The weapon refining business went smoothly at first, but gradually problems began to arise because Mo Hua heard Elder Yu curse again.
Mo Hua went to the weapon refining shop to check the formation, and then met Elder Yu and Yu Chengyi chatting.
While chatting, Elder Yu cursed Qian Hong again.
Talk about “blood-sucking roundworms”, “old turtles wearing tortoise shells”, “sinister beasts” and so on.
Swearing in different ways.
As Elder Yu was cursing, he discovered Mo Hua who was eavesdropping on the side. He was memorizing something as he listened, looking like he was enjoying it.
He muttered things like “You can still curse like this”, “Why didn’t I think of that” and so on.
Elder Yu coughed, stopped, and then said to Mo Hua: “You didn’t hear anything.”
“Yeah.” Mo Hua nodded, “I didn’t hear anything!”
Elder Yu’s anger gradually subsided and he found a chair and sat down evenly.
Mo Hua poured a cup of tea, handed it to Elder Yu, and asked, “Is the Qian family causing trouble again?”
Elder Yu has become accustomed to chatting with Mo Hua, and now he doesn’t avoid Mo Hua in anything he says, except of course for swearing.
Elder Yu drank the tea poured by Mo Hua, breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: “We can’t sell our spiritual weapons.”
“No one wants it?”
“Of course there are monks who want it. After all, spiritual weapons such as Teng Jia and Pu Dao are used anyway, but I found a few merchants and some demon hunters from other fairy cities, and they all felt that the price was too high.”
Mo Hua was a little confused, “Isn’t the price we gave you quite cheap?”
Because the weapon refining shop is large and has high output, the spiritual weapons are one or two spirit stones lower than the market price.
“It’s the Qian family. The price they gave is too low.”
“The Qian family is lowering the price?”
“Yes.” When Elder Yu mentioned it, he became angry again, “The Qian family’s weapon refining shop uses monks as livestock. They work overtime and stockpile a batch of spiritual weapons in advance, waiting for us to start work. They sell them at low prices. Want to use this to suppress us.”
“Qian Hong, that turtle son of a bitch…”
In the middle of the curse, Elder Yu glanced at the ink painting and silently swallowed the curse again.
Mo Hua frowned, but after thinking about it, he had no good solution. He looked up and saw that although Elder Yu was angry, he didn’t look too worried, so he asked:
“Elder, do you have any idea?”
Elder Yu raised his eyebrows, “Did you see it?”
Mo Hua said: “If you have no choice but to feel anxious, your curse words will be even worse than they are now.”
Compared with before, Elder Yu’s scolding now can be considered “gentle”.
Elder Yu looked a little embarrassed, and thought to himself that he should scold less people next time, or at least avoid making ink paintings when he scolded people.
Mo Hua was too young to imitate him and pretended to be full of curse words…
Elder Yu coughed, covered up his embarrassment, and said, “There is indeed a way.”
Mo Hua poured another cup of tea for Elder Yu, “Please tell me.”
Mo Hua looked curious.
Elder Yu thought for a moment and felt that this kind of thing could be taught, so he patiently said: “I told those merchants that no matter what price the Qian family gave them, we would be cheaper than the Qian family… five points for broken spiritual stones.”
“Five points…”
As expected of Elder Yu, he lowered the price five by five, and was very careful in budgeting…
Mo Hua thought.
“Five points is not bad.” Elder Yu snorted, “With so many spiritual weapons, a little adds up to a lot, and five points of spiritual stone is not a small amount.”
“As long as we can sell it and collect the spirit stones, the Qian family will not be able to compete with us in the future.” Elder Yu said confidently.
“Why can’t the Qian family compete with us?” Mo Hua was a little confused.
Elder Yu glanced at Mo Hua, sighed, and said helplessly: “Because of the formation you drew.”
“The Qian family’s matters about the weapon refining furnace are kept strictly confidential. I can’t find out, but I can see the spiritual weapons they refined…”
“The quality of the Qian family’s spiritual weapons is very good, but it is still inferior to ours. In addition to Master Chen’s superb craftsmanship, there is another reason. The Qian family’s weapon refining furnace is definitely not as good as ours… “
“Their refining furnace is of the first grade, and ours is also the first grade. If there is any difference, it is the formation inside.”
Elder Yu drank a cup of tea and said: “I guess they should also have a first-grade molten fire array painted in their refining furnaces. Compared with our small refining furnaces, these refining furnaces are not much different, but compared with Our large refining furnace is far inferior.”
Mo Hua suddenly realized.
A first-grade molten fire spirit-control complex formation is painted in the large refining furnace. This formation is more effective than the general first-grade formation.
“Will the Qian family know about the large-scale refining furnace?” Mo Hua asked.
“Everything about the refining furnace is kept secret. I can’t inquire about the Qian family, and naturally it’s impossible for the Qian family to know about ours,” Elder Yu said.
“Then the Qian family will know sooner or later.”
“As long as you don’t know now, it will be too late if you know later.”
“Is there anything special about this?”
Elder Yu patiently explained, “Lowering prices is a loss-making business and cannot last long. The Qian family lowers prices because they have good furnaces and high output in their refinery. They want to accomplish all their work in one battle, so they lose a little money at the beginning and directly kill us. But what they don’t know is that our furnaces are better and our output is higher.”
“As time goes by, we turn around and refine more and more spiritual weapons. If they keep lowering the price, it will be like cutting their own flesh and making a loss-making business.”
Elder Yu was a little gloating.
“Then as long as we survive the beginning, we won’t be afraid of the Qian family anymore?” Mo Hua asked.
“Not bad!” Elder Yu said proudly: “When the time comes, our weapon refining shop will be bigger than theirs, our weapon refining furnaces will be better than theirs, we will have more weapon refiners than them, we will refine more spiritual weapons than them, and the quality will be better than theirs. The Qian family has nothing to fear.”
Mo Hua nodded, vaguely understanding, but felt that there were still some loopholes in it. Even if things really developed like this, the two sides were just competing with each other, and their own side had some advantages.
This would not make Elder Yu so proud.
Mo Hua glanced at Elder Yu suspiciously, “Elder, do you have any other ideas?”
Elder Yu paused, glanced at the ink painting, and said helplessly: “Why do you look like a little fox?”
Mo Hua’s eyes lit up and he waited for Elder Yu to continue.
“There is another trick, which is to ‘take the fire under the cauldron’.”
“Pull the fire under the cauldron?”
Elder Yu said: “The Qian family’s weapon refining shop is rushing to work, and the weapon refining masters there must be working day and night. Their own weapon refining masters are fine, but the ones they hire must be resentful, and they are just trying to make ends meet. Who wants to really be a cow or a horse…”
“I sent people to win over them secretly. I gave them more spiritual stones, so they don’t have to refine weapons day and night. After a while, these weapon refiners will come over to refine weapons for us.”
“Also, I have informed all demon hunters that the materials obtained from demon hunting are not allowed to be sold to the Qian family. We will purchase them ourselves.”
“I have also notified all the markets opened by casual cultivators that they will not do business with the Qian family for the time being. If the Qian family causes trouble for them, they will come to me and I will deal with it.”
Elder Yu’s eyes showed a hint of joking, “In the future, the Qian family wants to refine weapons, but they lack both materials and refiners. This is called drawing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.”
On the surface, they lowered prices with the Qian family, but secretly poached their weapon refiners, and cut off their sources of materials.
Mo Hua sighed: “Elder Yu, you are so insidious!”
(End of chapter)