Natural God's Gift

On the way back to涯礁, Siyue asked with confusion, "Mountain Lord Huzhang, what did you mean by 'flat transfer price' and 'premium transfer price' just now? Does it mean we have to give them primal force food worth 40,000 original stones?"

"It's not like that," Mountain Lord Huzhang explained. "The flat transfer price is the price we get the goods from Lord Fengxin, and the premium transfer price is the price we plan to sell to Lord Longxu.

For 32,000 original stones, we can sell it for 40,000 original stones with just a transfer, which means we earn 8,000 original stones from it."

Siyue didn't know exactly how much 8,000 original stones was, but even a fool would know it was a lot: "So, the price we return to Lord Fengxin is also 32,000 original stones? Doesn't Lord Fengxin earn original stones?"

Mountain Lord Huzhang: "If it's primal force food we buy for ourselves, Lord Fengxin certainly won't make money, but we're also taking the primal force food to resell it, so they have to charge a handling fee."

"Handling fee? How much is it?"

"Generally, it's 10% of what we earn. For example, if we transfer 32,000 original stones worth of goods at a flat price, and the premium reaches 40,000 original stones, then we earn about 8,000 original stones. After the transaction is completed, in addition to returning the original principal, we also have to pay about 800 original stones to them."

"Oh," Siyue wasn't stupid. It just couldn't do the math because it hadn't learned it, which didn't mean it couldn't understand the relationship.

Mountain Lord Huzhang then said triumphantly, "But we don't have to pay the handling fee to Lord Fengxin."

Siyue was even more confused. It had just said they had to pay, so why didn't they have to pay now?

Mountain Lord Huzhang looked at its confused expression and explained with a smile, "If Lord Qingfeng is willing to sell a portion of the sea lettuce fruit to Lord Fengxin, then we don't have to pay the handling fee, because life-type king-level wild God-given food is very popular. At the very least, the price has to increase by 30% before selling it. If we happen to find a good buyer, doubling or tripling the original price isn't a problem.

Sea lettuce fruit acquired for 10,000 original stones can be sold for 13,000 to 20,000 original stones with just a transfer. Don't you think that earns more than just paying a handling fee?"

Hearing this, Siyue muttered, "With such a big business, why was Lord Fengxin still unwilling to waive the odd 52 original stones just now?"

Mountain Lord Huzhang taught earnestly, "Fifty-two original stones is not a small amount, little Siyue. We have to learn to be careful and calculating in order to grow and evolve. Do you know how much food 52 original stones can buy?

In our internal price, ginkgo fruit is 50 original stones per piece, and Qingfeng seeds are 40 original stones per piece. These are all Lord-level God-given foods. If you were to exchange them for ordinary primal force food, it would be enough for a small warrior like you to evolve to the first stage.

We Flame Spider Merchants travel on the continent, and on average, we have to travel ten to twenty kilometers to earn one original stone. For example, the dates you just ate, including the flesh and shell, were acquired for two original stones for three. The price sold by the merchants is one original stone per piece. You have to sell one hundred and fifty-six dates to earn fifty-two original stones. To sell these dates, the merchants have to travel thousands of miles and pass through a dozen tribes. Tell me, is it difficult to earn original stones or not?

Do you think all transactions have the same high profit margins as the transactions between Lord Qingfeng and Lord Longxu? In reality, the entire tribe rarely encounters such a big business once a year. Most of the time, Flame Spider Merchants have to argue for a long time over one or two original stones.

Moreover, don't think that we seem to earn so many original stones at once. Lord Qingfeng also has a lot of pressure. The little warriors need to be subsidized to grow, the primal force food produced by the intermediate warriors themselves is not enough, so they also need to be subsidized to evolve, and the senior warriors need to be subsidized with a sum of primal force food to break through to the Mountain Lord level.

Evolving life seeds requires original stones, managing the territory requires original stones, the kingdom's reserves require original stones, and self-evolution also requires primal force food. This transaction seems to involve a lot of original stones, but it's just a drop in the bucket."

Siyue was shocked. It didn't expect doing business to be so difficult. It watched Lord Qingfeng and Lord Longxu trade, and it watched Mountain Lord Huzhang and Lord Fengxin trade, and thought doing business was very simple.

Wait, if original stones are so difficult to earn, how will it repay the five or six thousand original stones it owes the Ziyun Merchant Guild? Also, Lord Qingfeng just gave it a bag of king-level power-type God-given primal force food, which must be worth a lot. Is it owing more and more debt?

Siyue drooped its head and lay on Mountain Lord Huzhang's back. Being burdened with heavy debt at such a young age was a heavy blow to its young heart.

Mountain Lord Huzhang carried Siyue back to Tianya Reef. Lord Qingfeng was a little strange to see Siyue's dejected appearance: "What's wrong, little Siyue? Are you in a bad mood?"

"I don't know, it's nothing big. It'll be fine as soon as I put it back with Baizhi and the others later." Mountain Lord Huzhang ran to Tianya Reef without a care and handed the full bag of primal force food to Lord Qingfeng.

Lord Qingfeng swept its mental will over the spider silk bag and knew the amount in its heart. It picked up the spider silk bag and said, "Lord Longxu, Huzhang transferred primal force food worth 40,000 original stones from my clan, half of which is primal force food and half of which is God-given primal force food. Is this ratio acceptable?"

Half ordinary primal force food and half God-given primal force food? Lord Longxu pondered secretly, thinking that this was not bad. The primal force food could be given to the baby to eat normally, and a little God-given primal force food could also be mixed in. It could take all the extra.

Lord Longxu: "Okay."

"Okay, I'll give you a quote. Please speak up if you have any questions." Lord Qingfeng took out small spider silk bags from the big spider silk bag and quoted Lord Longxu one by one. Sometimes, when there were price differences, the two would discuss patiently with each other.

After some bargaining, Lord Longxu reluctantly accepted the pricing given by Lord Qingfeng.

Lord Qingfeng put all the goods back into the big spider silk bag and asked, "Throw it directly into the sea?"

"Throw it into the sea," blue whales don't have claws, so it's really inconvenient to pick up goods. Fortunately, it has a strong mental power and can control other items to replace its claws.

Lord Qingfeng threw the bag into the sea, and Lord Longxu swallowed it in one gulp, then spat out another spider silk bag: "According to the amount we just discussed, take it yourself."

Lord Qingfeng controlled the spider silk thread to pick up the spider silk bag from the sea. Its mental will swept over it, and the amount of God-given primal force food inside far exceeded the amount of their transaction. It was secretly delighted and tentatively asked, "Lord Longxu, would you like to trade more primal force food?"

Lord Longxu didn't respond. This spider was asking for too low a price. If it was trading with Siyue, then it wouldn't mind doing it a favor and trading more. But Lord Qingfeng was simply a profiteer. It had earned a lot of money from it for a God-given primal force fruit, and it didn't want to suffer too much of a loss. But to be fair, the types and quantities of primal force food that this spider brought out were far from what the Coastal Water Lice Tribe and the Giant Isopod Tribe could compare to. Trading with it could also allow it to eat more primal force food.

Seeing that Lord Longxu didn't respond, Lord Qingfeng had no choice but to stop talking and start counting the God-given primal force food. It took out one hundred sea lettuce fruits from the spider silk bag, and then took five hundred blue tear algae fruits. Seeing that there were still many God-given primal force fruits inside, it reluctantly sealed the spider silk bag and returned it to Lord Longxu.

Seeing that the transaction had been completed, Lord Longxu sprayed a pillar of water from its nose: "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."

Lord Qingfeng bid farewell warmly: "Lord Longxu, if you want to exchange for primal force food again, please look for our Flame Spider Kingdom. Our kingdom has all kinds of primal force food, guaranteed to satisfy you."

"Okay." Lord Longxu responded lightly, turned over, dived into the water, and disappeared.

"Siyue, goodbye." The whale baby happily sprayed a large mouthful of water in Siyue's direction, and then waved its big tail to say goodbye to the spiders.

"Goodbye, baby." Seeing the whale baby dive into the sea, Siyue was very envious. It also wanted to go to the sea with the whale baby.

Seeing the blue whale warrior leave, Lord Qingfeng took out five sea lettuce fruits from the spider silk bag and gave them to Mountain Lord Huzhang: "The effect of this fruit is to strengthen bones. Keep it for yourself to eat."

"Okay." Mountain Lord Huzhang happily accepted the vegetable fruit, and then said to Lord Qingfeng, "I took primal force food worth 32,052 original stones from Lord Fengxin."

Lord Qingfeng nodded calmly: "Okay, I'll settle the bill with them later."

Knowing that Lord Qingfeng could handle these things, Mountain Lord Huzhang said, "If there's nothing else, I'll take Siyue back first."

"Wait, you still have something to do…"