Purple Mist Dao Master

Chapter 734 - 447: Settling Down: Divine General’s Courtyard!_2

Continue!The stone cutting master took a break, then continued.

Time slowly passed.

This time.

Quickly.

"Stable!"

"Fourth-rank stable!"

"Damn! This size, at least starting at 1.5 Primordial Pills! Ten times! Profited hardcore!"

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It rises again!

It rises again!

This time, Yan Chuan, without waiting for Xun Yi to inquire with the stone cutting master, directly said: "Don’t stop, keep going!"

Xun Yi pursed his lips.

The stone cutting master wiped his sweat.

Everyone around held their breath.

Tick-tock, second by second.

Finally—

"It’s out!"

"Fourth-rank!"

"It really is fourth-rank!"

"By the looks of it, at least 180 pounds, even at the lowest quality, it can sell for 1.8 Primordial Pills! More than tenfold! Profited hardcore!"

"And the attribute! Continue testing! Test the attribute!"

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Someone shouted.

The final step in stone cutting is to test the ’Golden Talisman Stone’s’ attribute. You can’t tell just by looking. You have to use a unique method to channel Inner Strength into it to discern the Golden Talisman Stone’s attribute and determine the final price. Only then is the stone cutting truly complete.

But Yan Chuan didn’t need this step. He stepped forward, placed his hand on the nearly 200-pound Golden Talisman Stone, and with a thought, the large Golden Talisman Stone disappeared instantly.

"Storage Exotic Treasure!"

"Quite a large space!"

Many people around, though they might not own such items themselves, have seen Heavenly Gods in Golden Talisman City who possess such treasures. Even if they haven’t tasted pork, they’ve certainly seen pigs run.

"Brother Qin." Xun Yi wasn’t surprised that Yan Chuan had a Storage Exotic Treasure. At this moment, he didn’t intend to buy Yan Chuan’s Golden Talisman Stone anymore, purely stepping forward to congratulate him, both surprised and envious: "Brother Qin, you have good eye power! Good luck! Let’s exchange more often in the future, I don’t have much luck in gambling stones, but my experience and skills are top-notch!"

This gambler is also quite an interesting person.

Yan Chuan nodded modestly: "Sure, sure." Then he left Wanshan Trading Company with Bai Yang quickly.

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"Where are they? Where?"

"Didn’t they say they cut out a fourth-rank Golden Talisman Stone? What’s the attribute?"

"Not tested?"

"Left without testing?"

"Called ’Qin Yu’?"

"Is there such a person among the Heavenly Gods in Golden Talisman City?"

"Have you all seen that person? Good, good, good! Pass him a message for me—say that I, Mo Chongyun, want to make friends. If the fourth-rank Golden Talisman Stone in that person’s hand is of ’Gold Attribute’ or contains ’Gold Attribute’ as part of a Dual Attribute or Three Attributes, he can come to ’Chongyun Pavilion’ to find me, and I’ll never give him a low price!"

Mo Chongyun rushed over full of excitement, only to find out that they had left, and the attribute of the fourth-rank Golden Talisman Stone hadn’t been tested. He was dumbfounded, wondering how there could be such a person?

Had no choice.

Could only send people to search.

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"Golden Talisman Inn, not an easy place." At this moment, Yan Chuan was being led by Bai Yang to find a residence: "If adults plan to only stay temporarily, the inns and hotels in the city offer good living conditions and service, though at a higher price. If planning for a longer stay, then a homestay would be more suitable. Of course, adults can also purchase a residence in Golden Talisman City, as the City Lord Mansion always welcomes various Heavenly Gods to settle here."

Actually, Bai Yang hadn’t fully recovered from the shock of Yan Chuan’s stone gambling just now—

The fourth-rank raw stone sold for 1600 pounds of Essence Stones!

The lowest valued fourth-rank Golden Talisman Stone of 1.8 Primordial Pills!

How long did that take?

Not even three full hours since Yan Chuan entered the city!

Three hours!

This Heavenly God earned over 16,000 pounds of Essence Stones?

Unbelievable!

Astronomical numbers!

Seeing this adult not considering selling the fourth-rank Golden Talisman Stone at all, Bai Yang guessed that Yan Chuan wasn’t short on money—

"Inns, the top ones are all priced in Essence Stones, usually 2 pounds of Essence Stones per day."

"Homestays, the ones with good environments have lower prices, at least a month’s stay beginning around 20 pounds of Essence Stones per month."

"Residential, property prices in Golden Talisman City vary greatly, with different prices in different areas, and within the same area, prices differ by location, size, and scale. Cheaper ones might only cost a few hundred pounds of Essence Stones, but the best could cost several Primordial Pills, and not even guarantee a purchase."

Golden Talisman City is one of the twelve major cities within Hunxi Territory, with a permanent population close to a million, but these people are all in the outer city, while the ’thirteen industries’, ’Wanshan Trading Company’, ’Feiyu Trading Company’, and ’Blood Shadow Tower’ are all in the South City, akin to a city within a city, gathering the essence of Golden Talisman City’s industries. From its inception, it aimed to be the largest trade center within Hunxi Territory and even among the Six Great Royal Cities. It wasn’t built in the Royal City mainly for ’depoliticization’, to minimize the influence of Hunxi Royal City and the Four Families and Three Sects on this city, thus attracting more merchants and martial artists to invest in and settle in Golden Talisman City.

Therefore, the inner city and South City’s housing prices in Golden Talisman City are indeed not cheap.

Here martial artists are everywhere, with the limit-breaking level visible everywhere, this place is so prosperous, and it requires extremely high costs to live here.

What Bai Yang said wasn’t actually very accurate, he didn’t really know why the inner city’s housing prices were so varied—

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"Master, for a Divine General to settle, it’s not advisable to live in cheap, ordinary housing. It’s best to stay in the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ developed by the City Lord Mansion."

Bai Yang led Yan Chuan to find a broker specializing in housing rental and sales in Golden Talisman City’s inner city, and the broker explained much more clearly to Yan Chuan: "The ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ is different from ordinary housing. It’s been designed and crafted through the joint efforts of masters in artifact refining, talismans, and arrays as summoned by the City Lord Mansion. The craftsmanship is exquisite, the materials high-level, and every courtyard ingeniously integrates a complete set of ’Five Elements Arrays’, including the ’Five Elements Sky-Supporting Array’, which can withstand the invasion of Heavenly Gods. It includes the ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’, restraining Essence Energy released from Essence Stones in the Courtyard’s Cultivation Quiet Room, with about 80% efficiency, much more cost-effective than Primordial Pills while having decent cultivation outcomes."

Yan Chuan quickly understood.

This is one of the ’thirteen industries’ of the Four Families and Three Sects in Golden Talisman City, namely ’real estate’, the main business leveraging various resources and talents to build the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’, highly suitable for Divine Generals to live and cultivate. The ’Five Elements Arrays’ include the ’Five Elements Sky-Supporting Array’ for secure closed-door cultivation, and the ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’ can release and restrain Essence Stone Essence to aid in cultivation.

The cultivation of the Innate Realm requires a massive amount of Essence Stones, which prompted the emergence of ’Primordial Pills’ and ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ of this kind.

The emergence of ’Primordial Pills’—

Firstly solved the problem of Essence Stones being difficult to store; the Essence Energy within Primordial Pills can be stored for a long time.

Secondly solved the issue of Essence Stones being hard to carry; not everyone has a Storage Exotic Treasure, and thousands of pounds of Essence Stones are impossible to carry along. Each Primordial Pill contains the Essence Energy of six thousand pounds of Essence Stones, equivalent to carrying six thousand pounds of Essence Stones. If reluctant to use Primordial Pills, with a One-Pattern Primordial Pill, you can always exchange for almost ten thousand pounds of Essence Stones no matter in which Royal City, making it function like a ’silver note’.

The third point is the enhancement of the continuity and quality of cultivation.

The ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ emerged primarily due to the aforementioned third point. It includes a ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’, which maintains continuity in cultivation and improves its quality, and while ’Primordial Pills’ have only 60% usage efficiency, it’s increased to 80%, providing a relatively acceptable alternative for many Divine Generals reluctant to use Primordial Pills for cultivation.

However, the limitation of the ’Divine General’s Courtyard’ lies in that, one, it cannot be carried around and cannot facilitate smooth cultivation if in remote wilderness like Primordial Pills can; two, the continuity is limited. Depending on different levels of ’Five Elements Release Origin Array’, the amount of Essence Stones it can fill at one time ranges from hundreds of pounds to thousands, which might lead to interruptions during cultivation or closed-door states when Essence Stones suddenly run out.

Besides.

There’s nothing else, only that it’s expensive—

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