All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 297 - 158: Purple Glowing Mace (2/3)

Chapter 297: Chapter 158: Purple Glowing Mace (2/3)

The first batch of 4700 Good Deeds income, An Jing thought about it and first set aside 3000 Good Deeds as personal cultivation funds.

With the remaining 1700 Good Deeds, he decided to purchase goods to sell to the Embracing the Void realm, as well as to outfit his work environment and tools.

First, he spent 300 Good Deeds to buy a second-hand armored cargo truck jointly with Huo Qing, which they would use to travel between Chonggang Town and Xuanye City, so he no longer needed to borrow Iron Hand’s old partner.

Next, he bought fifty fine-forged Profound Iron longswords for a total of 700 Good Deeds.

Twenty-five sets of Heart-cohering Talismans for 400 Good Deeds.

One hundred finely made Jade-based Mirrors for 5 Good Deeds.

These were the goods An Jing planned to sell back to the Tianyuan Realm.

There were reasons why An Jing selected these goods.

First, he had to maintain his image as a "member of the Wilderness sect," and the selected materials could not be too bizarre or unusual.

In the Tianyuan Realm, the fine-forged Profound Iron longsword was already a hot-selling classic weapon in the Wilderness, and its matching alloy shield, which An Jing also liked to use, allowed skilled Wilderness Hunters to hunt ten Demon Beasts with just these tools.

In the Embracing the Void realm, the fine-forged Profound Iron longswords were considered "Fine Soldiers" level weapons; although they had no special effects, they were sufficiently durable and extremely hardwearing, so without a second thought, there would definitely be buyers both in Da Chen and Dust Li.

The Heart-cohering Talisman was indeed a desirable item that everyone needed, in both the Tianyuan and Embracing the Void realms.

As for the Jade-based Mirrors, they were something An Jing used to perfect his own tribal backstory; since they were civil use items, one hundred pieces totaled only 5 Good Deeds. An Jing did not intend to make money from them but gave them as a ’little gift’ for purchasing his other goods.

With the remaining 295 Good Deeds, An Jing restocked some Sword Box bullets and long spears, along with a large number of Thunder Beads—although the effects were not as pronounced as before, they were ultimately weapons capable of threatening the lives of Inner Strength Martial Artists.

Besides, An Jing had another idea.

"Commanding Five Soldiers Thunder," could it be used in bullets?

Even if not, what about the flying swords from the Sword Box?

If the disposable bullets and flying swords could be enhanced with the Five Weapons Thunder Skills, then their power could be greatly increased!

The Tianyuan Realm’s business was gradually getting on track.

And in the Embracing the Void realm, An Jing was also a steady taxpayer who never caused the authorities any worry and was considered a friend of Da Chen.

Although Zheng Mo had always told An Jing that he had exempted An Jing’s commercial fleet from taxes, An Jing still paid all other taxes normally except for the entry fees into the city, as per the rules.

The favor was given by others; what he did was his duty. Now it was because of his good relationship with Zheng Mo that he received benefits, but those could disappear if Zheng Mo left, or if he himself moved elsewhere.

Maintaining the habit of paying taxes and understanding the intricacies involved was far more important than a little bit of money.

Besides, since Jing Xuan was ultimately one of Dust Li’s own, and Jing Xuan always paid upfront cleanly without haggling — except when prices were absolutely unreasonable, many Dust Li caravans were willing to trade with An Jing.

Because of the consistent quality and indeed astonishing quality, it did not take long before all the Profound Iron longswords An Jing brought were sold out.

An Jing even claimed that these were the weapons he used to chop off True Demon Disciple heads, which spontaneously added significant cultural value to these Dust Li fine-forged Profound Iron longswords, attracting many Dust Li Martial Artists to rush to purchase them.

And how much was a Profound Iron longsword?

Ha-ha! The answer is, no Silver required! Only accepting an equivalent weight of Frost Jade!

In the Embracing the Void realm, Profound Iron was considered a lower-grade Spiritual Object, similar in category to Frost Jade but slightly cheaper in price.

However, the quality of the fine-forged Cold Iron longsword as a weapon in the Tianyuan Realm was stronger than ordinary industrial Profound Iron, so An Jing thought that his pricing was not only fair but very considerate.

Profound Iron was quite heavy, each longsword weighing three pounds, or thirty-two liang. One longsword required thirty-two liang of Cold Jade in exchange... Yet, even so, everyone who bought felt they made a great deal.

The Northern Border was the original site of Frost Jade production; converting it to Silver, spending over a hundred liang of Silver for a fine-forged Profound Iron weapon capable of slicing through the hide and shells of Demon Beasts was a dead bargain.

And An Jing?

Cold Jade was priced at twenty-seven Good Deeds per tael in the Embracing the Void realm, while each Profound Iron Longsword cost fifteen Good Deeds. Thirty taels of Cold Jade could be exchanged for fifty-four Profound Iron Longswords.

This fifty-fourfold profit meant that just these fifty Profound Iron Longswords could net An Jing a tremendous fortune of nearly forty thousand Good Deeds!

Of course, if you subtract various taxes, storage costs, platform cooperation fees, and advertising fees, this amount might shrink to around thirty-two thousand Good Deeds.

If you also consider shipping losses, greasing palms, sending samples for advertising, and so on... this Good Deeds amount might shrink a bit more.

But An Jing didn’t care: was he at a loss? Was earning less considered a loss? He wasn’t so petty.

However, An Jing couldn’t just dump one thousand five hundred taels of Cold Jade directly into the market.

Xuanye City could certainly absorb it, even a hundred or a thousand times over. But the ’Wilderness Sect’ behind An Jing shouldn’t be able to produce a thousand taels of Cold Jade in one go.

This was essentially declaring that they had a medium-sized Cold Jade vein behind them, which would definitely attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.

Even so, with one thousand five hundred taels of Cold Jade in hand, selling them slowly over half a year... An Jing already knew that he wouldn’t need to worry about money in the Tianyuan Realm for a while.

As for the twenty-five Heart-cohering Talismans, they never hit the market and were directly purchased by the officials of Da Chen, specifically by Zheng Mo.

Recently, the True Demon Sect had been causing chaos all over the Western Mountain, making Heart-cohering Talismans a necessity for local government offices. Although Kanming City had theoretically survived this calamity, Zheng Mo planned to respond to Da Chen’s central call and support the surrounding towns.

With the advancement of Divine Weapons and this wave of responding to the call, Zheng Mo was likely to be promoted. During such times, officials could do anything, including trading with official reserves and An Jing.

Speaking of reserves, it actually had to do with the former commander of Kanming City, Shu Zheng.

"Commander Shu, during his tenure, had once applied to forge a paired weapon."

These were Zheng Mo’s exact words, "Recently, the grand craftsman of Tianyou City told me that the Artifact had been forged and asked me to settle the bill, which I only discovered after checking the process."

"It’s a pair of Paired Clubs forged from ’Purple Glowing Bright Metal,’ four feet two inches long, branded with the restrictions ’Spiritual Power,’ ’Heavenly Sun,’ ’Steadfast,’ and ’Heavy Gold,’ in addition to the innate Great Void White Gold nature of the material, making it a fine Artifact even a Grandmaster wouldn’t be ashamed to use!"

"Commander Shu was proficient in unarmed combat and short weapons; this must have been an Artifact prepared for himself, unfortunately, he has passed away... and there aren’t many in Kanming City who can use it."

"Fortunately, I saw that the weapon you, Young Hero Jing, are using is still an ordinary Profound Iron Longsword—ah, I’m not saying the Profound Iron Longswords forged by your tribe are of poor quality; they are very good, but they simply do not match a young hero of your stature."

"Since Commander Shu has died, this official supply of Magical Soldier should be confiscated, and I think, a treasure weapon suits a hero—it should indeed be a weapon bestowed by Heaven for Young Hero Jing!"

Upon hearing this, An Jing couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

—Incidentally, a Magical Soldier?

Although he indeed lacked a melee weapon... wasn’t this too coincidental?

An Jing knew he was a Life Holder, but he didn’t believe Heaven’s Will worked so simply and conveniently.

Moreover, others might not know, but didn’t An Jing know that Shu Zheng’s weapon was actually a ’Knuckle Duster’? Although he customarily used Knuckle Dusters, the occasional use of a Long Mace also made sense, but An Jing preferred to be more suspicious.

As a Life Holder, this must have been meticulously prepared by someone!

As for who...

Ha, related to Shu Zheng, who could it be besides the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect!

But was his identity exposed? Could it be that the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect had already discovered that Jing Xuan was An Jing?

No... it should not be that simple; it’s something else.

Although An Jing couldn’t be certain, he believed that his identity should remain unexposed.

After all, if the identity of Jing Xuan had attracted the attention of the Western Patrol Envoy, then attracting the attention of others wouldn’t be surprising...

Perhaps it was the Northern Patrol Envoy?

Right, his attendance at Granny Huai’s funeral, in the eyes of the Northern Patrol Envoy... this might be considered forming a connection?