"How many soul crystals of five stars and above can you trade to me?"
Zhou Yan was quite interested in soul crystals. This material could enhance a person's soul power and mental strength, and was extremely rare. On the entire Lord Continent, only the Soul Continent had it; other places did not. This was also one of the characteristics of this place.
This was also why some people wanted to seize this continent. Everyone knew the immense profits of monopolizing an industry. Since this material was only found here on the entire Lord Continent, it was natural for the powers here to be strong.
Luoke Qi pondered for a moment and replied, "As you must know, there are regulations within our alliance regarding materials of five stars and above. We cannot trade too many to individual lords."
"However, our alliance also has special provisions for materials that we need. As long as you can provide us with enough of what we need, you can have as much of these materials as you desire, provided we also have the quantity you require."
Hearing this, Zhou Yan was relieved. The spatial stones he had taken out were all low-grade, none of them five stars or above. He would not casually part with these high-grade materials and would consider the materials he possessed.
"I only need soul crystals. As for soul stones and soul gems, I am not particularly in need of them," Zhou Yan stated his requirements.
"That is naturally not a problem. Since we need your materials, we can offer up to eight-star soul crystals. Of course, you will also need to provide sufficient materials for an equitable trade."
Luoke Qi thought for a moment and stated his trading terms.
"Eight-star." Upon hearing this, Zhou Yan was quite pleased. Since they could offer eight-star, he could not present something too inferior.
Lower-grade items had less value, requiring a much larger quantity to be on par with the high-grade materials they offered.
Eight-star soul crystals had a very powerful effect on high-level spellcasting professionals. Zhou Yan naturally wanted to trade for more of them.
Thus, Zhou Yan looked at the materials stored in his territory for a long time.
He was shocked to discover that his territory had a vast amount of materials that had not been used even once, with the total quantity reaching a terrifying level.
Some materials had a quantity exceeding one hundred million units, while the least had several million. Zhou Yan guessed that these materials were bought by Jin Sanyi from some unknown world.
Since they were not needed for the time being, they had been accumulating until now.
Zhou Yan took out materials that were in excessive stock and inquired, "Do you need this kind of material?"
"Icefall Stone!" Upon seeing this material, the other party was immediately surprised. "I didn't expect you to even have this kind of material. It's extremely rare. We've been searching for a long time without finding any. You must have gone to great lengths to obtain it."
Zhou Yan was taken aback. Gone to great lengths?
Ugh... Zhou Yan really wanted to say, I didn't exert any effort at all! I don't even know when these things were bought.
However, in front of Luoke Qi, Zhou Yan naturally needed to put on an act and blabbered, "It was all due to good luck. When we were heading to the Lord Continent, we encountered a group of very powerful monsters. We fought with them for several days before discovering a mine, which was precisely this Icefall Stone. You wouldn't believe it, but we lost tens of thousands of soldiers for this ore, alas~"
Hearing their lord's fabricated story, Cai Yan and the others looked at Zhou Yan speechlessly.
Fought for several days?
Lost tens of thousands of people?
Seeing their lord's pained expression, a teacher-like girl like Cai Yan felt ashamed to stay there.
As for Zhou Zhiruo and Xiao Zhao, they were trying hard to suppress their laughter, finding it unbearable.
Watching their lord deceive others was simply too amusing.
"Brother, please rest assured, we will definitely offer you satisfactory trading terms. Since you have found a mine of Icefall Stone, may I ask how many stars you have excavated at most? Rest assured, we will not let you suffer any losses in the transaction."
Luoke Qi was determined to trade with Zhou Yan after seeing this material. If this opportunity were missed, who knew when they would encounter it again.
Zhou Yan secretly chuckled and said, "The quantity is not too large. I dug up quite a bit, the highest is seven-star, but the quantity is not much."
Indeed, not much, only a little over a hundred million in total.
"Agreed! We are willing to trade eight-star soul crystals for your seven-star Icefall Stone, provided you can trade all those materials to us," Luoke Qi said very earnestly.
The other party was very generous, offering terms that were too favorable, which made Zhou Yan extremely happy.
Trading seven-star for eight-star materials was incredibly cost-effective!
Zhou Yan naturally wouldn't mind acquiring more materials. Trading things he didn't need for things he did was very profitable.
The key was that he never expected them to make such a trade for this Icefall Stone; this was something Zhou Yan had never anticipated.
If the other party hadn't mentioned it, Zhou Yan wouldn't have even known that this little over one hundred million units of material in his hands was so rare.
"Of course, we can. Let's start by trading these high-grade materials first," Zhou Yan said eagerly.
"Good."
Luoke Qi was very happy to be able to trade for such a rare material with Zhou Yan.
Unbeknownst to him, Zhou Yan was even happier!
Both of them laughed and then began the trade.
But!
After the trade, Luoke Qi was slightly surprised when Zhou Yan presented ten thousand units of seven-star Icefall Stone. He hadn't expected there to be so much.
Luoke Qi also presented ten thousand units of soul crystals to trade with Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan knew when to stop. If he had taken out too much, the other party would have become suspicious. He wasn't that foolish.
Next, the two began to discuss the trade of materials from one to six stars. The other party's offer was that for materials of the same quality, Zhou Yan could trade twenty percent less quantity.
Although Zhou Yan was satisfied, he still reduced the quantity by another ten percent, which was still within the other party's acceptable range.
Both parties needed each other's materials, and thus a complete trade was reached.
Then came the trade of other materials. The other party was also very generous and traded a large batch of materials with Zhou Yan again.
For each type of soul crystal from one to six stars, at least one hundred thousand units were traded.
The other party also gave Zhou Yan a token and said, "You are our friend. I hope we can conduct more transactions with you in the future. With this token, you can enter the city directly. If anything happens in the city, you can contact us, and I will definitely help you."
Zhou Yan naturally did not mind becoming friends with them and quickly nodded.
After both parties completed their trades, Zhou Yan received a message from Bai Qi, asking him to go to the west city. Someone there wanted to trade materials with them, and that person was also the person in charge of materials in the west city.
"This is great. Two area heads of materials want to see me." Zhou Yan quickly took Cai Yan and the other two to the west city.