All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 149 - 8 Channels for Purchasing Spiritual Objects

Chapter 149: Chapter 8 Channels for Purchasing Spiritual Objects

Is nomadic hunting more stable, or is agricultural farming more stable?

This question has answers in the vast majority of human living areas.

It is the same with Embracing the Void realm—is the business of beast skins and bones from hunting stable, or is the herb business of the medicine manor stable?

The answer is equally obvious.

The former might suddenly reap a windfall due to encountering a herd of beasts, and the latter might suffer poor yields due to natural disasters, but in the long term, the latter is definitely more stable.

An Jing, holding the price difference in trade between two realms, aside from possibly needing some outrageous profits to break the ice and accumulate initial capital, was most concerned with stability.

"No matter what I sell, it’s profitable, but it’s somewhat puzzling."

While An Jing was quite sentimental, the Sword Spirit reminded him, "Your extravagant shopping is too conspicuous. Although those big shots won’t pay attention to you for a hundred or two hundred silver, the smaller figures have certainly taken notice."

"It’s easy to meet the King of Hell, but difficult to fend off the little devils. If not handled well, it could lead to trouble. And no matter how much silver you make, it can’t transform into your strength, making it utterly pointless."

"But these troubles are actually a good thing."

An Jing, however, shook his head, "Demon Sect doesn’t care about trivial matters like some Dust Li rich man spending over a hundred silver. They would find such issues that have no connection to Spiritual Objects dull and would most likely overlook me."

"And after I make a sum of money, I will immediately purchase Spiritual Objects and provision that can enhance my strength."

"Right now, it’s just a prelude."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Sword Spirit became curious, "You’ve clearly spent all the silver you brought from Tianyuan Realm, don’t tell me you’re planning to use the Great Void Passage again to go to Tianyuan Realm?"

"But don’t forget, if you disappear for a few days, it will definitely attract the attention of those with intentions. If you make a quick trip, it seems wasteful and unnecessarily exposes another day of cooldown for the Great Void Passage."

"Of course not."

An Jing slightly shook his head, "Though my identity here is akin to that of a wealthy family’s scion, spending a few hundred silver effortlessly, being alone after all, I can’t carry that much cash. Dust Li people don’t like using silver notes, so by now I should be out of money."

"So, this son of a prominent Dust Li family, to sustain my expenses..."

As he spoke, An Jing smiled, selecting from the miscellaneous items beside him a delicately made Luminous Mirror with a gemstone-studded frame, "Can only go to the pawnshop, to pawn this ’heirloom Treasure Mirror.’

"Subdue Evil, tell me, how much silver can I get in Embracing the Void for this ordinary fluorescent mirror, gifted to me casually by Huo Qing, and easily purchasable from any roadside stall in Tianyuan Realm?"

Sword Spirit shared vision with An Jing, naturally seeing this ’Treasure Mirror’ with its silver-gray base material, inlaid with twelve crystal-clear azure gemstones, capable of emitting natural light at night.

It couldn’t help sighing, "If it were my era, although this object would be unusual, it wouldn’t fetch a high price."

"But in Embracing the Void now... at least it should be worth thirty to forty silver. If that pawnshop wants to establish a good relationship with you, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a several-fold increase."

"More than that. Definitely more than forty silver. Subdue Evil, after all, you are a sword, you simply don’t understand the price that human luxuries can fetch."

Packing away the ’Treasure Mirror,’ An Jing’s expression also gradually became calm, "To perform a play, one must play their part fully—without spending so much silver, without showing my financial strength, why would they want to establish a good relationship with me?"

"And what right do I have to gain the approval of the Kanming City circles and buy ’Spiritual Objects’ here?"

On his first day in Kanming City, An Jing began trying to find channels through which he could purchase Spiritual Objects.

They didn’t need to be particularly valuable; goods like Ferocious Beast Meat and Spiritual Medicine Potions of that level would suffice.

After a month of solitary meditation in the snowy wilderness, where he used the ’heart of the tree’ to heal all his injuries, An Jing had digested all his accumulated insights and clarified his martial arts thoughts, reaching the peak where his Inner Breath was as vast as a river.

Even with his extraordinary physical talent and the ’container’ that was much larger than that of ordinary people, he was gradually filling it up through his arduous cultivation, approaching the state where Inner Breath was like the sea and tide.

Now, An Jing was at that juncture—he could slowly continue his strenuous cultivation and spend another month or two to reach the state of Inner Breath like Tide in a gradual manner, or he could break through right now with the help of some superior Ferocious Beast Meat or a certain Spiritual Object that would nourish his body.

There was no superiority between the two methods, at most consuming Spiritual Objects for breakthroughs was faster and could add a little to his foundation, accelerating the speed of cultivation for the following period, but the cost would be spending more money.

Yet for An Jing at the moment, money was a separate issue.

The real problem was, in Kanming City, nobody sold Spiritual Objects openly!

An Jing was actually well aware of this; back in Hanbei, his An Family also ran a caravan and naturally handled some low-level Spiritual Objects like Ferocious Beast Meat and Frost Stones.

Ordinary customers would never get their hands on these, only those regular clients who had years of cooperation and a solid reputation could obtain that special inventory.

It was the same in Kanming City.

For someone like An Jing, who was entering the city for the first time and whose background was unclear, it was virtually impossible to buy anything good with money alone. Spiritual Objects were never in lack of buyers; the good stuff would naturally rot within their own circles of people.

After wandering for a whole day without any gains, An Jing thought of a solution.

—— If you want to achieve your goal, you need to make your counterpart rely on you.

Kanming City’s merchants were unwilling to sell An Jing Spiritual Objects, so why not let them bring out their Spiritual Objects to buy things from him?

But An Jing was alone, what did he have that could entice the interested parties in Kanming City to trade their Spiritual Objects with him?

The answer was simple, of course it was the various Magic Artifacts and talismans from the Tianyuan Realm!

Even so, he still had to pay attention to the process, or it could arouse suspicion.

The reason why An Jing was making large purchases within Kanming City, aside from the aforementioned reason of buying some supplies that the Tianyuan Realm needed for recuperation, was also to logically spend all the silver he had on him.

Only by doing so could he, the ’Dust Li Young Master,’ plausibly pawn some treasures at the pawnshop and then reveal that he had even better treasures on him, as well as his desire to purchase Spiritual Objects!

"You’ve thought it through well."

Regarding this, the Sword Spirit commented, "But even in my era, your approach would bring one problem—what if some unscrupulous merchant decided to devour you, a lone small fry?"

"Then I’ll just have to take action." An Jing was quite confident about this point: "The Grandmasters of the Martial Meridian in Kanming City are not present, the strongest are only the Inner Strength martial masters, not to mention whether I can beat them, can’t I still run?"

"By the time they make a move, I’ll have stolen their goods and fled to the Tianyuan Realm; worst comes to worst, I’ll just switch to a different identity."