Chapter 756: I Plan to Build a Yintai Square
5 million credits, converted into money, that would be 5 million source coins, more than enough to buy a moderately sized level-three civilization. This was quite an exaggerated amount.
But for a Transcender from a Cosmic Federation School, who among them didn't have assets equivalent to several, even dozens of level-four civilizations? A mere 5 million credits seemed like a bargain to them!
In cosmic civilizations, things that could be bought with money were no big deal.
"6 million credits!"
"7 million!"
The prices began to skyrocket crazily, only slowing down after exceeding 20 million credits.
"Hahaha, this is simply a no-cost business!" Fang Jueyu laughed like a heartless merchant.
He had plundered so many things from the Root Universe, and adding them to these snacks, a single pill could produce several packs of snacks. Fang Jueyu didn't care about the reduced efficacy because demand determined the market. As long as it was useful to them, they'd spend money wildly.
"25.6 million credits!" Fang Jueyu shouted, "Is there any higher bid?"
"25.6 million credits, going once!"
"25.6 million credits, going twice!"
"25.6 million credits, going three times!"
"SOLD!"
The Martial Artist who won the auction for the snack gift package beamed with delight, paid up, and quickly stashed away the gift package, fearing someone might try to snatch it.
Once there was a first time, there was a second. The scramble for the snack gift packages became increasingly fierce, with almost every package selling between 20 million to 30 million credits, directly bringing Fang Jueyu close to 2.7 billion credits in income from just these 100 snack packages!
"Hahaha, fantastic!" Fang Jueyu laughed radiantly. In this Founder City, ordinary medium-sized organizations only had an annual income of about a billion credits. After operational costs, saving tens of millions of credits a year was already quite good. Just this one sum would be enough for Fang Jueyu to recruit and expand the Ming Sect.
"Next, we'll start auctioning the Intermediate Luxury Civilization Snack Gift Packages!" Fang Jueyu said seriously. "What everyone just tasted were merely snacks from the Basic Gift Pack. Here, I promise everyone, the effects of the Intermediate Gift Pack are more than twice as strong as the Basic ones!"
The Demigod named Momotani Erika once again pushed a small cart up, but there were only 20 packages this time. It wasn't that Fang Jueyu didn't want to make more money, but even thousands wouldn't be a problem if he wanted. However, he understood the principle of scarcity marketing: rarity increased value!
"Twice the efficacy? The Basic Gift Pack is already amazing; won't the Intermediate one be defying the heavens?"
"Buy, buy, buy!"
"Chairman, we came for the final Divine Weapon. We must control our expenditure!"
"Damn, if I'd known there were such good things, I would've prepared more credits!"
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"Starting bid, 10 million credits!"
"15 million!"
"16 million!"
.....
"51.2 million!"
"SOLD!"
With each hammer strike from Fang Jueyu, a sum of tens of millions of credits was accounted for, and these 20 gift packages brought in over 1 billion credits!
"Next, we have the Advanced Gift Package! Its effects are delicious even for Demigod Warriors! A total of five sets, with a starting bid of 100 million credits!"
"200 million credits!" The dean of the Beast Taming Academy directly offered a high price, as the effect of this Advanced Gift Package was nearly ten times that of the Basic one, which was quite significant even for a Demigod like him!
"300 million credits!" Another dean wasn't far behind.
This time, a total of 17 Demigods attended the event. The things they were competing for made the students envious, but they didn't dare to contend, nor did they have as many credits as their teachers.
For these Demigods, credits were just numbers. There was nothing in the school's exchange warehouse that piqued their interest, but at this auction, they all went crazy!
An average Advanced Gift Package sold for 600 million credits! When these snack packages were sold out, Fang Jueyu had amassed 7 billion credits!
All the snack gift packages were completely sold out. Those who didn't buy were dejected, while those who did were glowing with joy.
"Thank you all for your enthusiastic bidding. Our snack gift packages are completely sold out today," Fang Jueyu announced with a smile.
"What, sold out?"
"Junior, do you have any more? There are so many of us here, it's not enough!"
"Exactly, if you still have more, just bring them out for auction. We'll definitely give you a satisfactory price!"
Once they heard the items were sold out, everyone started to panic. Missing this chance meant they might have to spend centuries, or even millennia, comprehending martial arts or healing their hidden injuries.
Fang Jueyu didn't expect the snacks to cause such a sensation. Suddenly, he had a lightbulb moment. Since he had made these items famous, he could completely mass-produce them in the future! A steady stream of income...
"Everyone, don't worry!" Fang Jueyu quickly thought up a plan. "To meet everyone's needs, in some time, the Ming Sect will establish a Yintai Square in Founder City. We'll open a 'Wife Boss' wholesale snack shop there, where these snacks will be sold in limited quantities daily."
"Wow!" erupted the crowd. Although they didn't know what Yintai Square was, or why Fang Jueyu chose such a strange name as 'Wife Boss' for the shop, none of it mattered. As long as they had these snacks, they were worth more than any elixir!
"Ah, a bunch of ignorant people." Fang Jueyu shook his head, for what they viewed as extremely rare, was something he could easily reproduce. It was just a matter of spending some energy.
"The next auction item is the Dao Pattern Gift Package from our Luxury Civilization!"
"Dao Pattern? He said Dao Pattern?"
"Oh my god, weren't the techniques for inscribing Dao Patterns lost ages ago?"
"I heard that when the Demigod deans were selecting students last time, Fang Jueyu inscribed a Dao Pattern personally, leaving a Demigod dean who was skilled in inscriptions feeling ashamed."
"This Dao Pattern set comes with 120 Dao Patterns!" Fang Jueyu opened an exquisite box.
"These ten are 'Show Off and Run' Dao Patterns, capable of letting you appear wherever you want to go, no matter whether it's prohibited or barricaded. Of course, there are distance limits."
"What? There's something that good?"
"No wonder the people of the Luxury Civilization can be so cheeky and still survive; these things must be worth their weight in gold!"
"These ten are '123 Wooden Person' Dao Patterns; use them to blend almost seamlessly with your surroundings. Martial Artists weaker than you won't be able to detect you!"
"And these are enhancement Dao Patterns, Divine Speed Dao Patterns..."
Fang Jueyu introduced each Dao Pattern's function individually. Though some sounded despicable, they were indeed useful and could be used in many situations.
"Seeing is believing," Fang Jueyu said. "Next, I'll demonstrate these Dao Patterns' effects!" He called Zhang Gengshuo and others onto the stage to showcase this set of runes personally.
"Strong! Unbelievably strong; such magical effects!"
"Buy, I must buy some! I'm about to explore a cosmic relic, and with this Dao Pattern set, my chances of success would increase significantly!"
Seeing the wonders of these Dao Patterns, the Martial Artists were eager to try them out.
"This Dao Pattern set has a total of 100 sets!" Fang Jueyu snapped his fingers, and the Demigod woman named Momotani Erika carried a hundred exquisite little boxes onto the stage.
"The auction starts now, with a starting bid of 20 million credits. First come, first served. Pass by, and don't miss out!"