Li Ziran looked at the aggressive Jones and could not help but smile bitterly. This demon truly took him for some insatiably greedy man. There was no doubt Jones had delivered the Archmages he urgently needed, but that did not mean Jones could freely order and pressure him around.
He understood the principles of trade.
You exchanged one thing for another. It was that simple.
But if he wanted to make it last, he needed to make his own goods perfect enough.
Of course, nothing in the world was absolutely perfect, but Li Ziran would find a way to make his products the best they could be.
No matter how flashy the trading rules were, in the end, everything came down to product quality.
That was the core competitiveness.
The Fire God's Wrath Embryo was merely an appetizer. Though it had a market, the Rare Elements it required were simply not something he could refine without limit.
Ordinary Elemental Embryos, on the other hand, were something he could master in a short time.
He needed to calm down and understand elemental structures, grasping every detail from an embryo's gestation to its production, rather than spending his energy on Forbidden Spell Embryos.
Though Forbidden Spell Embryos were far more advanced than ordinary embryos, they were not suitable for him. Li Ziran would develop them, just not now.
Still, he could not directly refuse Jones. Once a merchant's greed rose, it was like a wildfire burning at full blaze. A basin of cold water would not extinguish it; it would only backfire.
Li Ziran had his own methods for dealing with this kind of businessman.
"Ah, you..." Li Ziran sighed strangely. "To be honest, I truly do not have the energy to produce those Forbidden Spell Embryos. Not only are they far