Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 380 Boomerang, a marvelous item
It usually takes three steps for a fish to take the bait.

Spread the bait, the hook bites, and reel in the line.

Chen Xu's main purpose in coming to the Hundred Battles Ruins was to understand the situation in this world first, and he did not intend to cause any major trouble at the beginning.

After all, to carry gold in the market, one needs to have real strength to back it up.

How can someone who is merely a Golden Core cultivator act with impunity in this world?

But Chen Xu couldn't simply do nothing for the sake of caution and safety.

He needs resources, methods, more likes, and advancement in his spiritual practice so he can truly see the scenery from the top of this world.

Even if he doesn't seek immortality but only freedom, he still needs greater and stronger power.

Only by harnessing great power within oneself can one truly appreciate the vastness of heaven and earth.

Chen Xu suffers from a fear of inadequacy.

Therefore, in this world, his desire to advance his cultivation level is exceptionally strong.

He wants to acquire as many resources as possible, and the current thousand Qi Hua Dan are just the beginning.

Chen Xu wanted to play the long game and catch the big fish.

He was not satisfied with a thousand Qi Hua Pills, but what he didn't know was that a thousand Qi Hua Pills was actually a huge sum of money for Ji Yang.

Ji Yang, being a native cultivator, possessed a far deeper and more intuitive understanding of prices, especially of the value of Qi Hua Dan, than Chen Xu.

Ji Yang couldn't think of a brilliant plan or a response that would be worthy of a thousand Qi Hua Pills.

After drinking the cup of spiritual tea, he sat upright at the tea table by the window.

Jin Suanpan asked him to "teach" him again, so Ji Yang obediently relayed Chen Xu's teachings.

“Old sir,” Ji Yang said shyly and somewhat naively, “the Heavenly Secret Box has only just appeared. You can seize the opportunity and promote it extensively before it becomes popular.”

The Heavenly Secret Box will be used as one of the symbols and signs of the Heavenly Boat Chamber of Commerce, so that when people mention the Heavenly Secret Box, the first thing they will think of is the Heavenly Boat Chamber of Commerce.

When the Heavenly Secret Box becomes popular and everyone tries to imitate it, you can change the form.

For example, the same five Qi Hua Dan can be used to directly purchase five Heavenly Secret Boxes, or you can choose to purchase one more opportunity to inquire about the secrets of heaven.

As for what constitutes "asking about the secrets of heaven," well... it could be a die, or a divination stick, it doesn't matter.

In short, whether it's dice, a divination stick, or anything else, shaking this object may yield a different number from one to ten.

You can obtain a certain number of Heavenly Secret Boxes by obtaining the corresponding number.

One is one, ten is ten.

If you're lucky, you can get ten Heavenly Secret Boxes with five Qi Hua Pills. Who wouldn't like that?

Although there is a possibility of loss, human nature is inclined to gamble.

In short, they might make a profit, or they might lose money, while you... will definitely make a profit.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Yang even showed a shy and embarrassed expression.

He was so honest and sincere, yet every word he uttered was more cunning than any shrewd merchant. Jin Suanpan looked at his kind face and couldn't help but click his tongue twice in his heart.

What a profiteer.

No, he, Jin, is not a shrewd businessman.

He, Jin, was merely an old man with a slight interest in the ways of business.

Ugh……

Jin Suanpan sighed inwardly, but smiled and continued to ask, "Young man, is there anything else?"

Ji Yang said, "And another thing... there's also the method of this Heavenly Secret Box, which I call a blind box."

The wonder of blind boxes can be applied not only to the Heavenly Mystery Box.

You can also use blind boxes in the daily transactions of the Chamber of Commerce. For example, if you spend 100 Qi Hua Dan in the Chamber of Commerce, we can give you a chance to choose a Heavenly Secret Box.

We can also create personal tokens and give them to customers who spend a certain amount.

The chances to draw from the Heavenly Secret Box are stored in the token, and the guest can accumulate ten chances before drawing all at once.

"And a ten-pull guarantees at least one Yellow-grade or Mystic-grade spiritual item..."

Ji Yang paused here, a look of embarrassment on his face.

He actually thought that the guaranteed drop of a Xuan-level spiritual item in a ten-pull was too exaggerated. If business were to be conducted in this way, wouldn't the Tianzhou Chamber of Commerce lose everything?

But that's how Chen Xu taught him, and he dared not disobey.

He stammered, sounding very guilty, but Jin Suanpan suddenly slammed his hand on the table.

Ji Yang was startled and almost instinctively stood up and backed away.

Suddenly, Jin Suanpan burst into laughter: "Excellent! Excellent! I understand! I get it! Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"
So that's how it is! So that's the essence of buying and selling, the way of the merchant.

These thousand Qi Essence Pills were totally worth it, hahaha…”

Ji Yang: "..."

Ji Yang's brain has stopped working.

He admitted that the methods taught by the mysterious senior were all very profound, but to say that they were so profound that one could directly glimpse any profound truths or principles from them—

It can only be said that Ji Yang is dull-witted; he can't see anything.

He was both ashamed and embarrassed, and could only sit there silently with a red face.

Little did others know that his dazed appearance only made him seem more simple and sincere.

After laughing, Jin Suanpan stood up impatiently, filled with an urgent desire to verify the truth.

He then ordered Mengniang to send Ji Yang away.

Before parting, Jin Suanpan asked Ji Yang again, "Young brother, are you going to the lobby on the first floor to buy some items?"
If you are interested in purchasing spiritual items, I will give you a 10% discount on all your expenses today.

I will now go and make a Heavenly Secret Talisman. If you spend a hundred Qi Essence Pills, I will give you a Heavenly Secret Box.

Once you have saved up ten draw chances, you can immediately perform a ten-draw.

"I hereby declare that if you do not find any valuable items in the Heavenly Secret Box you have drawn, our counter on the first floor will give you an additional Xuan-grade spiritual item as a gift."

Jin Suanpan spoke at an extremely fast pace, rattling off his words like a machine gun, before bursting into laughter.

Finally, he patted Ji Yang on the shoulder and strode away.

Ji Yang was left in the tea room, his mind replaying Jin Suanpan's words on a loop, and he was almost dumbfounded.

He inexplicably felt as if he had been stabbed by the boomerang he had shot.

But was that really a boomerang he shot?
It seems not.

That was the teaching of a mysterious senior.

Ji Yang hesitated. Although he possessed a fortune of over a thousand Qi Hua Pills, these pills did not actually belong to him.

He is only temporarily holding it in custody; he has no right to control or dispose of it.

Ji Yang stood there dumbfounded until he heard another burst of laughter.

That was Mengniang smiling, so charming, like flowers blooming in the clouds, their fragrance wafting through the air.

The beautiful woman asked him, "Young Master Ji, would you like Mengniang to accompany you downstairs? There are quite a few magical creatures in the main hall; perhaps one of them will catch your eye?"

Ji Yang blushed and didn't know how to answer.

Fortunately, the mysterious senior's voice guided him again: "Go."

That single word immediately calmed Ji Yang down.

Next, accompanied by Mengniang, Ji Yang arrived at the lobby on the first floor of Bu Xi Zhou.

The prosperity of this place needs no further explanation.

The Sky Boat Merchant Guild is extremely large; it is said that their flying boats float in the sky in dozens of nearby regions. Whenever you look up at the sky, you can always see the Sky Boat Merchant Guild's unmoored ships.

Ji Yang's world was small; he couldn't imagine just how powerful the Tianzhou Chamber of Commerce was.

All he knew was that he was now carrying a huge sum of money and had stepped into an unmoored boat!

Guided by the mysterious senior, he first went to the counter for spirit rice and spirit seeds.

As expected of the Tianzhou Chamber of Commerce, they even sell Grade 7 spirit rice in the lobby on the first floor.

This is something that Ji Yang could never buy at those stalls outside.

Following Chen Xu's instructions, Ji Yang bought another ten catties of Grade 8 Golden Ear Spirit Rice and one catty of Grade 7 Jade Blood Spirit Rice.

The price of Jade Blood Spirit Rice is so high that it takes ten Qi Hua Pills to buy just one pound!
Even with a 10% discount, it still costs nine Qi Hua Dan per pound.

This is almost the same as the daily stall fee for an ordinary stall in the Hundred Battles Market, but on the Unmoored Boat of the Sky Boat Merchant Guild, it can only buy one pound of Grade 7 Spirit Rice.

I don't know whether to say that prices in this world are abnormal.

Or perhaps, in this cultivation world where such great power resides within oneself, the material gap between cultivators of different levels is inherently vast.

Chen Xu silently followed Ji Yang, encouraging him to buy, buy, buy.

I must say, such a shopping spree is actually quite fun.

After buying some spirit rice, the next step is to get spirit seeds.

On the unmoored boat, it turns out that the seeds of the eighth-grade spirit rice can also be bought.

Golden Spike Spirit Rice Seeds are worth one pound of five Qi Hua Dan (a type of medicinal pill).

Chen Xu instructed Ji Yang to buy one jin (500 grams).

Actually, the price of Jinsui Lingmi rice seeds was cheaper than Chen Xu had expected.

He originally thought that since this rice seed was so hard to buy, it would cost at least ten times more than the finished spirit rice.

But to my surprise, it only increased fivefold.

Chen Xu had misunderstood. The real difficulty with Golden Ear Spirit Rice was not the rice seed, but the spirit field and the grower.

Even with rice seeds, it's not certain that this Grade 8 Spirit Rice can be grown.

Therefore, the price of rice seeds is not particularly high.

As for the seventh-grade Azure Blood Spirit Rice seeds, Chen Xu also bought a pound at a high price.

This item is worth one pound of forty-five Qi Hua Dan pills.

After buying enough rice, the next step is to buy all kinds of books.

Chen Xu's goal was clear: he wanted to understand the world more deeply. Therefore, he would buy any book, regardless of its type, as long as the price was right.

The lobby on the first floor has a wide variety of books.

Besides various travelogues and essays, as well as treatises on local customs, there were also many books on magic and spells that were sold on the unmoored boat.

However, all spells and techniques are basically recorded in jade books.

The jade scrolls here are very magical. They were made with restrictions, and each scroll can only be read by one person.

As the saying goes, the law should not be lightly transmitted.

After a cultivator learns certain spells and techniques through the jade book, the restrictions on the jade book will also take effect.

This prevents cultivators who have learned the method from passing on the spell and technique to others through their own teaching.

In short, this has prevented the leakage of spells and incantations to the greatest extent possible.

In Chen Xu's view, this is actually a form of monopoly on knowledge.

This is quite similar to the situation in the Dali Kingdom where books were expensive and reading was difficult.

However, although they appear similar at first glance, they are actually fundamentally different.

The high price of books in the Great Li Kingdom is a disguised way of blocking the upward mobility of children from poor families; it is a form of knowledge monopoly and class monopoly.

The teachings of the Xuan Tian Star Realm are not easily passed on. Although this may not be without a monopolistic nature, it also conforms to the simple principle that everything gained must have a return.

Chen Xu secretly compared the differences between the two worlds in his mind.

At the same time, he instructed Ji Yang to buy a copy of "The Complete Practical Techniques of Tianzhou".

This book is very interesting.

It contains seven practical spells suitable for cultivators below the Golden Core stage, summarized by the Tianzhou Chamber of Commerce.

Because they do not belong to any particular sect, the Tianzhou Chamber of Commerce was able to compile them into a book and sell them to the public.

At the same time, this book, "A Compendium of Practical Spells," is far superior to those common, low-quality spells found elsewhere; each spell in it has its own unique characteristics.

For example, in the "Complete Collection of Techniques", the first technique is the "Return to Origin Technique".

What is the Art of Returning to the Origin?
In essence, this is the method of refining one's own true essence and condensing it into Qi Hua Dan (a type of elixir).

Ah, this technique isn't common, because only cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage or above can learn it.

This technique was also one of Chen Xu's goals in coming here.

He knew full well that the essence of Qi Hua Dan was highly exploitative, but he still wanted to learn this Returning to Origin Technique.

He may not use such techniques, but he cannot be ignorant of them.

Aside from the Return to Origin Technique, the other six practical minor spells are:
The techniques include Divine Speed, Wood Armor, Clear Light, Earth-Shaking, and the Thunder Sound Subduing Magic and Mysterious Flying Sword Technique, which are easy to learn but difficult to master and only available in the first level.

These spells, as their names suggest, are all easy to understand in terms of their purpose.

The light emitted by the Clear Light Technique, in addition to providing illumination, also has the effect of driving away demons and making them manifest.

Earthshaking is an earth-based spell that can be used to turn over soil.

That's right, it's turning over the soil.

Don't underestimate turning over soil. There are plenty of cultivators at the Foundation Establishment level or above in this world who are willing to be hired by sects to use Earth-Shaking Techniques to help turn over soil in spirit fields of grade eight or above.

Therefore, once you learn a spell like Earth-Shattering Technique, it becomes a valuable survival skill.

As for the last two techniques, Thunder Sound Subduing Magic and Mysterious True Flying Sword Technique, they are said to be extremely remarkable high-grade Xuan-level techniques.

However, the methods beyond the first level can only be purchased by joining the Tianzhou Merchant Guild.

In conclusion, this book, "The Complete Book of Tianzhou Techniques," while seemingly comprehensive and practical, still contains some minor pitfalls.

Furthermore, this book is quite valuable, priced at eighty Qi Hua Dan.

Even after the discount of 90%, you still need 72 Qi Hua Dan pills.

However, money is something you earn to spend. If you can't convert it into real power, then it's nothing.

Chen Xu simply instructed Ji Yang to buy whatever was necessary, without any hesitation.

Next, Chen Xu asked Ji Yang to buy a low-grade Xuan-level cauldron.

It was a Seven-in-One Wind and Cloud Cauldron, and both its quality and price were within Chen Xu's acceptable range.

This item is priced at five hundred Qi Hua Dan!

Even with a 10% discount, it still costs 450 coins.

Although it was expensive, the existence of this cauldron finally solved Chen Xu's embarrassing situation of not having a cauldron to use.

Moreover, its quality is excellent. Compared to some defective items sold on street stalls, this Seven-Harmony Wind and Cloud Cauldron is something Chen Xu can use immediately after acquiring it.

After that, Chen Xu instructed Ji Yang to buy a lot of spiritual materials.

Finally, he discovered something extremely interesting.

(End of this chapter)