Yun Xinghe said, "You could say that, but not entirely. Aren't you the city lord of the Star Realm? Open the Spirit Realm Shop and you'll understand."
Jiang Hao had long been curious about the Spirit Ruins Mall. After all, it was the only feature unlocked after upgrading to the Realm Star level.
After opening it, Jiang Hao began to examine it.
In the low-level sales section, there are vendors selling monster cores, spirit herbs, various ores, and special metals for crafting equipment.
The items for sale range from as cheap as one copper coin to as expensive as several hundred or even thousands of gold coins.
Jiang Hao glanced at it briefly before clicking on the intermediate-level sales section.
The items here are much more expensive.
There are vendors selling various armor and equipment, potions, and mounts. However, while these items are cheap, there are quantity requirements. The minimum price is 10,000, and there's even a gray-silver grade equipment set that includes various armor, weapons, accessories, and rings, costing three gold coins per set. If you want to buy it, you need to purchase at least 100,000 sets. Moreover, it can only be equipped by a single class.
Jiang Hao felt a chill run down his spine, wondering who would buy these things?
But after a moment's thought, I understood.
Only city lords of star-level realms have the authority to access the Spirit Ruins Shop. For these city lords, purchasing such a set of equipment is clearly the perfect solution if they want to possess their own armed forces.
That's perfectly reasonable.
Jiang Hao immediately spent 1.8 million gold coins to buy 100,000 sets of silver-grade equipment for each of the six professions.
Since the world merged, equipment has become a scarce resource. Monsters no longer drop equipment or gold coins, and even the equipment Jiang Hao is wearing was obtained before the world merged, and it hasn't been upgraded in a long time.
Jiang Hao paid with gold coins, and 600,000 sets of equipment immediately appeared in the city-building order. Furthermore, a new message appeared in the contact center in the lower right corner of the Lingxu Mall.
Realm Lord No. 6583: "Thank you for your patronage. Please contact me again if you need equipment."
Jiang Hao was dumbfounded.
This Lingxu Mall has powerful functions!
Firstly, it doesn't require a teleportation array to send items across thousands of realms into the city-building token, which can then be retrieved at any time.
The second function is that it can break through the communication restrictions between realms, allowing city lords to maintain contact with each other. He couldn't even contact the city lord of Jinling City through the city-building order, but he could maintain contact with other city lords through this marketplace!
Awesome!
Jiang Hao noticed that the intermediate-level inventory included not only silver-grade equipment sets, but also gold, dark gold, and even diamond-grade sets. However, these were too expensive, and Jiang Hao felt they weren't worth the price, so he didn't buy any.
In addition, the only item in the intermediate-level sales without quantity restrictions was mineral veins. However, these mineral veins were expensive, and Jiang Hao didn't think they would be useful to him, so he quickly passed by them.
Jiang Hao opened the advanced sales section and browsed through it again. There were items for sale: special spiritual herbs, special ores, epic-level monster cores, and epic-level equipment. However, these were sold individually, and at exorbitant prices.
Jiang Hao even saw information about the sale of teleportation arrays and airships.
Small teleportation array, teleportation within a 10,000-kilometer range. Price: 100 million gold coins. Price: 10 gold coins per person per teleportation.
Medium-sized teleportation array, teleportation range of 100,000 kilometers. Price: 2 billion gold coins. Price: 20 gold coins per person per teleportation.
Large teleportation array, capable of teleporting within a 300,000-kilometer range. Price: 10 billion gold coins. Price: 50 gold coins per person per teleportation.
A small airship with a maximum range of 1 million kilometers, priced at 500,000 gold coins.
Medium-sized airship, maximum range of 10 million kilometers, priced at 10 million gold coins.
A large spaceship with a maximum range of 100 million kilometers, priced at 1 billion gold coins.
These prices are outrageous!
But Jiang Hao never dared to say he was rich again.
Finally, Jiang Hao clicked on the special sales area.
The special sales area is quite unique; it not only has sellers but also buyers, making it seem more like the part-time jobs that were common on Earth before!
A 10-person mercenary force from the Star Realm, who have hunted down the epic-level monster, the Horned Tiger. Minimum hire price is 180,000 gold coins per hire. Private message if interested.
The price listed below is a whopping 18 million gold coins.
Jiang Hao thought to himself, "This city lord is really in a sorry state, to the point that he has to become a mercenary." But why is his price so different from what he was told?
Jiang Hao didn't take it to heart and continued reading.
Recruiting 100,000 Bronze-level conventional combat troops. Mission details and pricing will be discussed privately. No time wasters please!
The price below is 15 million gold coins.
Jiang Hao skipped over it.
Looking for one stalk of *Hylocereus undatus* (White Star Seven-Linked Grass). Price negotiable. Anyone with useful information is welcome to contact me.
The price below is 1300 gold coins.
Jiang Hao wondered if this White Star Seven-Linked Grass could possibly save lives.
Hmm, maybe!
There was a long string of information that followed, but Jiang Hao found it increasingly uninteresting. However, he did notice a pattern: the price decreased as the information progressed.
It's likely that those who post information in the online store were aware of this rule and exploited this loophole.
After looking around, Jiang Hao discovered that as long as you have gold coins, you can buy anything and any service within the game. And if you want to earn gold coins, you can find all sorts of suitable tasks.
Jiang Hao instantly understood that gold coins were essentially the same as money on Earth!
And he, the city lord with tens of millions of gold coins in his hands, had unknowingly become a tycoon!
Jiang Hao suddenly remembered that the first time he came to Realm 7865, he had traveled in a star-shaped airship and spent 50 million gold coins, which made him feel a pang of regret.
Hearing from Yun Xinghe that Ling Shun seemed to be very wealthy, Jiang Hao asked, "Are all the generals of the Jackal Empire very rich?"
Yun Xinghe asked, "Of course. The Gnoll Empire has trillions of gold coins in its hands by selling and operating teleportation arrays! And most of these gold coins are used to build the Empire's expeditionary force. Besides, although the Ling Shun Legion is not very strong in the Gnoll Empire's expeditionary force, Ling Shun is particularly good at treasure hunting. As long as it develops a realm, whether it is spirit herbs and minerals, magic beast cores, or various spirit stone mines and special metal mines hidden deep underground, it can plunder them all clean!"
"Therefore, although his combat strength is not strong, in terms of financial resources, even the Five Tigers of the Expeditionary Force cannot compare to him."
Jiang Hao suddenly wondered if there was a possibility.
Does this General Lingshun possess a magical ability to find treasure?
So Jiang Hao asked, "Do gnolls also have talent?"
Yun Xinghe stared at Jiang Hao for several seconds as if he were an idiot, and said, "Talent my ass! What talent do gnolls have? Among the five major races, only humans have all sorts of strange talents! Gnolls originated from the beast race, and their way of increasing strength is through bloodline inheritance!"
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