On the second day, Liu Chaoyuan stood at the door of Jindan Hall, looking inside from time to time.
The store was in full swing and crowded with people.
Zhao Lin, Gudzhao and a few waiters greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Isn't it going to close down? Why is it still so lively?"
Liu Chaoyuan was confused for a while and wanted to go into the store to ask, but felt it was not appropriate and left angrily.
The clearance sign was up for three days.
On the fourth day, Liu Chaoyuan got up before dawn and wandered in front of his shop pretending to be nonchalant.
The sun rises and the door of Jindan Hall finally opens.
Zhao Lin came out, holding a half-person-high sign in his hand, stood in front of the door, turned around and saw Liu Chaoyuan, and quickly cupped his hands and said: "Good morning, Shopkeeper Liu!"
Liu Chaoyuan took a closer look and his eyes almost popped out, "Don't you close the door in three days? Why is there still a last morning?"
Zhao Lin sighed, "The remaining goods haven't been processed yet, so it's hard to take them back. How about... Shopkeeper Liu help collect them?"
Liu Chaoyuan was so stunned that he couldn't speak.
The fifth day.
Clearance sale, back for three days!
As soon as Zhao Lin put up the signboard, his eyes blurred and Liu Chaoyuan appeared out of nowhere.
"Why is there an encore!"
Zhao Lin said calmly, "Our store still has inventory, and the leases have not expired, so we will sell them for a few more days."
"How many more days will it be sold?"
Liu Chaoyuan was startled, and he was a little familiar with it, "You guys are not going bankrupt at all, are you using the excuse of going bankrupt to sell goods?"
Zhao Lin waved his hands repeatedly and said seriously: "Shopkeeper Liu, don't talk nonsense, the store is closed."
At this time, the clerk from Linglong Pavilion came over and reminded Liu Chaoyuan: "Shopkeeper, don't listen to him! Yesterday afternoon I went to the administrative office to do something, and I saw them moving goods down from the Lingzhou, and they didn't finish it after three trips!"
Liu Chaoyuan's beard stood up when he heard this, and he asked Zhao Lin: "How do you explain this now?"
Zhao Lin's expression remained unchanged, "It's also inventory."
Liu Chaoyuan was furious, "You are so shameless, you are simply cheating!"
Gudzhao heard something moving outside and walked over to see what was going on. As soon as he stepped out one foot, when he heard these words, he suddenly felt ashamed and retracted his foot.
Zhao Lin pretended not to see it and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Liu's words are wrong. How can you call business matters shameless?"
"Besides, we neither steal nor rob, and the discounts are real. If Shopkeeper Liu doesn't believe it, you can go into the store and have a look. Zhao will make the decision and give you a 20% discount."
Liu Chaoyuan was so angry that he turned away and left.
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Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like a shuttle.
One year has passed...
The name of Dongfu Haifang has gradually grown. Not only monks from within the state often come here to buy spiritual items, but there are also more monks from outside the state. Compared with the deserted place when it first opened, it is no longer the same.
"Shopkeeper Tian, Zhao came uninvited again."
Zhao Lin walked into Heqi Hall and greeted the shopkeeper Tian Daozhong familiarly.
"Wherever, distinguished guests are coming, I haven't had time to welcome them yet."
Tian Daozhong greeted him enthusiastically and walked with Zhao Lin, but when he turned around, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Zhao is here for the elixir?"
Entering the inner hall compartment, Tian Daozhong asked the waiter to bring tea, took a sip and asked,
"good."
Zhao Lin nodded lightly.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention the word Chongqiao Dan.
Tian Daozhong coughed and asked, "How many pills does Brother Zhao need?"
Zhao Lin said nothing, dipped his finger in tea, and wrote the word "five" on the table.
Tian Daozhong's face was moved, and then he showed a look of embarrassment, "To be honest, the supply of elixirs has been exhausted, and there is only the last one left in the store."
Zhao Lin remained calm and asked, "What about the future?"
Tian Daozhong apologized: "I'm afraid there won't be any more in the future."
Zhao Lin reached out to wipe away the water stains on the table and said simply: "Okay, how do you calculate the price?"
Tian Daozhong said: "Things are rare because they are expensive. We could have sold them at a higher price, but fellow Taoist Zhao is a regular customer, so let's keep the original price."
Zhao Lin smiled and said, "Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Tian."
Tian Daozhong handed the pomegranate gourd containing the Chongqiao elixir to Zhao Lin, and asked, seemingly unintentionally: "I wonder if fellow Daoist Zhao will take the elixir himself or give it to others?"
Zhao Lin chuckled and shook his head, "Cultivation matters are not for outsiders. Please forgive me, Shopkeeper Tian."
Tian Daozhong laughed, "No problem, I just asked casually..."
After walking out of Heqi Hall, Zhao Lin patted the lock bag on his waist and thought, "I'll use it sparingly in the future."
With the help of the Aperture Chong Pill to conquer the most difficult spiritual aperture, Zhao Lin's cultivation has improved rapidly this year. He entered the sixth level of Qi Refining at the beginning of the year and is now close to perfection.
In order to avoid shocking the world, I kept two Aphrodisiac Pills unused, otherwise I would be able to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining this year.
After Zhao Lin left, Shopkeeper Tian's face turned gloomy.
Yang Quan, the clerk, walked in and said puzzledly: "It's really strange. We sold him a total of seven Aphrodisiac Pills. Why is it still okay now?"
"Could it be that he only ate one or two pills and left the rest untouched?"
Tian Daozhong pondered for a while and slowly shook his head: "It's impossible. When we first met him the year before last, his cultivation was still at the fourth level of Qi Refining. In just two years, he broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining."
"Furthermore, I have observed that the sixth pillar of spiritual energy manifested is extremely solid, and it may have reached the peak of the sixth level. Such an unnatural speed of cultivation cannot be any other pill except the Aperture Chong Pill."
Yang Quan thought for a while and asked, "Could it be due to my talent in cultivation?"
Tian Daozhong said decisively: "It's impossible. Only the spiritual roots of heaven and earth can practice at such a speed. He is a martial artist, and his talent is at the middle level. It takes at least three to five years of normal practice to break through the first level."
Yang Quan was even more puzzled when he heard this, "Didn't it mean that after taking three Chongqiao Pills, 99% of people will have their meridians damaged and their cultivation stagnated? Could it be that the rumors are wrong?"
Tian Daozhong sighed, "I don't understand this either. We used this method to destroy several Taoist geniuses from the Chenghua Sect. We have tried and failed, but it just doesn't work for him!"
Yang Quan said bitterly: "We can't let it get bigger. Since the Chongqiao Pill doesn't work, it's time to use other methods."
Tian Daozhong waved his hand, "You go out first and let me think about it again."
"yes……"
After Yang Quan left, Tian Daozhong shook out a pomegranate gourd from his sleeve, stared at it for a long time, and murmured to himself: "Is the Chongqiao Pill really useful?"
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Boom boom boom!
Near noon, dark clouds gathered from all directions, like a huge black curtain, covering the sky and the sun.
After a burst of thunder, it started pouring rain.
The rain fell twenty feet above Dongfu Haifang, as if encountering an invisible giant umbrella, causing splashes of water, and then flowing down from all sides.
There were very few pedestrians on the streets of Fangshi, and there were only a few people walking towards a tall red and yellow building in the central area.
This is the auction house of Fangshi. All kinds of valuable items and rare elixirs are auctioned on every fifth day of every month.
Today is the fifth day of September, the day of the auction.
At this time, there were more than two hundred people sitting in the hall, and monks were coming in one after another. Zhao Lin was sitting in a corner of the hall, with a red sign in front of him.
The red sign indicates that you are eligible to participate in the auction, and you need to pay a deposit of 1,000 spirit coins to receive one.
Zhao Lin has been to the auction house several times before, but he only watched the excitement. After all, the items that can be put up for auction are very expensive, and most of them are for late-stage Qi refining and foundation-building realm monks.
This time is different. According to the announcement issued by the auction house, a purifying elixir will appear at the auction today.
Purifying Pill is a good product for practicing the Divine Consciousness Technique, and it is a great help to the Nine-turn Divine Condensation Technique, so Zhao Lincai decided to participate in the bidding.
"I, Hong Buer, will preside over today's auction. Next, I will display the treasures in this auction one by one to all fellow Taoists."
The auction had just begun, and a middle-aged monk wearing a red robe was chatting on the stage, introducing the rules of the auction as usual.
"Each treasure has a base price, and each price increase must not be less than half a percent. For example, if the starting price of a treasure is one thousand spiritual stones, then each increase in price must not be less than fifty spiritual stones."
"Second, if the treasure requires good deeds to be purchased, then the good deeds will also increase in proportion when the price is increased. For example, the starting price of the treasure is three hundred spiritual stones and one hundred good deeds. If the price is finally sold at six hundred spiritual stones, the good deeds will also increase. Correspondingly increased to two hundred..."
Although the popular currency in the market is spirit coins, the auction house is still accustomed to pricing in spirit stones.
Zhao Lin knew this rhetoric by heart and looked around in his spare time.
There were some familiar faces in the crowd, including Liu Chaoyuan from Linglong Pavilion and Tian Daozhong from Heqitang.
What surprised Zhao Lin was that there were three Purple Mansion Realm monks in the field, one of whom he even knew: Chu Hongtian, the owner of Chiwei Island.
Chu Hongtian also noticed Zhao Lin, glanced at him, and nodded slightly.
Zhao Lin quickly raised his hands in greeting and thought to himself: "I wonder what kind of treasures there are in this auction, which attracted the monks from the Zi Mansion. This is rare in normal times."
Auctions usually announce the auction items three days in advance, but sometimes the seller does not put the auction items in the announcement due to reasons such as low-key or confidentiality.
Zhao Lin guessed that these three Zifu monks must have heard the news and came here specially.
"If fellow Taoists are interested in the treasure, you can participate in the bidding according to the bidding rules. Once you make a statement during the bidding, it will be deemed as a valid bid and you will not regret it."
After introducing the auction rules, Hong Buer's tone slowed down and said, "Okay, let's start the auction now!"
He picked up a jade box from the table, reached out to open the lid, took out a blue bead the size of an egg, held it in the palm of his hand, and showed it to everyone in the audience.
"Lingzhu!"
"Second-grade spirit bead!"
A monk in the audience exclaimed.
Hong Buer smiled slightly, "Yes, this is a second-grade spiritual bead cultivated from an octagonal clam. It comes from the Yongdeng Ansha and contains rich water spiritual energy."
"Whether it is used for personal practice, magic circle, elixir refining, weapon refining, or even healing wounds and expelling poison, it has excellent effects."
In fact, without Hong Buer's introduction, the monks present could feel the rich aura of water.
After the display, Hong Buer put the spirit beads back into the jade box and said, "The starting price is four hundred spirit stones and sixty good deeds."
As soon as he finished speaking, a monk raised a sign and called out the price: "I will give you six hundred spiritual stones!"
"I'll pay six hundred and twenty."
"Six hundred and forty..."
Unlike spiritual herbs, elixirs or magic weapons, the price of spiritual beads is very transparent.
The market price of second-grade spiritual beads is around 700 spiritual stones. Once the price reaches that level, no one bids for it.
The spiritual pearl was finally sold for 720 spiritual stones and 108 good deeds.
Zhao Lin nodded secretly, the spirit bead was "hard currency", and the auction house put it in the first auction, so there was no need to worry about losing the auction, and it was easy to get a good start.
After the first treasure was auctioned, Hong Buer showed a smile on his face and began to introduce the second item.
"Chalcedony mushroom is produced in the snowy areas of Bingyi Mountain and is the main medicine of Chalcedony Pill. I believe you all know the medicinal uses of Chalcedony Pill without my introduction."
"After identification, this chalcedony mushroom is at least two hundred years old and is enough to refine a chalcedony pill. The base price of this item is three hundred spiritual stones and one hundred and fifty good deeds."
As soon as the chalcedony came out, many monks immediately started bidding.
After nine bids, the price was set at six hundred spiritual stones.
The second treasure was successfully sold, which gave the auctioneer a lot of confidence, and he quickly took out the third treasure: a spirit red fox egg.
The Ling Red Fox is a first-level monster. It is not good at fighting prowess. It is good at running, understands human nature, and has an extremely sensitive sense of smell.
Many monks who often go out in search of elixirs will raise a spiritual red fox.
Zhao Lin has an excellent sense of smell, so naturally he has no use for this spiritual beast and just sits on the sidelines until the final deal is made.
The next fourth and fifth treasures were both magic weapons, each priced at more than 700 spiritual stones.
Seeing that the prices of the auction items were getting higher and higher, Zhao Lin began to feel worried.
There is an unwritten rule in auctions. The more valuable items are, the later they will be unveiled. The Purifying Pill has not appeared yet, so I'm afraid it won't be cheap.
The sixth treasure was a second-level top-quality talisman: the Hundred-edged Falling Leaf Talisman. It was eventually sold for a high price of 1,200 spiritual stones and 600 good deeds.
Talismans can only be used once, so the price is generally not too high. Even for second-level talismans, the price is mostly within two hundred spiritual stones.
But the best talisman is different.
Talismans are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower, corresponding to the proficiency, minor achievement and mastery levels of spells.
When the Fu Mage draws the runes, there is a very small chance that he will have a telepathic connection, sense the principles of heaven and earth, and then make a "divine stroke" to make the quality of the runes reach the highest level, corresponding to the master-level spells.
This kind of situation is like a master who accidentally comes across an article, but it can never happen again, so the price of the best talismans is also surprisingly high.
The seventh treasure finally came to Zhao Lin, the long-awaited Purifying Pill.
Hong Buer took out a jade bottle, carefully poured out a red pill, and said in a loud voice: "Purification Pill, a wonderful medicine for cultivating spiritual consciousness, can be taken in both the Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Building Stage..."
As soon as this elixir came out, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. Even many foundation-building monks looked directly at the elixir in Hong Bu's hands.
Spiritual consciousness arises from thoughts, and as cultivation becomes stronger, it also gives rise to all kinds of resentment, hostility, and depression.
Over time, it becomes chaotic, and the stronger the consciousness is, the more likely it is to encounter backlash.
The Purifying Pill can temper and repair the soul, and cleanse away all evil thoughts and evil thoughts.
Zhao Lin had reached the second level of practicing the Nine Transformation Condensation Technique. Although he had made rapid progress, he also encountered the same problem and needed the Spirit Purifying Pill to eliminate his worries.
He sat upright and put his hand on the sign. (End of chapter)
