130: Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road (Combined Chapter, Please Subscribe!)

“So, what kind of card are you making?”

Mu Qianshan asked, a bit puzzled, “Speaking of which, you mentioned making a Skill Card for me before. When will that be?”

At Mu Qianshan’s words, Jiang Yuan instantly felt a bit awkward.

Because of the freshman assessment, he seemed to have forgotten about it.

“We’ll talk about it when you can use purple-grade cards. I’ll make you a purple-grade Skill Card directly then.”

Jiang Yuan said with certainty, but all he got in return was Mu Qianshan’s suspicious gaze.

“You didn’t forget, did you?”

“Ha, how could I!”

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he directly turned to look at a material card on a nearby stall.

“How much is this card?”

Jiang Yuan picked up a blue-grade material card and asked.

Mu Qianshan, standing beside him, pouted and said nothing more.

“B-grade blue-grade material card, Dark Spirit Flower? Fifty lower-grade star spirit stones.”

The stall owner looked at the card in Jiang Yuan’s hand and then spoke to Jiang Yuan.

“Give me a discount. This card is only fifty lower-grade star spirit stones in the mall.”

“Besides, this material card isn’t that rare. It’s available in the Undead Cave Heaven, a Xuanxiao-grade Cave Heaven next to Zhongyuan Academy. I just don’t want the trouble, otherwise I’d go find it myself.”

“You go find it?”

The owner sneered and then sized up Jiang Yuan: “If I’m not mistaken, you’re just a Card Master at the Star Epoch Late Stage, aren’t you?”

The owner’s tone was confident, and without waiting for Jiang Yuan to speak again, he directly said: “Lowest forty-five, no bargaining.”

“Forty. If that works, I’ll take it. If not, I’ll look around. A B-grade material card is honestly a bit too low-grade.”

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he put down the card in his hand.

“Lowest forty-five. We also have costs,” the owner said, getting up and waving his hand.

However, seeing the owner get up, Jiang Yuan understood that this price was actually acceptable.

“Alright, then I’ll look around some more.”

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he pulled the still bewildered Mu Qianshan and continued to the next stall.

The stalls on this street were basically tightly packed, arranged on both sides of the road.

At this time, the owner was still hesitating, but seeing Jiang Yuan and Mu Qianshan walk past him without even a glance, continuing forward, the owner finally couldn’t hold back.

“Come, come, come, I’ll give it to you. Just to get things started.”

The owner loudly called Jiang Yuan and the others back, and Jiang Yuan immediately turned around and brought Mu Qianshan back.

“Let me tell you, it’s only because I haven’t made a sale all day; otherwise, I wouldn’t sell it to you at this price.”

The owner said while collecting the money and handing the card to Jiang Yuan.

“See if there’s anything else you need. If so, I’ll earn a little less.”

“No, this one is fine.”

Jiang Yuan shook his head after taking the material card.

Are you kidding me? You’re just opening for business now?

If you hadn’t made a sale all day, you wouldn’t be sitting here so calmly.

After taking the card, Jiang Yuan took Mu Qianshan and continued to the next shop.

“Although I felt fifty lower-grade star spirit stones was already very cheap, I didn’t expect it could be even less.”

Mu Qianshan said, walking along, a bit surprised.

“It could be even less.”

Jiang Yuan continued to look at the cards on various stalls, replying without even lifting his head.

For Mu Qianshan, a young master from a prominent family, bargaining must be a very distant concept.

“Even less? How is that possible!”

“Why not? You don’t actually believe he said he hadn’t made a sale, do you?”

“Huh?”

Mu Qianshan was startled, then quickly reacted: “Of course I don’t believe what he said!”

“Then that’s it.”

Jiang Yuan nodded: “If I had said thirty-seven or thirty-eight, he might not have sold it to me, but after walking around and haggling a bit more, if he has a profit, he’ll naturally sell it to me.”

“Why?”

Jiang Yuan looked up at Mu Qianshan’s confused expression and began to explain.

“If this card were bought in a mall, it would be fifty lower-grade star spirit stones. How much does the mall take?”

“Generally, it’s ten percent.”

Mu Qianshan looked up at the large building over there: “But that’s my family’s mall. The academy’s mall here is probably around ten to twenty percent, I’m not sure.”

Although Mu Qianshan wasn’t very familiar with the prices of low-value items, he knew a lot about his family’s businesses.

After all, if he hadn’t had the talent to become a Card Master, as the young master, he would naturally inherit the family’s assets.

But now that he had proven his talent, his family would have to choose a new heir.

“Okay, then let’s calculate it at ten percent.”

“Ten percent of fifty is five. After the mall takes its cut, forty-five remains. From that forty-five, there are still some cost expenses. Let’s say the miscellaneous shop fees add up to two, leaving forty-three. From this forty-three, they must make at least five, right? Then the cost is thirty-eight.”

Jiang Yuan clapped his hands, and Mu Qianshan understood: “So if it’s sold to a shop in the mall, this card is probably thirty-eight, which is why you said thirty-eight could also be obtained, right?”

“Exactly. But shops in the mall, to earn more money, will naturally push down the price. After all, they have more customers than these small street vendors, sell faster, and offer more security.”

After explaining to Mu Qianshan, Jiang Yuan started looking again.

If he could collect all the cards he needed outside, he wouldn’t go into the mall.

After all, things in the mall are more expensive and you can’t bargain.

As for why he bought from the mall in Zhenhai City?

That was naturally because that mall belonged to Mu Qianshan’s family.

He had a membership card, after all.

Actually, if you factor in the membership card, the price the mall pays for the cards should be even lower.

After all, selling to the mall means getting paid directly after agreeing on a price.

Setting up a stall outside also incurs stall fees, though small, and you only sell when you encounter someone who needs it.

From a time cost perspective, it’s more cost-effective to sell to the mall.

“The cards for making the Bone Spirit Garment have been collected.”

Jiang Yuan put the cards back into his pocket, then finally stopped walking.

After walking around, he had finally finished buying the cards needed to make the Bone Spirit Garment.

There were three cards needed to make the Bone Spirit Garment.

All three were blue-grade material cards.

Now that he was well-off, he naturally had to ensure that the cards he produced were one hundred percent blue-grade.

Being as lucky as when he made Nezha was very difficult.

There was no need to be stingy when it came to card creation.

A-grade Glimmering Star Bone, A-grade Bloody Silkworm Silk, and B-grade Dark Spirit Flower.

Actually, the B-grade Dark Spirit Flower wasn’t the best choice; the best choice should have been the S-grade Dark Fragrance.

However, that material card was too difficult to obtain.

There was also the A-grade Serene Grass, which could also work.

But these weren’t available at the outside stalls, so he could only see if he could find them in the mall later.

Perfect, out of the five cards needed for the next Summoning Card, besides Bone Spirit Garment and Yin Wind Fiend, three were still missing.

The grade of Yin Wind Fiend wasn’t very high either. If possible, it would be good to see if there were higher-grade cards in the mall to replace it.

“So, are you going to start creating cards now?”

“No, I’ll see if there are any higher-grade cards.”

Jiang Yuan shook his head and walked towards the mall.

Again, now that he was well-off, he naturally wanted the best material cards to create his Summoning Card.

“Alright then.”

Mu Qianshan followed Jiang Yuan. As a pure Card Master, although he didn’t create cards, he had just bought two Skill Cards.

He also wanted to see if there were any cards that could provide a sudden advance.

Jiang Yuan said that the advance card he made was too high-grade and couldn’t be made now.

Well, because of the Zifu Sword, Mu Qianshan chose to believe Jiang Yuan.

The two walked together to the mall. The mall wasn’t far from the Wild Market, and they arrived in a short while.

The first floor of the mall, right at the entrance, was still a blind box store.

However, compared to the blind box store in Town Sea City, it was larger.

And, of course, more expensive.

It contained not only material card blind boxes but also Skill Card blind boxes, Enhancement Card blind boxes, and so on.

There were even Beast Taming Card blind boxes!

Of course, Beast Taming Card blind boxes didn’t contain tamed beasts themselves, but rather various cards for sealing tamed beasts.

After all, different tamed beasts required different sealing cards.

For example, for a fire-element tamed beast, a Volcano Beast Taming Card would obviously be better.

There were also regular Beast Taming Cards, which were just plain ones.

Hmm, it’s roughly similar to the various Poké Balls in Pokémon.

However, compared to the Poké Balls in Pokémon, there are more types of Beast Taming Cards.

For example, the Hell Beast Taming Card exclusive to the Three-Headed Hellhound.

And the Beast Taming Card blind box is for opening various Beast Taming Cards.

“Want to try two blind boxes?”

Seeing the blind box store, Mu Qianshan smiled and asked Jiang Yuan.

He remembered that Jiang Yuan used to open ten blind boxes every day during that period.

“Of course.”

Jiang Yuan smiled, then walked towards the blind box store.

“Boss, I’d like a blue-quality material card blind box.”

“Why not ten this time?”

Mu Qianshan asked Jiang Yuan with some surprise.

“It’s a bit expensive, I’ll just check it out first.”

This blue-quality blind box costs fifty lower-grade star spirit stones.

That’s roughly the price of a B-grade blue-quality material card.

If he opens a material card below B-grade, it’s basically a loss.

For B-grade, it depends on the situation.

Only above B-grade can he be considered to have made a profit.

However, the probability of that is too low.

After paying, Jiang Yuan quickly picked one randomly from the blind boxes in front of him.

“What is it?”

Seeing Jiang Yuan open the blind box, Mu Qianshan also leaned over and asked.

“An S-grade blue-quality material card, Mirror Phantom.”

Jiang Yuan raised an eyebrow; it seemed his luck today was good, not quite suitable for Card Creation.

“Mirror Phantom, is it useful to you?”

“Yes, it can perfectly replace Yin Wind Evil as one of the Card Creation materials.”

Jiang Yuan smiled, then put the opened card back into his backpack.

If it’s Mirror Phantom, then her skills will need to be changed.

Many ideas and inspirations immediately appeared in Jiang Yuan’s mind.

It seemed that the Mirror Phantom material card was much better than Yin Wind Evil.

Using this material to replace Yin Wind Evil would greatly increase the upper limit.

Jiang Yuan had been creating many cards recently, although most of them were Skill Cards.

But he also had a slight idea.

It seemed that his thoughts could influence the card’s skills?

Especially for cards with many skills.

Just like when he created the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast card.

Theoretically, the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast should have offensive capabilities.

However, the card Jiang Yuan created mostly had speed skills.

When Jiang Yuan created this card, all he thought about was speed, more speed!

As long as it could help him escape, that was enough.

So, the skills of the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast he created became speed and life-saving skills.

Three skills: one for acceleration, one for speed burst, and one for life-saving.

It could be said that these were all what Jiang Yuan thought of when he was creating the card.

This was also what Jiang Yuan thought of later when he had nothing to do.

Jiang Yuan also wanted to roughly confirm this idea.

Coincidentally, he opened a Mirror Phantom from a blind box at this time.

When he creates a card later, he can see if his idea is correct.

“Do you want to continue?”

Seeing Jiang Yuan open an S-grade material card, many people gathered around.

At the same time, the blind box store owner also showed a brilliant smile and said to Jiang Yuan.

“Let’s have one more.”

Jiang Yuan paid again, and Mu Qianshan also paid and chose a Skill Card blind box.

Skill Card blind boxes were more expensive, one hundred lower-grade star spirit stones each.

Strictly speaking, the prices here were much higher than in Zhenhai City.

But Mu Qianshan clearly didn’t care.

After paying, the two began to choose blind boxes.

After each picked one, they prepared to open them.

“It would be great if Zhao Gongming were here right now.”

Before opening the blind box, Jiang Yuan couldn’t help but mutter.

If the God of Wealth opened a blind box, he shouldn’t lose money, right?

“What did you say?”

Mu Qianshan had already opened his blind box, but he heard Jiang Yuan just now saying it would be better if someone else was here?

Who else could be better than him?

Did Jiang Yuan find a new favorite during these five days of the freshman assessment?

“Nothing, what card is it?”

Jiang Yuan shook his head slightly. As expected, his card was only a C-grade blue-quality card.

“Hmm, a decent machine gun Skill Card, not suitable for me.”

Mu Qianshan said, then handed the card in his hand to the blind box store owner.

blind box stores also buy back cards.

However, after they buy back the cards, they don’t put them back into blind boxes; instead, they take them to the card store upstairs to sell, earning the difference.

Mu Qianshan’s card was bought back for ninety, a small loss.

Jiang Yuan’s card was bought back for twenty, a huge loss!

“Let’s go, today isn’t suitable for drawing.”

Jiang Yuan said, then walked out of the crowd.

“You haven’t lost too much, at least you got an S-grade blue-quality card.”

“Yeah, that’s true, but today I’ll still go buy it. We’ll talk about tomorrow later.”

Jiang Yuan smiled. It was still the same saying: today is not suitable for drawing cards.

Let’s talk about it tomorrow.

“Alright.”

Mu Qianshan nodded, then followed Jiang Yuan upstairs into the material card store.

“Do you have S-grade blue-quality cards: Tian Jian Bottom Stone, Bone Spring Water, Condensed Spirit Skull, and Dark Fragrance?”

“Please wait, I’ll check for you.”

The clerk nodded, then began to search on the catalog in his hand.

“Hmm, among the ones you mentioned, only Condensed Spirit Skull is available. The others are temporarily out of stock.”

“Alright, then bring me the Condensed Spirit Skull.”

Jiang Yuan nodded calmly; this was also within his expectations.

After all, these materials were relatively hard to find.

This was also because there was an Undead Cave Heaven near Zhongyuan Academy.

If this were in Zhenhai City, it would be easy to not find any of these cards.

It could only be said that each place had its own characteristics.

This was also why Jiang Yuan chose to create this card.

It was because he saw in the student handbook that there was an Undead Cave Heaven near the academy.

Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have chosen to create her.

“Okay, please wait a moment.”

“How many Condensed Spirit Skulls do you have?”

Just as the clerk nodded in agreement, a person stood beside Jiang Yuan and asked the clerk.

“Sorry, this is the only one, and it has already been reserved by this gentleman.”

“Only one left?”

The newcomer frowned, then looked at Jiang Yuan.

“It’s you?”

Tong Yuchang raised an eyebrow, not expecting to encounter the guy who eliminated him in the freshman assessment here.

It was really annoying that the freshmen won the final freshman assessment.

“It’s you?”

Mu Qianshan also questioned, why was it one of the guys who eliminated him!

How annoying!

“Yes, it’s me.”

Jiang Yuan nodded calmly, but Tong Yuchang curiously looked around Jiang Yuan.

“Why didn’t he come?”

“Who?”

“The guy with the gun.”

As Tong Yuchang spoke, Mu Qianshan at the side gritted his teeth in annoyance.

He was ignored!

But then again, he was only casually eliminated by the other party, so he naturally wasn’t worthy of being remembered.

However, there will come a time when you remember me!

Mu Qianshan gritted his teeth, looking annoyed.

“Never mind, if he didn’t come, he didn’t come.”

Just as Jiang Yuan was about to speak, Tong Yuchang spoke indifferently.

“But speaking of which, can you give me this card?”

“Why should I?”

Jiang Yuan raised an eyebrow and looked at Tong Yuchang.

Do you have such a big face that I should just give it to you because you say so?

“I need this card to create a Beast Taming Card to seal my new tamed beast.”

Tong Yuchang directly told Jiang Yuan his purpose without any concealment, and then chuckled at Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan also laughed.

This guy was a bit interesting.

His purpose in saying this was simple: to tell Jiang Yuan.

This card is for me to seal my new tamed beast. If you don’t give it to me, it means you are afraid of me, afraid of me becoming stronger.

Provocation? A bit interesting.

Jiang Yuan smiled: “What does that have to do with me? I was here first.”

Tong Yuchang raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

“Alright then, what do you want? I can exchange with you.”

There was no other way; if the other party didn’t fall for the trick, they could only trade fairly.

“Tian Jian Bottom Stone, Bone Spring Water, or Dark Fragrance.”

Before Jiang Yuan could speak, Mu Qianshan glanced at Jiang Yuan, then told Tong Yuchang the materials Jiang Yuan had just mentioned.

“So many? Are you a Card Creator too?”

“Of course.”

Jiang Yuan nodded noncommittally, but he didn’t quite understand what Mu Qianshan meant.