bookbashuk Chapter 237 Pricing Issues
Chapter 237 Pricing Issues
Chapter 237 Pricing Issues
"This wine must be very expensive, otherwise I'd love to drink ten thousand jugs of it and have a good time!"
The ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom laughed heartily, tracing the empty wine glass between his fingertips.
At that moment, he felt refreshed and all his fatigue had vanished.
For the strong, occasionally indulging in alcohol to forget their worries is not a way to erode their will, but a rare moment of relaxation in the long years, a kind of enjoyment, only this enjoyment is too luxurious for them.
Xu Qing leaned back in the floating seat, casually twirling a bronze wine jug between his fingers: "If the Immortal Brew can open up the market, let alone ten thousand jugs, it wouldn't be difficult to get the king drunk on a million jugs in the future."
"Haha, Brother Xu, you're too kind!"
The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom suppressed his smile and straightened his expression.
"If I really had a million jugs, I wouldn't be willing to drink them. Do you know how many Hunyuan units those million jugs could be exchanged for?"
He wasn't exaggerating.
The divine body of the Cosmic Venerable has long transcended the mortal realm. Let alone a million jugs of immortal wine, even if a million supernovae exploded within his body, it would be nothing more than a gentle breeze to him.
For example, there is a type of G-class metal, which is produced when a supermassive star with a mass several hundred times that of the Sun eventually collapses into a black hole—a metal called start gold.
This golden tear of the star is known as the tear of the star!
How big can tears be? And how big is the divine body of the cosmic sage?
This gives us a glimpse into just how powerful the Universe Venerable's body truly is.
Even quasars like black holes, which are so large that even light cannot escape, cannot cause them any harm.
Let alone the cosmic venerables, even those who have been granted the title of king and immortality could easily drink a million jugs of wine.
After all, even the weakest immortal powerhouse has a body comparable to a star.
For these gods whose lifespans are almost eternal, drinking is merely a pastime, an occasional enjoyment throughout the long ages, and does not cause any harm to their bodies.
But this also creates a problem.
Because the immortal divine bodies are as powerful as theirs, even if they completely let go of their minds and bodies and do not resist, it is really, really difficult to get drunk. Endless wealth cannot buy a moment of intoxication.
For these deities whose lifespans are close to eternity, the intoxicating celestial wine is more precious than billions of galaxies.
"How much do you plan to sell this pot for?"
The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom leaned forward slightly, his gaze fixed on the wine pot. As a major debtor, he cared more about the price than Xu Qing.
"The newly released wine is relatively unknown in the market, so I don't want to sell it at too high a price," Xu Qing said casually, as if he were talking about something insignificant.
The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom nodded. He decided to first establish a good reputation for the new product, and then raise the price later.
But the next second, Xu Qing's words made him freeze instantly: "Let's set it at ten billion mixed units."
A brief silence fell over the cabin, with only the faint starlight outside the porthole reflecting on the face of the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler.
He frowned, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the floating coffee table, his tone tinged with disbelief: "Isn't this—too cheap?"
One billion Chaos Units may seem like an astronomical figure, comparable to the entire fortune of some King-level Immortals. The life of an ordinary Immortal is not even worth one ten-thousandth of this price.
But in the eyes of the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom, this price was simply a bargain!
It should be known that in the primordial universe, there are very few rare treasures that can move even the most revered beings in the universe, let alone a divine brew that can make a revered being willing to open their mind and sleep for a day.
Looking across the entire primeval realm, even the treasures of the Lord of the Universe might not have such "recreational value".
"Brother Xu, you don't need to worry about the high-end market."
The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom leaned forward, his tone tinged with urgency.
"With me here, who among the venerable beings and immortals of the primordial universe wouldn't give me some face? This wine, let alone a billion, even if the price were dozens of times higher, would still be in high demand!"
The ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom has ruled the Qianwu Universe Kingdom for hundreds of millions of years. He is one of the oldest cosmic venerables in the entire human race. Even the rulers of other universe kingdoms have to give him some face.
Actually, he had some objections to Xu Qing's pricing from the beginning, but the wine was not precious enough and there were many competitors, so the small quantity added up to a large amount.
But now, Xu Qing is giving us a divine brew that can even intoxicate a cosmic venerable.
Not to mention that he had incurred a huge debt of tens of thousands of precious treasures back then, and he was looking to recoup his costs with this immortal wine. How could he tolerate Xu Qingding offering such a low price?
The thought of how many of the mixed units he should have received were missing made his heart clench.
"Your face is certainly enough, otherwise you wouldn't be able to owe tens of thousands of precious treasures," Xu Qing thought to himself, looking at the anxious look on the Qianwu Kingdom's ruler's face, his fingertips rubbing the wine pot, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes.
He already knew what this super-debtor was thinking.
The price was set from the beginning because it was expected that the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom would raise the price, since the other party wanted to fill the debt hole with this immortal wine more than anyone else.
He wanted the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom to take the initiative to contribute.
After all, although he was the manufacturer, this was a world that valued strength, and he couldn't just bring it up himself.
"I naturally trust the king's authority."
Xu Qing spoke slowly, his tone carrying a hint of concession.
"I was thinking that it wouldn't be good to set the price too high for the first sale, but since the king has said so, perhaps we can discuss it further."
Upon hearing this, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom's eyes lit up instantly.
If Xu Qing gives the word and the price goes up, then the 50% stake he holds will be worth much more than a little bit.
He quickly replied, "Okay, I think it should be at least 30 billion Hunyuan units. That won't be too cheap, but it'll still be cheaper than similar types of fermented rice wine."
"Then I'll have to trouble Your Majesty." Xu Qing nodded.
Just as the two finalized the price, the spaceship's engine suddenly slowed down, and the stars that had been stretched into streaks of light at a hundred times the speed of light gradually returned to their spherical shape.
They are approaching the core area of the original secret realm.
Turning his head, sitting in the spaceship's 100% simulated starry sky, looking at the scenery outside the spaceship, Xu Qing subconsciously held his breath.
What appeared before him was not a planet or a galaxy, but a continent that stretched across the void, almost an endless expanse.
That landmass stretched endlessly from the void, with no end in sight.
One light-year is nine trillion kilometers, the sun is only a million kilometers, and the entire solar system is only about 10 billion kilometers.
As far as Xu Qing could observe, this continent was at least several light-years in size.
It's important to know that the entire solar system, from one end to the other, is only a few billion kilometers long.
Those stars that have been burning in the universe for billions of years and have diameters of millions or even billions of kilometers.
At this moment, it is like a speck of dust that has been casually scattered, slowly rotating along the edge of the continent, captured by the continent's gravity, becoming a satellite orbiting it, becoming a tiny decoration.
Even the light of stars seemed as small as a firefly at this moment.
Even the dazzling brilliance of those blue superstars cannot cover even a fraction of this continent, like a drop in the ocean.