The trading markets of various races all had places for setting up stalls, and even many shops. One only needed to pay rent to set up a stall.
Stalls and shops in such places could only be rented, and could not be bought even with money, because the shops here were non-saleable items.
This was just a trading platform, merely divided into many worlds.
Furthermore, a tax was levied on every transaction.
The tax was very low, ranging from one-thousandth to one-ten-thousandth.
If the amount did not meet the tax threshold, one spirit coin would be charged.
If, like Zhou Yan, one did not set up a stall to buy or sell items, but only if someone traded with them, that would also be acceptable.
This way, no tax would be incurred, but someone would have to constantly shout out for buy and sell deals.
Moreover, this method of shouting out for buy and sell deals was not allowed in stall or commercial areas.
However, Zhou Yan had also worried that these equipment would not sell, but he did not expect that the Stone race was so desperate for equipment that every Stone race member would buy a large pile of equipment and leave.
Some bought a few items, some bought dozens, but most Stone race members bought one or two hundred pieces of equipment.
Many people directly bought complete sets of equipment.
Those great lords even bought thousands or tens of thousands of pieces of equipment at once.
In just one hour, he had sold out the equipment inventory within his territory.
Then, he could only say to the remaining Stone race members: "I am truly sorry, because I did not carry much equipment, I cannot sell to you all for the time being. However, tomorrow, I will definitely bring enough equipment for everyone."
"I have only one request, and that is to hope you will help me publicize, so that more Stone race friends will come here to buy equipment, and this kind of trade will be valid long-term..."
Although there was no equipment left, hearing "Shi Tan" say this, these Stone race members were still very happy.
"You better keep your word, I'll pre-order a thousand sets of Black Iron equipment first."
"I also want to pre-order five hundred sets of Black Iron Bronze equipment, one hundred sets of Bronze equipment, and ten sets of Silver equipment."
"I have several friends who want to buy equipment, you cannot trick us tomorrow!"
"Then we will come again tomorrow."
"If you encounter any trouble here, just tell me, I'll cover you!"
"Shi Tan, whoever picks a fight with you, I, Shi Zhadan, will be the first to eliminate him!"
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Many Stone race members added him as a friend.
Although they lived in different worlds, they could still add friends.
He had never expected these Stone race members to be so lacking in equipment. This kind of highly profitable business had to be done, and done on a large scale.
He planned to have people within his territory purchase from various worlds tomorrow, so they would not have to teleport back and forth between worlds.
If it were any other lord, it would certainly not be possible.
Because other lords' territory warehouses could not perform such operations.
But his [Treasure Room], as long as he opened the permissions, could be used by anyone within the territory.
The [Myriad Realms Trading Mall] itself was a territory building, so they were indeed still within the territory's boundaries, and naturally could use it.
The only slight inconvenience was that they were in the trading areas of different worlds, making communication impossible.
This problem was easily solvable. He believed that within the myriad realms, there must be items that could solve such communication issues.
At that time, they would be able to communicate at any time and purchase various items.
He had to quickly purchase enough ore.
Thus, he began to head towards the stall area.
How cheap was the ore here?
One-star iron ore was 2 spirit coins per piece. A stack of 99 pieces was sold for only 190 spirit coins.
Considering that one-star iron ore on Canglan Continent sold for at least 10 spirit coins.
This was a five-fold difference.
Two-star iron ore was 5 spirit coins per piece.
Three-star was only 10 spirit coins per piece.
From one-star to three-star ore, people here sold them in stacks, and the price would be discounted.
Four-star was also only sold for between 100 and 300 spirit coins.
Because four-star and above ore was rarer and less often sold in stacks, he still bought quite a bit.
These high-grade ores had great value whether he used them to forge equipment, upgrade his territory, or sell them to others.
These ores were really cheap, almost like they were being given away.
He began to frantically sweep the market, collecting all the ore he saw being sold.
He had no time to look at other things now, only ore.
Although five-star and above ore was rare, with so many lords setting up stalls and shops, if each one sold a bit, the quantity would not be small.
He accidentally discovered that the timber here was also scarce, but the price was also very cheap.
He inquired with these Stone race members and learned that they all preferred to build houses with stones, and their buildings basically only required stone materials.
Only a small amount of timber was used to upgrade the territory. Since few people needed it, the price was naturally not high.
This benefited him.
So, he also began to collect timber.
Although he possessed over a billion spirit coins, to consume the ore and timber reserves of an entire world, this amount of money was nothing.
The other Stone race members were merely curious that he was buying so much ore and timber, and paid him no mind.
To them, these low-grade ores were indeed worthless.
It was the high-grade ores that were more in demand.
After a long time, he had almost finished spending his over a billion spirit coins.
He found that spending money was also a very arduous task.
However, he was both pained and happy.
Because these over a billion spirit coins would at least quintuple or sextuple.
Then the doubled spirit coins would double again.
And so on, doubling and doubling... He would soon become a billionaire.
After completing his purchases, he immediately chose to teleport back.
The moment he returned to his territory, he directly found Diao Chan, Zhen Mi, Nie Xiaoqian, and Li Shuang.
He called everyone in the territory who could be called.
"What is so exciting, so urgent? You've even called everyone in the territory."
Diao Chan and the others were very curious, not knowing what had happened to Zhou Yan that he had hastily summoned them, and found it quite strange.
"Good news, of course it's good news."
Zhou Yan directly took them and teleported to the [Myriad Realms Trading Mall].
After a flash of light, they arrived in the mysterious space.
"There's someone here too."
They curiously looked at Zhou Yan, and suddenly saw Xiao Wei, and were amazed by her appearance.
This woman was beautiful, and her figure was amazing.
It's just that her clothes were too revealing.
"She is not a person, just an intelligent system. She has no physical form. Look."
Zhou Yan personally reached out towards Xiao Wei, and his entire hand passed through her body.
She was just a virtual projection.
"So that's how it is."
The women understood, and then asked Zhou Yan why he had called them here.
Zhou Yan began to explain his plan to them in detail.
After half an hour, the women finally understood what Zhou Yan wanted to do.
They had never expected that the [Myriad Realms Trading Mall] would have such powerful abilities.
It could even operate like this.
However, Xiao Wei reminded him: "There is a limit to the number of people that can be teleported by the [Myriad Realms Trading Mall]. The higher the level of the territory, the more people can be teleported. The current territory level is 24, so a maximum of 24 people can be teleported to different worlds."
"So there is such a restriction." Zhou Yan understood.
Even so, 24 people could do a lot of things and earn a lot of money.
Furthermore, he could use these resources to upgrade his territory.
"Xiao Wei, please search first for any items that can allow us to communicate with each other no matter which world's trading area we are in."
Zhou Yan felt that it was necessary to prepare communication devices for everyone, so that they could communicate better and avoid having to return just to deal with an issue.
He was not bothered by the teleportation fees.
He just felt that solving the problem at its root was better.
"Okay, please wait a moment... Please look at the big screen," Xiao Wei said.