Meet at 7:4

  Ye Chen returned to Tianyun Xianyuan City and stayed at a small inn in the south of the city.

  Ye Chen was calculating how to make a fortune in spiritual stones within a few days, so that he could leave the Tianyun Xianyuan City and continue his cultivation journey.

  The number of spirit stones is not in the tens, but over a thousand. As his Qi Refining stage cultivation rises, the amount of spirit stones he consumes each month will only increase, and too few spirit stones are simply not enough.

  "In my own immortal mansion, there are medicine gardens, equipment refining pavilions, elixir refining pavilions, wine brewing pavilions and so on. However, the only thing that can quickly bring in spiritual stones is currently the medicine garden for cultivating spiritual herbs. The other functions will probably have to wait until later to truly take effect."

  Ye Chen cultivated ordinary low-grade spiritual herbs in the immortal mansion, and at night he took out a few stalks to sell to street vendors who collected scattered spiritual herbs at a price lower than 20-30% of the market price.

  Ye Chen was inconspicuous in Xian City, extremely low-key selling spiritual herbs, although not attracting attention, but exchanging for spiritual stones was very slow.

  Ye Chen sold for several days, earning only a little over 100 spiritual stones, and was somewhat at a loss to stop this inefficient method. At this rate, it would take him at least nearly a month to earn enough spiritual stones to reach the thousands.

  "Low-grade spiritual herbs are worthless, selling dozens of them won't even earn much spiritual stone! It's better to sell a few high-grade spiritual herbs."

  Ye Chen muttered to himself and began to cultivate even more valuable spiritual herbs within the immortal mansion.

  However, what surprised Ye Chen was that on the second night after returning to Xian City, he suddenly broke through the small barrier of the second layer of Qi Refining and entered the third layer. His primordial spirit also grew stronger again, about three grains of soybeans in size, and his divine sense expanded.

  Although Ling Shi didn't earn much, his cultivation breakthrough made Ye Chen extremely excited.

  These days, apart from earning Ling Shi and cultivating, Ye Chen was also thinking about how to make his Hao Zhu play a role.

  Ye Chen earned over a hundred spirit stones and bought a cheap beast-taming manual from a street vendor, learning the art of taming beasts. According to the vendor, the beast-taming technique was a form of communication magic that allowed the master's intentions to be converted into a way that spiritual beasts could understand.

  The young aurochs in the Xianfu beast enclosure has grown up and gained some strength. To let it assist itself in fighting, the master must learn special beast-riding skills and communicate with it.

  However, Ye Chen soon discovered a new problem - he was unable to control the spiritual beasts and fireballs with his divine sense at the same time. Wind manipulation and stone skin were exceptions, not requiring divine sense control.

  He communicated with the spiritual beast through his divine sense, and instantly lost contact with the fireball, unable to control it to accurately attack the target.

  He used his divine sense to control the fireball, and immediately lost communication with the spiritual beast, unable to make it understand its attacking intention.

  Ye Chen brought his doubts and hastily found that vendor who sold the secret recipe and asked him.

  "This is natural. A divine sense emitted by the yuan god can only control one thing, either a spiritual beast or an attacking spell like a fireball. Lower-level cultivators generally have only one divine sense and can only do one thing."

  The merchant said with no surprise at all.

  "What's the point? When I control the spirit beast to attack the enemy, I myself can't cast spells to attack! Then why do I need this spirit beast, might as well go myself!"

  Ye Chen was stunned.

  "This little brother, it seems you've just started cultivating and don't need to rush. This is actually simple, go find a cultivation technique for divine sense and increase your own divine sense. However, that kind of divine sense cultivation technique is quite expensive, this small stall doesn't have any for sale! Go to the big merchant guild in the city and take a look, the large shops should have some for sale! It's just unknown whether you have enough spirit stones or can afford it."

  The merchant burst out laughing.

  "Thank you!"

  Ye Chen smiled awkwardly and turned away.

  Tianyun Xianyuan City, in the city area, on a main street, there is a commercial building with extremely luxurious decorations, dozens of floors high, with a sign that reads "Lingzhen Pavilion". At the entrance of the pavilion, several mid-term refining servants stand, wearing humble smiles, respectfully welcoming guests coming and going.

  Ye Chen arrived in front of Lingzhen Pavilion, took a glance at the glittering golden signboard, secretly took a deep breath, and stepped into the pavilion.

  If it were in the past, he wouldn't have dared to enter such a large commercial building. Just standing at the entrance of the store was a mid-term cultivator or above serving as an attendant, let alone the goods inside this mall, which must be extremely high-end and expensive.

  A humble, poor low-ranking cultivator like him could only look at such a large store with trepidation. With less than a few hundred spirit stones in his pocket, he would only be able to window shop if he entered this kind of big store.

  Ye Chen now has a bit of background, and for the first time entering such a luxurious store, he won't show a timid look in front of this kind of commercial building.

  Inside the business hall, the first floor is very large, with counters on all four sides displaying various spiritual elixirs, sharp spirit tools, jewelry, accessories, and ritual clothes. The variety is vast, dazzling to the eye. Randomly picking a few items, each costs hundreds of spirit stones.

  Ye Chen licked his tongue and came to the counter of spiritual elixirs and spiritual medicines, asking a middle-aged manager, "I found a spiritual medicine outside a few days ago, I'd like to ask if your esteemed shop is willing to buy it?"

  "What kind of spiritual medicine? Such low-grade spiritual grass, this pavilion will not accept!"

  Inside the counter, the middle-aged manager was calculating a thick account book. He looked up and glanced at Ye Chen, seeing that Ye Chen was also a third-layer cultivator in the Refining Qi period. He couldn't help but look down on him a bit, and said casually: "Cultivators with low cultivation levels can't go to the treacherous places of Tianyun Mountain Range, it's very difficult to pick enough valuable spiritual herbs." The manager naturally wouldn't take him seriously either.

  Ye Chen took out a long jade box from her storage bag and opened it.

  Inside is a plump and robust ginseng, nearly a foot long, with long and thick roots that are very complete, growing seven green leaves. It looks very fresh and should have been picked not long ago.

  "Seven-leaf Ginseng!!"

  He glanced at the jade box and his eyelid twitched, almost shouting out loud, but he bit his tongue hard and swallowed back the exclamation.

  This unassuming low-ranking cultivator actually found a very valuable spiritual herb!!

  The middle-aged shopkeeper didn't look up at the customer, but instead thought quickly and smiled, "This thing looks like it's over a hundred years old, worth about a hundred spirit stones. I wonder what price this customer wants to sell it for?"

  "Never mind, I've asked other big stores on this street and they're willing to pay several times more than you. Your store doesn't want it, but others do!"

  Ye Chen said, and was about to put away the jade box, planning to leave. In his heart, he sneered, thinking that this manager obviously wanted to take advantage of him for not knowing the goods.

  To know that this seven-leafed Lingcui, if it were to be sold on the market stalls, would fetch at least four or five hundred spirit stones, and possibly even more. However, such goods rarely appear on street stalls, making them harder to sell. Ye Chen thought of taking it to the Grand Bazaar instead, where it would be easier to get rid of.

  "Hey, brother, wait a minute! Haggling is normal! Let me take another look at the quality of this seven-leaf ginseng. Maybe I made a mistake earlier. Whatever other stores offer, our store will definitely not give less!"

  The shop assistant hastily pressed down on the jade box on the counter and said.

  "Of course there's room for negotiation when selling something. But the price must be reasonable, otherwise I won't sell!"

  Ye Chen furrowed his brow.

  At this moment, outside the Chamber of Commerce, a handsome young man with a sword walked in, carrying the Qingling Sword. His pink face had an innate arrogance, and he was born to be the focus of everyone's attention. As soon as he entered the Chamber of Commerce, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone inside.

  "White gentleman, what do you need?!"

  Several recent staff members rushed up enthusiastically to greet us.

  Even the manager who had greeted Ye Chen earlier was now busy attending to Bai Gongzi and didn't have time to greet Ye Chen anymore.

  Ye Chen's gaze passed by, slightly surprised. Unaware that this was a young master from one of the major families in Tianyun Xianyuan City!

  "Get one of each of the spiritual items on the list. The mid-grade law robe I bought last time is broken and needs to be replaced."

  The young man in white shirt came to the counter and put a list on the counter, saying.

  "White gentleman, I heard you've been in seclusion at Qing Shan Lake recently. How come you're back now?"

  A steward asked with a good-natured smile.

  "Hmm!"

  That white-shirted youth snorted, his expression displeased, "What's with all these questions?!"

  "Little mouth!"

  That official saw the young man in white shirt's face was not right, hurriedly shut his mouth, and didn't dare to ask more.

  "It's a total of 600 spirit stones!"

  Several clerks counted the goods on the purchase order and reported a price.

  The white-shirted youth didn't look twice, directly paid with spirit stones, and swept everything on the counter into his storage bag.

  The young man in white turned around and finally saw Ye Chen beside the counter, saw the seven-leaf ginseng in the jade box in Ye Chen's hand, and was taken aback. He opened his mouth and said, "A three-hundred-year-old seven-leaf ginseng? Where did you pick such a high-quality spiritual ginseng?"

  "Can I tell you where I picked the lingzhi?"

  Ye Chen said calmly.

  "This!"

  The white-shirted youth suddenly choked. A seasoned medicine collector would know some extremely secluded locations where extremely difficult-to-pick spiritual medicines grew. According to the rules of the medicine collectors, this naturally could not be leaked out, otherwise it would be cutting off one's own wealth.

  "I was too presumptuous earlier! My White family is in the pharmaceutical business. This third-grade seven-leafed Lingcui is extremely rare, how about selling it to my White family for 500 spirit stones?"

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  PS: Sometimes I feel really frustrated when writing. It's not that the plot is hard to write, but it gets stuck in very minor details. A kind of spiritual medicine, several levels, how many spiritual stones to sell. And it can't be written casually, the front and back must correspond, otherwise the prices in the immortal world will be messed up.

  Take this seven-leaf ginseng for example, isn't 500 spirit stones a reasonable price? Why not 600, why not 900?

  I thought for over ten minutes, looking up the data of other spiritual grasses and medicines in the book to see what was unreasonable about 500. I tried to choose a relatively reasonable price, which took a lot of time.

  Some readers might say, "Just write whatever you want!"

  Writing a "500-word spiritual stone" is quite simple, it can be knocked out in two or three seconds.

  But throughout the book, with hundreds or thousands of items having completely different and complicated settings, can they all be written casually? If one is casual, everything will be messed up, and there will be no hierarchy. The prices are chaotic, and the world is almost chaotic too. If these are not considered, then there is no authenticity.

  It's just setting up the various items, prices, spell powers, types of spells, mount speeds, and effects of various items in a book. Each level of item should be sold for how many spirit stones, and the time spent on this is often no less than the time spent writing the book.

  And when writing, I couldn't remember so many things, and had to flip through the previous chapters in front of me to find accurate data records. Looking up a piece of data would take several minutes, it was infuriating.