Chapter 76: Monks also have to live a life with dignity. Liu Quan, who hates the rich, is shocked to hear about the sale of spiritual veins!
The next day.
Just as the sky was getting light, a small flying shuttle weighing fifty stones, fifteen meters long and six meters wide, rushed out of the Daming Immortal Sect.
"Hey, sir, how about our shuttle?" At the front end of the shuttle deck, two figures stood side by side.
Liu Quan, wearing a clean black robe and with carefully trimmed hair and beard, habitually held a piece of hay in his mouth and showed off to Jiajing, who was wearing a white Taoist robe, standing beside him.
"Is this a small shuttle?" Jiajing looked up at the shuttle in front of him.
This small shuttle naturally cannot be compared with the size of the transport-type 'Suzaku Binghuo Yimu Shuttle' that we have seen before.
Compared with the bloated and clumsy former, the overall appearance of this shuttle presents a smooth and light line, shaped like a maple leaf, which is simple yet beautiful.
The outer layer of the shuttle seems to be made of a special spiritual wood material, decorated with golden vine patterns, giving it a simple and warm feeling.
While driving, you can see faint golden lights floating on the wooden material.
The front end of the shuttle is decorated with exquisite carvings of unknown animals, and the tail is decorated with a pair of light wing-shaped decorations.
The deck is covered with soft grass mats and surrounded by a low wooden railing inlaid with special gemstones.
Energy emanates from these gems, wrapping around the deck and forming an energy shield to block the strong winds.
"This shuttle is called 'Earthly Branches·Shen, You, and Xu Flying Shuttle - Autumn Wind Dance', and it was produced by the Daxuan Shuttle Company a few years ago." Liu Quan put his hands on the wooden railing, rubbed the raised gem with his thumb, and said with a smile: "It is a convenient flying shuttle in the Earthly Branches series."
"One costs about 50,000 taels of spiritual energy, which is neither expensive nor cheap. After all, I am now the sect's chief elder. I can't take a flying carpet when I go out to discuss matters, right?"
Liu Quan smacked his lips and said unhappily, "Especially when negotiating with old man Huang Feng from the Yellow Wind Valley, we can't be too shabby."
"The shuttle of this 'Autumn Wind Dance' is based on the 'Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots Formation' and has a built-in 'Four Seasons Reincarnation Formation'. The interior cabin is like a room and can accommodate three or four people without being crowded."
"At full speed, 1,200 miles per hour."
"It's small and flexible, easy to control, and suitable for short or medium-distance flights for three or four people," Liu Quan grinned and said, "Sir, when you come back from this trip, you will recognize me as your master."
"This shuttle will be kept in the sect. Anyone who wants to use it can just drive it away. When the sect has more money, discuss with the sect leader and give each of us high-ranking officials one."
"Well, actually, we can ask Elder Liu to build a shuttle specifically for each of us."
"But right now, Elder Liu's focus is on building large shuttles. Small shuttles are actually useless except for short-distance travel or going out to save face."
"Except for some wealthy people or high-ranking members of a sect, everyone else uses the teleportation array if the distance is too far, and uses flying instruments if the distance is too short. No one wastes money."
"The most important thing is that this thing needs to be inspected, replaced, and repaired at regular intervals. It will cost at least three to five hundred taels of spiritual energy."
"A distance of three to five hundred miles would cost at least several dozen taels of spiritual energy. This is for a cheap shuttle like mine. The more expensive ones would consume so much energy if all kinds of magic arrays were fully activated that I dare not even think about it..."
"Therefore, ordinary cultivators, unless they want to pretend to be rich or save face, will not consider this thing..." As Liu Quan spoke, he began to calculate the accounts with a grin.
Jiajing naturally understood the meaning of this.
The Daming Immortal Sect, no matter what, is a medium-sized sect with a great Jindan monk in charge, so it still has to maintain its reputation.
Especially this time, I'm going to talk to my mortal enemy, so I naturally can't let him look down on me.
Well, monks are also human beings and they have to live their lives!
"Tsk, when I bought the 'Autumn Wind Dance', I saw a young girl in her twenties, whose cultivation was at the initial stage of Qi training, who directly paid in full for a limited edition 'Tian Gan Geng Wu Flying Shuttle - Fiery Sun Divine Horse' made by the 'Da Xuan Shuttle Company' ten years ago."
"Sir, do you know how much this thing costs?" Liu Quan said, and suddenly he became excited, his face flushed with excitement, and said, "I heard that there are only 300 of them in the entire Arcturus."
"One ship is sold for more than four million taels of spiritual energy. Tsk tsk..." Liu Quan said, looking forward and sighing, "The total value of our Daming Immortal Sect is only more than half a million..."
"The most expensive thing in our entire sect is that low-grade spiritual vein, which is probably of the ninth grade..."
Hearing this, Jiajing pricked up his ears and heard something that interested him.
Spiritual veins are forbidden to be bought and sold, but Jiajing believes that for everything, the rules are fixed, but people can be very flexible. If the Ming Dynasty can have a few more spiritual veins, it will be much simpler and more convenient than his own painstaking plan to dig soil in the world of immortal cultivation, nourish the spiritual soil, and artificially cultivate spiritual fields.
"A shuttle of a rich man is equivalent to the entire fortune of an ordinary sect. If this thing crashes into our sect, we will probably have to pay him back with spiritual energy. One repair will cost us a lot of money..."
Liu Quan seemed to be somewhat hostile to the rich. He cursed as he spoke, "Damn it, times have changed. No matter how good you are at cultivating immortals, it's not as good as being reborn into a good one! Your destiny is bad? People directly use a huge amount of resources to make up for their destiny, and let their destiny return to them..."
"What's the saying 'The road to immortality is long, who can say that mortal bones are actually unpolished jade, which will shine with time'? If you find your natal item well, you will be able to stand out sooner or later? It takes resources to polish your natal item!"
Looking at Liu Quan beside him, who exuded pessimism from head to toe, Jiajing did not feel much in his heart.
Well, if I have to say that I have some feelings, it would be the life experience of more than 20 years in my previous life. In that world, there seems to be a word called, um, yes, it seems to be called "oxen and horses".
Describes young people who work hard.
"Is it true that spiritual veins cannot be purchased privately?" Jiajing interrupted these useless thoughts and Liu Quan's chattering and asked softly.
"Spiritual vein?" Liu Quan stopped talking and looked serious. Even though he was in the shuttle covered by the magic circle, he subconsciously looked around and said in a low voice:
“Of course you can buy it privately!”
"But the academy is too strict in checking this thing," Liu Quan said with a serious expression, "Sir, you may not know that in addition to some formal immortal cultivation cities, there are also wild markets in the immortal cultivation world."
"Wild market?" Hearing Liu Quan's serious look and thinking that this place might be where spiritual veins were bought and sold, Jiajing immediately became interested.
"A wild market is a market that is set up outside of a regular town. These markets are usually spontaneously formed by local immortal cultivation sects or independent cultivation forces."
"Some large sects are easier to deal with. They will manage the wild markets and run them just like the markets in regular immortal cultivation cities."
"But those independent cultivator forces are different. They are more chaotic, but precisely because of the chaos, they trade everything!"
"When we were robbing before," Liu Quan's face looked a little unnatural when talking about robbery, but he continued: "All the stolen goods were taken to the nearby wild market to sell!"
"For example, after killing people to steal treasures and destroying the clan, things that are inconvenient to sell are sold in the wild market."
"In fact, in the world of immortal cultivation, if you want to buy and sell really good treasures, you still have to look at the wild market. Those big cities are too formal."
"Take the 'Daxuan Shuttle Shop' for example. There are also special 'shopkeepers' who are responsible for selling some flying shuttles... and in some large wild markets, there will be people who specialize in selling spirit veins!"
"The spirit veins are also divided into nine grades and three levels according to the academy's classification."
"Ninety-eight-seventh grade, low-grade!"
"Level 654, medium!"
"Rank 321, top grade!"
"For example, the spiritual vein under our Daming is of the lower ninth grade. The academy has made contributions to the war of opening up the sect, and the price is lower for the cultivators who can open up the sect, only 150,000."
"The purpose is to encourage the sect to expand. Buildings and other things are all given as gifts. The whole set costs 180,000 taels..."
"However, the sect is constantly increasing in value. With the operation of the sect, the gathering of spiritual energy, and the combing of spiritual veins, the quality will increase. At that time, the value of the entire sect will be even higher!"
"Hey, let's not talk about this for now. It will probably take at least a hundred or eighty years for a ninth-grade spiritual vein to advance to an eighth-grade one..."
Liu Quan waved his hand and said, "But do you know how much the price would be in the wild market if this spiritual vein was extracted?"
"How much?" Jiajing's eyes were heavy, and he kept calculating in his mind. Spiritual veins, there really is a way to buy and sell them!
"Ninth-grade spirit veins, wild and uncombed, 500,000!" Liu Quan raised his hand and said, "After combing and cleaning the impurities, the price is based on the quality. There are experts in this field who specialize in appraisal!"
"Eighth grade, starting at one million taels, negotiable according to quality... The higher the quality, the higher the selling price, scary high..." While Liu Quan was still muttering, Jiajing had already started to calculate in his mind.
"Wild market, spiritual veins..." Thinking of this, Jiajing looked at a magnificent city in the distance and said to himself:
"We must get the spiritual vein!"
"..."
(End of this chapter)
