AIP - Chapter 257: Clam Mirage Stone

Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr

As one could expect from a secret market, there were quite a lot of good things here. For example, there were many stalls selling the violet gold that Wei Tianchong needed, and the price was pretty cheap. A fist-sized piece of violet gold could be sold for two to three thousand coins in the Sageheart Kingdom, and even that price wasn't enough to guarantee a piece. But here, the starting price was only eighteen hundred coins, and if one haggled, one could even get it for twelve hundred to as low as eight hundred coins.

This was mainly because although valuable materials like violet gold weren't forbidden from being exported, the major sects controlled how much was exported, and since the supply was limited, the price was high, and this naturally made it so that the prices would only ever increase. And this secret market was really just a private market combined with a black market of the cultivation world. Without all those intermediaries, the price would naturally be much lower.

In the end, violet gold was just an ore that was extracted from the ground and processed. There was little cost to extracting it, so eight hundred spirit coins was already a massive profit.

The Evil Dragons had made it a rule that they would take 20% commission on any item sold here. It wasn't a low percentage, but even so, it was an extremely profitable transaction.

Wei Tianchong did some counting and found that he had brought ten thousand coins with him. If he used it all to buy materials and then went back to resell them, he could sell them for at least double the price, which was 100% profit.

He grew excited. After all, he had grown up in a clan of merchants. Sensing a path to fortune, he looked at Tang Jie and said, "This is a profitable deal. Tang Jie, we can make back our capital and make a profit. If we had one hundred thousand or one million spirit coins, wouldn't we be rich?"

Tang Jie coldly looked at him. "Do you have one million spirit coins?"

Wei Tianchong was instantly rendered speechless

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Oh? Mysterious treasure? What could be inside?

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Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 257: Clam Mirage Stone

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