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Chapter 422: Chapter 296: VIP Grandpa Mu (6K)_3

It shrank even more severely.

“In our Mysterious Merchant Alliance, the value of an item mainly depends on its rarity; the rarer and more exceptional the item, the higher its value.

“Soul Crystals possess some value, but they are not rare enough, so they can only be priced at one unit. Moreover, the more Soul Crystals there are, the less rare they become, and thus, the less valuable.”

I get it, the more Soul Crystals there are, the fewer there are.

Mu Yuan roughly understood.

In the eyes of a Mysterious Merchant, the value of an item mainly depends not on how powerful or useful it is, but on how scarce or abundant it is.

Items of higher quality are valuable and scarce in themselves, and when put on the scales of equivalence, are naturally assessed at a higher value.

The only difference is whether it’s one hundred, three hundred, or six hundred.

However, items that are not of high quality or do not contain strong power can still be valuable in the scales of equivalence.

Qiye spoke, “I will stay here for only a few hours, bring out your treasures for trade. If you only have Soul Crystals, you won’t be able to take much from me.”

After speaking, he slowly waited.

Gathering exceptional items takes time, especially for a small territory without experience and with shallow foundations.

…

Leaving the forest and returning to the core area of the territory, Mu Yuan began to ponder.

Daisy listed a table, on which were several dozen product names.

“There are a few that we must buy, and there are ten or so that, if our finances permit, we should also try to purchase as much as possible. In doing so…”

After a brief calculation, she frowned, “But do we have enough items of equivalent value to offer?”

Before leaving, she had already roughly inquired how much a Superior Grade treasure could be worth and frowned after a quick calculation, “This Mysterious Merchant is quite the profiteer!”

Moreover, the precious items a territory can offer are just a few types. However, the value of a type of item decreases severely when its quantity is stacked up.

In Daisy’s view, the excuse that ‘the more there is of the same kind of item, the less rare and valuable it becomes’ is just a pretext for driving a hard bargain.

Under this rule, Lords cannot use Soul Crystals to purchase high-order goods. To get the items they covet, they have to grit their teeth and trade in one or two or many precious items.

But the items provided by the Mysterious Merchant are indeed very rare and rarely seen outside. Daisy could not find most of these goods on the Taixuan Covenant Platform or throughout the markets of the Tai Xuan Alliance.

Want to buy? Then bring out your items of equivalent value.

Lord of Tai Xuan at least has the vast official trading platform of the Tai Xuan Alliance, where they can exchange Contribution Points for many high-order treasures. What about other Lords? Many Lords do not have channels to buy high-order treasures. If they have the opportunity to meet a Mysterious Merchant, no matter how expensive they find the goods, they must be willing to spend heavily.

Besides, in the Mysterious Merchant’s words, their goods are not pricey; they are priced fairly across all worlds. Those who find them expensive simply cannot offer enough items of equivalent value.

“The high-order items of equivalent value we can offer are only Nature Dew and Ice-Clear Fruit, but according to the standards of the Mysterious Merchant Alliance, we can only take out a maximum of ten of each. To provide any more would be a significant loss.”

Nature Dew and Ice-Clear Fruit, their territory’s stock is actually not abundant.

Further down, they could only offer various Rare Rank agricultural products. But these agricultural products were quite common, and even though they held a Rare Rank, they likely couldn’t be exchanged for much.

It’s too much of a loss to trade with these.

Daisy frowned in thought.

“Actually…” Mu Yuan pondered for a while, “If the pricing is based on the scarcity of an item, then the items of equivalent value that we could offer are, to be honest, not few at all.”

He looked at Isloa, “For example, you, you’re an Epic Life, so the hairs plucked from you should theoretically be considered precious items, and quite extraordinary ones at that.”

The hair of an Epic Two Stars ‘Guardian of Stars’—how many of those could there be in the Eternal World? Probably very few.

Just ask if that isn’t an exceptional item.

“Just hair might not be valued highly enough…” Isloa realized, “We need to find some epic by-products that inherently contain a certain level of energy and value, yet are very rare and hard to find.”

This seems doable!

She became cheerful at the thought; who could resist the joy of getting something for nothing?

Soon, Mu Yuan began to assemble rare items.

He asked Daisy to prepare Nature Dew, Ice-Clear Fruit, and other serious items of equivalent value just in case.

He himself summoned Bone Two Bone Three Bone Four, Jun, and other generals.

Upon hearing it, Bone Two started pulling dozens of bones from its body, causing Jun, who watched from the side, to feel chills; if Lord Jun were to do the same, it would end up as a bald bird.

No, don’t—

“There’s no need for so many. Just take out a few particularly special bones,” Mu Yuan said.

Soon,

Lord of Deathremains’s ‘Bone of Grey Silence (Rare)’

Feather of Wind King’s ‘Feather of Wind King (Rare)’

Lord Treeman’s ‘Semi-year-old Tree Root (Rare)’

Ghost Leader’s ‘Soul Power Crystal Dust (Rare)’

Arrow of Polar Star’s ‘Star Space Arrow (Rare)’

Guardian of Stars’s ‘Star Fragment (Rare)’

…

Great Lord Shepherd was an honest man and would not truly use Isloa’s hair as part of the exchange—the fact that a few strands of hair would not account for many Contribution Points did not matter.

The items he assembled were genuinely valuable and real rare items.

These materials wouldn’t show to the eyes of Lords, but they could be identified through an Identification Crystal, truly extraordinary things.

Items that fall from an Epic Life, could they be ordinary?