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Chapter 104 Three Years of Change, Underground Auction [Subscription Request]

The gains from the trip to Qinglian Temple in Lianzhou were obviously much better than Zhou Chun had expected.

So when he left, he was in a very good mood.

After leaving Lianzhou, he did not rush back to his family to announce the good news, but instead went to Hongya Market.

Ever since he was transferred back to the family to serve as the clan leader's clerk, Zhou Chun has not been to Hongyafang Market again.

This time he went to the market town to deal with the magical instruments, talismans and other items accumulated in his storage bag.

Originally, the best way to deal with these things was for the Zhou family to purchase them at market price and use them for exchange among clan members.

But the problem is that after the battle with the "Qiyun Alliance", there is no shortage of magical weapons in the Zhou family's treasure house.

Moreover, there are only so many people in the Zhou family, and the exchange of magic weapons is not fast. They don’t think highly of some first-grade mid-quality magic weapons.

So Zhou Chun had no choice but to go to the market to handle it himself.

After he entered the market town, he naturally went to Lingshouzhai where he had worked for several years.

The current owner of Lingshouzhai is still Zhou Jiasheng, but the waiter has been replaced by Zhou Chun's cousin Zhou Zhengqiang, a 27-year-old young man who has reached the fifth level of Qi Refining Stage.

At this time, as Zhou Chun walked in, Zhou Zhengqiang, who was sitting on a stool behind the door, heard the footsteps, and hurriedly stood up and looked at the visitor.

When he saw that the person coming was Zhou Chun, he was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and bowed to Zhou Chun and said, "Greetings, Thirteenth Brother. How come you have time to come to the market today?"

Seeing this, Zhou Chun first smiled at him in return, then glanced around the store and asked, "Sixteenth brother, are you alone in the store? Where is Uncle Sixteen?"

"I heard that someone from the Li family was selling a treasure. Because the treasure was of high value, but Shopkeeper Li couldn't tell whether it was real or not, he asked Uncle Sixteen and the shopkeepers of several other shops to come over and help judge it."

Zhou Zhengqiang answered Zhou Chun's question softly, with envy evident in her words.

Zhou Chun naturally understood why he was envious.

For a treasure that even the owner of Li’s Pharmacy did not dare to easily conclude to purchase, the amount of money involved must be more than five or six hundred spirit coins.

After purchasing such treasures, their value can generally be more than doubled.

This is a very impressive achievement for the store.

However, Zhou Chun's family status is now higher than that of Zhou Jiasheng, the owner of Lingshouzhai, so this kind of thing can no longer disturb him.

Therefore, he did not ask any more questions about this matter. He just looked at Zhou Zhengqiang and asked, "How is the store's business recently? How are the sales of Touch of Despair?"

"Business is not bad, and most of the customers are regulars. The sales of Touch of Despair are increasing. It seems that some independent cultivators have discovered the business opportunity and pooled their money to buy a large amount of Touch of Despair from us, and then ran to the neighboring states to sell it!"

Zhou Zhengqiang said here with an indignant look on his face: "If you ask me, our Zhou family should send people to transport the Touch of Despair to other places for sale. Why should we let those independent cultivators make the money?"

"You're wrong about that."

Zhou Chun shook his head and carefully educated his cousin: "You have to know that the fundamental purpose of our Zhou family developing the Touch of Despair is not to make a lot of money from this product, but to use it to attract popularity and drive sales of other items."

"If we really do as you say, let alone the fact that our Zhou family's production of Touch of Despair has reached its limit and we can't supply that much, the safety of the people who arrange to deliver the items will also be difficult to guarantee."

"So you have to take a long-term view and know what money you can make and what money is difficult to make."

Having said this, he became more talkative and immediately pulled his sixteenth brother to sit down.

He continued, "Doing business is like everyone teaming up to go out on an adventure to hunt monsters. If you are the only one making money, over time, no one will be willing to team up with you."

"Take the Touch of Despair as an example. Since the production is limited and the family does not have the power to open branches in other states, it is destined not to make much money. So why not make it a reputable product in our store?"

"The little money that the independent cultivators made from reselling it is nothing to our family, but it actually allowed them to make a considerable profit."

"This way, they will make money from this, and they will have more trust and support for our Zhou family. In the future, when we release new products or recruit independent cultivators to do something, they will definitely give priority to purchasing and applying."

"This is called win-win, understand?"

Zhou Zhengqiang definitely won’t understand the concept of win-win so quickly.

However, Zhou Chun's explanation calmed the resentment in his heart.

He immediately nodded and said, "I understand, thank you for your guidance, brother Thirteen."

After checking the store's account book again and seeing that Zhou Jiasheng had not returned yet, Zhou Chun simply did not wait and left the store directly.

After leaving the shop, Zhou Chun did not go to the street market where he used to deal with magic tools.

He had more than a dozen magical instruments in his hands. If he took them all to the street market to sell, it would take at least ten days or half a month to sell them all, and he might not be able to fetch a high price.

So he went directly to a reputable magic weapon store in the market town.

This magic weapon store named "Jibaoxuan" was opened by a famous late-stage foundation-building cultivator in Lanzhou, who is also the leader of a certain cultivator organization.

Therefore, in terms of sales of mid- and low-end magical instruments, this store has advantages that large stores like "Tianbao Pavilion" do not have.

Therefore, when they recycle some magical tools, the prices are still reasonable.

Of course, fairness also depends on who it is for.

For someone like Zhou Chun, who comes from a family of immortal cultivators, has his own sales channels, and is familiar with the market, the price can naturally be fair.

For those casual cultivators or even bandit cultivators, the price is another matter.

Therefore, when Zhou Chun came out of "Jibaoxuan", there were six or seven hundred more spirit coins in his storage bag.

At this time, the number of spirit coins in Zhou Chun's storage bag alone had reached more than two thousand!

It was also because his mentality had changed since he killed the old man in black, a foundation-building cultivator.

Otherwise, if he walked on the street with such a large amount of spirit coins, he would really worry about being noticed by others.

Zhou Chun has no plan to spend this spiritual currency now.

He had already started preparing for the future foundation building, and good steel must be spent on the blade! So when Zhou Chun returned to the Spirit Beast House again, Zhou Jiasheng also came back, and he reminisced with him, and then gave him some things that were not easy to sell separately to sell on his behalf.

Selling certain treasures on behalf of clan members is also one of the businesses of family shops like Lingshouzhai.

After finishing all the tasks in the market town, Zhou Chun returned to his family and began to practice in peace.

In the next three years, the resurgent Hualong Sect indeed had many clashes with the Qinglian Temple guarding the southern part of Jingguo.

First, Qinglian Temple sent a message to all the major immortal cultivation families, small sects, and independent cultivation organizations in the four southern states of Jingguo, namely Lianzhou, Lanzhou, Yunzhou, and Lingzhou, demanding that they conduct a thorough investigation of the remnants of the Hualong Sect that had infiltrated Jingguo. Those who discovered or killed the remnants of the Hualong Sect would be rewarded.

During this period, Qinglian Temple itself arrested and killed various formal and prospective members of the Hualong Sect through information channels, totaling two to three hundred people, and even killed several missionaries of the Hualong Sect.

The Hualong Sect was not willing to be outdone.

First, he lured the snakes out of their holes, then ambushed and killed some Qinglian Temple disciples who had rushed to arrest people after hearing the news.

Then, he used ruthless means to successively wipe out three immortal cultivation families and two independent cultivation organizations that were the first to take action, which severely intimidated all small and medium-sized forces.

At the same time, they openly raised the slogan of "teaching without distinction", aggressively recruiting followers and using all sorts of conditions that seemed extremely tempting to attract the monks of the Yasukuni sect to join.

He even printed the "glorious history" of the Hualong Sect, which had been banned by various Yasukuni sects, into a booklet and disseminated it widely in order to "clear his name."

It looks like they are about to re-enter Yasukuni Shrine to compete with various factions.

Therefore, after the Hualong Sect made these reactions, not only were the top leaders of Qinglian Temple furious, but forces such as the Yuelun Sect and Yanyang Sect, which had participated in the destruction of the Hualong Sect, also became alert and sent high-level monks to Qinglian Temple to understand the situation.

If necessary, they would definitely send people south to attack the Hualong Sect without hesitation.

However, the game planning between these major forces has little to do with the Zhou family and Zhou Chun.

As an immortal cultivation family under the rule of Qinglian Temple, the Zhou family can only obey the orders of Qinglian Temple and have no room for wavering, unless Qinglian Temple has lost control over Lanzhou.

The same is true for Zhou Chun.

Therefore, during these three years, in addition to verbally responding to the call of Qinglian Temple and conducting a thorough investigation of the independent cultivators who entered the family's mountain gate to practice, the Zhou family was actively preparing to enhance the family's strength.

From the clan leader Zhou Daoyi on down, every cultivator in the Zhou family is working hard to cultivate and improve their own cultivation strength, or to improve the cultivation strength of their spirit pets.

Three years later, not only did clan leader Zhou Daoyi's cultivation level recover to the middle stage of foundation building, but other Zhou family cultivators also made considerable gains.

For example, the pet Zhu Yanhe of Zhou family's third elder Zhou Daoquan was promoted to a second-level intermediate-grade monster.

The iron-feathered eagle, the spiritual pet of the core member Zhou Jiapeng, finally found a female iron-feathered eagle and successfully bred it. He also successfully lured and captured it inside the Zhou family mountain gate.

There is also Zhou Chun. After three years, his cultivation has broken through to the eleventh level of the Qi Refining Stage. Ninety-six acupoints in his body have been opened. As long as he opens four more acupoints, he will be able to break through to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage.

At the same time, his pet, the Rock Turtle, had also eaten the "Tian Huang Stone". With its bloodline strengthened, not only had its cultivation reached a level comparable to that of a cultivator at the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage, it had also awakened a very practical earth-based spell, the "Gravity Spell".

But the one with the biggest change is undoubtedly the Silver Electric Thunder Python Baibai.

At this time, Baibai, the silver electric thunder python, has broken through to become a first-class superior monster, and the dragon blood in his body has been initially awakened and strengthened.

This not only caused its body to grow rapidly to more than five meters in length, but its snake scales also transformed into dragon scales like a dragon, greatly enhancing its defense.

After becoming a first-class superior monster, the various thunder spells mastered by the Silver Lightning Thunder Python could finally be used to form a powerful combat capability.

Baibai, the silver electric thunder python, now masters a total of six spells, namely lightning, chain lightning, thunder strike, thunderstorm, lightning shield, and lightning grid.

From these six spells, we can see the growth direction of Silver Lightning Python Baibai.

If we apply Zhou Chun's theory from his previous life, the Geoturtle is a tank meat shield, responsible for resisting damage and attracting firepower, while the Silver Thunder Python is a turret mage and an output machine.

And he has two spiritual pets, one for attack and one for defense, by his side, and two newly cultivated "Xinjin Sword Qi" as his trump cards. As long as he does not encounter a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, it will be almost difficult to find an opponent in the Qi Refining Stage!
However, the passage of time always has its pros and cons.

The disadvantage is that within three years, the Zhou family lost three family monks in succession, including two members of the "Shou" generation who died of old age, and one member of the "Jia" generation who went out and disappeared.

Although the Zhou family gained five more children and infants with spiritual roots during this period, the loss of cultivators could obviously not be made up in the short term.

But this is the normal situation of a family. Birth, aging, sickness and death are always inevitable.

"There's news from Jiasheng in Fangshi that someone in Fangshi is planning to hold an underground auction to sell some items that are not convenient to be auctioned openly."

"According to some information revealed by the organizer, it is confirmed that there will at least be Foundation Building Pills, Soul Nurturing Jade and other items appearing at the auction."

"The family still has a lot of spirit coins in its account. I want to ask the Fourth Elder to see if he can buy a foundation-building pill. Zhengchun, do you want to go with us to broaden your horizons?"

On this day, Zhou Chun had just returned from practicing on the top of Pagoda Peak when clan leader Zhou Daoyi suddenly looked at him and told him a piece of news that surprised him.

Zhou Chun had heard of the so-called "underground auction" when he was a clerk in a shop in the market town.

This kind of activity is usually secretly organized by some powerful forces, and is usually jointly organized by several forces.

The event is based on an invitation system. Before the event, the organizers will send invitations to forces or individuals they believe to have financial resources, and briefly reveal some important treasures that will be at the auction to attract people.

If anyone is interested in the underground auction, they can gather at the designated location at the time specified on the invitation letter, and then be taken to the venue of the underground auction by a special person.

Since this kind of underground auction is not held very often, once it is held, it will attract many Foundation Establishment cultivators and even Purple Mansion cultivators to participate.

Even some monks from other states would try to get invitations to participate after hearing the news.

If Zhou Chun remembered correctly, the last underground auction in Lanzhou was more than ten years ago, when the Zhou family had not yet moved to Jingguo.

After being stunned for a while, Zhou Chun bowed to Zhou Daoyi and said, "The clan leader is willing to give me this opportunity to broaden my horizons. I am naturally grateful."

After that, he paused for a moment, then continued with a look of doubt on his face, "But since the Fourth Elder is going to buy such an important treasure as the Foundation Establishment Pill, will it really not be a hindrance for me to follow him?"

Zhou Daoyi comforted him immediately after hearing this, "Don't worry about this. Since I dare to let you follow the Fourth Elder, I am sure I can ensure your safety."

Hearing his confident words, Zhou Chun's expression changed, as if he had thought of something, and he put aside his worries.

After about half a month, Zhou Chun and the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui left Jiufengling and went to the gathering place designated by the organizer of the underground auction near Hongyafang City.

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