With a beast-skin brocade bag hanging on his belt and followed by Chu Yaya and ten slave soldiers with numb and dull faces, Chu Tian walked into a protective gear shop.
After reaching a cooperation agreement with Scorpion Thirty-Six, Old Black Bear waved his hand and assigned ten slave soldiers to Chu Tian, making them his direct subordinates.
At the same time, 10,000 low-grade spirit crystals from the brocade bag were also allocated to Chu Tian.
Chu Tian had half a day to use the ten thousand spirit crystals to prepare some equipment for himself and his ten slave soldiers in preparation for the joint spring hunt.
The old black bear only gave Chu Tian 10,000 spirit crystals, and said nothing more than that. Whether Chu Tian would spend all the 10,000 spirit crystals on himself or give them equally to the ten slave soldiers, he left it all to Chu Tian to decide.
"Big deal? Being able to get Scorpion Thirty-Six to join forces with Old Black Bear, big deal also means big risks. No matter what, we should save our lives first, right?" Chu Tian looked at the ten slave soldiers behind him. They were all in the Anshen realm, the ninth realm of Anshen. They all had the level of refining marrow in the sixth realm or even refining organs in the seventh realm.
These slave soldiers are much stronger than the scum in Blood Kill Castle.
But the scum in the Blood Killing Castle were full of evil and evil spirits. Although they were weak, they were still full of motivation to struggle and fight for survival. As for the ten slave soldiers of the hunting group, they were just like ten zombies. If they were not still breathing and having heartbeats, Chu Tian would really think they were a group of dead people!
They just live by instinct, they may not even know why they are alive, or whether they are still alive, and they are too lazy to figure it out. The saddest thing is to have a dead heart, and the hearts of these guys have long rotted into soil.
"It seems that I should use the 10,000 spirit crystals to get myself a decent set of equipment. This will at least increase my chances of survival several times. Anyway, you guys don't want to live anymore." Chu Tian shook his head gently at the ten slave soldiers: "But I can't do such a thing."
Turning around, Chu Tian walked to a row of shelves in the protective gear shop and carefully looked at the dozen or so pieces of half-body soft armor and matching breastplates neatly stacked on the shelves.
It’s just ten thousand spirit crystals, not a lot, but not a little either. Chu Tian had a rough idea of the price level in Laoxiong Cave a few days ago. If these ten thousand spirit crystals were piled on one person, he could make a very good set of equipment. But now, Chu Tian still has ten people under him.
There is definitely no hope for all-metal, fully enclosed heavy armor, but these lightweight and flexible half-body soft armors, plus the heartguard that focuses on strengthening the defense of fatal vital points, are somewhat promising.
The owner of the armor shop, a middle-aged man less than six feet tall and with a shrewd face, came up to Chu Tian with a smile and saluted: "Oh, it's Lord Ming Wang from Xiong Qiye's group! Hee, what do you like? I'll give you a 95% discount!"
Chu Tian looked at the shopkeeper in astonishment: "Do you know me?"
The shopkeeper smiled brightly. He took out a piece of white paper from his waist. On it was a charcoal sketch of a portrait that looked 80% like Chu Tian. "Mr. Xiong Qi just spread the rumor that you fought a draw with Scorpion Thirty-Six of the Scorpion Group and cut off a pair of his claws. Now the name of Lord Ming Wang is extremely famous in Old Bear Cave!"
Chu Tian opened his mouth, laughed dryly and swallowed his saliva.
It was a bit unkind of Old Black Bear to do this. He had just reached a cooperation agreement with Scorpion Thirty-Six, and then turned around and released the news that he and Scorpion Thirty-Six had fought to a draw.
This news certainly greatly increased the reputation of the Old Black Bear Hunting Group, but there is no doubt that Scorpion Thirty-Six and his Scorpion Group's reputation was trampled into the mud by him. Just wait and see, after this joint spring hunt, there will be more trouble for this matter.
Not enough, a 5% discount would definitely be good!
"95% off!" Chu Tian stroked his chin thoughtfully, looking at the shopkeeper's laughter: "Hey, my reputation as the King of Ming is only worth a 95% discount? Scorpion Thirty-Six comes to buy things from you, how much discount will you give him?"
Anyway, the reputation has spread, what else does Chu Tian have to worry about? With fame, it is natural to reap the benefits, right?
The shopkeeper's face suddenly drooped, and he gave Chu Tian a helpless smile - Scorpion Thirty-Six? He was the leader of the hunting group, and a master of the life realm. If he wanted to buy equipment, he would naturally have more advanced channels to make private customization. He would never come to this protective gear shop to buy this kind of popular standard equipment.
"10% off, for your sake, Lord Ming Wang!" The shopkeeper's face was trembling, and he said naggingly: "This is almost the cost price. If it weren't for Lord Ming Wang, hey, no one else in the whole Laoxiong Cave would have such a big discount!"
Chu Tian smiled. He walked to the shelf and grabbed a half-body armor made of black crocodile leather with snake scales inlaid on the joints to enhance defense.
This half-body armor that can protect the arms above the elbows and the entire upper body underneath is priced at three hundred spirit crystals. However, based on the information Chu Tian collected a few days ago, this black crocodile skin is just made of the least valuable tail leather of the Anshen Realm monster "Ghost Pattern Crocodile", and those snake scales are just scales taken from an ordinary three-hundred-year-old python.
The cost of such a set of armor is about fifteen spirit crystals.
With the simple defensive runes attached to it, Chu Tian let out a light breath, pulled out a sharp ox horn knife, controlled his strength, and stabbed the armor with a force of about five thousand pounds.
With a ding sound, sparks flickered on the armor, and a dim light emerged, in which several twisted defensive runes could be vaguely seen.
Chu Tian curled his nose. These defensive runes were clearly recorded in Ziyin's inheritance. They were just the most common and crude runes with the simplest engraving techniques. According to Chu Tian's estimation, the total cost of engraving these runes on this half-body armor would be about five spirit crystals.
In other words, if Chu Tian were to refine these half-body armors, his total cost would be twenty spirit crystals.
Even though he was not good at it and damaged some materials at first, the cost of refining ten sets of half-armor of this quality was amortized to only forty to fifty spirit crystals per set at most.
The marked price here is three hundred spirit crystals, which is two hundred and seventy spirit crystals after a 10% discount.
Chu Tian shook his head, looked at the other burly men in the store who were purchasing protective gear, and muttered in a low voice: "The boss really knows how to do business. The cost is at most thirty spirit crystals, and the price is ten times? 10% off? Haha, are you kidding me?"
The shopkeeper's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Chu Tian in shock: "Lord Ming Wang, can you refine weapons?"
Chu Tian nodded and said calmly: "I understand a little bit!"
The shopkeeper's eyes flickered for a moment, and he sighed softly, "It's not easy to support a weapon refiner. Their food, drink, and daily necessities are all costs!"
"Half off?" Chu Tian shook the soft armor in his hand.
"Three hundred percent off?" The shopkeeper looked at Chu Tian with a sad face.
"20% off, at most 20% off, no more!" Chu Tian threw down the soft armor in his hand: "If you agree, I will do more business with your family in the future. If you don't agree... hehe!"
Chu Tian laughed meaningfully: "Our group leader is Xiong Zun's grandson! You are an outsider in this shop!"