Ji Ping'an truly had not expected that his comrade-in-arms had such a large business in the mortal world.
Leaving aside everything else, he knew quite a few people who used generators.
They were completely mundane items, but they were simply... useful. A generator, including the lamps, cost only five Spirit Stones total. Once night fell, the house would be brightly lit, making it look prosperous.
Before this, he had not known how much generators sold for in gold, nor had he cared, because gold was not currency in the cultivation world and had no fixed exchange rate with Spirit Stones.
However, according to black-market rates, one Spirit Stone could roughly be exchanged for five hundred to a thousand taels of gold.
Of course, if exchanges were opened up and Spirit Stones were no longer so precious, gold might appreciate in value. But no matter how much it appreciated, one Spirit Stone would not be worth less than a hundred taels of gold.
In short, when he heard that Feng Jun's Boiler Engine sold for only two hundred taels of gold, he instinctively converted it into Spirit Stones—something worth thirty or forty Spirit Stone fragments was being sold by them for five Spirit Stones?
Such enormous profits made his eyes turn a little red. If I sold a hundred sets a month, wouldn't I earn at least four hundred Spirit Stones?
Still, he had some doubts, so he asked, "Is this a project you're cooperating with Tiantong on?"
"Only part of a project!" Feng Jun did not hide it from him. "I have an unlimited supply of these generators. I don't just sell them to Tiantong—I also sell them to Carefree Platform. A while ago, disciples from Red Phoenix and Yinsha bought some as well."
Ji Ping'an's jaw dropped so far