Chapter 210-2: Flow of Fortune Qi (2) |
Colorful Mist Coast, Azure Star Sea Region.
A small boat cut through the waves.
A figure on the boat holding a fishing rod sat in a chair woven of vines, crossed his legs on the gunwale, and wore a straw hat to shade the sun.
At this moment the fishing rod shook. He sat bolt upright and exerted strength with both arms.
He began a contest with the big fish beneath the sea surface.
It was said that fishing players were casual players, but Zhong Yi did not think so.
Without strength, how could you pull up big fish?
The Vital Qi Inherited soul activated. After the muscles of both arms tightened, veins bulged. With a sudden exertion, a crimson big fish leaped out of the water.
“Eat my punch!”
The Challenger Notification then sounded in his mind.
After making a choice, the blood and flesh of the exploded big fish suddenly contracted, condensed into fish meat, and fell down, which Zhong Yi received back with the Vital Qi Inherited soul.
In the next second, it was listed on the Trading House.
This strange fish had a hunt level of 12. It was a relatively ordinary sea fish species in the Ascension Sea Region, with limited value.
No analysis was needed. One look and he could judge its value.
This was proficiency through practice. Every fisherman had a clear price list of catches in their heart.
Returning to the vine chair, he picked up the straw hat that had fallen to the ground and put it back on his head, continuing to wait for the next big fish to bite.
His gaze swept to the guild chat box minimized at the upper left of his vision.
The guild he was in was very famous. It was one of the Three Great Demonic Sects as termed by forum players: Fishing Alone on a Snowy River.
The brothers inside could be called inventors, having turned the simple fishing gameplay into a myriad of tricks.
Every so often there would be a new invention debut.
For example, a newly developed demonic fishing method. Even he, who had seen much, felt it was particularly uncanny.
This playstyle was called the Sacrificial Body Fishing Method and had no requirements for fishing gear.
It only required the fishing player to embed the Star Shift Inherited soul. So long as there was a bite, the stars shifted, the big fish came aboard, and the player went into the sea.
There was no need for strength contests, nor any need for fish-playing techniques. It could be called a one-hit kill among fishing playstyles.
There were many other various ridiculous playstyles.
But for Zhong Yi, he preferred this kind of ordinary angling mode.
What he enjoyed was the fun of contest after the prey bit the hook.
At this time the players in the guild group were exchanging today’s gains, a chaotic brawl of various catch photos, which Zhong Yi found quite annoying.
Because everything he had caught today was of ordinary quality, with nothing worth flaunting.
Just then, a guild brother’s message caught his attention.
Countercurrent Vortex: Brothers, does the newly contained Gold Coin Inherited soul have any potential? At level 1 you can get an extra 8% return. We list fish meat for sale every day. I feel like embedding one will pay for itself sooner or later.
Firmament Dome: Don’t kid around. Embedding alone costs 30 thousand sacrificial power. The profit you earn every day is not even enough to upgrade your fishing gear, yet you still want extra returns. My suggestion is do not embed it in the early stage. Consider it later.
Myriad Forms: Fishing income fluctuates too much. Suppose you can stabilize at 300 points of sacrificial power in daily income by selling fish meat. The extra return given by the Gold Coin Inherited soul would be 24 points of sacrificial power. The early investment of 30 thousand sacrificial power would require 1,250 days for you to recoup cost. Do not consider this thing in the early stage. Embed it when you can fish ocean behemoths later.
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Gold Coin Inherited soul?
Having recently gone offline to stock a room full of nutrient solution, Zhong Yi really did know what this Gold Coin Inherited soul was.
With curiosity, he opened the Inherited soul library and started browsing.
The shape of the Gold Coin Inherited soul was a golden energy orb, within which a golden fish-shaped phantom swam.
After reading the introduction of the Gold Coin Inherited soul, Zhong Yi understood what this Inherited soul’s effect was.
Simply understood, it generated fortune qi through transactions. Fortune qi could produce gold coins. One gold coin sacrificed to Emperor’s Sign bro could be exchanged for 100 points of sacrificial power.
It belonged to a finance-type Inherited soul.
He then browsed the evaluations by forum research-party players, and Zhong Yi gained a deeper understanding of the Gold Coin Inherited soul.
This Inherited soul could be said to be very mediocre.
Its only advantage was increasing extra returns.
But it had a whole pile of disadvantages.
First, the purchase cost of the Inherited soul alone was 30 thousand, which was extremely expensive.
Second, one had to also count the price of opening a star vein slot, calculated at the price of the last star vein slot.
No wonder forum players said the cost of the Gold Coin Inherited soul was too high and the help to improvement too small.
For players whose core gameplay was hunting, embedding the Gold Coin Inherited soul would cause greater loss the later it got.
Closing the forum interface, Zhong Yi tugged the straw hat down and started the elderly angling mode.
Basking in the sea breeze, feeling the warmth of the sunlight falling on his body… life was truly pleasant.
A few minutes later, Zhong Yi lifted the straw hat and opened his eyes.
Flow of fortune qi? Extra returns from transactions?
According to forum players, fortune qi created by transactions could not be obtained through mutual fake transactions. It required real transactions to be generated.
There was evidently a hidden detection mechanism in the game to judge whether a transaction was real. Players’ thoughts of exploiting bugs were certainly not feasible.
Then could extra returns be produced through trade with other races?
He felt this idea seemed feasible.
Eight percent was the extra return at the initial level of the Gold Coin Inherited soul. If he only needed to raise the Inherited soul level, the extra return could rise accordingly.
In theory, even with an equal-value exchange, he could still obtain generous extra returns through fortune qi generated by the Gold Coin Inherited soul.
The only problem was how to ensure his own safety during the transaction.
In fact, his own safety did not matter much. It was mainly the safety of the goods.
This was Monster World, not reality where all races lived in harmony with an Earth Alliance communication platform in a peaceful environment.
Having played Monster World for three months, Zhong Yi knew that in this world the bigger fist was always the truth.
When you sought to trade with other races, the beings of other races would look at the goods first, then the person.
Trades by the weak had always been delivery to the door.
To establish stable trade channels, you first needed strength that the other party feared, at the very least showing power not inferior to theirs.
Only with roughly equal strength could trade unfold.
With a significant disparity in strength, it was nothing more than either you rob me or I rob you.
The same was true for players.
Player teams with strength would just grab it directly. Why would they need complicated trade processes?
Weak players seeking to trade with other races would only have their goods taken, unless they stored their goods in a spatial satchel and did not display them.
Aside from this problem, all other problems would be easy to solve.
In the choice of trade goods, there was a dazzling array of items in the item shop to choose from.
There would always be goods that other races fancied and were willing to exchange various spiritual resources for.
With the idea formed, Zhong Yi began to think about a way to break the situation.
If this growth path could be walked through and stable trade with other races established, then he could have a great deal of extra sacrificial power income in the future.
The premise was to solve how, with limited strength, to conduct trade with the racial forces on the various islands of the Azure Star Sea Region.