Chapter 1152: [(855)] Frantically Buying Materials and Stockpiling Grain (First Update, Requesting Monthly Votes)

The auction officially began.

The opening bid for the Breaking Realm Pill was 20 Spirit Crystals, and it was eventually hawked up to 80 Spirit Crystals, causing Pei Jinye a twinge of heartache.

“A Breaking Realm Pill could actually be hawked up to 80 Spirit Crystals; I’ve made a huge loss!”

Pei Jinye felt the heartache even more when he thought of how his own Spirit Pills sold for only about a dozen Spirit Crystals.

However, the two Star Pills brought in a profit of a whopping 4,000 Spirit Crystals, which was well worth it.

Soon.

It was time for the item Pei Jinye most wanted, the Spirit Meat Tomb.

Unexpectedly, the highest bid reached 150 Spirit Crystals, and Pei Jinye immediately offered a new bid of 160.

The opponent, seemingly not expecting someone to jump in, bid “170.”

Pei Jinye didn’t bother with niceties and directly bid 200.

This nouveau riche-like attitude made the other party hesitate for a moment before deciding to back out.

The subsequent auction items did not attract Pei Jinye’s interest, but the Cave Heaven Dan was hawked up to 1,980 Spirit Crystals, almost reaching 20 Spirit Stones.

Information about a Cave owned by a Cave Heaven Level Great Perfection cultivator was also hawked up to 6,000 Spirit Crystals, showing the keen yearning people had for the Cave Heaven realm.

There came a knock on the door.

A butler from the Sea Reef Garden appeared with a graceful woman, who was holding a treasure box containing the Spirit Meat Tomb in her arms.

“Sir, please take a look,” the middle-aged housekeeper said politely.

He didn’t seem worried that Pei Jinye would rob the Spirit Meat Tomb on the spot.

This was great confidence.

Pei Jinye didn’t hold back either.

He started to inspect carefully.

The middle-aged housekeeper showed no impatience, waiting until Pei Jinye finished his confirmation, and then said with a warm smile, “That will be a total of 2,000 Spirit Crystals.”

Pei Jinye took out two Spirit Stones: “Will this do?”

“Yes, sir.”

After receiving the Spirit Stones, the housekeeper’s smile became even warmer: “Sir, if you need anything else, feel free to tell us. Sea Reef Garden is a nationwide chain store… even if our store doesn’t have it, we can order it from outside.”

“Can I get a discount?” asked Pei Jinye bluntly.

The housekeeper smiled subtly and said, “Of course, it depends on what sir needs to buy, I do have some authority to offer discounts.”

Pei Jinye listed a few Artifact Refining Materials and medicinal herbs.

He used to have only 20 Spirit Stones, so he controlled his purchases slightly, but now that he had a substantial sum of money, he naturally could buy more.

After the housekeeper brought all the items, he calculated the total cost in front of Pei Jinye and gave a 5% discount before rounding it down.

Then he looked at Pei Jinye: “The total is 2,100 Spirit Crystals, or it can also be converted to 21 Spirit Stones.”

“Let’s not do 21, just 20 Spirit Stones.”

Pei Jinye directly slapped 20 Spirit Stones onto the table.

Seeing this, the housekeeper smiled and said, “Let’s consider it as making a new friend then, 20 Spirit Stones.”

He reached out his hand and shook hands with Pei Jinye.

“May I know your esteemed surname, sir?”

“No need for formality, my surname is Yang.”

“Mr. Yang, do you need these items to be packaged?” the housekeeper asked, while his mind went through the list of wealthy families in Sky Cloud County bearing the surname Yang.

But he couldn’t seem to recall any.

“No need.”

Pei Jinye waved his hand and directly stored all the items into his storage ring.

The housekeeper didn’t find it odd.

These days, which slightly wealthy person didn’t possess a storage magic artifact?

“Take care, Mr. Yang.”

…

Upon leaving the business, Pei Jinye took several detours and eventually entered a restaurant before coming out, changing not only his clothes but also his appearance.

He finally made it back to Spring Breeze Ten Mile Street after a bit of subterfuge.

Old Liu Tou was grumbling at the doorway about his son when he raised his head and saw Pei Jinye, barely nodding as he said: “Master Pei is back?”

Pei Jinye nodded, then stepped into the shop.

The shop’s walls and doors had all been repaired in the half-day he’d been away.

However, that girl Wen Xiyue still hadn’t shown up.

“Truly a wealthy lady; she leaves her materials with me and doesn’t worry at all about me taking off.”

Shaking his head with a light chuckle.

Pei Jinye used Sealing Objects to close off the back storeroom.

During his trip to Sea Reef Garden, he had purchased a large amount of materials.

The repair of the Thousand-Thread Line was tied to his life safety, naturally of utmost importance, so he specifically chose a demonic beast spider silk from this world as a replacement.

He pulled out a short knife, chopping fiercely towards the spider silk.

With a “rip” sound.

The spider silk didn’t break, but instead, the short knife he brought from the Federation World developed a nick.

“If it weren’t for my Karmic Fire, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to refine it.”

He tied the four broken ends of the Thousand-Thread Line with spider silk, then continued to flash-burn it with Karmic Fire.

He couldn’t burn it for too long.

Both materials wouldn’t withstand the temperature of Karmic Fire if burned for too long.

While they were on the verge of melting, Pei Jinye used the Fire Element to fuse the two together, constantly polishing, maintaining the fine detail of the spider silk to match the Thousand-Thread Line.

It wasn’t a difficult task, but it also couldn’t be done carelessly.

Seconds and minutes passed by.

Maintaining the same actions for three hours could become tedious, but after so many years of Artifact Refining experience, Pei Jinye’s heart wouldn’t grow impatient because of it.

Three hours later.

He halted the refining.

He gathered up the Thousand-Thread Line one strand after another.

Since he had bought an abundance of spider silk this time, he went ahead and strengthened the rest of the Thousand-Thread Line as well…

As he reached out his hand.

The Thousand-Thread Line shot out in an instant.

Covering every angle in the room.

Pei Jinye carefully felt around.

After being re-refined, the Thousand-Thread Line became more concealed, and its firing speed had also increased significantly.

“This is only the spider silk of the Eternal Star Level… if I can get my hands on Cloud Sky Level spider silk someday… tsk tsk.”

Pei Jinye admitted he was quite tempted at that moment.

“Master Pei?”

A crisp call came from outside the door.

Pei Jinye raised his finger slightly, and the Thousand-Thread Line from all around retracted instantly.

By the time his hand came down, the Thousand-Thread Line had already vanished.

Pei Jinye pushed open the wooden door to the back room, and facing him was Wen Xiyue peeking around; he beckoned, “Come in.”

Wen Xiyue giggled and walked in, gently closing the door behind her.

She looked around the place.

Noticing the signs of recent repairs.

She didn’t even ask about her Formation, instead, she directly asked if Pei Jinye was alright?

“What could happen to me?” Pei Jinye smiled briefly, then pulled out a specially-made Spirit Gathering Array from the drawer: “I’ve been waiting for you this morning, you didn’t show up.”

Wen Xiyue said with embarrassment: “I came last night, saw it was sealed here so I thought I’d come back in the afternoon to check, didn’t expect Master Pei you’d really be back.”

Pei Jinye didn’t dwell on the matter, instead, he signaled her to inspect the Spirit Gathering Array.

“The valve is set here, just open it when you want to use it, close it when you’re done… I’ve also added a replaceable section for you… if the Spiritual Energy is depleted, just insert a Spirit Stone inside.”

Listening to all this, Wen Xiyue was dumbstruck.

“The Formation can be reused???”

“Why couldn’t it be?” Pei Jinye countered.