Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 835 - 542: Merciful Yan Chuan

"Iron-Haired Wild Boar, a second-level ruins beast, its entire body covered in spiky fur, with two huge tusks in its large mouth. Purchase parts: tusks, fur, tendons, bones, skin, meat, blood. Overall estimate: 2 taels of essence stone."

"Single-Horned Wild Boar, a third-level ruins beast, covered with black fur like black steel spikes, with a deep gray horn, a tail like an iron whip, and sturdy iron hooves. Purchase parts: horn, fur, tail, hooves, teeth, tendons, bones, skin, meat, blood. Overall estimate: 11 taels of essence stone."

"Bloodthirsty Wild Boar, a fourth-level ruins beast, entirely red, and covered with many scales. Purchase parts: scales, teeth, tendons, bones, skin, meat, blood. Overall estimate: 2.5 jin of essence stone."

"Fire Scale Three-pronged Pig, a fifth-level ruins beast, covered in fire-red scales, with three high-curved sharp horns on its head, capable of easily crushing steel. Purchase parts: sharp horns, scales, teeth, tendons, bones, skin, meat, blood. Overall estimate: 6.8 jin of essence stone."

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Yan Chuan was holding a whole scroll introducing ruins beasts of the pig family—

First-level ruins beasts corresponded to not entering the Limit-breaking.

Second-level ruins beasts corresponded to Early Limit-breaking.

Third-level ruins beasts corresponded to Breaking Limit Middle Stage.

Fourth-level ruins beasts corresponded to Late Stage Limit Breaking.

Fifth-level ruins beasts corresponded to Peak State.

One, two, three, four, five, corresponded to Postnatal Realm, referred to as 'Soldier Level.'

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, corresponded to First to Fifth Ranks of Innate Realm, referred to as 'General Level.'

Eleven to fifteen levels corresponded to Sixth to Tenth Ranks of Innate Realm, referred to as 'Commander Level.'

Starting from the sixteenth level, it corresponds to War God Realm, at which level, ruling lands as kings, referred to as 'Lord Level.'

"City Lord Yan, do not overlook the value of Soldier Level ruins beasts, but due to their quantity. A King City Realm kills at least eight to ten thousand alien beasts daily, even if all are second-level ruins beasts, earning 2 taels of essence stone per head; with ten thousand heads, it's 1250 jin, which is 3.75 Primordial Pills a month."

Xin Zhuang had roughly calculated after seeing these purchase catalogs.

Ten thousand heads?

This is still considered few!

During a 'Beast Tide' city assault, over ten thousand ruins beasts could be shot to death just outside the city by a volley of arrows, with quite a few third and fourth-level ruins beasts beheaded by elite forces leaving the city.

One city!

One day!

Ten thousand second-level ruins beasts!

Can earn 1250 jin of essence stone!

In the Eight Phases Realm, with ten cities, that's 1.25 Primordial Pills a day, 37.5 a month!

This is still few.

Knowing ruins beasts could be sold for money, all major King City Realms would surely shift from passive defense to proactive offense, significantly increasing their enthusiasm for killing ruins beasts, potentially multiplying the number of ruins beasts killed daily by ten.

"Monthly income of 375 Primordial Pills?"

No, no, no!

This is only for 'Soldier Level ruins beasts.'

The Eight Phases Realm also has Innate—

"General Level ruins beasts are even more valuable."

"For example, a sixth-level ruins beast equivalent to a First Rank Divine General, with a total value of around 500 jin of essence stone; just six sixth-level ruins beasts need to be killed monthly by a First Rank Divine General to achieve a monthly income of three thousand, matching the high-income group of First Rank Divine Generals who refine Primordial Pills."

"If a Divine General kills 'Soldier Level' ruins beasts, they would only need to hunt 441 'Fire Scale Three-pronged Pigs,' such level five mutant beasts, to reach a monthly income of three thousand, averaging 15 a day, not difficult."

Xin Zhuang was calculating ceaselessly, getting more and more excited.

Yan Chuan was also getting excited.

He had sensed a significant benefit for the Tan Valley Realm when he had learned of Great Yan's plan to establish the Great Yan Trading Company before the Heavenly Calamity, aiming to sell Tan Valley Realm's resources better through the company.

At that time, Yan Chuan already held the Great Yan Trading Company in high regard.

But he hadn't expected.

Still underestimated it.

"At the onset of the 'Beast Tide,' in each country and region of the Mo Yin Continent, Grandmasters in various fields such as alchemy, artifact refining, and talisman making and array setting began researching ruins beasts, quickly discovering multiple uses for ruins beast materials in refining pills and artifacts and talisman making and array setting, leading to large-scale, low-cost acquisition and hoarding."

"The 'Great Yan Trading Company' has a department specifically for investigating market trends, identifying this situation, gathering intel, and within just a month formulated this procurement catalog."

"The company not only purchases from all major King City Realms under Great Yan's control, but will also expand acquisitions in other regions within reach."

"While the Great Yan Trading Company lacks sufficient staff and talent to process these ruins beast materials, the four continents are ravaged by war, leading to the demand for elixir pills and surprise weapons increasing by hundreds of times. However, outside the cities ruins beasts run rampant, causing many mining areas to halt production, with many spirit medicines and herbs destroyed in the wild, leading to a significant shortage of raw materials for alchemy and artifact refining, thereby necessitating the large-scale acquisition of ruins beast materials to compensate and maintain intense warfare."

Ruins beasts.

Ruins beast materials.

The funds for purchasing these do not come out of nothing. Firstly, they are massively redirected from previously existing mining fields, spirit medicine gardens, etc., which is a significant scale.

Another source.

The Mo Yin Continent is ablaze everywhere, either combating beast tides or national struggles, leading to the demand for elixirs and surprise weapons skyrocketing by hundreds or thousands of times.

These demands.

These funds.

Amid the rampant Beast Tides and the collapse of order in Mo Yin Continent, and amid the destruction of trade routes, obstruction or even severance of merchandise circulation, the Great Yan Trading Company manages to rely on the unique advantage of the 'Star Gate,' organize resource demands in the four continents, purchase through the 'Star Gate,' and resell them in countries and regions with higher demand and prices.

Thus.

Continuously purchasing, continuously transferring, and eventually profiting massively!

And during this process—

Eight Phases Realm.

Tan Valley Realm.

The Great Yan's various forces are the first to benefit from the King City Realm they control.

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Tan Valley Realm.

On the night of August 10th, Yan Chuan rushed back overnight from the martial arts lecture in the Eight Phases Realm to meet with the Tan Valley Realm's three military commanders, Ni Mengtong.

"As of today, the Tan Valley Army has 3,156 men dead, 2,682 disabled, and 24,260 remaining."

"Guangming, Yong Mountain, Mengsha, the City Guard Army of the Three Cities were established on July 12th. Initially, each city had an army of 100,000 soldiers. Currently, Guangming Army has 73,568 soldiers ready to fight, Yong Mountain Army has 70,750 soldiers ready to fight, and Mengsha Army has 53,996 soldiers ready to fight."

"A total of 620,000 new recruits were gathered, with over 70,000 casualties, and 546,735 remaining."

Since the beginning of the Beast Tide on July 7th, Tan Valley Realm's three armies, namely the Tan Valley Army, the City Guard Army, and the New Army, totaling nearly a million soldiers, have suffered nearly 200,000 casualties in just over a month.

The battle losses approached 20%, which can be described as fierce.

And this is with the three Guard Cities as the core, defending the city strongly. Without the protection of the array in the three Guard Cities, not to mention a million soldiers, even 200,000 casualties would mean they would all be wiped out.

Thankfully.

There are cities.

"Thankfully, the 'Beast Tide' is gradually calming down." Ni Mengtong looked exhausted. For the past month, she has been overseeing all military affairs in the Tan Valley Realm, resting less than four hours a day, reaching her limit. Fortunately, the 'Beast Tide' finally showed signs of subsiding, with fewer attacks on the city and more internal conflicts among the Ruins Beasts within the Beast Tide—

The Fourteen Ruined Cities.

The Thirteen Restricted Areas.

The powerful Ruins Beasts have started to establish territories and begun management, seemingly realizing the difficulty of the three Guard Cities and finally becoming quiet. In recent days, the Beast Tide attacking the Guard Cities consisted mainly of Level One and Level Two Ruins Beasts, with rarely any high-level Ruins Beasts, greatly reducing the pressure on the three Guard Cities, finally giving them a chance to breathe.

Ni Mengtong also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the situation in Tan Valley Realm is still not optimistic—

Chen Ze came with the Thousand-mile Mirror, looking serious: "At the end of July, my senior brother slaughtered all the Fifth Rank and Fourth Rank Beast Kings in the Fourteen Ruined Cities, but in just ten days, new Beast Kings were born in the Fourteen Ruined Cities, despite Mengsha City's City Lord Sheng Xuan going to hunt them down, four Beast Kings broke through the shackles and achieved Sixth Rank, ruling one city and difficult to shake. Sheng Xuan, the City Lord, was severely injured by the Sixth Rank Ruins Beast 'Silver Moon Ferocious Wolf' in Zongyang City, one of the Fourteen Ruined Cities that temporarily broke through. Fortunately, that Sixth Rank Ruins Beast didn't have it easy either and was also seriously injured. That battle significantly intimidated the surrounding Beast Kings, including the Sixth Rank Beast Kings from Hong Valley, Wanhe, and Kong Shu cities, who did not dare to provoke Guard City for the time being."

Sheng Xuan's fight with the Sixth Rank Beast King Silver Moon Ferocious Wolf would be described harshly as 'mutual destruction,' but more positively as 'equally matched.'

Sheng Xuan's strength was confirmed.

This is an important reason why the Beast Tide attacking the three Guard Cities has gradually calmed down.

"Sheng Xuan can actually fight the Sixth Rank Beast King to a standstill?" Yan Chuan was shocked. He had tested the intensity of 'Returning Ruins' and knew exactly how strong the Sixth Rank was.

Even the Sixth Realm "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" couldn't compare to the Sixth Rank.

The movement technique of Mid Fifth Realm "Wave Riding Micro Steps" is still a distance from the Sixth Rank.

But Sheng Xuan could fight evenly with the Sixth Rank?

From the state when they joined forces to kill the Fifth Rank Beast King at the end of July, Sheng Xuan was at most Fifth Rank at that time, even slightly inferior to Yan Chuan.

In just ten days, he reached the Sixth Rank?

"Is it the Sixth Rank Beast King that is superficial, or did Sheng Xuan's saber skill make great progress in enlightenment over these ten days?"

But even if the Sixth Realm Blade Skill has not reached the Sixth Rank, what level must Sheng Xuan cultivate the "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" to enter the Sixth Rank Domain?

Sixth Realm Middle Stage?

Sixth Realm Late Stage?

Sixth Realm Peak?

Or Seventh Realm?!

... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

How exactly Sheng Xuan became stronger and what level he is at now can be easily understood. Yan Chuan only needs to go to Mengsha City for a martial arts lecture, and Sheng Xuan will listen and provide feedback clearly.

But before that—

"Release the news immediately, from now on, all three armies must bring every Ruins Beast they hunt back to the city for centralized processing, establish the 'Butcher Department,' which will be responsible for preliminary processing and preservation of Ruins Beast materials."

Procurement?

Yan Chuan is in charge of Tan Valley Realm, reigning as king alone, standing supreme in one realm. Amid Heavenly Calamities and Beast Tides, keeping alive hundreds of thousands, his merits are immense, where would he need procurement!

With a million soldiers in Tan Valley Realm, on average, one in six people is in the army, nearly everyone is a soldier, orders are like mountains, hunting Ruins Beasts and collecting materials are directly a 'military order like mountains,' issuing tasks to each army, department, and battalion.

Those who complete the tasks are rewarded.

Failure incurs penalties.

In this way, Yan Chuan can collect Ruins Beast materials without spending money, at most setting performance metrics and linking promotions and salary increases to it, stimulating the subjective initiative of the million army, and then Yan Chuan will just enjoy the fruits.

Tan Valley Realm belongs to everyone!

Ruins Beasts are harmful.

The Beast Tide is fierce.

It's rightful for everyone to fight against the Ruins Beasts and guard Tan Valley.

"I only need to pay wages and issue performance rewards." Yan Chuan doesn't exploit the military pay of the three armies, which is already a benevolent Great King.

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