Setting up a street stall (second update today, seeking votes)

  Ye Chen recalled the ancient painting into his body, brought the three black Lingzhi spirit grasses on his head, and went out again, wanting to sell these three black Lingzhi for spirit stones.

  However, selling lingzhi is not an easy task. On the streets, you can't just find a cultivator and ask if they want some. First, others may not necessarily want it, and second, they might suspect that the medicinal materials are fake or of unknown origin.

  In the Immortal City, if you want to sell something, valuable items can be consigned to the Grand Merchant Hall, while cheaper ones are directly sold on street stalls. Passing cultivators who take a liking to them will naturally buy them.

  Ye Chen's three low-grade black Ganoderma lucidum were worth about ten spirit stones, cheap and low-end goods, of course, they would be sold at a street stall.

  Inside the Immortal City, there were over a dozen major streets. Ye Chen arrived at one of the bustling streets, took out a piece of cloth and spread it on the ground as a stall, placed three black spirit mushrooms on top, priced them five spirit stones, five spirit stones, and four spirit stones respectively by year, then sat down cross-legged, staring eagerly at the passing pedestrians, waiting for other cultivators to come and buy.

  Although he had been doing odd jobs at the Beifeng Academy for ten years, setting up a stall to do business was still Ye Chen's first time, and he had no experience. He didn't even know how to hawk his wares, unlike other vendors who shouted loudly to attract customers.

  "There are only three stalks of Black Ginseng, isn't this too little?! I need over a dozen kinds of spiritual herbs to refine one furnace of elixir, what can this amount be used for?" A cultivator glanced over and shook his head as he walked away.

  "The years are too shallow, the color is not enough! If it were two pieces of spiritual stone for one plant, I would have bought it." A cultivator actually wanted to buy, but opened his mouth and cut the price in half.

  "What a joke, this is a twenty-year-old black lingzhi, other merchants sell such goods for five pieces of spirit stone, you think you can take it away for two pieces of spirit stone?! You think I don't know the market price?!"

  Ye Chen glared.

  "If you don't sell, then forget it." The cultivator disdainfully swaggered away.

  Ye Chen sat for a short while, feeling quite helpless.

  It's been half an hour, and there aren't many people watching, let alone asking about the price.

  However, other nearby medicine vendors are doing a good business, with large quantities of spiritual medicines being sold from time to time.

  Ye Chen was thinking in his heart. His goods were too few, there was nothing to choose from, and the price he sold them for was the same as other merchants, most people just took a glance and left.

  "Unless they lower the price, it won't be easy to attract people and sell these three black lingzhi."

  Ye Chen was sitting on the ground thinking about how much he should lower himself when suddenly he felt a darkness in front of him, and several tall figures blocked out the light.

  Ye Chen looked up and saw three burly men with ferocious faces, wearing single-colored short shirts, standing in front of the stall with their arms crossed, staring at him with furrowed brows. These three men didn't ask for prices, but instead sneered coldly, staring at him fixedly.

  The three burly men stood in front of the stall, exuding an aura of menace, and no other customers dared to approach. This clearly showed that they were looking for trouble, and other passing cultivators did not want to get involved unnecessarily.

  "What do you want to do with my business?"

  Ye Chen took one look at them and didn't think they were planning on buying spiritual medicine, so he furrowed his brow and asked.

  He wasn't afraid of these three big men, the strength of a martial artist and a cultivator isn't determined by their physical size. If one's cultivation is weak, no matter how strong or fierce they look, it's all useless. These three big men were all Qi Refining stage cultivators, their cultivation wasn't higher than his.

  "Hum, little rabbit, what are you saying? Who allowed you to set up a stall selling spiritual medicine on this street?"

  A burly man sneered coldly.

  Ye Chen suddenly understood and indeed, trouble had arrived.

  "Why can't I sell spiritual medicine on this street?"

  Ye Chen was astonished.

  "You're new here, aren't you? Don't know the rules! This street is White's Pharmacy territory! Anyone who wants to sell spiritual medicine on this street must purchase from our White's Pharmacy, otherwise they are not allowed to sell. Tell me, did you get these goods from the pharmacy? One look and I can tell it's not, scram while you still can, or I'll smash your stall!"

  The leader of those men shouted loudly.

  "Who wrote that this street is the territory of Bai's Pharmacy? You dare to make a move, and the Xiancheng Patrol Guard is not just eating idle rice! You try it!"

  Ye Chen suddenly became angry and stood up abruptly.

  "Hey, you're still quite stubborn, the patrol team doesn't care about this matter... Besides, we didn't fight or brawl. We just stand here and see who dares to sell your medicinal materials! Today I'll take a look, who dares to offend White's Pharmacy!"

  The big man was startled, stunned for a moment, and then jumped up in anger.

  "Hey little brother, calm down big brother!"

  Several nearby medicine peddlers saw Ye Chen and the three burly men about to clash, and the pedestrians on this street hastily avoided them, not wanting to get close, as it would definitely affect their spiritual medicine business, so they quickly mediated.

  "This young man is obviously a newcomer and doesn't know the rules of the Bai's pharmacy on this street. Let's just talk about it, don't really make trouble."

  "This little brother, you'd better hurry up and leave! You only have these three spiritual herbs in hand, it's not worth offending the Bai family pharmacy for such a small amount of money. All the businesses on this street belong to the Bai family pharmacy. Just find any pharmacist and sell these few spiritual herbs at a low price."

  "We merchants all get our goods from the Bai family pharmacy."

  Several drug dealers persuaded him in a good voice.

  Ye Chen's anger surged back, but there was nothing he could do. The burly men from the Bai Medicine Shop had blocked his business, and it was pointless to continue setting up his stall. The Bai Medicine Shop had monopolized the medicine trade on this street, with immense wealth and power that Ye Chen couldn't contend with.

  Ye Chen packed up his street stall.

  Those few big men finally left dejectedly.

  Ye Chen's first attempt at running a stall ended in failure.

  There are also merchants in the city who buy scattered medicinal materials, but the price is lower than the market price. On the market, a black lingzhi fungus costs five spirit stones, but the merchants who collect scattered medicines only offer three to four spirit stones, which is obviously 20% to 40% lower, and the price is suppressed very hard.

  Ye Chen was short of spiritual stones and could only sell three black Ganoderma to scattered medicinal material merchants, exchanging them for eleven spiritual stones.

  "This little bit of spiritual stone is far from enough, even a random cultivation manual on the market would cost more than 10 pieces of spiritual stone. I still need to go out and earn more spiritual stone."

  Having learned from past experiences, Ye Chen was more cautious this time.

  He inquired about the situation of the medicine market from other medicine peddlers.

  The spiritual medicine of Tianyun Xianyuan City generally has three fixed sources.

  Firstly, the spiritual fields and medicine gardens surrounding Xian City for hundreds of miles are all controlled by the large immortal families within Xian City. The massive sources of spiritual medicines are also controlled by these immortal families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Generally, they produce low-grade medicinal materials.

  Secondly, the spiritual fields and medicine gardens of the nine major immortal sects in Yunzhou are even larger in scale and have a very high grade. However, the spiritual medicines of the nine major immortal sects rarely appear in Tianyun Immortal City, and are generally supplied to the disciples of the nine major immortal sects for use. Only a small amount of high-grade medicinal materials are brought by the sect's disciples to the Immortal City for sale.

  Finally, there are a small number of scattered spiritual herbs that are picked by cultivators in the depths of the Spiritual Mist Mountains. The quantity is not much, but the variety is very diverse, with both low and high grades available. Those who have good luck may pick a rare spiritual herb and become rich.

  Ye Chen figured out all these things and started thinking about how to sell the spiritual medicine.

  He can't mass-produce medicine in the immortal mansion and then sell it.

  If a large quantity of spiritual medicine suddenly appears on the market, it will definitely be targeted by the major spiritual medicine refining families in Xian City. Even setting up a street stall would attract attention from people in the pharmaceutical industry, let alone selling in bulk.

  "What I can sell is just a small amount of scattered spiritual medicine materials. The quantity should be small and the variety should be diverse."

  "After that, I'll occasionally go out of the city and then come back to sell the spiritual medicine. This way, even if the people from the herb-cultivating immortal families notice me, they will easily mistake it for wild spiritual medicine picked from the deep mountains, and won't have any other ideas."

  After all, being careful will not lead to big mistakes.

  Ye Chen wanted to understand these things, so he bought various cheap spiritual medicine seeds at a street stall.

  After returning to the small inn, he only planted one or two of each kind of spiritual medicine in the medicinal garden of the immortal mansion, and it was not necessary to plant too many years. One piece of spiritual stone can be used to grow one plant, and after maturity, the selling price can reach five or six pieces of spiritual stone.

  Ye Chen sold more than a dozen spiritual herbs in various places on the streets of Xian City, directly selling them to street vendors. As long as his price was 20-30% lower than the market price, the vendors were happy to buy these loose herbs.

  Ye Chen was busy for a whole night, selling off the medicinal materials in his hands, and only stopped when dawn broke. He counted the spirit stones in his pocket at the inn and couldn't help but feel greatly delighted.

  "I've been busy all night and earned over 60 pieces of spirit stones, it's great!"

  "This amount of spirit stone may not be a lot, but it's enough to buy one or two volumes of secret spellbooks. I can finally cultivate magic!"

  "The Fireball Technique on the market only costs 10 spirit stones, and the Wind Control Technique only costs 20 spirit stones. It's essential to cultivate techniques early, otherwise, it will be a big gap later on. As for spiritual knives and armors, I can buy them slowly, no rush."

  Ye Chen left the inn and hurriedly went to buy a secret book of spells for cultivators.