Chapter 190: Make Money Like Crazy!
After leaving the Virtual Network branch, Su Xiaobai headed straight for the Saint Cityâs Blood Slayer Alliance, Pavilion of the Tower, and Cloudsky Palace.
He used the remaining 1.1 million lower-grade spirit stones in his hands to sweep up all sorts of materials from those three places!
Due to limited funds, Su Xiaobai initially took the âhigh-end routeâ.
He specialized in buying materials that could be used to forge high-grade weapons.
For instance, âKing-tier Weaponsâ.
Currently, the highest grade of weapon Su Xiaobai could forge with One-Click Forging was a [Mid-tier King Weapon]⊠which was also known as [Mid-tier King Weapon].
In the Blood Slayer Alliance, purchasing a mid-tier King Weapon would cost ten times the price of the materials used to forge it!
In other words, if you only bought the forging materials and crafted it yourself, that same weapon would cost ten times less than what the Blood Slayer Alliance sells it for!
But most powerhouses donât possess such refined weapon-forging skills.
And a single set of forging materials wonât do the job â at least four or five sets would be wasted before one might barely create a weapon close to the Allianceâs quality⊠If your luck is even worse, you might go through ten full sets and still fail to produce a decent weapon!
The Blood Slayer Alliance provides ready-made products, which are hassle-free and reliable, and with their solid reputation⊠most powerhouses are willing to pay extra for the convenience.
Unless a powerhouse wants a custom-made weapon, perhaps embedding special formations or inlaying âamplification gemsâ, only then would they be willing to risk using raw materials⊠but the cost of doing that is usually higher than just buying a finished product!
Su Xiaobai, however, was different.
He didnât need any finished products.
What he wanted was forging materials!
Su Xiaobai bought a massive batch of materials capable of crafting mid-tier King Weapons, spending nearly 300,000 lower-grade spirit stones.
Then, through One-Click Forging, he turned them all into flawless mid-tier King Weapons and sold them back to the Blood Slayer Alliance at 2 million lower-grade spirit stones!
In that single round of transactions, Su Xiaobai made a pure profit of 1.7 million lower-grade spirit stones!
âThis rate of earning⊠is too slow!â
However, after one round, Su Xiaobai already looked down on forging weapons as a means of making money!
Because although the Blood Slayer Alliance sets the marked-up price at ten times the cost, when Su Xiaobai sold weapons back in bulk, the Alliance couldnât buy them back at full price â they had to discount them!
After all, that supposed tenfold markup was set by the Alliance â they needed to profitâŠ
They earn when selling forging materials, and again when selling the finished weaponsâŠ
Now, if youâre selling weapons back to them, of course theyâll still want to make money off you!
What does âThereâs no honesty in businessâ mean?
This is it!
âLord White Emperor, the weapons youâve forged are of such perfect quality that they sell out the moment they hit the shelves. If youâre willing, we at the Blood Slayer Alliance would be happy to sign a long-term cooperation contract with you⊠Weâd even increase our buyback price by 30%. What do you think?â
âWhite Emperorâ was the imperial title Su Xiaobai gave himselfâŠ
Just like on Earth, human Martial Kings would call him âKing Suâ â anyone at or above the Martial Emperor level could have a royal title of their own.
After just one round of cooperation, the Blood Slayer Allianceâs attitude toward Su Xiaobai changed drasticallyâŠ
Not only did they grant him core VIP privileges within the Alliance, but they also wanted to sign a long-term cooperative agreement!
They had no choice â a blacksmith who could forge perfect-quality weapons was just too rare.
Itâs like an alchemist who could refine perfect-grade pills â no matter where you go, such people are highly sought afterâŠ
Naturally, the Blood Slayer Alliance wasnât about to miss out on such talent!
Itâs just that Su Xiaobai had already mentioned he had a backing power behind him, so the Blood Slayer Alliance didnât go all-out trying to recruit him â instead, they opted for collaboration.
But Su Xiaobai no longer cared about the money from forging.
He politely declined the offer.
Unless one day he could forge Emperor-tier weapons, only then would the profits skyrocketâŠ
Only then could the earnings from One-Click Forging truly rival those of One-Click Alchemy!
Of course, now that he could forge mid-tier King Weapons, Su Xiaobai didnât forget to upgrade his own âOblivion Breakerâ.
He directly replaced it with a new weapon â [Peerless Crimson Chain]!
With the boost from a mid-tier King Weapon, Su Xiaobaiâs combat power silently rose by several notches once more!
Since forging wasnât cutting it, Su Xiaobai immediately turned to alchemy.
Currently, the highest tier of pill Su Xiaobai could refine was [Fourth-Grade Emperor Tier]!
In Saint City, Emperor-tier pills were in a state of absolute undersupply â basically, any that appeared were immediately bought upâŠ
Because the buyers were all Martial Emperors â they had no shortage of money, only pills!
Weapons, you only need one or a few â replacements are rareâŠ
But pills are different.
No matter how strong a martial artist is, unless theyâve reached an invincible level, theyâll always want to carry pills â the more, the better!
Naturally, this situation led to a massive shortage of Emperor-tier pills.
âThis is a sign Iâm about to strike it rich!â
Upon seeing this situation, Su Xiaobai was thrilled.
Without hesitation, he went straight to Pavilion of the TowerâŠ
But to his disappointment, the Pavilion of the Tower of Holy City of Fanya only offered pill recipes up to [Upper-grade Divine Tier]!
Pill recipes are the most crucial part of alchemy.
Without them, you donât even know what materials to gather â let alone refine anythingâŠ
Thatâs why theyâre incredibly valuable!
Su Xiaobai really wanted to buy a Fourth-Grade Emperor-tier recipe, but such high-level formulas were mostly preserved by powerful clansâŠ
Unless Su Xiaobai joined one and became a core member, he shouldnât even think about seeing them!
In the end, Su Xiaobai spent a full 1 million lower-grade spirit stones to buy the recipe for [Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill] from Pavilion of the TowerâŠ
Isnât alchemy a hot profession?
Not everyone can afford Emperor-tier pills.
Even King-tier pills are something only big clans and powers can afford⊠and they treat them like treasures.
The Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill is one of the most in-demand Divine-tier pills on the marketâŠ
From Martial Kings down to Spirit-level cultivators, the demand is staggering!
It can quickly replenish large amounts of spiritual energy â
If you run out of energy in battle, pop one, and your reserves are restored by more than half, allowing you to keep fighting!
Though its effect diminishes for Martial Emperors, it still has some utility.
Moreover, it also accelerates wound recovery and temporarily amplifies spiritual power.
This means that for a short time after consuming the pill, your moves become 10â20% stronger!
Because of this, the current price of a single upper-grade Divine-tier Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill was over a million lower-grade spirit stones!
Many Spirit-level and Transcendent-level cultivators treat it as a life-saving itemâŠ
They donât dare to consume it casually, only using it in dire situations during combat, and even then with great pain in their hearts!
For Martial Kings, the situation is a bit better â
They treat it as an essential combat pill, always carrying a dozen or more.
If they run low on energy, they replenish immediately!
As for Martial Emperors, its effectiveness isnât significant anymore â
Itâs not exactly useful, but not worth tossing eitherâŠ
At their level, they mostly rely on King-tier pills.
Su Xiaobai poured all of his lower-grade spirit stones into buying materials to refine Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pills.
2.8 million spirit stones, all in.
In the end, he obtained 14 full sets of materials for the pill!
âSystem, start refining!â
Su Xiaobaiâs eyes gleamed with excitement.
âDing! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill Ă24!â
âDing! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill Ă16!â
âDing! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill Ă24!â
âDing! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill Ă32!â
ââŠ.â
With One-Click Alchemy at level 15, it inherently came with an 8Ă output buff â
Each set of materials, which originally yielded 2, 3, or 4 pills⊠now skyrocketed to 16, 24, even 32!
This basically meant that Su Xiaobaiâs wealth was now exploding by the hundreds of millions of lower-grade spirit stones!