Of course, while complaining was complaining, Ding Yun honestly began to search for what she wanted using her brainwaves. First, she did a general search for magic or witchcraft that could make money, but found nothing. Then, she switched to a precise search, looking for magic or witchcraft with "gold" or "silver" in their names.
Finally, some content appeared.
[Glimmering Gold Magic Spell]
[Gold Transmutation Magic Spell] [Gold Plating Magic Spell]
[Gold Refining Magic Spell]
[Cursed Gold Sorcery] [Platinum to Mithril Art]
[Silver Bullet Exorcism] [Mercury Vitality Deprivation]
...
There were piles of various magic spells and sorceries with "gold" or "silver" in their names, but Ding Yun couldn't find the "turn stone into gold" or alchemy she most desired. Moreover, these magic spells and sorceries, judging by their names alone, didn't seem like they could make money.
However, Ding Yun was still patient.
So she continued to flip through.
She was determined not to stop until she had looked through everything.
As she flipped to the end, she definitely didn't find "turn stone into gold," which was clearly a more Eastern type of spell. However, she did find alchemy, but it was somewhat different from what she had imagined.
This was because alchemy wasn't about creating something from nothing.
Nor could it transmute other substances into gold.
It could only refine gold from the essence of heaven and earth. In theory, even if a ton of water contained less than a microgram of gold, this alchemy could extract it.
But Ding Yun's demonic power after transformation was limited.
The energy within the purple-gold magic crystal was only enough for her to cast magic about a hundred times. After that, she would have to slowly absorb solar energy or other energy to recharge.
Furthermore, the extraction range of alchemy was limited.
If she really wanted to extract gold from the sea.
It would likely exhaust her to death before she could extract much.
Therefore, alchemy was completely useless. Unless Ding Yun had secretly found a gold mine, and a gold mine with a not-low gold content, it would be of little use.
However, Ding Yun didn't give up. She continued to ponder various possibilities and search for keywords, so busy that she skipped lunch. Finally, her efforts paid off, and she found something useful in the Compendium of Magic and Sorcery, something that could definitely help her make money.
That was — [Restore to New Magic Spell].
"This magic is great! I'll just buy some broken and discarded items, restore them to new, and even if I can't sell them as brand new, I can still sell them as second-hand.
Besides, there are already second-hand platforms online.
No need for sales permits, it's perfect!
Why didn't I think of this sooner? I'm so stupid!"
After finding what she wanted, Ding Yun naturally prepared to experiment immediately. Some things were hard to find, but were broken second-hand items hard to find? There were things at home that could be renovated everywhere.
Then, she first pointed it at her own mobile phone.
And used the restoration spell on it.
This phone was so laggy, she couldn't stand it anymore.
If she hadn't been short on money, she would have replaced it long ago. Now, after renovation, it could at least be used grudgingly.
With a flash of light, the ordinary smart phone in Ding Yun's hand, which her daughter had used for two years and she had used for another two years, a total of four years, and was extremely laggy, returned to its appearance from four years ago.
Upon opening it again, the programs and data inside had also reverted to their state from four years ago. The phone number and the original owner's photos had all disappeared, and even the SIM card inside was gone.
It looked completely like a new phone.
Although Ding Yun, due to her carelessness, forgot to save the phone photos and eject the SIM card, it was her first time using this restoration spell after all. Who knew that this thing would restore so drastically, even swallowing the SIM card?
However, when she found the restoration spell, she also found a "Return to Original Spell" that could undo the effect of the restoration spell. So Ding Yu quickly cast another "Return to Original Spell" to rescue her SIM card.
And backed up some of the original owner's belongings.
Only then did she renovate her phone again.
This way, she would have a new phone, a new phone with all the information of the original phone.
After renovating the phone, Ding Yun immediately renovated some inconspicuous items in the house, such as her clothes, quilts, bedsheets, and the electrical wiring in the house.
If it weren't for the fact that it was difficult to make it too obvious.
She would have wanted to renovate the entire house.
Unfortunately, restoring the entire house to new is different from cleaning the house. No matter how bad one's eyesight is, they can tell the difference between a clean house and a brand-new one. This aspect was difficult to fool.
So she had to give up.
Next, of course, was to go out and buy junk.
Even valuable items that had turned into junk were not easy to find. A broken mobile phone still had to be exchanged for a stainless steel washbasin.
So Ding Yun didn't plan to pick up trash from the start.
She went directly to buy from scrap dealers.
There were no difficulties in this regard. After all, scrap dealers weren't repairmen. As long as it could be sold for money, it didn't matter who it was sold to. Every little bit counted, even a mosquito's leg was meat.
However, the choice of items became a problem for Ding Yun.
The scrap dealer's warehouse was mostly filled with bottles, cardboard boxes, or books, or else iron scraps and broken pots. Household appliances were rare, let alone mobile phones. There were larger items, such as a car being brought in to be sold as scrap iron, and the boss was about to smash it.
But Ding Yun estimated the remaining money in her hand.
She gave up on buying the car.
And the remaining cardboard boxes and the like, even if they became new, wouldn't be of much use. They would still be sold for very little money.
So Ding Yun hesitated for a while, then turned and left the scrap recycling station, and took a bus to the county's mobile phone repair stations and appliance repair stations to take a look.
Then, after much effort to find reasons and find a way, she managed to buy ten broken mobile phones to take back.
And because her offer was low, those ten broken mobile phones were incredibly dilapidated. One was a non-folding phone that had directly folded, one was twisted into a spiral shape, and another had a swollen battery that had exploded and was so burnt that it barely resembled a phone. In short, none of those ten phones remained in their original complete form.
But at least they were sold cheaply.
Two hundred yuan for ten phones was already very cheap.
Reportedly, the recycling price was even cheaper, basically less than ten yuan each. But Ding Yun was not a recycler, so she could accept this price. She immediately paid the money, put the ten broken phones in plastic bags, and hurried back by bus to get to work.
As soon as she got home, Ding Yun immediately used the restoration spell to restore the ten phones to a brand-new appearance. Then she took out her own phone and took pictures of each of them, uploaded them to a newly downloaded second-hand trading software, and prepared to sell them.
As for the price, she of course carefully referenced the average price in the second-hand trading software and set a price slightly below the average. Anyway, her cost was low, and her magic didn't cost much. If she wasn't afraid of setting the price too low and making people doubt the authenticity of the items,
She would be making a fortune even if she sold them at half the average price.