Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 397 Selling Oneself

After leaving the shop, he used his spiritual power to fly to the bulletin board at the city gate.

This place is updated in real time with "major sect events", including the "limited-time welfare event" that players are participating in this time. It is said that even the so-called "server maintenance" will be announced, but I have not yet encountered that "legendary" situation.

This notification method was only added in the last two weeks, and there's one in each "main city." It's mainly for the convenience of ordinary people who run businesses catering to players. Sometimes, large-scale events or server maintenance cause players to be away from the city, leaving small businesses and shops that cater to players without customers.

With this bulletin board, everyone can use the information posted there to plan their daily activities, which is much more convenient.

For example, during this "military exercise," a red-and-black sheet of paper appeared on the bulletin board, detailing the estimated duration of the exercise and displaying a countdown to its end!
This is truly divine skill! I have no idea how the Taiyin Sect managed to do this, with the countdown even changing in real time!
There is one hour left until the end of the "Taiyin Sect Military Exercise" event. This concept is a timekeeping method that has become popular and widespread with the activity of players. A day has 24 hours, and one shichen is two hours.

As a weapon refiner who has a lot of contact with players due to the nature of his work, Song Bozheng is already very familiar with these things. He skillfully calculated the time in his mind. He had arranged to inspect the goods with a customer after the military exercise of the Taiyin Sect. The customer said that he wanted to participate in the whole process to earn points so that he could exchange them for some "appearance" or "golden hair". But now that it was still early, he was not in a hurry, so he slowly turned to the night market street outside.

Without players, the whole street seemed much more desolate.

The cultivators setting up stalls were scattered about, and some had clearly seen the announcement before leisurely arriving and setting up their stalls.

Some of these cultivators selling their stalls are individuals who have accumulated miscellaneous items over decades or even centuries, or they are "selling their skills" based on the traditions passed down through their sects. There are more than a dozen stalls that specialize in repairing spiritual artifacts and magical treasures—although nowadays people no longer call it "repairing spiritual artifacts and magical treasures," but rather, following the players' naming convention, they call it "equipment repair."

However, some cultivators are seasoned veterans. Unlike the trade markets of other sects in the past, where they sell their own goods, they import items in batches and then resell them to players at high prices.

Since neither Chang'an City nor Taiyin Sect has yet issued any laws or regulations regarding commodity market pricing, quite a few players have been scammed.

It's strange, even though many of the posts on the forum are about cultivator stalls in the Night Market, players still fall for the scams every day, buying overpriced spiritual materials, pills, and talismans at low prices, and always falling for different kinds of tricks.

Song Bozheng had just turned onto the night market street and looked around. Within a dozen meters of his line of sight, there were four or five shops with signs that read "Equipment Repair"!

Song Bozheng curled his lip in disdain.

Most of these cultivators with "equipment repair" signs are not even considered weapon refiners. They are probably just cultivators who have learned a little bit about weapon refining and have only a superficial understanding of it. They heard that there are many opportunities to make money in Chang'an City of the Taiyin Sect, so they all rushed here to set up stalls.

If you really had a few skills, whether you got into graduate school or made money by customizing and making magical artifacts like him, it would be much easier and more comfortable.

However, when he saw a sign that read "Equipment Repair" with a short banner that read "Labor fee starts from one yuan," Song Bozheng couldn't help but hiss.

This price is outrageously high!
"How can this be so cheap!?"

Song Bozheng couldn't resist stopping in front of the stall and asking a question. The cultivator was a female cultivator. She had initially stood up happily when she saw someone stop in front of the stall, but when she saw Song Bozheng's clothes and appearance, her eyes dimmed. She clearly recognized that he was not the famous "fat sheep" Taiyin Sect disciple.

But she still replied, "I have no choice, I urgently need money. My sister is sick and needs treatment!"

Seeing that the female cultivator appeared to have a high level of cultivation, Song Bozheng became even more curious: "Eh? What kind of illness is it? Why don't you ask the disciples of the Taiyin Sect for help?"

As a player who does everything except serious matters, he is always enthusiastic and easily fooled. No matter how difficult the problem is, as long as he calls it a mission and adds some strange "rewards," even if it is just some special products from other continents, he can trick many people into helping him with the "mission."

Therefore, if someone is sick and needs medicine or treatment, it can be assigned to the disciples of the Taiyin Sect as a task. This is already the experience of the natives of the Guixu Realm who have lived in Chang'an City for a long time.

The female cultivator sighed and explained, "It's no use. My sister suffers from amnesia, and ordinary pills are ineffective. I want to save up more money so I can venture into the Nine Netherworlds!"

"Soul loss syndrome," as the name suggests, is a condition in which the soul is lost.

In most cases, the soul of a person suffering from amnesia can be recalled through specific means and methods. However, there are some exceptions, such as when the soul is trapped in certain places or accidentally wanders into the Netherworld.

Once a soul reaches the Netherworld, it's like a drop of water flowing into the ocean—it's impossible to find it again.

Song Bozheng's cultivation was not low, so he naturally knew this knowledge. He continued to ask, "Could it be that your sister's lost soul has wandered to the Netherworld?"

"Exactly, otherwise I wouldn't have done that!"

As she spoke, the female cultivator gave a wry smile.

After pondering for a moment, Song Bozheng said, "Actually, I think you could try asking the disciples of the Taiyin Sect. They are not afraid of death and would probably find your sister's soul in the Nine Netherworld more easily."

The female cultivator had considered it, but unfortunately, she was short of money and, having only recently arrived in Chang'an, didn't know much about the Taiyin Sect. She simply said, "But I don't have much money left, and I'm afraid I can't afford enough to pay them for their help..."

Song Bozheng hesitated for a moment, recalling that earlier, many Taiyin Sect disciples from small villages had come to him, wanting to "buy" him—to have him work in a designated place and to manufacture a certain number of "equipment" for their villages every week.

Those people offered exorbitant prices, but he preferred to open his own shop, so he refused them all.

While his skill and reputation certainly contributed to the grand occasion, for the female cultivator before him, it was certainly a viable path.

Thinking of this, Song Bozheng simply suggested, "If all else fails, you can sell 'yourself'!"