Chen Nan hadn't expected outsiders to be able to enter the Dragon Mausoleum!
Recovering his senses, he asked, "If I'm not mistaken, the conditions to enter the Dragon Mausoleum must be extremely stringent, right?"
Mei Niang replied, "That's right. To enter the Dragon Mausoleum, one needs to pay five thousand pieces of high-grade immortal stones!"
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"This is too outrageous! Five thousand high-grade immortal stones? Aren't the Dragon clan just robbing people?"
Chen Nan found it hard to accept!
It's important to know that high-grade immortal stones are very rare!
One high-grade immortal stone can be exchanged for a thousand mid-grade immortal stones!
One mid-grade immortal stone can be exchanged for a thousand low-grade immortal stones!
Even though they earned three thousand low-grade immortal stones that morning, when converted to mid-grade immortal stones, it was equivalent to only three mid-grade immortal stones!
Even if they didn't eat or drink, they wouldn't earn five thousand high-grade immortal stones in a hundred years!
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If it were two thousand high-grade immortal stones!
Chen Nan could have signed up right then!
After all, the people from the Sky Demon Cave had given two thousand high-grade immortal stones as an apology to the Birdmen clan!
He had all those immortal stones on him!
However, five thousand high-grade immortal stones was simply preposterous!
This meant!
To gather five thousand immortal stones within a year, they would need to earn eight high-grade immortal stones every day!
This meant earning eight thousand mid-grade immortal stones every day...
Eight thousand mid-grade immortal stones converted to eighty million low-grade immortal stones...
After calculating this, Chen Nan only felt like cursing!
Damn it!
It's impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Wasn't this making things difficult for him?
Although he now had a way to enter the Dragon Mausoleum, it was better for him not to know about it!
Even though the barbecue restaurant's business was currently quite good!
And even though they could open branches!
The cost and investment were too high!
After all, the profit margin in the catering industry was at most sixty percent!
Moreover, the investment was large, and the returns were not quick!
There were significant limitations!
There was no such thing as a business with a thousand-fold profit...
Wait!
A business with a thousand-fold profit?
There is!
There really is!
Chen Nan had a sudden inspiration!
He thought of the lottery on Earth!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this a business with a thousand-fold profit, right?
If he could open a lottery shop in the Dragon clan, earning three thousand high-grade immortal stones within a year wouldn't be difficult!
"I'm going out for a bit!"
Chen Nan excitedly ran out of the barbecue restaurant!
In the Dragon clan, anything one does requires prior registration!
Including the relevant procedures he had registered before opening the barbecue restaurant!
Of course, taxes also need to be paid.
The tax rate is five percent!
It's equivalent to paying protection money!
This point was quite good!
At least they could get protection from the Dragon clan!
They didn't have to worry about someone not paying after eating.
So!
He planned to register a lottery shop and monopolize it!
The staff member found Chen Nan's so-called "Double Color Ball" very interesting, "You mean, for two spirit stones, one can potentially win five million spirit stones?"
"Yes!" Chen Nan said with a smile, "Give dreams a chance. For two spirit stones, you can become a millionaire!"
The staff member clicked his tongue, "There has never been a 'Double Color Ball' like the one you described in our Dragon clan! Although our Dragon clan promotes industry monopolies, this requires an additional fee!"
"Brother, I'm new here and don't have much money on me." Chen Nan secretly slipped him a storage bag containing several hundred low-grade spirit stones!
Then he added, "I don't know if the 'Double Color Ball' can be popularized. If you ask me to monopolize the industry now and charge an extra fee, I won't be able to afford it!"
"How about this, if I really make money, I'll increase the tax amount to twenty percent?"
Chen Nan had already thought of his response before he came!
A twenty percent tax rate was absolutely unprecedented!
After all, even in the most heavily taxed field of medicinal herbs, the tax was only ten percent!
The staff member was stunned for a moment, seemingly not expecting Chen Nan to propose paying twenty percent tax!
After hesitating for a moment!
He registered Chen Nan's information on the registration book, then took out a seal and stamped it, giving it to Chen Nan!
Chen Nan was overjoyed!
Money makes the world go round, even in the Dragon clan!
As long as he had the industry monopoly certificate, he wouldn't be afraid of others being jealous and copying his patent!
After that, Chen Nan spent a high price to buy a puppet!
He also asked the puppet master to modify the puppet's left and right hands, turning it into a humanoid printer!
After doing all this!
He returned to the shop immediately, as many customers had already arrived!
Among them, naturally, was Ao Ding, that old lecher!
His eyes were fixated on Mei Niang with lust, wishing he could devour her whole!
Upon seeing Chen Nan, his gaze became somewhat restrained!
Of course!
There was more disappointment!
Because he had asked Mei Niang, Chen Nan had already consumed that hundred-thousand-year-old spiritual medicine!
But...
He hadn't broken through the bottleneck and entered the Earth Immortal realm!
This was rather frustrating!
Because if Chen Nan didn't enter the Earth Immortal realm, Mei Niang couldn't pledge herself to him!
Seeing a humanoid puppet following Chen Nan, Ao Ding couldn't help but ask, "Younger brother Chen Nan, how did you get a puppet?"
Chen Nan smiled and said, "I had nothing to do, so I came up with a small project to liven things up!" As he spoke, he placed the lottery machine he had bought on the counter!
"Let me introduce this little thing. I guarantee everyone will be interested!" Chen Nan said to the curious customers in the shop, "This item is called the 'Double Color Ball,' and it has forty-nine numbers in total!"
"Thirty-three red numbers!"
"Sixteen blue numbers!"
"When betting, you need to choose six red numbers and one blue number!"
"Well, you can buy one ticket for two yuan!"
"If the numbers you buy match all the winning numbers during the draw, the prize is five million spirit stones!"
As soon as he said this!
A collective gasp of cold air erupted from the crowd!
"Two spirit stones can earn five million?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Shopkeeper Chen, you're going to go bankrupt like this!"
"Come on, let's not say anything else, I'll take two hundred spirit stones worth of Double Color Ball!"
Everyone who came today was from the Dragon clan!
Most of them had come to support Ao Ding!
The disciples of the Dragon clan were by no means short of money!
Chen Nan said seriously, "This is of course true. Moreover, I've obtained the Dragon clan's industry monopoly certificate, so it's guaranteed!"
He smiled and said, "Although the Double Color Ball seems simple, it's actually quite difficult. You'll soon realize its difficulty!"
"Also, the draw will be held every two days!"
"The draw will be conducted in an open, fair, and just manner!"
Another Dragon clan disciple spoke up, "Shopkeeper Chen, I'll try my luck too!"
"I'll also try my luck!"
"A mere two spirit stones isn't even enough to buy a meal, I'll try it!"
The Dragon clan was powerful!
The most powerful race in the world!
But besides being powerful, the Dragon clan had almost no other qualities worthy of people's awe!
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong, lazy and gluttonous, greedy for money and lustful!
Gambling!
These were all part of their character!
Therefore!
The Double Color Ball that Chen Nan was promoting at this moment had perfectly targeted their weakness!
He didn't have to worry about them not being interested!
At the same time, Mei Niang called Ao Ding to the backyard and said anxiously, "Brother Ao, it looks like my husband is about to make a fortune!"
"If he makes money, he'll definitely buy spiritual medicine. If he breaks through on his own, our bet will be void!"
"What do you think we should do now?"