Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 50: Late Qi Refining Period, Good Things Come in Pairs

Hongyafang Market, Lingshouzhai.

After more than a month, the number of customers at Lingshouzhai has dropped a lot.

Nowadays, those monks who don’t come here to buy or sell things will not come again.

However, in the eyes of some monks who have sold things in Lingshouzhai, the price of some things purchased by Lingshouzhai will be higher than that of other shops.

Therefore, now when some cultivators go out on adventures and obtain some spiritual objects, when they compare prices from three different stores, they will always list Lingshouzhai as one of them.

That morning, a middle-aged man in black with the cultivation base of the late Qi Refining stage strode into the Spirit Beast House.

After he entered the store, he greeted the counter in a familiar manner: "Friend Zhou, Lin is here to bring you business again."

Behind the counter, Zhou Chun, who was reading a book, heard these words and quickly stood up and looked at the person who came.

After seeing the person's appearance clearly, he smiled and bowed, saying, "So it's Fellow Daoist Lin. What treasure did you get?"

"It's nothing good. I just picked a few spiritual herbs when I went monster hunting with a few fellow Taoists a few days ago."

As the man in black spoke, he patted the storage bag on his waist, took out three wooden boxes and placed them on the counter.

Then he said carelessly, seemingly not caring: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, please take a look and see how much spirit coins these things are worth."

"Then you're welcome."

Zhou Chun responded and opened the first wooden box first. He took out a ginseng-shaped spiritual medicine the size of two fingers and examined it carefully.

He first turned the elixir around and looked at it carefully to see if there were any signs of damage, and also looked at its length, size and patterns on it.

Then bring it close to your nose and sniff it hard, smelling its medicinal aroma and ginseng flavor.

Then he pinched the ginseng column with his fingers and rubbed it a few times to verify and confirm that it was not a forged thing made by gluing together.

After looking, smelling and testing the elixir, Zhou Chun put it back into the wooden box and said to the man in black, "This is a newly picked yellow ginseng sprout. It should be between fifty and seventy years old. It is in good condition and has no damage. Our store will buy it for seven spirit coins!"

The man in black heard this, his eyes moved slightly, but he said, "Don't worry, take a look at the other two."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun smiled and nodded, then opened the other two wooden boxes and took out the elixirs one by one to examine them.

"A newly-picked silver orchid, in perfect condition, with no damage. Our store is buying it for five spirit coins."

"A newly picked candle flame grass, slightly damaged, our store will buy it for eight spirit coins."

After quoting the prices of the spiritual medicines in the three wooden boxes, Zhou Chun put the spiritual medicines back into the wooden boxes while looking at the man in black and asked, "Fellow Daoist Lin, are you satisfied with my offer? Do you want to sell these spiritual medicines to our store?"

"The offer is indeed fair. It seems that I will come to your store more often in the future."

The man in black smiled slightly, showing a look of satisfaction.

Then he pushed the three wooden boxes in front of Zhou Chun and left with the twenty spirit coins given by Zhou Chun.

After the man in black left, Zhou Jiasheng, who was sitting on a chair in the store, stood up and walked to the counter. In front of Zhou Chun, he opened the three wooden boxes and checked the three elixirs again.

Then he looked at Zhou Chun and said calmly: "The yellow bud ginseng has been used for more than 60 years. The price of seven spirit coins is normal."

"The silver orchid is mature and can be used as medicine. The price of five spirit coins is also normal."

"The rhizome of the candle flame grass has a slight tear, the medicinal effect has been lost, and it is difficult to preserve for a long time. It is worth at most seven spirit coins!"

Having said this, he shook his head and said to Zhou Chun: "You are still a little young, you still need to learn more and do more. I'll put that spiritual coin in your account first!"

"Yes, nephew understands."

Zhou Chun responded and recorded the transaction in the account book.

After the account book was completed, he said softly, "In fact, I also know that the candle flame grass is not worth eight spirit coins, but the purchase prices of the first two spiritual medicines given by various shops are basically the same. Since Fellow Daoist Lin still came to our Spirit Beast House under such circumstances, he is obviously not satisfied with the purchase price of candle flame grass by other shops."

"In that case, I personally think that if I can give him a discount of one Spirit Coin this time, so that he will give priority to our Spirit Beast House when selling spiritual objects in the future, then this Spirit Coin will be well spent!"

Zhou Jiasheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at him with surprise.

After staring at Zhou Chun for a while, he sighed with a complicated expression: "I'm not as good as you!!"

After saying that, he laughed at himself and said, "I, Zhou Jiasheng, have lived for decades, and have always prided myself on being mature and worldly-wise. I didn't expect that today I would be taught a lesson by a young junior like you. It's really ridiculous!" His complex mood at this time was difficult to describe in words.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun quickly said, "Uncle Sixteen, you are too serious. There is nothing wrong with what you did in this matter. Don't you see that the shopkeepers and clerks of other stores do the same thing?"

After saying that, he smiled bitterly and said, "My nephew's behavior is just opportunistic. Maybe when Fellow Daoist Lin comes next time, he will find that there is no profit to be made and will not come again in the future!"

"No, you don't have to comfort me."

Zhou Jiasheng shook his head, looked at him with a complicated expression, and stretched out his hand and said, "Although I had some opinions about your actions before, my eyes are not blind, and my heart is not blind either. I can still distinguish the facts and the good from the bad in front of me!"

"What you said just now is very right. If we can give customers concessions in this kind of details that other stores don't have, we will have a great chance of leaving a good impression in the hearts of customers, so that they will choose us first when they sell spiritual objects next time, and it will not give other stores an excuse to cause trouble for us!"

At this point, he was convinced and said, "No wonder the clan leader insisted on letting you come here to train. It seems that the clan leader has long discovered that you have extraordinary insight and wonderful ideas!"

From that day on, Zhou Jiasheng's attitude towards Zhou Chun changed significantly.

Even if he made mistakes later when identifying certain spiritual objects, she would not scold him with a sullen face, but would calmly tell him where he went wrong and how to correct it.

Even in his spare time, he would tell Zhou Chun some examples of when he had been cheated when he was learning the art, so that Zhou Chun would know how to identify the methods used by some experienced counterfeiters.

However, as a result, Zhou Chun's previous plan of taking the opportunity to privately purchase the elixir no longer had the opportunity to be put into action.

Fortunately, he was not particularly anxious about this, and he was learning this knowledge peacefully every day.

As time passed, it was the third month after Zhou Chun came to the market town. After taking the tenth Jade Ginseng Pill, he successfully broke through to the ninth level of the Qi Refining Stage and officially entered the late stage of Qi Refining.

Different from his previous improvements in cultivation within the middle stage of Qi Refining, this breakthrough in a smaller realm brought Zhou Chun great benefits.

First of all, his magic power increased by nearly 60%. He could use the Moon Blade Meteor Wheel, a first-grade magic weapon, to fully activate it and fight for more than a quarter of an hour.

Then, his spiritual sense was also greatly enhanced. The detection range of his spiritual sense jumped to more than eighty feet, and he could control three or four magical instruments at the same time without feeling any pressure.

At the same time, because of his breakthrough growth in cultivation, the power of the two secret techniques he had learned, especially the "Five Elements Spiritual Armor Technique", was also greatly enhanced.

And good things come in pairs.

Not long after the news of Zhou Chun's breakthrough in cultivation reached the family, clan leader Zhou Daoyi promoted him to a core member of the family and promoted Zhou Zhengyong to an elite member of the family.

It turned out that after much bargaining and negotiation, the Chiyao iron ore vein could finally be announced for mining.

After much discussion, the Chiyao Iron Ore Vein was jointly owned and mined by the five major immortal cultivation families. Among them, the Zhou family was able to share 30% of the vein's output profits because they were the discoverers of the vein and could provide Purple Mansion stage combat power to deter those who were eyeing them.

The Sun family of Jinfengling is closest to the mineral vein and will provide a rest and supply area free of charge for the monks mining the mineral vein. They are also willing to undertake part of the mining tasks and will be able to share 30% of the mineral vein's output profits.

The Wang family of Hongyao Valley has a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, and is willing to share the task of purifying and removing half of the turbid evil energy in the red-glowing iron ore, and is able to share 20% of the profits from the vein's output.

The Mu family of Biyun Mountain and the He family of Qingzhu Mountain only shared some of the tasks of purifying and removing the turbid evil spirits in the Chiyao iron ore and providing military deterrence, so they only received 10% of the profits from the mine output.

After the five major immortal cultivation families agreed on the profit distribution, they each sent people to the Sun family in Jinfengling to take charge and guard the mines.

At the same time, a large number of low-level cultivators were recruited to mine ore.

The news about the appearance of this red-glowing iron ore vein quickly spread in the market town.

For a time, the entire Lanzhou cultivation world was in turmoil because of this mineral vein.

"Recently, due to the matter of the mineral vein, there has been a lot of commotion in the cultivation world of Lanzhou. The clan leader said on Eagle News that we should also pay attention to the opinions of the cultivators in the market on this matter."

"I have to stay in the shop, so you, my nephew Zhengchun, will handle this matter."

In the Spirit Beast House, after reading the letter brought from the family by the messaging eagle, Zhou Jiasheng explained the situation to Zhou Chun.

The Zhou family's trained messaging eagle can travel thousands of miles to deliver messages.

Moreover, except for taking off and landing, the eagles always fly at an altitude of more than a thousand feet. Unless a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage or a flying monster beast takes action, it is difficult to intercept such an eagle.

Therefore, the market town could exchange letters with the Jiufengling family every ten days, sharing some information that did not need to be kept confidential.

Because there is a formation in the market town, eagles cannot enter. Usually Zhou Chun leaves the market town temporarily at a fixed time and goes to the top of the mountain outside to signal the circling eagles to land and send and receive letters.

After listening to Zhou Jiasheng's words, he was moved and responded immediately: "I understand, nephew. I will trouble Uncle Sixteen to take care of the store's affairs."

(End of this chapter)