Chapter 686 - 209: Flow of Wealth
At this moment, the fishing rod trembled, and he sat up abruptly, exerting strength with both arms.
He engaged in a contest with the large fish below the sea surface.
It’s said that the Fishing Faction Players are casual gamers, but Zhong Yi doesn’t see it that way.
Without strength, how could one catch big fish?
Activating the Battle Aura Soul, the muscles in his arms tightened, veins protruded, and with a sudden force, a crimson big fish leapt out of the water.
"Take my punch!"
The tightly coiled right fist shot out suddenly, exploding the crimson fish into a mist of blood.
In his mind, the Challenger Tips sounded.
After making a choice, the exploded flesh of the fish suddenly contracted, coagulating into fish meat that fell down, caught by Zhong Yi with the Battle Aura Soul.
The next moment, it was put on the Trading House.
This peculiar fish had a Hunting Level of 12, a rather common sea fish species in the Ascension Sea, with limited value.
No need for decomposition; with a glance, he could determine the value.
This is the knack of familiarity; every Fishing Man has a clear internal fish catch price list.
Returning to the deck chair, he picked up the straw hat that had fallen to the ground and placed it back on his head, continuing to wait for the next big fish to bite.
His gaze shifted to the guild chat window shrunken in the upper left of his vision.
His guild was very famous, known on forums as one of the Three Great Demon Sects: Fishing in Cold River Snow.
The brothers inside were regarded as inventors, having taken the simple act of fishing to an art.
Every so often, a new invention would emerge.
For example, the newly developed set of devilish fishing techniques, which even the well-informed Zhong Yi found particularly bizarre.
This approach was called the Self-sacrifice Fishing Method, requiring no specific fishing gear.
All the Fishing Faction Players needed to do was embed the "Star Shifting" Life Soul, and once the bait was bitten, the fish moved to the boat while players went overboard.
No need for strength contests or fish-playing techniques, it was a one-hit kill in the fishing gameplay.
There were many other outrageous gameplay strategies.
But for Zhong Yi, he preferred the current ordinary fishing mode.
The enjoyment lay in the contest of wits when the prey bites.
At this time, players in the guild’s group chat were exchanging today’s catches, with various fish catch photo battles causing Zhong Yi immense annoyance.
Because all he caught today were of ordinary quality, with no prey worthy of showing off.
Just then, a post by a guild brother caught his attention.
Nival: Brothers, is there any merit to the newly contained Gold Coin Life Soul, giving an extra 8% yield at Level 1? We upload fish meat for trade every day, feels like embedding one is bound to pay off sooner or later.
Dome: Don’t mess around. Embedding costs 30,000 sacrificial power. Your daily earnings can’t even upgrade your gear, let alone yield extra. My suggestion is not to embed in the early stages, consider it later.
Wanxiang: Fishing yields fluctuate too much. Suppose you can steadily earn 300 points of sacrificial power daily by selling fish meat, the Gold Coin Life Soul provides an extra yield of 24 points. You’d need 1,250 days at an early investment of 30,000 sacrificial power to recoup costs, don’t contemplate this thing early on, wait until later when you can fish ocean giant beast to embed it.
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Gold Coin Life Soul?
With a room full of nutritional liquid offline recently, Zhong Yi really knew what this Gold Coin Life Soul was.
With curiosity, he opened the Life Soul Library and started flipping through.
The Gold Coin Life Soul’s image was a golden energy ball, with a golden fish-shaped shadow swimming inside.
After watching the introduction of the Gold Coin Life Soul, Zhong Yi understood what the effects of this Life Soul were.
The simple understanding is that through trading, wealth is generated, which can produce "gold coins," a gold coin sacrificed to Brother Di Zhao can be exchanged for 100 sacrificial power points.
It belongs to a financial Life Soul.
Then reviewing the forum Strategy Guide Players’ evaluations, Zhong Yi had a deeper understanding of the Gold Coin Life Soul.
This Life Soul could be said to be quite awkward.
The only advantage is the additional income.
But the shortcomings are numerous.
First, the purchasing cost of the Life Soul alone is 30,000, very expensive.
Second, one must also account for the cost of unlocking a Star Vein Slot, calculated at the price of the latest slot.
No wonder forum players say the Gold Coin Life Soul’s cost is too high, with minimal help in improvement.
For players focused on hunting as the core gameplay, embedding Gold Coin Life Soul is increasingly disadvantageous over time.
Closing the forum interface, Zhong Yi tugged the straw hat down and opened the senior fishing mode.
Basking in the sea breeze, feeling the sun’s warmth spread on his body... these days were indeed leisurely.
Several minutes later, Zhong Yi lifted his straw hat and opened his eyes.
Circulation of wealth? Additional trading yield?
According to forum players, the wealth created by trading cannot be obtained through mutual cheese, a real transaction must generate it.
Clearly, a hidden detection mechanism exists in the game to judge whether transactions are genuine, making it impossible for players to exploit this.
So, could extra profit be generated through trade with Alien Race?
He felt this idea might be feasible.
8% is the extra yield at the initial level of the Gold Coin Life Soul. By leveling up the Life Soul, extra yield could also rise accordingly.
Theoretically, even with equivalent exchange, he could derive significant additional profits through the wealth generated by the Gold Coin Life Soul.
The only issue is, ensuring his safety during transactions.
In fact, his safety isn’t the main concern, but the security of the goods.
This is the Monster World, not a reality where races coexist harmoniously, with an Earth Alliance communication platform for peace.
Having played Monster World for three months, Zhong Yi knew that in this world, fists rule.
Looking to trade with other races, the beings of other races check the goods first, and then the people.
Weak traders are always delivering goods to the door.
To build stable trading channels, he must first have a power that instills fear in the other party, at least displaying strength no less than theirs.
Trade can only occur with roughly the same power.
When there’s a significant strength gap, it comes down to you robbing me, or me robbing you.
It’s the same for players.
A team with strength would directly snatch things up, no need for complicated trade processes.
Weak players seeking to trade with other races can only expect to be robbed unless they store goods in a Space Bag and don’t display them.
Apart from this issue, other problems can all be solved.
In choosing trade goods, the game shop has a great array of goods to select from.
There’s always something Alien Race will fancy, willing to barter with all kinds of Spiritual Resources.
With an idea, Zhong Yi began contemplating ways to break the predicament.
If this growth path could be traversed, establishing a stable trade relationship with Alien Race would allow a significant influx of sacrificial power resources in the future.
The premise is solving how to trade with the racial forces of the islands in the Bright Star Sea Area, given limited power.