Chapter 310: Supreme Spiritual Stone
Mo Changzai arrived in Meizhou soon.
Although he said that he had hidden his whereabouts, all the super sects already knew that Mo Changzai had gone to Meizhou.
Just as Ji Fa was about to build a building in Jiuyin, Mo Changzai, whose feud with the Dayu Dynasty could be traced back thousands of years, ran to Meizhou. Everyone knew what he was going to do. It couldn't be a trip.
Li Yanmo hoped that Mo Chang would ask for a higher price, but Mo Chang demanded payment for the work and also wanted to bring his own materials.
Seeing that Mo Changzai was about to lift the ceiling, Li Yanmo could only lower his requirements to Mo Changzai doing it for free.
Li Yanmo couldn't help feeling a little depressed.
Everyone says that Master Mo Changzai's fees are extremely high, and even the Buddhist sect has not yet paid back the money, so why hasn't he enjoyed any of it?
However, facing Mo Chang's threat of working for a fee, Li Yanmo thought it would be better for him not to ask too many questions.
Although Mo Changzai does not know Zhuge Liang's mechanical skills, he has his own way of observing the changes in the world. With his rich work experience, Mo Changzai discovered several flaws in Zhuge Moer's design.
The collaboration between geniuses in the same field is always straightforward and fast. Zhuge Moer and Mo Changzai quickly put together a new plan and listed the corresponding materials.
The main theme is still Zhuge's mechanical arts, but Mo Changzai and Zhuge Moer also considered some uncertain factors.
The foundation-building cultivators in Meizhou have obtained a large amount of cultivation resources from the ancient cave, and the spiritual energy in Meizhou is recovering at a very fast speed. Under such circumstances, it is very likely that a large number of Jindan-stage cultivators will appear in Meizhou in a short period of time, which is not a good situation.
To this end, Zhuge Moer changed Zhuge's principle of saving as much as possible in using mechanical devices and magic weapons, and chose a lot of expensive materials.
Li Yanmo was afraid that the materials used were too cheap. Seeing that Zhuge Zhuge Moer wanted expensive materials, Li Yanmo naturally waved his hand and took out the spirit stones obtained from the overflow of prestige experience.
"Ten billion top-grade spirit stones?"
Even Mo Changzai was so frightened by Li Yanmo's attack that his eyes twitched wildly.
As a master of formations, he needed 200 million top-grade spirit stones just for the price, but that didn't mean he thought 200 million top-grade spirit stones were too little. The reason why he set the price so high was purely to cheat those super sects.
Seeing Mo Changzai's frightened expression, Li Yanmo was a little confused.
Mo Changzai's spending alone cost 200 million top-grade spirit stones, and the Buddhist sect still owes Mo Changzai a huge debt. For Mo Changzai, 10 billion top-grade spirit stones should not be a large number.
Mo Chang opened the storage bag and took out a top-grade spirit stone. After looking at it for a while, he scanned the storage bag with his spiritual sense, and his expression gradually became strange.
Li Yanmo's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that he seemed to have been impulsive.
"It really is 10 billion pieces... of top-grade spiritual stones."
Mo Changzai held his forehead and sighed, tightened the storage bag, and placed it in Li Yanmo's hand with great solemnity.
"Master Li, we need to talk."
"Uh... okay—"
Mo Chang created a temporary space on the spot, and was so solemn that Li Yanmo became more and more certain that his action this time was a bit impulsive.
After entering the temporary space, Li Yanmo sat very obediently, while Mo Changzai paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, as if he was considering something. Li Yanmo did not urge him.
After a long while, Mo Changzai finally thought it through, "Master Li, do you know where the spirit stone came from?"
Li Yanmo scratched his head and thought for a while before smiling awkwardly, "Earned it?"
"...That's true," Mo Changzai took out a square spiritual stone from his arms and tossed it. "The original spiritual stones didn't look like this. Some were big and some were small. Legend has it that before the Great Wilderness, a cultivator discovered a spiritual mine."
"The cultivator originally intended to use the spiritual ore for cultivation, but the spiritual ore was too huge and he could not absorb and refine it completely. But if he left it there, it would be discovered sooner or later, so the cultivator came up with an idea."
"He broke the spiritual ore into pieces and sold the fragments to other monks."
"Even if it turned into fragments, the spiritual energy in the spiritual ore would not dissipate, so the cultivator made a fortune. Relying on the various materials and magic weapons exchanged for the spiritual ore fragments, he became one of the strongest cultivators at that time. But as the saying goes, an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. He was too greedy, so he was targeted and died an untimely death. His wealth also became someone else's wedding dress."
Mo Changzai shook his head helplessly.
At this time, the girl on the foundation-building platform exclaimed, "I know this person."
Li Yanmo's heart moved.
"Your acquaintance?"
"I was the one who caused his death."
“…”
Nuyao sensed Li Yanmo's speechlessness and immediately explained, "That man has always coveted my beauty and wanted to rape me with his magic weapon. It just so happened that I was a little short of money at that time."
"He wanted to rob me of my body, and I wanted to rob me of my money. It was simply fate!"
"So I killed him."
Li Yanmo was speechless, but he did not forget the important matter at hand. "Then what?"
"With this person taking the lead, everyone naturally discovered the new value of spiritual ore, so there was a trading system for spiritual stones. But it was still quite chaotic at the time, and it wasn't until the Great Shun Dynasty became powerful that the value of spiritual stones was unified."
Mo Changzai put down the low-grade spirit stone in his hand, and took out the medium-grade spirit stone and the high-grade spirit stone.
Low-grade spirit stones are like jade, but the inside is turbid and opaque. Medium-grade spirit stones are more transparent than low-grade spirit stones, and high-grade spirit stones are extremely transparent.
The value of all three is visible to the naked eye.
"But the spiritual ore does not exist to be used as currency for cultivators. The spiritual ore itself nourishes the world and is the nutrient prepared by the world for the living beings of the world."
"The monks mined too much spiritual ore, causing the world to dry up, and that was the beginning of the Great Desolation. It's a pity that the monks were so greedy that they didn't care about the consequences of extracting spiritual ore."
“The Great Shun Dynasty did not realize that the cultivators’ wanton extraction of spiritual mines was the main reason for the coming of the Great Wilderness. In order to develop, the Great Shun Dynasty was also looking for spiritual mines to participate.”
"During this process, four grades of spiritual stones appeared according to the preciousness of the spiritual ore."
Li Yanmo knew that Mo Chang’s next words would be the key point, so he immediately concentrated.
"Low quality, medium quality, high quality, and top quality."
"The Great Shun Dynasty has set the value of different grades of spirit stones and the exchange ratio. But this does not mean that ten low-grade spirit stones are worth more than one medium-grade spirit stone, nor does it mean that one thousand low-grade spirit stones can get you a top-grade spirit stone."
Mo Changzai raised his hand and patted Li Yanmo's shoulder heavily, speaking earnestly.
"Only top-grade spiritual ore can produce top-grade spiritual stones. Spiritual ore is the nutrient used by heaven and earth to nourish a certain world. One top-grade spiritual ore is enough to breed tens of thousands of acres of top-grade spiritual fields. Anyone, even an immortal, will first react to extract the top-grade spiritual ore and put it into their own sect, rather than breaking it into pieces and making square spiritual stones."
Li Yanmo suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and finally understood why Mo Changzai had that expression when he saw the 10 billion pieces of top-grade spirit stones.
(End of this chapter)
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