After coming back to his senses a good while later, Fang Shu immediately perked up and began taking stock of everything he had gained in the secret realm.
It took a full three shichen before he finished counting all his spoils.
After going through it all, not only did his expression fail to calm, his eyes instead shone brightly with delight.
There was no other reason.
From this journey into the secret realm alone, he had obtained more than twenty thousand taels of low-grade spirit stones, while his mid-grade spirit stones numbered close to three hundred taels.
Together, that already amounted to a staggering fifty thousand taels.
Moreover, mid-grade spirit stones were fine things used only by Foundation Establishment immortals for trade. Qi Refinement immortals found it difficult to exchange for them and could only receive them as rewards.
Aside from the spirit stones themselves, Fang Shu estimated that all the miscellaneous gains he had collected in the secret realm were worth more than thirty thousand taels of low-grade spirit stones.
If he sold them off in batches, spent ten years at it, waited for prices to fall, and took things slowly, he could add several thousand taels atop those thirty thousand and bring the total up to a whopping thirty-five thousand taels!
However, Fang Shu had no intention of selling these odds and ends in batches. The next time he visited the Jin Family Treasure Hall, he planned to sell everything to them in one go, let them round it off, and take thirty thousand taels of spirit stones in return.
After all, Foundation Establishment was imminent. Even low-grade spirit stones would soon become secondary to him. These trifling matters were no longer worth spending too much thought on, lest they delay something important.
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