Chapter 21 Crossing Two Worlds to Become a Broker

"Come and take a look, we have a great big-stomached horse here!"

"Here are some fragrant and sweet jade melons, everyone who tries them loves them!"

"Hey, come and take a look at our drinks, they're sweet and refreshing, and you won't forget the taste!"

As soon as you step into this market, all kinds of vendors' calls fill your ears, and various goods are displayed on each small stall, the quantity is numerous and dazzling.

Zhou Ming walked through the crowded small stalls and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, seemingly uninterested in everything around him, and walked directly into the central area of the market.

The outskirts of the market are basically for ordinary people selling goods that are also used by ordinary people.

This central area is the place for Gu Masters, and most of the people coming and going are Gu Masters. Although they are in the same market as the outskirts, it feels like two different worlds.

Zhou Ming found a relatively large shop and sold five of his grassroots Gu.

"Grassroots Gu, 260 primeval stones each, five for a total of 1300 primeval stones."

A shop assistant who was also a rank 1 Gu Master handed over two bags of primeval stones to Zhou Ming with a look of surprise and envy.

It's not strange for a rank 1 Gu Master to sell a rank 1 Gu worm, but it's rare to sell five at once.

There are very few rank 1 Gu Masters who have more than one thousand primeval stones on them. Zhou Ming made a profit of 1300 primeval stones in one go, which made the shop assistant naturally envious.

Why did Zhou Ming exchange a large number of rank 1 grassroots Gu from the main god? The reason is here.

Exchanging grassroots Gu from the main god only requires 100 reward points, while exchanging sword qi Gu requires 400 reward points.

However, in the shop, one grassroots Gu can be sold for 260 primeval stones, while a sword qi Gu can only be sold for 800 primeval stones.

In other words, in the main god's space, the reward points required to exchange one sword qi Gu are enough to exchange four grassroots Gu.

But in the Gu world, four grassroots Gu can be sold for 1040 primeval stones, which is more valuable than one sword qi Gu.

Why only exchange 20?

Because Zhou Ming is only a rank 1 Gu Master, and he plans to sell the 20 grassroots Gu in four shops, five in each shop, which won't attract too much attention.

If he bought too many, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. How could a rank 1 Gu Master sell so many Gu worms at once?

As for exchanging sword qi Gu, it's purely to make a small profit through family channels.

Zhou Ming picked up the two bags of primeval stones and shook them in his hand, then pushed them back in front of the shop assistant.

"I want to buy some more Gu worms, can you recommend some to me?"

Originally, Zhou Ming only had a little over 100 primeval stones, and even after selling the Sword Qi Gu, he only made less than 1,000 primeval stones. But now, his net worth has soared to over 2,300, which for a rank 1 Gu Master can be considered a fortune.

However, before he could even enjoy the money, he spent it all again.

When he walked out of the shop, he only had a little over ten primeval stones left on him. In their place, he had acquired a rank 2 Vine Armor Gu (800 primeval stones), a rank 2 Restore Essence Fruit Gu (a disposable Gu, 160 primeval stones), a rank 1 Leaf Blade Gu (330 primeval stones), a rank 1 Grass Shoes Gu (290 primeval stones), a rank 1 Straw Hat Gu (310 primeval stones), a rank 1 Raincoat Gu (300 primeval stones), a rank 1 Mist Grass Gu (a consumable Gu, 50 primeval stones), and a rank 1 Smoke Bomb Gu (a disposable Gu, 50 primeval stones).

A total of eight Gu!

And that was just the beginning. He then went to three other shops he had been eyeing and sold all of the rank 1 Gu he had in batches, replacing them with various other types of Gu.

In the end, Zhou Ming had six rank 2 Gu, three of which were disposable. He also had twelve rank 1 Gu, six of which were consumable.

After that, Zhou Ming didn't stop for a moment and headed straight back to his clan.

It wasn't until he returned to his small room that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He took out the mechanical watch and placed it on the table, then chose to go to the main god space.

In the next moment, Zhou Ming disappeared.

The scenery changed, and he found himself in the living room of the small villa in the main god space.

Zhou Ming eagerly looked up at the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall, but the next moment, he froze.

0 days, 0 hours, 1 minute, and 27 seconds!

It was the same time as when he left the main god space!

This meant that while he was in the main god space, time in the main world had stood still!

"Why is it like this?"

Obviously, while in the main god space, time in the main world was supposed to be passing by!

This was another problem that he couldn't figure out for the time being.

Zhou Ming shook his head and walked out of the villa, taking out the Gu one by one on the small square in front of it.

The voice of the main god constantly echoed in his ear.

[Submitting the 'Leaf Blade Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 200 reward points.]

[Submitting the 'Grass Shoes Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 200 reward points.]

[Submitting the 'Vine Armor Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 800 reward points.]

...

The mechanical and grand sound that echoed through Zhou Ming's ears was so pleasant, as if it were a heavenly melody.

"Indeed, in the main god's exchange sequence, the prices for the same number of gu insects are the same! Even for one-time use gu insects!"

"I did it! Next, as long as..."

[Submitting "Entangling Vine Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]

[Submitting "Mist Grass Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]

[Submitting "Blinding Leaf Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]

The sudden consecutive prompts from the main god interrupted Zhou Ming's thoughts and froze his smile on his face.

"What's going on?"

He quickly searched for these three gu insects and found that their exchange prices in the main god's system were also 100 reward points, the same as other rank 1 gu insects, with no difference.

"Why are the reward points different for submitting gu insects with the same exchange price? What is the difference between these three gu insects and other gu insects?"

Zhou Ming frowned and started to ponder.

These three gu insects were commonly used gu insects, some were cheap and some were expensive, and they were all wood attribute gu insects like other rank 1 gu insects. It didn't make sense that other gu insects could receive 200 reward points while they could only receive 110 reward points.

Suddenly, he had a bright idea.

"Could it be the quantity?"

He had submitted a total of twelve rank 1 gu insects this time, plus the grassroots gu insect from last time, which was a total of thirteen rank 1 gu insects.

Deducting those three, there are exactly ten left.

If the main god lowered the submission price of the Gu after he submitted ten rank 1 Gu, why did the main god do this?

Is it because he didn't want him to continue to take advantage of the main god, or is ten rank 1 Gu enough for the main god?

"It's a pity that only seven rank 2 Gu have been submitted cumulatively. To verify whether it's related to ten Gu, I'll have to wait until next time."

Zhou Ming felt a little regretful in his heart, but his hands didn't stop. He took out the wooden spirit root Gu and wanted to submit it.

However, this time, the main god didn't give Zhou Ming a chance and didn't show any intention of reclaiming the wood spirit root Gu.

"Why did the other Gu reclaim, but this Gu didn't?"

Zhou Ming's brow furrowed tighter, and he sat down on the stone steps at the edge of the small square, lost in thought.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and an answer exploded in his mind, causing him to blurt out, "The laws! The laws of the Gu world!"

Why does the main god want Gu?

If you think from the perspective of the main god wanting to obtain the laws of the Gu world, everything makes more sense.

The Gu itself is a manifestation of the laws, and obtaining the Gu is obtaining the laws of the Gu world.

With the main god's ability, perhaps he can get a section of the laws and then analyze and replicate them, so Zhou Ming can exchange the Gu he submitted.

Therefore, the main god doesn't reclaim the wooden spirit root Gu because the wooden spirit root Gu is made from the wood spirit root, which is given by the system and not by the laws of the Gu world!

So, does the decrease in the price of Gu insects mean that the main god has increased its research on the laws of the Gu world and that new Gu insects are now of much less value to the main god?

Zhou Ming sighed. Instead of solving old problems, he found himself faced with more and more new problems.

"Since the main god doesn't collect these Gu insects..."

Zhou Ming looked at the wooden spirit root Gu in his hand and immediately activated it. The wood spirit root Gu transformed into a green light and merged into his body.

Boom!

In Zhou Ming's aperture, the previously calm and dead-sea-like bronze primeval essence sea suddenly surged with boundless waves, rolling and churning!

The waves were towering, and the undercurrents at the bottom of the sea were turbulent, erupting like volcanoes and constantly roaring.

In this catastrophic and intense transformation, the sea level was rapidly rising, and the primeval essence sea that originally occupied half of the aperture soon increased to fifty-one percent, fifty-two percent, fifty-three percent...

At the same time, the surging waves also continuously impacted the aperture stone membrane, shaking the already thin stone membrane that had been nurtured for a long time and causing cracks to form and expand until they covered the entire membrane. Finally, at a certain moment, it shattered completely.

Afterwards, countless fragments of the stone membrane dissolved in the sweeping primeval essence sea water, forming a misty crystalline substance that covered the entire aperture again.

The stone membrane disappeared, replaced by an even stronger crystal membrane.

Breakthrough!

At this moment, with his cultivation reaching the peak of the rank, the deep green primeval essence sea water color deepened, becoming a higher quality dark green.

The boundless waves gradually subsided, and finally, the primeval essence sea remained at sixty-seven percent, and Zhou Ming's aptitude had been upgraded to grade B.

"Great! Double happiness!" Zhou Ming opened his eyes and laughed heartily.

He was not far from reaching the peak of the rank 1. With the help of the upgrade in aptitude and the surging power of the primeval essence, his breakthrough was a foregone conclusion.

"No, it should be triple happiness." Looking at the number of reward points he now had, Zhou Ming's smile became even brighter.

In this large-scale Gu insect recovery, Zhou Ming gained a total of 7130 reward points, plus the remaining 4449 points from before (he received a total of 7050 points in the previous mission, gained 1000 points by submitting two Gu insects, spent 200 points on strengthening the wooden spirit root Gu, spent 500 points on strengthening the arc-shaped ballistic art, spent 2800 points on exchanging for grass shoes Gu and sword qi Gu, spent 100 points on exchanging for the main god's space ecosystem, and split one reward point into 1000 points for daily use, with the mechanical watch being exchanged from these 1000 points). His total reward points now amounted to 11,579.

"I can buy a lot of things with this."

Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief, walked back to his villa, threw himself on the sofa, and leisurely opened the exchange list.