Du Shu explained at just the right moment, "I call this the 'Good Fortune Machine.'
"The number on the ice mirror represents points. One point costs one tael of silver, and you can top up at our counter.
"The machines over here charge five thousand taels of silver per draw. You have a chance of winning any of the prizes. It's possible to win a Spirit Transformation Pill for five thousand taels of silver, though the odds are very low.
"The machines over here offer advanced draws, costing one hundred thousand points each. This option more or less guarantees your money's worth. There are no empty prizes; every prize is pills.
"There's also a premium draw that costs three hundred thousand points each, with a higher chance of winning Peerless Pills.
"Judging by the market response, this venture has been fairly successful."
People were playing all three types of machines. Amid the bang, bang, bang of customers hammering the start buttons, Tang Yan almost heard the sound of money pouring into their accounts.
His original idea had been to draw inspiration from the wildly popular mystery boxes of his previous life and sell pill mystery boxes in the Northern Spirit Realm.
He had not expected Du Shu to devise mystery-box marketing. His original plan had been to wait until Du Shu produced a somewhat immature proposal before bringing up mystery boxes himself.
He had never expected Du Shu to possess such monstrous talent for business.
These lottery machines were not mystery boxes, but they surpassed them!
Mystery boxes would only raise the profit margin by twenty percent over the pills' original prices.
The machines Du Shu had made, however, could multiply their profits!
The later draws that guaranteed pills, in particular, differed only in presentation and achieved the same ingenious