54: Chapter 54 Selling Crystal Cores
Chi Anlin nodded and walked inside. To protect the privacy of some guests, many transactions were conducted in private rooms.
Following the sales lady to an empty room, Chi Anlin shifted the items he had already selected for sale into the room with a thought.
A pile of crystal cores, spiritual herbs, and various miscellaneous items suddenly appeared before her. The sales lady was stunned for a moment but quickly reacted: "Please wait a moment, guest. I will go get an appraiser for a valuation."
Although the Ant Soldiers could even devour the bones of demon beasts, Chi Anlin had still kept many important parts of the demon beasts to sell.
For example, bear gallbladders, snake gallbladders, tiger whips, etc...
It wasn't for anything special; he just wanted to see if tiger whip paired with goji berries could help Mr. Tang penetrate Mrs. Tang.
Soon, the sales lady returned with a middle-aged man wearing glasses.
【Name】: Li Sheng
【Class】: Spirit Refiner
【Cultivation】: First Realm, Second Stage
Seeing the things on the ground, Li Sheng looked at Chi Anlin with some disbelief. After noticing the Treasure-Seeking Mouse on Chi Anlin, he nodded thoughtfully.
Although he couldn't tell what breed the Treasure-Seeking Mouse was, based on his Appraisal, its quality was definitely above the Yellow Grade.
This mouse-type beast was only at Mortal Rank Fourth Stage and might have been raised since it was a cub. Combined with the space ring and beast taming pouch, it was enough to prove that Chi Anlin definitely had a powerful expert backing him.
He didn't believe that Chi Anlin had obtained so many crystal cores and spiritual herbs by himself.
But why would this young master want to sell these things?
Li Sheng shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and began his work.
The total price for the crystal cores was 7 first-grade spirit stoness, while those miscellaneous demon beast parts were worth 4 first-grade spirit stoness.
"Young master, these things can be exchanged for a total of 34 first-grade spirit stoness. I'll take the liberty of giving you 35 spirit stones, is that alright?" Li Sheng said, looking at Chi Anlin. Chi Anlin had done his homework online beforehand and roughly knew the buyback prices of these items. 34 first-grade spirit stoness was indeed very close to his own estimate.
One First Realm, First Stage crystal core could be exchanged for five first-grade spirit stoness, so Chi Anlin's materials were worth roughly 7 First Realm, First Stage demon beast crystal cores.
He didn't take out the Yellow Grade spiritual herbs. These were either rare treasures or ones Chi Xueyue had given him; they were all useful.
Chi Anlin didn't take out the Blood Wind Lotus either. Even if he were to sell it, he couldn't sell it so hastily. After all, this thing was a rarity that money couldn't always buy.
One first-grade spirit stones converted to RMB was roughly a hundred thousand yuan, which already far exceeded Chi Anlin's pocket money.
This was the tragedy of ordinary people; a lifetime of labor might not even equal a single hunt by a First Realm cultivator.
In fact, the reason Li Sheng gave Chi Anlin one extra spirit stone was that, in his eyes, if he could gain Chi Anlin's favor and become a long-term trading partner, there would definitely be profits in the future.
A space ring was something that even an average Fourth Realm cultivator might not necessarily obtain.
On the top floor of the Jinyuan Chamber of Commerce, in the area specifically open to high-level cultivators, there were only five space rings for sale.
On the side, the sales lady's face was flushed. As a relatively remote store on the second floor, their main customer base consisted of Mortal Rank and First Realm cultivators. Thirty-five spirit stones could already earn her a commission nearly equal to three months' salary.
After adding the store's contact information, Chi Anlin left with the spirit stones. It was rare for him to have so much money, so he planned to head to the stone gambling area to take a look.
He had always learned about such things through novels or games and had never witnessed it with his own eyes.
Now that he had the chance, he naturally had to go play. Besides, with the Treasure-Seeking Mouse, was he really afraid of losing money?
If he really lost, he would take the Treasure-Seeking Mouse to train its courage tomorrow.
Xiao Xing, on his shoulder, shivered and gave Chi Anlin a suspicious look before excitedly looking around.
So many ladies... bah, so many treasures!
Sensing the atmosphere of the stone gambling area, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse's eyes turned into stars. There were more treasures here than it had seen in its entire life!
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"Crunch, crunch..."
Deep underground, a massive and hideous insect beast was devouring Mortal Rank spirit stones one by one.
And around it, extremely fast Ant Soldiers scurried back and forth, splitting the spirit stones and delivering them into Xiao Yi's mouth.
On the other side, at the Spirit Stone Mine.
A Mortal Rank Ninth Stage demon beast roared in anger. Its body was covered in dense Tiger Armor Ant Soldiers, and its steel-like skin was being torn apart like plastic under the ants' giant mandibles.
Burning sensations came from all over its body as Fire Poison surged into its system through the wounds.
These Ant Soldiers were all above Mortal Rank Five, and some had even reached Mortal Rank Seventh Stage!
On the ground, the corpses of many Tiger Armor Ant Soldiers had been crushed into meat paste, and any Ant Soldiers unable to fight would be finished off by passing comrades.
Within this single day, the Ant Soldiers had directly conquered one-third of the Spirit Stone Mine's territory. With the help of some ordinary Ant Soldiers, they quickly mined it clean.
Chi Anlin's hypothesis was wrong, because creatures like Ant Soldiers could grow stronger rapidly by relying on the obtained Spirit Stone Mines.
There were already over fifty Ant Soldiers that had reached Mortal Rank Seventh Stage. These Ant Soldiers alone were enough to kill all the Mortal Rank Ninth Stage demon beasts in the mining area.
In just a few hours, the Ant Queen would be able to completely overrun the Spirit Stone Mine.
The spiritual energy within the Ant Queen had already reached a critical point, putting her on the verge of a breakthrough.
Chi Anlin was completely unaware of all this.
The Ant Soldiers' battles had been too frequent lately. In order to get a good night's sleep, Chi Anlin had turned off the system notifications.
At this moment, Chi Anlin was wandering around the stone gambling area with Xiao Xing.
"An ordinary stone actually costs thirty first-grade spirit stoness? Why don't they just go rob someone!" Chi Anlin cursed under his breath.
Every stone here was terrifyingly expensive. No wonder there weren't many Mortal Rank cultivators wandering around here.
Chi Anlin also realized that his Appraisal system's utility was very limited here.
【Name】: Raw Stone
【Description】: An ordinary stone
This was a stone that contained nothing. And the system's only distinction was...
【Name】: Raw Stone
【Description】: An ordinary stone containing something.
Might as well not give a prompt at all!
After complaining, Chi Anlin continued to pick through the Raw Stones.
If not for Xiao Xing, he might have just gone back. After all, while the system could identify if a stone contained something, it couldn't identify how precious the contents were.
Inside his clothes, a tickling sensation came from his belly button. Chi Anlin raised an eyebrow and reached into his pocket.
To prevent Xiao Xing's extraordinary nature from being discovered by those with ill intentions, Chi Anlin had tucked Xiao Xing into his clothes, telling it to alert him whenever it sensed something good.
This fellow actually dared to poke my belly button!
Pinching Xiao Xing, Chi Anlin held it gently, using a level of force it could tolerate.
"Little Mouse is going to be squeezed to death!"
That's what you get for being naughty!
Just then, a voice echoed in his head again, and Chi Anlin froze on the spot.
【Ding, congratulations to the host for accumulating 1,000,000 blood energy points. System upgrading】