Chapter 8 Why is there such a price difference?

The middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses put down the water glass in his hand and glanced at the personal information form Lin Li filled out.

Then he raised his head, smiled and said to Lin Li, who was in ecstasy at the moment, imagining that after eating hundreds of magical little fruits, he would become an extremely powerful practitioner.

"Mr. Lin, you came so late to register as a practitioner. This is the first time I have encountered you in these years."

"Huh? I..."

Lin Li, who was immersed in fantasy, was awakened by the middle-aged man's words, and then he was stunned for a moment.

Just when he subconsciously wanted to explain that he had not deliberately delayed until this moment to register his identity as a practitioner, he immediately swallowed the explanation that came to his lips.

You should be low-key and keep a low profile. This is the successful experience of countless predecessors. You should not let others know the secret of your rapid progress.

Lin Li smiled at the middle-aged man in response without explaining too much.

"It turns out that this person deliberately delayed coming to test his cultivation until now!"

"So this person has become a practitioner a few years ago, so he is now here to test his cultivation and register his identity as a practitioner. A few years ago, wasn't he afraid of being discovered and fined?"

"What a weirdo."

"In order to show off, he delayed registering his identity as a practitioner until he reached the first level. This person is really weird."

Everyone who was originally shocked by Lin Li's detection of a high-level cultivation level now looked at Lin Li with strange eyes and whispered.

Although the people around him whispered in soft tones, the space of the testing room was only a hundred square meters, so no matter how low these people talked, it would still reach Lin Li's ears.

Lin Li was not angry at these people's criticisms, but was very happy. The more these people speculated, the more in line with his wishes.

The middle-aged man who was responsible for helping everyone test their cultivation saw that Lin Li remained silent and just smiled at himself. Like those who criticized Lin Li, he also guessed in the same direction, thinking that the young man in his early twenties was a lover.

Someone who is in the limelight.

Later, the middle-aged man wrote down Lin Li's cultivation status on Lin Li's information slip, and then handed the slip to Lin Li.

"Thank you." Lin Li thanked him, then took the receipt and left the testing room.

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At 10:30 in the morning, Lin Li walked out of the government agency after registering as a practitioner. From now on, he was also a registered practitioner.

"It's time to go to that place next." Lin Li looked up at the sun in the sky, then came to the roadside, stopped a taxi, and headed to his next destination.

Seven or eight minutes later, the taxi stopped in front of a bustling shopping plaza.

"Total fifteen yuan."

"Master, I want to scan the QR code to pay."

"OK."

Lin Li paid the fare, got out of the taxi, and walked quickly to the shopping mall ahead.

This shopping plaza has quite a large flow of people, and all the shops along the street are basically full of customers, with the exception of one shop.

This store has a very high-end decoration, but because the products sold in the store are mainly for practitioners, there are not many customers who come to the store to shop.

Standing outside the door and looking inside, there are only one or two customers in the store, the kind who just watch and buy.

Lingshi, produced from psychic energy veins, contains a large amount of psychic energy and is the most important cultivation resource for practitioners today.

Liu Laosan's Lingshi Store, located in the most prosperous area of ​​the shopping plaza, is a store that specializes in selling spiritual stones. Lin Li wanted to buy some spiritual stones from this Lingshi Store during his trip to speed up his cultivation progress.

After Lin Li ate the red fruit from the magical tree on the mysterious island, he suddenly became a practitioner with a first-level advanced cultivation level.

With such great progress, he should be satisfied. However, if Lin Li wants that magical tree to continue to grow small fruits, he must break through to the peak of the first level as soon as possible and become an exotic beast hunter.

Then go to the wild to hunt exotic animals in person and obtain exotic animal meat that is fresh within an hour.

Under normal circumstances, after most practitioners have broken through to the high level of the first level, it will take as little as a year and as long as several years to break through to the peak of the first level.

But the magical little fruit that Lin Li ate was too powerful, pushing him to the high level of the first level and about to reach the critical point of reaching the peak of the first level.

Lin Li now has a feeling that he is about to break through. If he practices normally, he should be able to break through to the peak of the first level in half a month.

But he couldn't wait any longer, so he came here and prepared to buy some spiritual stones to assist him in his cultivation and strive to break through to the peak of the first level in the shortest possible time.

A shopping guide lady in her early twenties, with long hair and a good face, wearing black overalls and black stockings, saw Lin Li walking into the store and immediately greeted her, greeting her warmly.

"welcome."

"I want to buy spiritual stones."

The purpose of Lin Li's trip was very clear. After arriving at the store, he directly faced the beautiful shopping guide lady in front of him and explained his purpose.

"Sir, please come with me." Seeing the customer's strong purchase intention, the beautiful shopping guide girl's bright smile became even brighter. She smiled and stretched out her hand, leading Lin Li to her counter.

The other shopping guide girls in the store saw that their colleagues had caught such a customer all at once, and they secretly hated themselves for being a step too slow and failing to grab this sales result.

"Sir, how many spiritual stones do you want to buy?" The beautiful shopping guide asked Lin Li to sit down on the chair in front of the counter. Then she walked closer to the counter and asked Lin Li with a smile.

"What's the price of the spiritual stones in your store?" Lin Li asked casually, looking down at the crystal clear spiritual stones in the glass counter.

"One piece costs 50,000 yuan."

"Fifty thousand yuan a piece? The price I checked online seems to be 49,000 yuan a piece. Why is it a thousand yuan more expensive here?"

After hearing what Lin Li said, the beautiful shopping guide immediately concluded that the young man in front of her, who was about the same age as herself, must be buying spiritual stones for the first time, so she had such doubts. She immediately explained with a smile.

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"Sir, we did not quote randomly. The state clearly stipulates that the market price of a single spiritual stone is 50,000 yuan. Just like the price of tobacco, it cannot be set at will.

The kind of spiritual stone worth 49,000 yuan that you see on the Internet should be smuggled/smuggled in from abroad.

Although that kind of spiritual stone is cheaper in price, there is a risk in buying those black goods, and some of the spiritual energy contained in the purchased spiritual stone has been consumed."

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Chapter completed!