Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 54: First Encounter with Bandits
Looking at Song Xian's confident face, Qi Xiaobai felt a little shaken. When he first heard about this plan, he thought it was just Song Xian's whim and fantasy. He didn't expect that he was serious and was going to take action immediately.

He really couldn't understand how such a thing could be done.

How is it possible to promote such an ordinary and impractical thing to the entire cultivation world? This is too crazy and nothing more than a foolish dream.

If it were someone else, he would have sneered and thought that the person who said this was either a madman or a fool. Obviously, Song Xian was not a madman, nor was he a fool. He had a clear mind and clear logic, and he spoke in an orderly manner. He also dared to think and act, and was very proactive.

Take the matter of him buying the Tianshan Snow Lotus as an example. No one would completely trust someone and give them a thousand spirit stones without any constraints just because of the words of a stranger they have never met.

When he took over the thousand spirit stones, he thought that Hunyuan was a big sect with a very rich family background, but he didn't expect that it was such a poor family.

But such a poor sect leader actually gave him a thousand spirit stones just because of his promise, which made him respect him even more.

"I still don't understand, but since the headmaster has made up his mind, my husband and I will do our best to help."

"I'm relieved by what Junior Brother Qi said." Song Xian turned to Carissa and asked, "Junior Sister Carissa, how far is your hometown from here? How long does it take to go there and back?"

"My hometown is quite a distance from Far East City. If we travel at the speed of a camel caravan, it would take more than a hundred days to go back and forth."

Song Xian thought for a moment and said, "Once we arrive in Far East City, let the camel caravan wait there while we take the flying magic tool and return quickly. By the way, is the Panlong incense expensive?"

"It's not expensive. In our hometown, it's used as a medicinal herb, and one pound only costs a few taels of silver."

"Junior Brother Qi, can you transform these ingredients used to make spices into pills?"

"pill?"

"Yes, I think this will be easier for everyone to accept. After all, spices are cheap, and this is already deeply rooted in people's minds. Even if our spices are good and special, it will be difficult to sell them at a high price. So we need to change the packaging. If we sell them in the form of pills, people will be more likely to accept them."

"The spices are already in powder form, so it's not difficult to make them into pills. All you have to do is mix them into a ball and solidify them."

"No, I want more than that. Besides having to look like a pill, it should ideally be taken orally, not smeared on. I want the pill to look gorgeous and beautiful, appealing to women's tastes and satisfying their expectations. And after ingesting it, it should produce a rich aroma."

Qi Xiaobai frowned: "Take it? I've never thought about this before. But I think it should be fine."

"Okay, then. When we get back, I'll rent you an alchemy room in the market, and you can concentrate on your research there. If it doesn't work, try changing it to another form, like liquid. Don't make it into powder."

After a long talk with Qi Xiaobai and Carissa, Song Xian called Lu Yuan again and asked him to take out all the existing spirit stones in the sect, leaving only 100 spirit stones in the sect.

.........

Time flies, and more than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Ten tall blood camels, fifteen people who managed the camel caravan, and experienced guides were all present. Drinking water and food for the journey were all available. Everything was ready. After saying goodbye to everyone, Song Xian rode on the blood camels and headed towards the Muhe grassland.

"Master, are we going to Far East City like this?" Qi Xiaobai rode astride the tall camel, walking side by side with Song Xian.

"Brother Qi, what do you mean? Is there something you haven't prepared yet?"

"No, I mean, are we going to the Muhe Grassland empty-handed? Most caravans first buy the training supplies needed in the Muhe Grassland in Bianxi City and sell them there. Then, they buy the scarce supplies in Qin State and sell them back there. With a round trip like this, the profit is only about 20% to 30%.

"This is our first time doing business in the Muhe Grassland. We're mainly here to familiarize ourselves with the route and understand the trading transactions. This time, we won't be going to Bianxi City, but will go directly to Dongluo City on the Muhe Grassland. We're not looking for a lot of profit on this trip, as long as we don't lose money."

What Song Xian was thinking about was to finalize the sale of spices as soon as possible. This was the sect's long-term plan. It didn't matter if he earned two or three hundred less spirit stones on a round trip. As long as the spice business was done, would he still care about this meager profit?
Guzi Mountain is thousands of miles away from Bianxia City. It takes a long time to travel back and forth by blood camel. He is eager to try it and can't wait, so he is unwilling to make a special trip to Bianxi City to buy supplies.

Lin Zixiang said, "Master, isn't the Nanyuan Valley Market already open? Since you're not going to Bianxi City, why not go to Yuannan Valley to buy some goods? It won't take much time."

"I've already sent someone to ask Senior Brother Ning Yuan. The Yuannan Valley Market has only been open for less than a month, and there are only a few shops open. Not many goods have been shipped in. They are all elixirs, magic tools, talismans, and formation items. These things are not popular in Dongluo City, and the prices are not much higher than here."

"Junior Brother Qi, how long does it take to get to Dongluo City?" "A caravan usually takes at least three months to go from Bianxi City to Dongluo City and back. For us, it only takes two months at most to get to Dongluo City and back. If we go faster, forty or fifty days is not impossible."

"By the way, Junior Brother Qi, I've never heard you talk about how you and Junior Sister Carissa met. One of you is in Qin State and the other is in Muhe Grassland, yet you can still be together."

"In my early years, my master and I visited the Muhe Grassland several times. One time, we were searching for elixirs in the Hundred Thousand Mountains of the Muhe Grassland and ran into Karissa. She and her companions were attacked by a demonic beast, and my master and I helped them kill the beast. That's how we met."

Qi Xiaobai rode on the camel with a bright smile: "Of course, the reason why she fell in love with me was not because I helped her, but mainly because she was attracted by my handsome appearance."

Song Xian and Lin Zixiang both smiled when they heard this.

"Carissa, is that so? You haven't seen any of us Qin people before, have you? Could it be that this is your first time meeting this foreigner, Junior Brother Qi, and you were curious about him, so you were tricked by him?"

Carissa blushed slightly when she heard their teasing: "That's not true. In fact, it was my husband and his master who saved our lives. Later, some things happened and we gradually got together."

"Hey! Junior Brother Qi, when we first met in the market, were you and Carissa married? You weren't taking advantage of the situation, were you?!"

Qi Xiaobai laughed and said, "With my dignified appearance, do I really need to take advantage of others' misfortune? Master, you underestimate me too much."

"I've heard that the women of the Muhe Grassland are passionate and bold. But Junior Sister Carissa seems to be more gentle and virtuous than the women of our Qin State. This shows that the rumors are not to be believed."

"That's not the case. Customs vary from place to place on the Muhe Grassland. In some places, women are extremely passionate and unrestrained, while in others, they are very conservative. Just like the seven kingdoms of our Great Zhou, each place has its own customs."

Several people rode high on blood camels, chatting as they walked. Under the setting sun, it seemed as if everyone was covered with a ray of light.

The team traveled during the day and hid at night. On this day, around noon, while everyone was walking, they saw a group of people riding on flying magic tools in the air chasing them.

On the leading flying magical instrument, there were four people sitting upright, one of them was holding a red flag, which looked like a red dragon.

"They are bandits from the Tianshan Sect. They look like a patrol team." Qi Xiaobai's face darkened.

"It's okay, we'll just wait here. With the pass from the Beast Taming Sect, they won't do anything to us." Song Xian immediately ordered the camel caravan to stop, and soon, the patrol team with the red dragon flag arrived nearby.

There were three flying magic vehicles in total, with a total of ten people, led by a middle-aged man with a beard who was at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

At this time, Song Xian and others had already gotten off the camels and were waiting in front.

George Lam secretly took out a magic weapon from his storage bag and prepared for battle.

"Who is the leader?" The bearded man in the lead jumped down from the magic weapon, glanced at the crowd, raised his head, and looked arrogant.

"I am Song Xian, the headmaster of Hunyuan Sect. I have come to Muhe Grassland with the disciples of our sect to do business. I hope that fellow Taoists can give me some advice." Song Xian bowed his head.

The man didn't return the greeting. He looked at him arrogantly with a joking expression: "Hunyuan Sect? Never heard of it? Can you become the headmaster with your cultivation level?"

"My sect migrated from Pingyuan County and is now stationed in Guzi Mountain. Actually, we are neighbors."

"Stop the fucking nonsense. Who the hell is your neighbor?" the bearded man cursed.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zixiang's expression changed immediately. Qi Xiaobai and Carissa were used to it and showed no emotion either, but were secretly on guard. Although Song Xian felt a little aggrieved, he still smiled. He took out the pass from his storage ring and presented it with both hands: "This is a gift from Senior Yang of the Beast Taming Sect. I hope you will show some mercy."

The bearded man took the animal skin scroll and took a look at it. His eyes swept across the four people and fixed on Carissa. His expression was frivolous: "Hey! This Hu Ji is pretty good-looking! How about staying and playing with me?"

Qi Xiaobai instantly flew into a rage, his hair standing on end. He took a step forward and shouted, "What did you say?"

(End of this chapter)