Xiao Wei told him that because the prices of items listed by each lord changed at any time, and the other party would remove items at any time, any price fluctuations were normal.
He naturally understood this.
"The relationship between dwarves and humans shouldn't be too bad, right?"
He thought for a moment and then said, "Head to the [Dwarf Trading Market]."
Xiao Wei said, "Heading to the [Dwarf Trading Market] requires a teleportation fee of ten thousand spiritual coins. Do you wish to proceed?"
"Holy crap! It actually costs money!" He hadn't expected this at all.
"These spiritual coins are used as energy for your virtual body's teleportation. Without spiritual coins as teleportation energy, you cannot teleport..."
Xiao Wei explained very seriously and carefully to Zhou Yan the purpose of these spiritual coins.
She also told him that the teleportation fee would vary depending on the world.
Ten thousand spiritual coins was a sum he could afford.
This made his desire to become a brick-moving merchant waver slightly.
If he went to a world with high fees and couldn't even earn back the teleportation cost, wouldn't that be a tragedy?
Therefore, such matters had to be analyzed "prudently."
However, a flash of inspiration struck him.
"Wait, help me check the prices of various ores at the [Dwarf Trading Market]."
He suddenly remembered that these dwarves were born blacksmiths, so the prices of ores and equipment in their world...
Heh heh heh!!!
I'm such a genius!!!
"Which ore's quality and price would you like me to check?" Xiao Wei asked.
"List the prices of all ores of three-star quality and above," Zhou Yan said.
"Okay, please wait... Please look at the big screen."
The screen immediately displayed the prices of various three-star and above ores at the [Dwarf Trading Market].
As he had expected, the prices of ores at the [Dwarf Trading Market] were generally higher. Some ores were five to six times more expensive than those on the Canglan Continent, and some even had a tenfold price difference.
This made Zhou Yan's heart leap with joy, his eyes gleaming with the light of spiritual coins.
"Check the prices of equipment of silver quality and above at the [Dwarf Trading Market]," Zhou Yan said again.
"Okay, please wait... Please look at another big screen."
Zhou Yan looked at another big screen displaying a list of silver-grade equipment prices. He casually glanced at it and found that the prices of this equipment were indeed very low.
The main reason was that the dwarves were a race that loved forging equipment. Their entire race loved forging equipment, which led to a scarcity of ores and naturally higher prices.
But precisely because there were too many dwarves who loved forging, their equipment inventory was severely backed up, and many pieces of equipment were priced even lower than their cost.
This was practically giving away equipment for free.
"Oh my god, this is practically giving away money to me!"
The thought of being able to buy all the equipment forged by the entire dwarf race at the lowest price, and then sell them ores at a high price...
Just thinking about it made him incredibly excited.
"Search for the world where three-star and above quality ores are the cheapest!" he ordered again.
He found that the greatest use of this [Myriad Realms Trading Mall] was to make money by arbitraging price differences.
He had to establish a dedicated business team to find profitable price differences here every day.
Not doing so would be a terrible sin.
I have absolutely no interest in money.
Xiao Wei quickly found the world with the lowest ore prices and displayed it on another screen.
There were many screens, and they could be moved. He could ask Xiao Wei to display the information he needed at any time, and he could refresh the information at any time.
The ores were cheapest at a place called the [Stone Realm · Stone Tribe Trading Market], but the equipment there was very expensive. Even the most ordinary bronze equipment was sold at prices comparable to silver equipment, or even higher.
Upon seeing this information.
At this moment, he just wanted to sing a song.
"I'm rich, I'm rich..."
"Xiao Wei, I want to teleport to the [Stone Realm · Stone Tribe Trading Market]!"
Xiao Wei said, "Heading to the [Stone Realm · Stone Tribe Trading Market] requires a teleportation fee of fifty thousand spiritual coins. Do you wish to proceed?"
Fifty thousand spiritual coins was nothing, it was a small matter, anyway... heh heh heh...
"Teleport."
"Spiritual Coins -50,000, initiating teleportation..."
With a flash of light, when Zhou Yan opened his eyes again, he had arrived in a world of earthy yellow colors, entirely made of stone.
The architectural style around him was very peculiar, with stone houses formed by stacking stones, resembling the dwellings of primitive people.
Those who came here were not their real bodies, but merely virtual spiritual bodies. If this spiritual body was harmed, the main body would also be affected.
If they died, the main body's level would drop by one, and they would be weakened for a month.
As soon as he appeared here, many strangely shaped stone people looked at him.
These people had peculiar appearances, as if they were people carved from stones.
If they didn't move or speak, they would look like statues.
This was Zhou Yan's first time seeing such stone people. They wore no clothes, and only a few stone people wore equipment.
This was because equipment was extremely scarce in this world, and a good piece of equipment sold for a very high price.
Zhou Yan suspected that none of these stone people knew how to forge.
Otherwise, with such good ore conditions, how could there be so little equipment?
These stone people looked at Zhou Yan and began to speak:
"This stone person looks so strange, and so small."
"This must be a malnourished stone person."
"He's probably still a child."
"Could he have grown into a deformity?"
"What a pitiful stone person."
...
Zhou Yan felt speechless upon hearing their words.
How did he look like a stone person?
Were their eyes also made of stone?
Had they never seen people from other worlds before?
"Excuse me, do you know what humans are?" Zhou Yan asked.
"What are humans? Is it a type of weapon?" a stone person retorted.
"I guess it's a type of food. It should be delicious," another stone person answered with a wild imagination from his stone head.
"It's probably a plant."
"It's probably a monster. I'd quite like to see it."
...
After listening to their answers.
Zhou Yan was dumbfounded.
He was twice as dumbfounded.
He was geometrically dumbfounded.
What kind of nonsense was it for humans to be weapons, food, or plants?
These country bumpkins had never even seen people from other races.
Truly...
Excellent!
"Yes, yes!" Zhou Yan felt it was necessary to introduce himself. He cleared his throat, put on a backpack-style speaker on his shoulder, and took out a microphone.
He had drawn this item from the [Bronze Sparrow Terrace]. He thought it was useless at first, but now he was making good use of it.
He held the microphone in his hand and began to speak loudly, "Greetings, fellow stone people. My name is Shi Tan, and I am an equipment merchant. I now have a large amount of equipment to sell."
"Equipment is now on clearance sale. Black iron equipment only costs five thousand spiritual coins, bronze equipment only costs fifty thousand spiritual coins, and silver equipment ranges from one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand spiritual coins, depending on the stats..."
He had seen the prices of equipment in the [Stone Realm] before, and his prices were slightly lower than everyone else's, so he believed this equipment would be very attractive to them.
It's worth noting that this equipment only sold for a tenth of his current quoted price on the Canglan Continent.
A tenfold profit.
And they were happy about it.
"Really?"
"Are the equipment you're selling really this cheap?"
"I want a hundred pieces of bronze equipment. I'll pay right now."
"Brother Shi Tan, five hundred pieces of bronze equipment, I want them immediately."
...