After they handed the ore to Master Zhang, he quickly set to work forging, while Shenhe borrowed an open space beside the smithy and began drawing the Adeptal Talisman.
Before long, both the Myriad Mechanics Core and the Adeptal Talisman were complete. This also meant that all the important materials needed to rebuild the Jade Chamber had been gathered. All that remained was to wait.
Yucheng remembered that, in the game, the Jade Chamber-a vast undertaking with such exquisite craftsmanship-seemed to have been built in just two days. But here in reality, he felt that no matter how hard they rushed, the project would take at least several months.
Once everyone handed the Myriad Mechanics Core and the Adeptal Talisman to Ningguang's secretary, Baiwen, she promptly announced that the top three places in the competition had been decided, just as expected. Only then did Yucheng and his companions learn that the people below the stage were the buyers who had won his Mingxia Floating Life Stone at auction.
The plural "buyers" was necessary because ten people had purchased the Mingxia Floating Life Stone. They had pooled their funds to buy it together, then jointly ask Ningguang one question.
Indeed, the Feiyun Commerce Guild had also concluded the auction for the Mingxia Floating Life Stone that day. The final sale price had reached a staggering 1.28 billion Mora. After more than a hundred million in commissions, handling fees, and storage charges were deducted, Yucheng would receive 1.15 billion Mora.
With such enormous sums involved, smaller merchants would have been pushed out by the major merchants with ample funds unless they worked together.
And so, Liyue's smaller merchants had banded together. With their strength in numbers, they had successfully defeated those thriving major merchants at the auction, but in doing so, they