Chen Mobai seemed to be having a streak of good luck recently.
In the Nanxi market, his talismans had opened up a new market. After returning to Di Yuan Star, Qing Nv also brought good news.
The Baoping Pharmacy had an unused alchemy room, fully equipped with a medicinal pool and other facilities, ready to start producing Qi Refining Spirit Water again.
This news greatly relieved Chen Mobai.
Without this Spirit Water, his cultivation speed had significantly slowed down, leaving him, who was used to high efficiency, a bit at a loss.
However, after Qing Nv started the second production of Qi Refining Spirit Water, Chen Mobai faced another problem.
Where would he get the Good Deeds for the next purchase of main and auxiliary medicines?
Although he currently had 24 spirit stones, he was a bit hesitant to go to the bank to exchange spirit stones for Good Deeds.
The production of a mid-level first-order Qi Refining Spirit Water would take about five days.
The alchemy room rented from Baoping Pharmacy was for a month. Qing Nv suggested that it would be best to make full use of it, buy more medicinal materials, and within this month, produce enough Qi Refining Spirit Water to support Chen Mobai’s cultivation to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
According to Qing Nv’s efficiency, at least three more sets of medicinal materials were needed.
Chen Mobai thought and thought, but in the end, he had no good solution. He could only take a spirit stone, go to the Wuxing Sect’s silver shop in Nanxi market to exchange for gold, and then find Wu Wan.
“The quality of the gold is the same, but I can only buy the same amount as last time, which is 40 pieces, priced at 4300 Good Deeds.”
After Wu Wan weighed and measured the purity, he looked at the hundred gold bars in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and decided to be a good person, only taking 40 of them.
“Oh, Master Wu, what do you mean by this?”
Chen Mobai was a bit confused and asked.
“You know, gold is a resource controlled by the Immortal Gate. All of us gold shops have registered with the Immortal Commerce Bureau. Before we get our business licenses, we were told that if the same person trades gold with us for more than 10,000 Good Deeds, we need to report to the market supervision department and the law enforcement police department.”
After Wu Wan finished speaking, Chen Mobai broke out in a cold sweat.
“Thank you, Master Wu.”
He thanked Wu Wan solemnly. The latter waved his hand lightly, put on gloves, put the 40 gold bars on the scale into his safe, and then transferred 4300 Good Deeds to Chen Mobai via mobile phone.
“You have traded gold with me twice, and you are only 4850 points away from the 10,000 Good Deeds limit. If you really lack Good Deeds, I can buy 5 more, just within the limit of 10,000.”
“But if the Immortal Commerce Bureau randomly checks my small shop’s accounts at the end of the year, your transaction that just hits the 10,000 Good Deeds limit will be too conspicuous and may be targeted for investigation.”
“So my suggestion is to trade 40 pieces this time. Even if I am selected for inspection, I have several customers like you. After doing the account books and tax bills, the Immortal Gate will basically turn a blind eye.”
After failing to establish his foundation, Wu Wan seemed to have seen through it and seemed to be ready to devote himself to appraisal and business. So he began to treat people sincerely, carefully instructed Chen Mobai on trading gold, and actively reminded him.
“Of course, if you are in a hurry to use Good Deeds, I can introduce you to some of my colleagues. You just need to be careful not to exceed 10,000 Good Deeds. However, if you, a new face, go to trade gold, some bosses will report to the Immortal Gate just in case.”
After hearing this, Chen Mobai was very scared.
His stuff was a bit shady to begin with. If he was really targeted by the relevant departments of the Immortal Gate, it would be disastrous.
“I forgot to mention, if you register a company, you can avoid this limit of 10,000. Then our transactions will be on a business-to-business basis. At the end of the year when points are returned, there will even be discounts.”
Wu Wan suggested another method, but Chen Mobai immediately shook his head.
He was only eighteen years old. If he rashly registered a company specifically for gold trading, wouldn’t that attract more attention?
Before leaving, Chen Mobai thanked Wu Wan again, and at the same time, he gave up the idea of exchanging gold from the Tianhe Realm.
Since it didn’t work here, he could try the idea he had before.
Nanxi market.
Dressed in ancient-style clothes, Chen Mobai walked into a shop opened by a local cultivation family.
Due to its location on the edge of the Dream Swamp, Yun Country was rich in spiritual energy. Many cultivation families relied on water veins to open medicinal fields, which could be used to cultivate alchemists and also sold to large alchemy sects like Huitian Valley.
Moreover, after cultivating thousand-year-old spiritual medicines, they could exchange them for Foundation Establishment Pills, so basically, the cultivation families here would open a medicinal field as a family heirloom.
But Huitian Valley only accepted high-quality medicinal materials, so a lot of low-grade medicinal materials harvested after maturation fell into the local market shops for sale.
This three-story shop called “Four Qi Pavilion” was one of the four Foundation Establishment families in the market, the Lou family’s business.
Chen Mobai heard from Qing Nv that medicinal materials have four different medicinal properties: cold, hot, warm, and cool, called Four Qi. The name of this shop probably came from this.
“Are you buying spiritual herbs or spiritual pills?”
As soon as he entered the door, a beautiful female cultivator at the third level of Qi Refining greeted him. She looked at Chen Mobai’s exquisite clothes and smiled.
“I have three types of herbs that my elders need for alchemy, but I don’t know what they are. Can you help me see if you have them here?”
Chen Mobai took out the three main medicines for refining Qi Refining Spirit Water from Qing Nv and handed them to the female cultivator of the Four Qi Pavilion. She nodded, took a tray to receive the medicinal materials.
“These are Baiji, Chuidu Grass, and Zheri, three very common spiritual herbs. We have them all in our shop. How much do you need?”
The female cultivator seemed to know a lot about medicinal materials. After carefully looking, smelling, and touching, she smiled and named three medicinal materials that were completely different from those on Di Yuan Star.
“How much do they cost?””These are the most common medicinal herbs, but they start at one spirit stone per pound, and the price is the same for all three types.”
Chen Mobai did some calculations. One pound of medicinal herbs could be refined five times. Even if Qing Nv could only successfully produce ten tubes each time, it would be enough to support his cultivation to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
The price was completely acceptable. With these, he only needed to buy four kinds of auxiliary herbs from Di Yuan Star.
“Then let’s buy a pound of each first.”
Upon hearing this, the beautiful female cultivator’s smile remained unchanged, and she immediately invited Chen Mobai to the second floor.
Only after listening to her introduction did he learn that the second floor was where spirit herbs and medicinal herbs were sold. The third floor was where their family’s self-refined spirit pills were sold. They had just stocked a new batch of Spirit Gathering Pills and wanted to promote them to see if Chen Mobai was interested.
However, the spirit pills in the Tianhe Realm were all over the standard for pill toxicity. Chen Mobai dared not buy them. After taking the medicinal herbs and paying the spirit stones, he left directly.