There are many grocery stores like this in Lengmu City. Not only do they provide food and clothing for ordinary people, they also allow medicinal materials and ores that some sects do not need to circulate, thus avoiding greater waste.
After all, most sects are very picky about medicinal materials and ores.
For example, wild ginseng is not a hundred years old, and even the outer disciples responsible for purchasing it look down upon it. However, for ordinary people and many acquired warriors, wild ginseng that has been around for decades can play a very important role in extending life, or taking it to practice martial arts. Good results.
Some ores with lower content will not be purchased by the sect.
But barbarian lands in the eyes of sects like Bolan Kingdom are in great need of these low-quality goods.
And human countries such as Bolan Country can also produce a large amount of daily necessities needed by mortals in the Nancui area, such as fine silk, large quantities of food, daily ironware, etc.
Both sides have their own needs, so an endless supply of trade routes has naturally formed.
Fang Xiaoyue opened this grocery store, firstly to find a way for the old coachman to spend his old age, and secondly because he had itchy hands and wanted to try the weapon-refining techniques in Yang Feihe's memory.
And if you refine something, it may not be very big, but it is not a waste if you throw it in a grocery store and sell it.
After hiring dozens of people and going out to various towns to purchase ores and medicinal materials that the cultivation sects disdained, and also purchasing a large amount of daily necessities from the caravan from Bolan Country, Xiaohe Grocery Store was officially opened.
The business in the first few days was very average. The old coachman happily stayed in the shop. With his experience of traveling all over the country, he could still do this little thing. Besides, the grocery store also hired a shopkeeper from outside. As a clerk, the old coachman is just like sitting in the shop, so he doesn't need to worry too much.
Within a few days, someone returned with the purchased medicinal materials and ores.
Relying on Yang Feihe's memory, Fang Xiaoyue is quite familiar with these medicinal materials and ores.
He immediately pointed out several people who tried to deceive him by pretending to be fake and pretending to be good.
Not to mention, perhaps because of the Nancui area, the folk customs here are really strong.
After Fang Xiaoyue pointed out the problem to several bad guys, instead of showing any shame, they bullied Fang Xiaoyue as a child and wanted to buy and sell by force.
Anyway, in their opinion, if they didn't directly commit robbery, it would be an attack of conscience.
But something they didn't expect happened. The kid punched each of them, and in less than ten seconds, they were all lying on the ground vomiting.
With this lesson in mind, the guys in charge of purchasing at the back immediately became frightened. Not only did they not dare to mistake the fake ones for the real ones, they instead screened the medicinal materials and ores themselves before coming to avoid provoking the little shopkeeper for no reason and being beaten up, which would be too miserable. point.
You know, the managers of Lengmu City are very loose in their management of mortals. As long as no one is killed, no one will pay attention to you even if you complain to the patrolling warriors.
Of course, if you have some connections, it will be different, but generally speaking, families with warriors at home will not be interested in buying low-quality products from everywhere.
Anyone who joins the city's defenders in Lengmu City is treated very well, so even their family members generally do not risk going out.
After all, this is the Nancui area. After leaving the city, you may run into wild beasts and monsters at any time.
After collecting medicinal materials and ores for several days, Fang Xiaoyue lost her patience and handed over the collection of goods to the hired shopkeeper, while she squatted in the yard behind and began to tinker and tinker.
In the cultivation system here, alchemy and weapon refining are divided into two levels.
Since the alchemy and weapon refining of the congenital level can release the true energy from the body, there are special alchemy furnaces and weapon refining cauldrons.
Below the innate level, what is running in the body is internal force and cannot be released externally. Therefore, the so-called alchemy is to process and boil medicinal materials according to certain procedures, and extract their essence through these methods to form an ointment, and then directly knead the ointment into pills. .
Of course, pills like this are more similar to pills made by ordinary doctors. Most of them are made of several medicinal materials according to the principle of king and minister complementing each other. Therefore, the effect is still much stronger than just a single medicinal material.
But compared to the elixirs refined in the alchemy furnace, this pill is much inferior.
The same goes for weapon refining.
The innate cultivator's weapon refining is to put the ore into a special vessel for refining, and activate the true energy to melt and refine it.
The weapon smelting of acquired warriors is to burn the ore red and then beat it continuously. In fact, it is not much different from that of a blacksmith.
The only difference is that refining the weapon requires an additional process. After the magic weapon is hammered into shape, corresponding inscriptions need to be engraved on it. Only in this way can the internal force or true energy activate the inscriptions and allow the magic weapon to exert its effect.
Well, there is another point. Whether it is alchemy or weapon refining, just like their mortal counterparts, they are professions that require skills.
Not just any cultivator can refine elixirs or weapons.
First of all, you have to practice the relevant exercises to make the internal force and true energy generated in the body meet the effects of elixir refining and weapon refining.
Generally speaking, exercises related to fire attributes are good for refining elixirs and refining weapons.
Water-based exercises are good for elixir refining, and metal-based exercises are good for weapon refining.
There is also the knowledge accumulated over a long period of time in alchemy, weapon refining techniques, runes that conform to certain types of exercises, etc. These are the treasures of the major cultivation sects that cannot be leaked to the public!
Some knowledge is also spread to the hands of casual cultivators outside, but compared with the knowledge in various sects, the knowledge obtained by these casual cultivators is mostly incomplete or of a lower grade.
When Yang Feihe was at the Immortal Crane Sect, he didn't do any research on alchemy. Instead, he did some research on weapon refining.
It's just that in order to take revenge, he spent more time on training.
After all, a cultivator's time is also limited. If cultivation takes up too much time, then there will definitely be less time spent on refining weapons.
Besides, refining weapons consumes a lot of resources.
There are three channels for cultivators in various sects to obtain resources. One is that each sect will issue some points every month. These points can be directly exchanged for medicinal materials, ores, refined elixirs, and magical weapons.
The second is to earn points by completing tasks assigned by the sect.
The last one is to go out and look for resources by yourself.
Of course, generally speaking, going out to find resources on your own is the most undesirable behavior.
No matter how powerful a person is, he will definitely not be as good as the sect in terms of collecting resources.
If Yang Feihe hadn't needed a magic sword that was more suitable for him, he probably wouldn't have even delved into refining it.
Using Yang Feihe's memory, Fang Xiaoyue threw the recovered ores into the furnace to smelt them one by one.
