Chapter 424 - Selling Formations (1/2)

Alex walked out of his new house and went down the mountain. It was around late in the afternoon right now, so the sun was getting low.

Just a few more hours, and it would be totally dark. He had come out to buy the new formations, but he didn't have any spirit stones with him at all. Most of what he had was spent buying the same formation plates in those other two cities.

Alex had thought of selling those formations to get the money first, but he had a better source for it right now. So, he went to the auction house.

”You are here, Fellow Daoist Yu,” Cai Ping said as he walked in through the door. He seemed quite happy today, meaning the sales must have been great.

”I assume the auction went well today?” Alex said.

”Of course. It went great. Hardly any alchemist sells pills through us unless it's a major auction. So when we do get pills, the customers get quite happy and buy a lot of them,” Cai Ping said.

”I see. I'm sorry but I need to be somewhere else today, Miss Cai. Can we hurry this up?” Alex said.

”Ah, yes, here,” Cai Ping said and handed him a storage bag. Alex checked the storage bag and saw 82 True Spirit stones. That was quite a lot, but given that he had exclusively sold pills over 40% in harmony, the earning was a given.

”Thank you, Miss Cai. I will take my leave now,” Alex said and stood up to walk away. Cai Ping nodded and bade him farewell.

Alex walked back to the sect in less than half an hour and reached the mini-market that was outside of the sect. This market was run by the sect, so he didn't have to worry a lot about getting screwed up on his sales.

He walked into the shop that dealt with formations. Inside was an Elder and a disciple working in the shop. The elder seemed to be busy with the other customers in the shop, so he walked up to the disciple who had their backs turned.

”Excuse me,” Alex called out to the disciple.

”Yes, what is— Aah! It's you,” the disciple called out.

Alex was quite surprised to see her here too. ”Oh, I didn't expect to see you here, hello sister Su,” Alex said. The person working in the shop was the direct disciple of the First Elder, Su Min.

”You really are alive. I thought master had gone mad when he said you returned,” she said. ”What are you doing here?”

”Oh, I'm here to sell some formations. What are you doing here?” he asked back.

”I work here. Also, what? Do you want to sell formations? Why does an alchemist want to sell formations?” she asked.

”Well, because I have nothing to do with it, I guess?” he said and brought out a few plates. ”Can you tell me how much these will sell for?”

Su Min looked at the formations Alex had just dropped and got a little curious. So, she picked up one of them and checked it out.

Suddenly, she squinted her eyes and looked at it more closely. ”Who made this?” she asked.

”I did,” Alex said with a smile.

She looked up and frowned. ”Stop lying, and just say who made these. These are quite good,” she said.

”Haha, I'm not lying. I made them myself. Just a few hours ago too actually,” Ning said with a smile.

”Whatever, if you don't want to say, then don't say,” she said and took the formation plate with her to a giant machine-like artifact behind her.

The machine had a massive metal base and four metal rods popping out of each side. 'That's the formation efficiency tester, right?' Alex thought.

He hadn't seen it closely from the coliseum seating area, so he wasn't absolutely sure, but it did look just like the machines they used there.

Su Min placed the formation upside down and waited for something to happen. Suddenly, light sprung forth from the lowest part of one of the metal rods. It glowed yellow and started climbing up it in chunks.

Alex waited as watched as more and more of the rod glowed fully.  '25 chunks of light  for one rod?' Alex thought.

”It's at least an Earth grade formation; that I was confident on,” Su Min said from the side. Then, the next rod started glowing. It too glowed in chunks and had 25 different parts that could glow.

'So, there are 25 chunks to each rod, making up 100 for the efficiency measurement?' Alex wondered. That did seem to be the case from how Su Min was speaking.

The rods glowed more and more and the 2nd rod fully glowed as well.

”Oh, it's a Heaven Grade formation. Not bad,” Su Min said. Alex was a little surprised when he heard that.

'Not bad? That's a Heaven Grade formation,' he thought. ”Um, is a Heaven Grade formation easy to come by?” he asked.