Chapter 499: The Terrifying Consumption That Even Yin Yue Couldn't Bear

In Hundred-Refinement City, Lin Chen spent five thousand Flame Coins to rent a courtyard in the eastern area of the city.

Five thousand Flame Coins for only half a year of residence—it could be called extravagant.

But if it were a courtyard that could defend against the spiritual sense peeking of those below the Myriad Phenomenon Realm, and also had array protection, so that even a Sixth Stage Innate powerhouse couldn't break in instantly, then these five thousand Flame Coins were well spent.

This was also the most top-tier area in the entire Hundred-Refinement City. There were no commoners coming and going; all who spoke were Innate.

In the courtyard.

Lin Chen activated the array. A cyan light shield soon made the entire courtyard disappear. A few breaths later, the light shield hid in the air.

"It's truly magical. Even the protective sect array of our Canglan Sect can't do this."

"The Canglan Sect's territory is extremely large. If you want to protect the entire sect area, the requirements for the array are extremely high. Furthermore, the reason this array can resist spiritual sense is that it is constantly consuming energy. Just the energy required for these six months alone needs a cost of at least three thousand Flame Coins."

Five thousand for rental fees, three thousand for costs—in reality, it was just earning two thousand Flame Coins.

"Business isn't calculated like that. A trading firm needs to support a group of artifact refining experts. Sometimes, even if they don't make money, these trading firms are willing to rent them out. This is called maintaining operations. Furthermore, if everyone didn't rent these types of houses, the energy consumption required for these arrays wouldn't be finished, and prices would also drop."

Lin Chen smiled. Yin Yue, as a Moon Soul Clan princess, had no lack of intelligence and knowledge, but she certainly hadn't studied the way of merchants. When being a boss and opening a factory, sometimes, let alone breaking even, even if they were losing a little money, they had to keep operating. They had to spend money to support workers and equipment.

For one, it could ensure their scale, and for another, it was to maintain prices. This type of array that blocked spiritual sense peeking needed Soul-Devouring Beads to act as energy, and the current price of Soul-Devouring Beads was precisely because there was demand. Once there was no demand, the price would inevitably plummet, and the income of those artifact refiners who manufactured Soul-Devouring Beads would also plummet...

"Now, can I start using the Quenching Crystal Sand?"

Lin Chen didn't explain the business principles inside to Yin Yue in depth. This was the Martial Way world. Martial Way powerhouses didn't need to worry about these things; they only needed to constantly improve their Martial Way realm.

"Mm."

Yin Yue nodded and took out a mountain of Innate Stones from the storage box again, as well as crescent-shaped medicinal herbs.

"This is Moon-Melting Grass. Mix the Innate Stones and Quenching Crystal Sand together, then put in the Moon-Melting Grass. The energy of the Innate Stones will liquefy and can be absorbed directly through the skin."

Moon-Melting Grass?

"Why haven't I heard of it?"

"This item is unique to my Moon Soul Clan. Not many people outside know about it."

Soon, Lin Chen moved a copper tripod out of the courtyard's utility room. The wind of artifact refining was prevalent in the Thousand Machines Domain. Many martial artists would come into contact with it from a young age, and almost every household had some artifact refining tools.

This courtyard also placed many artifact refining items. Besides the copper tripod, there were also fire furnaces, pill furnaces...

Yin Yue first threw one hundred Innate Stones into the copper tripod, then poured in the Quenching Crystal Sand, stirred it evenly with an iron rod, and finally threw a stalk of Moon-Melting Grass into the copper tripod.

The Moon-Melting Grass entered the tripod, came into contact with the Innate Stones and Quenching Crystal Sand, decomposed automatically, and turned into drops of green liquid that flowed into it.

With the flow of the green liquid, the Innate Stones and Quenching Crystal Sand inside the tripod also reacted. Lin Chen kept his eyes fixed on the situation inside the tripod. This scene was extremely like the process in his previous life on a construction site where sand and stones were added to cement and stirred into cement paste.

A quarter of an hour later, regardless of whether it was the Innate Stones or the Quenching Crystal Sand, everything inside the entire copper tripod had completely fused together, turning into a pool of silver liquid.

"You can go in."

Hearing Yin Yue's words, Lin Chen didn't dawdle and stepped directly into the copper tripod.

The moment Lin Chen stepped into the tripod, the silver-white liquid wrapped around his entire body like molten lava, entering his body through the pores all over his body. A terrifying torrent of energy instantly tore through the meridian barriers, crazily scouring all the acupoints where his hidden acupoints were located in his body.

At the same time, the liquid inside the tripod dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye—

In ten breaths of time, the liquid inside the tripod had actually dropped by ten percent in height.

Yin Yue witnessed the consumption speed of the liquid inside the tripod, her pupils shrinking. The speed of Lin Chen's consumption was even faster than she had imagined. ===== CHAPTER 500 =====