Chapter 272

This time coming to Guiyun Market, Song Qingming also specially brought Shi Chun along to help.

He had once spent many years in Guiyun Market and was even more familiar with this place than Song Qingming. With him helping to lead the way, Song Qingming successfully found a shop that purchased second-tier talismans on the first day and sold many talismans.

On the second day, under Shi Chun's recommendation, Song Qingming came to a shop named Huanyun Pavilion again.

Just after entering, Song Qingming saw that there were several Foundation Establishment cultivators sitting in the main hall, seemingly waiting for something, and immediately felt a hint of surprise. This shop didn't look very conspicuous on the outside, and he didn't expect it to be able to attract so many Foundation Establishment cultivators at once.

Seeing Song Qingming walk in, two of them friendly cupped their hands towards him. Song Qingming hurriedly returned the salute upon seeing this, then looked around and didn't see any shop assistants entertaining them. Guessing that they should have gone to get things for these few people in front of him, he patiently stood on the side and waited.

Before long, a somewhat fat shopkeeper walked out from behind the curtain in the back hall. After shouting an apology to the few, he took out several bottles of elixirs and handed them to two of them. After the money and goods were cleared, those two also quickly left.

The shopkeeper turned around and looked at the other two who had greeted Song Qingming earlier, and said very politely: "Two Fellow Daoists, the time for this exchange meeting has already been determined, it will be at the Zi hour two days later. At that time, please remember to arrive on time." After finishing, the fat shopkeeper also stuffed a bag of spiritual tea into each of their hands.

"That's fine, we will take our leave first." Those two were not polite, directly putting the things the fat shopkeeper sent over into their own storage bags before cupping their hands to say goodbye and leaving.

After those two left, the fat shopkeeper turned his head and looked at Song Qingming, who was sitting alone on the side.

"This Fellow Daoist looks a bit unfamiliar. It should be your first time coming to my Huanyun Pavilion. I don't know what you want, please speak directly. We are specially entertaining Foundation Establishment cultivators here, and I guarantee you will be satisfied in a while."

Seeing that this fat shopkeeper was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, yet he was doing this kind of miscellaneous work of entertaining people with a licking smile like a small Qi Condensation cultivator, Song Qingming also felt a bit strange.

When he came, he only learned from Shi Chun that there were many second-tier spiritual items for sale in this Huanyun Pavilion, and he didn't know that this place was actually so different from other shops. He looked for a long time and it seemed that there was really not a single ordinary shop assistant, only this one Foundation Establishment cultivator acting as the shopkeeper himself, which truly shocked him a bit.

"Fellow Daoist, don't be anxious. My trip here is to ask if you purchase second-tier talismans here."

"Second-tier talismans are of course purchased, but it still depends on what kind of talismans you have in your hand. If it's the kind that I have enough stock of here, then I won't purchase them for the time being. We can make friends first and you can bring them over later."

Hearing that Song Qingming came to sell talismans, the fat shopkeeper immediately lost more than half of his interest, but he still politely let Song Qingming take out the talismans to have a look first.

Song Qingming's attitude towards him was also within his expectations. After all, although they were second-tier talismans, they were not rare items in such a large market. If you shouted a few times on the street, you might be able to call over several second-tier talisman makers.

After carefully taking out five or six talismans of all kinds, Song Qingming narrowed his eyes and said: "Please have a look, Fellow Daoist. If you like them, I have more on me."

The fat shopkeeper picked up the talismans and looked at them casually, then immediately changed his expression. After a while, he picked out one talisman from inside and handed it back to Song Qingming, smiling and saying: "I have enough stock of this talisman here. As for the others, no matter how many you have, Fellow Daoist, I want them all. Don't worry about the price; what I give here will definitely be the highest in Guiyun Market."

Hearing this, Song Qingming immediately breathed a sigh of relief and happily took out more than a dozen talismans and handed them to the fat shopkeeper.

"There are only so many for the time being. You give a price here, I still need to purchase some elixirs."

In fact, Song Qingming had more than these dozen on him. The reason he said so was that Song Qingming didn't want to attract too much attention from others, so as not to bring himself unnecessary trouble.

Sure enough, when the fat shopkeeper heard Song Qingming say this, he immediately shifted his attention to promoting his own elixirs. Just like that, after a deal, Song Qingming had more than a thousand spirit stones on him, as well as several bottles of elixirs needed for cultivation.

"Fellow Daoist Zhan, what is the exchange meeting you mentioned to people earlier? Can you tell me about it?" After the transaction was completed, Song Qingming turned around and asked before leaving.

During the transaction just now, this fat shopkeeper had already told Song Qingming his name and also told him that this Huanyun Pavilion was opened by him alone and he hadn't hired any other cultivator assistants.

This shop used to do some business with Qi Condensation cultivators. More than ten years ago, the few small Qi Condensation assistants he hired conspired to steal several of his spiritual items and ran away together when he wasn't paying attention. Although these few things were not very valuable, it made him no longer like to trust the assistants below. Later, he simply dismissed all the assistants and only did business with Foundation Establishment cultivators.

When the fat shopkeeper heard Song Qingming ask about the exchange meeting, his eyes lit up and he replied: "This was organized by me and several Fellow Daoists together. Only cultivators above Foundation Establishment can participate. There are only a dozen people in total. If you are interested, Fellow Daoist, you can also come together. It's just that this exchange meeting is held here at my place. We don't extract commissions, but each person has to pay a fee of ten spirit stones to participate once. This can be considered paying a little venue fee."

"So, can I participate too?"

"As long as you have my recommendation, Fellow Daoist, it will naturally be no problem. This exchange meeting of ours will be held every few months. If you live in Guiyun Market for a long time, Fellow Daoist, participating in our exchange meeting can help you get to know many like-minded people, which is also an extremely beneficial thing for you." Seeing that Song Qingming was somewhat interested, the fat shopkeeper hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and cajoled a few words.

"What you said makes some sense, Fellow Daoist. I will definitely not miss this exchange meeting. At that time, please help me introduce and introduce." Song Qingming nodded and agreed.

"You can rest assured about this. The exchange meeting will start on time at the Zi hour two days later. As long as you come, Fellow Daoist, I will naturally not refuse. At that time, you will know, Fellow Daoist."

"Having said that, then many thanks to Fellow Daoist Zhan. I will definitely arrive here on time." After Song Qingming finished speaking, he cupped his hands and walked out of Huanyun Pavilion happily under the fat shopkeeper's enthusiastic farewell.

After returning to the rented cave dwelling, it wasn't long before Shi Chun, who had been running around all day, also returned. Seeing Song Qingming, he gently shook his head and sat on the side.

This time coming to Guiyun Market, besides letting Shi Chun help find a place to purchase talismans, Song Qingming also gave him a task: to inquire if Huang Siyuan had come here.

(End of chapter)