For the past few months, he has been frantically purchasing Calming Incense and Nourishing Origin Liquid, and replenishing his supply of Qi Nurturing Pills from ti to ti. Every month, his spendings amount to around five hundred Spirit Stones.
The dividends from the Broken Mountain Gang barely left him with any spare change each month.
The small fortune he still had was due to Yuan Xiaoyue’s snack stall.
Oh, it had a proper stall with a signboard now.
The na was simple—Chen Yue, which respectively took a character from Luo Chen’s and Yuan Xiaoyue’s nas.
To motivate Yuan Xiaoyue to work hard, Luo Chen gave her a fixed wage and an additional five percent share of the profits.
Not because of Luo Chen’s generous nature, but because Yuan Xiaoyue was indeed conscientious and dedicated, single-handedly holding up the snack stall – Chen Yue.
In comparison, Luo Chen was now not managing sales nor production, leaving it all to the staff of Pill Hall.
His main responsibilities involved providing the recipe for the snacks, delivering goods every month, and then counting the Spirit Stones he earned. That was it.
This was such a good deal that Luo Chen once again was inspired with the idea of opening chain stores.
"It’s a pity that Pill Hall profits haven’t co down. Otherwise, with a sum of around two thousand Spirit Stones, I could buy an Ascendant Grade Magic Tool with offensive capabilities, which would be just enough for ," Luo Chen sighed. In a couple of days, he would only be a spectator.
...
Expecting for sothing always makes ti crawl.
But if you know you’re going to be a bystander, then ti seems to fly.
In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.
Early in the morning, Luo Chen, braving the snow, hurried out of his ho.
By the ti he arrived at the Yu Ding Sword Pavilion, Mi Shuhua and others were already there.
A quick glance revealed familiar faces.
Mi Junping, Sikong Shoujia, Luo Wudi, and Wang Yuan.
Adding Luo Chen to the mix, it was predominantly Late Stage Qi Refinent Cultivators.
Seeing Luo Chen, Luo Wudi laughed, "You are quite the spectacle. We seem to be decidedly out of place by comparison."
Dressed in a thick white fur coat, donned with the Cloud-Stepping Boots, and wearing a jade hairpin in his hair.
In Luo Chen’s hands was the folding fan gifted to him by Qin Liangchen.
Anyone would think that Luo Chen was from a noble family, or a highly distinguished mber of a Sect.
Luo Chen clasped his hands and asked curiously, "What are you guys doing?"
Sikong Shoujia explained to him, and Luo Chen then understood that everyone was listing their resources for sale.
The Yu Ding Sword Sect initiated the auction, and the main auction items were from Yu Ding Sword Sect.
But that didn’t an others were only there to buy and not sell.
The Foundation Establishnt Cultivators like Mi Shuhua submitted their items for auction two days in advance to the Sword Pavilion.
But Qi Refinent Cultivators like themselves didn’t have such privileges.
Thus, they had to list their goods for sale before entering the venue.
Reportedly, this part of the resources would be quickly assessed and then auctioned separately at the auction.
And of course, as long as they were successfully auctioned, the Sword Pavilion would receive a handling fee.
At this, Luo Chen could only once again exclaim, "What sharp rchants."
Luo Chen had nothing to sell at the auction, so all he could do was to watch as everyone submitted their items.
He hadn’t noticed before and always thought they were all living a hard life.
But to his surprise, they each managed to bring out so things worth selling.
Luo Wudi ca out with a large amount of demon beast materials, so of which were top-quality materials from nearly Second Order Demon Beasts.
The sneaky old man Sikong Shoujia, who was usually low-key, unexpectedly revealed a Second Order Spirit Grass. Luo wondered where he had got it from.
Mi Junping had nothing remarkable as most of hers was so common stuff collected by the gang, but it was the quantity that mattered.
On the other hand, Wang Yuan had decided to sell items that astonished everyone.
Magic tools! Magic tools! Only magic tools!
The sight of one magic tool after another, either blood-spattered or devastated, made even Mi Shuhua’s eyelids twitch involuntarily.
Observing everyone’s astonishnt, Wang Yuan only briefly explained,
"There are many Calamity Cultivators in the new waterway."
In other words, these magic tools were essentially the spoils of war that he and his Jiao Hall had obtained from the waterway.
Luo Chen watched with great interest. While he maintained a bland existence in Pill Hall, others pursued a life of Immortal Cultivation, undoubtedly filled with many thrilling adventures.
Just by looking at the items they brought out, one could catch a glimpse of their stimulating Cultivation journeys.
"Alright, let’s go in!"
After everything was processed, Mi Shuhua waved his sleeve and led the way through the entrance.
The auction venue was set up within Luo Feng Mountain.
Not the Dao Debate Platform, not the Red Pillar Prison, but a colossal round palace, specially created for the occasion.
As soon as they entered the palace, the complexions of the five Qi Refinent Cultivators changed.
Waves of Spirit Consciousness swept over them without any restraint.
They, as lower order cultivators, usually wouldn’t be able to sense the existence of Spirit Consciousness.
However, these Spirit Consciousness owners were too unrestrained, and they were too many, causing them to inadvertently discover this.
"Elder Mi, your private room is in booth number eight, please follow ."
Upon hearing the number "eight," Mi Shuhua inadvertently wrinkled his brows.
Under the leadership of a cultivator dressed in the uniform of Sword Pavilion, Mi Shuhua and his group made their way into the booth.
Upon entering, the discomfort caused by the wild scanning of Spirit Consciousness from the outside world finally dissipated.
Everyone’s mood finally relaxed.
Luo Chen sighed with emotion, "The Yu Ding Sword Sect, indeed, even the disciples sent here are at the early stage of the Late Stage Qi Refinent."
Being away from ho made the mbers of the gang feel less distant from one another.
Mi Junping, too, sighed deeply, "Great Sect Disciples are like this. We, at the late stage of Qi Refinent, are regarded as influential people in The Great River District. But within the sect, we are no more than reserve disciples among the thousands and thousands. Without the hope of advancing to the Foundation Establishnt, we can only go to the External Sect and serve as General Matters Staff."
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