Chapter 301: Windfall
Looking at so many things that almost filled up the case, the gray-robed old man's face changed slightly. He glanced at Duan Qing unnaturally and began to check them one by one.
It took about a cup of tea for the gray-robed old man to finish checking. After a moment of hesitation, he slowly said: "Sir, these things, my Tiansheng Pavilion offers 1.58 million spirit stones."
What!
Duan Qing was a little surprised, wondering if he had heard wrongly. 1.58 million spirit stones, how could it be so much!
He had roughly calculated before coming here, guessing that these things should be worth only a few hundred thousand spirit stones, how could there be so many more.
The most valuable of them are the four magic weapons, but they are only low-grade magic weapons.
He roughly understood when he visited the market yesterday that the value of ordinary low-grade magic weapons is only about 100,000 spirit stones, plus some other common refining materials and sundries, how could he calculate so many spirit stones!
If he said that this person calculated wrong, he would never believe it! There must be something he missed.
He turned his mind and asked the gray-robed old man for advice. "My knowledge is limited. Can you help me understand the value of these things?"
The gray-robed old man stroked his beard and smiled, and immediately explained to Duan Qing without any impatience. "Your four magic weapons are all low-grade and have no special spiritual patterns. Each is worth 100,000 spiritual stones. There are 15 kinds of refining materials, with different values, which add up to 180,000 spiritual stones."
The gray-robed old man paused and his eyes fell on the pile of jade slips. "As for these jade slips, they are all ordinary and worthless!"
Duan Qing was puzzled and was about to ask, when he saw the gray-robed old man picked up one of the jade slips and nodded slightly. "A set of third-grade mansions in Liuyue City, worth millions of spiritual stones."
Third-grade mansions! What the hell is that!
Duan Qing's eyes swept over the jade slip carefully, and suddenly, he thought of something.
Isn't this the control talisman of Shi Yaogan's mansion array!
The talisman and the jade slip look similar, but he didn't notice it just now and took it out.
A mere house is worth a million spirit stones! Duan Qing didn't know what to say for a moment. Even if it was closer to the market, it didn't make sense for it to be worth so much!
As if seeing Duan Qing's doubts, the gray-robed old man smiled playfully and explained Duan Qing's doubts. "The Tongtian Tower has the effect of gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so our cultivators have gathered in the Tongtian Tower since ancient times."
"The houses within a three-mile radius of the Tongtian Tower in Liuyue City were all built by our cultivators. There are spirit gathering arrays inside. The concentration of spiritual energy is far higher than other places in the city. Practice can be twice as effective with half the effort. According to the distance from the Tongtian Tower, they can be divided into first-grade to fifth-grade."
"Your house is only third-grade. If it is second-grade or first-grade, the value is much higher."
After listening to the old man's explanation, Duan Qing was secretly shocked. It turned out that there were so many reasons!
But he was still a little puzzled. He had been to Shi Yaogan and Xia Wushuang's houses. Although the concentration of spiritual energy was indeed much higher than other places, it was still worse than practicing directly with spirit stones.
But then he immediately realized that these were two completely different things.
The main reason was that he had not been in the Middle Earth for long, and his mind was still stuck in the spiritually barren land of the Small South Realm, and he had not made the switch.
When practicing, cultivators can use spirit stones to practice, or they can directly absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to practice, but it does not mean that the two cannot be done at the same time.
In fact, when practicing with spirit stones, the body will still absorb some spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Even if the absorption effect is worse than when absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, the efficiency of the two combined is naturally greater than that of practicing with spirit stones alone and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The reason why he did not realize this before was that the spiritual energy of the Small South Realm and the Three Heavens was really barren, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that could be absorbed when practicing with spirit stones was almost negligible!
But the Middle Earth is different. The concentration of spiritual energy in the world of the Middle Earth is far better than that of the Small South Realm and the Three Heavens. It is also a gathering array, but the spiritual energy gathered is very different from that of the Small South Realm.
If the concentration of spiritual energy in Xiaonanjie is compared to ten, then the concentration of spiritual energy in Zhongtu is one hundred. Assuming that the gathering spirit array can increase the concentration of spiritual energy by 30%, the difference between ten and one hundred is obvious.
No wonder the houses around Tongtian Tower are so expensive. Practicing here is indeed twice the result with half the effort.
Thinking of this, Duan Qing couldn't help but sigh. He originally thought that the house left by Xia Wushuang was useless. Now it seems that he has taken a big advantage!
His magic weapon dagger is just a low-grade magic weapon. According to the gray-robed old man, it is worth only 100,000 spiritual stones.
And Xia Wushuang's house is almost close to the market. At the very least, it should be a second-grade house, and it may even be a first-grade house. The value is far higher than his magic weapon dagger!
"I see, thank you for your doubts!" Duan Qing came to his senses and immediately bowed to the gray-robed old man to thank him.
"You don't have to do this. If you have no objection, you can calculate the spiritual stones now!" The gray-robed old man smiled playfully.
From Duan Qing's reaction, he could guess that this house was probably not legitimate, but he didn't care. He had checked that the talisman in this house was now ownerless and had no mark of anyone, which meant that the original owner was no longer there.
As long as it was ownerless, he would dare to collect it in Tiansheng Pavilion. When Tiansheng Pavilion collected things, it never asked about the origin, but only the quality.
Duan Qing nodded awkwardly. "That's great!"
Even after leaving Tiansheng Pavilion, Duan Qing still couldn't believe it. He checked the 158 shining spiritual stones in the bag again, and was so happy that he almost couldn't close his mouth!
He just did justice for the heaven, but he didn't expect to make a fortune. God really has eyes!
Although the spiritual liquid in his bag is worth almost two million spiritual stones, it can't be used after all, and can only be used for cultivation.
But these 158 high-grade spiritual stones are different. Each one is worth 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones, which can be circulated!
With a huge amount of money, Duan Qing couldn't help but think about how to use so many spiritual stones.
After thinking for a while, Duan Qing found that he basically had everything now! He had the magic weapon Huanlingzhu and Fengqing Sword, one for attack and one for defense, and even the spiritual treasures had the spiritual treasure golden bowl and the sword in the gourd!
As for the realm-breaking pill, it can also be replaced by spiritual liquid!
It turns out that too many spiritual stones are also worrying! Duan Qing thought with a slap in the face.
That's right! Pills!
One of his purposes in coming to the Middle Earth was to learn the way of alchemy, and he originally planned to talk about it after breaking through the questioning state.
But now that he has made a fortune, he has so many spiritual stones on him, just right to learn alchemy!
He did what he said. As soon as he left Tiansheng Pavilion, Duan Qing turned back and prepared to buy some jade slips about alchemy.
Not long after, Duan Qing left Tiansheng Pavilion with a painful look on his face.
Of the 158 high-grade spirit stones he had just obtained, only 90 remained!
No wonder the elixir was so expensive, this alchemy technique was really not something that ordinary people could learn!