Chapter 164 164: Skyrocketing Crystal Price



The second most important resource that he could buy was crystals. Crystals were an important cultivation resource for Tiki, Dreyer, and even himself. 

They needed to use crystals to progress in their immortal cultivation and to practice witchcraft. As the main source of strength for Tiki and Dreyer, Yoze didn't want them to face any hurdles that would slow them down. 

And the most important hurdle that Yoze was able to get rid of was the lack of crystals. Before he had even received the money from the Thorn Rose Sect Tiki and Dreyer didn't have much to worry about when it came to the number of crystals since he had enough money.

But Yoze still felt that it was better to buy a huge amount of crystals now for a few reasons. The first was that buying the crystals now would not negatively affect them and instead would allow them not to worry about buying crystals in the future when they needed them.

The second reason was related to the first and that was he worried that other rogue immortal cultivators would also want to increase their strength before the immortals from the immortal sect arrived. That would lead to a drastic increase in the price of crystals and drastically decrease the supply.

That would make it more difficult and dangerous to go outside and buy crystals as rogue immortal cultivators would be hyper-focused on acquiring as many as they could. Buying a large amount of crystal as soon as possible would not only allow them to beat the traffic but also allow them to spend less money.

As for the possibility of a rogue immortal cultivator tracking them down and trying to steal the crystals, Yoze hoped they tried. Not only would that allow him to easily copy talents from immortal cultivators but also allow him to decrease the competition that might arrive.

The third reason was that he was interested in focusing on his own immortal cultivation for the next few months. He had put his immortal cultivation on the back burner for a long time as he felt his progress would have been too slow compared to his martial arts progress. 

The biggest issue was that he needed to spend five hours absorbing one crystal. That was much faster compared to the amount of time Tiki and Dreyer had to spend when absorbing crystals but he felt that time was too long.

In that same amount of time, he would have been able to make incredible progress in any martial art technique that would improve his combat power much higher. But now that his Crystal Nerves and Dead Crystal Nerves talents have greatly improved compared to when he first started, Yoze felt it was time to truly start his immortal cultivation journey.

From his predictions, he would be able to break through into the first level of Nerves Accumulation before the Immortals arrived. That would give him enough time to train in his style of fighting using immortal cultivation techniques.

"I am fine with that, do you want Tiki and me to help you get the crystals?" Dreyer asked, fully supporting Yoze's plan.

"Yeah, if you need our help getting enough crystals we know quite a few shops that sell crystals." Tiki nodded her head as she offered her help.

"That would be great, I would like to get as many crystals as I can. Hopefully, enough so that we won't have to worry about buying crystals for the next few years." Yoze said calmly.

"Then we will have to visit quite a lot of shops to get that amount," Tiki said as she started to write down all the shops they could visit.

"Yoze, for the house do you already have a place in mind or designs that you would like to have," Jewel joined in the conversation and asked Yoze for more details.

"I would want the house to be big enough for me to easily live there and have plenty of space outside for me to train in. It would be best if it is also in an area that can have a house that has twice or triple the weight limit of the Ten Ton Inn." After thinking about everything he wanted, Yoze said his most important requirements.

"That narrows it down to a few areas outside of the city but because of how far they are, the price to build anything in those areas is much cheaper." Jewel racked her brain remembering the best locations that fit Yoze's requirements before remembering a few.

"Perfect, since that is all settled. Let's go buy the crystals before the shops make a lot of sales." Yoze nodded his head seeing that there weren't going to be any major problems with getting what he needed.

After quickly eating their breakfast, Yoze, Tiki, and Dreyer went out to visit various shops all over the city to buy all their crystals. By the time they felt that they had gotten enough crystals to last them 2 years of cultivation, they had spent more than 10000 silver.

Luckily due to how much they bought they ended up getting a few discounts so they ended up spending less than they would have had to buy the same equivalent of crystals separately. With the three of them emptying several crystal shops over the next few days many rogue immortal cultivators would find out that the price of crystals had skyrocketed.

Even though he had disturbed the market and created waves in the rogue immortal cultivator community, Yoze didn't feel an ounce of guilt as he was focused on improving his immortal cultivation.

Several weeks soon passed as Yoze sat in his room holding two large crystals in his hands. Even though he wasn't doing anything to those crystals they were shrinking extremely fast to the point.

It only took around 3 hours for the two large crystals to go from being larger than a fist to nothing. When Yoze sensed that he had absorbed the last bit of crystal dust from the two crystals he opened his eyes.