Chapter 155: Buying Talisman Arrows
This is not the first time Wang Cheng has dealt with a weapon refiner. He has already had a deep feeling about some of the bad habits of the weapon refiner.
Because Zhu Yuanliang, the weapon refining elder of Qingyun Sect, is a weapon refiner with serious bad habits.
The refining materials that Qingyun Sect has been ruined by Zhu Yuanliang over the years can be described as countless.
Although those materials are all low-level materials, which are only worth 10,000 or 20,000 low-grade spirit stones, Zhu Yuanliang is just a half-baked first-level mid-grade weapon refiner!
Moreover, Wang Cheng knew that the reason why many materials were wasted was that Zhu Yuanliang often had an idea and immediately put it into practice, but he ended up bleeding and he didn't see any results.
Therefore, when he heard Gu Yang, the weapon refiner in the Divine Soldier Valley in front of him, he said that he had an idea of refining weapons to be practiced, he knew that he had encountered a "scam" again.
This unpractice idea of refining a weapon, let alone whether it is reliable or not. The four words "unpractice" are enough to show how pitiful this kind of refining is.
You should know that although refining weapons is not like elixirs, talisman making and formations, it requires completely and strictly refining them according to the alchemy recipe, talisman record, and formation diagram, it also has a regular weapon score.
The instrument score is usually the best weapon refining plan summarized by senior weapon refiners based on the successful experience of refining tools. As long as the weapon refining skills meet the standards and refining the weapon according to the instrument score, the success rate will be quite guaranteed.
But if the weapon refiner does not refer to the instrument score and refines the weapon completely according to his own ideas, then unless his attainment in weapon refining has reached the real master level, the success rate of refining the weapon will be outrageously low.
Therefore, although the weapon refiners are proud of innovation, they all want to create their own instruments that are unique to them and spread to future generations.
But few outsiders are willing to waste the refining materials they have finally obtained in order to help the refining masters innovate.
Of course, Wang Cheng didn't want to do it either.
No matter how nice Gu Yang said and patted his chest, he refused to let him refine his weapons. He would leave immediately as long as he took away the materials.
In the past, he had no choice but to choose to believe in the weapon refiner of the Bailian Building.
But now, he is not just a choice for this Bailian Tower, nor is he in a hurry to get this defensive inner armor spiritual weapon right away.
"Otherwise, Gu will give you a document to fellow Daoist Wang. If the weapon refining fails, Gu is willing to pay Fellow Wang to compensate Fellow Wang for your 10,000 low-grade spirit stones out of his own pocket. What do you think?"
Gu Yang was really anxious, and he didn't even care about the rule of "no compensation" in the weapon refining industry, and was willing to provide a bottom-line compensation for the failure of weapon refining.
To be honest, it is definitely more than enough to buy the skin of the second-grade low-grade monster in Wang Cheng's hand of 10,000 low-grade spirit stones.
After all, this is just a raw material, not a real finished spiritual weapon.
Therefore, Wang Cheng hesitated after hearing Gu Yang's words.
Seeing him pondering and not speaking, Gu Yang seemed to see hope and immediately continued to increase his quota and said: "And Gu can agree with fellow Daoist Wang that if the weapon refining is successful, Gu will only charge 50% of the original handling fee!"
Wang Cheng finally showed a look of emotion on his face. He looked at Gu Yang in surprise. After his face changed a little, he sighed with a sigh: "Okay, since Master Gu has said this, if Wang doesn't agree, it would be too unkind."
After saying that, he lit up the [Fire Snake Bow] spiritual weapon again, and then said, "There are also arrows needed for this bow-like spiritual weapon. Please give me some advice from Master Gu."
Seeing that he finally agreed, Gu Yang breathed a sigh of relief and showed a look of joy. He heard this and just looked at the [Yellow Snake Bow] in his hand, then shook his head and said, "There is nothing to say about this kind of bow-like spiritual weapon. If Fellow Daoist Wang wants to exert his maximum power, he just needs to buy various disposable magic weapon arrows specially made in our store. Although it is a bit fertile, its power will never disappoint Fellow Daoist Wang!"
Then he made a note for Wang Cheng on the spot, and asked the white-haired old man Jin Yuanli to take Wang Cheng to purchase magic weapons and arrows, but he directly brought the animal skin into the refining room behind to study.
With the words in hand, Wang Cheng is not afraid of Gu Yang's debt.
Therefore, he followed Jin Yuanli to buy arrows very readily.
Bailianlou is a shop opened by a weapon refining master in the Shenbing Valley. It can almost be regarded as a branch of the Shenbing Valley, and there are all kinds of magic weapons in it.
There are thirteen magic weapons and arrows that Wang Cheng wants to buy, and each of them has different prices.
However, the cheapest arrow that can be matched with a long bow of the spirit weapon requires thousands of low-grade spirit stones, and each arrow can only be used once.
Strictly speaking, this kind of arrow cannot be regarded as a magic weapon, but should be called a talisman, because it can only be used once like a talisman, and some methods of the talisman makers are required when refining.
However, after Wang Cheng read the map and introduction information of the thirteen types of arrows, he did not find the kind of arrows that Jiang Yunhe had used at the time.
When he talked about this with Jin Yuanli, Jin Yuanli thought about what he said, and then replied respectfully: "If I am not mistaken, the arrow that Senior Wang mentioned should be the secretly made of the Divine Soldier Valley [Wind Thunder Armor Break Arrow]. One is worth tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, and this item is a control item and can only be sold in the magic weapon store in the Divine Soldier Valley!"
One is worth tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones!
After hearing Jin Yuanli's words, Wang Cheng's eyes trembled and his eyes showed a look of surprise.
You should know that when he purchased the second-level low-grade defensive spirit weapon [Bixia Lingxi Shield], he only spent 40,000 low-grade spirit stones.
However, when he thought of his [Bixia Lingxi Shield] being shot through with an arrow twice, he felt relieved again.
Indeed, if an arrow can penetrate a second-level low-grade defensive spirit weapon, it would not be outrageous to sell tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones with an arrow.
He nodded slightly and said, "Mr. Wang understands it. Thank you for helping Wang. I also asked Mr. Jin to get two [Gengjin Armor-breaking Arrows] for Wang and another [Chasing Wind and Passing Cloud Arrow]."
When Jin Yuanli heard what he said, her face was also happy and she quickly responded respectfully: "Senior, wait a moment, I will go and get the treasure now."
After saying that, he went to get the treasure that Wang Cheng wanted.
After a while, Jin Yuanli came to the lobby with three wooden boxes.
"The treasures you want for seniors are here, please check them out."
He put the three wooden boxes on the table in front of Wang Cheng and opened them all, revealing the three long arrows that were fixed inside.
[Gengjin Armor Breaking Arrow] Two feet and four inches long, with the "armor Breaking" feature. After being shot through the long bow of the spiritual weapon, there is a high probability that it can break through the defense of the second-level low-grade spiritual weapon, a low-grade spiritual stone worth 5,000.
[The Arrow of Chasing Wind and Passing through the Cloud] is three feet and one inch long. It is characterized by its fast speed, long shooting, maximum range of 2,000 feet, and its power is no worse than that of second-level low-grade magic. A low-grade spirit stone is worth 6,000.
Just the value of these three arrows is worth half a second-level low-grade spiritual weapon.
After taking out the three arrows and checking them for a while, Wang Cheng readily paid the spirit stone, then put the arrows back into the wooden box and put them in the storage bag.
In the following days, Wang Cheng temporarily stayed in "Baixiangfang".
Except for his daily practice, he spent the rest of his time wandering around, asking for various information while learning about the prices in the market.
It has been nearly nine years since Wang Cheng and the others came to this wild area, and it has been nearly seven years since he first came to "Baixiangfang".
As the most prosperous place in this wilderness area, the market is changing every year. Wang Cheng saw many shops that he had never seen before, and his business is now in a good mood.
However, some shops I had seen before have disappeared now.
At the same time, based on what he saw and heard from the market several times, the flow of people in the market has been increasing. Now, the number of monks entering and leaving every day in the market is at least 500.
You should know that in this wild area, the low-level Qi training cultivators from major sects cannot leave the mountain gate and go to the market. The worst thing that can be done is the late Qi training cultivator.
The consumption power of these monks is not comparable to that of those monks at low level Qi training stage.
So the traffic of this person may not seem particularly high, but the transaction volume it can bring to the market is definitely not low.
Wang Cheng also inquired about the rental and purchase of shops in the market, and found that this is not particularly good location in the market, and the store price has reached more than 300,000 yuan per low-grade spirit stone, and the annual rent is more than 3,000 yuan.
You should know that this is the world of cultivation. The markets with a long history in the world of cultivation are everywhere!
Therefore, the difference in rent and sale price of 100 to 1 is very high in terms of rent.
This shows how popular the business of "Baixiangfang" is now.
However, Wang Cheng also discovered that the stores that can be opened in "Baixiangfang" basically have those major forces as their backgrounds, and the worst is that they must be at the level of Chixia Sect.
Even if other small and medium-sized sects can grit their teeth and spend all their resources to buy a store, there will be no spirit stones to compete with the stores of the big chamber of commerce and sects in the future.
What's more, the most profitable business in the market now is actually the business of purchasing various raw materials. If you want to do a good job in this business, you not only need to have a large reserve of spirit stones, but also have the ability to transport it out of this wild area to monetize it.
These are all conditions that small and medium-sized forces do not have.
To sum up, if you want to open a store in "Baixiangfang" at this stage, there is basically no chance for individual cultivators and those small and medium-sized forces to make money.
After almost ten days in "Baixiangfang", Wang Cheng finally waited for the news that the female cultivator Yan Ying returned safely.
After receiving the news from Lan Yuxi, he immediately replied and asked Lan Yuxi to help arrange for the two to meet as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!