Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 151: Chapter 122: Magic Artifact

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Recently, among the Qi Refinement disciples within the sect, Yun’s Trading House had become the most frequently mentioned name.

A month had passed since Li Shiming began cooperating with Yun’s Trading House, and every few days, they would release some ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’, all of which were primarily supplied to their regular customers.

This enabled Yun’s Trading House to establish a sales network centered around ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ within just a short month.

Unlike other trading houses, customers who wanted to shop at Yun’s Trading House could use Mutual View to see the display of goods, allowing them to understand the details of the products more intuitively.

Additionally, with Yun’s Trading House’s deliberate promotion, ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ had become a more convenient, more accessible, and more confidential method of sale compared to traditional methods.

The binding mechanism between ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ and the Identity Jade Disc gave Yun’s Trading House a significant advantage over other trading houses.

Any ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ sold by Yun’s Trading House required on-the-spot binding with an Identity Jade Disc, ensuring that even if other trading houses wanted to imitate their network, they couldn’t achieve the same goal without ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’.

Over the years, the bottom line of each trading house was well known to the others.

Of course, the other trading houses were also trying to find a way, but time waits for no one. Given the current growth rate of Yun’s Trading House, by the time the others acquired ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’, it would be impossible to shake Yun’s Trading House’s dominant position.

Li Shiming had never imagined that Yun’s Trading House could be so shrewd and farsighted, and their pricing strategy for ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ was astonishing to him.

His initial pricing consideration did not exceed 100 Spirit Stones, and even after knowing Yun’s Trading House’s plans, he only changed it to a thirty percent commission.

He never anticipated that Yun’s Trading House could sell ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ for the exorbitant price of 500 Spirit Stones each.

Moreover, Yun’s Trading House had developed a scarcity marketing method and even established a monopoly.

In one month, he handed over five hundred ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ to Yun Ze, as he didn’t want commercial matters to hinder his cultivation, reaching his maximum production capacity of five hundred units per month.

For that month, he was theoretically entitled to more than eighty thousand Spirit Stones in commission.

Honestly, upon hearing this number, he even wanted to rob himself; it was an absurd amount of Spirit Stones.

Fortunately, the only people at Yun’s Trading House aware of his share were a very select few core members. According to Yun Ze, apart from the Yun Family head, only Yun Ze himself knew that Li Shiming was the provider of ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’.

Given the impossibility of replicating ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’, Yun’s Trading House had no significant complaints about shelling out so many Spirit Stones.

The sales network established with ‘Thousand-Mile Mutual View’ was worth far more than this small number of Spirit Stones.

However, Li Shiming was also aware that holding onto such Spirit Stones could be troublesome. Even as a minor Qi Refining Fourth Level Cultivator, and despite also holding the status as a basic-level Array Master, he knew it would eventually attract the covetous glances of certain individuals.

Therefore, he converted most of his deserved share of Spirit Stones into orders, including expensive Formation materials that he desired but was reluctant to buy, as well as an item that he had thought about for a long time and had been unable to acquire due to lack of resources.

This morning, Yun Ze delivered a storage bag.

The use of a storage bag as packaging indicated that the contents were worth many times more than the bag itself.

Naturally, as a business partner of Yun’s Trading House, it was not unusual for Yun’s Trading House to provide packaging along with deliveries.

Li Shiming received the storage bag with some delight.

“Junior Li, it may be easy to acquire Spirit Stones, but you can’t spend them like that!” Yun Ze said softly, advising him with concern.

In truth, such words should not have come from Yun Ze’s mouth. The more Li Shiming purchased from Yun’s Trading House, the more the trading house would earn.

But through their recent interactions, he had come to genuinely consider Li Shiming as a friend.

In his eyes, Li Shiming was like a research fanatic, similar to the many Array Masters in the sect, spending as many Spirit Stones as they had access to.

Of course, Li Shiming would not explain the dangers of having excessive Spirit Stones. Perhaps Yun Ze wouldn’t get any ideas about a large sum of Spirit Stones, but that might not be the case for other Cultivators within Yun’s Trading House.

Li Shiming was like a child carrying gold through a bustling market—very likely to trigger the greed of others.

“Thank you for your concern, Senior Yun, but this is my dream!” Li Shiming replied with a smile.

Returning to the underground space, the space now looked entirely different than before, with rows of neatly arranged machines separated by Formations.

Though the chips being manufactured were still at the micrometer scale, after creating better wafers, he had managed to produce one-micrometer chips. To create even better chips, a nanometer-scale Optical Lithography Machine needed to be built. At present, he needed to gain more experience in wafer fabrication to stabilize the quality before moving on to the next steps.

The one-micrometer chips, coupled with formation-based cooling, allowed all the equipment to operate independently without relying on the IBM z15 under the cooperation of multiple chips.

Additionally, with the assistance of industrial robot arms, human intervention was greatly reduced.

These machines, thanks to the integration with Cultivation World enhancements, did not have to consider wear and tear, and as long as there was sufficient electricity, they could operate continuously.

However, up to this point in his research, Li Shiming had encountered a bottleneck. It wasn’t that the technology from his previous life was bad, but rather figuring out how to combine it with the Cultivation World was the challenge.

Perhaps it was because his exposure to the knowledge of the Cultivation World was limited. Reaching this stage was already pushing his limits.

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