Chapter 301: Trading Extravaganza, Sweeping Up Massive Resources (6000)

Chapter 301: Trading Extravaganza, Sweeping Up Massive Resources (6000)

Cao Xing said, "I exhausted the resources in my territory just to make over two thousand bottles of Secret Life Potion."

"I think many people should know how powerful this secret potion is. Drinking it can instantly restore two thousand points of health."

"Carrying a bottle on you can save your life at a critical moment."

Cao Xing deliberately made the process of making the potion sound extremely difficult and claimed that his consumption was immense.

Anyway, these Survivors had no idea how the Improved Secret Life Potion was actually made.

But anyone could guess with their toes that such a powerful potion definitely didn't have a simple manufacturing process.

For a moment, in the chat channel, countless Survivors felt a wave of emotion welling up in their hearts.

Even that portion of people who felt Cao Xing was being a bit nosy couldn't help but admire his character.

Yin Zhicun: "Great Lord Cao Xing, you truly are the kindest lord I have ever seen."

Zhou Zetian: "Yeah, I finally understand why the number of Survivors in District 174 is so much higher than in other districts. With such a kind-hearted lord who looks out for others, more people are bound to survive."

Song Yi: "The person above is right. If those guys hadn't sucked our blood a few times when the server opened, so many people wouldn't have died."

Bai Guochao: "Damn, I was just doubting Great Lord Cao Xing a moment ago. I really want to slap myself right now!"

People dread comparison above all else.

By comparison, compared to the top powerhouses of other districts, Cao Xing was practically a saint-like existence.

He also sold things and made a profit.

But his items weren't priced ridiculously high.

They were within a range acceptable to those Survivors.

Even after buying Cao Xing's goods, they could still retain a portion of resources to develop their territory.

It gave them all a way out, which was disguised as saving even more people.

Hu Shan: "I declare that from now on, I am Great Lord Cao Xing's number one fanboy! Whoever dares to slander Great Lord Cao Xing again, I'll be the first to fight them!"

Xu Yang: "To the person above, being the number one fanboy doesn't fall to you guys. We brothers in District 174 were the earliest batch of people to follow Great Lord Cao Xing!"

Yu Luanyu: "Great Lord Cao Xing, keep it up…"

…

Amidst the chorus of moved voices from the crowd, Cao Xing knew the atmosphere had been built up just about enough.

Thus, he put the Improved Secret Life Potion back up for trade.

[Consignment Item: Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)]

[Stock Reserve: 2000 bottles]

[Required Items: Dragon Blood Grass, Aurora Grass, Ice Luan Flower, Advanced Alchemy Workshop Blueprint, Hunter Mask, Mithril, Advanced Elemental Crystal, Magic Pattern Stone, Eternal Gold Ingot, etc…]

[Consigner: Cao Xing]

[Seller's Note: In addition to the materials mentioned above, those who have other advanced blueprints or magical plant seeds on hand can chat with me privately.]

…

After doing all this, Cao Xing sent another message.

Cao Xing: "Everyone, I have already set up the consignment information. You can go to the market to trade."

Hearing this, a large number of Survivors began pouring into the market.

Everyone walked with brisk steps, afraid of being a step slower than others!

They all knew how sought-after this kind of potion was; if they went even a little late, it would be gone!

And the Survivors who rushed to the market early excitedly said,

"Brothers, Great Lord Cao Xing has added a lot of things this time. One bottle of Secret Life Potion can be exchanged for 1 Dragon Blood Grass or Aurora Grass, or 10 ordinary Hunter Masks."

"This Advanced Alchemy Workshop Blueprint is even more terrifying. A single blueprint can actually be exchanged for 100 bottles of Secret Life Potion! Whoever has this kind of blueprint in their hands is going to make a fortune!"

"Haha, and Magic Pattern Stone, Eternal Gold Ingot, and Ice Luan Flower can also be traded. I happened to pick up a few Ice Luan Flowers in the wild last time, I'm going to make a fortune this time!"

In an instant, a large number of Survivors successively pulled out the good things in their hands and snapped up Cao Xing's Secret Life Potion.

As for Cao Xing's side, his screen was frantically being flooded with various transaction messages.

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 1, you obtained [Ice Luan Flower] * 5…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 2, you obtained [Aurora Grass (Gold)] * 2…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 30, you obtained [Glowing Branch (Gold)] * 1…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 100, you obtained [Advanced Alchemy Workshop Construction Blueprint]…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 200, you obtained [Intermediate Mage Tower Construction Blueprint (Gold)]…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Improved Secret Life Potion (Medium)] * 100, you obtained [Archer Firing Range Construction Blueprint (Gold)]…]

[Transaction successful…]

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Since this time Cao Xing only planned to exchange for some things he urgently needed, he didn't use them to exchange for the Ice Dragon Mark.

The [Hunter Mask] was naturally prepared for exchange into Honor Points.

Cao Xing decided to take some time later to go to Eternal Frost Main City or the battlefield and exchange the rewards.

Therefore, naturally, the more of this stuff, the better.

Aurora Grass, Dragon Blood Grass, and Ice Luan Flower were all things he currently needed.

Cao Xing also checked private chat messages while negotiating prices with the other party.

After a full ten minutes of trading,

Cao Xing's 2000 bottles of Secret Life Potion were completely snatched up!

Looking at the large amount of materials suddenly appearing in his backpack, a look of pleasant surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

From this transaction, he cumulatively obtained:

[Ice Luan Flower (Blue)] * 775

[Aurora Grass (Gold)] * 10

[Hunter Mask (White)] * 3372

[Elite Hunter Mask (Green)] * 217

[Mithril] * 6723

[Advanced Elemental Crystal] * 874

[Magic Pattern Stone (Gold)] * 338

[Eternal Gold Ingot (Gold)] * 632

[Glowing Branch (Gold)] * 1

[Advanced Alchemy Workshop Construction Blueprint (Gold)] * 1

[Intermediate Mage Tower Construction Blueprint (Gold)] * 1

[Archer Firing Range Construction Blueprint (Gold)] * 1

…

These resources could be called massive!

It could be said to be the batch of items with the highest transaction value in his history.

If he had to collect them himself, he didn't know how much time it would consume.

Especially the two high-level materials, [Magic Pattern Stone] and [Eternal Gold Ingot].

As Cao Xing's territory developed, there were more and more places where they were needed.

But the channels for obtaining them were too few.

And now, through trading, he had easily harvested a large amount!

There was a strong look of pleasant surprise in Cao Xing's eyes!

"Very good, a huge wave of Magic Pattern Stones and Eternal Gold Ingots has been replenished!"

"The most crucial thing is Mithril and Advanced Elemental Crystals. Several thousand more copies have come in. This way, the offerings for those warriors to break through have been gathered in considerable amounts again."

Cao Xing was extremely excited!

"In addition, I also received 775 [Ice Luan Flower (Blue)] used to make secret potions."

"According to each Ice Luan Flower having 5 to 6 petals, that is enough for me to make at least over four thousand more bottles of Secret Life Potion!"

"And what I paid was merely 155 bottles of secret potion."

"If the market were a bit bigger, I could even continuously acquire raw materials through the market and sell potions, achieving an infinite loop!"

Of course, he was just thinking about it.

After all, the quantity of Ice Luan Flowers on the market was limited.

This wave by Cao Xing collected almost sixty percent of the Ice Luan Flower reserves in the entire District 17.

In addition, he also collected over three thousand ordinary Hunter Masks.

This was equivalent to more than three thousand Honor Points!

Cao Xing had killed so many Hunters previously, wiped out several camps, and even eliminated a red-robed bishop, and all of that combined was only enough for a little over two thousand Honor Points!

This wave directly exceeded the reserves he had accumulated for so long before!

"As expected, harvesting leeks is much more efficient!"

"The Honor Points have already broken through 5000 when added up. Gather another 5000, and I can exchange it for an orange-grade cannon."

Thinking of this, his mood became even better.

Aside from these items,

what Cao Xing didn't expect was that

he actually received 10 Aurora Grasses this time, which was equivalent to the materials for 10 bottles of [Holy Water].

And the absolute most crucial thing was that

he also received three golden blueprints!

Among them was even the [Advanced Alchemy Workshop Construction Blueprint], which was also the blueprint he wanted the most.

It cost him a full one hundred bottles of Secret Life Potion to trade for this blueprint.

Don't look at 100 bottles as a lot; compared to the value of this blueprint, it was negligible.

After all, with this blueprint, he could mass-produce Holy Water and even advanced Secret Life Potions.

Earn even greater profits from this.

Moreover, the Survivors who could live until now weren't fools either.

They naturally knew the value of advanced blueprints; if Cao Xing didn't offer this price, he wouldn't have been able to collect it at all.

Besides this, the other two golden blueprints were also terrifyingly valuable.

They cost Cao Xing a full 300 bottles of Secret Life Potion!

These were also the two most precious blueprints he had ever purchased.

The Survivor who traded the [Intermediate Mage Tower] blueprint with Cao Xing had his mouth twisted into a grin from ear to ear.

A full 200 bottles of Secret Life Potion, what kind of concept was that?

Even if sold to those merchants, it could fetch a price of several million crowns!

He was so excited in the chat channel that he lost his mind, quite having that feeling of getting rich overnight.

If he didn't develop his territory and chose to lie flat with this money, it would be enough for his whole family to live without worrying about food or clothing for the rest of their lives in this world.

He could also buy some servants to wait on him and live a landlord-like life from then on.

However, as mentioned before,

you might make a profit, but Cao Xing would definitely not lose out.

This Intermediate Mage Tower blueprint was of great use to him!

Although there weren't many mages in his territory currently, he had over thirty [Earth Mage Apprentice Recruitment Scrolls] in his backpack.

So very soon, the mages in his territory would become numerous.

Taking a look at the attributes of these three blueprints:

[Advanced Alchemy Workshop Blueprint (Gold)]

[Blueprint Effect: Can upgrade the Intermediate Alchemy Workshop in the territory into an Advanced Alchemy Workshop, allowing the production of higher-level potions inside.]

[Armor Value: 400 points]

[Durability: 8800/8800]

[Floor Area: 472 square meters]

[Required Materials for Construction: 9000 Wood, 3000 Stone, 1500 Iron, 1000 Copper, 500 Mithril, 50 Magic Pattern Stones, 100 Eternal Gold Ingots, 200 Advanced Elemental Crystals.]

[Upgrade Time: 47 hours and 58 minutes]

[Maximum Staff: 4 people]

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[Intermediate Mage Tower Construction Blueprint (Gold)]

[Blueprint Introduction: Can upgrade the primary Mage Tower in the territory to an intermediate Mage Tower. During meditation, you can gain more experience points, and there is a chance to learn more advanced skills, advancing Mage Apprentices into Mages.]

[Armor: 500]

[Durability: 12000 / 12000]

[Area Covered: 364 square meters]

[Height: 27 meters]

[Meditation Rooms: 81 (Each meditation room can hold up to 4 people)]

[Meditation Experience Gained: 1 hour / 3000 points of experience]

[Learnable Skills List: Intermediate Elemental Mastery (Ice, Earth, Dark, Light, Wind, Thunder), Primary Magic (Ice Cone Technique, Flying Stone Technique, Holy Light Ball…), Intermediate Magic (Ice Arrow Rain, Chain Earth Spikes, Shadow Whip, Chain Lightning…)]

[Construction Requirements: Level 7 Lords Manor, 50,000 Wood, 30,000 Stone, 10,000 Iron, 1,000 Mithril, 100 Eternal Gold Ingot, 100 Magic Pattern Stone, 500 Advanced Elemental Crystals]

[Construction Time: 115 hours 32 minutes]

[Maximum Concurrent Workers: 0 / 4 people]

(For mages, an intermediate Mage Tower is a sacred place-like existence. Mage apprentices can meditate here to advance into primary mages. If you can upgrade the Mage Tower to advanced, it will greatly increase the probability of attracting mage-class Hunters to join your territory.)

…

"Good fellow! As expected of an intermediate Mage Tower, this is way too fucking powerful!"

"Not to mention anything else, just the [Meditation] feature alone increasing experience points by 3,000 per hour is incredible!"

"If a mage meditates inside for a whole day, that's at least 72,000 experience points."

"Without bottleneck restrictions, sitting directly inside the Mage Tower for decades would allow one to level up to over a hundred!"

Besides this, Cao Xing also saw two other powerful functions of the intermediate Mage Tower.

One is the addition of six learnable intermediate elemental mage skills.

The other is that it can allow mage apprentices to become primary mages, which are elite-grade creatures.

No wonder the [Mage Tower] has an irresistible attraction for those mages.

This thing is simply too strong.

Moreover, the system notes also prompted that if an advanced Mage Tower can be built, his territory will become a sacred land for mages!

Thinking that he could upgrade the Mage Tower to intermediate tomorrow, Cao Xing was extremely excited.

Of course, it wasn't just the Mage Tower.

Buildings for other classes were also very good.

Furthermore, Cao Xing also received an archer training shooting range construction blueprint this time.

Taking a look at its attributes.

[Archer Shooting Range Construction Blueprint (Gold)]

[Blueprint Introduction: Can build an archer training shooting range in the territory, allowing archers within the territory to train inside, gain experience points, and learn some additional primary skills]

[Armor: 120 points]

[Durability: 6000 / 6000]

[Area Covered: 1372 square meters]

[Maximum Concurrent Training Personnel: 50 people]

[Training Experience Gained: 1 hour / 1000 points]

[Learnable Skills: Primary Archery Mastery, Precision Shooting, Weakness Strike]

[Construction Requirements: Level 6 Lords Manor, 10,000 Wood, 10,000 Stone, 5,000 Iron, 300 Mithril, 20 Magic Pattern Stone, 20 Eternal Gold Ingot, 50 Primary Elemental Crystals]

(A fully equipped training shooting range where archers can practice archery skills, increasing the probability of archer-class Hunters joining the territory)

…

"This training shooting range is also pretty good, and there happen to be many archers in my territory."

"For instance, Frost Archers, Centaur Shooters, etc… can all be sent in to train."

"Although those two new skills are only primary skills, their attributes are also very good, which can increase a lot of combat power."

After all, the indigenous people of this world have too few ways to learn new skills.

Currently, there are only three ways known to Cao Xing.

The first is by increasing potential, where different skills will be acquired according to the advancement system.

The second is by learning some training methods of strong individuals, such as the [Advanced Assassin Handbook] in Sarah's hands.

The third is practicing in training camps to learn some new skills.

Therefore, Cao Xing's training camps and Mage Tower are irresistible places for these indigenous people!

After all, who wouldn't want to become stronger?

However, he also discovered a problem.

That is, the area covered by this thing is just too huge, right?

It takes up more than a thousand square meters.

This is almost the building with the largest area he has ever constructed.

"It seems that the secondary expansion of the territory is imperative!"

Cao Xing made his decision inwardly.

Besides this, there is the last thing.

In Cao Xing's hand, a jade-green branch suddenly appeared, except that this branch was emitting a holy light.

And it was very strong, dispelling the darkness within twenty or thirty meters around him, looking like an oversized flashlight.

Taking a look at its attributes.

[Glowing Branch (Gold): Special Item]

[Prop Effect: A branch imbued with divine power, the holy light emitted can dispel absolute darkness, and it can illuminate your path in any dark environment]

(Note: During use, the holy light power contained in the branch will be continuously consumed and needs to be replenished regularly.)

…

Just like its appearance, this thing is just an oversized flashlight.

However, it has a special function, which is that it can illuminate in any dark environment.

The reason Cao Xing was willing to spend 30 bottles of Life Secret Potions to buy it was because he thought of what the goblin Locke had once said.

That group of Light Feather Chickens likes areas rich in holy light power, and it will speed up the hatching and growth rate.

Obviously, the holy light power contained in this thing is quite sufficient.

Cao Xing also directly stored it in his backpack.

"Next, I'll take out the other magic potions and the arrows forged by Harold over the past two days, and continue to trade for some Mithril and Advanced Elemental Crystals."

"This thing is what I need most right now!"

This transaction was already a bumper harvest.

However, Cao Xing had only sold the bulk of this time.

He still had many Nightmare Arrows and Nightmare Poison unsold, and these could also trade for quite a lot of resources.

Thus, Cao Xing directly listed all these arrows and magic potions for trade according to the previous prices.

And he only used them to trade for [Mithril] and [Advanced Elemental Crystal].

Obviously, this batch of items was also extremely precious to Survivors.

Especially that group of people who were going to participate in the battle at Lake Doron City, they were extremely eager for these props.

This could allow them to have more chances of survival on the battlefield.

Consequently, a large number of Survivors began scrambling for them again!

[Transaction successful, you lost [Finely Crafted Nightmare Arrow (Green)] * 1, you gained [Mithril] * 5…]

[Transaction successful, you lost [Sabina's Nightmare Potion (Green)] * 1, you gained [Advanced Elemental Crystal] * 5]

As transaction prompts continuously flooded the screen.

The more than a thousand arrows and hundreds of bottles of nightmare potions he listed were completely sold out in less than three minutes!

Accumulatively gaining.

[Mithril] * 9821

[Advanced Elemental Crystal] * 723

…

By this point, all the resources produced in the territory over the past few days had been sold out by Cao Xing.

Taking a look at the Mithril and elemental crystal reserves in his backpack.

He found that Mithril had already broken through 20,000, while Advanced Elemental Crystals had even broken through 2,500!

At this moment, a look of pleasant surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes!

"Hahaha! The materials for the warriors to break through from Tier 3 to Tier 4 are almost gathered by me."

"Next, as long as I settle the food and money issues, I can suddenly have over two hundred Tier 4 warriors!"

It wasn't that Cao Xing hadn't thought about digesting the materials in his hands first to let some soldiers break through as soon as possible.

But as mentioned before, without the Ice Nest now, battle situations were rare, so the impact of breaking through early or late was not significant.

Moreover, if they broke through together, it could also incidentally farm the loyalty of other territory residents.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing was filled with emotion.

"Truly not bad, just the items produced in three days made me make a huge profit!"

"As long as materials are sufficient, Harold, Francesca, and Sabina will earn even more resources for me!"

"Moreover, I also have a large number of Cloud Yaks and Light Feather Chickens."

It can be said that even if Cao Xing did nothing from now on, he could possess a development speed countless times faster than other Survivors.

Of course, this was an impossible thing.

After all, his goal didn't stop there.

He still had a hidden enemy, the Church of Light!

This force is too massive, and before possessing sufficient power, Cao Xing still cannot relax.

Next, Cao Xing headed to the Alchemy Workshop.

He handed all 10 [Aurora Grass (Gold)] and over 700 [Ice Luan Flowers (Blue)] he had just obtained to Francesca.

This beautiful witch saw that Cao Xing had only left for less than half an hour.

And turned back with so many herbs, her azure blue pupils carrying huge doubts.

Her long eyelashes fluttered as she questioned, "Did you trade these materials with some evil god?"

"Although those ancient evil gods can bring you what you want, the price to pay is even heavier. It's better not to contact them."

Her tone carried some worry and concern.

Cao Xing was stunned for a moment, and quickly shook his head saying, "Of course not, how could I possibly go trade with an evil god?"

He smiled, "Rest assured, I have my own way of obtaining resources."

Francesca pondered for a moment, gave Cao Xing a look with doubtful eyes, and no longer asked further.

However, she gained a few more profound understandings of her lord's methods.

Cao Xing continued, "Tomorrow your work will have to be paused first; I will have the staff upgrade the Alchemy Workshop again."

"Then you first make 10 bottles of Holy Water; this thing is useful to me."

"As for those medium-sized Life Secret Potions, just make one or two thousand bottles. Keep the remaining materials for making large Life Secret Potions in the future…"

"And also…"

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