Chapter 109: Sorry, calling you poor ghosts was my rashness

"Name?"

"Lu Huaiben"

"Where are you from?"

"Qianshan, Yuanzhao Kingdom."

Wow, a fellow countryman!

Luo Chen chewed on a fairy bean, raised an eyebrow; he was also from Yuanzhao Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, the person hanging on the rack opposite was also from his hometown.

Mi Shuhua glared at Luo Chen, then signaled Sikong Shoujia to continue questioning.

Lu Huaiben on the iron rack had been tortured for a whole night, and under various insidious means, he was now on the verge of death.

Therefore, he basically answered every question.

Sikong Shoujia continued to ask: "I'm asking you which faction you are from?"

"No faction, just a rogue cultivator, living in Snow Lotus Market."

"What's your boss's name?"

"The boss is called Dan Xiu, also a rogue cultivator, we usually make a living by hunting demon beasts."

"Since you hunt demon beasts, why did you think of robbing our Hall Master? Speak, was someone instructing you?"

"No, just heard that alchemists are very wealthy, we planned to make a big haul before leaving."

"Still lying, looks like you haven't suffered enough!"

Sikong Shoujia's fierce color flashed, and the three silver needles originally inserted in Lu Huaiben's head suddenly sank a point.

"Ah ah ah..."

The originally dying Lu Huaiben suddenly trembled violently, looking like a fish flopping before death.

Sikong Shoujia paused his hands in the air, and the silver needles floated up a point.

Lu Huaiben gasped for breath, like a drowning man who had sucked in fresh air.

"Don't prick anymore, don't prick anymore, I beg you."

Tears, snot, and blood couldn't stop flowing down.

Lu Huaiben cried and shouted: "We really just wanted to pass by and make a haul, no one instructed us."

"Nonsense, Dan Chenzi's whereabouts are uncertain, he almost never leaves the Pill Hall, how could you be so coincidental to block him? There must have been a tip-off, speak, who exactly is it?"

"No, really no. We bought all her fairy beans and asked her if she had any more, she said she would have some in two days."

Yuan Xiaoyue?

Sikong Shoujia turned his head and looked at Luo Chen.

At this moment, Luo Chen also frowned and transmitted his voice to Sikong Shoujia.

"Keep asking, what is the relationship between Yuan Xiaoyue and them, why would she tell him this information?"

Under Sikong Shoujia's forced questioning, Lu Huaiben sobbed and said: "We bought all her fairy beans and asked her if she had any more, she said she would have some in two days."

Uh!

Everyone was stunned, and Luo Chen's face stiffened.

Damn, so smart, why didn't she go to graduate school.

"Okay, ask you another question. Your boss is called Dan Xiu, right? Where is his foothold in Dahe Market? And where does he live in Snow Lotus Market?"

"I warn you, you must tell the truth, otherwise my Soul-Destroying Needle will have to give you two more sets."

A thick silver needle was held in Sikong Shoujia's hand obsessively.

Lu Huaiben trembled all over, full of terror.

He told the boss's foothold one by one, and even added a few possible places later.

Since the question had reached this point, there was nothing more to ask.

Mi Shuhua and Luo Chen stood up and walked out.

"Elder Sikong, ask for two more days to see if there is any more intelligence."

"Old man knows."

Sikong Shoujia smiled grimly and took out a handful of silver needles from his body, staring at Lu Huaiben like a little lamb.

Cultivators, even if they don't specialize in physical strength, are far stronger than mortals; he had plenty to play with.

Listening to the miserable sounds constantly coming from the dungeon behind, Luo Chen shook his body.

The moment Sikong Shoujia personally went down to execute the punishment, he almost thought he saw Rong Mama.

Usually, this old man wasn't quite gentle?

"Gang Leader, do we usually interrogate prisoners like this?"

"Yes, the Broken Mountain Gang originally had a Punishment Hall, but later I felt it wasn't very good, so I abolished it. Before the abolition, Elder Sikong served as the Hall Master of the Punishment Hall for a period of time. How about it, the craftsmanship is not bad, right? As soon as he came out, that person spilled everything like bamboo shoots from a bamboo tube."

Luo Chen shook his head repeatedly: "I'm not saying that? You Foundation Establishment cultivators, shouldn't you have some soul-searching techniques, soul-bewitching techniques, and the like?"

After this was said, the atmosphere clearly became wrong.

Looking from the side, he found that Mi Shuhua was looking at him in surprise.

"Where did you hear these?"

Luo Chen replied cautiously: "In the rogue cultivator market, when everyone was bragging."

Mi Shuhua shook his head: "Whether it's soul-searching or soul-bewitching, they are all demonic means. In our Jade Cauldron Domain, and even the six domains of the Far East, they are strictly forbidden spells."

"Really? I don't believe it!" Luo Chen said firmly: "Those fairies in Tianxiang Tower, I heard they are very good at it!"

"Hehe, that's another kind of means."

Mi Shuhua smiled slightly.

The two walked all the way and finally left the tunnel.

At this time, a night had passed, and the sky was already bright.

He came back in the middle of the night, chased for a long time, but really didn't catch that ninth-level Qi Refining Dan Xiu.

Water Escape Talisman is not a common item, but a genuine Five Elements Escape Technique—Water Escape.

Among the Five Elements Escape Techniques, the most basic ones are all second-grade spells.

Once activated, within a hundred miles, it arrives in an instant.

Plus that Dan Xiu came from Snow Lotus Market, and people there are mostly good at hiding, Mi Shuhua searched for half the night, but really didn't catch the other party.

That person had keen spiritual sense, almost sensing danger, and activated the Water Escape Talisman regardless of everything.

Even at the cost of exchanging injuries with Liu Qiang, he took a hard blow.

The two stood under the eaves, watching the snow falling down.

"This matter will definitely give you a satisfactory answer, but as of now, we can exclude the instructions of major factions; it should be simple robbers!"

Robbers can also be linked to simple!

"Then could it be Gao Tingyuan targeting me?" Luo Chen coldly mentioned a name.

Mi Shuhua pondered for a while and shook his head.

"It shouldn't be him, after all, I already greeted Wang Haichao last time."

"And let me tell you the bottom line, if Jade Marrow Pills are sold to other markets in the future, we will also cooperate with the Great River Gang, he won't kill the chicken to get the eggs."

Luo Chen sneered: "This is the idea of you Foundation Establishment cultivators, it has nothing to do with Gao Tingyuan."

"What you said also makes sense!" Mi Shuhua thought for a while and said: "How about this, I will greet Wang Haichao again and let him pay attention to Gao Tingyuan. Whether it's him or not, danger must always be stifled in the cradle."

"With these words from you, I am relieved."

Luo Chen yawned, waved his hand, and was about to leave, but before leaving, he seemed to remember something.

"Gang Leader, the weather is cold, the cultivators in the Pill Hall are not having a good time."

After speaking, he left majestically, and following him, there were four more cultivators.

Each one was tall and strong, and their cultivation level was quite extraordinary, with the lowest being at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

When Liu Qiang returns from healing, his bodyguard team will grow to five.

Going out with five late-stage Qi Refining bodyguards, just ask Dahe Market, who has this treatment!

Mi Shuhua stood under the eaves, still thinking about certain things.

Footsteps came from behind, and he asked without looking back: "Ping'er, anything?"

Mi Junping said excitedly: "Sikong Shoujia sent the account book of the Pill Hall last month, and I found that more than four thousand Jade Marrow Pills were refined last month. Among them, mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills reached twelve hundred!"

Mi Shuhua was stunned, then revealed a look of wild joy.

More than a thousand mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills, ten per bottle, fifty spirit stones per bottle, that's more than five thousand spirit stones.

If you add those low-grade Jade Marrow Pills...

After deducting many material costs and personnel costs, he, Mi Shuhua, would have a net profit of at least two thousand spirit stones!

And this was just the profit of one month!

Persist for a few years, and he would even have the confidence to buy a defensive magic treasure.

Even if he didn't buy a defensive magic treasure, the cultivation resources from the middle stage of Foundation Establishment to the late stage of Foundation Establishment would almost not need to be too worried.

And as Luo Chen becomes more and more familiar with refining Jade Marrow Pills, I'm afraid the profits will only increase in the future.

"Sure enough, investing in Luo Chen at all costs was the most correct decision."

"From the moment I learned that the mid-grade pill was refined by him, I knew that he, Luo Chen, would be a noble person on my path of cultivation!"

Listening to his old father's near-hysterical self-talk.

Mi Junping couldn't help but ask: "Is Luo Chen really that important?"

"Ping'er, you must remember. Alchemists are always the most precious talents in the cultivation world!"

"Don't offend, don't let him have a negative opinion of you, and don't have conflicts."

"Even if there is a conflict, either solve the conflict immediately, or solve that alchemist immediately at all costs."

Mi Junping opened her mouth, wanting to refute.

But thinking of the benefits the Pill Hall could bring last month, she was speechless.

After the wild joy, Mi Shuhua also gradually calmed down.

That profit was not so easy to obtain; he still needed to pay some benefits to other people.

"Ping'er, send an invitation to the Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion for me, and invite a distinguished guest to a banquet at the Zhongding family tomorrow night."

"In addition, contact the Nangong family. They are a family that just moved from Snow Lotus Market and are very familiar with that side; I need to know the specific intelligence of someone called Dan Xiu."

"I'm going to the Great River Gang later, have someone notify Wang Yuan of the Jiao Hall and have him accompany me."

After saying a lot, he seemed to be still unsatisfied, and a good idea popped into his mind looking at his daughter.

In Mi Junping's shocked gaze, he brought up a matter.

"Your Daoist companion passed away many years ago, do you want to consider another marriage?" [114] ...... [115] ...... [116] Luo Chen didn't know that someone was arranging a marriage for him again. [117] With a few bodyguards, he returned to the inner city swaggeringly. [118] It was still early, so he went to the Yuan family first. [119] When settling the profits for last month, he found that there were fifty more spirit stones than before. [120] "Met a good person, said the fairy beans were delicious, and wanted to buy more fairy beans." [121] "I said I couldn't sell them all to him, there were other old customers." [122] "He wasn't willing, and would rather pay more to buy them all, and the extra fifty spirit stones were given by him." [123] Luo Chen's expression was complex; they really put in the effort to rob him! [124] After sighing, Luo Chen started to settle the accounts. [125] Gross income seven hundred spirit stones. [126] Now it wasn't a fixed salary, so he gave Yuan Xiaoyue, in addition to the thirty fixed salary, a profit dividend after deducting costs. [127] As for the costs of fairy beans, popcorn, and these things? [128] Counting fully, it didn't exceed one hundred spirit stones. [129] High profit! [130] It was precisely because the profit was high that it attracted so many followers. [131] It was just that the market was limited, and it was not easy to expand the scale, otherwise Luo Chen would want to open a processing factory outside the Pill Hall, specializing in producing these things. [132] "Here, your thirty fixed salary, plus thirty dividends, take it!" [133] Yuan Xiaoyue took this sum of spirit stones excitedly. [134] She wasn't a chick who didn't understand anything anymore. [135] Mixing in the White Stone Square for a long time, dealing with many guests every day, she also knew the general income of rogue cultivators. [136] Sixty spirit stones a month almost exceeded all early-stage Qi Refining cultivators. [137] Those middle-stage Qi Refining cultivators without any special skills couldn't earn that much either. [138] Even saying, the maids and chores in sect shops didn't have a basic salary of fifty spirit stones. [139] With these spirit stones, she also had a guarantee for her cultivation resources in the future, and the fourth level of Qi Refining is just around the corner! [140] Looking at her excitement, Luo Chen shook his head and asked: [141] "How did the milk tea I sent over in the middle of the month sell?" [142] Hearing this, Yuan Xiaoyue wasn't so excited anymore. [143] "Not selling very well, too expensive. And when guests buy things, they prefer yellow pear wine, they don't like milk tea." [144] Hearing her say this, Luo Chen was a bit puzzled. [145] The milk tea formula he researched used tea leaves produced by those few hundred-year-old tea trees discovered by the Medicine Hall in the mountains, and the milk source came from a few mother yellow cows in the Beast Hall. [146] Plus a little bit of crushed spirit grass stolen from the Jade Marrow Pill raw materials. [147] He took a sip at the time, and the taste was quite good, right? [148] Selling for five spirit stones, those people actually didn't buy it? [149] Damn, it must be that mountain pigs can't eat fine bran. [150] Since they look down on high-end

Luo Chen didn't know yet that someone was arranging a marriage for him again.

With a few bodyguards, he swaggered back to the inner city.

It was still early, so he went to the Yuan family first.

When settling the last month's earnings, he found that there were fifty more spirit stones than before.

"I met a good person who said the fairy beans were delicious and wanted to buy more."

"I said I couldn't sell them all to him, as there were still old customers."

"He wasn't willing and preferred to pay a higher price to buy them all. These extra fifty spirit stones were given by him."

Luo Chen's expression was complex; they really went to great lengths to rob him!

After sighing, Luo Chen began to split the accounts.

Gross income was seven hundred spirit stones.

It wasn't a fixed salary anymore, so for Yuan Xiaoyue, besides the thirty spirit stones of fixed salary, he had to calculate the profit sharing after deducting costs.

As for the costs of things like fairy beans and popcorn?

All in all, it didn't exceed one hundred spirit stones.

High profit, right!

It was precisely because of the high profit that so many people followed suit.

It was just that the market was limited, and it was hard to expand the scale; otherwise, Luo Chen would have wanted to open a processing factory for himself outside the Alchemy Hall, specifically to produce these things.

"Here, your thirty spirit stones of fixed salary, plus thirty spirit stones of profit sharing. Take it!"

Yuan Xiaoyue excitedly took the spirit stones.

She wasn't a novice who didn't understand anything anymore.

Having hung around the White Stone Plaza for a long time and dealing with many customers every day, she also knew the general income of rogue cultivators.

Sixty spirit stones a month almost exceeded all cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining.

Those mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators without any special skills couldn't earn that much either.

Even the maids and handymen in the sect's shops only had a base salary of fifty spirit stones.

With these spirit stones, her future cultivation resources were guaranteed, and the fourth stage of Qi Refining was just around the corner!

Looking at her excitement, Luo Chen shook his head and asked:

"How did the milk tea I sent over in the middle of the month sell?"

Hearing this, Yuan Xiaoyue wasn't so excited anymore.

"It didn't sell very well; it was too expensive. And when customers buy things, they prefer yellow pear wine and don't like milk tea."

Hearing her say this, Luo Chen was a bit puzzled.

The milk tea recipe he researched used tea leaves produced by those few hundred-year-old tea trees found in the mountains by the Medicine Hall, and the milk source came from a few yellow cows in the Beast Hall.

Plus a little bit of spiritual herb powder stolen from the raw materials of the Jade Marrow Elixir.

He had tasted it at the time, and the flavor was quite good, right?

Selling it for five spirit stones, and those people actually didn't buy it?

Damn it, it must be that mountain pigs can't appreciate fine bran.

Since they don't appreciate high-end "Tea-Colored Joy," then later, let's lower the price and make it "Honey Snow Ice City"!

In an instant, Luo Chen had another plan in his mind.

He took out the fairy beans, popcorn, and beef jerky that the Alchemy Hall cultivators had roasted separately for him from his storage bag.

"These are the goods for next month."

"Also, I might be very busy in the future and won't have time to deliver the goods. You recognize this old man's face. What's your name?"

Luo Chen turned his head and stared at the new bodyguard.

The man's face flushed red, "My name is Dongfang Liang. Also, I just look old; I'm actually only in my fifties."

Raising an eyebrow, Luo Chen patted him on the shoulder, "Handsome, from now on, you are responsible for delivering the goods for me. She is Yuan Xiaoyue; you should know her too. She is the daughter of your former Medicine Hall boss, Leaping Stream Tiger. Now, she is my partner, the boss lady of the Dust-Moon Snack Stall. Seeing her is like seeing me. Do you understand?"

The handsome guy who looked very old had a flushed face.

Under Luo Chen's gaze, he lowered his head.

"Understood."

"Don't be so aggrieved; following me won't let you suffer any losses."

Right, it won't let them suffer losses.

Liu Qiang was still lying at home healing his wounds, almost beaten to death.

Several bodyguards looked helpless; who told the Gang Master to give a death order that they must take good care of Luo Chen.

After Luo Chen and the others left, Yuan Xiaoyue also planned to go out and open the door for business.

When passing through the alley, she was pulled over by an auntie.

"Xiaoyue, you must be careful when you go in and out!"

"Auntie, what's wrong?"

"I just heard a few male cultivators walk by, and someone asked the pretty boy leading them if he had taken a fancy to you."

Yuan Xiaoyue was startled, a blush unconsciously surging onto her face.

"Auntie, don't talk nonsense; that's my boss."

"That's your boss?" The auntie was stunned, then waved her hand, "That's not important. Anyway, you must let your grandfather keep a good watch. I think that kid looks good, but he might be full of bad water inside."

Is Brother Luo full of bad water?

Yuan Xiaoyue couldn't help but purse her lips and smile; it seemed like it really was.

"What taken a fancy to her? Yuan Xiaoyue is not an adult yet, don't talk nonsense."

"But Hall Master, women are adults at fifteen!"

"I'll let you talk back!"

Luo Chen jumped up and slapped Dongfang Liang on the shoulder. This guy was clearly so old, why was he still so tall? Like Wang Yuan, he was over two meters tall, right!

"She is my partner. In business matters, how can one mess with feelings!"

"Anyway, take care of her more in the future. After all, her father is dead, and her grandfather is disabled. It's quite pitiful."

"Oh, okay." Dongfang Liang replied aggrievedly.

Why was Luo Chen directing him again and bullying him again?

Because this guy was the only one in the bodyguard team at the seventh stage of Qi Refining, the same realm as himself, so he was easy to bully!

"Alright, sending me here is enough, you guys go back!"

The bodyguards dispersed, and Luo Chen looked suspiciously at Dongfang Liang who hadn't left.

"Why aren't you going back?"

Dongfang Liang said aggrievedly: "I live in this area, in that large courtyard in front."

Aren't there mostly female cultivators and poor cultivators in this area?

After carefully sizing up Dongfang Liang, Luo Chen sighed, "So you're not doing so well either, kid!"

After saying this, he put his hands behind his back and ducked into the alley in front.

Returning to the courtyard, it was morning, and there was basically no one around.

It was just that there was a medicinal smell in the courtyard, which made Luo Chen sniff his nose.

"Could it be that they knew I was intercepted yesterday, and Sister-in-law boiled medicine for me?"

With these kinds of thoughts, Luo Chen closed his door tightly.

Sleepiness didn't come, but the urge to take stock did.

Storage bag, open!

It wasn't his storage bag, but the storage bag of the one named Lu Huaiben.

Clatter, a large pile of things piled up on the ground.

Luo Chen's mouth opened wide all of a sudden.

After a long time, he said a sentence with genuine emotion.

"I'm sorry, calling you poor ghosts, it was my rashness."

I saw that the ground was crowded with at least a thousand spirit stones, and that pile really made Luo Chen swallow his saliva.

Besides spirit stones, there were five magic treasures, mostly low-grade, but there were also two mid-grade magic treasures.

They were a half-meter-long white board and a pair of bells.

From the mountain-like pile, Luo Chen rummaged through it again, and actually found a set of array flags.

Because they were scattered array flags, they didn't have a grade individually, so he didn't notice them at first.

At this moment, when assembled and combined with the array disk, he realized it was a set of Hidden Spirit Arrays mainly focused on concealment.

No wonder he didn't discover Lu Huaiben's group of robbers at first. It wasn't until they got close that Luo Chen, relying on his extraordinary soul foundation and the Spirit Eye Technique rooted in his eyes, barely sensed the clues.

It's very reasonable for robbers to have concealment arrays!

"Good stuff, it's just right for me to use to hide the spiritual vein cave."

Hehe, this is like meeting a pillow when you're sleepy.

Then, Luo Chen stared at the mountain-like pile and began to worry.

Yes, all the things above couldn't actually be piled into a small mountain.

What really piled into a small mountain were things Luo Chen was very familiar with.

"Fairy beans!"

The fairy beans they bought hadn't even been finished yet!

And now they were returned to Luo Chen himself.

Luo Chen was moved beyond words; what kind of warmth-sending in the cultivation world is this!

Spending spirit stones to buy fairy beans from his partner and inquiring about his news.

Then coming to the door to send magic treasures, magic robes, spirit stones, oh, and a few bottles of unknown elixirs, and even returning the fairy beans they spent money to buy.

So what should he do now?

Take them out and sell them again!

It's just that this matter can't let others know, otherwise they would think my Dust-Moon Snack Stall is a black shop.

After sighing, Luo Chen sorted these things into categories.

The bells should be sonic weapons; their specific power is not suitable for testing at home.

This white board, I don't know what it is either; it looks a bit like a flying magic treasure?

But the speed is probably not fast; when Lu Huaiben was running away, he didn't use this magic treasure.

The other three low-grade magic treasures were two flying swords and a small pot.

"They should have been robbed; otherwise, late-stage cultivators wouldn't carry low-grade magic treasures with them. I'll sell them to the Merit Hall when I have time!"

"This small pot... it looks a bit familiar!"

Luo Chen's memory returned to the few times he entered the Myriad Treasure Pavilion.

He remembered that next to the Faint Smoke Sparse Rain Pavilion, there seemed to be this kind of small pot displayed. What was its name again?

"Wave-Swallowing Sea-Holding Pot?"

Luo Chen remembered; it seemed to be this name.

Its specific function is similar to a storage bag, but its effect is singular; it can only hold liquid things.

And the capacity is completely unworthy of its name.

The Myriad Treasure Pavilion likes this; the lower the grade of the magic treasure, the more flowery the name.

What "Faint Smoke Sparse Rain Pavilion" is actually a range hood.

What "Lotus-like Cloud Fragrance Plate" is actually a low-grade flying magic treasure, and the speed is slow as hell.

This Wave-Swallowing Sea-Holding Pot actually holds at most a few hundred catties of liquid.

It is mainly provided for some cultivators to specifically store liquids that are difficult to store.

"For example, cultivator essence blood!"

For some reason, Luo Chen thought of a main ingredient in the Blood Fiend Elixir recipe.

Shaking his head vigorously, Luo Chen cast aside that dangerous thought.

"Actually, it can be used to develop my milk tea business!"

Luo Chen is on the right path, and doing business is all open and aboveboard!

After putting away the magic treasures, Luo Chen looked at those bottles of elixirs; he was sure they weren't the style of the Great River Workshop.

They seemed to be the specialty elixirs of the Snow Lotus Workshop. In a situation where the situation is unclear, it's better not to take them rashly.

Next, Luo Chen rubbed his hands, his face full of excitement.

"It's time for the most exciting spirit stone counting session again."

"Working hard to refine elixirs for a month, and getting a thousand or eight hundred spirit stones, how can it be as fast as this overnight wealth!"

"One, two..."