Chapter 2670 - 2662: Taixu’s Open Scheme

Chapter 2670: Chapter 2662: Taixu’s Open Scheme

Feng Jun heard about this dispute and couldn’t help but laugh and cry: What a load of nonsense!

Crafting a set of Virtual Combat Magical Treasures at White Pebble Beach actually doesn’t take much time.

Most components are outsourced to others, and this time can be ignored. The core components are completed by the Guardian, as long as Feng Jun’s advanced spirit energy supply is sufficient. For the Guardian, crafting three to five pieces a day is as easy as pie.

The only trouble is the centralized integration and crafting. Before crafting, Feng Jun needs to simulate and make appropriate adjustments to the assembly of components—after all, crafting Magical Treasures is not industrial production.

Feng Jun has already set forth requirements for standardized operation, but for the entire Tianqin, it’s not to a freakishly rigid level. In fact, in the crafting of Magical Treasures, personalization often occurs and it’s never overly standardized.

Even the standardized weapons of the Seven Sects and Eighteen Paths aren’t absolutely identical. As long as you change the Artifact Refiner, related weapons will exhibit slight differences. As for the reason... Does the refiner’s personal view on crafting suffice?

Even the same refiner won’t make weapons that are exactly identical. Looking similar is close enough.

So Feng Jun’s simulation for fine-tuning is absolutely necessary, and it takes about three to five days.

The final crafting of Jing Ling takes almost a day and a half.

Of course, crafting a single Magical Treasure doesn’t involve summing up all times. Once cycling production is achieved, the step that occupies the most time is crucial to determining the time of crafting Magical Treasures.

In short, the time Feng Jun uses for simulation and fine-tuning translates into the crafting time of a single Magical Treasure.

Theoretically, if you disregard Feng Jun’s potential distractions by other matters, White Pebble Beach can basically craft seventy to eighty Magical Treasures a year. Even if Feng Jun spends two-thirds of his time on other things, twenty pieces a year is feasible.

Virtual Combat Magical Treasures are very popular, there’s no doubt about it. However, forces able to afford ten to twenty Top-Grade Spirit Stones to buy it are quite noteworthy even in the Tianqin Plane.

The Three Hundred Secret Realm Families, the Seven Sects and Eighteen Paths, coupled with some forces potentially purchasing jointly, Feng Jun believes five to six hundred sets of Magical Treasures should suffice. Even the ultimate goal wouldn’t exceed a thousand sets.

Yet, if we talk about urgent need, it’s definitely not going to be near a thousand sets, and he doesn’t believe in the end there won’t be any pirated versions—bootlegs and imitation versions are bound to appear, it’s unavoidable.

Also, not every demand can afford ten Top-Grade Stones, otherwise if Feng Jun corners a thousand sets, just over ten thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones would be tempting enough for Tribulation Transcending cultivators to think about taking action.

In short, Feng Jun thinks that forces currently in need of Magical Treasures and capable of affording Spirit Stones, have purchasing power of not more than two hundred sets.

Does this data have any theoretical backing? Sorry, it doesn’t; this is just Feng Jun’s estimation.

Put it this way: the current number of urgent needs may take up to ten years to obtain their desired Magical Treasure.

Long or not? Not really, considering the targeted demographic for this level of Magical Treasures is mainly those in the Departure Realm, Golden Core Stage, and Nascent Soul Stage. Qi Refinement Realm can definitely use it, but considering the price of the Magical Treasures, Qi-Refining Cultivators using them would be quite a waste.

For those with a minimum target of Departure Realm, is a ten-year wait really that long?

So Feng Jun’s first reaction to hearing the news was: This minor mess isn’t very related to whether it’s about cutting in line, but rather about a contest of reputation.

The Ji Family, being the First Family, certainly can’t be ranked too far back, but they signed up late. Spending Spirit Stones to find an agent is quite normal.

The reaction from Taixu Sect is even more predictable: Who you bully is no matter to me, but bullying me is impossible!

You might even hypothesize reversely; if Taixu Sect didn’t take this seriously, other cultivators wouldn’t regard them as generous, they’d just marvel at the Ji Family’s audacity, maybe even suggest—Taixu Sect is afraid of the Ji Family.

Don’t ever think things like this won’t happen. Most cultivators uphold quick solutions and vengeance, but shrewd individuals are certainly not few. Those forces that only know how to fight and kill, no matter how strong momentarily, won’t last long.

Feng Jun originally didn’t plan to intervene, but the problem is: Taixu Sect’s True Immortal approached him to arbitrate.

It was even a familiar face, Wu Xiu, the True Immortal stationed long-term at White Pebble Beach.

Feng Jun genuinely didn’t want to get involved with this and said to Wu Xiu the True Immortal, doing this isn’t fair, clearly your Taixu Sect isn’t afraid of the Ji Family. Ji Family cut in front of your sect, and yet want me to get involved... Isn’t this setting me up?

Even others might think I believe Taixu Sect is no match for the Ji Family, and that’s why I stepped in to help.

Wu Xiu the True Immortal was indeed quite straightforward. He thought Feng Jun spoke sensibly and went back to report.

But Taixu Sect isn’t lacking in shrewd folks, the next day Wu Xiu came again.

He was very dissatisfied and complained, Mountain Master Feng, are you tricking an honest man like me? Is this fun? This is your business, so you should set the rules. Our Taixu Sect operated this way as a sign of respect to the main family!

Feng Jun was ready to keep shirking responsibility, but he couldn’t. On one hand, there’s Taixu Sect; on the other, the First Family—it’s the last thing he wants to be involved in.

So he expressed, don’t bother giving me face as the owner here—if you want to take action, go ahead, I don’t care.

To put it bluntly, people cutting in line is an embarrassment to your Taixu Sect, not me, Feng Jun.

On the contrary, the Ji Family scheming to cut in line, even going as far as confronting the Taixu Sect, is a high recognition of my White Pebble Beach magical treasure!

His words were full of reason, but it was no use. Wu Xiu, the True Immortal, seemed to have been scolded yesterday, and the honest man suddenly became wise: So if one of the two sets of magical treasures the Ji Family bought was meant to crack it, do you also think it’s not your concern?

Feng Jun was initially angry, thinking if the Ji Family dared to act so blatantly, then don’t blame me for being rude... as for how to be rude, he hadn’t thought that far, but he was somewhat confident he could pull the Ji Family down from being The First Family.

But then, he became a bit suspicious. No matter how arrogant the Ji Family was, they must know White Pebble Beach isn’t something to be taken lightly. Even if they want to take advantage, it won’t be by openly making enemies—not the behavior of an old Ancient Family.

So even if the Ji Family were to play with piracy, they would definitely be very low-key, making a fortune quietly.

Then the question arises, how did the Taixu Sect know the Ji Family was going to play with piracy?

So ultimately, this is the Taixu Sect’s warning to him: your magical treasure isn’t completely immune to piracy.

At worst, the piracy might not be that good at first, but as it is gradually improved, it gets better, the concept is there. As long as they’re willing to invest, sooner or later, they can produce something similar.

Of course, the process of investing would consume a lot of human and material resources. Because of this, most big powers would rather not bother with piracy and buy directly from Feng Jun—though expensive, it’s cheaper than developing their own.

But this also has to do with White Pebble Beach not being easy to mess with. If the person who developed this magical treasure wasn’t as wild as Feng Jun, an ambitious power might spend more Spirit Stones, crack it, and sell it at a low price—wouldn’t that be profitable?

If the inventor isn’t strong enough, there’s a 90% chance they’d be forcibly taken away to become a "technical director." The remaining 0.1% chance isn’t because the big powers are kind, but because the inventor managed to escape after racking their brains.

Ultimately, the Taixu Sect wanted to convey this message: you should worry about others plagiarizing.

However, the plagiarist may not necessarily be the Ji Family, it might even be someone from the Taixu Sect—who knows?

Regardless, this isn’t a threat but a blatant open strategy: if you don’t care about your business, naturally someone else will; if you don’t care about the rules, others will be unscrupulous when breaking them.

The Taixu Sect essentially has one stance: as the dominant house, you must participate.

If you can’t show your determination to protect your interests, how can you expect others to consciously help you protect them?

In other words, this is an opportunity for you to flex some muscle. Want to stay out of it? Not a chance!

After understanding these twists and turns, Feng Jun wasn’t angry, but rather quite surprised: Wu Xiu, how did you suddenly become so smart?

Of course, his words weren’t that impolite—after all, the other party was a Nascent Soul of the Seven Upper Sects, but that was essentially the meaning.

Wu Xiu, the True Immortal, was not pleased, thinking, do I usually look that dumb?

However, fortunately, he was also self-aware, knowing what he was and wasn’t good at, so he expressed, I usually just don’t bother to think. Anyway, if you don’t take this matter seriously, it could likely become a bad start.

Feng Jun absolutely didn’t believe that with Wu Xiu’s character, he could come up with such an argument. However, it wasn’t important. The person who came to procure the magical treasure held a higher position in the Taixu Sect than Wu Xiu, who was just a mouthpiece, mainly playing on emotions.

Besides, Feng Jun wasn’t angry because of this. Although the Taixu Sect was forcing him to participate, in fact, their reminder was very timely. He was trying to avoid a confrontation between two strong parties but neglected the consequences of detaching himself from the situation.

This warning might be an empty intimidation, but it already hit Feng Jun in his vital part: a bad beginning must not happen.

Was he being used? It didn’t matter; an open strategy is about straightforward suppression, attacking where you must defend.

He had to participate.

Thinking about the Earth Realm, it’s actually the same thing. If someone buys something without queuing, trying to cut in line, the merchant isn’t obliged to maintain order, but a merchant who ignores such behavior might easily gain a reputation for being "afraid of trouble."

So the next day, Feng Jun directly returned 80 top-grade Spirit Stones to the Gongyang Family, indicating they could only buy one set.

The reason? There’s no reason. I say you can only buy one set, then it’s only one set, the next set of magical treasures belongs to the Taixu Sect.

The True Immortal of the Ji Family was very displeased upon learning this and arranged to meet the True Immortal of the Gongyang Family to find Feng, the Mountain Master, wanting to ask what this meant.

As for Xuanyuan Buli also being at White Pebble Beach? The True Immortal of the Ji Family really didn’t mind, not because the Xuanyuan Family had fallen, but strictly speaking, it was the Xuanyuan Family that initially cut in line and did "proxy purchasing."

Although the Xuanyuan Family’s proxy purchase for the Xiong Family did not succeed, this fact objectively exists.