Before long, Venerable Jade Supreme had purchased dozens of Chaos Stones. That was all the shop had in stock, and every one had been used by essence-force cultivators before being sold back.
The currency here was essence-force crystal fragments, calculated by weight—roughly one tael of crystal fragments for one tael of Chaos Stone.
Essence-force crystal fragments came from mines across the various lands. There was also wild harvesting, of course, but the amount was extremely small, and most of it was only of average quality.
The mines where the crystal fragments originated naturally contained different elemental attributes. However, after various merchant associations broke them down, processed them deeply, and purified them into blocks, any essence-force cultivator could use them for cultivation—though the effects were certainly not the best.
Thus, crystal fragments were generally used as currency. Aside from purchasing all kinds of pills that improved cultivation and buying equipment to arm themselves, essence-force cultivators mainly relied on crystal fragments to power all kinds of armaments.
After all, an armament's material and the rules of its techniques already determined whether it could withstand the multi-elemental power of the crystal fragments.
Of course, when it came to large quantities of crystal fragments, very few people carried them around. Thus, the super-large national merchant associations issued treasury notes, much like checks, which could be redeemed for the desired amount of crystal fragments in several major nations or even alliances of hundreds of nations.
"Dozens of first- and second-grade Chaos Stones are already my limit. I also bought several finished Origin-True Stones, all of them for improving physical abilities. What are you going to use them for?" Venerable Jade Supreme handed me a box that looked extremely valuable.
I weighed it in my hand, then said, "Of course, I'm going to mass-produce Origin-True Stones."