Chapter 434: 407
Since he was not selling them for a high price, Lin Yun quickly sold a large amount of gold.
Soon, Lin Yun had over 20 million Spirit Crystals in his Cosmic Trading System.
Having made up his mind, Lin Yun didn't hesitate. He found the shop where he had been purchasing robots with the power of Martial Artists from the Domain Realm and began to negotiate a deal to buy more such robots in bulk.
The shopkeeper was taken aback when Lin Yun stated his intention to buy twenty-one robots with the power of Domain Realm Martial Artists.
It was a significant piece of business.
In the past few days, Lin Yun had bought a large number of advanced robots from him. After counting, he realized that he had sold five robots with the power of Domain Realm Martial Artists and one robot with the power of a Martial Artist from the Dazzling Star Realm to Lin Yun.
He had earned a lot of Spirit Crystals from these transactions.
Now, Lin Yun wanted to buy another twenty-one robots with the power of Domain Realm Martial Artists.
The shopkeeper deemed him to be a highly valuable customer.
While the customer was a newcomer, his spending power might not yet match that of the shopkeeper's. But judging by the way the things were going, he figured he would not be long before he did.
This customer had to be secured.
Eventually, Lin Yun negotiated a customer discount, purchasing these robots at 15% off.
Originally, Lin Yun had got a discount of 8%, and now he was getting a discount of 15%. There was little room for any further reductions.
Unless they were in a particularly special relationship, it was going to be hard to get further discounts. Otherwise, it could disrupt the market.
Buying twenty-one robots with the power of early Domain Realm Martial Artists at 85% of the usual price cost 17,850,000 Spirit Crystals.
After Lin Yun made the payment, twenty-one men in black appeared in his transaction space within a minute.
Lin Yun transferred the consciousness of Lin Tian, Lin Di, Lin Xuan, and Lin Huang into four of these robots. Adding the robot with Domain Realm Martial Artist Power he had bought before left him with eighteen more robots with early Domain realm martial artist power.
He then transferred the consciousness of Lin Yi to Lin Jiu into nine of the remaining robots and named the remaining nine robots Lin Ten to Lin Eighteen.
Now, Lin Yun had a total of twenty-six robots with early Domain Realm Martial Artist power.
These were Lin Tian, Lin Di, Lin Xuan, Lin Huang, Lin Yu, Lin Zhou, Lin Hong, Lin Huang, Lin Yi to Lin Eighteen.
Because each person was limited in the types of goods they could sell, the shop where Lin Yun bought these robots didn't sell robots with the power of Innate and Huajin Martial Artists. Instead, their main products were robots with Level Five Cultivator and Level Six Cultivator powers.
It was certain that many of the shop's customers would need robots with Level Four Cultivator or Level Three Cultivator powers. However, the shop didn't sell robots of these levels because the profits were too low for them.
Lin Yun made a deal with the shop: if they came across such customers in the future, they could take stock from him and sell it to these customers at 85% of the price.
Though each person was limited in the variety of goods they could sell, the shop could drop a product temporarily to put up this type of product for a normal transaction.
As this shop's advanced robot customer, it wouldn't be hard for them to find these sorts of customers. Moreover, any customer who could afford an advanced robot wouldn't buy low-level robots in small quantities when he/she needed them.
The shopkeeper agreed.
He could see Lin Yun's potential and was trying to build a good relationship with him. Lin Yun's proposal suited his needs perfectly because even when selling at 85% of the price, he could still make a profit.
However, he originally did not want to bother making such small profits. He was no longer in the early stages of his development and spent most of his time on cultivation. The best scenario for him was to have transactions that could be conducted automatically.
He had no desire to put effort into transactions that were not very profitable.
His own power was the most important thing.
But it was worth spending some effort to build a good relationship with a promising newcomer like Lin Yun.
In fact, he proactively began to get in touch with some customers in order to win over Lin Yun.
Lin Yun also bought twenty starships from a store for 300,000 Spirit Crystals each. They were well-performing in all aspects.
It did make sense. A medium-sized spaceship from a second level technological civilization was priced around this. So if this high price was condensed into one starship, how bad could it be?
Lin Yun left Lin Xuan, Lin Huang, and Lin Yi to Lin eighteen, each with a star car, to gather resources on nearby asteroids.
For this, Lin Yun spent ten million spirit crystals to purchase twenty sets of resource collection and detection equipment for them.
Naturally, for such a large purchase, Lin Yun also negotiated the price with the shop owner selling these devices.
The quality of these devices was even higher than the set he previously used for resource gathering.
Robots, resource collection devices, detection devices, combined, Lin Yun spent over thirty million spirit crystals, truly making a significant investment.
Had he not struck it rich, Lin Yun would not have been so willing to do so.
Each team tasked with resource collection was valued at over 1.5 million spirit crystals. In total, there were twenty teams, and among many owners of the Cosmic Trading System, this was considered a generous sum.
Having done all this, Lin Yun began preparing to return.
Because they were now over fifteen million kilometers from Earth. If Star One were to teleport them back, it would consume a minimum of three hundred thousand spirit crystals.
Therefore, Lin Yun did not plan to have Star One teleport them back.
This energy consumption was worth buying another spaceship.
In fact, one minute ago, Lin Yun was doing just that.
"Buzz——"
Soon, a spatial ripple emerged in Lin Yun's trading space, and a huge spaceship appeared in the trading space.
This spaceship was over one thousand and one hundred meters long, more than three hundred meters wide, and over four hundred meters high. It was a glossy black, sleekly designed, emitting a metallic lustre, looking very cool and imposing.
This spaceship was a lower-level spaceship from a third-level technological civilization, which Lin Yun purchased with one million spirit crystals.
Whoosh——
The moment Lin Yun released this spaceship, Star One teleported them into this spaceship.
Lin Yun's mental strength had reached the lower fifth level, just enough to fully operate a spaceship from a third-level technological civilization, and Lin Yun had already learned how to operate a spaceship.
Soon, he completed the spaceship's binding process and all encryption procedures.
"Let's go!"
Lin Yun's powerful mental strength proficiently entered the mental command box, quickly issuing a series of mental instructions as he cheerfully said.
"Buzz——"
Soon, this spaceship emitted layers of protective shields and started its journey back to Earth.
One second... two seconds... three seconds...
As time passed, the speed of this spaceship increased continuously.
Occasionally, objects like small rocks that hit the spaceship were obliterated by its protective shields. Stay connected through empire
One minute later, the spaceship accelerated to one percent the speed of light.
Though it could still accelerate further, Lin Yun chose not to. The current speed was already the highest within the perfect operating range of a spaceship of this level; accelerating further would be difficult to manage.
Though this speed wasn't as fast as Star One's teleportation speed, it was only two or three times slower. However, the energy consumption difference between the two was vast. Starting and stopping consumed quite a bit of energy, but cosmic navigation consumed minimal energy unless there were cosmic storms, meteors, and small asteroids in the way.
From here to Earth, barring unforeseen circumstances, it would only require a little more than a thousand spirit crystals' worth of energy. Even if they encountered cosmic storms, meteors, or small celestial bodies, provided the situations were not too dangerous, it would only consume at most two to three thousand spirit crystals.
If they were not in a rush to travel, by slowing down the speed and the spaceship's automatic energy recovery mechanism, the energy consumption could be significantly reduced.
Therefore, for long-distance travel, using a spaceship was a wise choice.