During the first Ziqiong Market, beast materials were basically priced directly by the kilogram.

It's like a local spicy cooking shop.

Chicken gizzards, beef, and duck intestines are uniformly considered meat dishes, while enoki mushrooms, lettuce, radish, and yam are uniformly considered vegetarian dishes with different prices.

They basically wouldn't be priced individually.

However, in the current round of transactions, the previous bundled pricing method is not very applicable.

Because this batch of beast materials is more precious and must be calculated separately.

Even a tier-two demon beast of a commanding level from the siege period isn't much to look at in the Xiaolianzi Mountain beast tide.

Only that tier-two late-stage Black Wind Serpent, which has awakened some wyvern bloodline, can be considered quality material, while the rest are just slightly superior large commodities.

Back then, the wholesale price of ordinary beast materials was 4.3 Spirit Stones per kilogram, and now it's not difficult for this batch of beast materials to sell individually for ten times that price.

At this moment.

Yang Bolin was calculating and categorizing prices for various materials with several principal staff of the Purple Treasure Pavilion.

"Mothling Insect Mandible, five thousand Spirit Stones...reproductive organ, six thousand Spirit Stones..."

"Tier-two Four-eyed Spirit Fox tail, excellent condition, seventy Spirit Stones, fox eyes fifty Spirit Stones..."

"A pair of tier-two Ice Falcon wings, slightly damaged, can be refined into a tier-two basic flying Magical Artifact, forty Spirit Stones....."

"A pair of first-tier Snow Spirit Sheep's inner maw, soft and moisturizing, can be made into puppet dolls for single Cultivators, perverted folks with more money than sense, so priced at one hundred thirty Spirit Stones..."

During the Xiaolianzi Mountain campaign, besides capturing the double-headed bull, the rabbits annihilated a total of over thirty-four thousand seven hundred beasts.

Of these, approximately twenty thousand beasts were taken by Luo Xiaotai, this tool, and the rest were taken back to the Fire Camp by the rabbits.

After deducting the crucial parts the rabbits kept, plus the reserves kept just in case and the live beasts captured.

This time, Ma Ning and others brought materials from nearly ten thousand beasts to sell.

The number of materials isn't small, coupled with the need to spend effort carefully identifying a large amount of material.

Thus, the entire pricing process took almost half a day to be finally completed.

A few hours later.

Yang Bolin, holding a thick stack of account books, found Ma Ning:

"Shopkeeper Ma, the price statistics are out."

Ma Ning interlocked his hands in his cuffs, making an attentive gesture:

"Shopkeeper Yang, just report a number."

Yang Bolin nodded and said:

"Shopkeeper Ma, I'll report an average price.

Your side's beast materials total more than twenty-four thousand kilograms.

Among them, tier-one beast materials are more than fifteen thousand three hundred kilograms, with an average price of 11.4 Spirit Stones per kilogram after individual accounting and averaging, totaling 173,420.8 Spirit Stones.

Tier-two beasts total over six thousand six hundred pounds, again individually accounted and summed, totaling 198,634.2 Spirit Stones, averaged at 29.8 Spirit Stones per kilogram.

Tier-three beasts total over two thousand two hundred pounds, totaling 193,261.7 Spirit Stones, averaging 87.9 Spirit Stones per kilogram.

The total price of all materials combined is 565,316.7 Spirit Stones, and I'll directly round it to 570,000 for your side."

"Five hundred seventy thousand Spirit Stones..."

Ma Ning's expression remained unchanged, but he nodded inwardly.

Previously mentioned.

The rabbits' goal this time is to sell the beast materials for more than ten times the previous price, starting at 430,000 Spirit Stones.

This price wasn't randomly thought up by the rabbits; it was the reported price after rigorous calculations by the command center.

Of course.

Due to the current unknown demand from the demon fortress, this price theoretically isn't a real-time price.

The price reported by Yang Bolin honestly was quite different from the rabbits' expectations.

430,000 versus 570,000, a 32.5% price difference.

In e-commerce, it's like one platform selling a phone for 3,000 yuan, while another sells it for 3,999 yuan.

It's basically a difference between model tiers.

This is clearly abnormal.

The rabbits—or rather Taoshu Commerce Association, currently hold significant weight in Yang Bolin's heart.

This is beyond doubt.

But as a businessman.

When it comes to trade involving hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones, Yang Bolin cannot purchase at a loss.

Not to mention the costs of processing and transportation later, if he loses money, he wouldn't be able to explain to the "board of directors" composed of clan elders.

He might even be suspected of embezzlement.

Therefore, Yang Bolin's offer is definitely profitable; at most, it might have reduced from five to six-tenths to two or three-tenths in profit.

The rabbits didn't mind this either, to be honest.

If you can make money, it's because you have that capability. As suppliers, we're satisfied with guaranteeing several tens of profits.

Yes, several tens.

The cost of killing one beast at Xiaolianzi Mountain is 648 yuan, and with over thirty thousand beasts, it's roughly two hundred million almost three hundred million.

The major cost was the consumption of the Land Shield 2000—even though the rabbits already fired sparingly, this thing costs millions per minute of firing.

The base cost is high, and you can't save much even if you try.

Including other expenses like fuel, vehicle damage, distribution loss, and talisman consumption...

Probably around two billion.

Over fifty thousand Spirit Stones converts to over thirty billion Huaxia currency.

Considering this, the profit is....

Fifteen times.

Alright.

No dozens, I exaggerated.

Well, in summary.

With this kind of profit margin, it's no wonder Yang Bolin takes a two or three times profit.

If it doubled or tripled, the rabbits wouldn't really mind.

It's like writing an online novel.

You write a book, earn billions, buy a car, buy a house, achieve financial freedom, and gain fame and profit.

Later, when you see another author writing fan fiction based on your work and earning twenty thousand a month, essentially you wouldn't feel envious.

The reason for using the word 'essentially' here is because there was indeed an author who opened their mouth to ask for a cut of the earnings, which is an exception.

But that person's reputation wasn't great in the first place, so they can't be seen as a typical case.

Returning our vision to the original place.

In other words.

The offer given by Yang Bolin indicates one issue:

Beast materials have gone up again!

Or perhaps...

"Shopkeeper Yang, has the situation with the demon fortress deteriorated again?"

Hearing Ma Ning's question, Yang Bolin stroked his beard and nodded slightly:

"That's right, in the past few Damo Days, the situation with the demon fortress has become increasingly tense.

Two Damo Days ago, there was even an appearance of a late-stage tier-four Demon King outside the border.

And it even had a brief exchange with an unrivaled ancestor stationed in the Damo Realm."

Ma Ning thought for a moment and asked:

"So.... the demon fortress still can't extract materials from the beasts?"

Hearing this, a trace of concern flickered in Yang Bolin's eyes, and he sighed lightly.

Everything was understood without words.

Although Purple Treasure Pavilion is making war profits during this time, the materials they should supply were not reduced by the slightest.

It's actually a very conflicted state.

As businessmen, profit-seeking is instinctual.

At the same time, under these conditions, the increase in beast material prices is also an inevitable trend, something beyond human control.

On the other hand.

Yang Bolin and others were worried about the fall of the demon fortress, so the resources that should be given were almost desperately transported to the front lines.

Therefore, they were different from some people before.

They were both taking money and getting things done, neither dragging their feet nor supplying substandard goods.

After all, humans and demons cannot coexist.

If the demon fortress were breached, it would be an apocalypse-level disaster for the humans in the Damo Realm.

To speak without exaggeration.

If they reached a desperate point.

Commerce associations like Purple Treasure Pavilion would even transport supplies to the front lines for free.

But before that, they are still reaping profits.

Perhaps this is the dual nature of humans...

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