Invincible Chapter 182(1/2)
"In this Xuzhou city, in addition to the Presbyterian Church, there are also several powerful family forces. They control more than half of the industry here, and more than half of the Presbyterian Council is from these families." Zhang Moyang said.
"That's similar to those nobles outside."
Zhang Moyang nodded and said: "Indeed, although they are very powerful, they don't dare to mess around in the fairy city. After all, there are sect forces and casual cultivators in the Presbyterian Council that can check and balance them. The current city lord, Daojun Qinghe,
The Yuanshan Sect from the East China Sea is the largest cultivator sect in the world, with tens of thousands of disciples and hundreds of thousands of mortals relying on them to survive. Although the power of the Immortal City is powerful, it will not have any conflicts with this sect."
Song Xin didn't expect that there were so many doorways, so he secretly remembered these forces.
Zhang Moyang said: "This time we are here to purchase some products for our sect. Come and see them with us to open your eyes."
"Can gold and silver be used in transactions here?"
"Most of the gold and silver in the world are used here as materials for alchemy and weapon refining, but they can also be exchanged for the trading currency in the city. It is a kind of jade coin jointly engraved by the city of practitioners, just like this one. Zhang Moyang said and took out
A small round jade piece with small seal characters engraved on it.
Song Xin took it and took a look. This jade coin was very similar to the five-baht coin used in the world. It also looked like a round sky and a square place.
He suddenly remembered something and hurriedly took out a few coins from the storage ring, "So these are jade coins!"
When he killed Lu Yuncheng, he got a lot of these jade coins. He didn't know what they were at the time. Only when he got here did he realize that they were the universal currency of the fairy city.
"So Brother Song, you already have one?" Zhang Xiuyang was a little surprised.
"I once said that Lu Yuncheng was killed by me, these are what he had."
"Well, according to what you said, he is also a practitioner, which is not surprising." Zhang Moyang nodded.
Zhang Xiuyang said: "By the way, if you want to exchange jade coins, there are two places. One is to go to a bank, but the exchange is small, and the other is to go to a specialized shop that sells refining supplies, where you can bargain with the shopkeeper.
, and sometimes you can change more.”
"I just want to ask about some materials, so let's go to the store to exchange them." Song Xin just wanted to repair the sword Wei Tong gave him as soon as possible. This sword was of great significance to him. Since it was damaged, he has been asking him to
He was worried about it.
"Okay, then let's go to the second largest "Jinyu Pavilion" in the city. The prices there are relatively reasonable and there are many goods. The two of us also have some things to buy." Zhang Xiuyang suggested.
"Okay, let's go there."
Several people got on the big car in the middle of the avenue. The car was very long and there were many people sitting on it. Song Xin looked around. Everything he saw was new now, and the people around him didn't mind. They seemed to be used to it. They were all used to it.
Close your eyes and relax, and spend most of your time talking to your friends.
"I wonder what life will be like for mortals here."
"It's no different from practitioners. Practitioners can't kill them indiscriminately. Otherwise, you know the punishment from heaven." Zhang Xiuyang said with a smile.
"Well, that's right."
"Sometimes mortals live better here than outside." A man next to me who looked like a sorcerer said.
"Not only will they not be killed here, but as long as they are willing to endure hardships, they can live a good life without having to do heavy corvee labor. It is much better than outside." The alchemist added.
"I see, Mr. Xie has cleared up the confusion." Song Xin said with a smile.
"It's easy to talk about. It's your first time here, fellow Taoist, so you have to take a good stroll. I'll say goodbye." After saying that, the man turned around and left.
"He is right. This world only suppresses us cultivators. Mortals are safer here than us." Zhang Moyang said.
Two-quarters of an hour later, Song Xin and the others got out of the car and saw a huge plaque "Golden Jade Pavilion" at the door. Someone who looked like a shopkeeper was greeting them at the door. Song Xin found that none of them had any cultivation level.
"Guests, please come in. May I have any orders?" A young shopkeeper greeted the three of them very respectfully.
"We need to buy some materials, and this friend wants to exchange gold and silver for some jade coins."
"Well, please give me the list of materials below. In addition, the exchange price of jade coins is on this wall. The guest can just take the gold and silver to be weighed and exchanged after the guest has selected it."
Song Xin and the others turned and looked along the wall pointed by the store. There were the exchange prices at the bank and the exchange prices at Jinyu Pavilion. The exchange prices here were about 10% higher than at the bank.
"Today's price is better, in the past it was half a percent or less." The store owner said enthusiastically.
"Okay, thank you for your work. Here is the list of materials I need." Zhang Moyang said and handed the man a piece of paper.
Song Xin looked at the prices. One tael of copper could be exchanged for fifteen jade coins, silver could be exchanged for fifty coins, and gold could be exchanged for one hundred coins. The prices at the bank were 10% to 20% less than here respectively.
"Gold has been in short supply recently, so the price is relatively high," the store owner said, looking at Song Xin.
"Okay, then I'll exchange all of these for jade coins." Song Xin took out the silver and copper ingots he got from digging out the Chaisang Haunted Mansion last time. And he kept dozens of those Roman gold coins as souvenirs.
, and the rest are ready to be exchanged.
When the shopkeeper saw the gold coins, he picked one up out of curiosity and said, "This is a gold coin from Great Qin."
Song Xin asked in surprise: "You also recognize it?"
"Well, several magicians from Great Qin came here many years ago, and they took out these gold coins to do some shopping..."
Zhang Moyang asked curiously: "You mean magician? What is it?"
The shopkeeper shook his head and said: "I don't know, I don't know. Anyway, I heard from people in the city that there seem to be people who can use magic there, but we can't tell the names and levels of cultivation."
Then he led Song Xin to the exchange office, and the final weighing was 132 taels of copper, 140 taels of silver, and 110 taels of gold, a total of 22,800 jade coins.
The store owner directly gave Song Xin a black wooden sign. Song Xin didn't know why. The store owner saw that it was his first time here, so he said: "This is a temporary voucher from the bank. Take this to the bank and give it to the person there."
You can take it out, and you can hold it yourself when the time comes, or you can deposit it with your own identity jade token."
"Thank you. I'm thinking I need to find some materials for refining the weapon. I wonder if I can help?" Song Xin took out the materials for the Fuxi Sword that he wanted to collect and handed them over.
"Well, meteorites and volcanic lava ash are not difficult to find, but black ice and thunder stones are more valuable."
"Sir, do you want to refine weapons?" An old man came over while he was talking. When the shopkeeper saw it, he immediately saluted respectfully. "This is the treasurer of the refiners here. He is responsible for everything about the refinements, so I will take my leave."
Song Xin was startled, "Is it possible to refine weapons here?"
"That's natural. If you provide forging cubes and materials yourself, then the refining cost is 30% of the total cost of materials. If you need to buy materials, or you have forging cubes, then the refining price is 20% of the materials. If you don't have them, the refining cost will be 20%.
The price of the appliance is 50% of the total cost of all materials. Our store has been in business here for more than 100 years, and the prices are fair and there is absolutely no fraud.”
"Song Xin, do you want to refine a spiritual weapon?" Zhang Xiuyang said.
"Yes, I originally wanted to repair my sword, but if it can be refined into a spiritual weapon here, that would be the best."
"This Jinyu Pavilion can also help refine weapons, and the craftsmanship is not bad." Zhang Moyang said.
When Song Xin heard this, he immediately asked, "How many jade coins do I need for these four materials?"
The old man said: "Well, there are 530 pieces of meteorite from the sky and 10 pieces of volcanic lava ash, but the black ice and thunder stone are relatively rare, with 1,500 and 5,200 pieces respectively. The price of these materials
On top of the total, add 50% of the refining cost, which is the final price."
Song Xin was dumbfounded as soon as he calculated, half of his jade coins were instantly lost.
"Brother, do you have a forging recipe?" the old man asked.
Song Xin quickly said: "I have a forging method."
"Guys, please come with me to the inner room." The old man led a few people into a closed room. "Well, can you let me have a look at the forging?"
Song Xin handed the forging formula copied on the paper to the old man.
"This forging is quite rare. Weapons made of ordinary iron, combined with these materials, can be used to create powerful spiritual weapons." The old man was amazed after reading it, and he quickly made calculations in his mind.
The old man asked tentatively: "I wonder if I can sell this forging recipe to our shop?"
"My brother is an honest man. If I give this forging recipe to you and you use it to make a lot of money, why not just give my brother a little? That's not okay." Zhang Xiuyang helped Song Xin negotiate the price.
"How much can your store sell?" Song Xin asked the old man.
The old man stretched out his fingers and made two gestures. Song Xin couldn't understand and looked confused. The old man seemed to realize that Song Xin didn't understand the rules of these gestures, so he made another two and then a five.
"This is... twenty-five thousand? It's too little," Song Xin said. Even if he didn't understand the market, he knew that this was too little.
"Two hundred and fifty thousand." The old man sighed and whispered a number. "If little brother accepts this price, then the cost of this weapon refining will be free of charge."
Song Xin didn't know what the price was, so he looked at Zhang Moyang and said, "Old man, if you can pay this price, you won't be stingy and add a little more." He made a gesture (How about three hundred and fifty thousand?)"
"Two hundred and seventy thousand."
"Since the old gentleman is sincere, I will lower the price to 325,000. If it doesn't work, we will leave," Zhang Moyang said.
"Three hundred thousand."
"Deal." Zhang Moyang nodded to Song Xin.
The old man nodded without any expression. He was obviously used to this kind of negotiation process.
"By the way, I still have a damaged spiritual weapon. I wonder if it can be repaired. The price can be calculated together." Song Xin thought of Xin Youmi's thunder and lightning bronze sword.
"Please let me take a look."
After taking out the bronze sword, Song Xin also took out Lu Yuncheng's spiritual weapon short sword, preparing to sell it.
The old man held the bronze sword and looked at it for a while, "This sword is seriously damaged. If it needs to be repaired, it will not only consume materials, but also at least two demon pills. These materials may have exceeded the value of the spiritual weapon itself."
"As for this short sword..." the old man looked at it for a while and said: "Spiritual weapons of this quality are very common and can be worth five hundred jade coins, which is slightly more expensive than ordinary iron weapons."
"So few..." Song Xin didn't expect that the spiritual weapon he desperately grabbed would be sold at a street stall.
"However, if there is a demon pill, I can fuse this dagger with the bronze sword, and perhaps repair the bronze sword."
Song Xin was overjoyed, "If this can happen, that would be great!"
To be continued...