Chapter 111

In the end, Luo Chen still researched a milk tea in the cultivation world that cultivators could accept.

With Fuzhu deer milk as the main ingredient, paired with tea soup boiled from the tea leaves of hundred-year-old spiritual tea trees, and adding several other medicinal herbs to suppress the fishy smell of the animal milk.

With many materials combined, he obtained a Fuzhu milk tea that was rich in milky fragrance but slightly light in taste.

After this milk tea was prepared, Feng Xia drank it, Luo Chen drank it, and Dongfang Liang, who looked vicissitudinous, was also forced to drink it.

After drinking it, all three felt it was quite good.

It contained a slight amount of spiritual power, and drinking it multiple times wouldn't cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

If taken as a drink during leisure time, it wasn't worse than ordinary spiritual tea or spiritual wine.

The recipe was successful, so the things to consider next were relatively simple.

Milk source, ordered from the Beast Hall of the Poshan Gang.

Tea soup, had to rely on those few hundred-year-old spiritual tea trees found in the Guyuan Mountains by the Medicine Hall.

Hundred-year-old spiritual tea trees, they sounded very powerful.

In reality, in the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world, they were the least valuable things; truly precious spiritual tea trees were all thousands or ten thousand years old.

Those few spiritual tea trees were usually picked by some poor loose cultivators of the Poshan Gang who had nothing to do, taking them back to drink for fun.

The spiritual power in the milk tea mainly came from a medicinal herb in Luo Chen's recipe.

Milk source and tea soup were both solved, and what remained were the medicinal herbs in the recipe.

This time, they couldn't be deducted from the Alchemy Hall.

The quantity was too large and needed to be purchased separately.

In this regard, Feng Xia was more familiar than anyone; she was someone who came out of the Baicaotang.

"Set up the stall in these few days, I will let Yuan Xiaoyue help you."

"This Fuzhu milk tea is hot tea, it needs to be heated with the Fireball Technique frequently, Sister Xia, your Fireball Technique attainments are no problem, right?"

Feng Xia nodded confidently; she was a medicine tester in her early years, but later turned into a helper who processed medicinal herbs.

Some medicinal herbs that needed high-temperature processing were basically heated by their pure manual Fireball Technique.

She was very confident in controlling the power of the Fireball Technique.

"Do you know how to boil tea soup?"

"No problem, before when there were no customers, Miss Xiao Ling and I would also accompany Shopkeeper Liu to drink tea to pass the time." She said in a hoarse voice.

Luo Chen hummed, thought for a while, and said: "When the time comes, make the movements a bit more flashy to attract the attention of loose customers as much as possible."

Sizing up Feng Xia, he said again: "Also, your dressing style needs to change."

"Hmm, how to change?"

"You dress too plainly now, you need to learn from Sister Gu Caiyi."

Feng Xia was startled, thinking of Gu Gu Caiyi's usual attire, and felt somewhat uncomfortable.

To tell the truth, Feng Xia looked very ordinary, but her figure was extremely hot.

It's just that she dressed too conservatively usually, hiding certain unique advantages under her gray Taoist robe.

Luo Chen hadn't actually discovered it before either.

But later his supernatural powers were perfected!

The Spirit Eye Technique was rooted in his eyes, and he discovered the clues without paying attention.

"Everything is for business, for earning spirit stones to cultivate!"

Luo Chen was afraid she wouldn't understand, so he specifically persuaded her.

Feng Xia twisted her body and gave a soft "hmm."

Listening to that hoarse voice, Luo Chen subconsciously frowned.

Doing business, advertising, and shouting were always very important things.

But Sister Xia's voice?

"Someone who sings well?"

Gu Gu Caiyi rubbed her fair wrists; Luo Chen didn't go to the Alchemy Hall today, so she had to direct many miscellaneous tasks and even do them herself, which was quite tiring.

Facing Luo Chen's question, she answered without thinking:

"There are many, there used to be many sisters who sang beautifully in the Tianlai Pavilion next to our Yuyi Pavilion."

"What's wrong? Now that you have spirit stones, you want to go and have some fun?"

Luo Chen waved his hand, "Go, go, go, your head is full of lewd thoughts all day long."

"Pah!"

"Help me arrange for a sister with a sweet voice who understands music to come out; I have a big business to discuss with her!"

"How big?"

"Forty or fifty spirit stones!" Luo Chen gritted his teeth, "No more, the landlord's family has no surplus grain either."

Tea leaves didn't cost many spirit stones, but animal milk and medicinal herbs were the big expenses.

To build his milk tea shop, the initial investment had to be a big one.

How could it be less than a hundred spirit stones!

Gu Gu Caiyi smiled and agreed to the matter; it had been a while since she had seen Luo Chen's stingy look.

Don't say, it was actually quite cute!

The fact is, if a rich man is stingy, it's called thrift being a virtue, and every move is cute.

If a poor person is stingy, that's being truly stingy.

Since when did the atmosphere of the cultivation world go bad!

The next day, Luo Chen arranged to meet Beast Hall Hall Master Ke Ke Yulin through bodyguard Zhou Zhou Yuanli.

The two met in a small wine shop in the inner city; this wine shop was also newly opened, located in Bai Shi Square, specifically serving those spectators or contestants of the Dao Discussion Platform.

At the beginning of the meeting, the atmosphere was not harmonious.

Ke Ke Yulin had long since parted ways with the Qin Qin Liangchen couple and completely followed Mi Mi Shuhua's lead.

Otherwise, Luo Chen wouldn't have asked Zhou Zhou Yuanli to arrange the meeting; he could have directly asked Qin Qin Liangchen to arrange for him to meet at home.

After the meeting, the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"A business of five hundred spirit stones a month, I'm really losing out. But I'll take this loss for the sake of you being the little brother of my Big Brother Qin Liangchen."

"Give the deposit first!"

Ke Ke Yulin was all smiles.

Luo Chen cursed inwardly; Fuzhu deer meat was valuable, but animal milk was basically unwanted.

But the milk source was of paramount importance; besides the Poshan Gang, only the Nangong family farmed Fuzhu deer on a large scale.

He had no reason to look far and wide, so he could only let Ke Ke Yulin take advantage.

He took out a bag of spirit stones and handed it to Ke Ke Yulin.

After the other party counted it, his expression changed.

"Isn't it three hundred a month? Why is there only fifty spirit stones?"

"It's a deposit, there's no reason to pay the full amount!" Luo Chen rolled his eyes, "I definitely have to try it for a few days! What if it's not popular, and people scold me for using fake milk?"

Ke Ke Yulin's face was uncertain, and after a long time, he nodded and accepted it.

"Fine, I will arrange for someone to squeeze the milk for you, but the Beast Hall is short of manpower, so no one will deliver it to you."

After saying this, he flicked his sleeves and left.

It was agreed to be three hundred spirit stones a month, but he only got fifty; no wonder he was so resentful.

Luo Chen also cursed and went to settle the bill; what do you mean by arranging for someone to squeeze the milk for me!

Although he cursed, his mood was undoubtedly excellent.

The matter of the milk source was finally solved.

Next, everything was ready, and he only owed the east wind!

And this east wind was brought to him by Yuan Xiaoyue that very day.

"Big Brother He agreed, the small shop directly opposite Mount Luofeng Mountain in Bai Shi Square will be rented to us, but the rent of ten spirit stones a month is unavoidable, and it must be rented for at least a year."

"Ten? Why doesn't your Yuding Sword Pavilion go and rob someone?"

Yuan Xiaoyue patiently explained: "That is a shop after all, different from a loose cultivator stall, and there are quite a few people who want to rent it."

The Big Brother He she spoke of was the cultivator to whom Luo Chen had given ten-year-old pear wine, named He Youjun.

Ninth level of Qi Refining, his status was second only to the Foundation Establishment cultivator Miao Zhen currently stationed in Dahefang, as well as the older generation's Sun Shou.

Currently in charge of the miscellaneous affairs of the Mount Luofeng Mountain Dao Discussion Platform, as well as the shops and small stalls in this area of Bai Shi Square.

It was also because of the long-term delivery of pear wine that he was quite caring toward Luo Chen's business.

After Yuan Xiaoyue reported the situation last time, he directly sent the law enforcement team to sweep through the various small stalls, collected a fine, and then set new rules.

Since then, Yuan Xiaoyue had occupied the best small stall and put up the sign of the Chen Yue Snack Stall.

Now that he wanted to rent a shop, even if it was the smallest storefront, Luo Chen would definitely look for him.

Luo Chen was helpless and had to follow Yuan Xiaoyue to find He Youjun.

He had previously thought the first investment cost would only be a hundred or so, but looking at it now, it was far from enough!

Renting a shop, ten spirit stones a month, rented for at least a year, that was directly over a hundred.

Buying those tea-boiling utensils, finding someone to customize milk tea cups, that would be another huge sum.

And the labor fee for the girl from Tianlai Pavilion he was meeting this afternoon definitely had to be paid.

Oh, he still had to go to Wanbaolou later to buy a low-grade magic tool.

"Damn, why are these spirit stones so hard to spend!"

One hundred spirit stones?

Tsk!

Luo Chen had greatly underestimated the cost of opening a shop.

A milk tea shop and a snack stall were completely different, and the funds required to be invested couldn't be mentioned in the same breath.

After a serious calculation, the initial investment was at least around five hundred spirit stones.

This was still him finding an excuse to delay the first month's payment to Ke Ke Yulin's side.

"The third round of the auction, now begins."

"The first session is various rare spirit medicines provided by fellow Daoist Mi Mi Shuhua of the Broken Mountain Gang."

"There are three second-grade demon cores, three pieces of pig-iron heart, one cub of a third-grade demon beast Silver-Maned Horse, which can be tamed... and ten bottles of mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills refined by Dan Dan Chenzi, the Hall Master of the Broken Mountain Gang's Alchemy Hall."

"Everyone, you may begin bidding!"

The third round of the auction was for items provided by various local forces.

The Broken Mountain Gang is the largest and oldest rogue cultivator gang in Great River Market, so it was naturally placed in the first session.

Hearing those auction items, there was some commotion in the venue.

Second-grade demon cores are definitely good things, and some Foundation Establishment cultivators directly made moves to buy them.

The pig-iron heart was also not bad, and the box of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion shouted a high price without any hesitation.

That Silver-Maned Horse cub was even more mouth-watering.

If it is truly nurtured properly, several hundred years later, it will be a third-grade demon beast comparable to a Core Formation cultivator!

It must be said that Mi Mi Shuhua, this veteran Foundation Establishment cultivator, indeed has quite a bit of wealth.

He shouted eighty thousand earlier and happily obtained the magic treasure.

Now he turned around and brought out a pile of good things, which is estimated to be able to recoup quite a bit of his cost.

Compared to others shouting bids, in Box Number Eight, Luo Chen was completely dumbfounded.

"Alchemy Hall Master—Dan Dan Chenzi?"

"When did I get such a title?"

"What's wrong, don't you like this Daoist title?"

Daoist title!

Facing Mi Mi Shuhua's smiling face, Luo Chen suddenly reacted.

This is not some Jianghu nickname like "Tiger Descending the Mountain" or "Heart-Eating Tiger," but a relatively formal Daoist title.

Generally, only large sects with a heritage, or powerful rogue cultivators or evil paths, would take such Daoist titles.

The last Daoist title he had heard of was Qing Qing Yuanzi, the author of "Qing Yuan Alchemy Explanation."

The other party also took the Daoist title Qing Qing Yuanzi because he had quite an accomplishment in alchemy.

Unexpectedly, he now has a Daoist title himself.

Luo Chen couldn't help but say: "It's not that I don't like it, it's just..."

"Curious why I would give you a Daoist title, right?" Mi Mi Shuhua seemed to know the doubts in Luo Chen's heart.

He said leisurely: "Although your existence is not a secret in the mouths of some local forces in Great River Market. These forces mostly follow the rules. But the rogue cultivators participating in this auction always have some who don't follow the rules."

"Your name and cultivation realm being exposed too early will always bring some trouble."

Saying it like that, it indeed makes sense.

"Moreover, if the Jade Marrow Pills want to sell better, they also need the name of an alchemy master with some weight. Dan Dan Chenzi, I feel it's quite good."

Luo Chen opened his mouth, somewhat speechless.

After all that, Mi Mi Shuhua is playing the same trick he used to play!

Back then, he borrowed the name of Master Master Yunhe of the Joyous Union Sect to sell Myriad Wonder Pills.

Now Mi Mi Shuhua is fabricating an alchemy master named Dan Dan Chenzi who sounds very high-end, but the purpose is to sell Jade Marrow Pills.

His gaze fell into the venue, and sure enough, some people were asking about the effects of the Jade Marrow Pills.

Upon learning that the mid-grade Jade Marrow Pills only had effects on early and mid-stage cultivators, many people lost interest.

However, those few Foundation Establishment families were very interested.

Each made a move and bought one or two bottles, preparing to take them back to test the effects.

Luo Chen realized that Mi Mi Shuhua had been holding back the Jade Marrow Pills he had refined earlier and not selling them, instead putting them in the auction.

The purpose was not to sell at a high price, but to build a reputation.

"Sure enough, these Foundation Establishment cultivators are all smart people!"

He had never thought of this before.

It wasn't that he wasn't smart, but that his cultivation realm hadn't reached that point, and he couldn't come into contact with higher-level things.

Being able to put an elixir with such average effects as the Jade Marrow Pill into an auction.

Mi Mi Shuhua must have reached some conditions in secret with the cultivators of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect.

Thinking this way, Luo Chen suddenly linked it to the magic treasure incident earlier.

Mi Mi Shuhua being able to know the extra wonderful use of the Heavenly Moon Purple-Gold Wheel in advance might also have been leaked by the Profound Heaven sword cultivators.

If one thinks deeper?

"Jade Marrow Pills are hard to sell?"

"It's because giants like the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and the Medicine King Sect are watching."

"Then what if the Broken Mountain Gang borrows the name of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect?"

"Perhaps the connection isn't that deep, with only one or two Foundation Establishment Profound Heaven sword cultivators involved, but that is already enough."

"In this way, the profits from the Jade Marrow Pills, I'm afraid, also have a share for a certain Profound Heaven sword cultivator in the venue."

Numerous thoughts sprouted like bamboo shoots after rain.

Luo Chen's train of thought also became clearer and clearer.

Unknowingly, the elixirs he refined have already attracted the attention of many Foundation Establishment cultivators!

Thinking this way, he was actually a bit glad that he joined the Broken Mountain Gang early.

At least, there is relative freedom.

While he was pondering, the third round of the auction had already ended.

The fourth round, the auction stage for sect cultivators, was gradually arriving.

This time, Wang Yuan and the others beside him also made moves one after another.

Luo Chen saw with his own eyes that Wang Yuan spent two thousand spirit stones to buy a type of elixir with a grand gesture.

According to Luo Luo Tianhong's introduction, that elixir had great benefits for body refining.

"This session, the auction items are provided by the Myriad Treasures Pavilion."

"I believe there is no need for Luo to introduce the great name of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion!"

"There are ten auction items in total, two large storage bags, each ten square in size, with a starting price of ten thousand spirit stones each..."

Large storage bag, ten square in volume!

Luo Chen's eyes lit up.

But following the transaction price, one was only twenty thousand spirit stones, and he was puzzled.

"In the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, aren't one-square storage bags all marked at ten thousand spirit stones? Why are large storage bags sold so cheaply?"

Mi Mi Shuhua smiled slightly, "That is only the retail price, and it is aimed at rogue cultivators. The true value of things like storage bags, how could it be that high?"

"Hmm?"

"Storage bags are indeed very valuable, but that is only for ordinary low-grade rogue cultivators. In fact, for sect cultivators, storage bags are purchased in bulk, and the individual price is no more than one thousand spirit stones."

Looking at the confused Luo Chen, Mi Mi Shuhua explained: "If you get a second-hand storage bag and take it out to sell, no one will offer a very high price. If you put it in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, they won't even recycle it."

Luo Chen frowned: "Then why do they mark such a high price?"

"Marking it so high is, of course, to make low-grade rogue cultivators unable to afford it!"

Luo Chen understood even less; shouldn't a commodity be set at a relatively reasonable price?

Mi Mi Shuhua sighed and pointed out: "Low-grade cultivators don't have much wealth, maybe just one or two magic tools and a few talismans, which are easy to carry. The only thing that makes people covet is the spirit stones they earn. But spirit stones have sizes; carrying more than two hundred is very inconvenient."

"And no one will hide spirit stones at home when they go out, waiting for people to come and steal them."

"Then in this situation, and unable to afford a storage bag, what will they do?"

Luo Chen hesitated for a moment and replied: "Take the spirit stones to buy elixirs, magic tools, talismans, and other resources to enhance themselves? Or exchange them for mid-grade spirit stones that are easy to carry?"

"Let's not mention the latter, just talk about the former. Who will most rogue cultivators find to buy those things? Markets? Black markets? Or sect shops?"

Luo Chen is not a fool.

He quickly reacted, after all, Mi Mi Shuhua had already pointed it out to this extent.

Those spirit stones that are inconvenient to carry, in order to avoid being robbed, low-grade rogue cultivators will definitely think of converting them into their own strength.

And buying those cultivation resources means the spirit stones return to the hands of the large sects.

Seeing Luo Chen's sudden realization, Mi Mi Shuhua sighed: "The ten thousand spirit stone price tag is actually very reasonable. Early and mid-stage cultivators can't afford it, late-stage cultivators have the ability to protect their wealth and can afford it if they save for a while. And for us Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators, buying this thing is not too strenuous, and if there are internal channels, it will be even cheaper."

Damn, profiteers!

Whether it's the Myriad Treasures Pavilion or the sect that makes the storage bags, they are all proper profiteers!

Luo Chen cursed inwardly.

Then his gaze was attracted by an auction item hung out by the profiteers.

"Yin Sixiang Cauldron, top-grade magic tool!"

"This cauldron has extraordinary wonderful uses; it can be used as an offensive magic tool and also possesses partial defensive power. In addition, it can also be used for alchemy!"

"This cauldron comes from the hands of Elder Huyan Zhuo, a Core Formation True Person of Lin Tianfan City. It was originally intended to be refined into a magic treasure, but the recorded formations were not compatible, so the final product is top-grade."

"If there are fellow Daoists who are interested, you can participate in the bidding."

"Starting price, three thousand spirit stones!"

Following Luo Luo Tianhong's statement of the cauldron's origin, wonderful uses, and grade, some sounds arose at the scene.

But soon, it returned to silence.

This cauldron indeed has many wonderful uses, but to put it bluntly, the Yin Sixiang Cauldron is a jack-of-all-trades.

It touches on everything, but nothing is outstanding.

For Qi Refining cultivators who pursue single-target power, they don't like it.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators, only top-grade magic tools and magic treasures will make them tempted.

But in Box Number Eight, Luo Chen's eyes were shining.

"This item should belong to me!"

After saying that, he stared eagerly at Mi Mi Shuhua.

"Gang Leader, the Alchemy Hall still has an empty alchemy room!"

"If I have this cauldron, I can refine more elixirs for the gang every month, earn more spirit stones, and let the brothers eat and dress warmly in the cold winter."

"Gang Leader, this cauldron is not expensive, and there are very few bidders; we can't miss it."

"Opportunity knocks but once..."

Mi Mi Shuhua's face twitched; this damn tone was too familiar! ===== CHAPTER 106 =====

"Didn't Mi Mi Zifan suffer a crushing defeat on the Dao Discussion Platform last month against that abandoned son of the Duan family?"

"You make a trip, take that small gathering spirit array of his, and personally send it to Luo Chen. Just say that refining elixirs every day has dragged down his cultivation, and this small gathering spirit array is considered compensation."

Mi Mi Junping was stunned; even after Mi Mi Shuhua left, she hadn't recovered.

The Mi family had two gathering spirit arrays in total, and the larger one had always been used by Mi Mi Shuhua.

The other smaller one was usually provided to the most talented juniors in the clan.

She had enjoyed it back then, and her third sister had also enjoyed it.

It was a pity that none of the second generation of the Mi family were successful, and now that small gathering spirit array was basically used by the third generation of clansmen.

But now, Mi Mi Shuhua actually wanted to give the small gathering spirit array to Luo Chen?