Chapter 561

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

"Take it." Chen Yi signaled to Naked Bear, who then led people to collect the money and hand the treasure chests over to the simple house, where specialized personnel conducted the inventory.

Not every family was this smart; the other several families first brought out gold, platinum, or gold coins and conch shells, involving conversion issues, which kept the accounting staff busy on their feet for a while.

The red-haired old man waited for the result with a smile, his beard-stroking appearance revealing a hint of a roguish look.

At least in the eyes of the other several families, the Fire Dragon Temple using money to smash people was extremely tasteless. They all guessed that Chen Yi would determine the division ratio based on the price of the first batch of 100 young beasts; in other words, give different quantities of young beasts according to how much they bid. Under such circumstances, the Fire Dragon Temple's wealthy magnate demeanor was naturally something they found displeasing.

The Second Elite Legion's envoy, worried Chen Yi would decide hastily, saw this and took out a small box, saying: "Lord Chen Yi, due to the distance being too far, we prepared some other things. Could you please have someone appraise them?"

Before his words fell, he lifted the lid of the small box.

A gorgeous light flashed out; the box was full of gems.

Red ones, blue ones, purple ones, all were uncommon colored stones; at a glance, they were so vivid they looked fake.

"Lagu Mining Area truly produces fine jade; war prisoners come cheap." The red-haired old man snorted disdainfully, but his arrogance was dampened.

If appraising by price, this small box of stones would top several of his boxes of gold bonds. Needless to say, this was what the Elite Legion prepared for subsequent mounts.

No one knew how many mounts Chen Yi had, and likewise no one knew how many more chances there would be; they naturally spared no effort in raising funds.

The Second Elite Legion, like the other five legions, was composed of the standing armed forces of the God Temple Allied Forces as a local legion. They guarded the border during non-Temple War periods and served as the main offensive force during wars. After so many years of development, the major elite legions often obeyed a few prominent families or family alliances; the money the envoys prepared was naturally prominent family money.

They took root on the Temple borders where survival was difficult, opened mines, and thereby earned large sums of banknotes. Their gains were less than the Temples', but half went to military expenses; in some aspects, their wealth could rival the Temples'.

"Naked Bear, you go appraise with the Knight Lord." Chen Yi had little interest in gems, but they were also hard currency, convenient whether selling or pawning.

The Water Dragon Temple also immediately produced manor land deeds and slave contracts; in the precious metal world of currency contraction, expensive real estate was often part of the transaction. West River City-State sat on Water Dragon Temple territory; leveraging this advantage, using manor land deeds as weights, their number was naturally everything one could expect.

Taking advantage of the appraisal interval, Chen Yi also lifted all sides of the Water Land God Box, revealing the 2,500 young beasts inside.

Everyone gasped in unison, eyes all lighting up.

"I thought there were at most seven or eight hundred." The red-haired old man vigilantly looked left and right, his face twisting as he took out another small box from his space storage ring, shouting: "Lord Chen Yi, I still have items to appraise."

The Third Elite Legion's representative quartermaster suddenly realized, also shouting: "Lord Chen Yi, I also have items to appraise."

If they previously still harbored a bit of a 'split the autumn colors equally, each get their due' mood, they were now unwilling to yield to each other.

Six-way equal split could get around 400 each, but if they could uniquely swallow half, that would be 1,200; not to mention solving the Divine Art Knights' mount needs, even the Combat Knights' could be supplemented quite a bit.

Organizations as large as Temples were like government employees on dead wages — no windfall, no wealth; daily expenses weren't lacking, but they lacked accumulation. Only when encountering Chen Yi selling Earth Dragons could they accumulate a bit of advantage.

They wanted appraisal; as before, Naked Bear came up to appraise.

The red-haired old man didn't want the small box leaving his sight; he blocked Naked Bear's steps and opened it right in front of Chen Yi.

A glittering golden weapon was instantly revealed outside.

"Dragon Bone?" Several people shouted; the Temple-origin priests' faces turned grim.

Chen Yi probed with Source Energy, only feeling it exceptionally condensed and solid.

The red-haired old man instead proudly enjoyed everyone's astonishment, took out a hatchet the size of a palm, and shook it open in the wind.

A brilliant color flashed; the hatchet seemed to eat the wind and grow, instantly becoming a fifty-meter-long big fellow, standing like a flagpole in the red-haired old man's hand.

"Light as hair, sharp as crystal, heavy as mountains. Lord Chen Yi, Dragon Bone is a sharp weapon made from Divine Dragon bones in earlier years; nowadays it's something you can't even see. With this one weapon, an ordinary Divine Art Knight can fight three Divine Technique Knights; it is an excellent weapon for killing enemies and saving one's life on the battlefield."

The red-haired old man flipped his hand back, and the fifty-meter-long axe head turned back to palm-size. He hehe-smiled and said: "Such equipment is not only powerful but also convenient to carry, and being non-metal, not easily detected..."

Chen Yi was greatly interested.

Of course, not because of the axe's power, but because of the axe's material.

Unknown if the Magic Subway has a need for the so-called Divine Dragon's bones.

To him, whether increasing combat power or financial power, neither was as important as increasing the convenience of Magic geography.

Without the red-haired old man saying more, he had already privately given a high price.

The Wood Dragon Temple's priest, seeing his own side lacking money and goods and about to fall behind, angrily scolded the red-haired old man "shameless," then glared at him with round, bulging eyes.

The red-haired old man smiled cheekily: "This bone was from the false dragon skeleton killed by my Fire Dragon God in the Divine Dragon War, tempered by fire and refined. Using the enemy's body to defend our faith — what shamelessness is there to speak of?"

The priest knew that Divine Art Knights using such Dragon Bone equipment were not few, so he did not argue further, turning to Chen Yi: "Sir, this person is fickle and inconstant; how to know truth from falsehood in his words? If Dragon Bone is used without the Divine Dragon's consent, disaster will surely befall; it cannot be unguarded against."

"I understand." Chen Yi was curious to the extreme about the Dragon Gods the various Temples believed in; logically he also had no intention of offending. As far as he knew, if a Temple's Divine Art Knights launched an all-out attack on West River City-State, that tiny corner of land would definitely have no possibility of survival; even Jiangning City with its many armed forces couldn't be certain of defeating all the Divine Art Knights of a city-state. The so-called Divine Dragons must be even more terrifying existences. Using their kin's bones to make weapons — however you think about it, it's a dangerous thing.

However, Chen Yi was even more curious about the relationship between bones and the Magic Subway.

He was also constantly weighing gains and losses.

"Divine Art Knight Sir, my Fire Dragon Temple only wants half the young beasts, and is willing to present this axe. Only hope the other young beasts can be fairly bid." The red-haired old man didn't use the name Dragon Bone, but one sentence tried to take more than half the young beasts, instantly causing waves of indignant shouts.

Naked Bear at this time lightly walked out, leaned by Chen Yi's ear, and said: "The total appraisal of all items from the Fire Dragon Temple is worth 1,800 tons of gold. Water Dragon Temple has 1,100 tons, Wood Dragon Temple has 1,000 tons, the three Elite Legions are all 500 tons. Additionally, the opening bids for 100 young beasts from the first four families average 3 tons of gold per beast."

A young beast's weight is only about 1 ton; giving 3 times the gold price is not little by any measure. Moreover, Earth Dragons besides being difficult to breed are not troublesome to raise normally; they are like whales, elephants, and such massive creatures — early on they eat and sleep well, in two months growing to over 1 ton; afterward the growth rate gradually slows.

Of course, this price is the average price; judging from the items each Temple brought for appraisal, their estimates of Earth Dragon quantity and sale price were not identical. If going by average price, 1,800 tons of gold could buy 600 Earth Dragons, while 500 tons of gold only buys less than 200; although it can satisfy an Elite Legion's needs, it obviously cannot satisfy their greed.

Chen Yi lifted his chin and said: "Announce it."

Naked Bear retreated back, held out several pages of documents, and began reciting like calling votes. Appraisal required all parties' agreement, so every item's price had to be stated clearly; gems, land deeds, etc. were even more troublesome.

Liu Xinyu stood with arms crossed at the rear side, once again updating her understanding of the West Continent.

1,800 tons of gold, converted to the West Continent's common half-jin gold coins, would be worth 7.2 million pieces; converted to silver coins, over 80 million pieces. If judged by precious metal equivalent, just the wealth the Fire Dragon Temple alone produced was comparable to the Late Qing Government's central fiscal revenue. Using this much money to buy a few hundred animals — if converted to naval warships, she could still give a slight bit of understanding.

The vote-calling and appraisal severely stimulated the nerves of every family except the Fire Dragon Temple; after a bout of noisy clamor, the Third Legion's representative quartermaster also raised a small box and shouted: "Lord Chen Yi, the item I just mentioned has not yet been appraised."

"Oh?"

"I also have a long spear." He opened the wooden box; inside was a finger-length blood-red long spear, lifelike; needless to say, also a Dragon Bone Spear.

The red-haired old man got anxious.

The quartermaster calmly said: "You're the one who snatched the share first."

The red-haired old man began cursing without the slightest hesitation.

The officer refused to be outdone, all manner of obscenities erupting — so rare that even the Level 7 Konjac couldn't translate them.

Ten minutes later.

Chen Yi grew tired of listening and interrupted: "At an average price of 3 tons each, the Fire Dragon Temple picks first, followed by the Water Dragon Temple and the Second Elite Legion, and last the Wood Dragon Temple and the other two legions."

The young beasts vary in strength and weakness; the difference isn't as great as between a thousand-li horse and an ordinary riding horse, but still worth spending extra money for. The order Chen Yi arranged was naturally determined by how much each party had paid for the last 100 young beasts.

After waiting a moment, Chen Yi pointed at the document again and said: "The total asset valuation of all parties comes to 5,400 tons of gold, with a shortfall of 2,100 tons. Count it as one weapon — how about that?"

Everyone turned together and said respectfully: "We strictly obey the Divine Art Knight's command."

Since Chen Yi didn't sit on the ground and raise the price, they were grateful; next came arguing over whose weapon was worth 2,100 tons.

In the end, the three elite legions joined forces, represented by the Third Legion's long spear which secured those 700 young beasts; they then divided them internally, and the Fire Dragon Temple, having contributed the most capital, received 600 young beasts and was perfectly satisfied.

Chen Yi didn't lose out either. 5,400 tons of gold could absolutely replace the United States' gold status; just releasing this news could earn tens to hundreds of billions in banknotes on the securities market, enough to purchase 10 super-standard biological laboratories.

As for R&D expenses, aside from over a year's time consumption, it was merely tens of millions — not even matching the price of a single Earth Dragon.

Once all the Earth Dragon young beasts were distributed, Chen Yi swiftly returned to the West River City-State, not even waiting for the subway's loading and unloading to finish, and dove straight into the light curtain himself.

The wide-open giant doors slammed shut with a "shua."

The officials, workers, and coolie Divine Art Knights responsible for channel transport hadn't even reacted before the entire subway flashed and vanished.

Inside the subway, at the glass partition of the second carriage, corresponding text immediately appeared: "Gene Completion initiated."

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