Absolute Destiny Game
Chapter 129 - 9 Qinggong - A Major Plan to Make Money_2

Chapter 129: Chapter 9 Qinggong - A Major Plan to Make Money_2

This method seems reliable, but low-level materials are definitely cheap, and high-Level ones are out of their reach for now. This could only be a supplementary plan; relying solely on this for making money wouldn’t be enough.

Third, would be manufacturing: Forging, Skinning, Tailoring, Talisman making, Alchemy...

As long as you can get your hands on good specialty blueprints and craft Divine weapons or Immortal Elixirs, you can certainly make a huge profit. However, he didn’t hold much hope for this.

The game had been running for three years, and the major guilds have no idea how many Forging Masters and Alchemists they’ve trained by now. For him to make a fortune coming in late was easier said than done.

Fourth, would be the most traditional merchant approach, buy low sell high, profiting from the margin, commonly known as the goblin way.

There are always players who are ignorant of the true value or in urgent need of money, selling their precious items at a low price. There are also rich lords willing to pay a fortune, overpaying for certain items. This type of merchant could be seen everywhere in those traditional games, and what Jin Fugui was doing must be exactly this.

As for what Xiao Jie should do, he still needed to survey and deliberate before making a decision.

Xiao Jie considered himself an old hand in the worldly society and was confident in finding ways to make money.

Arriving at the auction house, Xiao Jie took out his notebook and began recording, checking the prices of goods.

From minerals, herbs, and other basic materials.

To weapons, elixirs, and other manufacturing products.

As well as various blueprints and Magic Equipment.

He recorded line by line in his notebook.

After busying himself for over an hour, his notebook was filled with several densely written pages, and now he had enough data.

Looking at the data in his notebook, Xiao Jie frowned; manufacturing was indeed not viable—the competition was too intense. Comparing the prices of finished goods with raw materials, the profit margin was minuscule, except for some particularly rare items that could fetch a good price.

Gathering could be worth a try; the prices for raw materials were still decent, and key is that these items come at zero cost and no investment, just labor-intensive. But this way was simply hard work for little gain, not likely to make a quick fortune.

There are indeed some particularly valuable materials, such as thousand-year-old snow lotus, Ganoderma, Mystic Iron Red Copper and the like, costing tens or hundreds of taels.

Even some worth several thousand taels, but these are clearly materials from high-Level maps. For his own Level 10 character, it was out of the question.

There’s also another way to make money: monopoly. That is to buy up an entire category of materials and then sell at a higher price.

However, playing the monopoly game requires a substantial amount of capital as a foundation, something he couldn’t do with his amount of silver.

Xiao Jie kept pondering over various ways to make money, continually dismissing them as impractical. With his low level, meager capital, and limited understanding of the game, making money was exceedingly difficult.

However, after all the searching, he did find an undervalued track.

That is cooking products.

Some special cooking products can also provide beneficial BUFFs, special effects.

They are not as powerful as elixirs or talismans, and most just provide slight benefits—better than nothing—so they are not very expensive. The cheaper ones are just a few tens of Wen, and the more expensive ones are only several hundred cents.

Manufacturing tycoons probably don’t care for such small profits, which leaves considerable room for profit, especially for some rare and peculiar recipes that could sell for a few hundred cents—"high prices."

A few hundred cents may not be much for those major guilds, but for a lone wolf player like Xiao Jie, it was pretty good—no need to be choosy.

Luckily, he had Intermediate Cooking. The investment in cooking is relatively low, and there’s a high consumption rate for the products, unlike elixirs, talismans, or equipment, which are only for major guilds and rich players.

If he could gather the materials himself, he could further reduce the cost.

Now the only rare item Xiao Jie had that could sell was the Secret Dog Food; in the future, by acquiring more rare recipes, he could profit long term—at least enough to earn back the money spent on learning skills.

"This Secret Dog Food should be worth some money, right?"

Xiao Jie searched the auction house with the keyword "Happiness value."

Then he filtered the search by food.

Three products that increased happiness value appeared in the results.

"Secretly Made Vegetable Dumplings," restores 10 points of satiety, adds 8 points of pet happiness value (only for herbivorous beasts). Auction price: 150 Wen.

"Cat Mint Grilled Fish," restores 15 points of satiety, adds 15 points of happiness value (only for feline beasts). Auction price: 250 Wen.

"Monkey Wine," increases happiness value by 25 points (only for humans, apes). Auction price: 500 Wen.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, all of them damn greedy merchants, eh. Xiao Jie could tell that the production cost for Secretly Made Vegetable Dumplings and Cat Mint Grilled Fish definitely wouldn’t exceed 50 Wen.

The high markup was entirely due to exclusive formulas without competition.

As for why Monkey Wine was so expensive—probably used to boost NPC favorability.

It seemed that his Secret Dog Food was a good product, with little competition.

The Secret Dog Food could be used by carnivorous animals, and although feline beasts were partially dominated by Cat Mint Grilled Fish, wolves, bears, wild boars, and the like also needed happiness value.

Such a niche formula without competition wasn’t worried about having no buyers. For instance, he now really wanted to buy a few Secretly Made Vegetable Dumplings to give Luobo an extra meal and quickly boost its happiness value to learn those two skills.

Xiao Jie decisively put up the remaining ten Secret Dog Foods in his bag for sale, each priced at 200 Wen.

To his surprise, three sold in less than five minutes.

Before long, all ten Secret Dog Foods had sold out.

Haha, exhilarating, 2 taels of silver in hand just like that, now he could learn Riding Skill.

But Xiao Jie wasn’t in a hurry.

He went to the butcher’s and bought a bunch of Wild Boar Meat, deer meat, mutton, then to the medical shop for Wild Chrysanthemum and Ningshen Grass, and got straight to crafting.

He churned out 60 pieces of Secret Dog Food in one go and hung up 30 for sale; within less than an hour, more than twenty had sold.

He posted the rest for sale too, but unfortunately, they began to sell more slowly after that. It seemed there weren’t many Beast Tamer players, but no matter—it was fine to slowly sell them off.

Being consumables, these items would always be needed whenever a new pet was captured.

The cost of producing a piece of Secret Dog Food was only 40 Wen, selling one would net a profit of 160 Wen; even after deducting the transaction tax, the income was still 140 Wen.

Selling ten or twenty a day could yield a few taels of silver in income.

Indeed, grinding in Newbie Village was a dead end—making money required heading to the big cities.

It was just unexpected that after accumulating many valuable things in Newbie Village, what ultimately made money for him was this recipe he obtained unintentionally.

One could only say that fate plays tricks on people.

Checking the silver in his bag, he now had 13 taels of silver. Finally, he could afford to learn Riding Skill.