Ever since they discovered that refined sunlight could permanently cleanse evil, sunlight had become a hot commodity.
Even the prices of Great Sun Essence, Pure Yang Essence, spring sunlight, and other sunlight-related essences had risen like boats on a swelling tide.
Countless spirit monsters, New-Method Cultivators, and Innate Martial Artists were frantically gathering and refining sunlight, whether willingly or under compulsion.
Wang Quan and the other cultivators improved various materials, arranged rituals, and so on.
Yet sunlight production still could not surge.
The many organizations producing sunlight also racked their brains to raise output, even dreaming of cornering the entire market.
But the reality was this:
No matter how much refined sunlight entered the market, it was swallowed up instantly.
During this time, some organizations tried to raise prices and reap greater profits.
Yet scarcely fifteen minutes after a price increase, the person in charge of that organization was given a thrashing by a group of Lineages and powerful organizations.
They heard that a boar spirit named A Fei had even had his kidneys cut out by a group of masked men, who then stir-fried them on the spot and forced him to eat them himself.
Under such brutal suppression, the price of refined sunlight remained steady at ten Green Beetles per strand.
Wang Quan did not try to persuade the Round-Faced Daoist Nun again, because the difficulty lay right before them.
Without enough sunlight, the Round-Faced Daoist Nun would have to return to her hometown.
He asked how she would refine Foundation Establishment Spirit Light once she returned home.
The Round-Faced Daoist Nun made no secret of it, saying casually, "I applied to the Lower Court for a mission: back in my hometown, I'll seize seekers of immortality under the Immortal-Tutoring Bureau who have mastered plenty of Daoist Scriptures,