Ye Qing's worries really were not unfounded. If it were a paltry few tens or hundreds of thousands, Shrek would probably have let it go, not bothering to covet such trifles from a junior.
But primordial magnetic thunder gold was different!
Even at market prices, the primordial magnetic thunder gold Ye Qing possessed was worth three billion Gold Soul Coins. At black-market prices, it would be even more outrageous; selling it for another billion or two would be perfectly normal.
According to what Wang Yan had said at the Starlight Auction House in the original story, the entire annual tax revenue of Shrek City was only around a hundred million Gold Soul Coins. After accounting for money pits within Shrek, such as the Beast Arena, it was hard to say how much money they could save in a year.
Even including money-making organizations such as the Soul Tool Department and the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Ye Qing estimated that Shrek's annual net profit would probably amount to one Snow Empress Embryo.
And what did he have here?
A full twenty or thirty years of Shrek's net profits!
Moreover, this was primordial magnetic thunder gold, a top-grade rare metal, something good that money could not buy. It really was possible that Shrek would pocket it, then casually toss him some seemingly decent Soul Bones or heavenly treasures to fob him off.
So when he saw so many good things in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, an idea sprouted in Ye Qing's mind.
Barter?
He could take out some primordial magnetic thunder gold and exchange it for valuable items in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, concealing the fact that he possessed an enormous quantity of it. Relying solely on selling primordial magnetic thunder gold certainly would not work; when the time came, he could sell