Swallowing the Stars: Shocking! The Giant Axe Wants to Become My Apprentice

Chapter 801 Buying a Shop! An Eye-Catching Guide Price!

Having decided to return to his old profession, Zhou Ze no longer considered other ways to make money. As for whether he could earn money through his teaching and guidance abilities, he never doubted it.

Even the best wine needs advertising; now he needs to find a way to build his reputation so that students will keep coming to him for guidance.

Building a reputation isn't necessarily difficult, but it's not easy either. The most important thing is that it's a bit difficult at the beginning. Once people who ask for guidance experience the benefits, they will spread the word, and naturally, more people will join in.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning."

Zhou Ze muttered to himself that the simplest way for him to do this was to ask for help, and it would be easy to find someone to help him. He could just ask the Zhan Ying family to come and help. However, he still had some pride and couldn't do such a thing.

He's not the kind of person who's greedy for money or only cares about profit.

"Take your time, there's nothing to rush anyway—" Zhou Ze thought for a moment and flew out of the cave. Come to think of it, he hadn't had a proper chance to explore the Origin Continent yet.

Qinggou Market is the largest, most popular, and most bustling place in the heart of Cape City.

Here, shops line the streets, wine flags flutter in the breeze, and the alleys are bustling with traffic and people. The sounds of vendors hawking their wares and laughter blend together, creating a lively and noisy atmosphere that lasts all day long.

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From dawn till dusk, the streets are bustling with people, merchants from all directions gather, and rare and exotic goods are on display, creating a vibrant and prosperous atmosphere.

Few cultivators who set foot in Cape City would miss this place. Some sought out rare and precious materials, others inquired about the city's happenings, and still others simply strolled around, enjoying the scenery, drinking, and having fun.

"This place is pretty good, lots of people coming and going."

Zhou Ze followed the crowd and wandered around. Soon he arrived at the Qingguofang Market Management Office and went inside.

"God Lord————"

As soon as Zhou Ze entered, a servant greeted him respectfully with a smile: "May I ask what brings you here, Divine Lord?"

Zhou Ze said calmly, "I want to buy a shop!"

The waiter said apologetically, "I'm very sorry, Lord, but the shops in our Qinggou Market are only allowed to be rented, not sold—"

Zhou Ze didn't show any surprise. The more remote the place, the more valuable the land. Along the way, the density of shops was extremely high, and the sustainable income was amazing. Only a fool would sell real estate in such a place.

"Well, I'd like to rent a shop. Do you have any recommendations?" Zhou Ze asked the waiter.

The waiter, beaming, said, "My Lord, what size shop do you require? Our shops are divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Prices start at one cosmic sand per era, with the most expensive costing over a thousand cosmic sands per era!"

After a moment's thought, Zhou Ze said, "A Grade B shop will do, but it needs to be close to the center and have a lot of foot traffic."

With a wave of his hand, the waiter displayed a holographic image of Qinggou Market before Zhou Ze's eyes. The waiter pointed to a shop near the center of Qinggou Market and said, "My Lord, what do you think of this one? This is Shop B14, which just became available. It's the closest shop to the center, and almost every traveler who comes to Cape City and then to Qinggou Market will pass by here."

Zhou Ze nodded and asked, "How much is this shop?"

The waiter said unhurriedly, "This shop charges 300 cosmic sands per cycle."

After saying that, the waiter continued, "My Lord, all the shops in our Qinggou Market have uniformly set prices. We will not deliberately raise prices, nor do we support bargaining. What do you think?"

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That's damn expensive!

Zhou Ze muttered to himself, "With so many shops in Qinggou Market, how much cosmic sand must they have collected over a century? And this market is just one of the markets in Cape City. The City Lord's Mansion is really rich; I really want to rob them!"

Zhou Ze's thoughts shifted. He thought about it, but he estimated that most of the income of Cape City would have to be handed over to the Great Sage Ruiyang.

"Alright, this shop it is." Zhou Ze was glad he had kept a thousand cosmic sands, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford even a second-class shop.

Zhou Ze took out 300 units of cosmic sand and handed them to the waiter. After the waiter put the cosmic sand into a storage device specially designed for storing money, he immediately took out a talisman and said, "Divine Lord, this is the talisman for the shop. It can not only be used to control the shop's formation, but it also contains some management information about Qinggou Market."

Zhou Ze grabbed it and refined it instantly, and some information immediately entered his consciousness.

"Thank you, then I'll take my leave."

"Respectfully bidding farewell to the deity! May the deity prosper and have good fortune!" the attendant hurriedly offered his congratulations.

After leaving the Qinggoufang Market Management Office, find the shop you rented and use the talisman to open the array and enter.

It doesn't look big from the outside, but the inside is a completely different world, even much larger than the cave he bought.

This kind of spatial expansion formation is common in major cities of the Origin Continent. Zhou Ze glanced at it briefly, then used a talisman to control the shop's signboard to display two words commonly used in the Origin Continent: "Master Teacher!"

Zhou Ze then added some specific service information to the plaque.

After doing all this, Zhou Ze patiently waited inside for the students to arrive.

Qingguofang City has a huge flow of people, especially in areas close to the center!

In such a place, any change to a shop, however small, will attract the attention of people on the street.

"Famous teacher"? What kind of shop is this?

Not long after Zhou Ze changed his name, many cultivators took notice. Some cultivators, out of curiosity, used their consciousness to examine the words "Famous Teacher" on the plaque, and the specific information that Zhou Ze had prepared immediately entered their minds.

In an instant, gasps of surprise erupted from the crowd: "Teaching guide? What the hell is this?"

"Phew! One guidance session costs one cosmic sand! Holy crap, that's way too expensive!"

"Outrageous! He can even provide guidance to an eternal god? And he charges a hundred cosmic sands at once??? Does this boss even know how to do business?"

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These curious cultivators were shocked after investigating the information. Many of them even exclaimed in surprise, which immediately attracted many other cultivators from the surrounding area to come and see what was going on.

In no time, a crowd of cultivators gathered around the "Master" shop, and no one left for a long time. They were all curious about why this shop could do such an outrageous thing.

This is absolutely unheard of!

It should be noted that in the Origin Continent, guidance on cultivation is usually provided by strong individuals within a clan or power. Directly selling teaching guidance like this is almost unheard of.

Not only that, but a single guidance session costs one unit of cosmic sand—and this is a one-time event! This is an astronomical price! One unit of cosmic sand is equivalent to 10,000 Chaos Crystals! One hundred million Chaos Stones!!

Even after living in Cape City for a century, one would only have two or three Chaos Crystals, which shows how outrageous Zhou Ze's fees are.

Generally speaking, ordinary true gods primarily use chaos stones as currency, with chaos crystals being less common; void true gods, on the other hand, primarily use chaos crystals, and their total worth is only about ten grains of cosmic sand, accumulated over countless epochs.

Paying 1 unit of cosmic sand for a single instruction session is an outrageous expense!

Therefore, more and more cultivators gathered to watch, but no one was willing to go in. Each onlooker hoped that a big fool or a young master with a prominent background would come in and take a look.