"Ah?"
Zhang Laizi was completely dumbfounded.
Xu Changqing plopped down onto the bench beside her and chuckled. "I... cough... intend to form a Demon-Hunting Team. What do you think?"
Zhang Laizi came back to her senses, blinked, then began analyzing the matter seriously. "Demon-Hunting Teams have different resource expenditures depending on their scale.
A five-person squad needs at least one to three Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per month.
A ten-person unit needs at least three to nine Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per month.
A twenty-person corps needs at least ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per month."
Xu Changqing was greatly surprised. "That little?"
At the maximum estimate, ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stones were equivalent to a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
To be fair, sometimes even a single one of his meals cost more than that.
Yet he had not expected that a large Demon-Hunting Team could be maintained in the Rogue Cultivator Market.
It was truly unbelievable.
Zhang Laizi continued, "That is only the routine expenditure.
Once demon hunting begins, the costs at least double.
When prices are high, they may multiply severalfold."
Xu Changqing asked curiously, "How many people are there in a large Demon-Hunting Team? And if it hunts once a month, roughly how many Mid-Grade Spirit Stones would it cost?"
Zhang Laizi immediately replied, "A large Demon-Hunting Team has no fewer than twenty permanent members, though its numbers change with the scale of the hunt.
Thus, it needs to consume ten to twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones every month."
Xu Changqing took out a hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones from the small storage pouch Red Tiger had given him earlier and pushed them before her. "The Spirit Stones are yours. You choose the location, and you pick the members.
My only requirement is that every month, you hunt one demon beast over three