Mysterious Enemy, Making a Small Profit

Chapter 51 Mysterious Enemy, Making a Small Profit

Hongyafang Market.

After being given the task of scouting information outside the shop, Zhou Chun was able to leave the shop openly and legitimately to wander around the street markets and other places.

So for the next two weeks, he would go out for most of the day every day, both to find out what people were saying about the Crimson Iron Mine in the market and to keep an eye out for the spiritual herbs that appeared on the street stalls.

Over the course of half a month, he not only relayed all the intelligence he had gathered back to his family, but also acquired several good medicinal herbs at the street market.

Judging from the news in the market, the independent cultivators don't really care whether the Crimson Iron Mine belongs to the five major immortal cultivation families or other forces, since it's impossible for it to belong to them.

Therefore, the independent cultivators basically had a "let's have some fun" mentality, hoping that other forces would fight against the five major cultivation families, and that more people would die on both sides.

This is actually a good thing for the five major cultivation families.

At least we don't have to worry about these independent cultivators causing trouble in this matter.

However, to Zhou Chun's surprise, just a few days after he sent the intelligence he had gathered back to his family, a force secretly made a move against the five major cultivation families.

To be precise, they made a move against the Zhou family!

Suddenly, a group of rogue cultivators who went to the Zhou family to cultivate were ambushed by a mysterious force, resulting in many deaths and injuries.

As a result, the independent cultivators who had originally settled around the Zhou family to cultivate no longer dared to go to the Zhou family to cultivate.

The retreat of these rogue cultivators will not only reduce the spiritual coins earned by the Zhou family, but will also have a greater impact on the task of guarding the Jingling Pavilion.

With the help of independent cultivators, the Zhou family only needed to assign two of the three cultivators guarding the Pure Spirit Pavilion to Zhou family cultivators, which would allow many Zhou family cultivators to have more time to do other things.

However, now that the rogue cultivators no longer dare to go to the Zhou family to cultivate, without these rogue cultivators helping to guard the Pure Spirit Pavilion, most of the Zhou family's cultivators will be trapped there and unable to do anything else.

"The enemy's advance is fierce; it seems the entire independent cultivator community in Lanzhou has received a warning, and no one dares to cultivate at our Zhou family's place anymore!"

"The clan chief has ordered the entire clan to prepare for battle and has temporarily prohibited clan members from leaving the mountains to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation."

"From now on, Eagle News will also be suspended for our shop. Everything will be based on the instructions of the clan leader and elders."

Inside the Spirit Beast Pavilion, Zhou Jiasheng, with a gloomy face, conveyed intelligence information from his family to Zhou Chun.

The Zhou family of Jiufengling is now just getting on the right track and is about to make a big splash in their business by taking advantage of the newly discovered Chiyao iron ore vein.

But then this unexpected blow came.

How could an elder like Zhou Jiasheng be in a good mood?

Zhou Chun was also in a bad mood, but he still asked, "You still don't know who the enemy is? To be able to issue a warning to all the independent cultivators in Lanzhou, making them dare not associate with my Zhou family anymore, such a force in Lanzhou must be no ordinary force!"

"The clan chief did not explain, so it is probably still under investigation."

Zhou Jiasheng shook his head, then gritted his teeth and said, "But foxes always show their tails eventually; they can't hide for long!"

Zhou Chun agreed with this point.

Since the enemy has taken action against the Zhou family, it certainly won't be as simple as just prohibiting rogue cultivators from going to the Zhou family to cultivate. There will definitely be other tricks they use later.

At that point, his identity will no longer be able to be concealed.

He immediately changed the subject and asked, "Does the clan leader have any tasks assigned to us?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jiasheng immediately replied, "The clan leader instructed us to temporarily suspend the acquisition of ordinary spiritual items and only purchase century-old spiritual herbs. We will use the spiritual coins we earn to purchase talismans and magical artifacts to strengthen the clan's reserves of war materials!"

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "This matter still needs to be handled by me personally. From now on, you will be in charge of the shop, greeting the customers who come to shop and politely persuading those who come to sell their goods to leave!"

"I understand, nephew."

Zhou Chun nodded, agreeing with mixed feelings of worry and joy.

Next, Zhou Jiapeng withdrew over 90% of the spirit coins in the shop's account and went out to various shops to slowly select and purchase magic talismans, magic tools, and other treasures.

Zhou Chun was stationed in the store, responsible for selling goods and recouping funds.

That day, when Zhou Chun was guarding the shop alone, a middle-aged man in blue suddenly entered the shop.

Upon seeing this person, his instinct was to first check the other person's cultivation level.

As a result, just as her divine sense was about to make contact with the other party, it was blocked by a much stronger divine sense.

Foundation Establishment stage cultivator!

Zhou Chun was startled and quickly bowed to the man, apologizing, "This junior was impetuous and offended you, senior. Please forgive me."

The man in blue didn't seem to care about that; he simply frowned and looked at him, asking, "Young man, are you the manager of this shop?"

"Senior, please understand that I am not the shop owner, but merely a shop assistant."

Zhou Chun answered the man in blue's question with a respectful expression.

Before the man in blue could speak, he quickly added, "However, this shop is owned by my family, and in the absence of the manager, I have the right to make all the decisions regarding the shop's affairs."

"Really? Do you have any snake-shaped branches that are over a hundred years old for sale?"

The man in blue glanced at Zhou Chun and said in a deep voice the purpose of his visit.

They weren't there to buy ordinary goods, but rather to buy elixirs.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun knew that he urgently needed snake branches that were over a hundred years old to be used in medicine, which was why he used this most rudimentary method of asking and buying from shop to shop.

What pleased Zhou Chun was that he had recently acquired a section of snake-shaped branch that was over a hundred years old from a street market.

He immediately smiled and said, "Senior, you've come at the perfect time! Our shop does indeed have a section of snake-coiled branch that's over 150 years old, and it's already been purified!"

"Really? Show it to me, Mr. Yang!!"

The man in blue was delighted and hurriedly stretched out his hand in front of Zhou Chun, urging him to take out the item.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun didn't dare to delay and quickly took out the wooden box containing the snake-coiled branch from his storage bag.

Snapped!

The man in blue eagerly opened the wooden box and took out a nearly two-foot-long dark blue-green tree branch, examining it closely.

After examining it for a moment, he nodded in satisfaction and said, "Not bad, it is indeed a snake-coiled branch that is over 150 years old."

Then he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Name your price, I want this."

"Senior, you are wise. Logically speaking, the snake-coiled branch is not a particularly precious medicinal herb; it is merely rare and hard to find. It shouldn't be sold at such a high price!"

"However, things are valued for their rarity. The conditions for this item to form are complex, and it is often easily destroyed or overlooked by cultivators who do not know its value. Therefore, it is really not easy to find a snake-coiled branch of this age."

"Therefore, our shop prices this item at one hundred and twenty spirit coins. We will not sell it for less than this price!"

At this point, Zhou Chun cautiously glanced up at the man in blue and quickly added, "Of course, if you think this price is too high, you can wait for our manager to return. He might give you a discount then."

"Let's waive the discount. One hundred and twenty spirit coins are a bit expensive, but I'm not so poor that I can't even afford that many spirit coins."

The man in blue glanced at him, then immediately picked up the wooden box and put it into his storage bag. He then took out one hundred and twenty spirit coins and threw them on the counter.

"Please count the spirit coins. If there are no problems, I'll be leaving."

Zhou Chun didn't stand on ceremony. He immediately released his divine sense to scan all the spirit coins, then said with a smile, "The spirit coins are fine. Please take care, senior."

After the man in blue left, he quickly put all the spirit coins into his storage bag, his face beaming with joy.

We made a fortune this time!

He bought that snake-coiled branch for a mere twenty-five spirit coins.

Now, by simply reselling it, you can make several times the profit!

Sure enough, he was right. That purifying stone jar was his treasure trove, capable of continuously accumulating wealth for him.

This is definitely not an isolated case.

As long as he stays in the market and in the Zhou family's shop, he will definitely encounter many more opportunities like this in the future.

Perhaps in the future, even without the help of his family, he will be able to earn enough spirit coins to buy those spirit items that assist in foundation building!

(End of this chapter)