Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 11: Mirage Stone
Due to the secret market, there are a lot of good things here. For example, the purple gold that Wei Tianchong needs is sold at several stalls here, and the price is cheap. A piece of purple gold the size of a fist can be sold for more than two to three thousand spiritual coins in Wen Xin's country, but it may not be available for purchase. But here, the asking price is only 1,800 yuan. If you can bargain, you can buy it for 800 to 1,200.
This is mainly because precious resources such as purple gold are not for sale to the outside world, but they are controlled by major sects and control exports. Not only the quantity is limited, but the price is still high, which naturally results in high prices. To put it bluntly, this secret market is the smuggling market and illegal goods market in the world of immortality. Without many intermediate links, the price will naturally drop significantly.
In the final analysis, Zijin is just refined from the ore produced underground. It has almost no cost at all, and the eight hundred spirit coins are already a huge profit.
According to the rules of the Evil Dragon Gang, every item sold here must be charged 20% of the selling price. This commission is not low, but even so, this is still a very profitable business.
Wei Tian settled the accounts. He brought a total of 10,000 yuan this time. If he used all of it to buy materials and brought them back to sell them, the price would at least double, and the profit would be equivalent to 100%. .
This made him excited. After all, he was born in a businessman family. Wei Tianchong seemed to have found a way to make money. He grabbed Tang Jie and said, "This business is worth doing, Tang Jie. This is a profit for both myself and the other party." . If this was a one-hundred-thousand-million-spiritual-money deal, wouldn’t we have made it?"
Tang Jie looked at him coldly: "Do you have one million spiritual coins?"
Wei Tianchong was immediately speechless. Not only did he not have it, not even the Wei Mansion had it.
Besides, with so much money, there may not be such a big market.
"And this secret market only happens once a year, and the risks along the way are huge. Buying and selling goods requires more manpower and time. You and I have to practice, and we don't have the energy to ask about it. We really have to worry about this kind of thing, money If you make money, what should you do with cultivation? Have you heard of any great master who got his start by doing business? Or do you think that as long as you find a way to make a fortune, you can just sit there and enjoy the gains?" Tang Jie added.
Wei Tianchong scratched his head: "I'm also worried about money."
Even our young masters sometimes worry about money.
After Wei Tianchong became the true successor, the money given to him by the Wei Mansion did not increase, but actually decreased.
There is no way, the resources required to cultivate immortality are too great, and even a big family cannot support such a huge consumption for many years. Therefore, they usually provide a large amount of resources for their children in the early stage to lay the foundation, and then they must reduce it in the later stage. Invest.
Generally speaking, when students reach the Linghai level and have a large number of trial tasks, they must make money on their own. At this time, the family's investment and their own money account for half.
When the students enter the world, the family investment will be further reduced.
When one reaches another level, transcends to the pinnacle of mortal life or enters the heart of heaven, it is time for cultivators to give feedback to their families.
For this reason, even though Wei Tianchong brought 10,000 yuan this time, in fact, only 5,000 of the 10,000 yuan was given by the Wei Mansion, and the remaining 5,000 yuan was saved by himself in the past two years.
Because I was passing by, I was a practitioner myself, I had a mustard bag with me, and the safety and transportation costs were extremely low, so I was able to make these profits. And strictly speaking, this is not a profit, it is just a saving of expenses. To turn it into a profit, you have to continue to spend time selling it after returning to the country.
For those caravans, 100% profit, after deducting a lot of manpower and material costs and possible risk losses, an average of 20% to 30% profit per trip is already good.
Some unlucky ones were robbed several times in a row, and it was difficult to say that they lost all their money.
But having said that, Tang Jie still said: "We can't do it, but the Wei Mansion can still do it. After you go back, you can tell your wife about the situation here, and the Wei Mansion will do the business. There should be no problem."
"This is a good idea." Shi Meng also supported it.
If you can open up another source of wealth for the Wei Mansion, you can earn more training resources for yourself.
While talking, the three of them did not forget about business. Wei Tianchong had bought a piece of purple gold and was looking for other materials.
Tang Jie also walked around, looking for what he needed.
While walking, Tang Jie saw an item on a stall not far away.
It was a piece of black wood, about a foot long, completely round, with red lines wrapped around the wood.
Seeing this thing, Tang Jie walked over and said, "Can I pick it up and take a look?"
The stall keeper was a middle-aged man. When he heard this, he replied in a rough voice: "This is a thousand-year-old blood-grained wood heart, worth ten thousand yuan, with ten pieces of spiritual jade, whatever you want. ”
"I'll use this as collateral." Tang Jie took out two pieces of soft jade and placed them on the stage. When the middle-aged man saw that it was soft jade, his eyes immediately lit up.
Tang Jie had already picked up the wooden heart and looked at it carefully.
Blood-grained wood is a good material for cultivating the world. It is useful in making puppets, setting up formations, and even refining weapons.
Thousand-year-old goods are not easy to come by, so Tang Jie didn't take the word "thousand years" seriously, thinking that it would be good to have a hundred years. But as he acquired the blood-grained wood, Tang Jie discovered that this middle-aged man was really not a fool.
Bloodgrain wood is an extremely heavy wood, and the longer it is, the heavier it becomes. This small piece of blood-grained wood weighs at least a hundred kilograms in his hand. I'm afraid it's really thousands of years old. He doesn't know where he got it from.
If this is the case, ten thousand dollars is really not expensive, but because of this, Tang Jie became suspicious.
Tang Jie looked carefully and finally found the problem.
This blood-grained wooden heart looks like a whole, but if you look closely, you can find faint cracks.
This means that it has most likely been disemboweled, but the blood-grained wood has the ability to self-heal, and it has gradually made up for the breaks, leaving only a few gaps.
In other words, this piece of blood-grained wood was artificially fake, and metal was probably stuffed inside to increase its weight. This counterfeiter is also very careful, using real blood-grained wood to fake it, just to increase the lifespan. The cost is not low, and the metal used to increase the weight is also at the level of spiritual materials. If it weren't for Tang Jie's insight, it wouldn't have been easy to discover.
"What a pity..." Tang Jie sighed and whispered: "In order to create a fake thousand-year-old blood-grained wooden heart, a real blood-grained wooden heart was ruined."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The middle-aged man's expression changed upon hearing this, and he glared at Tang Jie.
Tang Jie just shook his head and put it down. Just as he was about to get his things back, the middle-aged man pressed his hand on the back of Tang Jie's hand: "Boy, if you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. What do you mean by slandering me? Today you If you don’t explain clearly, don’t even think about taking away the collateral!”
"What? Did you like my baby?" Tang Jie smiled. He came over and whispered to the middle-aged man: "While there are not many people around now, let's go our separate ways. If we really get into trouble, it will be difficult to do this business of looking for fools."
The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Are you scaring me? You don't even look at where this place is. I'm telling you, if you don't make your words clear to me today, I really can't let you go." ”
Tang Jie sighed.
It is easy for him to prove that the blood-grained wood is fake. He can just pick it up and smash it into pieces. However, this is equivalent to directly destroying the opponent's job. After all, the cost and effort of this fake wood are quite a lot.
Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents. He didn't want to get into trouble, so he picked up the blood-grained wood again. I wanted to pretend to look at it and admit that I was wrong. At this moment, my heart suddenly moved. I focused my eyes and looked at the blood-grained wood. I felt a faint feeling of passing through the wood layer.
He was surprised and happy in his heart. He stared at the blood-grained wood with concentration and calmness, feeling as if he had entered a whole new world.
The lines of the blood-grained wood continued to magnify in his eyes, gradually filling the entire field of vision. What emerged instead was a bizarre world in the wood. Every fiber and every pore was magnified at this moment, like a microscope. The world below is even continuing to penetrate inside.
Finally, looking through the wooden skin, a black metallic luster appeared, like a claustrophobic and dark space...
"Hey, you're really talking!" The middle-aged man's roar still rang in Tang Jie's ears.
Tang Jie could no longer focus his attention, and the scenery in front of him suddenly changed, as if he had suddenly returned to the human world from that dark and mysterious world.
Tang Jie took a long breath and said with a smile: "It turns out to be Black Star Iron, no wonder it's so heavy."
As soon as these words came out, the middle-aged man trembled all over.
How did he know that the blood grained wood was filled with black star iron?
Seeing the other party's performance, Tang Jie knew that he was right.
This made him very excited. He never thought that his insight could be used in this area. If this was the case, then he would be more comfortable looking for materials in the future, and he would no longer have to worry about being deceived or missing out on good things. .
Suppressing the joy in his heart, Tang Jie looked at the middle-aged man coldly and said, "Let go!"
The middle-aged man no longer dared to stop Tang Jie and could only watch him get the things back.
Tang Jie already smiled and said: "Three hundred dollars, I'll shut up, otherwise you won't be able to sell this thing again."
While speaking, he secretly vomited energy to make the cracks on the blood-grained wood more obvious. Since this person was making fakes and was plotting against himself, he didn't mind blackmailing him and cheating him again. .
Next, Tang Jie wandered around, experimenting everywhere with his new insight.
He soon discovered that the Eye of Insight did not work on every material. The higher the quality of the item, the more difficult it was for the Eye of Insight to penetrate. In addition, some high-grade materials have extremely strong spirituality, and the eye of insight is not enough to penetrate into their interior.
For example, soft jade will not work.
But no matter what, at least 70% of the goods in this secret market have no secrets in Tang Jie's eyes. He can tell the authenticity of many things just by looking at them. Unfortunately, he could not find any secret treasures.
At this moment, Tang Jie was turning around when he saw Wei Tianchong suddenly pushing over and waving to Tang Jie: "Tang Jie, come and take a look at this."
I saw Wei Tianchong holding a small piece of jade in his hand and waving to himself.
Tang Jie took it and looked at it carefully, and exclaimed: "This is a fragment of the soul jade? Where did you find it?"
Soul jade is an extremely rare spiritual material ~IndoMTL.com~ that can entrust the soul and cultivate spiritual thoughts. It is a treasure in the eyes of high-level cultivators. It's a pity that the piece in Wei Tianchong's hand is just a fragment, and the effect has been greatly lost, otherwise it would not be possible to appear in this secret city.
"It's only eight hundred dollars at the stall over there, not bad, right?" Wei Tianchong said proudly.
"Yes, it's the real thing." Tang Jie praised.
If this thing is placed on the puppet, it can greatly enhance the effect of Wei Tianchong's Black Water Soul Retention Technique.
"Is there any more?" Tang Jie asked.
"There seems to be another piece."
Tang Jie hurriedly walked over, and sure enough, there was a fragment on the stall. After checking it, he found that it was genuine, so Tang Jie asked Wei Tianchong to buy it for him.
Wei Tianchong wondered: "You don't know how to send souls to black water, so what do you want it to do?"
"I have my uses." Tang Jie smiled.
He originally planned to buy something to entrust his soul to when he came here. After searching around, he didn't find it. Unexpectedly, Wei Tianchong found it.
At this moment, he habitually scanned around. Tang Jie was about to leave when he suddenly stopped and looked back, looking at a mirage stone on the stall.
The mirage stone comes from a giant sea beast called a mirage. It has the effect of transmitting images. It was this thing that Ji Wujiu used to control the Nine Palaces Mysterious Sky Formation on Feng Mo Island.
The piece in front of Tang Jie was much smaller than the one on Fengmo Island. The volume was only about one-fifth of that on Fengmo Island. Moreover, it was still a rough stone, unpolished and of average quality.
What really concerned Tang Jie was that when he looked at the mirage stone just now, he used the insight method out of habit, and found that there seemed to be something shadowy inside the mirage stone.
Tang Jie simply took the mirage stone in his hand and looked at it carefully. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he used his eyesight, he couldn't see the inside clearly. After his eyesight penetrated deep into the inside, it seemed as if it had been swallowed by something, which made Tang Jie feel great. Surprised.