Chapter 50 Doing Business

  "How did you find this place?" Lin Feng asked while leading Liu Kai into the guest room.

  "Yesterday, I sensed that you had the intention of moving out from your words. Today, when I saw that you hadn't returned, I tried asking and didn't expect that you really did move here; the spiritual energy here is indeed abundant!" Liu Kai walked while looking around, deeply inhaling several breaths, envying the environment here.

  Leading Liu Kai to sit down, the wine and dishes prepared in the store were also placed on the table one after another. After a busy time, the two sat down, eating and chatting while they ate.

  "Lin Shixiong, your life is really... enviable!" Liu Kai raised a cup of spiritual wine and drank it in one gulp.

  "Do you think I eat and drink like this every day? Today is a happy occasion, and since you're here too, I especially ordered a table of wine and dishes. Let's not talk about that anymore, how was your business today?" Lin Feng was delighted in his heart but didn't want to say more about the Panlong Ring, so he glossed over it with one sentence and asked Liu Kai about his stall instead.

  As soon as Liu Kai mentioned setting up a stall, he became excited and said: "Lin Shixiong, do you know how many Ling Stones I sold today? Eighty-three pieces, haha... I've been selling stalls since I started in Yangguang City, and I've never sold so many Ling Stones before. I estimate that I made a profit of about twenty or so pieces."

  "Haha, that's great. As long as you keep up the momentum, I think your street stall business will be able to continue on and who knows, maybe one day it'll even become a big storefront."

  "We also have to thank Brother Lin for bringing so many good things, otherwise with the goods I had on display, I'm afraid not many people would be interested. Come, brother, let me toast you a cup!" Liu Kai and Lin Feng downed a cup together, then took out a pile of spirit stones and said: "These are all things that Brother Lin brought to sell, there are still some unsold ones, after they're sold I'll send them over to you."

  "Brother Liu, what do you mean? I'm letting you sell some stuff to make a little profit, just to make up for the losses from not being able to go out recently. I don't want much, just give me back my principal and that's it." Lin Feng took one look and knew that Liu Kai had already given away a large portion of the profits, so he refused.

  "Lin, you sell the goods at my place and also help me get rid of a lot of other stuff. I appreciate your kindness, but how can you still try to take advantage of my earnings? As long as you continue to bring me the things you've found, I'll be eternally grateful. The spirit stones we earn are yours for the taking, after all, brothers should be clear about their accounts."

  Lin Feng declined several times, but Liu Kai refused every time. Finally, Lin Feng had no choice but to say: "Actually, I won't be able to go shopping frequently either, so in the future, you'll still have to rely on yourself to shop or collect things. How about this? The spiritual stones from the items I'm taking out now will be left with you as capital, and you'll be in charge of buying and selling. From now on, we'll split the profits 50/50, how's that?"

  Liu Kai's eyes lit up, this was equivalent to Lin Feng spending his own money to do business for himself, where could he find such a good thing? He hastily said: "I'm willing of course, but how many spirit stones is Brother Lin planning to take out, and will the profits be divided like this..."

  "You think the share is too small? How about we split it 7:3, you take seven and I'll take three?"

  "Wrong, wrong! Brother Lin, aren't you scolding me for being ungrateful? You put up the money and let me do business, so of course you're the boss and take the lion's share. What logic is there in me taking the bigger share?" Liu Kai hastily explained, using honorifics in his flustered state. He was increasingly admiring Lin Feng, but also increasingly unable to understand him.

  "Haha, then there's no problem, let's just split it 50/50, if we win... or lose!"

  "How can I lose money? I've been running a stall in Yangguang City for many years, and I still have some idea what makes money. It's just that I don't have the capital, and even if I want to make that kind of money, I'm not capable of it. Speaking of which, I'd like to ask, how much capital is Master planning to put out?"

  Looking at Liu Kai's eyes shining with stars, Lin Feng smiled and said: "Want to turn the street stall into a storefront? You have to earn it yourself. As for the initial capital, I won't contribute either!"

  "Ah! Without capital, how can we make money? A clever woman cannot cook without rice. This...!" Liu Kai was immediately greatly alarmed.

  "Haha, look at you getting all anxious. Come on, let's have a drink first." Lin Feng had a calm and serene expression, but Liu Kai looked distressed and said: "Do you think I can still drink now?"

  Looking at Liu Kai's bitter melon face, Lin Feng also didn't continue to tease him and said with a smile: "Ling stones are indeed not many here..." He stretched out his hand to stop Liu Kai from opening his mouth again, and Lin Feng continued: "However, some time ago in Xi Lian Mountain, I picked up quite a few spiritual herbs, and also got some spiritual ore. The grade isn't very high, but the quantity is enough. You take it away and sell it, keep all the money you earn as capital."

  "How much?" Liu Kai heard this, it's not bad either. The spiritual medicine and mine have never been short of buyers, and now he is still running a stall, the requirements for the grade are not high, as long as the goods are sufficient, there will be more repeat customers, and he can also earn a lot of popularity for himself.

  Lin Feng smiled slightly, reached into his storage bag, and actually took out most of the gains from the past two days in the mountains from the Panlong Ring, then poured them out of the storage bag. Suddenly, a small mountain-like pile of spiritual medicine and a few spiritual mines appeared on the table.

  Liu Kai saw the large pile of spiritual herbs suddenly appear on the table, and he first stared blankly with wide eyes, then became frantic, and finally asked with a puzzled face: "Lin Shixiong, when did you collect these spiritual herbs?"

  Lin Feng understood what he meant, so he said: "Don't worry, everything can be used, and the ones that need to be soaked I've already processed in advance. Oh, by the way, I heard that elixirs are selling very well too. I just happen to have some here, you can take them with you, so your stall won't look too monotonous."

  As he spoke, Lin Feng's hand swept across the table, and a row of jade bottles appeared on the table, each one filled to the brim with spiritual pills, Qi-enhancing pills, Air-circulating pills, Purifying pills, Wound-healing pills, Hundred-flower pills... almost all types of first-grade pills were present. Of course, not a single mid-grade pill was taken out.

  Liu Kai was shocked again and didn't come back to his senses until after a while, saying: "Lin Shixiong, is this something you refined? You are...you are an alchemist?"

  "This is what I used to practice, but as for being a Dan Master, I don't dare to claim that. With my current cultivation level, how could I possibly be a Dan Master? I'm just an apprentice who has just started learning about Dan-making." Lin Feng thought for a moment and felt that there was no need to hide the fact that he knew how to make Dans. In the Cultivation Realm, who didn't know one or two auxiliary occupations of Cultivation?

  "Right, right, I know that most alchemists are foundation-building cultivators. What I mean is, can you refine pills? No, that's not what I meant... Ah, your current cultivation level is already impressive enough to become a pill-refining apprentice! You know what I mean..." Liu Kai was speaking incoherently now. Had he never even seen a pig run before? Although he had been poor, he had taken quite a few pills himself. Looking at the pills Lin Feng took out, Liu Kai knew that this level was already close to that of an entry-level pill master.

  But Lin Feng's cultivation was only at the fourth layer of the Qi Refining stage, and most cultivators at this level were just beginning to refine their dan, but Lin Feng was already a dan refining apprentice, and the quality of the first-grade dan he refined was also very good, almost comparable to that of an ordinary primary dan master. What does this mean? It means that Lin Feng may become a dan master who is envied by everyone in the future, it also means that Lin Feng will not lack spiritual stones in the future, and it also means that Lin Feng's talent for refining dan is astonishing. Finally, it also means that Lin Feng's family is extremely wealthy, otherwise how could they have cultivated such a young dan master? It was precisely because of these possible explanations that Liu Kai was so shocked.

  Lin Feng ignored Liu Kai's astonished expression and calmly ate and drank, but in his heart he was also secretly pleased. If he took out the medium-grade elixir, wouldn't it scare this kid to death?

  "That's all for now, I won't guarantee any more spiritual medicine in the future. It's too much trouble to leave the city now, and I plan on staying within the walls of Yao Guang City for a long time. As for spiritual pills, I can ensure a steady supply at any time, but there is one condition: the fact that I'm the one who refines them must not be leaked out." Only after Liu Kai regained his normal expression after a long while did Lin Feng begin to explain the things he needed to pay attention to.

  "I know, Brother Shifu can rest assured. With so many things, I'll have the circulating spirit stones, and other items I can sell and collect, I'll also collect some spiritual pills. This way, no one will suspect anything." Liu Kai had unknowingly changed his attitude towards Lin Feng, although he still called him "Lin Shifu" or more intimately "Shifu", but his tone was now more respectful.

  It's not Liu Kai's fault, the Cultivation world has always had the custom of following the strong, just like the Yang family trying to send Lin Feng and others into the Qingyang Gate, which is actually a kind of attachment. The main purpose is naturally to hope for protection from the strong or to gain some benefits in terms of cultivation resources.

  But Liu Kai was just a mediocre loose cultivator, and even if he wanted to find a sect to rely on, it's unlikely that anyone would take him in, so he had been struggling before, relying on fighting with quasi-demonic beasts to earn some cultivation elixirs, and every day he was on the verge of death.

  Now that he has Lin Feng's help, he no longer needs to venture into the mountains frequently to obtain more spiritual stones. Not only is his life guaranteed, but he will also have no worries about alchemy in the future, and his cultivation progress will be greatly improved. How can he not be grateful to Lin Feng? Naturally, he put aside his airs and humbled himself.

  Lin Feng also decided to help Liu Kai with his business because of the recent events. One reason was the pressure brought by Qian Dele and others, forcing Lin Feng to accelerate his cultivation, and to increase his cultivation speed, he would not spend less on spirit stones, such as staying in this spiritual inn for cultivation, which would cost a lot.

  Another reason is the problem of spiritual stones. In Yuguang City, no matter what you do, you need to spend spiritual stones, and the price is not low. With my own income from refining medicine, I can only barely make ends meet. But now I'm still pretending to be a rich young master, so sometimes I have to spend money on unnecessary things. As a result, my spiritual stones are a bit insufficient, so helping Liu Kai is actually helping myself. No matter how much I earn, it's always an income, and it can make up for some of the expenses.

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