Chapter 1436

Disciplining captives — easy if you want it easy, hard if you want it hard.

If you want it easy, just do it like Zhuang Ya: burn them.

If you want it harder, do it like Gu Qing: train them slowly.

These flower demons are too fragile; they definitely can't be handed to Zhuang Ya — she'd cremate them all in one blaze.

So let Gu Qing train them slowly.

Though Gu Qing is soft-spoken and obedient in front of Zhao Chi,

plenty of women in the territory are somewhat afraid of her.

Zhao Chi doesn't understand why — after all, Gu Qing is always polite and gentle with them, always meeting them with a smile.

Yet they still fear her, as if by instinct.

Those flower demons in particular wilt and droop before her, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Then it's Gu Qing's job.

She herself is also very skilled at and enthusiastic about this kind of training.

And with the Carefree Spring, their moods can be lifted to absurd heights, which also helps them submit more readily.

Next, he can pick out the ratfolk.

There are quite a lot of ratfolk too.

And most of them are female.

Male ratfolk are stronger, more efficient at work, so lords generally keep them for themselves.

Zhao Chi doesn't care — he prefers females.

Likewise, after culling those with bad temperaments and unreasonable asking prices, he finally selected 940.

Adding his own 60 female ratfolk, it rounds up to 1,000.

Zhao Chi finished his selections quickly.

Then he went straight to the counter to handle it, to keep anyone else from buying them first.

"Hello, Mr., here is the list, please confirm."

【Purchase List】

【Flower Demons】 1,800, total 1,314 gold coins

【Ratfolk】 940, total 611 gold coins

【Total】 1,925 gold coins

The flower demons average 73 silver coins each, the ratfolk 65 silver coins.

A slightly pricey sum.

After all, Zhao Chi bought in such large quantities — the earlier ones were fairly priced, but the later ones cost quite a bit more.

But Zhao Chi needs them, so he doesn't care about the extra money.

It's only the value of 2,000 tons of flour — one harvest in a few days and it'll all come back.

Zhao Chi replied: "I confirm."

"Alright, you may proceed with payment."

The staff member sent over the trade window, and Zhao Chi paid immediately.

"Very well, Mr., payment successful. Would you like to pick them up from the sellers, or leave your coordinates and have the sellers deliver them to you?"

He thought it over and decided to have the sellers deliver.

So many captives come from different sellers — going to pick them up himself would be too much trouble.

So he left the coordinates of Taoyuan Village, along with the designated area he'd planned, and told them to deliver.

And this kind of transaction comes with trade protection set up by the Exchange.

Essentially the power of a formation array.

If either side engages in hostile action, the other party will be teleported away immediately.

Of course, the lord can also actively expel the other party, but cannot harm them.

If the other party steps outside the designated area, they'll also be teleported away.

Relatively speaking, very safe.

"These are my coordinates and the activity range — have the sellers deliver to my door."

The staff member nodded: "Understood, I'll notify them right now. You can just wait to receive them afterward. Is there anything else you need handled?"

"Nothing for now, thanks."

After leaving the counter, Zhao Chi began browsing racial bloodlines.

He currently has 11,646 gold coins remaining.

Enough to buy quite a few racial bloodlines.

But unfortunately, he didn't spot any Primal Bloodlines?

Primal Bloodlines are far more expensive than ordinary ones.

But they can be broken down into 4–6 genes.

And there's a fairly high chance of yielding some good advanced genes.

Ordinary bloodlines are cheap, but only yield 1–3 genes.

And most of what comes out is ordinary genes too.

Perhaps that's exactly why every player who wants to obtain genes prefers to buy Primal Bloodlines.

Which in turn makes Primal Bloodlines even pricier and scarcer.

Zhao Chi had no choice but to see if there were any good ordinary bloodlines.

【Bloodline List】:

【Hydra Bloodline】23000

【Manticore Bloodline】17000

【Moondeer Bloodline】12888

【Vampire Count Bloodline】9000

【Cave Serpent Bloodline】8500

【Minotaur Bloodline】6300

【Gargoyle Bloodline】4600

【Wraith Bloodline】3500

【Succubus Bloodline】3000

【Water Lizard Bloodline】2100

【Treant Bloodline】1800

If these bloodlines were set as races, they'd actually be pretty good.

The Hydra is huge in size and can defeat most races by sheer bulk alone; its individual combat power is very strong.

But its food consumption is enormous — ordinary people can't afford to raise one.

Its yield is also extremely low; it takes several days to obtain just one.

The Manticore is somewhat similar to the Griffin.

Both have lion heads and both can fly; the Manticore can also fire venomous spines.

The Moondeer has purification abilities — it's a very good support race.

The Vampire Count is a higher-tier bloodline of the blood clan, with powerful blood-sucking abilities.

The others are all decent too.

What a pity — none of them are Primal Bloodlines.

Should he buy one?

Before, he had no choice — Zhao Chi earned little, so being able to afford an ordinary bloodline was already good enough.

But now he had the financial means to buy a Primal Bloodline… yet there turned out to be none.

After hesitating for a long while, Zhao Chi still decided not to buy one for now.

After all, you get what you pay for.