152: Chapter 152 My main trait is being obedient.

Li Jianrong took out all the crystal fragments he had accumulated during this time.

A moment later, as three Rank 3 crystals appeared, Yun Zhuo asked, "Want to take a gamble?"

The synthesis rate for fourth-tier crystals is less than 30%, and the market price is five times the cost. However, except for specialized crystal merchants who can use large quantities of crystals to build long-term profits, it's very difficult for ordinary people to make money.

Li Jianrong was also someone who could take risks and let go, so he immediately said, "Gamble."

Unsurprisingly, Yun Zhuo succeeded once again.

Then Yun Zhuo synthesized two more fourth-tier crystals, intentionally failing a few times in between, and asked again, "Still gambling?"

fourth-tier crystals are almost the limit for crystal merchants to make money through synthesis.

Because the synthesis rate keeps dropping, but the profit margin doesn't change after fourth-tier crystals. Since the cost increases, the selling price at the same profit margin also rises.

If the profit margin were increased further, it would be more practical to just farm Advanced Mutated Beasts and have them drop high-Rank crystals directly.

"You just failed once, right?"

"Yes."

"Gamble!" Li Jianrong said immediately.

Yun Zhuo smiled slightly and succeeded in the synthesis again.

Li Jianrong could no longer keep his composure; he stood up abruptly, his breathing becoming rapid.

It wasn't because of how much this Rank 5 crystal could sell for, but because it was the first time he had seen a crystal of this Rank.

So, this is what a Rank 5 crystal looks like!

Yun Zhuo smiled and said, "Regiment Leader Li, your luck is truly good."

Li Jianrong snapped out of it and smiled back, "It's Brother Yun's skill that's good."

Yun Zhuo shook his head, "Actually, fourth-tier crystals are already enough for us to make a huge profit. Crystals of even higher Ranks are useless to us for now."

Li Jianrong thought about it and agreed, "How do you plan to do this business?"

"You provide the crystals and runes, and I provide the skill. As for the synthesis costs, we'll each pay half. At the same time, I'm only responsible for production, and you're responsible for selling. I don't care how much you sell them for; I'll sell them to you at half price."

"What do you think of my proposal?"

"Can you guarantee your success rate?"

If the success rate couldn't be guaranteed, even though fourth-tier crystals and runes wouldn't lose money in large quantities, the profit would be too low.

In that case, it would be better to just do missions and farm gold, and there would be no need for a partnership.

"I guarantee a 70% output rate. Anything extra belongs to me, and I'll compensate for any shortfall."

To Li Jianrong, Yun Zhuo's words meant that the selling rights belonged to him, a steady supply was guaranteed, and he only had to provide Materials without putting up extra cash. This was already very sincere.

So he immediately said, "Deal!"

Yun Zhuo extended his hand, "Pleasure doing business with you."

His own success rate was 100%, so the extra 30% would be his. Moreover, the synthesis cost was split in half, and since his synthesis cost was already half-price to begin with, it was essentially free for him.

But the real money-makers were the runes and crystals above Rank 4.

Besides their Rank, runes also depended on their attributes.

This caused the profit of some rare attribute runes to increase tenfold or twentyfold.

In others' eyes, synthesizing rune attributes was entirely down to luck, with no predictable probability at all.

But for him, he could control it 100%, which gave him a lot of room to maneuver.

Just like the drop rate rune back then; one piece earned a million, while the cost in corrosion crystals was less than ten thousand.

As for the synthesized Rank 5 crystal, Yun Zhuo originally intended to give it to him as a gesture of sincerity, but Li Jianrong felt embarrassed to take it for free. He insisted on paying Yun Zhuo 7.5 million based on the half-price agreement they had discussed.

Since he didn't have that much cash on him, he used crystal ore to make up the difference.

Yun Zhuo didn't have time to sell crystal ore. If he listed it at the guild, he wouldn't get a good price anyway. It was better to do him a favor, so in the end, he only took five million.

From this, it could be seen that the market price of a Rank 5 crystal was around 15 million. As long as he synthesized seven of them, he could have another Saint-Rank wingman.

At the same time, news travels. With Li Jianrong constantly running to the Nun Village, people would eventually suspect his supply source. This would not only attract the first batch of merchants to the Mountain Top Town, allowing the town to be established faster.

It would also expand his own business.

Li Jianrong left to go find crystals and runes.

Yun Zhuo was then pulled to the Guanyin Temple by Di Zhenzhen.

Yun Zhuo had previously promised her to upgrade the talents of ten more nuns.

Now she had brought the ten selected nuns, and the first one was Jiang Jingjing.

"You kid, you just made some money and it hasn't even gotten warm in your pocket before you come to upgrade our talents. It really makes one feel a bit embarrassed."

"Oh, then Yaoyao, you come. Sister Jingjing is embarrassed."

"You..." Jiang Jingjing grabbed Yun Zhuo's arm. "I was just being polite with you, and you actually took it seriously."

"I don't have many virtues; I'm mostly just obedient."

"Is that so? Then, how about I become your girlfriend?"

"No."

"Aren't you obedient?"

"Yeah, but my girlfriend also said I can't look for other women besides her. Since I'm listening to her on this matter first, I can't listen to you."

"So in other words, you won't look for any other women besides Su Qingyuan now?"

"Not necessarily."

"Why 'not necessarily' again? Which of your words is actually true?"

"Every word is true. It's mainly in case she changes her mind one day, right?"

"You brat, I can't win an argument with you. Hurry up and upgrade my talent."

"In such a hurry?"

"It's not that I'm in a hurry, I'm worried for you. Do you know what the letter the Su Family sent to Sister Zhenzhen said?"

"I'm all ears."

"He wants you to pick a War Princess here to handle next month's freshman placement exam."

"Even for a wingman, participating in a top-tier university's placement exam, they'd have to be at least Rank 20 or so, right?"

"Look at what Rank we are. Aren't you worried at all?"

"Pick a War Princess?" Yun Zhuo looked at Jiang Jingjing in confusion.

"Yeah, Su Zixing didn't say it, Su Jingzhou did. Speaking of which, he still values you quite a bit as a future son-in-law."

"Heh, you don't actually think that, do you?"

"Then why aren't you worried? He told you to contract one, but you contracted over a thousand at once. If you don't hurry up, how are you going to fight him?"

"Unless..."

"Unless what?"

Jiang Jingjing put her arm around Yun Zhuo's shoulder and said proudly, "Unless you hide in the village and don't go out. With me protecting you, you'll have plenty of time to slowly increase your strength."

"What do you think? My proposal is pretty good, right?"

"Just stay in our village and don't go back."

"Wishful thinking. If I don't go back, where will I get purple essence stones to load skills for you? Also, contracting all of you at once is both a bad and a good thing for him."

"Before he figures out the truth, he will only increase his investment in me."

"Because his life in the Su Family isn't easy either; he needs more trump cards too."

"On the other hand, if I stay in the village and don't leave, I'll become someone with ulterior motives in his eyes. Besides, you don't really think he doesn't have ways to deal with the village, do you?"

Jiang Jingjing thought about it. "What you say seems to make sense."

"Alright, go back to guarding your convenience store."

"You're really not going to upgrade my talent?"

"Didn't I already say I would? Open your character panel and see for yourself."

As long as there's money, upgrading a War Princess's talent is incredibly fast.

In the blink of an eye, the talent upgrades for the ten people were complete, and Yun Zhuo's 20 billion System balance was nearly depleted.

Then everyone went outside and activated their second forms one by one. And as it turned out, what a coincidence.

All ten of them were Gunners.

This made Yun Zhuo suspect that all the nuns in the Nun Village were Gunners.

It was entirely possible. They were all androids created by Qiu Min, and every one of them had a gun hidden under her nun's habit.

From the very beginning, they had been practicing with guns. Although they hadn't made much of a name for themselves, if this wasn't Qiu Min's deliberate arrangement, then it was because she didn't know how to create other types of War Princesses.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a coincidence in the world.