Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1093 - 1094 The Academy’s Special Way of Trading

"This... she said she must personally experience the unique trading environment and social activities of the academy..."

Qi Chen said somewhat embarrassedly. In fact, even without seeking out Feng Yuan, he could handle those unnecessary items in the department store or certain shops. After all, in the short term, all he could obtain were materials and spiritual medicines of the Good Level, which were not difficult to deal with.

The academy’s free trade system, however, was quite cumbersome. Basically, aside from the vicious behaviors explicitly forbidden by the academy, such as forced buying and selling, anything goes. This includes things like preferring not to trade with someone simply because you dislike them, which happen all the time.

He glanced at Dou Yanlan, and Feng Yuan smiled slightly without saying much. Although Dou Yanlan was more adept at these things than Qi Chen, he could not be ignorant of them either. Moreover, the academy designed its system this way to simulate real-world trading as closely as possible. Like with Feng Yuan, if you haven’t managed to build a good relationship with him and become friends, don’t even think about exchanging for urgently needed items from him.

Situations like that of Feng Yuan’s were not unheard of, quite the contrary. Spiritual medicines and materials can be hard to come by, and if the items aren’t in urgent need, most people would prefer to trade with someone they have a good relationship with, or at least someone they are acquainted with, rather than strangers.

Kong Qing hissed in confusion, and Agunas glanced at Kong Qing and said to Feng Yuan,

"It is asking why the trading of those items is so troublesome? Can’t it be done using a uniform currency like in those markets?"

"There used to be, but it disappeared over time."

Feng Yuan said with a smile. Kong Qing tilted its head, puzzled. Pomiti, who was sitting on its head, almost fell as its body tipped, but right before Feng Yuan could catch it, it stabilized itself and sat back on Kong Qing’s head. Veronia glanced at Kong Qing and said,

"There have been many cases where people exchange their rare spiritual medicines and materials for currency wanting to buy the spiritual medicines and materials they need, only to find that the seller refuses to sell. Gradually, people stopped doing this and bartering became the main method of trade."

Although trading with currency is convenient, most spiritual medicines and materials can be stored for a long time. After similar incidents happened, people were reluctant to exchange for currency, as there was no guarantee they could buy what they needed when they needed it. Moreover, the Alliance did not manage this matter, so gradually, high-level spiritual medicines and materials went back to bartering.

Feng Yuan understood that Kong Qing asked this because it involved the evolution of the Homeward Snakes. No matter what, the higher the potential level of evolution forms, the rarer the required spiritual materials and medicines are, an unavoidable fact.

Kong Qing could not use Good Level spiritual medicines and materials to evolve to elite, rare, or even Legendary Level, even as a Divine Beast; it’s not feasible. As for Xiao Ji? Anyway, it evolved directly using Divine Beast’s Power, so all those assorted spiritual materials and medicines are merely supplementary. Having them or not didn’t seem to matter much, especially now that Xiao Ji was on a peculiar independent evolutionary path even more so.

Now Feng Yuan himself was unclear about whether he should prepare evolutionary materials for Xiao Ji or even what kind of materials Xiao Ji needs.

"Don’t worry, even without any enhancements, with the potential of Homeward Snake, Beastmasters won’t hesitate even for the more precious materials."

Gently patting Kong Qing’s forehead, Feng Yuan said with a smile. He knew that Kong Qing was still worried about the materials for rare or Legendary Levels of evolution. While wild spirit beasts hold territorial advantages, unlike humans who can obtain evolution materials from others, wild spirit beasts can’t evolve if their habitat doesn’t include those items, unless they roam different areas.

Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Kong Qing raised its head to look at him and glanced at Agunas. Feng Yuan said with a mischievous smile,

"Why not have you step in at that time and speak to the Alliance to help provide evolution materials for those wild Homeward Snakes?"

Agunas rolled his eyes and said in exasperation,

"Is that really necessary? For such a matter, Gitalien should agree to help without refusing."

Hearing Agunas’s words, Kong Qing felt somewhat embarrassed since Gitalien had just helped it not long ago. And honestly speaking, Gitalien didn’t have much of a connection with it. It was already grateful for all the help. Of course, this is only because it didn’t know Gitalien’s situation.

Upon hearing Kong Qing’s embarrassed words, Agunas flicked its tail. Didn’t it know what Gitalien was thinking? Currently, as the only Space Series Divine Beast, ensuring no problems arise within the spatial aspects was a tricky task. If Kong Qing reached the Divine Beast Level, or even without attaining that level, just by dealing with those pesky small issues, it would free up a lot of time to roam around seeking pleasure.

Especially for Kong Qing, its authority was particularly vexing towards those chaotic subsidiary spaces and worlds. Normally, when issues arose in places like the Dream Domain, it had to first use its own spatial authority to separate the intersecting points of those domains and the real world, and then find the Divine Beasts in charge of managing those domains to repair them.

Now with Kong Qing present, things were different. Although it was not yet strong enough, once its power increased, it could directly repair those intersecting areas without seeking the aid of the Divine Beasts in charge of the domains. If it weren’t for the fact that Kong Qing, like Xiao Ji, had not entered the Divine Beast informational network due to its current low strength, it wondered whether Gitalien would bother it daily to hasten its growth.

Of course, it was a bit suspicious. Would Gitalien, upon encountering abnormal intersections between domains and the real world, directly come to take it away? It seemed not impossible. Now Kong Qing had little else to do; the transformation of the wild Little Green Snakes into Homeward Snakes was nearly complete, and those Homeward Snakes had already returned to their own clans. Perhaps they were not yet comparable to the strongest individuals from the single-poison lineage evolutionary path, but it was clear that with the passage of time, they would eventually become the backbone of their clan.

Even now, they were actually not too bad. Those Little Green Snake clans could completely grow important Spiritual Medicine within the Homeward Snake’s space, and who knows, in the future, would there emerge a Little Green Snake evolutionary form specialized in cultivation? Thinking of this, Agunas’s expression turned somewhat strange. A snake holding a watering can with its tail to water Spiritual Medicine? That image seemed rather odd.

"What happened?"

Feng Yuan looked with some puzzlement towards the direction of the cashier’s counter. After leaving the dress shop, they had directly found a place to have lunch. However, seeing the continuous stream of waiters going to the cashier’s counter, seemingly doing something, and all the customers in front of the counter appearing impatient.

"Cashier system fault?"

Dou Yanlan glanced at the direction of the cashier’s desk and speculated. As for what exactly it was, she was not so curious. Feng Yuan nudged a meatball toward Xiao Ji and said,

"It seems to be quite troublesome."

Xiao Ji, pecking at the meatball, looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion, not quite understanding the meaning of his words. Dou Yanlan looked towards the cashier’s counter where a waiter was currently apologizing to several customers. A supervisor-like person was taking notes on a notebook, quickly completing the change-giving process, yet that customer seemed to have some opinions and was saying something.

At that moment, the department store’s security rushed over. After speaking with them for a while, they left with the security. Feng Yuan frowned slightly, sensing that something seemed amiss.

"Can’t the fault be fixed?"

Dou Yanlan looked at the cashier’s counter with confusion. At this moment, Feng Yuan gestured to a waiter and asked,

"Is it currently impossible to check out?"

"Oh? No, no, checking out is not a problem, it’s just that we can’t issue invoices for you right now."

The waiter, startled by Feng Yuan’s words, hurriedly responded. Feng Yuan turned to Agunas and said,

"Could you help out by using time reversal to restore that thing?"

"Is there a problem?"

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan dubiously. If there wasn’t any special circumstance, the other party presumably wouldn’t ask it to do so; it wasn’t some kind of pushover, how could it simply help out at will?

"It seems like there’s a Data Lineage Spirit Beast causing trouble, but I’m not sure."

Feng Yuan frowned slightly as he spoke. He indeed hadn’t sensed any fluctuations from a Data Lineage Spirit Beast. Of course, this might also be related to him not paying attention to his surroundings, if he didn’t specifically focus on his vicinity, unless there was hostility towards him, hiding their presence would not attract his attention.

"A Data Lineage Spirit Beast causing trouble?"

Agunas looked towards the cashier’s counter, flicking its tail.