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Chapter 120 Big Profits

Zichai was a very beautiful woman, but her complexion was not very good.

Her face was like a window frame covered with a thin layer of frost in the early morning of winter, cold and beautiful, without a trace of warmth. She was dressed in a neat purple Taoist robe and led Xu Shun around the office.

"...This is the General Affairs Department, where most of the work is done...This is the backyard, where people can rest..."

"...Jingxin Building, a place for drinking tea..."

"...six courses, a place to eat..."

Zi Chai pointed out various places in the office to Xu Shun after a quick tour as if to be perfunctory.

"Thank you, senior sister."

After walking around, Xu Shun bowed to Zichai and said.

"You're welcome, this is all arranged by my uncle!" Zi Chai said coldly, and then turned and left: "It's okay, I'm leaving now."

Looking at her appearance and tone of voice, Xu Shun had guessed his presence and didn't know how he had offended her.

He didn't say anything, but went to collect his uniform and re-register his jade badge at the Collective Affairs Office.

From then on, he became a member of the Jiwei.

There are only eight people in the Qingyun Guards, and each pair of guards forms a group. Xu Shun’s partner is Zichai.

Apart from the Yuan Shen Stage cultivators, most of the guards were Dragon and Tiger Stage cultivators. There was only one Jin Dan Stage cultivator, and none at the Jian Zhen Stage.

Xu Shun is at the first level of the Dragon-Tiger Stage, while Zi Chai is at the second level of the Dragon-Tiger Stage. The two of them have the lowest level of cultivation among the Jiwei.

The job of the two is to patrol Qingyun Jiwei in a flying boat every four days.

When something happens, we handle it on the spot.

Those that cannot be handled on site will be taken to the Collection Affairs Department for processing.

It seems like there are a lot of things to do and the responsibilities are heavy, but in fact, it is like a security guard in a residential area, whose job responsibilities include several thick stacks of documents.

The actual work is just daydreaming.

Yes, in a daze.

The pace of life for monks is relatively slow. They often go into seclusion for several months. It is normal for a letter to go unanswered for three to five years.

Xu Shun also heard that someone wrote three letters to a friend in fifty years, but the friend only wrote back one letter.

The letter only had three words on it: "In seclusion."

With such a pace of life, Qingyun Market is lively in the eyes of the monks, but in Xu Shun's eyes... it feels like a second-rate off-season tourist attraction, with only a few people walking in the streets.

It's far from the crowded scene.

In addition, the Qinghua Sect was well-known, and there were Yuanshen cultivators in charge of the Qingyun Market, so no one would come to cause trouble. Therefore, the work of the Jiwei was much easier than expected.

In the first few shifts, Zichai still had a stern face. She drove the flying boat to take Xu Shun for a few rounds to familiarize him with the patrol route.

The next few classes let Xu Shun drive the flying boat by himself, while she went back to practice.

Logically speaking, they must be in groups of two, but the other guards and Lan Xing didn't say anything, and Xu Shun didn't know what to say since he had just arrived.

In addition to daily practice and duty, Xu Shun visited every shop in the three blocks of Qingyun Market.

The three workshops are the Alchemy Workshop, the Weapon Workshop and the General Merchandise Workshop, and the one is the office.

He made a table to record the types and numbers of stores, and estimated their shipments, the shipments of the entire Qingyun Market, and the economic situation of the entire central Xiuxian World. If you don't count, you won't know. Once you count, you will know that the actual data is very different from what you imagined.

According to Xu Shun's estimation, aren't the two workshops that do the most business in Qingyun Market the Danfang and the Lianfang?
After all, elixirs can help with cultivation, and magical weapons can protect the body, and both are the signature features of the Yunshui Sect.

In fact, the department stores have even larger sales volumes of silks, pens, inks, paper, inkstones, combs, dustpans, perfumes, flower beads, snail ink, and swallow twigs.

Among them, the prices of spices, pigments and tea made Xu Shun secretly frightened.

Xu Shun can understand the tea. After all, there are low-end and high-end teas in every era, and there is also hype.

However, the price of pigments is more expensive than elixirs and magical instruments. Not only is it more expensive, but it is also much more expensive, which makes Xu Shun difficult to understand.

The yellow gourds Xu Shun had bought before were only a few hundred silver coins, but some rouge-red ones cost almost two or three hundred taels a box.

As for silks, satins and various exotic cloth materials, they are outrageously expensive.

Xu Shun once saw a piece of sunset cloth. It was made by a monk who collected the sunset on the mountain every day and made it into silk. It took him thirty years to make this piece of cloth.

When a piece of cloth is spread out, it is like the sunset glow filling the whole room, dazzling and eye-catching. Not to mention women, even men can hardly resist such a beautiful view.

The price was even more outrageous, a full four thousand taels of silver, and even then it had to be booked in advance.

As for the alchemy shop and weapon shop, they are the opposite of the department store.

Most of the monks who came to the department store came to buy things, and a few came to sell things. On the other hand, most of the monks who came to the alchemy and weapon workshops came to sell things, and a few came to buy things.

Xu Shun could see clearly that most of them were people from remote areas. They brought local specialties, such as minerals, herbs, and even materials they themselves did not understand, to the two workshops to try their luck and see if they could exchange them for blue silver.

Once you have silver, you can go to the department store and buy what you want and bring it back, either for your own use or to resell.

Therefore, most of the alchemy and weapon shops have people setting up stalls, displaying strange things.

Maybe it’s the material for making elixirs, or maybe it’s the material for making weapons.

Xu Shun alone knew more than 1,800 kinds of materials for alchemy, and as for the materials for refining weapons, there were even more numerous.

Therefore, as long as the price is right, they sell quite well. Most of the people who buy their products are monks from the Alchemy and Weapon Workshops.

After the monks took it back, they would continue to refine elixirs and magical instruments, either for their own use or to sell.

In general, after thousands of years of development, Qingyun Market has become very complete and meets the needs of monks for the exchange of goods.

Monks also want to be self-sufficient, but each monk is in a different area, with a different environment and different products.

For example, if one wants to collect some innate fire essence in the far north, he needs to go to the southern volcano. Not only is the journey long, but he also needs to use special skills.

Why not collect innate water essence in the far north, take it to the Qingyun market and either exchange it, or sell it for blue silver, and then use the blue silver to buy innate fire essence.

There may be some losses in the process, but it is much more convenient than collecting it directly by yourself.

As for refining elixirs and weapons, sometimes you need hundreds of materials, and you have to collect each of them yourself. Then you can't make elixirs or weapons by yourself. You might as well go out and survive in the wilderness.

What is this Bailing Zhuxian Sword? It requires the collection of 365 kinds of spiritual medicines. Once the collection is completed, I will have transformed from a sword cultivator into an herbalist!

This is how the Qingyun Market grew and developed. There was buying and selling, and all cultivators could get what they needed in the market.

Among these, who is the biggest beneficiary of Qingyun Market?
of course?

Of course it’s the Qinghua School!

As long as Qingyin is used, the Qinghua Sect can always make profits and remain invincible!
The volume of goods handled by the Qingyun Market has made the Qinghua Sect a giant monster lying in the middle of the immortal cultivation world!
　The greatest benefit is to issue currency and let it circulate.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)