Chen.
Thus, when Su Chen spoke, Night Demon’s tone also changed.
“What kind of people do you want to borrow?”
“I want at least two Blood Boiling Realm cultivators and three high-layer Qi Drawing Realm cultivators to help me.”
“Who is your opponent? What is their strength like?”
“The Golden Name Workshop. I’m not too clear about their strength.”
“Then how do you know two Blood Boiling Realm and three high-layer Qi Drawing Realm cultivators will be enough to take care of the problem?”
“I don’t know, but I can’t just ask for Yang Opening, Light-Shaking, or even a Spirit Burning Realm 1 cultivator, can I?”
“Why do you need to fight with them?”
“I have some goods that they want to take for free.”
“Can you avoid selling it?”
“I don’t want to miss the beautiful sight of blacker consuming black.”