Chapter IX The Three Major Chambers of Commerce
On the second day, before dawn, Liangchen got up to practice, and for twelve weeks, a trace of cool qi slowly condensed in the limbs and hundreds of acupoints, and finally slowly converged into a drop of nectar and fell in the dantian.
Liangchen seemed to feel that his mana had increased a little, but he didn't feel any joy.
Because he knew that this little bit of mana that he had worked so hard to cultivate would disappear without realizing it!
He also once thought, "Since cultivation has mana growth, as long as you keep cultivating, can you stop the mana from disappearing?"
So he practiced day and night for four days and three nights, and it did have some effect.
But when he fell asleep and woke up, all the mana he had worked so hard for days was gone!
This made him very discouraged!
But after all these years of exploration, he found a pattern,
If you don't cultivate, your mana will disappear faster, and if you cultivate diligently, although the realm will not increase, the speed of mana disappearing will slow down slightly.
So in the past few years, he has never given up cultivation, and deliberately shortened the rest time gradually, from the previous three hours to the current only two hours of rest.
Otherwise, it is estimated that he would have become a mortal by now, and he would have no mana at all!
Liangchen got up, and the sky outside was only slightly bright, and the peach trees, stone tables, and eaves were full of shadows, all blue-black.
He took out his pale cyan sword and began to practice the swordsmanship he had learned in the small courtyard.
Because of his mana, many of the slightly high-level moves were in vain and had no lethality, but he still barely danced everything he knew.
After practicing a few sets of swordsmanship, a ray of foil golden sunlight slowly shone on the eaves of the two-story small roof, and the sky was already bright.
There were bursts of footsteps on the street, the sound of "squeak" shop openings, the sound of neighbors saying hello, the barking of domestic dogs, the roaring of pet animals, and the chirping of birds.
The quiet streets are slowly starting to come alive.
"Squeak-" With a sound, Ah Hu, who lived in the east, pushed the door out, saw Liangchen who had just received the sword, and said hello with a smile,
"I woke up so early, didn't I sleep well yesterday?"
"I slept okay, but I was looking forward to walking around today, so I got up early. Liangchen also replied with a smile.
"When I first came, you were like this, and you couldn't sleep soundly. But it's the same everywhere after staying for a long time!" Ah Hu said as he walked to the front room, opened the door of the shop, and began to organize some items.
While chatting, the door on the second floor opened, Uncle Ye slowly went downstairs, looked at Liangchen in the middle of the courtyard and asked:
"The nephew is still used to living?"
"Uncle Ye is early, the habit of living, young people are fresh everywhere, there is nothing not used to. Liangchen replied.
"I'll tell you about the general situation of this Demon Dragon Village first, and then I'll take you out and walk around. Uncle Ye said with a smile.
Under the peach tree, a pot of spiritual tea was brewed, and Uncle Ye and Ye Liangchen briefly talked about the situation in Demon Dragon City.
The Magic Dragon City is oval-shaped, with seven main streets in three horizontal and four vertical, dozens of other small streets, and thousands of shops, large and small.
There is a nine-story bluestone castle in the center of the city, which is where the city lord lives and the tallest building in the Demon Dragon Village.
The lord of the Demon Dragon City is called the Sorrowful Firmament, the cultivation of the Yuan Infant Period, a body of unfathomable supernatural powers, a person with eight faces, and a person who gives the nickname Sky Old Monster, it is said that the power behind it is huge.
His subordinates raised a group of silver-armored soldiers, responsible for the security of the walled city, most of them were some outlaws and wanted criminals who absconded here and were recruited by the old monster of the sky for their own use.
Most of the shops in the central part are inextricably linked with the city lord, and most of the streets in the southeast of the city are shops of the Chamber of Commerce, the northeast is the sphere of influence of Yunmengguo, the northwest is the sphere of influence of the Spirit Sect, and the southwest is the scope of the Sword Sect.
There are many tent areas around the main wall, and some alien races with exaggerated shapes and unique living habits are inhabited.
In the southeast section of the city wall, there is also an area for loose repairs or rangers to set up stalls.
If you feel that the price given by your shop is unfair, you can go directly here and hand over a few pieces of spiritual gold to the guards, and then set up a stall to buy and sell at a price, so many discerning merchants often gather here to come to Taobao.
After Uncle Ye finished talking about the general situation, he took Liangchen out of the store.
The Ye family's weapon shop, in the southwest, belongs to the Sword Sect area. Most of the surrounding areas are dominated by weapons, and weapons are divided into magic weapons, spiritual treasures, and mysterious treasures.
The magic weapon is the most commonly used weapon for immortal cultivators, and it has various powers by injecting mana, and it is divided into three categories: upper grade, middle grade, and lower grade due to different qualities.
Lingbao is different, this kind of treasure has a certain unique spirituality, such as magnification, acceleration or space, transformation and other peculiar attributes, because of its different power is also divided into upper grade, middle grade, lower grade.
Generally, high-level immortal cultivators choose this kind of weapon according to the characteristics of their own exercises.
The Xuanbao, regardless of rank, usually has the ability to communicate with nature and immortal cultivators, because of its complex process and rare materials, it is extremely rare to appear in the world, and many refining masters cannot refine one piece with all their life's work.
But all the refiners who can practice the treasure are called giants in the world. There are only a few dozen famous giants in this world, and there are only a few people alive. The treasures refined all have the power to open the world, and of course, these treasures are also in the hands of the major forces.
Most of the Ye family's weapons are magic weapons, and there are also a few low-grade spirit treasures as treasures of the town, but most of the main customers are some low-level immortal cultivators.
There are mostly weapon shops around the Ye family's shop, and there is no shortage of refining masters, and there are all kinds of magic weapons.
However, the Ye family's weapon shop is cheap and has a good reputation among many low-level cultivators, so business has always been okay.
Go out and turn right, a street, people come and go, both sides are the most sword weapons, and occasionally there are other armor shops and pill material stores.
As I walked, the Dan Pharmacy material stores gradually increased, and the types of weapons became more diverse.
"This is the area of the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce has a presence on all continents and is well-informed, and they generally cooperate and form alliances to transport magic weapon materials from all over the world, and then purchase scarce materials from here and ship them out.
On the one hand, it provides convenience, but on the other hand, it also monopolizes the price of most commonly used materials.
Because of this, some people get rare materials and buy and sell them themselves in the small squares of the city walls, or sell them elsewhere. Uncle Ye introduced as he walked.
....
"Look at that shop. ”
Liangchen looked in the direction of Uncle Ye's finger, a six-story pavilion, carved beams and painted buildings, very magnificent.
Two green jade lions stand on both sides of the gate, and there is a couplet hanging on the pillar next to the door.
On the right is written "Collect all things on the earth", and on the left is "Sell the treasures of the world".
The horizontal plaque on the top of the building has three big characters written in golden grass "Wanbao Pavilion"!
"What a big breath!" Liangchen couldn't help but sigh.
"We have three major chambers of commerce in the Zhongzhou Continent, namely Wanbao Pavilion, Xianrenlou and Ludao Society, their power is all over the place, and they even have branches in the Southern Wilderness, and this Wanbao Pavilion is one of the three major chambers of commerce.
The Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion enshrines many refining masters, and according to legend, as long as you can prepare enough materials and give you a starting price, Xuanbao can also make it for you!"
"Xuanbao can also be made?!Won't it!" Liangchen exclaimed!
This is also the slogan they boast to the outside world, and outsiders don't know whether they can make it or not. ”
"Besides, how can the materials for refining Xuanbao be easily obtained!" Uncle Ye explained.
The two talked as they walked, and after a while, they came to another small building shaped like an octagonal pagoda.
There are seven floors in the building, one floor is higher, each floor decreases upward, and the door on the first floor has three silver seal characters "Immortal Building"!
"This is the Immortal Building, one of the three major chambers of commerce in Zhongzhou, that I told you. In particular, it is famous for selling pills in the mainland, and all kinds of quality pills can be bought, but the price is expensive, and sometimes special items need to be exchanged.
Most of the elders in the Chamber of Commerce are alchemy masters, and they basically have transactions with major forces.
Another heron island will start from a small island in the west, which is full of egrets, and is known as Egret Island in the world. Most of the people on the island have been in business for generations, and later they became bigger and bigger, and gradually formed the Heron Island Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce sells everything, although it is not as professional as the other two chambers of commerce in refining and alchemy, but the collection of various precious materials and exercises is above the Immortal Building and the Wanbao Pavilion. Uncle Ye said slowly.
"In front of it is the Sagishima Kai shop. ”
As he spoke, he saw a three-story wooden building appear at the corner, a bronze plaque above the gate, on which a small island was embossed, and a few long-legged egrets were standing.
A large piece of animal skin at the door reads: "Collect and sell all kinds of medicinal materials, ores, demon beast materials, and long-term high prices for poisonous scorpion tails and flowery spider teeth." ”
"Uncle Ye, why is it that the various materials have been written in the front, and the names of the two materials are written separately in the back?" asked Liangchen.
"In this case, it is generally someone who refines the elixir magic weapon, or cultivates a certain kind of exercise, and urgently needs a few materials, so he entrusts the chamber of commerce to collect it at a high price. If you have this kind of material in your hand and sell it here, the price should be several percent or even several times higher than usual!" Uncle Ye explained.
"I see!"
"Turn right in front and you'll get to the small square of the city wall, let's go to the small square to have a look. ”
Liangchen followed Uncle Ye around the corner, crossed two more intersections, and came to a relatively wide place.
I saw that along the city wall, one black animal skin after another was endless, arranged into a long snake, stretching for several miles. Next to the hides are sellers, either sitting on the ground or standing against the wall.
Some of the hides are surrounded by a group of people to bargain, while others are left unattended.
"The stalls here are all items that have not been negotiated in the store, or that the store does not accept. They handed over a few pieces of gold at the guard, and exchanged it for a numbered hide, which they could put here for a day. Uncle Ye said as he walked.
Ye Liangchen stared at the animal skins as he walked, some put three or two pieces, some put a bunch of things, and some put one thing.
Most of the hides are filled with strange objects.
Some are a few unknown herbs, some are incomplete bronze medals, some are a few strangely shaped animal bones, as well as magic weapons, elixirs, books, and even a human-faced monkey and a few spotted spiders squatting on the skin!
It's basically a rare thing that Liangchen has never heard of or seen!
There are so many rare things, so he stops and stops all the way.
Sometimes I stopped and watched, sometimes I squatted down to ask a few words, and when I reached the end of the walk, it took more than an hour!
"Uncle Ye, this is really an eye-opener. In the past, I only knew about cultivation, but this time I know that there are no wonders in the world!" Liangchen sighed.
"Nephew, I led you on this trip, on the one hand, I want you to familiarize yourself with the environment, and on the other hand, I want to broaden your horizons, and I hope you will not lose confidence. You must know that in this world, there is not only one way to practice, refining weapons, refining pills and taming beasts, even if you do business to the extreme, you can dominate one side and achieve the avenue. Uncle Ye said slowly, and his sincere words moved Liangchen greatly.
"My nephew understands, thank you Uncle Ye for your advice. Liangchen responded gratefully.
Next, the two of them walked around a few other places, until the sun went down and the colorful glow was gone.