Conscience Price

Ye Chuan had just arranged for someone to carry Bai Qianshuang and Luo Xi back to their room to settle them in. Before he even had time to ponder the matter of their awakening memories, he heard slight movements coming from the room.

He walked in briskly and saw that Bai Qianshuang had already sat up. She was rubbing her temples, her eyes still a bit dazed. Beside her, Luo Xi also slowly opened her eyes, her eyelashes fluttering gently.

"You're awake?"

Ye Chuan paused, his tone full of surprise.

"I thought you two would be asleep for a long time."

He had prepared himself for them to be unconscious for a day or two, but unexpectedly, they woke up in less than an hour.

But now—

Ye Chuan also needed to confirm whether there were any issues with their memories.

Bai Qianshuang blinked, adjusting to the light. Her voice was still a bit hoarse.

"I... I just suddenly felt very sleepy. I closed my eyes and fell asleep, and I don't really remember what happened after that."

She raised a hand to touch her forehead. That glowing Emperor Seal had vanished without a trace, and she didn't feel any discomfort. It was just as if she had taken a normal nap.

Bai Qianshuang seemed a little confused by Ye Chuan's reaction. "What's wrong?"

Luo Xi also sat up, her eyes still somewhat unfocused.

"Ugh... my head feels heavy. Chuan Chuan, what happened to me?"

Seeing that their conditions were relatively stable, Ye Chuan briefly explained what had just happened.

"When you passed out, a glowing mark appeared on both of your foreheads. My healing spells had no effect. I got Lilith to take a look, and she said you might be awakening your memories, and your bodies went into a self-protective coma."

"Awakening memories?" Bai Qianshuang and Luo Xi exchanged a glance, seemingly failing to process this.

Awakening what memories?

Had they forgotten something from their past?

As a cultivator, Bai Qianshuang had some concept of awakening memories from past lives. However, Luo Xi was completely baffled. She had always thought of herself as an ordinary girl; how could she be involved in something like this?

"Do you... feel like you have any extra memories?" Ye Chuan asked them.

Bai Qianshuang and Luo Xi looked at each other again.

They shook their heads.

"No," Bai Qianshuang said softly. Luo Xi also shook her head.

"Chuan Chuan, I'm just a little sleepy right now, that's all. Nothing's wrong."

"As long as you're okay, that's all that matters." Seeing no abnormalities in either of them, Ye Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lilith said that as long as no one disturbs you, you'll be fine once you adapt. Since you don't feel unwell right now, let's put this matter aside for the time being. Don't overthink it."

Bai Qianshuang nodded and gave a soft affirmative hum.

Luo Xi, on the other hand, smiled playfully and said,

"Maybe we're just a bit tired lately. It probably has nothing to do with awakening memories."

...

The night passed uneventfully.

Early the next morning, Ye Chuan received a call from Wang Yanran. She told him that the meat processing plant and the granary had been contacted, and all the supplies were fully prepared, just waiting for him to pick them up.

Ye Chuan gave a few simple instructions. After confirming that Bai Qianshuang and Luo Xi were completely fine, he asked Lan Xiaoke to stay at home and keep them company. He then teleported to the agreed-upon meeting spot with Wang Yanran.

Upon meeting, Wang Yanran took him directly to the meat plant located in the suburbs.

It was a sizable, modern facility. The factory grounds were clean and tidy, with large refrigerated trucks parked neatly in the loading area.

Walking into the dedicated cold storage warehouse, fifty tons of pork were divided into neat stacks.

"Ye Chuan, this is all high-quality pork prepared according to your requirements. They were all slaughtered in the early hours of the morning to guarantee freshness."

Ye Chuan took a look and was fairly satisfied.

It wasn't for him to eat anyway; the soldiers of Miral should consider themselves lucky to even have fresh pork.

Wang Yanran continued her introduction as they walked.

"Next is the granary. The rice is also ready."

Leaving the meat plant, the two arrived at a large granary not far away.

Unlike the cold storage of the meat plant, the interior of the granary was spacious and towering. Rows of tall grain bins were arranged neatly, filled to the brim with rice—a full two hundred tons of it.

"Not bad, very efficient." Ye Chuan nodded in satisfaction, his gaze sweeping over the supplies before him.

"Has the money been paid?"

"Paid in full."

Ye Chuan didn't ask Wang Yanran how much she had spent. After all, it wasn't something he needed to worry about—even though there was a massive amount of supplies here, they might not even be worth a single spirit stone.

"Should I call the transport team over now? Where do you plan to store all this?" Wang Yanran asked.

Wang Yanran assumed Ye Chuan would use large trucks for transport. She was just about to call the transport team she had arranged in advance when she saw Ye Chuan walk straight up to the rice and gently wave his hand.

The next second, the rows of rice before her vanished into thin air, as if snatched away by an invisible giant hand, leaving absolutely no trace behind.

"!!!" Although Wang Yanran had witnessed Ye Chuan's abilities before, seeing the granary emptied in an instant still made her jaw drop slightly, unable to hide the look of disbelief on her face.

She subconsciously rubbed her eyes, wondering if she was seeing things.

Before she could even react, Ye Chuan teleported back to the pork plant and stuffed all the pork into his inventory space as well.

[Item: Rice

Weight: 200 tons]

[Item: Pork

Weight: 50 tons]

Not bad, it only took up a single grid slot. After all, the Holy Pool Water from the Azure Cloud Sect weighed seven million tons and still only occupied one slot, let alone a few hundred tons of trivial items.

Ye Chuan clapped his hands, turned to look at Wang Yanran, and said in a calm tone:

"Alright, it's all collected. We can go now."

Wang Yanran finally snapped back to reality. "Then... shall we go get the vegetables and other things?"

"Yeah, let's go."

Over the next while, Ye Chuan and Wang Yanran went to collect the vegetables, buying some spices and similar items along the way.

The rice and meat would probably be enough to feed those soldiers for a week.

And Ye Chuan had spent less than two million yuan in total.

"How many gold coins would be appropriate to charge for two million yuan worth of supplies?" Ye Chuan pondered as he looked at the ingredients in his inventory.

Based on purchasing power, one gold coin in the Sil Empire of the Aether Continent was equivalent to ten thousand yuan.

His two million yuan worth of supplies should therefore equal two hundred gold coins.

"Hmm, I'll sell it for two thousand gold coins. That shouldn't be too excessive," Ye Chuan thought. A tenfold markup should be fine.

He could still consider it a fair price.

After all, a war definitely wouldn't be wrapped up in a week, so he was poised to make a massive fortune in gold coins.

It wasn't that Ye Chuan couldn't sell it for more; it was mainly because if the price was too high, the little dragonkin probably wouldn't want to buy it from him, and would instead go to a transit territory to purchase supplies.

"Whatever, I'll just leave it at that."

However, this matter gave Ye Chuan another idea: could spirit stones be sold on the Aether Continent?

"I'll look into it after the war is over." Ye Chuan felt like money-making ideas were popping up one after another.