Volume 1 Linglong Case Chapter 70 Transaction
Mei'er's surname was finally decided to be Xiao, and then Lin Qianxing found a broker and bought the house where Mei'er lived.
Because there are ghost stories about this place and people have died here, it is sold at an extremely low price.
However, buying the house was only the first step. Due to years of disrepair and lack of maintenance, many places needed to be renovated. Lin Qianxing simply hired craftsmen to renovate it from start to finish and also purchased a lot of new furniture.
The furniture and other things that Lin Qianxing bought were naturally not cheap items. Many of them were even antiques of some years. As a result, his savings were instantly reduced by half.
Money is the courage of a hero. Although Lin Qianxing doesn't care much about worldly expenses now, he will eventually feel embarrassed when he has no money in his pocket.
Lin Qianxing immediately put on a mask and went to the Yunzhou Monster Catching Division branch to collect his monthly offering.
In addition to the main office in Kyoto, the Monster Catching Department and the Evil Suppression Department have branches in every state.
The branch office of Yunzhou is located in a place called Miling City, less than 300 miles away from Yushan City.
When Lin Qianxing showed his guest ID card at the Yunzhou branch office, the branch manager immediately came to meet him.
"I am Yu Xuan, the commander of the Yunzhou Monster Catching Division. May I ask what brings you here, sir?" Yu Xuan asked.
Yu Xuan looked like a slightly plump middle-aged man, but according to Lin Qianxing's observation of the Qi-gazing technique, his body was full of Qi and blood, and his aura was powerful. He must have at least reached the peak of the spiritual realm.
"I'm here to collect this month's offering!" Lin Qianxing said.
"Oh, this is what should be done. After I inform the headquarters for confirmation, you can receive the offering, sir." Yu Xuan replied.
This kind of thing is actually very common in the Monster Hunting Bureau.
This is because the Monster Catching Bureau itself is a very loose organization, filled with all kinds of recruited strange people. Their whereabouts are uncertain, and it is impossible for them to receive salaries from the court on time to do their work.
So under normal circumstances, when the guest officials of the Monster Catching Bureau wanted to receive offerings, they only needed to go to the branches of the Monster Catching Bureau in various parts of the Dayu Kingdom.
The branch yamen will then inform the main yamen, leave a record of receiving the offerings, and then you can get the offerings directly from the branch yamen.
Soon, Yu Xuan finished the program, and then asked Lin Qianxing: "Sir, do you want gold or something else?"
"What's here?" Lin Qianxing asked puzzledly.
"In addition to gold, we also have martial arts, spells, talismans, weapons, and some herbs and pills for cultivation. Would you like to take a look, sir?" Yu Xuan said.
"Okay." Lin Qianxing nodded.
Yu Xuan immediately took out the catalog of treasures in the warehouse and gave it to Lin Qianxing to choose from.
Lin Qianxing flipped it open and saw that all kinds of supplies were arranged in categories. Lin Qianxing could easily find the corresponding supplies according to the catalog.
These materials and secret techniques are divided into four levels: mortal, spiritual, mysterious, and Taoist. Each level is further divided into four grades: low grade, medium grade, high grade, and top grade.
Among the elixirs, there are basic elixirs of the ordinary grade, such as Qi and Blood Pills and Spirit Nourishing Pills, which can strengthen Qi and blood and nourish the spirit. There are also some more advanced spiritual and mysterious grade elixirs, such as Shengcan Pills which can regenerate severed limbs, and Water Avoidance Pills which can allow people to temporarily avoid water, etc.
However, Lin Qianxing did not see any Dao-level elixirs.
Low-level ordinary elixirs are not valuable, and the better ones are only worth one or two taels of gold each. However, it is different for high-level elixirs, which are generally worth ten taels of gold each.
These pills were not particularly helpful to Lin Qianxing, so he just took a quick look at them and skipped over them, looking instead at things like martial arts secrets.
In this catalog, Lin Qianxing only saw Xuan-level spells and martial arts at the highest. There were no higher-level Dao-level spells or martial arts at all, and there were not even a few Xuan-level spells and martial arts.
Lin Qianxing was quite interested in the description in the catalog, but unfortunately the value was no less than two thousand taels of gold, so he couldn't take it even if he wanted to. As for the lower-level martial arts and secret techniques, Lin Qianxing felt that they were not as good as the martial arts he learned in the game, so he didn't look at them any more.
One thing to mention here is that the martial arts and magic learned here are not allowed to be taught to others privately in the Monster Catching Bureau. Once discovered, the offender will be fined at the very least, and in serious cases, his cultivation will be abolished and he will be arrested and imprisoned.
So even though many of the martial arts and magic here are not very profound, they have not become commonplace items that can be seen everywhere.
Finally, there are weapons and talismans. An ordinary sword made of black iron is worth one hundred taels of silver, which is ten taels of gold. Not to mention the more advanced magical weapons engraved with Taoist patterns by the Qigong practitioners of the Sitianjian.
As for the talismans, Lin Qianxing glanced at their effects and turned the page. The prices were too outrageous. An ordinary talisman would cost over a hundred taels of gold, and those were just mediocre talismans.
Lin Qianxing curled his lips. He initially felt that the monthly offering of one hundred taels of gold given to him by Jiao Shaoyi was a lot, but now it seems that it is just that.
"Forget it, there's nothing good there. Just exchange it for a hundred taels of gold for me." Lin Qianxing said.
"Okay, I wonder if you want gold notes or gold?" Yu Xuan asked.
"Gold." Lin Qianxing said.
Although the gold and silver notes of Dayu Kingdom are very useful, he still believes in real gold and silver. Moreover, he has a storage bracelet and is not worried about carrying it, so it is better to use gold directly.
"Then I'll prepare it now." Yu Xuan said.
Soon, Yu Xuan prepared the hundred taels of gold. He asked Lin Qianxing to stamp it with his guest badge, left a record of receipt, and then gave all the gold to Lin Qianxing.
In just a moment, Lin Qianxing returned to the ranks of wealthy people.
In front of Yu Xuan, Lin Qianxing put the gold directly into the storage bracelet, which made him show some envy in his eyes.
Then, Lin Qianxing asked, "By the way, does the Monster Catcher accept treasures?"
"Sir, do you have demon pills, demon bones or something like that for sale?" Yu Xuan asked.
"No, I got some exotic iron before, which is tougher and more durable than black iron. Does the Monster Catcher want it?" Lin Qianxing asked tentatively.
"I wonder what kind of strange iron it is?" Yu Xuan asked.
"This is it!" Lin Qianxing stretched out his hand and took out a thumb-sized meteorite bead from the storage bracelet.
This is an iron ball he made by using his true energy and tremendous strength to roll the meteorite flying knife into a ball. To be honest, although the meteorite flying knife is as thin as a cicada's wing, it took him some effort to roll it into such a ball.
Yu Xuan took the meteorite iron bead from Lin Qianxing, his blood and energy surged, and he pressed his thumb on it. Then he looked at the meteorite iron bead and found that his fingerprints were not left on it.
Seeing this, he already had an idea in his mind.
"I wonder how many of these strange irons you have, sir?" Yu Xuan asked.
"Oh, it seems you can take it?" Lin Qianxing asked.
"I can buy it, but the nature of this strange iron is unknown, so I dare not offer a high price for the time being. If you want to sell it, I can buy it at one tael of silver per catty." Yu Xuan cautiously offered a low price.
Lin Qianxing was slightly delighted when he heard this. One tael of silver equals one jin, which is one tael of gold equals ten jin. This price was far beyond his psychological expectations. However, he still pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "This is much tougher than black iron!!"
“Sir, you should know that refining weapons requires more than just toughness,” Yu Xuan said.
"But this exotic iron is obviously rare and hard to find. Your bid is the same as that for black iron. It's not appropriate!!" Lin Qianxing said dissatisfiedly.
"At most two taels of silver per catty, no higher. This is the highest price I can offer. And this is because you are a guest official of my Monster Catching Bureau. Otherwise, I really can't offer such a price." Yu Xuan said in embarrassment.
"Okay, in that case, let's just charge two taels of silver per catty!" Lin Qianxing said helplessly.
"By the way, I haven't asked you yet how much of this exotic iron you have?" Yu Xuan asked at this time.
"Not much, just 100,000 jin!" Lin Qianxing said with a smile on his face.
"So it's 100,000..." Yu Xuan's expression suddenly froze when he heard that, and he said, "Sir, you are not making fun of me, are you?"
"I don't have the time to do that. Wait, I'll go get the goods right away." Lin Qianxing said.
As he spoke, Lin Qianxing turned into a purple light and left the Yunzhou Monster Catching Division branch.
He came to a remote wilderness, stretched out his hand, and flying knives began to fall like raindrops, soon covering the entire ground.
For him, let alone 100,000 kilograms, even 1 million kilograms of meteorite iron can be produced as long as he wants.
After a while, Lin Qianxing felt that the meteorite iron pile was almost enough, so he moved his mind and used his mental power to lift them all up, dividing them into ten piles of ten thousand pounds each.
Then the true energy in his body surged and transformed into a huge image of Vermillion Bird.
“Cry~!”
Lin Qianxing opened his mouth and spit out the scorching true flames, burning the flying knives, melting them quickly, and then Lin Qianxing used his spirit to forcibly squeeze them into a large round iron ball.
In this way, Lin Qianxing soon made ten huge meteorite balls.
Although it is said to be huge, it is not particularly huge.
The quality of meteorites themselves is very high. A meteorite weighing ten thousand kilograms is only about fifty centimeters in diameter.
Lin Qianxing easily stuffed them all into his storage bracelet.
Then he went back to the Monster Catching Division branch in Yunzhou.
After arriving at an open place with Yu Xuan, Lin Qianxing waved his hand and took out all ten iron balls, arranging them neatly in a row.
The corner of Yu Xuan's mouth twitched. He thought that Lin Qianxing had at most a few thousand kilograms of exotic iron, but who knew that Lin Qianxing actually got him a hundred thousand kilograms of exotic iron.
With so much exotic iron, he really couldn't handle it all.
Of course, it was impossible to refuse, after all, he was very clear about the value of this thing.
The toughness of this exotic iron is almost comparable to that of ordinary magical instrument embryos. Not to mention two taels of silver per catty, if it were really cast into an instrument embryo, it could be sold for ten taels of silver per catty.
So after confirming the authenticity, he made the transaction with Lin Qianxing without hesitation.
One hundred thousand catties of exotic iron, each catty equivalent to two taels of silver, adds up to two hundred thousand taels of silver and twenty thousand taels of gold.
This is not a small amount. Yu Xuan can only give out 10,000 taels of gold, most of which are gold notes, and the rest can only be paid with supplies.
So, Lin Qianxing selected a large number of various elixirs, and also picked up the two Xuan-level spells and one Xuan-level martial arts that he was interested in.
After doing all this, Lin Qianxing left with satisfaction and returned to Yushan City.
Although he really wanted to get more meteorite iron to sell, he considered that this kind of thing should not happen too frequently, and that other people would not be able to consume too much meteorite iron at once, and it might even lead to inflation, so it was better to take it slow and steady.
If you are really short of money, you can go to the Monster Hunting Branch in other states to see if you can make some more money.
