Chapter 2702 - 2694: Lifting the Restrictions

Chapter 2702: Chapter 2694: Lifting the Restrictions

Feng Jun was hesitating whether to accept the goodwill of the Xuanshui Sect, but a cultivator from the Dantai family secretly tipped him off.

The Dantai family said that the mining difficulty of that mine is relatively high, and there are several emerging clans around who are also eyeing that mine.

Feng Jun was not very surprised by this situation; after all, how could Spirit Stone mines just fall from the sky?

In truth, the virtual combat magical treasure he was currently refining was highly attractive to clan forces, and those emerging clans, if they wanted to deal with him, would have to consider the reactions of other established clans and whether they needed that magical treasure themselves.

However, what ultimately influenced his thinking was Yi Jue, who mentioned that buying a mine isn’t really necessary. Since you have the means of exploration, later I will find you some wasteland belonging to the Spirit Plant Sect, and you can go explore; if a mine is discovered, it will be divided equally among us three.

What three? Feng Jun, Yi Jue, and the Spirit Plant Sect.

This condition is somewhat harsh on the Spirit Plant Sect, but since Yi Jue is an Elder, and Feng Jun has been kind to the Spirit Plant Sect, executing this plan won’t be difficult.

Then Feng Jun awkwardly expressed, "Your suggestion is correct, but the mine isn’t that easy to explore. More importantly, I am currently short of ordinary Spirit Stones for emergencies, so I need to come up with a plan quickly."

Yi Jue offered, "I can help you get some Spirit Stones. You can repay me when you have the Spirit Stones, maybe with a bit of interest."

Feng Jun was still somewhat particular, saying, "I could borrow Spirit Stones if I asked, but I just don’t want to owe that favor, and I certainly don’t want to sit back and watch you owe favors."

This matter wasn’t resolved in a short time, so Feng Jun still ventured to the Ice Plains with Cang Jing and Yi Jue, naturally accompanied by Qian Zhong and Xuanyuan Buqi.

He hadn’t visited the Ice Plate for some time, and there were indeed quite a few changes: many watchtower-like pavilions had been built around, which were not manned, yet emitted faint spiritual energy fluctuations—the Xuanshui Sect had finally strengthened its defensive formations.

The matter of Feng Jun and Yi Jue coming to collect dividends did not cause much disturbance; their total dividends amounted to nearly 2.4 million Spirit Stones, and Elder Cang Jing candidly stated, "Let’s advance another 600,000."

Given her status, advancing dividends was no big deal.

However, there was a Nascent Soul Initial Stage cultivator who was curious, who asked Mountain Master Feng what had happened upon hearing that he was short of ordinary Spirit Stones, and immediately said that there was a Zhao Family on the Ice Plains, a small clan with two Nascent Soul cultivators, currently urgently seeking Upper Spirit Stones.

The purchasing price was very high, one Upper Spirit Stone equating to 170 Middle Spirit Stones, or 35,000 ordinary Spirit Stones.

In fact, the price exchange of Upper Spirit Stones to Middle Spirit Stones was not really high, but exchanged to ordinary Spirit Stones was very high, indicating that the Zhao Family’s Middle Spirit Stones were not plentiful, leaning towards trading ordinary Spirit Stones instead.

Feng Jun found this curious, so he asked what the Zhao Family was thinking, collecting so many Upper Spirit Stones?

The Nascent Soul Initial Stage from the Xuanshui Sect explained, "Such things... actually aren’t uncommon, surely they’ve encountered an issue, and their family’s Upper Spirit Stone reserves are lacking, requiring immediate exchange—a stable Upper Spirit Stone channel isn’t so easily available to loose cultivator clans."

Feng Jun suddenly understood, the influences from the Higher Realm at White Pebble Beach are still too high-end, Tianqin is not lacking those urgently seeking Upper Spirit Stones either; it’s just that they rarely have contact with White Pebble Beach.

Next, they visited the Zhao Family to see how many Upper Spirit Stones they wanted to exchange.

The Zhao Family was also considered a local powerful clan, but with just Elder Cang Jing there, they were easily subdued, not to mention Yi Jue was present too.

Their attitude was quite polite, yet their tone rather bold, saying, "No matter how many Upper Spirit Stones you have, the Zhao Family will take them all."

Feng Jun considered for a moment then replied, "Well, let’s start by exchanging 10,000 Upper Spirit Stones; give me 3.5 billion Spirit Stones."

The Zhao Family’s Nascent Soul was dumbfounded, three billion plus Spirit Stones wasn’t something they could afford. "Do you really have so many Upper Spirit Stones? You’re not joking, are you?"

"Please be cautious in your words," the Nascent Soul Initial Stage from the Xuanshui Sect said displeased, "although your Zhao Family has over a million clan members, lacking that many Spirit Stones is already embarrassing enough. If you offend our esteemed guest from Xuanshui Sect, be careful not to get in over your head."

The Zhao Family’s Nascent Soul stated that gathering a few billion Spirit Stones from the entire Zhao Family is not an issue, but the clan’s main treasury doesn’t have that much; they can only scrounge up slightly over a billion, still needing to keep some in reserve, so involving the smaller treasuries of various branches isn’t quite appropriate.

Hearing this, Feng Jun couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed, "And still you said you’d take as many as I’d exchange."

"I didn’t know you had so many Upper Spirit Stones," the Zhao Family’s Nascent Soul felt a bit aggrieved, "I’m exchanging Upper Spirit Stones this time also to help a friend, it’s a gesture... once things pass, I surely won’t continue recklessly exchanging Upper Spirit Stones."

Feng Jun realized he had caught a lucky break, such opportunities are not uncommon, but they are mostly for emergencies, and the counterpart might not agree to large exchanges—after all, nobody is foolish, it’s not too late to slowly collect after addressing urgent needs.

Then, even in the Kunhao Realm over there, wanting to consistently exchange ordinary Spirit Stones at a high price likely wouldn’t be too promising a business, right?

However, no matter how you look at it, that True Immortal of the Xuanshui Sect really counted as a lucky star; although the Zhao Family couldn’t exchange ten thousand top-grade spirit stones, they still managed to trade for three thousand, which converted to over a billion ordinary spirit stones, solving Feng Jun’s major problem.

Then, combined with the steady exchange from the Kunhao Realm and the output from the Spirit Stone mines in Australia on Earth Realm and the Ice Plate, Feng Jun believed that, in the short term, he no longer needed to worry about spirit stones.

In gratitude, Feng Jun specifically thanked the Nascent Soul Initial Stage cultivator with two hundred mid-grade spirit stones. It’s not much money, just a token of appreciation.

That cultivator was embarrassed to accept it, but finally Elder Cang Jing spoke up, "Mountain Master Feng isn’t short on spirit stones. If you don’t accept it, how will he feel comfortable asking the Xuanshui Sect for help in the future? You can’t block the way for everyone."

Once she spoke, the cultivator honestly accepted the spirit stones. In this regard, the principles of both clan and sect are the same — unless the person in charge speaks, subordinates can’t accept any additional compensation.

After finishing the matters on the Ice Plains, Feng Jun planned to return to White Pebble Beach, but Yi Jue was preoccupied with the thought: Why don’t we take a trip along the Spirit Plant path and first find a spirit stone mine?

Feng Jun’s sudden shortage of spirit stones touched her as well, feeling that this issue should be resolved to avoid similar situations in the future.

But Feng Jun felt that it wasn’t necessary to emphasize it so much, "With this one billion, it can hold for a while. The key is that the formation hasn’t been completed yet."

At the mention of the formation, Yi Jue’s heart came back to the matter. Honestly, what attracts her most is all kinds of research, even if she’s not very interested in formations, this new formation involves her insights on Spirit Plant cultivation.

So the five of them returned to White Pebble Beach, Yi Jue went to ponder the formation design, and Feng Jun didn’t rush to continue deducing magical treasures — after finally slowing down, if it speeds up again, isn’t it like complaining that there are too many ordinary spirit stones?

However, the spirit stone exchange at White Pebble Beach was quite effective. During the three days Feng Jun left, more than three million spirit stones were exchanged.

However, Zhang Caixin quietly informed Feng Jun, saying that Xia Nichang privately contacted them, suggesting that such exchanges should be done with moderation because they naturally are rather taboo. The channels for top-grade and mid-grade spirit stones are controlled by certain people, as you should be aware.

Furthermore, the magical treasures refined at White Pebble Beach from ordinary spirit stones actually managed to sell for extreme spirit; this news spread widely, so while White Pebble Beach was admired by many, it inevitably caused jealousy from others. ℯ

Feng Jun listened and felt another headache: was my public announcement to exchange ordinary spirit stones thoughtless?

But upon reflection, where in the world is there a perfect plan? As long as you do something, mistakes are unavoidable, the best plan is simply the one with relatively fewer flaws.

Saying that without this news, White Pebble Beach wouldn’t cause jealousy? That’s impossible!

However, Xia Nichang’s good-hearted warning couldn’t go unheeded, so he specially took a trip to Crimson Phoenix Courtyard — actually, he wanted to consult the other party regarding spirit stone exchange analysis.

Nichang Fairy listened to him and stated that she wasn’t very familiar with these matters and recommended an old acquaintance — Bai Luan.

Bai Luan was still at the eighth stage of Refining State. She handled more external affairs for Crimson Phoenix and had a clearer understanding of the market; after listening to Feng Jun’s analysis, she indicated that the spirit stone exchange limit over the past few days was indeed too high and couldn’t continue to be so bustling.

Strictly speaking, the Tiantong Commercial Alliance also provides mid-grade spirit stone exchange services; one mid-grade spirit stone requires between one hundred and fifty to two hundred spirit stones. This market price fluctuates, but the biggest problem is: there’s a limitation on the exchange limit, and the supply cannot be guaranteed.

The exchange price at White Pebble Beach basically reached Tiantong’s limit, so there was no suspicion of malicious competition, but unlimited supply, this impact was quite large — even if Tiantong was cheaper, what does it matter? The key is you don’t have goods.

Maintaining a small-scale exchange is fine, Feng Jun set his mind at ease, considering the progress of magical treasure refining, feeling that over a billion spirit stone foundation is still a bit insufficient, deciding to appropriately accept some ordinary spirit stones in further deducing.

As for the spirit stones from Earth Realm, he decided to intensify mining efforts at the Australian mine and also extract from the Europa mine.

Previously, he felt that he should try to preserve the Earth Realm’s spirit stone reserves as they are the collective wealth of all humanity, but now he has figured it out, the so-called "all humanity" is just a trick; resources he can’t control should be prioritized for consumption.

Not using one’s own mines and prioritizing others, that’s strategic vision. Look at those developed Guojia, they all do the same thing, don’t they?

As for the spirit stones on Mars, there’s no rush to mine them, as other Guojia currently don’t have the ability to mine on Mars.

So he decided to take advantage of the current downtime to stay for a while in Earth Realm, and then take a trip to Europa — anyway, if you don’t mine, others won’t appreciate it, instead they’ll laugh at you for being foolish; why pretend to be a Holy Mother?

The set of mining magical treasures given by the Big Boss can’t be found in the entire Kunhao, but Feng Jun accidentally obtained a set of magical treasures for excavating underground Profound Ice, which happens to be tested back.

Just as he was about to leave, the next clan awaiting magical treasure refining came to the door.

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