The two of them sorted their haul: 376 pearls in all. The largest was the size of a chicken egg. Futis said it could be rated an F-grade pearl, a treasure beyond price. In the Divine Realm, pearls were graded by size, with higher grades commanding higher prices. Pearls above the common grades were already rare enough to appear only at auctions. F-grade pearls were priceless; every appearance set off a frenzy, and the final price was often terrifying.
Luo Qian still had no real sense of what an Energy Coin was worth in the Divine Realm. He only knew that money would let him buy things here and smuggle back what he needed. He had come without any particular goal, hoping to find a few novel things to smuggle.
They had one F-grade pearl, twenty E-grade pearls, sixty-three D-grade pearls, eighty-one C-grade pearls, ninety-seven B-grade pearls, and 114 A-grade pearls. Futis said, "I've never seen this many pearls in my life. I doubt anyone in the Pearl Market can swallow a shipment this big in one gulp, so we'll divide it up. There are plenty of A- and B-grade pearls, but they're worth less. They aren't worth selling individually. Over the past two years, A-grade pearls have gone for a hundred Energy Coins each and B-grade pearls for five hundred. Sold as one lot, these should bring in around sixty thousand Energy Coins."
"That much!" Luo Qian was stunned. The last time he had been in the Divine Realm, an Alchemist had haggled with him for ages over a few Energy Coins. Sixty thousand was an astronomical sum.
"You're a lucky brat," Futis said with a sigh. "I've hunted pearls all my life without saving up that kind of fortune. Sixty thousand Energy Coins is no small sum in