Chapter 466 Price
As expected of a true dragon skilled in digging for treasure, Jiao Jue ordered the four little dragons of power to go down into the pool to search for treasure. Every time they found one, they would spit out a bubble, and the dragons on the shore could follow the path of the bubble down to retrieve the item, thus preventing the pool from turning into a mess.
However, after only one day, Jiaojue changed his strategy again, because there were simply too many useful things accumulated in the pool.
He ordered all the dragons to carry mud up, wash it, and sort through it.
He stayed with Yuanjun for more than ten days, directing the dragons he brought to dredge up all the silt five zhang deep in the pool and clean it thoroughly. Only then did he call Qing Guanzi to bid farewell to Yuanjun and leave, completely satisfied.
As soon as they left the Moonshade Mountains, Jiao Jue couldn't help but rub his swollen belly and hum a little tune.
His delighted expression surprised Qing Guanzi, who asked, "Jue Jun, could there really be something good in that muddy pool?"
Jiao Jue squinted, suppressing a smile, and nodded, saying, "Guan Shan, we'll discuss this matter again when we get back."
Qing Guanzi then objected, saying, "Let me see. I've been drinking with Yuanjun for so many days, how can I go back empty-handed?"
Jiao Jue laughed and said, "I advise you not to take it, otherwise your money-grubbing junior sister Cai Niao will definitely find a way to dig it out of your belly."
I will not take any of these things.
When Qing Guanzi saw that Jiao Jue spoke with such righteous indignation, he was intimidated. Fortunately, he was a wealthy earth dragon who was not greedy, so he stopped asking for more after hearing Jiao Jue's words.
Back at the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, the dragon servants lined up to plunder treasures from the two side halls. Only then did Qing Guanzi realize that there was a reason why Jiao Jue was so honest and upright.
Among those items were double jade rings, love arrows, exquisite objects engraved with erotic words, and a large number of ornaments. These things were flashy but impractical and useless; only cultivators who wanted to reproduce would have any use for them.
There are also many broken magical artifacts and fragments. Most of these things have lost their luster, but the materials used are precious, and most of them can be refined and used as materials again.
Besides these, there were a whole bunch of cursed items, all made with strange and unusual techniques and materials. Qing Guanzi only picked up a few to look at before being amazed.
It turns out that this was a pile of junk that I would have complained was taking up too much space and given to me, but Juejun picked it up as a treasure!
In an instant, Qing Guanzi's gaze towards Jiao Jue changed. He felt that Jue Jun must have been exploited too much by his junior sister, and had lost his talent for appraising treasures. He was actually treating a bunch of junk as treasures, which was really... too much of a disgrace to the Dragon Species!
So, under the pretext of inspecting the mountains, he quickly swam away.
Unaware of his surroundings, Jiao Jue gleefully pulled Ji Rong out and pointed to the swords, bows, and pendants still covered in grime... He said, "Colorful Bird, we've struck it rich! Look, all these materials have been dug up long ago, but we've found so much of it now. We just need to melt it down to reforge our magical artifacts."
Ji Rong was also very happy to see this. She said, "Brother, cultivators who want to reproduce are the most willing to spend money."
I will write some stories about these items. After you clean out these tokens of love and cursed artifacts, you can sell them at a high price in your shop under the guise of ancient relics and these stories.
Long-forgotten memories resurfaced, and Jiao Jue looked up and said, "Write down those messy thoughts of yours from the past? Not many people would like that."
Ji Rong exclaimed happily, "Of course, we should learn from each other's strengths and make up for our weaknesses by writing some beautiful love stories."
With a face that was slowly turning black, Jiao Jue squinted and said, "You don't need to worry about these trivial matters. I just asked you to come out and see what you've gained from this trip. Now that you've seen it, you can go back and continue to deduce the Great Dao."
Seeing that Jiao Jue's expression had changed, Ji Rong had no choice but to back down and say, "If you're going to sell this item, you must provide a story for it. You should know that treasures last forever, but love is priceless."
"Hmph!" Jiao Jue said, "Those are just words to fool a novice cultivator. We cultivators are not that shallow!"
"Go back quickly. I'll take these broken magical artifacts and remelt them into materials, calculate the exact quantities, and then you can wake up your senior brother Qingpingzi and have him figure out the most cost-effective way to use them."
Ji Rong nodded, and as she walked toward the back of the hall, she turned back and said, "Brother, please remember to make up more stories. Making up a story doesn't cost money, but it can increase credibility and make buyers pay for their treasures more readily."
After sending Ji Rong away, Jiao Jue ordered Feng Qing to lead the servants to carefully clean, classify, record, and collect love stories from various ethnic groups.
The damaged magic weapon and fragments were sent to the Refining Sect for Ji Zhi to refine again.
He then sat back down at the large table in the center of the main hall to handle affairs, and incidentally, began to weave stories about cursed objects.
When it comes to crafting love stories, the fox and dragon clans are undoubtedly the most adept, as their respective lineages possess numerous true tales, and often fools spend vast sums of money on them, requiring only slight embellishment to create truly captivating tales.
But these things don't seem to have the same clear effects as cursed artifacts, and Jiaojue believes that these cursed artifacts will be more popular and more valuable.
Sure enough, after these items were displayed in the Fire Fox Clan's shop, all the cursed artifacts were snapped up by passing caravans at exorbitant prices within just two months.
However, few of the exquisitely priced keepsakes that were once tokens of love were sold. After thinking for a moment, Jiao Jue asked Feng Qing to pass on a message to the Fire Fox Clan shopkeeper, adding the word "prayer." As for what the wish was, the shopkeeper was left to figure it out himself.
Autumn has passed and winter has come; in the Danxue Mountains, another year has passed.
Year after year, as the new year approaches, the day of the Ascension Assembly will arrive.
Because the spiritual veins beneath the Source Regeneration Pool have already connected to the Nine Provinces and are constantly extending to the edges, there are fewer and fewer places where it snows. Even in places like Danzhou, it is cold but not frigid.
With suitable temperatures, food became readily available thanks to the cultivation of spiritual grains and the widespread availability of elixirs; and with improved living standards due to convenient transportation, many cultivators paired up and had children, leading to an unprecedented surge in the number of living beings across the Nine Provinces.
Jiao Jue and Shan Shui sat in the Dragon and Phoenix Hall, and were both taken aback by the explosive growth in the number of cultivators in each state year after year.
Jiao Jue tilted his head and asked Shan Shui, "Mountain and Water God, were the water veins of the Canglan Mountains like this in the past?"
Shan Shui shook his head and said, "Although there were many births at that time, there were many battles in the surrounding area, and it was common for cultivators to suffer heavy casualties when they went out to fight."
That's why we established the rule at that time forbidding the consumption of intelligent beings, in order to increase the number of lower-level cultivators and maintain the stability of the mountains and waterways.
Jiao Jue nodded and said, "In that case, we really need to hurry up and establish the Great Dao of Space to explore and reclaim the land in the Outer Heavens."
He glanced behind him and said, "I wonder if they've made any progress?"
Shan Shui then put down the jade tablet and said, "I'll go take a look."
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