The book Yuzhi was currently reading talked about mostly poetry.

And Yuzhi felt regret that he wasn't smart enough to make highlighters because he needed to study a lot.

There were 7 cases of when salves dropped, and Yuzhi would study several years around when it happened.

A few hours passed, and Yuzhi wrote down words or adjectives that were used a lot, but he never found something common.

And after thinking about it, Yuzhi realized he had taken the wrong path.

The knowledge he had of how Frost Stone formed was very small. And if the Frost Stone here were formed in a different way here than elsewhere, the best thing he could do was come up with hypothetical ways they could be created.

Although Yuzhi had decided to also try this way to create a sharper view, he didn't give up on the art.

But he had spent too much time on it today so Yuzhi went to his dorm to cultivate some more.

The next day, he had some more lessons before he went to the library again.

And now he started doing his research on what uses Frost Stones had.

They were a Qi Resistance material, so they could be used for weapons, but that was rarely done because they weren't very hard.

So their main use was for buildings because even in hot times they wouldn't smelt making them quite the interesting materials to use.

But besides that Yuzhi found another interesting use the material had that was not so much talked about.

Frost Stone could act as food for the Frostfin Cichlids.

A rare type of flying fish that lived in cold conditions. Yuzhi did some research on them and found that they were high-quality spiritual beasts due to them having the ability to make their master fly.

But since they were rare and hard to raise, they weren't used often.

Although Yuzhi found this all very interesting, it was all useless and Yuzhi realized he had wasted half an hour on that.

He started focusing again and started searching for links between all the cases.

The first one, happened 25 years after the village was founded, there was an attack from wild beasts that were starving due to a new predator moving into their territory.

Although at that time they were already selling very few Frost Stones, after that, their sales fell to zero for a few years.

The next one happened 69 years after the village was founded, 13 years after the village became a city.

The only notable thing that happened was that a year before it, in 68, a fire in the slums happened, causing the death of many people.

The next one happened in 189 and happened when a terrible disease broke out in the city.

The next one, in 231, was quite interesting because this time the drop in sales happened for over 10 years. At first, Yuzhi couldn't find anything notable around this time, but soon he realized it was when the first principal came because the academy had opened. And this also increased his suspicion that something weird was going on, because why else would their sales drop like they were hiding something?

Then in 359, there was a drought and a lot of people migrated due to the severity of the drought.

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The most interesting drop in sales happened in 417. The reason was that after searching for a long time, Yuzhi couldn't find anything. Nothing, even when looking at a bigger scale of the entire Rock Lake Kingdom, there was nothing.

The last one happened only 22 years ago, in 528, and it was an unfortunate event where a strong cultivator from the Nascent Soul Realm, which is also known as the Expert Realm.

The only correlation Yuzhi could find between them was that there was always a disaster besides one time. But the disasters were of all kinds of different sorts, and it was hard to find similarities between them. And while it could be said that the reason why sales dropped so much was because of a lack of people who could work there, this was easily thrown out of the window by 2 arguments.

One, the export of Frost Stones was the backbone of Stone Frost City, no matter how many people in the city there would always be enough workers.

Secondly, why didn't this happen when Rock Lake Kingdom joined the war against the Ice Petal Empire? Stone Frost City was close to the border of where Ice Petal Empire was. Or when the floods destroyed a large part of the city, the sales remained pretty stable.

Yuzhi felt like he was on the right path, but was stuck in a bamboo forest.

After destroying his brain on this, Yuzhi decided to focus some more on his cultivation. Because it was clear that he wasn't making any progress.

Soon, days flipped over like pages in books and Yuzhi found himself in his casino again.

''Minghao, how did they treat you?'' Although he had said they would need to do everything Minghao asked them, who knew what happened?

''They treated me well master.''

''how did work go.''

''Good, we made a lot of money.'' Yuzhi and Minghao kept talking for a while, each other finding a seemingly calm in a chaotic day.

Soon, the time to the casino had opened and Yuzhi was surprised by the progress Minghao had made. His card skills had become superb.

Yuzhi was excited about what the evening could contain, seeing every customer as a blob of gold. ''Everyone, please leave, I and the owner have some business." Suddenly a loud voice filled the entire room, silencing the the music and custermors.

''Who do you think you are? go to your fucking mom.'' Someone wasn't happy with this guy.

''Haha sorry, I should have introduced myself. I am Cai Weijie, the master of the Soul Society branch within Stone Frost City, I hope this clears your confusion.'' Everyone was surprised when they heard this, how could they not know the name Cai Weijie within Stone Frost City?

Before lightning could strike, everyone here left afraid of offending this man.

Walking against the crowd, Cai Weijie sat at the table in front of Yuzhi. He was an elderly man, the aura his body radiated was extremely suppressive, his ears were long and his eyes split.

''Although this isn't the best place for a private place, I hope sir could make sure no one overhears our conversation.'' Although Yuzhi felt his entire body freeze, he did his best to make his mouth move.

''Someone bring Minghao to the back and then leave, don't go home though, soon we will reopen.'' Although he did his best to speak with confidence, he had no idea how this meeting would turn out.

''Master, please let me stay?''

''No, go.'' Although Yuzhi respected Minghao's loyalty, he didn't currently need it. Besides what could Minghao do against the man in front of him?

''For what did you come here sir Cai, a game.'' Yuzhi fought against every instinct in his body to not run.

''Ahm thank you but no, I came here to meet a talented young man.'' Cai Weijie's left eye slightly opened and Yuzhi felt like his entire identity was revealed. Although he wasn't sure, he guessed that Cai Weijie already knew his identity as a student.

''What do you mean?''

''You don't need to hide it from me, your business sense is quite amazing for your young age. Although it is something so simple, it contains limitless possibilities.'' Before Yuzhi knew it, the cards in his hand disappeared.

''And I don't come here with bad intentions, I just do what Soul Society does best, scout a hidden get; covered by the dirt that a small place is.'' The smile from Cai Weijie's face disappeared, his eyes slightly split revealing his piercing blue eyes. The pressure Yuzhi felt was insane, It felt like a dragon was standing in front of him because the pressure was unreal. Well, the pressure was real just like dragons were in this world, but Yuzhi's mind wasn't in any state to make sense.

''Here is a Bronwe Token, when the vacations come, you can use it within Soul Society to immediately become a Bronwe Graded Mercenary of Soul Society. And if you ever need anything, you can always come find me.'' The smile returned and Yuzhi felt like he could breathe again.

Now, on the table, a pack of cards that had been sorted by symbol and a strange brown token lay.

Before Yuzhi could adapt to his shock, the customers entered again and the casino felt like a normal casino again.

And while many people saw what happened, none could truly understand it, the man in front of Yuzhi was a Soul Reformation Cultivatorm something only a few could boast about within Stone Frost City.

''Is everything alright master?''

''Yes, I just realized some things.'' The night proceeded as normal, and before the sun could even rise again, everyone already knew what happened in Thousand Sounds Casino. Which elevated its fame to another level.