Chapter 2251: Chapter 2253: Self-Producing and Self-Selling
Absolute fairness is the biggest unfairness... Feng Jun was speechless. Indeed, it was something he had said before.
Thinking about it further, there’s really not that much fairness in the world. His current insistence was somewhat laughable—can business people really be that honest?
Feng Jun wasn’t a stubborn person. After realizing this point, he considered it a bit and then said, "If you are determined to do this, I can support it to some extent, but I still hope that there will often be surprises in the stone gambling arena."
"That’s for sure," Yi Jue declared without hesitation. Although she was a homebody, no one in the Tianqin Plane dared to underestimate her intelligence, and indeed, she saw things very thoroughly, "Without surprises, what’s the point of stone gambling?"
"Then it’s settled," Feng Jun nodded slightly, "I can help you simulate which stones have the highest value, but you still have to sell them and can’t keep them in your possession... it will affect the market."
"If I can’t keep them, then what am I doing this for?" Shou Xin could not accept this suggestion at all, she jumped up directly, "I just don’t want to sell the good stuff, and getting Mountain Master Feng to simulate for me is also to cut down losses!"
Feng Jun smiled, "Sorry, I’m not quite sure how you define loss."
"Enough, Shou Xin, you don’t have to say anymore," Yi Jue interrupted Shou Xin’s attempted rebuttal, then looked at Feng Jun coldly, and spoke, "Do you have any good suggestions, just put them forward directly, is it really that satisfying to tease a little girl?"
Feng Jun couldn’t help but laugh, "Are you so sure that I must have some good suggestions?"
"You definitely do," Yi Jue replied without hesitation. Although she was a homebody, her intuition surpassed others, and she was especially clear about Feng Jun’s capabilities, "You’re more cunning than any of us, surely you have some ideas we haven’t thought of."
"Cunning... that’s really not a good word," Feng Jun was a bit exasperated, but seeing Yi Jue’s serious look, he felt there wasn’t much point in arguing, "I just wanted to say... if you’re afraid outsiders will buy the good stuff, why not buy it yourself?"
"Buy it... yourself?" Shou Xin raised her eyebrows, having difficulty understanding, but Yi Jue beside her was already showing a thoughtful expression.
"Find a proxy," Feng Jun responded without hesitation, "Others would think it’s a lucky person, but it’s actually someone you’ve arranged."
"Got it," Shou Xin understood instantly. It was really that simple, but as a Kun cultivation specializing in caring for spirit plants, she wasn’t very familiar with the specifics, "But how do I discuss things with this... this proxy?"
"You don’t need to ask Mountain Master Feng about this kind of thing," Yi Jue couldn’t stand it anymore and interrupted her, "Didn’t White Pebble Beach set you up with two people? You can ask them."
Shou Xin was still a bit hesitant. The key was that this operation was rather shady, and she was a bit resistant to discussing it with outsiders, so she mumbled, "Their cultivation levels... don’t seem very high."
Not just not very high? Wang Haifeng was only at the Innate level, and Liu Yuting... couldn’t even be mentioned, only in the second layer of Mundane Transformation!
"What does this have to do with high or low cultivation levels?" Yi Jue glanced at her, she actually understood in her heart and knew what the little one was concerned about, "They’re all Mountain Master Feng’s people, their cultivation levels may be temporarily lower, but the business tactics they’ve seen are more than you’ve ever heard of!"
Her hint was quite obvious, strictly speaking, it should be "the ’seedy’ business tactics they’ve witnessed."
Although Shou Xin was unfamiliar with business tactics, she wasn’t stupid. Hearing this, she turned around to find Liu Yiyi.
Later that night, Feng Jun helped Shou Xin differentiate a batch of Void Stones, selecting four particularly unexpected stones, one of which, if cut open, could produce Void Material worth over a hundred upper spirit stones.
Shou Xin stuck out her tongue in surprise, "Wow, if I were to set a price for this Void Stone, it shouldn’t exceed a hundred mid-spirit stones. If it explodes with a two-hundred-fold return rate like this... I’d probably go crazy!"
"These have a relatively high explosion rate," Feng Jun selected four and stopped, "I can’t point out any more, I have to leave some hope for others."
"That’s right," Yi Jue nodded. She wasn’t really focused on wealth herself, she just wanted to help Shou Xin, and not getting to bid on Liquid Silver today left her a little annoyed. She really couldn’t pull off overly greedy things.
That’s how the plan was finalized. In the end, Shou Xin asked Feng Jun, "I can’t find a proxy for now, is it okay if I don’t sell these four Void Stones for the time being?"
Feng Jun looked at her helplessly, then at Yi Jue—come on, stop enjoying the show, hurry up and take this fool away!
Yi Jue was also a bit speechless, raising her hand and pulling her over, "You make those decisions on your own, don’t waste Mountain Master Feng’s precious time..."
Lan Yun and Shou Xin’s business operations were very different from Jiu Tong’s. Jiu Tong herself was already a True Immortal, with a stronger sense of independence, and even dared to leave Void Stone samples in shops, with guards watching over them.
These two are different; after closing, all merchandise is put away and handed over to the two Elders for safekeeping, with great care. However, it does indeed reduce security expenses.
On the second day, the two hurried from White Pebble Beach to open for business, and in the morning, Shou Xin had another explosive sale with a return rate of thirty times.
Strictly speaking, the return rate couldn’t reach thirty times, but Wang Haifeng, Liu Yuting, and Liu Yiyi discussed and thought Shou Xin had priced the gambled stones a bit high—especially Madame Wang Liu Yuting, who had previous experience in the stone gambling industry and was quite familiar with it.
Shou Xin accepted their suggestion and voluntarily lowered the prices on the second day of opening, resulting in another explosive sale—even without the price cut, the return rate would still be fifteen times.
The emergence of this explosive sale made Shou Xin feel a bit uncomfortable, but she was prepared, knowing that the most profitable four pieces were in her possession, which somewhat calmed her emotions—at least it helped her continue selling Void Stones.
This time, the person who gambled on Void Stones was a Master from the Taixu Sect. Shou Xin knew Yi Jue’s relationship with Taixu and did not open a bid for acquisition. Although others did, this Master from Taixu indicated, "If Immortal Yi Jue doesn’t bid, I’ll keep this for personal use."
As expected, even the True Immortal of Jiu Wei from Gold offered a bid, but he did not sell. True Immortal Chao Cheng initially wanted to offer a bid, but thought it might not be appropriate considering they were from the same sect and didn’t want to create an impression of oppressing peers—the key is that they might not buy it.
Just as Shou Xin thought, because the second explosive sale appeared, the sales on the second day increased again, even after she applied a discount, the revenue directly soared to eight thousand middle Spirit Stones, slightly higher than the first day.
However, the sales on Lan Yun’s side declined again, not even reaching three thousand middle Spirit Stones.
Thus there were rumors that although both were Void Stones, Immortal Yi Jue could perform deductions, so Shou Xin’s stones were better than Lan Yun’s, with higher explosion rates.
In the following two days, both sides produced some moderate explosive sales, but Shou Xin’s revenue constantly pressured Lan Yun’s, maintaining almost double the gap.
Lan Yun felt quite unbalanced inside; although her profit had already greatly exceeded her expectations, everything becomes uneasy with comparison. Looking at Shou Xin’s sales figures, if not for Elder Qing Ji advising her to relax, this newly formed friendship might quickly become superficial!
On the fifth day, Lan Yun’s store finally produced an explosive sale, a fifty times one. She quickly and joyfully promoted it, while lamenting to Liu Yiyi, "Actually, after hitting big... I feel a bit pained, shouldn’t have."
It’s true that she felt pained, but overall, her words were somewhat of a display.
However, before she finished speaking, that afternoon, Lan Yun’s store had another explosive sale, this time over thirty times.
The next day, another explosive sale appeared, over forty times, and this time she did not even have the mood for showing off.
The following day, Lan Yun’s store surprisingly experienced an eighty times explosive sale, leading many people to rush for her Void Stones.
At this point, she finally realized something was amiss, "It can’t be like this, if I don’t gamble on stones and directly unravel them... perhaps I’d earn even more."
Elder Qing Ji observed coldly, vaguely guessing a bit of the situation, "Shou Xin has had many explosive sales these two days too, but nowhere near as fierce as yours, not only maintaining a good reputation, but also making good profits. You can ask about it."
Lan Yun, who had average business skills but was quite shrewd, said, "Elder, are you saying... she did some manipulation?"
"I didn’t say that," Elder Qing Ji replied leisurely, "Anyway, go find out... be more polite."
That evening, Lan Yun invited Shou Xin for dinner, expressing casually and deliberately that she was feeling a bit pained due to the explosion rates.
Shou Xin couldn’t respond; she knew her actions wouldn’t be concealed from the other side for long—they both collaborated with White Pebble Beach, they might help her hide it for a while, but not forever?
As Shou Xin didn’t reply, Lan Yun fully understood, "Since you didn’t feel my words were pretentious, then certainly, you have a way to avoid such awkwardness; I guessed it right?"
Shou Xin was momentarily stunned, shaking her head in frustration, "How come you all think so cleverly?"
"You do have a way," Lan Yun grabbed the key point again, "Sister, look, in the Kunhao Realm doing this business, there’s only the two of us. United as sisters, sharing interests... We should communicate more, we can’t let outsiders benefit from our rivalry, can we?"
Shou Xin’s cultivation level was a bit higher than Lan Yun’s, but her mind was not as complicated, "Then I’ll inquire about it later, see if it’s suitable to discuss with you... Some things can’t be publicized casually."
"Even if you don’t publicize, I still know," Lan Yun pouted and spoke in frustration, "You didn’t bring out the best stones; I wonder who helped you with the deductions, was it Mountain Master Feng or Elder Yi Jue?"
