I save spiritual roots for the next life

Chapter 174 Meeting the ugly woman again

Li Jizhou didn't want to hold an opening ceremony. This kind of shop mainly depends on repeat customers, and there are too few goods in the store now, so it's unnecessary.

However, unexpectedly, the city's merchant alliance actually sent someone to deliver flower baskets and red envelopes.

Several shops next door also came to give gifts, and I bought some elixirs, talismans, and seals to gain popularity.

Helpless, Li Jizhou had to ask Xiao Guo to book a banquet at Linxian Tower opposite.

"Li is here for the first time. I am grateful for the care and attention of all fellow Taoists. I will drink this cup to the full!" Li Jizhou raised his glass in thanks.

"Shopkeeper Li is polite. We are all doing business on the same street and look after each other, haha."

Everyone was also very polite.

The Merchant Alliance also has rules on the division of shops. There should be at least five shops of the same type separated from each other, so none of the people around to congratulate them are traveling with them.

One is a feminine male cultivator who specializes in robes, an old man who specializes in medicinal materials, a simple and honest man who sells materials, a strong man who runs an escort agency, an elegant female cultivator who sells spiritual wine, and an enchanting female cultivator who runs a brothel and singing studio. .

Everyone at the banquet also had a tacit understanding and did not ask for details. They only knew the name Li Jizhou and gave up.

After that, they mostly talked about how the business was going, and occasionally there was some gossip in the fairy city.

There were also those who gave Li Jizhou advice.

Li Jizhou was told to pay more attention to the surrounding families and sects. If there is a fight somewhere, he should quickly bring the goods there. The more chaotic the pills, talismans, seals, magic tools and puppets, the more valuable they become and the better they sell.

Representatives of the Merchant Alliance also talked about the recent conflicts between some sects and families.

At this point, Li Jizhou had a deeper understanding of the business alliance.

In the Yan Kingdom, everyone knows that the Merchant Alliance has a strong background and has the strength to compete with the Yan Kingdom's two ancient Nascent Soul Sects, Xuantian Sect and Xiaoyao Palace. It also occupies all the fairy cities and even acquires them from some down-and-out sects and families. Visited many spiritual dojos,

However, the Merchant Alliance never acknowledged that it was the master of the Yan Kingdom, nor did it claim to be so, nor did it maintain order outside the Immortal City.

On the contrary, the more chaos there is outside and the more fights between sect families, the happier they are.

During the dinner, Li Jizhou asked some questions about pill formation.

Li Jizhou was slightly happy to be told that there were dedicated alchemy monks in the Merchant Alliance who taught alchemy experience on a regular basis for a fee.

The biggest shortcoming of casual cultivators without elders in the sect compared to the sect family is actually the lack of cultivation experience.

Not everyone is a genius and can find their own way.

The safest thing for most people is to follow the path paved by countless predecessors.

Li Jizhou failed to form elixirs in his previous life. In addition to his qualifications, accumulation, and conditions, his inexperience and recklessness also played a part in the reason.

Went home with plenty of wine and food.

When the store first opened, business was predictably deserted, with more than a dozen people entering the store every day.

After all, the items sold in Li Jizhou's shop are very important items for monks. He usually buys them back in stores he is familiar with. Unless it is an accident, he will rarely buy from unfamiliar stores.

However, although the number of people entering the store every day is small, there are daily sales due to Li Jizhou's skill level, especially Fu Zhuan.

The elixir refined by Bai Yi even has repeat customers.

Although the quality of real fire elixirs and ordinary people's elixirs seem to be the same, subtle differences can still be felt in the efficacy.

Li Jizhou had already expected that the repurchase rate of Bai Yi's elixirs would be very high.

Of course, if you want to make a lot of money, you can't just rely on Bai Yi to refine elixirs, let alone rely on Li Jizhou to produce them himself.

These are just preliminary transitions.

With the accumulation of customers, Taobao Pavilion will sell other people's goods.

Although there are few customers every day, Li Jizhou still asked Guo Ruoyu to register every customer who purchased products with spirit stones, and gave him a free silver membership. In the future, he would enjoy a 10% discount on the VIP price every time he comes to Taobao Pavilion.

In addition, Li Jizhou also took the time to make a batch of two-way communication jade talismans. Each jade talisman can support ten communications, and the range is only within ten thousand miles.

Each cost is about two spirit stones.

Let Xiao Guo send it to customers who have repurchase behavior for free, so that they can be notified in advance to prepare the goods next time they need it, or you can pay to find a escort agency along the way to bring the goods.

During this period, Li Jizhou stepped up his efforts to make several first-level puppet warriors. In addition to being responsible for delivering the elixirs refined by Bai Yi to the store in front, he was also responsible for cleaning the store.

Afterwards, Li Jizhou stopped caring about the store and waited for the accumulation.

A year passed leisurely.

In the annual summary, it was basically in line with expectations, and it was barely able to gain a foothold.

During this year, in addition to practicing, Li Jizhou spent half of his time studying formations. He was successfully promoted to a second-level formation mage and installed a second-level protective formation for the entire store.

Some of the chessboards and arrays used for practicing are all sold in the front shop.

In the remaining time, because the materials for the second-level talisman seals in Immortal City were abundant and cheap, I drew a lot of second-level talisman seals and replenished the products in the front shop.

Second is the puppet. The fake elixir-level consciousness gives him hope of being promoted to the third-level puppet. However, the puppet is too time-consuming and the progress is not great.

Moreover, the price of puppets is relatively high, and the sales volume of the front shop is not very good, so there is no large-scale replenishment.

During this year, the number of registered members reached 700, and 186 communication tokens were issued.

The repurchase rate is very good.

Li Jizhou gave Xiao Guo a red envelope of medium-grade spiritual stones as an encouragement.

Starting from the second year, Li Jizhou asked Xiao Guo to post a notice outside the store: Our store supports consignment of all kinds of goods.

The price is determined by the owner of the goods, but the quality of the goods must be truthfully posted. Regardless of the value, the store only charges a handling fee of one spiritual stone after the transaction is completed.

The owner of the cargo can also pick up the goods at any time.

There are many craftsmen in the fairy city. Although most of them work for a certain employer, in addition to delivering tasks, they also produce a lot of output. Just like Li Jizhou did in Qi State before, after meeting the requirements of the guest's tasks, the products he makes will still be wholesale. Sold to Miaodan House at a reasonable price.

Moreover, because the sect families in Yan State did not set up a market, some products were sold in the fairy city. Some products with large quantities would open their own shops, while small quantities were wholesaled to shops.

At the beginning of the announcement, no one knew what kind of medicine Li Jizhou was selling in his gourd, but they all understood that there is no free lunch in the world, so basically no one believed it.

Li Jizhou didn't care about this.

It wasn't until half a year later that someone took a bottle of homemade elixir worth thirty spirit stones to the store to test the water.

Xiao Guo followed Li Jizhou's instructions and carefully checked the condition of the elixir, compared it with Bai Yi's elixir, noted the difference, and then gave a suggested price based on the market price.

The owner compared the price he sold to Danfang and found that the price was a bit higher. He felt it was reasonable and accepted the suggested price.

Later, Xiao Guo took out his communication talisman and sent a group message about the elixir, explaining that the quality was not as good as before and the price was 30% cheaper.

In less than a quarter of an hour, someone was sure to take it.

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Two years later,

Li Jizhou successfully arranged a second-level advanced teleportation array.

This indicates that Li Jizhou has become a second-level senior formation master.

However, the effectiveness of the second-level teleportation array is somewhat useless. The teleportation distance is only a thousand miles, and one activation requires five medium-grade spiritual stones, so the gain outweighs the loss.

Li Jizhou won't use it either. He is just preparing for the development of the chessboard teleportation array and the moving talisman he plans to draw when he is promoted to the third-level talisman master in the future.

In addition to the teleportation array, he also successfully arranged a fantasy array.

It was also useless to him, completely inferior to Gua Gua's talent illusion.

Then he set about setting up a fire-gathering array, hoping to strengthen the power of Bai Yi's true fire and smelt the fourth-level treasure to create his own magical weapon.

But it still failed, and it probably needed the blessing of at least a third-level fire gathering array.

I am not disappointed with this. I am already a second-level senior formation master. Is the third level still far away?

On this day, Li Jizhou had just finished his daily practice, and the communication talisman in his storage bag shook slightly.

"A five-hundred-year-old seven-hole lotus!"

It was the main ingredient of the Crystal Condensation Pill that he needed.

In the past three years, he has often visited the fairy city, and he has seen a lot of the two main ingredients of the Crystal Condensation Pill.

However, I have never been in a hurry to buy it, because most vintages are not enough or have flaws.

In that case, the quality of the refined crystal elixir is not guaranteed.

So I specially asked a chief executive of the Merchant Alliance to have fun a few times and ask him to help keep an eye on it, and now there is news.

This time, though, it's at auction.

I have been to auctions several times in the past two years, but I have never made a sale.

Most of the things that can be put up for auction are in high demand, and it doesn't suit his nature to snatch them from a group of people who are in the stage of forming pills.

But this time, most of the main materials for the Crystal Condensation Pill are in the foundation building stage, so it is necessary to fight for them.

Before leaving the house, Li Jizhou took out the Hongchen Pavilion newspaper he had ordered in the past two years and glanced at it. Liuyun Immortal City was still as stable as a mountain without any signs of danger.

When passing by a shop outside, Xiao Guo was giving lectures to three newly recruited deacons.

"Master!"

"Um."

Li Jizhou nodded and walked out without saying anything.

When he arrived at the Central Auction, Li Jizhou showed the jade talisman of the owner of Taobao Pavilion and sat in the front row, even skipping the capital verification.

Until the auction was about to begin, Li Jizhou's annual ring glanced around and found that there were eight real people and twenty-seven fake pills present today, which was less than the previous times.

Then he turned around and inadvertently glanced at the eight true elixir masters, wanting to see if any of them were the ones he had become familiar with in the past two years.

When he glanced at the third Zhendan Zhenren, he paused slightly.

The upper limit of lifespan is four hundred and eighty-seven, so there is no doubt about the true elixir.

And I've seen that face twice.

It turned out to be Yu Ziyu!

She did not use the exotic treasure to disguise herself this time, probably because she was afraid of being discovered by the merchant alliance, and her true appearance may have never been exposed, so she was safe.

Li Jizhou had already determined that she was the only member of the Wuxiang Cult in Yan country who dared to go against the Merchant Alliance.

But I didn't expect that she would be so bold and come to the auction in Merchant Alliance Fairy City.