Chapter 661: Year 693: Achievements in Materials for Forging Flying Swords at the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong

Year 693: Achievements in Materials for Forging Flying Swords at the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong

Wandering through the city, entering and exiting shops for magical treasures, talismans, spiritual pills, and spiritual herbs, he occasionally purchased items needed at this realm, just like an ordinary mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator.

A few days later, the price information of this city was clear in his mind.

Generally speaking, prices here, especially for Fa Qi Fa treasures, spiritual pills, and other things involving the labor of cultivators, were much cheaper than in other remote places.

In remote places, figures called Masters or Great Artisans often required not only indispensable Spirit Stones and heavenly treasures but also great personal favors and smiling faces to be persuaded to act, and even then, they might not agree.

But in the Great Sun Sword City, excellent alchemists and artifact refiners were not so extraordinary; they could not raise prices on the spot or put on airs.

Better service, lower prices, higher efficiency.

This greatly improved the convenience of cultivation for cultivators.

Many Qi Refining cultivators who could never reach Foundation Establishment in their lives had a much higher probability of doing so in the Great Sun Sword City, as the threshold was lowered.

If one had talent in the Sword Dao, the threshold could be lowered by another level.

This was the reason so many cultivators flocked to the Great Sun Sword City.

Many died daily on the Dueling Platform, yet many cultivators surged into the Sword City every day, endless and never lacking.

The penalty regulations were indeed harsh, often requiring one to face life and death on the Dueling Platform.

But cultivation could advance further!

Besides, the laws of the Great Sun Sword City were harsh, but how good were the laws elsewhere?

General General Heishi's Beast Spirit Immortal City, the Yin family's Liu Dao City, the Tie family's Tiegui Immortal City, the Blood Slaughter City of the remote Yue Country... Whether Righteous or Demonic, none were places that opened Shantang, and many Immortal Cities were not as good as the Great Sun Sword City.

No, not many.

The vast majority of Immortal Cities were not as good as the Great Sun Sword City!

Here, first, second, third, and fourth-grade spiritual veins were available for rent; just this point alone was enough to make countless Jin Dan cultivators ignore the risks and rush in one after another.

"A world where everything is rotten; this does not fit my aesthetic."

"If there is an opportunity, I should level it."

Jiang Ding judged in his heart.

Turning several corners, a cluster of elegant and deep palaces appeared before his eyes.

The Nine Union Merchant Association.

Nowadays, this might be the largest merchant association in the Northern Plains, far surpassing the Lingbao Merchant Association of the Shang family, which had long held dominance.

Its origins were also known to Jiang Ding from intelligence reports.

Its founder was Shang Chongjin, a collateral branch of the Shang family, titled Chongjin Master Dinghai Zhenjun. He rose during the two-hundred-year war of the Dari Sect. His cultivation talent and strength were merely ordinary among Yuan Ying Master Dinghai Zhenjun, but his commercial talent was extraordinary.

Under his hand, the Nine Union Merchant Association grew and expanded, covering most of the Northern Plains, earning gold by the bushel daily, with vast amounts of heavenly treasures and intelligence flowing within it.

Of course, the Nine Union Merchant Association should not belong to Chongjin Master Dinghai Zhenjun alone.

In some intelligence reports, there were many mysterious major shareholders within the association, collectively holding at least ninety-five percent of the dry shares.

The share capital owned by Chongjin Master Dinghai Zhenjun himself was less than one-fifth; this was also the reason the Nine Union Merchant Association could expand so rapidly, distributing a large portion of the profits.

Even if the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong and the Dari Sect erupted into civil war, the Nine Union Merchant Association could still travel freely between the two sects' territories and conduct business without being affected.

"This Daoist friend looks unfamiliar?"

Upon entering the Nine Union Merchant Association, a Lady with a gentle appearance approached, a mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator, smiling faintly: "I am Liu Liu Cailing, honored to serve as the manager here. Greetings, Daoist friend."

"Does the Daoist friend have any needs?"

"If it concerns the Sword Dao, do not make a mistake. To be honest, heavenly treasures related to the Sword Dao in the Great Sun Sword City are half a percent to one percent cheaper than elsewhere."

"Even if you cannot use them yourself, gifting them to relatives or juniors is a beautiful deed."

Jiang Ding noticed one thing: cultivators engaged in commerce, such as Shang Shang Sanwu and others, mostly had approachable appearances and were non-aggressive.

Men often presented themselves as fat and honest, while women often appeared gentle, weak, beautiful but not overly gorgeous, with meticulous etiquette and great professionalism.

They were no worse than the Shang family's Lingbao Merchant Association.

"Materials for forging flying swords, fire attribute."

Jiang Ding, currently portraying a taciturn Jin Dan swordsman, said in a dry voice.

"Honored guest, please follow me."

Liu Liu Cailing felt a slight joy in her heart and led the way to a quiet room.

In her experience, such swordsmen, regardless of wealth, would never be stingy with their spending, and they involved very few entanglements, being straightforward and decisive.

If the goods' prices were suitable, a transaction could be made immediately, with a large sum of Spirit Stones entering the accounts.

Inside the quiet room, the scent of tea wafted; it was third-grade spiritual tea, which had a slight effect of enhancing cultivation.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes to regulate his breath, ignoring the spiritual tea.

"Honored guest, please look."

Liu Liu Cailing took a jade box from a Foundation Establishment maid, opened it, and revealed a sharp, scorching prismatic crystal: "This is a third-grade lower-grade Fire Sword Stone, produced from a third-grade Fire Copper Mine. Only one is produced every fifty years. It costs eighty upper-grade Spirit Stones or requires trading third-grade heavenly treasures; middle and lower-grade Spirit Stones are not accepted."

Jiang nodded slightly.

One upper-grade Spirit Stone was roughly equivalent to ten thousand lower-grade Spirit Stones.

Of course, this was not his habit; Immortal Sects had the ability to artificially synthesize upper-grade Spirit Stones, which were not worth so much; lower-grade Spirit Stones were the most common unit of measurement in Immortal Sects.

The reason he did not engage in trade or arbitrage with this was mainly due to safety considerations; he could not reveal too many anomalies belonging to the Immortal Sects.

Once he truly grew powerful in the future, the entire world would be at his disposal; there was no need.

Because many things he needed, such as the inheritances of the great families of the Zhengmo Alliance used to perfect the Jin Zhi Sword, the black-and-white Yin-Yang Yuanhua Magnetic Pole Divine Light suppressing the Liu Dao Sect's mountain gate, the Blazing Sun Spiritual Iron of the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong, and the inferior version of the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi... and so on, could not be bought.

In short, doing business was a matter where risk and reward were completely disproportionate.

"Honored guest, please look at the second item."

Seeing that the person before him seemed uninterested, Liu Liu Cailing immediately understood. She took another jade box from the maid, opened it, and revealed a withered vine covered in scales, brimming with spiritual energy.

"Third-grade middle-grade Fire Dragon Scale Vine. It contains sharpness within its scorching heat, the favorite item of fire-attribute sword cultivators. It is heard that even true cultivators of sword intent within the Qingse Jianzong like to forge swords with this... the value is not small..."

Jiang Ding looked uninterested.

"Third-rank, high-grade Golden Fire Crow Iron..."

He still shook his head.

Seeing that Jiang Ding remained uninterested even before the third-rank, high-grade materials, Liu Liu Cailing felt a flash of anger. She suddenly produced the highest-grade Spirit Fire Copper of the third rank, looking at the gray-robed swordsman before her with a hint of mockery: "Honored guest, do not say this fails to meet your requirements."

"This is third-rank, supreme-grade Spirit Fire Copper, a sword-forging material secretly transmitted within the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong. It is formed by mixing various heavenly treasures and earthly herbs, then hammering them for forty-nine days. One high-grade magical treasure can be exchanged for..."

This was one of the Great Sun Qingse Jianzong's top-tier third-rank sword-forging materials, obtained through internal channels.

The price was also extremely high.

One must know that a single batch of sword-forging material can be used for at most twenty-odd years; while refining a flying sword accelerates progress, it never reaches the level of a high-grade magical treasure.

Most Jin Dan cultivators do not possess assets worth as much as a single high-grade magical treasure; many early-to-mid-stage Jin Dan cultivators have never owned a high-grade magical treasure.

Such a cost can only accelerate the refinement of a flying sword for twenty years; truly, it is a terrifying luxury.

"Third-rank, supreme-grade Spirit Fire Copper..."

Jiang Ding glanced at the woman before him, ignoring her subtle goading and mocking commercial tactics. He extended his spiritual sense into it, and a thought stirred in his heart.

It contained refined Fire-attribute Sword Dao will, highly condensed sword qi, and was a composite material.

This kind of material...

The Immortal Sects have a huge deficiency in this aspect; no, specifically limited to the Sword Dao aspect, they have nothing at all.

But it seems not difficult to replicate?

The Immortal Sects' material synthesis and smelting technology far surpasses this piece of supreme-grade Spirit Fire Copper in depth; it is simply that application has not developed in this direction.

A sample is needed; perhaps then it could be made, a Shanzhai copy.

And it is very likely to far exceed the sample, turning the original sample into the Shanzhai copy.

(End of this chapter)