Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 459 - 444: The Usefulness of Purification Crystals
Upon hearing that the Pure Crystal Dragon’s speed in producing purification crystals increased tenfold, Li Cunxu was particularly pleased.
The reason was simple: using purification crystals for trade was incredibly convenient, even better than Purple Gold Dragon Coins.
Whatever resources you desired, the alliance was willing to provide, even if they were strategic resources. The alliance was willing to trade (of course they were willing, as they regarded purification crystals as an even more precious strategic resource).
Moreover, when trading with the alliance, there was no need to haggle, which was particularly reassuring.
Because the alliance would proactively overpay, afraid of offending Li Cunxu, the only Crystal Merchant who provided purification crystals.
And what about Purple Gold Dragon Coins?
They weren’t actually that useful. For some rare resources, you could only buy a little with them, or not buy them at all.
For example, the Life Pearl of the Pure Crystal Dragon could only be bought in tiny amounts with Purple Gold Dragon Coins.
Why is that?
Are Life Pearls scarce?
Life Pearls are indeed rare, but life-type pet beasts are even scarcer.
In fact, the world’s reserves of Life Pearls are sufficient to supply all life-type pet beasts.
Then why can you only purchase a little with Purple Gold Dragon Coins? Two reasons.
First reason: noble families do not want too many geniuses to emerge from the commoners.
Life Pearls, produced by Life Shells, are mostly controlled by noble families.
Even if a commoner occasionally acquires a Life Shell, they can’t establish a Life Shell farm. The noble families would easily seize it from the commoner’s hands with their wealth and power.
Just like landlords annexing land.
Second reason: scarcity marketing is more profitable.
Noble families release only a little at a time, so those in need of Life Pearls scramble to purchase them, often bidding prices dozens of times higher for a single Life Pearl.
Li Cunxu said, "Make a King-level purification crystal."
The Pure Crystal Dragon rubbed its two dragon claws for a while, and crystal-clear light gathered at its claws, and a crystal gradually grew larger.
Li Cunxu picked up a King-level purification crystal and examined it.
This King-level purification crystal was even clearer and more beautiful than the ordinary purification crystals.
Jiang Lingyun stared hotly at the crystal, "This crystal is so beautiful; it would be such a waste not to use it as decoration."
Li Cunxu agreed, looking at the crystal, feeling a sense of pleasure; frequently gazing at it can even uplift your mood.
Jiang Lingyun asked, "Boss, can I have one to put on my bedside table?"
Li Cunxu hesitated for a moment and shook his head slowly, refusing, leaving Jiang Lingyun feeling downcast.
It wasn’t that Li Cunxu was unkind, but purification crystals couldn’t appear around Jiang Lingyun and Li Cunxu. Even if they existed, they could only be hidden in a Space Ring and not taken out. Otherwise, if it attracted unwanted attention and someone saw it, people might suspect that Li Cunxu might be that mysterious Crystal Merchant.
Especially since this was a King-level purification crystal.
Since this purification crystal hadn’t appeared on the market, possessing one would naturally raise suspicion.
It’d be like finding a game weapon in your account that is only set to be released in the next version; your non-gamer friends seeing it would question if you weren’t an insider of the game, asking how you’d explain possessing such a weapon.
The beauty lowered her head in sadness, and it made one’s heart ache. At this moment, Li Cuncun felt like he had done something heinously wrong.
Jiang Lingyun was very beautiful in her own right and, over the years, she had collected many treasures for enhancing beauty. Especially after coming to the West Sea, Jiang Lingyun’s treasure-hunting mouse frequently found Majestic Sea Mud at the seabed (an epic Venerable King level resource that could permanently enhance one’s appearance when applied on the face), making her even more lovely.
Her beauty was comparable to Li Anle’s.
Beautiful things enhance each other.
Jiang Lingyun and Li Anle, when standing together, were like dual beauties, unparalleled and captivating, beautiful enough to topple nations, and their beauty was breathtaking.
Breathtaking wasn’t just an adjective, it was a fact.
Arriving at Martial City, the Gravity Martial Arts Hall, when the two appeared together, caused over a dozen apprentices who couldn’t maintain their composure to have trouble breathing and faint on the ground.
The hall master of the Gravity Martial Arts Hall felt quite embarrassed about it.
As a result, when they were together, Li Cunxu wore sunglasses and turned his head to avoid looking at them.
Li Anle, being his own sister, didn’t bother Li Cunxu, but Jiang Lingyun...
Li Cunxu tucked the shrunken Pure Crystal Dragon into Jiang Lingyun’s arms, "Don’t be sad, you can have the Pure Crystal Dragon to sleep with; it’s far prettier than that crystal."
Jiang Lingyun turned her sadness into joy, holding the Pure Crystal Dragon tightly with both hands.
The Pure Crystal Dragon looked somewhat resentfully at Li Cunxu. Compared to Jiang Lingyun, it preferred to sleep with Li Cunxu.
The Pure Crystal Dragon’s personality was somewhat daughterly, it liked and depended on Li Cunxu, its ’old father’, a lot.
Li Cunxu placed the King-level purification crystal into the wealth cabinet’s sub-cabinet, arousing Jiang Lingyun’s curiosity.
"Boss, are you planning to give the crystal to the alliance?"
"Yes."
"But you haven’t tested the crystal’s effect yet."
Li Cunxu took paper and pen, writing while saying, "There’s no need to bother with that. Just let the alliance test it. They will surely be more diligent in testing, and when the time comes, they can simply inform me of the results."
The person in charge of maintaining and watching over transactions with the Crystal Merchant opened the cabinet as usual, seeing a slightly bluish, purer crystal and a note.
Taking a look at the note, they immediately hurried to the research institute’s dean with the crystal and paper.
To replicate the purification crystals and decipher the secrets of making them, the alliance set up a dedicated research institute specifically for purification crystals, and the trading cabinet was located within its premises.
The dean, touching his balding, shiny head, was somewhat obsessed, "How on earth are these purification crystals made? Why is the purifying power inside so pure, capable of cleansing the Evil God’s taint?"
"Dean, something big, hurry and look."
Upon hearing this, the dean turned to see the note hastily offered before him.
[This is the Type-II purification crystal I’ve researched. Please test its effects and let me know the results.]
(Li Cunxu named the King-level purification crystal as Type-II purification crystal to prevent anyone from linking the term ’King-level’ to the idea that the purification crystal was a pet beast’s Overlord ability, which recently broke through to King level, translating from an Overlord ability to a rule-based skill, capable of producing more powerful purification crystals. It was also to mislead the alliance into believing the purification crystal was indeed his research.)
Is Li Cunxu being overly cautious?
Not at all. The alliance placed significant importance on the purification crystals, even employing ten top-tier psychologists to form a team dedicated to analyzing all the behaviors of Li Cunxu, the Crystal Merchant, in hopes of gleaning any tiny clues about the Crystal Merchant’s identity.
For example, Li Cunxu’s prior extensive trading of Life Pearls, which only appeared in the life domain, suggested that the Crystal Merchant likely had a life-type pet beast. Suddenly, those transactions stopped, implying the life-type pet beast might have reached Overlord level nine. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
As for why be so wary of the alliance? It’s because the alliance had been infiltrated by various forces like a sieve.
