NOVEL NEXT Chapter 111: Making a Bet with the City Lord
The headmaster continued to cough dryly. However, this time he didn't hesitate at all. "The sound-recording stones themselves aren't worth much, but considering the arrays on them, it's reasonable to sell them for three thousand coins each." The Lord of Pingzhou nodded. "Yes, this price is fair." Lan Zhi saluted him and said, "Thank you for speaking up and helping out when you served as notaries. I'll give you the internal price. I'll only charge you one thousand eight hundred each." The Lord of Pingzhou laughed heartily again. "Sure, sure. This kid is quite something. She's even better at business than Old Shang." Lan Zhi added, "Please have some tea first. I'll bring them to you in half an hour." As soon as she finished speaking, the three of them sat up straight at the same time and said in unison, "Half an hour? Do you have them in stock?" Lan Zhi shook her head. "No, I'll make them on the spot." Then, she looked at the headmaster. "Does the Star Academy have ordinary sound-recording stones?" The headmaster quickly replied, "Yes, I'll have someone bring them here right away." While waiting for the sound-recording stones to be delivered, the City Lord of Pinglan City asked, "Can you finish making one such sound-recording stone in half an hour? Or all of them?" Lan Zhi: "All of them." The City Lord of Pinglan City didn't believe it. "Impossible." Lan Zhi didn't explain but just smiled. "Do you dare to make a bet?" The City Lord of Pinglan City raised his eyebrows. "You want to bet with me? Do you know that I'm an array cultivator?" The implication was that from an array cultivator's perspective, it was impossible to do so. Lan Zhi understood but had no intention of backing down at all. "Yes. If I lose, I'll give you all ten sound-recording stones." The City Lord of Pinglan City thought she was just playing around like a child and said with a smile, "Alright. If I lose, what do you want?" Lan Zhi looked at the headmaster. "Do the shops in the city need tax cuts?" The City Lord of Pinglan City and the Lord of Pingzhou laughed loudly again. After laughing, the City Lord of Pinglan City said, "Pinglan City was formed because of the Pinglan Star Academy. I'm just managing it on behalf of the academy. A hundred years ago, I was still the eldest senior brother of your Array Cultivation Pavilion." Lan Zhi understood. Pinglan City was also an industry of the Pinglan Star Academy, and the City Lord of Pinglan City was also one of the people in charge of the industries outside the Pinglan Star Academy. She couldn't help but feel a bit strange. The Pinglan Star Academy had Pinglan City, as well as industries like the Four Seas Silver Bank and the Thousand Medicine Pavilion, and it also monopolized the Songxia Dew. Why was it still so poor? However, this wasn't the time to think about this problem. Lan Zhi suppressed her doubts in her heart and said straightforwardly, "If you lose, you give me a shop in Pinglan City." The City Lord of Pinglan City agreed immediately. While they were talking, the sound-recording stones had already been delivered. Lan Zhi took a quick look around and saw that the reception hall was spacious, so she said, "I'll just make them here. You can supervise me at any time." The three of them looked at each other and became interested. "Alright, we'll watch you make them today." Lan Zhi asked the City Lord of Pinglan City to check the sound-recording stones and after confirming that there were no problems, she sat down in an empty seat in the corner where there was no one and started to work. It was impossible to make them one by one. The efficiency was too low. She decided to make a star power pen first. When Lan Zhi was learning characters from scrolls before, since the Xingling scrolls had to be written with divine sense and her divine soul was shattered and it was too painful to use her divine sense, she made a divine sense pen according to the structure of a gel pen. She sealed the divine sense in the refill with arrays. When needed, she could directly write with the divine sense pen, and the effect was no different from when she used her divine sense. To make a star power pen, she could borrow the shaft of the divine sense pen first. She just needed to make a refill that used star power.