My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 126 Unexpected Visitor
At last,
Shen Changchuan chose a spell called the Transformation Technique, which allows one to change their appearance.

With the progress bar panel in hand, Shen Changchuan

Soon you will be able to cultivate it to perfection.

Finally, he changed his appearance and achieved his goal of using a new alias.

Thinking of this,

Shen Changchuan nodded slightly in his heart.

After discussing Shen Changchuan's own cultivation,
The next step was for other merchants to inquire through Si Houqing about Shen Changchuan's intentions regarding whether or not he would be able to establish a presence in Dawan Village.

to be frank,
As the manager of the business, Si Houqing naturally did not want other competitors to join in and compete for customers.

But not wanting to do something is one thing.

How to do it in reality is another matter entirely.

Although these small, remote merchant guilds occasionally fight over interests, they also support each other when facing danger. By forming merchant groups, they are able to travel through this desolate land every summer and autumn to earn spirit stones.

Although they are competitors, they also have a loose alliance that is difficult to refuse.

after all,

Those who try to enjoy things alone won't go far.

Secondly, and most importantly...

Even if he were to swallow his pride and not give others a chance to participate,

Even with the strength of the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce, there's no way they could swallow this huge piece of meat completely!
During this period, caravans traveling between Qingcheng and Dawancun have been attacked more than once.

In such turbulent and chaotic times.

Countless people are trying to take advantage of the situation.

This,

This is precisely why Si Houqing refused Shen Changchuan's request to transport such an extremely precious elixir as the Qingyu Pill.

If you continue to eat alone at this point,
That would cause a big problem!
Instead of doing that, it would be better to generously help out and act as a bridge, so that everyone's caravans can travel together, which would also maximize their safety.

and,

Dawan Village doesn't belong to their Sanhe Chamber of Commerce; they're just the first to try it out.

Whether other chambers of commerce move in or not is not up to the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce to decide.

It's important to know that moving in will require paying a large sum of spirit stones as rent.
Why should I be the bad guy?
How can we stop Shen Changchuan from earning more spirit stones?
It was due to a number of reasons that
Si Houqing finally agreed to act as a matchmaker, contacted Shen Changchuan, and took the initiative to inform him of the matter.

Since it can't be stopped,

Let's do each other a favor then.

Regarding the arrival of other caravans
Shen Changchuan naturally had no objections whatsoever.

After learning from Si Houqing that a single Azure Jade Pill cost five hundred spirit stones,
Shen Changchuan discovered that
The fact remains that I am still very poor.

Five hundred spirit stones for one pill,
Therefore, he currently only has enough spirit stones to buy about a dozen.

However, a dozen or so Qingyu Pills might not be enough for him to cultivate from the early stage of the seventh level of Qi Refining to the peak of the seventh level.

not to mention,
After the seventh level of Qi Induction, there are also the eighth and ninth levels!

This also confirmed for Shen Changchuan that the pay-to-win strategy is not something ordinary people can play.

In the cultivation world, perhaps less than one in a hundred can afford the expenses of spending real money on in-game purchases and potions!

"If you want to cultivate faster, you need to consume more resources."

"The more spirit stones, the better!"

With this in mind,
Shen Changchuan naturally wouldn't refuse their move-in.

but,

Si Houqing was merely delivering a message.

The specifics will have to be discussed by the managers of those trading companies themselves.

Of course, Si Houqing also gave Shen Changchuan a heads-up, saying that when it came time to ask for prices, each party could offer at least three thousand spirit stones as the lowest price.

Speaking of which, the rent that Si Houqing originally agreed upon was 3500 spirit stones.
It seems like he's at a disadvantage.

But that's not how it's calculated.

Compared to other chambers of commerce,
The Sanhe Chamber of Commerce monopolized the business opportunity for nearly two months, and the profits they gained far exceeded the difference of five hundred spirit stones!

The benefits Si Houqing received far exceeded those of those who came after him, so naturally he deserved to receive even more spirit stones.

Half a day later,
Shen Changchuan took his leave.

When we returned to the hillside courtyard,
He saw a scene not far away where people were working together, sweating profusely, painstakingly breaking up the hardened, granite-like soil of the spirit field bit by bit.
A sense of melancholy welled up in my heart.

Farming

It really is a dead-end job!

Just like the twelve acres of spirit fields in Dawan Village, the income from cultivating and harvesting them all year round is only one or two hundred spirit stones.

The rent for allowing the Chamber of Commerce to open a trading post can earn more than three thousand spirit stones per transaction!

The spirit stone of this number,
It would take fifteen years of diligent work in the fields to accumulate that much!
In comparison,

It's truly a situation that makes one sigh with emotion.

of course,

The receipt of these rents was a result of chance and unforeseen circumstances.

If it weren't for the enormous profits brought by the Biyuan Water Grass, the influx of numerous outside cultivators, and Wujiaji's continued closure of its gates as the epicenter of the vortex, refusing entry to any outsiders, if Shen Changchuan weren't a member of the Tiannan Shen clan, and if the Tiannan Shen clan's banner didn't fly above Dawan Village...
Let alone charging 3,000 spirit stones in rent, people in Dawan Village probably wouldn't even bother coming if it were given away for free!
These conditions are all indispensable.

It's like winning five million in the lottery.

It was a windfall, a windfall from heaven.
It is extremely difficult to replicate.

This cannot be treated in the usual way.

There are still a few days before the managers of other chambers of commerce arrive to discuss matters.
In the past few days,

Shen Changchuan didn't have anything necessary to do, and suddenly found himself with some free time.

His recent efforts in seclusion had left him somewhat exhausted, so he decided to take a few days off after advancing to the seventh level.

In his spare time, he would occasionally go to inspect the spring plowing situation, or go to the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce store in the east of the village to chat with Si Houqing.

Whenever he had free time, he would give guidance to his maternal grandfather Han Qinhu, his uncle Han Dayong, and other cultivators in the village on their cultivation.

Occasionally, he would also look at the beast-taming secrets he had previously captured, wondering when he would be able to ride that Swiftwind Falcon.

Life was quite pleasant.

Five or six days passed like this.

However, Shen Changchuan had not yet received any representatives from other chambers of commerce to discuss settling in.

Unexpectedly, someone came to visit, hoping to meet Shen Changchuan.

The newcomer was a figure wearing a straw hat and a long black robe.

Upon seeing Shen Changchuan arrive

He removed the straw hat that had been covering his face, revealing his youthful appearance.

He bowed politely to Shen Changchuan and said:

"My name is Wu Tianhao. I have met you, young friend Shen. Please forgive my intrusion in visiting you!"

His voice and his intoxicating aroma gave people a feeling of being bathed in a spring breeze.

But after hearing his self-introduction

Shen Changchuan was taken aback at first, but then a storm of emotions surged within him.

Wu Tianhao,
Isn't this the Wu family genius that the Wu family sent to the Jade Purity Sect twenty years ago?

What is he doing here?!

(End of this chapter)