Soul Gold Beads

Inside Red Stone City, Linley and the other two gradually walked toward the busiest and most bustling place in the city.

Linley raised his head and looked over.

Ahead were three very magnificent castles.

Thomas introduced, "These are the Black Sand Castle, the Demon Castle, and the Blood Peak Castle."

The Black Sand Castle was located on the left side, where a large amount of bizarre black sand condensed and flowed while its structure remained completely intact.

The Demon Castle was in the middle, its color a purplish-black, carved with a blurry giant face upon which a dazzling, seductive red single eye was extremely eye-catching.

The Blood Peak Castle was on the right, built entirely of black ore, with the emblem of the Blood Peak Army carved on top.

Thomas sent a Spiritual Sense voice transmission, "The Black Sand Castle can be considered a black market. It's a mixed bag of people in there and quite dangerous, usually a place for large transactions. The buyback prices are higher, but the disadvantage is that it's easy to be targeted by others."

"The Blood Peak Castle is a place suitable for trading precious items. Their acquisition price is uniformly seventy percent of the selling price. It can't match the Black Sand Castle for high profits, but its advantage is that there won't be any trouble afterward."

Linley sent a voice transmission, "We're definitely going to the Blood Peak Castle. Safety is more important than anything else!"

Thomas said, "Then we'll go to the back door. The rule of this Blood Peak Castle is that going in through the front is for purchasing things, while the back represents selling."

The three took a detour and walked for several miles...

The back door of the Blood Peak Castle was the same as the front door, with an entrance a hundred meters wide. Yet a large crowd was still pouring in, making this business quite popular.

The first-floor hall of the Blood Peak Castle was a full one or two thousand meters wide and long. Through Thomas's introduction, Linley learned that this was the place for acquiring Low-level Godheads, Low-level Divine Artifacts, and other items valued below one hundred Ink Stones.

The second-floor hall was for acquiring Intermediate Divine Artifacts, Mid-level Godheads, and other items priced around ten thousand Ink Stones.

The third-floor hall was for acquiring High-level God Artifacts, High-level Godheads, and other items priced in the millions of Ink Stones, tens of millions of Ink Stones, or even more precious goods.

Linley and the two came to a counter, where the person in charge of reception was a young man with grayish-white hair.

"Sell all of these!"

Linley took out chunks of Blood Crystals from his space ring, along with the Godheads and Divine Artifacts he had previously obtained.

"The quality of these Blood Crystals is average... This Intermediate Divine Artifact has some traces of damage..."

The grayish-white-haired staff member skillfully picked and chose with practiced movements, in short beating down the price using all sorts of reasons.

This was also the norm. In the Blood Peak Castle, there was only profit.

Linley listened silently, having no particular objections to the quality evaluation of the Blood Crystals. For a force of the Tianlan Tribe's scale, the territorial resources they could occupy naturally could not be considered lavish.

An intact Intermediate attack Divine Artifact sold for seven hundred Ink Stones, but purchasing one here would require one thousand Ink Stones.

A similar Intermediate defense Divine Artifact had a selling price between five thousand and six thousand, taking a middle number which was fifty-five hundred, yet selling it fetched thirty-eight hundred fifty. The price difference on this back-and-forth truly was exorbitant.

Linley thought to himself, Only a force like the Blood Peak Castle can pull off this kind of money-making.

The grayish-white-haired staff member tallied up the value and said, "A total of one million three hundred fifty-three thousand one hundred Ink Stones for you, how about that!"

The lion's share of this was still the Mid-level Godheads and Intermediate Divine Artifacts. By comparison, the Blood Crystals accumulated over a thousand years accounted for only a small portion of the income, which made Linley sigh inwardly that the fastest way to make money in Hell was still robbery.

Linley nodded and agreed, "That's fine, let's go with this."

He had also silently calculated it once himself, and this price could be considered quite reasonable.

"Giving you thirteen Azure Stone Slabs, fifty-three Azure Stones, and one hundred Ink Stones."

An Azure Stone was a cube with a side length of one centimeter, equivalent in value to one thousand Ink Stones.

Those with a length and width of ten centimeters and a thickness of one centimeter were Azure Stone Slabs. A single Azure Stone Slab was worth one hundred units of Azure Stones, which meant one hundred thousand Ink Stones.

Linley put away this money, and said to Thomas and Corey, "Let's go to the front to buy some cultivation resources."

The front door area of the Blood Peak Castle was the shopping district, which was interconnected with the back door selling district. The three of them only needed to walk across from the side to reach it directly, without needing to go outside and circle around again.

Walking in the crowd, Linley casually asked, "Thomas, why didn't you sell the Saint Domain materials you gathered earlier along with the rest just now?"

Thomas touched his nose, smiled sheepishly and said, "They generally don't buy Saint Domain-level things here. The value is too low, and tallying them up just wastes time and affects other business. We'll just go out later and find a restaurant to sell them."

Linley nodded to show he understood, though he also knew that those Saint Domain-level materials combined were not worth even a few Ink Stones.

The three arrived all the way at the front door hall. This side was equally crowded, with display windows and counters showcasing all sorts of commodities, complete with detailed descriptions on top: elixirs that healed soul injuries, incense that soothed and relaxed the soul, venom that could kill a High-level God upon a single drop, beautiful and rare defense Divine Artifact garments, and lifelike Alchemy puppets.

Among the dazzling array of commodities, the best-sellers by far were Soul Gold Granules, Soul Gold Beads, and defense Divine Artifacts. After all, these were absolute necessities that no one could refuse; the only difference lay in whether the demand was large or small.

Linley's objective was clear. He quickly selected his commodities, came to the counter, and said, "I want thirteen Soul Gold Beads, five Soul Gold Granules, and five packs of Soul Incense."

As he spoke, he took out the Azure Stones he hadn't even warmed up yet. Just like that, he had become a poor man once again.

The three went out through the front door, first going to a nearby restaurant to sell the Saint Domain Magical Beast materials, and then renting a reasonably priced, quiet and secluded courtyard inside the city, deciding to stay temporarily for a few days.

Linley distributed one Soul Gold Granule each to Thomas and Corey, while he himself refined and absorbed thirteen Soul Gold Beads in one go. The souls of his Sanctuary True Body and Lightning God Clone received massive replenishment and strengthening. As for his Destruction God Avatar, it did not receive a share, as there was no need to spread resources thin for the time being. As a transmigrator, his soul force was stronger than God-level cultivators of the same realm with a higher upper limit, and correspondingly the number of Soul Gold Beads he required was also greater.

Inside the room, wisps of pale white Soul Incense drifted in the air.

"Hoo..."

Linley let out a deep breath, a happy smile beaming across his face, and thought to himself, You get what you pay for. The effect of these Soul Gold Beads really is much stronger than Soul Gold Granules.

In a fleeting moment of turning thoughts, his own Magnetic Field Power fused with his Spiritual Sense and was released outward, rapidly surpassing his original limit range and continuing to expand outward...

Wait!

Just at the instant his Spiritual Sense easily broke through a thousand meters, Linley abruptly reined it in, thinking with lingering fear, I can't recklessly release my Spiritual Sense inside the city to test the limit distance. The risk is just too great.

The reasoning was very simple: the Spiritual Sense of an Intermediate God could not be hidden from other Intermediate Gods and High-level Gods. If someone with intentions noticed that his Spiritual Sense coverage range was abnormal, it would spell trouble.

Fortunately, Linley came to his senses in time and pulled it back in a flash, not attracting any prying eyes. After all, this wasn't the bustling street, but a residential area, and there were hardly many people around the edges of the houses anyway.

At this time, Linley suddenly thought of a previously overlooked detail, his expression turning somewhat solemn.

My Spiritual Sense has strengthened a lot. This is an advantage, but I also need to mind my safety, otherwise it might bring some trouble.