Chapter 166: War Speculation
Chapter 166 - War Speculation
Since Zhao Siyao was in seclusion, Lu Chang'an didn't pay a visit this time.
After leaving the Golden Cloud Valley.
Lu Chang'an didn't immediately return to Mount Wu Qi.
He was going to go to the neighboring markets and immortal cities to examine them and see if he could purchase some relatively low-priced materials and supplies.
The news of the clan's expedition was largely unknown to the middle and lower levels of the Immortal Cultivation World.
Before that, even some of the higher echelons didn't dare to be sure.
At present, the rate of increase of materials is not so exaggerated, there is still some room for profit.
Lu Changan's first stop was the "Five Peaks Market" in the south of the Golden Cloud Valley.
Back then, Lu Changan had taken Li Erqing to listen to music at the "Hundred Fragrant Immortal House" in the Five Peaks Market, including helping Zhao Siyao repair her top-grade magic weapon.
The scale of the market is relatively large under the Immortal City.
Lu Changan used the "Hundred Illusion Mask" as his ordinary youth identity, but on top of that, he slightly adjusted his disguise to create an additional layer of identity disguise.
Keeping his cultivation in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, he was treated as a VIP in the large stores in the Five Peaks Market.
After half a day.
Lu Chang'an swept a batch of goods, focusing on materials for talismans, pills, and puppets.
The price increase of materials wasn't small, but it wasn't as high as the finished products.
The oversupply of various war materials was also limited by the craftsmen, especially the high quality ones.
Prices are transmitted to materials with a slight delay.
When the news of the war is confirmed and materials are scarce, the prices will surely rise dramatically.
Lu Changan also went to the "Spirit Medicine Pavilion" in the Wufeng Marketplace during his shopping spree.
Back then, the first time he came to the Five Peaks Market, Lu Changan was secretly followed by the shopkeeper of the Spiritual Pill Pavilion, but was scared off by the Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
After so many years, the shopkeeper failed to ascend to the Foundation stage and died long ago. After inquiring, among his descendants, there is a late-stage Qi refining cultivator who works as a pharmacist in the Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
Lu Changan's heart is not that small.
There is no need to take revenge on his descendants or the Spirit Medicine Pavilion for a trivial matter in the past.
That would be too much of a fuss.
After all, the shopkeeper back then only had eyes on him and didn't act on them.
Half a day after Lu Chang'an left.
An anecdote came from the Five Peaks Market.
It is said that the Spirit Medicine Pavilion has lost several of its precious medicinal herbs, causing the proprietor to be furious.
It is suspected that a mysterious spirit beast infiltrated the scene and ate them.
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Five Peaks Market, 2,000 li away.
Lu Changan glanced at his spirit pet pouch while flying.
An orange and purple rat demon with a bulging belly was hiccuping and lazily stretching its limbs as it lay in the spirit pet bag.
Lu Changan smiled, the precious medicinal herbs that the Ground Rock Rat had eaten in the past few years were not as much as what it had eaten in one day today.
Ten days later.
Lu Changan arrived at the Zijing Immortal City on the west side of the Golden Cloud Valley.
This Immortal City is close to the border of Liang, and has trade and commerce with the "Jing Kingdom" in the western region.
The Jing Country is only a small Immortal Cultivation country, with poor spiritual resources, and the strongest Immortal Cultivation force is only the Jindan Sect.
The country is located in the north of the Black Mist Mountain Range, and is in the middle of the gap between the Chen Kingdom and the Liang Kingdom.
Purple Bauhinia Immortal City, although geographically remote, the value of materials is slightly higher than the Five Peaks Market.
Lu Chang'an speculated that the Immortal City had more big powers and had a sharper sense of smell for news.
The top management of certain chambers of commerce may have gotten wind of the situation, but they may not dare to make a big bet.
If there is a change in the war situation in the Beacon Kingdom, or if the bigwigs in the top echelons of the Liang Kingdom give up on the idea, they may not be able to return the money they invested in the game.
After purchasing in Zijing Immortal City.
Lu Chang flew to Liaoyuan Immortal City again, stopping at the Mu Family at Fei Yue Lake.
......
At the Mu Family, Lu Chang'an met with Li Erqing and Mu Bing Yun.
After many years, Mu Bing Yun has matured a lot, looks twenty-four or twenty-five years old, has a kind of family ancestor, base-building female cultivator's confident style.
These years, the Mu family's development momentum is good, the industry steadily expanding, in the Bamboo Leaf Mountain, the Five Peaks Mountain, the Yellow Dragon Immortal City, a total of several stores.
As for the reason for the rise in supplies, Lu Chang'an gave a slight hint to the two of them and did not point it out.
Before parting.
Mu Bingyun sent a message to Lu Changan, wanting to have a private talk with him, asking for advice on cultivation and talisman drawing.
Lu Chang'an glanced at the jade-like, slender, green-skirted female cultivator, whose starry eyes were filled with expectation, reverence, and a hint of hidden emotions.
Lu Changan refused Mu Bing Yun's request for a private talk on the grounds that he was busy.
Lu Changan refused Mu Bing Yun's request to have a private talk with him.
Mu Bing Yun's figure stood, slightly lost, watching the white man's distant figure.
Mu Bing Yun's figure is standing, slightly lost, watching the white-clothed man's distant figure.
She gently clenched her hand into a fist, took a deep breath, trying to drum up the courage, and then face the face of distress and bewilderment.
Li Erqing saw that lonely figure, as if overlapping with a figure in his memory.
He sighed in his heart: two generations of the Mu family's most outstanding, beautiful female cultivator, can not keep that man's heart.
......
After leaving Fei Yue Lake, Lu Changan stopped by Bamboo Leaf Mountain again.
The Bamboo Leaf Mountain Market is a slightly lower level market, not as prosperous as the initial auction back then.
The owner of the market, the Maple Leaf Huang Family, now has two Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
The original Foundation Cultivator "Huang Yingchun", who relied on her late Foundation Cultivator partner, is said to be old and nearing the end of her life.
The relationship between the two sides is gradually fading.
Lu Chang'an purchased materials that required a certain grade, so he didn't get much at the Bamboo Leaf Mountain Market.
One month later.
Lu Changan went to Prairie Immortal City and Yellow Dragon Immortal City one after another.
In Liaoyuan Immortal City, where the price of materials was the highest, Lu Changan bought some talismans and high-grade materials for puppets.
Yellow Dragon Immortal City, in addition to the ordinary parts and fur of demonic beasts, other materials are not cheap.
In the end.
After completing the big purchase, Lu Chang'an returned to Wu Qi Mountain. During the procurement, Lu Changan didn't even use his own identity.
In fact, in the eastern and southern parts of Liang, and even in the area north of the Black Mist Mountain Range, there were also large-scale markets and even immortal cities.
Since the price of supplies was continuing to rise, Lu Changan went with the flow and only went to the relatively closer areas.
......
One year later.
Lu Chang'an, who was in Wu Qi Mountain, got a little news from the outside world.
It was said that the Liang Immortal Cultivation World would be plunged into a war.
There are many different opinions on the cause of the war.
One of the most outrageous news is that Yan's Wuya Temple has already made Beacon surrender, and in two years it will be Liang's turn.
When the news of the war, even the maid Lan Rou know, apparently has been widely spread around.
Some of the uninformed bottom layer cultivators, fearful and uneasy in their hearts, followed the trend of buying war preparations.
Some unscrupulous merchants and stores claimed that if they don't buy now, the price will double when the war starts.
So much so, that the already high price of war materiel has risen even higher.
The materials that had been lagging behind, all the parties were eager to sell them, and the prices rose sharply, on par with the war materials.
In this regard, the three peak masters of Wu Qi Mountain, together with a small gathering to discuss.
Lu Changan and Ye Fei really earned a lot.
Talismans and pills are both consumables in war.
"The rise in formations is average, my concubine didn't earn as much as the two of you."
Shi Manrong's voice was warm and smiling.
"Formation is not a consumable item, and the battlefield is not in Liang, so the price has only risen by a fraction with certain materials.
"Haha, if the price of formations rises dramatically, that's never a good thing! It's better for Fairy Shifu not to expect it."
Ye Fei drank a glass of wine and joked.
"When Lu Mou earns the spirit stones, I am going to look for Fairy Shi to upgrade the formation method of Little Turtle Peak. At that time, I still hope to give a favorable price."
Lu Chang'an's heart moved and greeted him in advance.
The peak master of Wu Qi Mountain had made a lot of money and could not hide it from those who were interested.
The more he earns, the less he should skimp on the means of protection.
Fairy Shifu's attainments in formations nowadays can already lay quasi third-order formations.
"Fellow Daoist Lu is sincere in taking care of business, my concubine is more than happy to do so."
Shi Manrong gently lifted her hair temples and took the initiative to toast a cup of spirit wine, her silver disk-like face wheeled, a touch of moving light red appeared.
Ye Fei glanced at Lu Changan and Shi Manrong.
He found that these two more senior peak masters, occasionally met their eyes and talked happily with each other.
More than thirty years had passed since Shi Manrong lost her memory.
The two peak masters have been in the same boat for more than 30 years.
The two peak masters have been in the same boat for more than 30 years.
The two peak masters have been in the same boat for more than 30 years.
In recent years, Shi Manrong has occasionally met with him in private, and compared to her previous dignified and reserved behavior, she has become more intimate and gentle.
Lu Changan remembers that this woman came back with the Yellow Dragon Mountain to kill the great demon, and said that she had recovered the ancient relics of the broken memory fragments, and did not mention this matter again in these years.
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In the next two years, the information about the war became more and more accurate.
This is because the top management of several great sects have reached an agreement and have started to unite the forces of the seven great families, the great immortal cities and the chambers of commerce.
In the one or two years when the war was about to settle, Lu Chang'an traveled to the various Immortal Cities and sold the hoarded materials one after another under different identities.
Prioritizing materials below the second rank, followed by materials unrelated to the craft.
Lastly, some of the old, slightly lower quality second-order lower-grade talismans and puppets.
Through war speculation, buying low and selling high, refining and selling war materials, Lu Changan earned huge profits.
Without realizing it.
He had saved up more than thirty thousand spirit stones alone.
This doesn't even count the batch of high grade talismans and puppets that he has hoarded in his hands.
Some years ago, Lu Chang'an had earned some spirit stones and purchased materials for refining puppets.
Not counting some of his cards, Lu Changan's worth exceeded that of many False Pill real people.
Xiang Jinglong, for example, had purchased magic treasures after attaining false pills, and his life's accumulation had been depleted, so his hands were relatively tight.
Secretly, Xiang Jinglong also makes occasional guest appearances as a robber. Even so, the efficiency of earning Spirit Stones is far less than that of Lu Changan.
Lu Changan had calculated that talismans earned more spirit stones than puppets. The main reason is that the puppet refining cycle is long and the price is high, so few cultivators can afford to buy it.
And if you are not a puppet master, or if you don't have outstanding divine sense, it is difficult for you to utilize the true power of a puppet.
......
On this day.
Inside the secret room of Little Turtle Peak.
"One hundred and twenty-six years old, sixth level of Foundation Establishment."
Lu Chang'an opened his dark, ink-like eyes and slowly withdrew his energy, his white clothes fluttering.
The Evergreen Mana in his body had increased by two to three percent in total compared to when he was at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment.
Because it was not a small realm breakthrough, the quality of the mana was almost indistinguishable.
When using magic weapons or spells, there would not be a significant increase in power either, mainly affecting long-lasting combat.
If one were to take a step further and break through the seventh level of Foundation Establishment and enter the late Foundation Establishment stage, becoming a great cultivator of the same rank at the Foundation Establishment stage, one's strength would take a qualitative leap.
Huo snort!
The green colored turtle with a body width of nearly one and a half zhang, rubbed against Lu Chang'an's breath, intimately pleasing.
Lu Chang'an understood its meaning.
After leaving the gate, he sat on the back of the Xuan Shui Turtle.
The Xuan Shui Turtle carried its master and happily leaped out of the cave, proudly showing off to the Ground Rock Rats not far away.
The rock rat glanced at the turtle with disdain, and bared its teeth in disgust.
Squeak!
In a standing position, it came to the large turtle, quite a bit taller than the Xuan Shui turtle, and anthropomorphically presented a letter.
This is a letter sent by Zhang Tieshan.
The content of the letter made Lu Changan slightly moved.
"The Liang clan has announced that they are going on a journey, and the Golden Cloud Valley will send the first batch of cultivators......"
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