After leaving the Virtual Network branch, Su Xiaobai headed straight for the Saint City's Blood Slayer Alliance, Pavilion of the Tower, and Cloudsky Palace.
He used the remaining 1.1 million lower-grade spirit stones in his hands to sweep up all sorts of materials from those three places!
Due to limited funds, Su Xiaobai initially took the 'high-end route'.
He specialized in buying materials that could be used to forge high-grade weapons.
For instance, 'King-tier Weapons'.
Currently, the highest grade of weapon Su Xiaobai could forge with One-Click Forging was a [Mid-tier King Weapon]… which was also known as [Mid-tier King Weapon].
In the Blood Slayer Alliance, purchasing a mid-tier King Weapon would cost ten tis the price of the materials used to forge it!
In other words, if you only bought the forging materials and crafted it yourself, that sa weapon would cost ten tis less than what the Blood Slayer Alliance sells it for!
But most powerhouses don't possess such refined weapon-forging skills.
And a single set of forging materials won't do the job — at least four or five sets would be wasted before one might barely create a weapon close to the Alliance's quality… If your luck is even worse, you might go through ten full sets and still fail to produce a decent weapon!
The Blood Slayer Alliance provides ready-made products, which are hassle-free and reliable, and with their solid reputation… most powerhouses are willing to pay extra for the convenience.
Unless a powerhouse wants a custom-made weapon, perhaps embedding special formations or inlaying 'amplification gems', only then would they be willing to risk using raw materials… but the cost of doing that is usually higher than just buying a finished product!
Su Xiaobai, however, was different.
He didn't need any finished products.
What he wanted was forging materials!
Su Xiaobai bought a massive batch of materials capable of crafting mid-tier King Weapons, spending nearly 300,000 lower-grade spirit stones.
Then, through One-Click Forging, he turned them all into flawless mid-tier King Weapons and sold them back to the Blood Slayer Alliance at 2 million lower-grade spirit stones!
In that single round of transactions, Su Xiaobai made a pure profit of 1.7 million lower-grade spirit stones!
"This rate of earning… is too slow!"
However, after one round, Su Xiaobai already looked down on forging weapons as a ans of making money!
Because although the Blood Slayer Alliance sets the marked-up price at ten tis the cost, when Su Xiaobai sold weapons back in bulk, the Alliance couldn't buy them back at full price — they had to discount them!
After all, that supposed tenfold markup was set by the Alliance — they needed to profit…
They earn when selling forging materials, and again when selling the finished weapons…
Now, if you're selling weapons back to them, of course they'll still want to make money off you!
What does 'There's no honesty in business' an?
This is it!
"Lord White Emperor, the weapons you've forged are of such perfect quality that they sell out the mont they hit the shelves. If you're willing, we at the Blood Slayer Alliance would be happy to sign a long-term cooperation contract with you… We'd even increase our buyback price by 30%. What do you think?"
'White Emperor' was the imperial title Su Xiaobai gave himself…
Just like on Earth, human Martial Kings would call him 'King Su' — anyone at or above the Martial Emperor level could have a royal title of their own.
After just one round of cooperation, the Blood Slayer Alliance's attitude toward Su Xiaobai changed drastically…
Not only did they grant him core VIP privileges within the Alliance, but they also wanted to sign a long-term cooperative agreent!
They had no choice — a blacksmith who could forge perfect-quality weapons was just too rare.
It's like an alchemist who could refine perfect-grade pills — no matter where you go, such people are highly sought after…
Naturally, the Blood Slayer Alliance wasn't about to miss out on such talent!
It's just that Su Xiaobai had already ntioned he had a backing power behind him, so the Blood Slayer Alliance didn't go all-out trying to recruit him — instead, they opted for collaboration.
But Su Xiaobai no longer cared about the money from forging.
He politely declined the offer.
Unless one day he could forge Emperor-tier weapons, only then would the profits skyrocket…
Only then could the earnings from One-Click Forging truly rival those of One-Click Alchemy!
Of course, now that he could forge mid-tier King Weapons, Su Xiaobai didn't forget to upgrade his own 'Oblivion Breaker'.
He directly replaced it with a new weapon — [Peerless Crimson Chain]!
With the boost from a mid-tier King Weapon, Su Xiaobai's combat power silently rose by several notches once more!
Since forging wasn't cutting it, Su Xiaobai imdiately turned to alchemy.
Currently, the highest tier of pill Su Xiaobai could refine was [Fourth-Grade Emperor Tier]!
In Saint City, Emperor-tier pills were in a state of absolute undersupply — basically, any that appeared were imdiately bought up…
Because the buyers were all Martial Emperors — they had no shortage of money, only pills!
Weapons, you only need one or a few — replacents are rare…
But pills are different.
No matter how strong a martial artist is, unless they've reached an invincible level, they'll always want to carry pills — the more, the better!
Naturally, this situation led to a massive shortage of Emperor-tier pills.
"This is a sign I'm about to strike it rich!"
Upon seeing this situation, Su Xiaobai was thrilled.
Without hesitation, he went straight to Pavilion of the Tower…
But to his disappointnt, the Pavilion of the Tower of Holy City of Fanya only offered pill recipes up to [Upper-grade Divine Tier]!
Pill recipes are the most crucial part of alchemy.
Without them, you don't even know what materials to gather — let alone refine anything…
That's why they're incredibly valuable!
Su Xiaobai really wanted to buy a Fourth-Grade Emperor-tier recipe, but such high-level formulas were mostly preserved by powerful clans…
Unless Su Xiaobai joined one and beca a core mber, he shouldn't even think about seeing them!
In the end, Su Xiaobai spent a full 1 million lower-grade spirit stones to buy the recipe for [Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill] from Pavilion of the Tower…
Isn't alchemy a hot profession?
Not everyone can afford Emperor-tier pills.
Even King-tier pills are sothing only big clans and powers can afford… and they treat them like treasures.
The Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill is one of the most in-demand Divine-tier pills on the market…
From Martial Kings down to Spirit-level cultivators, the demand is staggering!
It can quickly replenish large amounts of spiritual energy —
If you run out of energy in battle, pop one, and your reserves are restored by more than half, allowing you to keep fighting!
Though its effect diminishes for Martial Emperors, it still has so utility.
Moreover, it also accelerates wound recovery and temporarily amplifies spiritual power.
This ans that for a short ti after consuming the pill, your moves beco 10–20% stronger!
Because of this, the current price of a single upper-grade Divine-tier Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill was over a million lower-grade spirit stones!
Many Spirit-level and Transcendent-level cultivators treat it as a life-saving item…
They don't dare to consu it casually, only using it in dire situations during combat, and even then with great pain in their hearts!
For Martial Kings, the situation is a bit better —
They treat it as an essential combat pill, always carrying a dozen or more.
If they run low on energy, they replenish imdiately!
As for Martial Emperors, its effectiveness isn't significant anymore —
It's not exactly useful, but not worth tossing either…
At their level, they mostly rely on King-tier pills.
Su Xiaobai poured all of his lower-grade spirit stones into buying materials to refine Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pills.
2.8 million spirit stones, all in.
In the end, he obtained 14 full sets of materials for the pill!
"System, start refining!"
Su Xiaobai's eyes glead with excitent.
"Ding! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill ×24!"
"Ding! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill ×16!"
"Ding! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill ×24!"
"Ding! Pill refining succeeded. Obtained Seven-Treasure Spirit-Fusion Pill ×32!"
"…."
With One-Click Alchemy at level 15, it inherently ca with an 8× output buff —
Each set of materials, which originally yielded 2, 3, or 4 pills… now skyrocketed to 16, 24, even 32!
This basically ant that Su Xiaobai's wealth was now exploding by the hundreds of millions of lower-grade spirit stones!
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