Miracle Doctor, Abandoned Daughter: The Sly Emperor's Wild Beast-Tamer Empress Chapter 25: Seeing through the scam

There are a lot of ores, including Yuan Iron inside the forge. If Ling Yue only takes a piece or two, no one will notice.

Shes seen it all already. Cutting, hamring, and slting for refinent, all of that was too laborious for her. Going at the speed of that fifth rank martialist, the most one could produce are at best three pieces of course Yuan Iron.

Also, the purity rate lies only at thirty to forty percent. Thats no different from a thankless task.

She has a plan. If the cauldron can be used to refine herbs into liquid form and consu impurities, then maybe she can also use that feature to her benefit by refining the Yuan Iron.

Finding a remote location, she began her experint on the two ores she took with her.

Poof~

The palm sized Yuan Iron ore was sucked into the cauldron.

After about half an hour later, her hands now holds a pebble sized silvery block of iron.

Hurrying, she invokes her spirit smoke from the cauldron to venture inside.

Fifty percent! Ling Yues hand trembled at her good fortune. How incredible, the purity was as high as fifty percent!

Earlier Ye Saint ntioned it too. The Ye familys forge can only roughly refine the Yuan Iron ores until the purity rate reaches thirty to forty percent. Unless it was delivered to the deep pocketed comrce entities at the main county, its usually very rare to get the sa result she got here.

If this were to be found out by those rough big ns over at the forge, who knows what sort of envious faces they will make.

Giving it another try, this ti she used the regular iron ore and ca out with a sixty percent purity rate.

A side from that, Ling Yue also found that after refining the two ores, the spirit smoke inside her cauldron had beco more vigorous compared to when she used it on the spirit grasses.

It seems that refining tal ores can help assist the spirit smokes growth, but correspondingly, the consumption rate of her Yuan energy was magnified accordingly.

With Ling Yues current cultivation level, a fifth rank martialist, the maximum amount of tis she can do this was at most five.

Storing away the processed ores in her possession, Ling Yue began wandering around the forge again.

It was at this mont that she saw a group of people gathering around big cousin Ye Saint. From their words, it seems several of the stewards are discussing sothing important with him.

Young master Ye Saint, the purity of this batch of Yuan Iron ore is as high as forty percent, a rarity thats hard to co by even in a decade. If I didnt urgently need money, I wouldnt be selling it here like this. A man looking like a foreign rchant was busily bargaining with Ye Saint.

Earlier when Ye Saint was making his rounds across the forge, he just so happens to et up with this guy, a rchant with the surna Chen.

He claims to be a neighboring ore rchant from the next town over. Originally he was supposed to bring this shipnt to the main county for sale, but heaven likes to play people. Hearing his mother suddenly ca down with a difficult illness, he desperately needs money to aid her. For that reason, he made a detouring stop at Autumn Maple Town to dispose of his inventory.

Yuan Iron ore with a purity rate of forty percent. Even for the Ye familys mine, the amount of they can dig out was at most a hundred Jin per year.

(1Jin = 0.9pound)

This Chen rchant in total has a thousand Jin worth of Yuan Iron in his hands. If the Ye family can roughly refine it so more, then this deal would be pure profit once over at the main county.

Seeing this, Ye Saint will unavoidably be tempted. But for careful asures, he called over so of the more experienced appraisal masters in the forge for help. Their assessnt was a unified yes. Regardless of color or weight, there are no problems.

Issue was the calling price here. For the thousand Jin worth of ores, this rchant was asking twenty thousand gold for it all.

This number was equal to the Ye familys entire year of profit. If theres any problem or mistake here, Ye Saint wont be able to afford it.

Ye Saints originally intended to call for Ye Huang Yun, his father to make the decision, but this Chen rchant refuses to wait, claiming hes in urgent need of money. If the decision wasnt made here and now, he will go over to the opposing Song workshop to sell.

Speaking of the Song House, everyone in Autumn Maple Town knows that the Song family and the Ye family are opposing enemies.

If just comparing history, the Ye family had a longer history in Autumn Maple Town than the Song family who had only been ford a hundred years ago. However that may be, the strength of the Song family head was the sa as Ye Gu, both are upper celestial martialists.

Whether it be mining or the supplying of Yuan Iron, both houses would compete to death without giving up.

If this batch of high quality Yuan Iron were to be sold to the Song house, then he, Ye Saint, will truly be the criminal of the ages.

We will take this batch of Yuan Iron. However, twenty thousand gold is too much and we dont have that kind of fund in the forge. I can only gather five thousand to be used as deposit. The rest will certainly be handed over within three days. Ye saint gnashes his teeth and tasked so people to bring over the funds.

As long as the Ye family can pin down this batch of Yuan Iron ore, then they can easily profit fifty thousand gold upon resale.

Upon hearing this, that Chen rchants mouth unconsciously curled into a strange smile and was caught by Ling Yues sight.

Wait a minute big cousin, can I have a look at those ores. The sudden insertion of a little girls crisp voice was very abrupt.

The eyes of the crowd lit up as a beautiful girl dressed in blue ca forward.

Ling Yue, what nonsense are you saying? This is your first day here, what do you know? Due to his own anxiousness to take down this sale, Ye Saints attitude towards Ling Yue beca very unpleasant.

Stepping forward, he was about to grab Ling Yue to force her to co back when his wrist suddenly beca numb by the pinch on his wrist. Next thing he knew, Ling Yue had taken the opportunity to dodge his advances and slid right past him.

Having his own little cousin so easily break through his offensive, Ye Saints face cant be very good right now.

Not minding, Ling Yue picks up one of the high quality Yuan Iron ores from the pile and inadvertently began fiddling with it. At the sa ti, her spirit smoke had begun working its magic and dug deep into the rock.

With only one look inside, things turned serious. Lets not ntion Yuan Iron, just the regular iron composition was next to nothing. The only thing close to being an ore was the thin layer of iron superficially planted on the outside.

What a clever little gimmick. No wonder even Ye Saint and those old ore masters got fooled.

Making a cold grunting sound, Ling Yue secretly exerted a bit of force on her fingers. Following a sudden cracking sound, the supposedly Yuan Iron ore in her hand shattered into four pieces.

Gee, is this really a Yuan Iron ore? Why is it as soft as tofu? As soon as Ling Yues comnt left her mouth, everyone including Ye Saints face went ghastly pale.

Superior Yuan Iron ores are unbreakably hard, how can a little pipsqueak like Ling Yue so easily shatter the thing with a little squeeze.

Rushing up to get a closer look, Ye Saint and the other ore masters fell into a cold fright. Every single one of these was a fake!

Bastard! Theyre all fake! Soone co, take this swindler away! Knowing hes been fooled, Ye Saint was still shaking inside from what couldve happened if things turned out differently.

But as soon as the rchant realized hes been caught, his face instantly turned green. Frothing at his mouth, the Chen rchant puked a mouthful of dark blood and then fell to the ground, losing all signs of life.