63: Continuously evolve two talents

In this way, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another two days had gone by.

During these two days, if one were to ask who was the most famous person in the entire Dongshan Prefecture City, it would naturally be Young Master Lin Yi of the Dongshan Martial Academy!

First, news of Young Master Lin Yi's Breakthrough to the Force Limit Breaking Realm spread from the Dongshan Martial Academy, causing a massive tremor throughout the entire Dongshan Prefecture City.

Afterward, due to his previous conflict with Tower Master Chen of the Wanxiang Tower, Young Master Lin Yi angrily tore up his contract with the Wanxiang Tower and announced that he was no longer a Genius of the Wanxiang Tower.

Subsequently, the two major chambers of commerce, the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce and the Zijing Merchant Guild, sensed an opportunity and began to fight frantically over Young Master Lin Yi.

Finally, after half a day of negotiations, back-and-forth pulling, and a fierce struggle, the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce, with its vast wealth, signed Lin Yi with a Saint-Grade contract plus fifty-four thousand taels of silver—a sky-high contract fee of one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver per year—along with numerous Saint-level Genius contract privileges.

After that, the various great Families in the city, in order to curry favor with this newly risen peerless Prodigy of Dongshan Prefecture, Young Master Lin Yi, also began to send gifts one after another.

These Families sent precious gifts worth anywhere from several hundred to over a thousand taels, flooding Young Master Lin Yi's residence as if they cost nothing at all.

As for these gifts, apart from some particularly valuable ones, Young Master Lin Yi accepted all of them as long as they were normal congratulatory offerings.

Then... he turned around and sold them all to the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce.

"Haha! Young Master Lin Yi!"

Inside a peerlessly luxurious room at the Prefecture City branch of the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce, the hearty old man Wang Ding laughed loudly and spoke to Lin Yi:

"Just now, all of your treasures have been fully inventoried by the appraisers of our Wanlong Chamber of Commerce."

"According to the valuation of those appraisers, the total for all the treasures combined, at a normal purchase price, is approximately twenty-eight thousand seven hundred taels of silver."

"However, because you, Young Master Lin Yi, are a Saint-level Genius of our Wanlong Chamber of Commerce, not only do you get a 50% discount on purchasing regular items below the second rank, but the purchase price when you sell treasures can also be doubled."

"Therefore, the final amount of silver you receive is fifty-seven thousand four hundred taels. What do you think of this price?"

"That works!"

Hearing this number, Lin Yi nodded, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

Fifty-seven thousand four hundred taels of silver; this was indeed a terrifyingly high figure.

Because before coming, Lin Yi had specially asked someone to estimate the value of this batch of treasures, and the final result was that all the treasures together were worth about sixty thousand taels of silver.

But this sixty thousand taels was only the price these treasures could fetch under the most ideal circumstances.

If one were to include the venue fees, transportation fees, depreciation fees, labor costs, and other miscellaneous expenses during the actual selling process...

Then the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce, by purchasing this batch of treasures for fifty-seven thousand four hundred taels, would not only fail to make a profit but might even lose a bit if their luck was bad.

From this, one could see just how much the status of a Saint-level Genius helped him!

"Not bad!"

Thinking of this, Lin Yi nodded inwardly:

"With these fifty-seven thousand four hundred taels, plus the seventy-five thousand taels given to me as per the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce contract, and the twenty thousand taels from the Lin Family, I now have a total of one hundred and fifty-two thousand four hundred taels of silver in my hands."

"And according to the pattern of the attribute panel doubling the silver consumption for Talent Evolution, since I spent sixteen thousand taels of silver for Talent Evolution last time, this time it will be thirty-two thousand taels, the next time sixty-four thousand taels, and the time after that one hundred and twenty-eight thousand taels."

"One hundred and fifty-two thousand four hundred taels of silver; this is enough for me to evolve two talents and still have tens of thousands of taels left. I've struck it rich! I've really struck it rich!"

Lin Yi was filled with joy.

Evolving two talents in one go was something he wouldn't have even dared to imagine before, but this time it had become a reality.

Furthermore, according to the rule of the attribute panel that the more silver consumed, the higher the probability of evolving a powerful talent...

If he were to evolve two talents at once this time, then at least one of them would likely be an Azure-level Talent, and if he were lucky, it wasn't impossible for both to be Azure-level Talents!

Thinking of the power of the Azure-level Talent "Heart Like Pure Ice," even with Lin Yi's Heart-Nature, he was somewhat unable to contain himself at this moment.

"I'll go back and evolve talents right now!"

With this thought, Lin Yi exchanged a few pleasantries with Wang Ding, then took the silver notes and had Wang Ding escort him back to his residence. Finally, he gave an order in his mind:

"attribute panel, charge one hundred and forty thousand taels of silver, and then help me evolve two talents!"

*Whoosh!*

Inside the martial arts cultivation room, as Lin Yi's command fell, the silver notes in his bosom worth one hundred and forty thousand taels of silver instantly vanished into thin air.

Immediately after, the charging number on his attribute panel began to tick up rapidly.

1%

20%

60%

...120%

...180%

...200%

...On the attribute panel, the number rose rapidly, reaching the terrifying figure of 234% in the blink of an eye.

Then... *Swish!*

The originally transparent attribute panel suddenly changed, transforming in an instant into a vast and boundless scroll of the starry sky.

Within the Starry Sky Scroll, the familiar stars of six colors—white, red, yellow, azure, purple, and gold—were still twinkling.

But this time, the number of white stars was extremely few, occupying less than 10% of all the stars in the entire starry sky.

While the proportion of red stars was higher, it was only about 25%.

Instead, yellow stars accounted for the largest proportion, impressively exceeding 50%.

As for the azure stars, although they had increased compared to last time, they only went from 10% to about 14%, not a significant increase.

The even higher purple and gold stars remained pitifully few, accounting for less than 1%.

"Hmm?"

Seeing the stars on the Starry Sky Scroll, Lin Yi's brow furrowed slightly:

"It's fine that the proportion of purple and gold stars is low, but the number of azure stars has only increased by this much?

"It seems the preciousness of talents at the azure rank and above might even exceed my imagination!!"

"It seems I was truly lucky to be able to pull 'Heart Like Pure Ice' last time."

"Sigh! I hope this good luck can continue this time as well!"

Lin Yi shook his head and thought silently.

Just then—

*Whoosh!*

Within the Starry Sky Scroll, a brilliant star rapidly fell from the scroll, about to fly out of it.

And its color was none other than the one with the largest proportion—bright yellow!