Chapter 204: The Immortal Vial of Longevity

"You want to rent a shop?"

Jiang Xu sized up Li Changsheng, who had just stepped into the management hall, and asked for confirmation.

Ever since Ye Qingxuan had Liu Feifeng recruit mortals to handle the mundane affairs of the City Lord's Mansion.

Liu Feifeng, out of consideration for his beloved disciple Jiang Yinyin.

gave Jiang Xu a managerial position, stationed him at the Dongxuan Market, and put him in charge of the market's operations, making him the manager of the Dongxuan Market Management Office.

Jiang Xu now leads other mortals every day.

managing shop rentals or sales in the Dongxuan Market, as well as the rental of temporary stalls.

However, the requirements for renting shops in the Dongxuan Market are quite harsh.

Outsider cultivators are rarely willing to rent shops in the Dongxuan Market; most prefer to apply for a temporary stall there.

Or they sell their obtained raw materials or various finished products they have refined at low prices to shops in Dongxuan City to quickly recoup their funds.

Matters regarding temporary stalls are handled by the young people under Jiang Xu's supervision.

So, after Jiang Xu took over the management of the Dongxuan Market, there wasn't much work to do.

He basically stayed at the market's management office for eight hours a day before getting off work and going home.

For Jiang Xu, this job was not only relaxed and comfortable but also allowed him to accumulate contribution points for his granddaughter.

While Jiang Xu sized up Li Changsheng, Li Changsheng was also sizing up Jiang Xu.

He hadn't expected that the people running the Dongxuan Market Management Office were also mortals.

This was the first time Li Changsheng had seen an immortal city where mortals managed the city.

This made Li Changsheng feel it was quite novel.

In response to Jiang Xu's inquiry, Li Changsheng nodded: "Yes."

After confirming again, Jiang Xu pointed to the wall behind him, where rules were listed:

"Outsider cultivators renting shops or stalls in the Dongxuan Market can only sell items below the fourth tier."

"Dongxuan City does not charge shop rent but will take twenty percent of the shop's turnover."

"Also, if the twenty percent of turnover turned in annually does not reach the lower limit of 120, 00 low-grade spirit stones, the submitted funds must be made up to 120, 00 low-grade spirit stones."

"So harsh?"

Hearing the rules for renting shops in the Dongxuan Market, Li Changsheng was somewhat shocked.

He had traveled through many immortal cities.

In the Xingluo Province, renting shops in other cities only involved differences in rent.

It was nothing like Dongxuan City, which had so many regulations.

According to these rules, only selling items below the fourth tier.

For cultivators at the Purple Mansion realm, this wouldn't have much impact.

But for those whose mastery of the four arts of cultivation reached above the third tier and whose cultivation base was above the Purple Mansion realm, the restrictions were truly too great.

What Li Changsheng did not know was.

Dongxuan City had Ye Qingxuan's support behind it and did not lack supplies of any tier.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan would inevitably control the high-tier market in his own hands.

If it weren't for attracting some lone cultivators, Ye Qingxuan's Dongxuan City wouldn't even rent out shops to outsiders.

With no shortage of supplies, how could renting out shops yield more profit than operating the shops himself?

The Dongxuan Market, though a market, was treated by Ye Qingxuan as a large shop to be operated.

Jiang Xu nodded with a smile and warned:

"Yes. If your lordship does not have special sources of items to attract customers, I, an old man, do not recommend renting a shop in our Dongxuan Market."

Before Jiang Xu took office, Liu Feifeng had told him: The City Lord does not mind outsider cultivators opening shops in the Dongxuan Market.

If too many cultivators without special sources of goods move into the Dongxuan Market to open shops and suffer losses, it could easily cause negative effects on Dongxuan City.

After all, when buying the same products, cultivators would definitely trust the shops operated by Dongxuan City more. Without special sources of goods to attract customers.

Shops opened by outsider cultivators would easily face losses.

So since taking office, whenever Jiang Xu encountered cultivators wanting to rent shops, he would try to dissuade them if possible.

Only if he truly couldn't dissuade them, or if they indeed had special goods capable of attracting customers, would Jiang Xu help them process the shop rental business.

"Special items?"

Hearing Jiang Xu's warning, Li Changsheng's eyes flickered slightly.

He did have special items.

It was just that after pondering Dongxuan City for a long time, Li Changsheng slowly said, "Thank you, old sir, for the information. I have already made up my mind. Please help me select a shop."

Hearing Li Changsheng's words, Jiang Xu no longer tried to dissuade him.

He took out a map of the Dongxuan Market, which detailed the information of the shops.

"You can choose any of the white-marked shops. Which one you want, you choose yourself!"

Li Changsheng scanned the map and finally chose a shop near the teleportation array in the eastern district of Dongxuan City.

Seeing this, Jiang Xu nodded slightly.

After consulting some basic information from Li Changsheng, he quickly processed the paperwork and signed the contract.

Finally, he handed Li Changsheng a wooden token controlling the formation of the corresponding shop, completing the shop rental matter entirely.

After receiving the shop token, Li Changsheng quickly rushed to his shop.

The shop was not large, only sixty square meters in size.

It was empty inside, requiring Li Changsheng to arrange it himself.

For this, Li Changsheng was well prepared.

Not long after, a shop named Linglu quietly opened for business in Dongxuan City.

Li Changsheng's Linglu shop sells elixirs he has refined himself below the fourth tier, as well as first-, second-, and third-tier Linglu.

One bottle of first-tier Linglu can double the growth speed of a first-tier spiritual plant.

One bottle of second-tier Linglu can double the growth speed of a second-tier spiritual plant.

One bottle of third-tier Linglu can double the growth speed of a third-tier spiritual plant.

These Linglu are obtained by diluting Changsheng Immortal Dew.

Li Changsheng had previously, by chance, obtained a jade bottle that could produce a type of Immortal Dew.

Li Changsheng named the jade bottle the Changsheng Immortal Vessel, and the Immortal Dew he called Changsheng Immortal Dew.

Changsheng Immortal Dew can accelerate the growth of any spiritual plant by ten times.

So far, Li Changsheng has not discovered the limit of Changsheng Immortal Dew, as he has only experimented with sixth-tier medicinal herbs.

He currently has no access to seventh-tier spiritual plants.

Relying on the Changsheng Immortal Dew produced by the Changsheng Immortal Vessel, Li Changsheng obtained a large quantity of medicinal herbs, improved his alchemy skills,

then acquired sufficient resources to accelerate his own cultivation base, step by step advancing to the late stage of the Jin Dan realm.

The Changsheng Immortal Vessel is of great importance, directly affecting Li Changsheng's own Dao path.

Therefore, he naturally would not expose it easily.

Although the Linglu obtained by diluting Changsheng Immortal Dew also has good effects,

in Xingluo Zhou, the true major powers do not lack secret techniques or substances similar to Linglu that can accelerate the growth of spiritual plants.

Thus, by selling Linglu, he can attract independent cultivator customers without drawing the attention of major powers.

Only in this way can he safely survive under the protection of Dongxuan City.

Thinking of this, a faint smile involuntarily appeared on Li Changsheng's face.

(End of this chapter)