Chapter 701: Turmoil in the God Stone Market【7 more】

After leaving the city, the number of players around clearly decreased a lot, no longer crowded.

However, players from each district can still be seen gathering materials nearby.

To the southeast of Frost Moon City lies a mining area where many epic and legendary quality ores can be mined; with good luck, mythic equipment can be forged.

This is an important resource for players diligently training the life profession of Blacksmith, so there are also many people.

A player usually does not stick to just one life profession; blacksmiths also learn mining as a side job, and alchemists also learn gathering, which saves a lot of material costs.

Likewise…… the time spent also increases.

After leaving the city, everyone temporarily refrains from mentioning what happened in the city, believing Xiao Feng can resolve it.

Zhulong pointed to the distant open-pit mining area and said: "That is the mining field contracted by our Dragon Soul Guild, costing 300,000 God Stones in rent per day, but after calculating income and expenses, it's actually not a loss; it's an early investment awaiting returns."

Beside him, Shen Di envied and said: "Really cheap, my contracted mining area costs 350,000 per day, and the estimated output is not as much as yours."

Prosperous Age Guild Leader Chaoge had a dark face: "Just being able to contract is already good. Our mining area doesn't allow contracting at all; we can only pay to enter and mine, the daily ticket fee is no less than yours, and we also have to compete with others for goods, having gotten into group fights several times."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Feng asked: "How many God Stones can each guild produce per day now? What's the situation with God Stone price fluctuations?"

Recently he has paid little attention to these aspects.

After returning from the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, he has been doing dungeons, climbing the Myriad Heavens Tower, and exploring ancient ruins, hardly interacting with others at all.

Zhan Tian replied: "Now there are over 500,000 members who have ascended; after purchasing a base, members who complete their daily guild tasks will automatically have the guild warehouse gain 10 God Stones in funds. About 450,000 members do tasks each day, making a base of 4.5 million. However, maintaining the base itself consumes 500,000, plus the early investments in training blacksmithing, tailoring, alchemy, and other life profession players, as well as the costs of crafting elite member attributes and pioneering dungeons, in the end there is actually no profit, with at most 100,000 to 200,000 left."

Xiao Feng fell into thought.

Producing 4.5 million God Stones a day is actually not little, but the scale of bases in the God Realm is huge, just like the main city, so daily maintenance costs are also high.

Furthermore, at present it is still the early stage,

the expenditures of each guild are enormous, indeed there is not much money to be made.

Moreover, this is still with guilds that have bases!

If there were no bases, lacking the daily income of 4.5 million, it would be even more difficult to the point of being called "unable to open the pot"!

Shen Di added: "The current exchange rate of God Stones is about 1 to 6000 gold coins. However, gold coins have been continuously depreciating, now down to 8 gold coins for 1 unit of money. Converted, 1 God Stone's price fluctuates between about 730 and 760 units of money, which is still much better than when we first bought the base."

The sharp drop in gold coin prices is mainly because after players ascended to the God Realm, gold coins cannot be spent in NPC shops.

Many people brought millions, even tens of millions of gold coins up here, but ended up with nowhere to use them, remaining as poor as beggars.

To purchase some necessities for living in the God Realm, they can only exchange them for God Stones.

But demand for God Stones is high, while gold coins, the more they are collected, the less useful they become, degenerating into second- or third-rate currency.

Over time, gold coins in the God Realm are gradually unwanted by anyone, only circulating among a few people, so the price naturally plummets.

God Stones, due to the passage of time, have seen their output channels gradually increase, and they have not risen in price excessively, maintaining a stable rate of 6000.

However, the scale of the God Stone–gold coin exchange market has now greatly shrunk, with fewer and fewer people selling God Stones, making this rate actually quite nominal.

Li Li interjected with a sigh: "I heard from friends that recently, due to the ascension, many merchants who made gold in the game have gone bankrupt, and some even jumped to their deaths; the impact of Myriad Heavens on the real world is truly enormous."

A warrior player named Yi from the Prosperous Age Guild added: "But some people do God Stone business and make a fortune. The commercial waters in the game are too deep; even the most experienced merchants can misjudge, so it's better to stay away."

Everyone nodded in deep agreement.

Doing business in the game requires always being prepared for bankruptcy.

Previously, games on Blue Star were full of risk due to version updates and iterations by the game company.

This game is somewhat different, having caused a huge upheaval because of changing the map!

However, ascension happens only once, so afterwards it should not happen like this again.

Upon hearing Li Li's words, Xiao Feng couldn't help but feel moved.

Everyone's way of playing the game is different, and not everyone can be as fortunate as him

, thriving in the game.

Some people play the game not happily, just to earn a little money, moving bricks to supplement household expenses.

Others are facing difficulties in the real world and hope to make a comeback in the game.

Yet what the game world gives them in return is not necessarily all good results.

Nowadays, even before the turmoil caused by "willpower" has begun, there are already people heading toward destruction due to economic problems.

The impact brought by the entire Myriad Heavens game world is indeed too great, too great……

Fortunately, the people around him still have decent luck, not encountering overly difficult things. Even if they do, as long as he knows, he can help resolve them, so it's not too troublesome.

"Where is the dungeon entrance? Do you have any guides or plans?" Xiao Feng asked a question, not wanting to continue discussing this heavier topic.

Zhulong immediately responded: "The entrance is not far; flying there takes half an hour. As for guides, there are none at all, only a little material. The Ancient Dragon Nest is too difficult, too difficult; we can only hope that Xiao Feng, junior brother, will lead us to fly."

Everyone laughed upon hearing that.

Li Li shouted in a strange voice: "Yeah yeah, it's rare to be able to team up with the great Xiao Feng once; we all came with a determination to die. Even if we can't clear the dungeon, it's fine; we're not lacking that bit of cultivation, dying a few times for the great Xiao Feng is worth it!"

As soon as his words fell, he was kicked flying by Xiao Feng, person and mount together.

"Damn, with me here you still want to die? Later I'll spray milk on you!" Xiao Feng said angrily.

Li Li and Zhang Fan, along with their mounts, flipped twice in the air, but held on tight and didn't fall.

"Is it my milk spraying you or your milk spraying me? We can't randomly recognize professions, bro!" Li Li, already used to being kicked, didn't care at all and laughed.

"Hmph…… you'll find out later!" Xiao Feng had not yet revealed his milk output.

But even if he said it, later it would still scare everyone to death!

Zhulong led the team ahead, the 20-person group flying 20 meters above the ground; those who couldn't fly ran on the ground, with movement speed exceeding 1500 meters per minute.

Dun Dun rode a Tyrannosaurus, pounding along the ground, looking up at Xiao Feng's mid-air flying posture, and said with a grin: "Senior Xiao Feng, if you switch to being a milkmaid, the first sip of milk must be given to me, oh, I won't spit milk!"

Everyone: ……

(End of chapter)