The "Spirit Stone Selling Magical Items" item is manufactured by a shop called "Pili Pala".
Once a certain number of spirit stones are put into the magic artifact, it will automatically spit out a box.
Inside the box were the returned spirit stones.
The amount of spirit stones returned varies, with ten different tiers in total.
The lowest tier offers a refund of one-third of the spirit stones.
Secondly, half of the spirit stones will be returned.
From now on, it's all profit.
For example, give one-fifth more, or one-third more.
There are even two times, three times, four times, and so on.
The highest return rate is 100,000 times the purchase price, which sounds extremely tempting.
However, to Lin Maozhi's surprise, all the cultivators were very cautious when faced with such a [spirit stone box].
To be precise, the people of the Immortal Continent are very cautious when faced with seemingly too-good-to-be-true opportunities.
Because the number one sect on the Immortal Illumination Continent started out by playing this trick.
The First Sect: Longevity Treasury.
They have harmed many cultivators.
The Longevity Treasury lends you spirit stones for free, and you don't even have to pay them back.
But they want your lifespan, your spiritual roots, and your spiritual cultivation.
Who could withstand this!
Thus, the Spirit Stone Box encountered a cold reception on its first day.
Having learned from their mistakes, the cultivators refused to gamble.
Fortunately, the price of the [Spirit Stone Box] is not high; it only costs 8 mid-grade spirit stones to buy one.
Eight mid-grade spirit stones are equivalent to the amount of money a Golden Core cultivator could accumulate in a day.
Compared to the long lifespans of cultivators, the price of this [Spirit Stone Box] is negligible.
A few days later, some people couldn't resist their curiosity and spent spirit stones to buy one to play with.
As more people try something new, comparisons begin to emerge.
Both cultivators purchased the [Spirit Stone Box], but cultivator A received three times the amount of spirit stones, while cultivator B only received one-third of the amount.
Coincidentally, while the two were refining pills that day, cultivator A successfully refined a bottle of grade five pills.
Meanwhile, cultivator B's alchemy furnace exploded, resulting in the loss of not only spiritual plants worth several thousand mid-grade spirit stones, but also...
Even the precious alchemy furnace, worth tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones, has been turned into scrap metal.
This news spread very quickly.
The [Spirit Stone Box] has taken a different approach, becoming a daily luck tester.
Before engaging in alchemy, weapon crafting, array formation, advancement, or adventure, cultivators typically purchase a few [Spirit Stone Boxes] to test their luck.
They will only do this if they win the lottery that day.
If they lose money that day, they'll come back the next day.
Gradually, buying a spirit stone [spirit stone box] to test one's luck before setting off became an indispensable daily activity for every cultivator.
In addition, a group of gamblers, after seeing the slogan, wanted to try their luck and kept buying [Spirit Stone Boxes].
When those cultivators discovered that purchasing the [Spirit Stone Box] would return at least one-third of the spirit stones, their thoughts changed.
"Since we have a third of the spirit stones to fall back on, buying a few more won't be a loss. Maybe we'll make a profit on the next one!"
Because the rewards from the [Spirit Stone Box] are generous enough, there are currently no cases of cultivators going bankrupt.
But like a frog slowly being boiled in water, it only becomes apparent later.
They were dumbfounded when they could no longer produce any more spirit stones.
The spirit stones I've accumulated over decades are all gone!
These cultivators began to spontaneously boycott the [Spirit Stone Box] and stopped buying it.
Their strong self-control, honed through meditation, allowed them to restrain themselves considerably.
Six months later, news of the 100,000-fold prize from the Spirit Stone Box exploded in their ears like thunder.
The award winners numbered more than a dozen and came from various organizations.
"Have you heard? That power in the west has a Qi Refining stage cultivator who won the grand prize in the [Spirit Stone Box]!"
"That's not all! There's also a huge prize in the east, a hundred thousand times the original amount!"
"Who exactly bought the box containing 100,000 times the amount of spirit stones? I've heard seven or eight different versions of the story by now!"
"It's all true, because these people all made money!"
"What are you talking about? What grand prize? The Spirit Stone Box has a grand prize?"
"There really is a big prize, and it's a prize worth 100,000 times the original amount!"
"Spirit Stone Boxes aren't expensive, how many big prizes could they possibly have? Even a hundred thousand times the amount wouldn't be much, would it?"
"Are you crazy? Eight mid-grade spirit stones, multiplied by 100,000, is 800,000 mid-grade spirit stones. Isn't that a lot?"
"The conversion rate between spirit stones is one hundredfold. These 800,000 mid-grade spirit stones are equivalent to 80 million low-grade spirit stones! That's a whopping 80 million!"
"Holy crap! I just realized! I've won such a huge prize!"
"What are we waiting for! Let's go! Let's buy a spirit stone box today and test our luck. Hopefully, I'll be the next one to become rich!"
As the news spread, every cultivator was as if they had been injected with adrenaline.
Among them, a Nascent Soul cultivator named Cai Min was extremely excited.
He lost money buying spirit stone boxes and hasn't bought any for a week.
But in that very week, a fellow disciple from their sect won a huge prize! It was 800,000 mid-grade spirit stones!
Cai Min was so angry that he fainted.
After he woke up, he went straight to the sect's mission square.
He's going to spend all his savings to buy all the spirit stone boxes!
But when he arrived at the square, he saw two identical machines.
When he looked closely, he noticed something different.
One of the spirit stone machines had an engraving that read "Crackling sounds".
The other one had the words "Longevity Treasury" written on it.
Through an introduction, Cai Min learned that Changshengku had made the same spirit stone boxes as Pilipala, but at a cheaper price of only 5 mid-grade spirit stones.
The monks gathered around, unsure which one to buy.
Cai Min's mind was filled with thoughts of the spirit stone boxes, and he was itching to get his hands on them. Seeing that no one was making a move, he went alone to the spirit stone selling device in the Longevity Vault.
He said:
"What are you still choosing! The grand prize from that magical artifact that went 'crackling' has already been won!"
"Of course we'll choose the one from the [Longevity Warehouse]!"
A single word awakened me from my dream.
The cultivators rushed towards the magical artifact, the Longevity Treasury.
Earning money by dismantling spirit stone boxes is much simpler than exchanging labor for spirit stones.
In an instant, the cultivators went even crazier, and the sales of the spirit stone boxes in the [Longevity Treasury] skyrocketed, eventually surpassing [Pili Pala].
When the news reached Lin Maozhi's ears, he simply smiled and remained silent.
In business, he never goes to extremes.
But the Longevity Treasury is different.
The way pawnbroking operates is a recipe for failure.
Sure enough, not much time had passed.
The cultivators then discovered the trickery surrounding the [Longevity Treasury] spirit stone box.
They originally bought spirit stone boxes to test their luck. There are 30 days in a month, and if they are unlucky, they will lose money for 20 days.
You can earn money at any other time.
But ever since I bought the spirit stone box from the [Longevity Treasury], I haven't made any money in a month!
The cultivators gathered together and overturned the magical artifacts in the Longevity Treasury.
Only then did they realize that the odds of winning were not even indicated on the Longevity Treasury's [Spirit Stone Selling Magical Items]!
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