After lending his master's wife five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones to buy a Nascent Soul Formation Pill, Liu Changxu had few spirit stones left.
Meanwhile, his Storage Ring was crammed with sea monster materials that needed to be disposed of as soon as possible. Otherwise, after hunting more sea monsters, he would once again have to throw away huge quantities of materials. Those were spirit stones he was throwing away! Liu Changxu had no desire to experience such a scene a second time.
Over the following days, Liu Changxu therefore made his rounds among the city's major shops, selling the sea monster materials he did not need in batches. In the end, he earned over six million low-grade spirit stones, replenishing his reserves once more.
In truth, selling sea monster materials in Cape City was not particularly profitable. The city lay on the front lines of the Southern Sea Human-Demon War, and the fighting had led Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to slaughter far too many sea monsters. Their materials flooded the city, allowing the major shops to drive prices down. Selling them on the mainland would have earned him considerably more spirit stones.
At the same time, many Azure Cloud Sect cultivators had made fortunes selling the materials from the sea monsters they had killed during the war, driving up the prices of other spirit treasures across the board.
In fact, the Nascent Soul Formation Pill Jiang Yuqing had won at auction would have cost no more than five million low-grade spirit stones at the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters. She had paid over a million extra.
But when something was needed, one had to buy it, even if the price seemed unreasonable. This was especially true of precious spirit pills like the Nascent Soul Formation Pill, which sometimes could