The Heaven and Earth Fairness Scale

Seeing the people from the Crimson Firmament Sect go inside, those outside became even more anxious.

They eagerly awaited the arrival of the Crimson Firmament Sect members to inform them that all payments had indeed been settled and that a contract had been signed for the next order.

This means they can really continue doing this business, and they will have a very substantial and stable income.

But I'm also a little worried that if the Trade Center spends too much money settling payments for those ahead in line, what if I don't have enough Spirit Stone when it's my turn?

Or what if, after this round of work, the other party doesn't want them to continue, or starts reducing the quantity of goods they're receiving?

All of these factors made it difficult for everyone to remain calm.

They were called in one by one with their number tags, filled with trepidation, and then came out beaming with joy, carrying bags brimming with Spirit Stone.

Until the last sect member went in to settle their account, the Trade Affairs Center did not experience the situation they had feared—that they wouldn't have enough Spirit Stone to buy on credit.

However, the Trade Center is very strict about the quality control of goods, with very detailed requirements for the purity of each grade of each item.

These people looked at the small object on Li Zhouxuan's table. It was just a small white board about the size of two palms. But when Li Zhouxuan placed the Storage Bag containing the goods on it, the small white board would directly take out all the goods in the Storage Bag, wrap them in several small spheres of light, and float them in the air.

Then Li Zhouxuan would determine the grade of the goods encased in each of the light spheres based on their color, and then proceed with the payment.

If anyone questions the quantity of each grade, Li Zhouxuan will not be annoyed. He will simply take out a Jade Slip and gently touch it to the sphere of light. The sphere of light will then imprint the quality, defects, and judgment criteria of each item it contains onto the Jade Slip.

This small white board is one of the hidden rewards Lin Xiao received when he completed the city-building quest; it's called the "Heaven and Earth Fairness Scale."

To facilitate the acceptance of goods at the Trade Affairs Center, Lin Xiao placed this item here for everyone to use.

In fact, its function goes far beyond simply measuring the quality of these items.

When Lin Xiao used the identification function on it, the description he received was as follows:

[The Heaven and Earth Fairness Scale, general function: It can be used to make a detailed judgment on the quality of any item, and the contents can be recorded on Scale-Accompanying Slip. Special appendix: The two extremes of the world are easily distinguished, but black and white have always been difficult to distinguish throughout history. One day, when the world changes, Heaven and Earth will naturally be fair.]

Lin Xiao didn't have time to think about the latter in detail for the time being. Anyway, this thing would be very useful in the Trade Affairs Center, so he just left it here.

For those who raise questions, Li Zhouxuan will hand the Jade Slip to the person concerned for review.

However, this Jade Slip was meant to be used with a set of paper, so naturally they wouldn't be allowed to take it away. Therefore, if anyone wanted to make a rubbing, they could pull out a stack of paper from the pile of white paper next to it and make a rubbing of the contents of the Jade Slip.

It's understandable that many sects didn't fully trust Xiushui City because it was their first collaboration. However, after raising their questions and receiving such detailed answers, they were quite receptive to the explanations.

There's no way to refuse it; the descriptions are incredibly detailed. For any item, the flaws are pointed out with remarkable accuracy, along with the criteria for judging their size. If anyone still doesn't believe it, they can directly select the item they feel has been judged incorrectly from the Jade Slip, Fairness Scale will immediately pick it out and suspend it in the air, clearly marking all the flaws in a very conspicuous manner.

Such methods further enhanced everyone's understanding of Xiushui City's strength.

Some of the Nascent Soul Cultivator among them were capable of instantly judging the quality of the goods in a Storage Bag, but at most they could only make a rough judgment after a quick scan with their Divine Sense, unlike this Fairness Scale which could immediately provide such a detailed conclusion.

Perhaps Nascent Soul Cultivator skilled in these cultivation techniques could do it, but clearly these cultivators from the Mortal Realm cannot be considered proficient in this art.

They spend most of their time cultivating. While these cultivation techniques are not exactly unfamiliar to them, they are by no means proficient. Moreover, it requires not just mastery of one skill, but mastery of everything!

Even they, as cultivators, couldn't achieve this level of skill, yet Xiushui City was already able to produce such items for goods inspection...

The differences are too great to ponder deeply.

After handing over the goods and receiving the Spirit Stone, these members of the sects and royal families did not leave. Instead, they all came to a table next to the door of the foreign trade office.

This is the Trade Affairs Center where goods are sold.

The person in charge is a young man.

The young man was actually a member of the General Affairs Hall, but Elder Liu Yunan of the General Affairs Hall asked him to come down the mountain to help.

This young man is Bai Zhu.

He sat at the desk, with every shelf beside him filled with Storage Bag.

Whenever someone from a sect or royal family comes over with a shopping list they've filled out, Bai Zhu takes the list and deftly pulls out different items from various Storage Bag on the shelf beside him, based on the contents of the list.

Originally, the sects and royal families in the Mortal Realm didn't care much about the grade of goods, since the price offered by the Trade Affairs Center was already very cheap. They felt that as long as the grade wasn't too far off, it was fine.

They were buying basic resources, and the price difference was huge for slightly inferior quality.

Having witnessed the Fairness Scale used during the acquisition, they were now itching to test whether the quality of the goods sold to them by the Trade Affairs Center was also carefully assessed.

Such minor issues naturally didn't need to be reported; Li Zhouxuan could decide for himself. He told everyone that they could use it once he finished receiving the goods, but it was only for on-site inspection of the goods bought and sold at the Trade Center. If any additional items were brought for inspection, a testing fee would be charged.

Li Zhouxuan immediately approved the testing fee: one Spirit Stone could test one hundred low-level items or ten mid-level items.

Li Zhouxuan was in charge of most of the external transactions, so he naturally had the authority to set prices. However, he didn't set prices arbitrarily; rather, he determined them based on the approximate number of Spirit Stone required to use the Fairness Scale.

Since the goods traded in the entire Trade Affairs Center are currently only low- and mid-tier items, he only knows the consumption of the Fairness Scale at these two levels.

Even if he offered a price now, it wouldn't make a difference, as these cultivators probably don't have anything of higher rank to test.