Chen Yi looked at the materials and could not help shaking his head.
This was the difference between business, combat, and academic research.
The market was clearly right in front of them, but actually making money from it was another matter entirely.
Loan → Beibeisi scoured the market for material merchants → Chuka took Beibeisi to negotiate with suppliers from different production areas → Chen Yi printed cards → sold them.
Going back and forth had already taken more than ten years.
That was only because his Permission Level was high enough, and Chuka's restrictions moved fast enough.
Otherwise, completing the previous process would have taken at least ten times longer.
The biggest problem was that he could not quickly begin the next cycle.
Saint Spirit grade materials were not cabbages that could simply be found growing in the ground.
This batch had already cleaned out all the materials held by those merchants.
To purchase another batch, he either had to spend time buying from individual sellers on the streets of Third Main City.
Or he had to wait several hundred years for the existing material merchants to gather enough materials through their own channels before starting another round of card printing.
Or he had to find new material merchants.
Without exception, all of those options required enormous amounts of time and energy.
Fortunately, he had the Plague Elf. Otherwise, these matters would have driven Chen Yi mad.
Refocusing his attention, Chen Yi began printing cards.
The materials were enough to print 691 cards.
But these were Saint Spirit grade cards, after all. Chen Yi could not achieve a perfect success rate. Back when he had been with the Reincarnators, his unfamiliarity with the process had limited his success rate to at most thirty percent.
Under those circumstances, the cost