Versatile Sword Cultivator

Chapter 254 – Make a fortune of a million

Chapter 254 – Make a fortune of a million

Out of a hundred people, only one player could win, and even then, it was just the most basic Qi Refining Realm pet.

But this was enough to excite the other players.

It showed that winning was indeed possible; it was just a matter of luck.

As a result, players flocked in droves to try their luck.

Lin Jichen never expected that his casual lottery event would become even more popular than his regular business!

In less than two hours, the big roulette wheel had already earned over a million Spirit Stones!

After deducting the cost of the pets won, he still made over ninety percent profit.

It was like printing money.

Damn, if he opened a casino, he’d be rolling in it.

Too bad it wasn’t allowed.

Even for this kind of shop lottery, Lin Jichen had to set limits, allowing each player only one draw per day.

Without this rule, he wouldn’t be able to run the big roulette at all.

Even so, participants were as numerous as fish in a river, accompanied by the sighs of the majority and the cheers of a lucky few.

The Free Pet Shop easily overshadowed Lin Jichen’s other three stores in popularity and buzz.

There was no helping it; Lin Jichen’s pet shop was now an undisputed monopoly.

Before the Beast Forest was exposed, no player had a way to find a large number of pets.

Even if someone got lucky and found a few or even a dozen pets, it was still a drop in the ocean.

Unless they could, like Lin Jichen, establish connections with a sect and secure an agency.

For at least a few months, Lin Jichen could comfortably maintain his monopoly.

Lin Jichen seemed to have found a new way to run his shop.

He promptly started lotteries in his other stores as well.

Damn, why didn’t he think of this before?

Of course, the lotteries in the other stores were nowhere near as popular as the pet shop’s.

After all, pharmacies and equipment shops were everywhere, and capitalists had long since perfected the lottery gimmick.

But Lin Jichen didn’t mind following the trend if it meant earning a bit more.

However, Lin Jichen didn’t expect that shortly after starting his lotteries, someone would come to challenge him...

Just as the pet shop’s lottery was in full swing, a girl walked into the store.

Her appearance sparked quite a stir among the surrounding players.

“Whoa! Is that her?”

“Isn’t that The Lucky One, Shi Xiyue?”

“Shi Xiyue has become famous for winning lotteries at various shops.”

“Yeah, I heard she was born with great luck, unbeatable at drawing prizes.”

“Just the other day, the Eternal Guild’s equipment shop held a lottery and put up a Mysterious Grade weapon. It was won by Shi Xiyue within half an hour of opening. The next day, they put up another Mysterious Grade equipment, and she won that too. It’s hilarious.”

“Hahaha, this is going to be interesting.”

...

The person everyone was talking about was none other than Shi Xiyue, recently known as the luckiest player in Tale of Immortal.

This female player had gone viral online with her lottery videos and livestreams.

Whenever a shop opened and dared to hold a lottery, she would be there!

And nine times out of ten, she would win something good.

This made countless players worship her, hoping to catch some of her luck.

Shi Xiyue was here for the lottery, of course.

She walked past the various pets displayed in the shop and headed straight for the big roulette.

After paying ten Spirit Stones, she calmly chose to draw.

“Congratulations, you’ve won a Golden Core Realm pet, the Black Water Armored Turtle!”

Holy crap!

The entire place was stunned!

Shi Xiyue jumped up in excitement.

Although she had won many prizes, this was the most valuable one yet.

Crystal Realm pets sold for over a million; a Golden Core Realm pet could easily fetch several million or even tens of millions!

“Haha, livestream viewers, how’s this for a win?”

Shi Xiyue happily shared with her livestream audience, and the screen was flooded with “OMG” comments.

Shi Xiyue was starting to show her potential and fame as the luckiest player in Tale of Immortal.

Immediately, many wealthy players and guilds approached her, wanting to buy the Black Tortoise she had won.

But Shi Xiyue ignored their offers and smiled at the shop staff, saying, “Miss, please tell your boss that I won this pet. However, I always remember where my good fortune comes from. If your boss wants it back, he can contact me privately to repurchase it.”

“Of course, the price can’t be too low. This is the best I can do. I’ll hold onto it for three days. If your boss doesn’t want it by then, I’ll sell it to someone else.”

With that, Shi Xiyue hummed a tune and left gracefully.

This was her usual approach because she knew that if she kept taking advantage of people, she might end up blacklisted by all the shops, which would be a huge loss.

It was like being a gambling expert in a casino; if you wanted to make money through gambling, you couldn’t offend the casino.

If you kept milking them, the casino would eventually blacklist you, and you’d have no recourse.

So every time Shi Xiyue won something valuable from a shop, she would offer to sell it back to the owner. This was the best she could do.

When Lin Jichen returned from his other shops, he had already heard that the Black Tortoise had been won.

He was dumbfounded.

He had set the odds at one in a million, and it still got won?

Damn, that’s ridiculous!

When he found out it was Shi Xiyue, Lin Jichen felt a bit relieved.

It was her, no wonder.

But asking him to contact Shi Xiyue to get it back, Lin Jichen thought about it and decided against it.

Contacting her would mean exposing his identity as the shop owner. Although a Golden Core Realm pet was valuable, it wasn’t worth revealing his identity.

Besides, he had already earned far more Spirit Stones from the lottery than the Black Tortoise was worth. Even if it was won, he wasn’t too upset about it. Let her have it.

All morning, the Free Pet Shop was bustling with people, as lively as a train station during China’s Spring Festival travel rush.

By the end of the morning, the pet shop’s revenue was close to two million Spirit Stones!

Over one and a half million of that came from the lottery.

The rest was profit from selling pets. After sharing with Elder Tianyuan and deducting the lottery expenses, Lin Jichen estimated that he had earned about 1.3 million Spirit Stones.

This was with the limit of selling only a thousand pets per day. Without this limit, the shop would have been emptied out like before.

With limited supply, he had to use this restricted sales method.

Of course, because the pets were sold at high prices, Lin Jichen earned more than his other three shops combined.

After a morning’s work, Lin Jichen had made a fortune.

“Little Chen, come out for lunch~”

Outside, Gu Qiuxue called to him.

Lin Jichen immediately logged out of the game and ran out of his bedroom. A sumptuous lunch was laid out on the dining table.

The smell of happiness filled the entire house.

Life with his cousin was just wonderful~