Chapter 126: The Plan to Make Money with Qinggong

Chapter 126: The Plan to Make Money with Qinggong

Chapter 126: The Plan to Make Money with Qinggong
I looked in my bag and found only a pitiful 29 taels of silver left.

Damn, this money is too precious to spend.

I haven't learned any martial arts and horse riding skills yet, and I don't know if they will be enough.

Just in case, you should learn Qinggong first.

Xiao Jie has been looking forward to the high-flying martial arts for a long time.

The one who taught Qinggong was a tall and thin man named "Bird in the Cloud" Li Fei.

"Master, I want to learn a light skill. Is it possible?"

Li Fei looked Xiao Jie up and down and chuckled, "What's the problem with this? Do you have money? If you have money, of course you can do it."

A list of skills that can be learned pops up in front of you, a total of five basic light skills.

[Pulling onions from dry land: learning required. 10 taels of silver, entry level to internal skills.

Qinggong Introduction: Soar into the air and leap up to a height of up to 3 meters. For every 10 points of agility you have, you will gain an additional meter of height. Consumes 8 points of internal force.

[Swallow three times to collect water: learning needs. Silver 15 taels, internal skills entry.

Qinggong Introduction: Soar into the air, and leap forward up to (Agility × 0.3) 9 meters. When falling, you can use a physical surface (including water) to jump up again and re-select the direction. You can perform up to three consecutive jumps, and each jump consumes 6 points of internal force. 】

[Eight Steps to Chase the Cicada: Learning Required. 20 taels of silver, entry level to internal strength.

Qinggong Introduction: Increases your movement speed by 80% for 8 seconds. Consumes 4 points of internal force per second.

[Flying on the Grass: Learning requirements. 20 taels of silver, entry level to internal skills.

Qinggong Introduction: Makes you as light as a feather, increases your movement speed by 30%, and allows you to run quickly on objects that cannot be used as leverage under normal circumstances, such as grass leaves and water surfaces. It consumes 3 points of internal force per second. 】

Xiao Jie looked at these four kinds of light skills and fell into deep thought.

These four light skills can be clearly divided into two categories. Pulling onions on dry land and Scooping water like a swallow are more similar to long jump and high jump, and their purpose is to cross terrain.

The Eight-Step Chasing Cicada is simply used to speed up running, and can be used for chasing or escaping.

Flying on the Grass is somewhere in between the two, being able to both speed up and cross terrain, but the effects are slightly lower than the previous ones.

Each of the four types of light skills has its own strengths, so it stands to reason that learning any one of them would be valuable.

But money is limited, so I'd better learn one first.

After struggling for a long time, I finally chose - Flying on the Grass!

This light skill can both cross terrain and accelerate, it can be said to be a panacea.

Moreover, I can quickly learn the galloping skill. In this way, if the two skills are used together, it will be no worse than the Eight Steps to Chase the Cicada, and it will be more durable.

As for climbing, it can be solved by mountain climbing. It is a bit slow, but at least it solves the problem of having and not having.

However, because of the existence of the Earth-Binding Talisman, the power of Eight Steps to Chase the Cicada is not as strong as it seems.

On the contrary, the effect of flying over the grass and crossing the terrain is very useful.

"Master, I want to learn how to fly on the grass."

Wow, another 20 taels of silver are gone...

A few minutes later, Xiao Jie walked out of the martial arts hall.

In just less than an hour, 70 taels of silver were directly consumed.

Looking at the three new martial arts in the skill bar, Xiao Jie felt so happy that the money was worth it.

To round it off, I can be considered a martial arts master in real life.

I won’t play games tonight. I must experiment and find the feeling of a master.

I looked at my backpack and realized that I didn't have enough money to learn horse riding. It cost 10 taels of silver, but I only had a little over 9 taels left.

It seems like I have to find a way to make some money.

At this time, I, who wanted to become an immortal, also followed out of the martial arts hall.

Also very excited.

"Brother Feng, I have learned all the skills. Hahahaha, I am now considered a martial arts master. It's just that this money is a little bit insufficient. I am going to spend more money. Do you want me to help you spend some money?"

"Do you still have money?" Xiao Jie asked in surprise.

"There are still several hundred thousand left. I plan to keep tens of thousands for living expenses and spend the rest."

It feels good to spend money for a while, and it will be more enjoyable if you keep spending money.

Compared to the pay-to-win online games in the past, where you could spend hundreds of thousands just to get a set of top-notch equipment, or a fashion mount, in this game, you can actually learn martial arts by spending hundreds of thousands.

This is what we call value for money.

Xiao Jie shook his head. "Just take care of yourself. I have ways to make money. Don't forget that you still have to buy a horse. I don't know if these hundreds of thousands are enough."

Hundreds of thousands may sound like a lot, but it's only a few dozen taels of silver, not enough to buy even a war horse.

I Yuchengxian just realized, "Then I'll go buy gold, Brother Feng. By the way, Brother Feng, do you know anyone who sells gold?"

"I actually know one." Xiao Jie directly sent the gold to me. Since this guy is a professional businessman, he should be able to get the gold.

As for Xiao Jie himself, he went straight to the auction house.

Although krypton gold is convenient and fast, it is not a long-term solution after all. Even if I am a small local tyrant like Yu Chengxian, I will have no money after this wave and will have to support myself in the future.

If you want to play this game for a long time, you must have a long-term way to make money.

The simplest way is to kill monsters and get the equipment dropped to sell for money, but this way of making money has a biggest problem. Killing monsters consumes too much energy, and the various potions, food, equipment and repair costs are often only enough to break even with the copper coins dropped by monsters.

Occasionally, a top-quality item could be worth some money, such as the Shura Ghost Mask and the Divine Wood Talisman on him, but he had to keep it for himself to improve his personal strength, so this route was not reliable.

Second, collect materials, mine minerals, collect herbs, skin and dig meat. The collected materials can always be sold for some money.

This method is reliable, but low-grade materials are definitely not valuable. As for high-grade materials, they cannot access them now. This can only be used as a subsidy plan, and it is not enough to make money solely by relying on it.

The third is to engage in manufacturing, forging, leatherworking, tailoring, talisman making, alchemy...

As long as he could get a good professional formula, forge a magic weapon, refine an elixir, or something like that, he could make a lot of money. But he didn't have much hope for that. The game had been running for three years, and the major guilds had trained countless blacksmiths and alchemists. It would be difficult for him to make money later.

The fourth one is the most traditional way of doing business, buying low and buying high to make a profit from the difference, commonly known as goblin.

There are always players who don't know the value of things or are in urgent need of money, so they sell good things at low prices. There are also always rich guys who are willing to spend a lot of money on something and buy it at a premium. Such merchants can be seen everywhere in traditional games in the past, and Jin Fugui should be doing this.

As for what Xiao Jie wants to do, he still needs to investigate before making a decision.

Xiao Jie thinks he is an old hand and can always find ways to make money.

When he arrived at the auction house, Xiao Jie took out his notebook and took notes while checking the prices of the goods.

From basic materials such as ores, herbs, etc.

To finished manufacturing products such as weapons and elixirs.

There are also various blueprints, recipes, and magical equipment.

Record them all in a notebook.

I worked for more than an hour and filled several pages of notebook with dense writing. Now I had enough data.

Looking at the data on the notebook, Xiao Jie couldn't help but frown. The manufacturing industry really didn't work. The competition was too fierce. Compared with the prices of finished products and raw materials, the profit margin was negligible. Only some particularly rare ones could be sold at a high price.

You can do the collection business, the prices of raw materials are not bad, and the key is that this thing has zero cost, no investment is required, just work hard. But this thing is hard-earned money, and it is unlikely to get rich overnight.

There are some particularly valuable materials, such as thousand-year-old snow lotus, Ganoderma lucidum, black iron and red copper, which cost dozens or even hundreds of taels.

Some even cost several thousand taels, but the problem is that this material is only found in high-level maps. If you have a level 10 trumpet, forget it.

In fact, there is another way to make money, which is to monopolize, sell all the materials in one category, and then raise the price.

However, monopoly requires a large amount of capital as a foundation, and he cannot do it with this little money.

Xiao Jie kept thinking about ways to make money, but he kept rejecting them. He thought that it was too difficult to make money because of his low level, little capital, and limited knowledge of the game.

But after searching for a long time, he actually found an unpopular track.

That's cooking products.

Some special cooking products can also provide buffs and special effects.

However, compared to things like elixirs and talismans, the effects are not that obvious. Most of them only provide slight benefits, which are better than nothing, so the prices are not very expensive. Generally, the cheapest ones are only a few dozen coins, and the most expensive ones are no more than a few hundred coins.

Those big manufacturing companies probably don't care about this little profit, so there is a lot of profit margin in the price, especially some strange and special formulas, which can often be sold at a "high price" of several hundred coins.

A few hundred coins are nothing to those big guilds, but for a lone wolf player like Xiao Jie, it's pretty good, so don't be picky.

It just so happens that I have intermediate cooking skills. The key is that the investment in cooking is relatively low, and the product consumption is large. Unlike elixirs, talismans, and equipment, only big guilds and rich people can afford it.

If you brush the materials yourself, you can further reduce the price.

Now the only rare thing he can sell is the secret dog food. In the future, if he can make more rare formulas, he can make long-term profits and at least earn enough to earn money for learning skills.

By the way, this secret dog food should be worth some money, right?

Xiao Jie searched the keyword "happiness value" in the auction house.

Then select the food by category.

As a result, a total of three products that increase happiness value appeared.

[Secretly made wild vegetable dumplings], restore 10 points of satiety, increase pet happiness by 8 points (only for herbivorous beasts). Auction price: 150 Wen.

[Catnip Grilled Fish], restores 15 points of satiety, increases 15 points of happiness, (only for cats). Auction price: 250 coins.

[Monkey Wine], increases happiness by 25 points (only for humans and apes). Auction price: 500 coins.

Tsk tsk tsk, they are all black-hearted businessmen. Xiao Jie can judge that the cost of the secret wild vegetable dumplings and catnip grilled fish will definitely not exceed 50 cents.

The reason for such a high premium is entirely due to the exclusive formula and the lack of competition.

As for why Monkey Wine is so expensive - it is probably used to improve NPC favorability.

It seems that my secret dog food is a good thing and there is very little competitive pressure.

This secret dog food can be used by all carnivorous animals. Although a part of the cats' share has been squeezed out by the catnip grilled fish, wolves, bears, wild boars and the like also need happiness points.

This unpopular recipe has no competition, so there is no need to worry about no one buying it. For example, he really wants to buy a few secret wild vegetable dumplings to add to the radish meal, increase his happiness value, and quickly learn those two skills.

Xiao Jie decisively put all the remaining ten secret dog foods in his bag on the shelf, each costing 200 coins.

I didn’t expect that three of them were sold in less than five minutes after they were put up for sale.

In a short while, all ten secret dog foods were sold out.

Haha, that’s great, I got 2 taels of silver directly. Now I can learn horse riding.

But Xiao Jie was not in a hurry.

I ran to the butcher's shop to buy a bunch of wild boar meat, venison, and mutton, and went to the pharmacy to buy wild chrysanthemum and tranquilizing grass, and started cooking directly.

He made 60 secret dog foods in one go, hung 30 of them up at once, and in less than an hour, he sold more than of them.

He put the rest up for sale as well, but unfortunately the sales slowed down afterwards. It seems that there are not many beast tamer players. But it doesn't matter, he can just put them up for sale slowly.

This thing is a consumable and you will need it whenever you catch a new pet.

The cost of the secret dog food is only 40 wen per piece, and the net profit from selling one is 160 wen. Even after deducting the transaction tax, there is still an income of 140 wen.

If you sell a dozen or twenty of them a day, you can earn several taels of silver.

It turns out that there is no future in sitting in the novice village and carrying bricks. Even if you want to make money, you have to go to the big city.

I just didn’t expect that after collecting so many good things in the Novice Village, the one that made me money in the end was this recipe I got by accident.

I can only say that fate plays tricks on me.

I looked at the silver in the bag and found that I had another 13 taels of silver. Now I could finally learn horse riding.

(End of this chapter)