yasinovel Chapter 284: Preparing for Battle
Chapter 284: Preparing for Battle
Chapter 284: Preparing for Battle
While awaiting the auction, Wang Hong spent his time practicing his skills and attempting to refine some small magical weapons. In his spatial storage, he had a wealth of precious third-tier materials that he wanted to refine into spiritual weapons to equip his subordinates.
However, revealing too many resources at once would make him a target. Currently, he had only a little more than twenty Foundation Building cultivators and ten more in Boundary City, with just ten that he could mobilize at any moment. If he attracted a Golden Core cultivator, it would spell trouble.
Therefore, learning the art of refining tools was imperative. Wang Hong had already exchanged for several refining tool techniques from the Sect Scripture Tower, some of which he had already mastered, while others he had yet to start learning.
During this time, he contemplated and practiced, starting with the basics of refining various materials. Occasionally, he would attempt to refine a simple low-quality magical weapon, succeeding only after dozens of failures.
Refining tools required the corresponding blueprints. The Cultivation World had developed fixed refining tool blueprints over many years. For those new to refining tools, they only needed to follow these blueprints.
After that, they needed to combine various materials according to the blueprints' requirements and then fuse and shape the materials. But that was not the end; they also had to inscribe formations on the weapon. Each magical weapon had unique formations, but there were some common ones, like durability, sharpness, and flight.
The formations Wang Hong had learned before were oriented toward attack, defense, and trapping. Each formation was at least several meters in size. In contrast, the formations used in refining tools focused on enhancing the weapon's functions and were much smaller, often fitting within the size of a palm.
Learning refining tools was not a quick process, but Wang Hong took the time to craft a few whenever he had the chance. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, he wouldn't be able to refine spiritual weapons on his own.
During this period, he assumed various identities and placed orders at refining tool shops all over Qianqiao City. Since the city had a plethora of such shops, and each shop only refined one or two items, these orders were gradually being completed.
Now, each bow was equipped with a hundred arrows. Unlike other magical weapons, these arrows didn't return automatically, so in battle, every shot counted, and there was no chance to retrieve them.
The auction items were in line with the Thousand Crafts Pavilion's specialty, primarily consisting of Spiritual Weapons, Magical Weapons, and spirit ore. Unlike the Qingxu Sect, the Sect of the Thousand Crafts Pavilion did not focus on planting Spiritual Herbs. Instead, they had a large spirit ore mine producing various ores suitable for refining tools, which had contributed to the Pavilion's success.
To manage the event efficiently and reduce the number of unrelated individuals, each person had to pay a deposit of ten high-grade Spirit Stones or equivalent Spiritual Objects. The value of ten high-grade Spirit Stones was at least a hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, if not more.
This barrier was sufficient to keep cultivators of the Ninth Layer and above out. Many Qi Cultivation cultivators could only earn one low-grade Spirit Stone per month, with an annual income of a little over ten low-grade Spirit Stones. Some wouldn't even earn ten thousand Spirit Stones in their entire lifetime.
Even among Foundation Building cultivators, most could only make a few thousand low-grade Spirit Stones annually. Those who earned ten to twenty thousand Spirit Stones per year were considered high-income individuals.
Of course, there were exceptions. Alchemists, refining tool masters, formation experts, and Talisman Makers, who possessed specialized skills, as well as professional treasure hunters, earned well above this tier. Their annual income easily exceeded one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
Despite their high earnings, they paid a steep price for it, especially the treasure hunters, whose lives were constantly at risk.
Beyond these two tiers of income, there was another tier – those who held the most wealth in the Cultivation World. Some individuals had amassed fortunes in their lifetime that others could never hope to achieve.
Over millions of years of development, the Cultivation World had seen the rise of countless strong individuals. Resources concentrated around them, forming various power structures like families, businesses, and sects. Those at the upper echelons of these power structures accumulated vast wealth and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.
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