The Journey of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 120 - 89 Guest-Starring as the Money Scattering Child_2

Chapter 120: Chapter 89 Guest-Starring as the Money Scattering Child_2

The pungent smell of blood here is truly suffocating, almost nauseating, fortunately, demon corpses decompose less easily than ordinary wild animal corpses. Ning Xiaoxian’s increasingly sensitive sense of smell was already protesting, it’s a wonder how Changtian could still tolerate this odor, his five senses are a hundred times more sensitive than hers. Little did she know, this cunning fellow had long sealed off his own sense of smell, only she continued to foolishly sniff incessantly.

Once there was no one around, she placed her hand on the demon corpse and softly commanded, "Collect." The demon corpses filling the corner instantly vanished. Over the next few days, more demon corpses would continuously be piled here, then entering her God Demon Prison, becoming nutrients for the soil. Originally, the prison confined only three or four demons and a Bear Demon corpse, which allowed dozens of ginseng to grow into several hundred years old. Now, with so many demon corpses of different cultivations and species thrown into the soil’s mouth, how much energy could it absorb and thus, how many Heavenly Talent and Earthly Treasure could it produce? Ning Xiaoxian was quite looking forward to it.

Changtian was also satisfied and praised her, "Girl, well done." This little girl had exhausted all the Spiritual Power of the soil the other day, producing a large batch of herbs. He had been worried about subsequent power shortage, but little did he know she had already planned this, actually managing to have all merchant teams in Yan City contribute their demon corpses to her!

Many hands make light work, she’s just a mortal, even if she were a cultivator, how many demons could she alone overthrow? Only the merchant teams in Yan City, totaling tens of thousands of members, could capture so many prey.

However, the cost was equally enormous. She left the warehouse with a smile and settled the accounts for these demon corpses with the clerk from the Cloud Tiger Trading Team. Although these were leftover scraps after the Artifact Refiners had removed the valuable parts, it had still gobbled up over 80,000 taels of her silver.

She played the role of a money scattering child. The silver notes she just earned hadn’t even warmed up when more than half of it flew out again—it’s a lie to say as a small miser she didn’t feel the pinch. But isn’t money meant to be spent? Being able to buy so many demon corpses with mortal silver was already a huge win for her, one shouldn’t be too greedy!

The clerk was an acquaintance. She patted his shoulder, instructing him to continue collecting demon corpses, then turned around to leave. Today, she had another important place to go, that is the "mutual market" Changtian Yuan had mentioned before.

The mutual market is also one of Yan City Lord’s innovations. If the tea house district is the storage and wholesale market for major logistics, then by definition, the mutual market is a personal trading place set up by the officials of Yan City, located right next to the tea house district, occupying about half the area of the tea house district. Considering that it’s just a venue for personal trading, the area designated for the mutual market is already astonishingly large.

Want to enter? Just pay two taels of silver for an entrance ticket, and you can go in and browse various types of stall goods. If you want to set up a stall here, you have to pay an additional seven taels of silver for the stall fee.

The stall fee is sincerely not cheap. If you include the entrance fee, the cost of setting up a stall here is almost equivalent to thousands of RMB. However, once she entered the mutual market, she saw a teeming crowd, and the stalls on the ground were packed tightly next to each other, leaving little space empty. It appears that this place is thriving in both supply and demand, Yan City must be making a handsome profit just from the entrance and stall fees, not to mention the government also takes a halv of the trading tax from each transaction?

Yet, she wasn’t in a hurry to browse the stalls or set one up herself, but instead, she went to the mutual market’s official appraisal office and handed over the items she had.

This method was suggested by the whistle. Since the establishment of the mutual market, there had been two incidents; one, a buyer was dissatisfied with a seller demanding an exorbitant price, and after the transaction ended, swords were drawn. Another, someone splurged a fortune, attracting the envy of petty thieves, who awaited outside the mutual market to attack him, leading to a bloody and fatal outcome... Thus, Yan City learned from these lessons and specially created an official recommendation area within the mutual market.

Any treasures deemed of astonishing value, inconvenient for private transactions, sellers can bring them to the official recommendation area for preliminary appraisal. If confirmed as highly valuable, they can be displayed and sold in the recommendation area—of course, the official commission is higher, reaching fifteen percent of the total price, not including the appraisal fee. However, the safety factor is exponentially higher, hence the recommendation area is also very popular. This method is somewhat similar to the auction houses in Huaxia, but also distinctly different.

Ning Xiaoxian also had such a treasure—in the previous night, Changtian finally took action personally and refined a batch of elixirs. Prior to this, any type of medicine was merely for Ning Xiaoxian’s practice, but the high-quality medicine to be sold in the mutual market had to be refined by him personally.

It’s obvious when an expert makes a move. How would Changtian refine elixirs like her using a twig to ignite a mortal fire? He summoned his own Innate True Fire—the Mysterious Netherworld Divine Fire. It was Ning Xiaoxian’s first time seeing this reportedly terrifying flame. However, it didn’t look scary at all; the flame was pale and noiseless, floating in Changtian’s palm like a quietly blooming white lotus, tempting her to reach out and touch.

"Wow, it’s so beautiful!" Are the more vicious creatures indeed endowed with more beautiful appearances?

"Touch it, it’s alright." Changtian apparently saw through her thoughts, flicked his finger, and the Divine Fire drifted towards her. She reached out to touch it, and the white lotus trembled slightly. There wasn’t the anticipated scorching sensation, rather it felt like soaking in warm water.

"It... isn’t hot?" She initially thought Changtian was maliciously preparing to burn her, and she was braced for it.

"What an ungrateful guy." He himself was unaware that his tone contained a hint of indulgence, "At that time when you were struck by Shi Jishan in the left shoulder, I treated your wound, and it also played a part." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)

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