Professionals of the Starry Skies - Chapter 574

Chapter 574 Caravan

A convoy was winding its way forward.

The carriages in this caravan are pulled by ‘Dragon Scale Horses’, a kind of hybrid monster horse with several scales on its ribs, which is said to have great endurance.

The carriage at the back was filled with various items.

In addition to daily necessities, there are also rare objects, books, magical instruments and the like for spiritual practice, which are so full of spiritual light that it is a feast for the eyes.

Seen from the air, this convoy was not moving in a straight line, but rather twisting and turning. Sometimes there was a flat land in front of it, but it had to make a big circle.

This is naturally because what looks like land ahead is actually a dark swamp, and once you step in, you may be trapped in it.

There are even some places that are deliberately avoided, because they are either the nests of monsters or the place where some horrible poisonous creatures are found.

Finally, a slope appeared in front of us, and the shadows of bamboos could be vaguely seen.

“We have finally reached this damn place… We don’t need to consume any more poison-repelling pills… These green spirit bamboos have brought us immeasurable merits…”

A young manager in the caravan sighed, “Apart from this place, only the Fei family has this kind of skill. Purification with spiritual plants is a hundred-year plan… The Xu family, the Yin family, and the White Bone Alliance are all on the wrong path. The Song family is okay, but the ‘Fish Fouling Willow’ they planted is still a few years away from being truly useful. At present, they still need to use formations to support it. Almost all the harvest from raising shellfish has been spent on it… From this point of view, the Song family’s spiritual plants are far inferior to those of the Poison Dragon Slope…”

“Sixteenth brother, what you said makes sense.”

The leader of the Qiao family caravan was named Qiao Wuyong. He looked at his younger brother. He brought him along on this business trip to learn more. “Then in your opinion, Poison Dragon Slope will definitely develop better than Green Water Bank in the future?”

The Sixteenth Brother thought about it and shook his head: “I just said that the Poison Dragon Hill Spiritual Plant is good… The Seven Heroes of the Song Family are actually very similar to the Five Friends of Floating Clouds. They are all sworn brothers, but the Seven Heroes of the Song Family have all changed their surnames to Song and established the Song Family, while the Five Friends of Floating Clouds are still a group of scattered sands, and there is one who is still away. It’s okay now, but after two or three generations, it will definitely be bad without a big change… and it will be too late to integrate by then.”

“Not bad, not bad…” Qiao Wuyong nodded repeatedly: “As merchants, we must have good relations with local households in every place… In Qingli Swamp, the first family we need to have a good relationship with is the Fei family. The other five families are currently asking us for something, and that’s why we can offer high prices and make huge profits… If there are potential for development, we can’t offend them too much, otherwise it will be embarrassing in the future.”

“So, for the sake of future long-term income, we can appropriately lower our current income?” Sixteenth brother’s eyes lit up.

“Hehe, no matter how much pressure there is, you still have to make money, and it has to be a big profit! Otherwise, who would do this business?”

Qiao Wuyong jumped off the dragon-scale horse and stretched.

In order to travel around doing business, the caravan must be protected by experts.

He himself is not a mediocre person either, he has the seventh level of Qi cultivation!
When Qiao Wuyong came to the front of the convoy, he saw a group of people coming from the direction of Dulong Slope. The leader had a head full of white hair and was dressed like a wealthy man. He immediately stepped forward and bowed, smiling, “I am ashamed to trouble Mr. Lu to come and welcome you personally.”

“Haha, Master Qiao, you are too polite. Master Qiao brought countless resources to Poison Dragon Slope. I just personally welcomed him. What does it matter?”

As the saying goes, the place you live in changes your mood and the food you take changes your body. Today, Old Lu no longer looks the poor and downtrodden man he used to be in the market town. Instead, he has a more elegant air.

“I have already prepared a banquet, please come!”

Old Lu immediately invited Qiao Wuyong and several caravan managers into a retreat at Dongfeng Mountain.

This is also where large trades take place.

In addition, the caravans also started to set up stalls, shout and sell, or buy…

This is just some scattered business, and some of the items are smuggled by the caravan members themselves.

Some monks joined the caravan without even receiving a salary. They just earned money by traveling around with their own goods.

They even traveled long distances in caravans and received work as payment.

…

In the hall.

After the banquet, Old Lu asked the maid to serve tea.

Qiao Wuyong looked around and asked curiously, “Why is Fellow Daoist Song? Fellow Daoist Fang is not here? The “Qi Refining Righteousness” that Fellow Daoist Song asked me to buy last time… has not been handed over yet?”

“Fifth sister is at home, teaching Yunyun to read…”

Old Lu sighed, “My sister-in-law is good in every way, except that she treats my daughter like the apple of her eye. I’m sorry to make you laugh. Fellow Daoist Fang Xingfang doesn’t like crowds. If you want to start a bamboo paper and bamboo strip business, you can go to the bamboo forest to find him.”

“I see. Brother Song has a deep love for his daughter. I have always admired him.”

A gleam of light flashed in Qiao Wuyong’s eyes. He then discussed several large transactions with Old Lu and asked Old Lu to pass on the books. Then he came to the bamboo forest.

…

rustle!

The swaying shadows of the bamboos bring a sense of tranquility and peace, making people forget their worries at the first sight.

As soon as Qiao Wuyong arrived here, he saw a black snake as thick as a bucket crawling out.

“A demon beast at the advanced stage of sensing qi!”

He and several other managers were shocked, and then they heard Fang Xing’s voice: “It turns out that it’s Qiao the manager who’s here.”

“Fang Daoyou…you?”

Qiao Wuyong looked at Fang Xing, somewhat doubtful: “Could it be that there has been another breakthrough in cultivation?”

The mutual strength of the Qi realms is very vague, unless one practices some special Sky Eye magic.

However, Qiao Wuyong has traveled all over the country, so he must have practiced.

At this time, he discovered that Fang Xing was unusual. His aura was extremely vigorous, lush, and condensed into a snake shape!
“Yes, there has been a slight breakthrough in Qi refining recently…”

Fang Xing admitted it with a smile, which immediately made Qiao Wuyong much more serious.

Among the five families that opened up the Qingli Swamp, each of them actually only had one or two people with the seventh level of Qi Sense combat power.

Especially the people in Poison Dragon Hill, who initially relied entirely on the island-guarding sacred beasts to hold the fort, until later when the evil points were opened up and Old Lu spent a lot of money to buy a breakthrough elixir, which allowed Tie Luo Sanren to advance to the seventh level of Qi Sensing.

But now?
‘Poison Dragon Hill actually has three powerful warriors at the end of the Qi Sensing Realm. If it weren’t for the pressure from the Fei Family, they would have probably already started trying to annex the other families…’

Qiao Wuyong thought to himself.

Weakness, infighting… they are nothing in front of absolute power!

There are three realms of Qi perception in Poison Dragon Hill, and the Song family has only one, so Poison Dragon Hill has a better future!

Fang Xing didn’t think too much about it and took Qiao Wuyong to a warehouse where there were stacks of ready-made bamboo paper.

These bamboo papers are pure white in color with a faint green glow. They can be cut and used to make talisman papers, or they can be used to practice the art of origami.

The art of origami is widely spread. Although the Blood Shadow Sect’s is the most authentic, the independent practitioners outside also know a few basic techniques.

Just like the techniques of alchemy and talisman drawing, both righteous and evil cultivators are involved.

In addition, there are bundles of bamboo strips, which can be used as the skeleton when making paper figures.

Fang Xing was not worried that these goods would flow to the Blood Shadow Sect. Not to mention the long journey, he was not afraid of aiding the enemy.

Because the Blood Shadow Sect’s ‘blood paper’ is much stronger than bamboo paper, even the talisman paper made of talisman money is better than bamboo paper.

What’s more, the Blood Shadow Sect is one of the top ten sects of good and evil, and there is no telling how many Yin Gods there are in the sect. Would they care about some resources in the Qi Sense Realm?

“Not bad, not bad, brother. Your bamboo paper and bamboo strips are of good quality and low price… They are selling well everywhere.”

Qiao Wuyong smiled and said, “Give me another hundred healing berries. It’s a pity that your berries have a limited shelf life, otherwise we would be able to sell as many as you give us!”

Fang Xing smiled but said nothing. In fact, he had already developed some ideas for the corresponding “berry wine”.

However, the same thing applies. It’s okay to do small things, but if you really produce it, you will be stealing the jobs of those senior alchemists and may also attract Qingmuling’s attention. When you don’t have enough strength, you can’t do such a conspicuous thing.

“According to the previous negotiation, bamboo paper costs ten coins per piece, and bamboo strips cost five coins per bundle. The total is…”

Qiao Wuyong counted the inventory and reported a number.

After listening to this, Fang Xing nodded in agreement.

This price is definitely cheaper than selling it in the market. After all, they are buying it at home, so you have to make some profit for them.

“Any news about the things I asked Master Qiao to keep an eye out for last time?”

Fang Xing asked casually.

“Of course.”

Qiao Wuyong answered solemnly and took out a gray animal skin bag from his arms: “This is a ‘flying squirrel bag’, made from the tanned fur of a kind of spirit rat, and can hold a lot of things inside…”

Fang Xing took it, injected a trace of magic power into it, and immediately sensed a space the size of an eight-immortal table: “Unfortunately, it’s still a little small…”

“Haha, this kind of ‘flying mouse’ is very rare. The storage tool made of it is very valuable. Only those who have reached the Qi Sensing Realm can equip one or two…”

Qiao Wuyong said: “But I heard that among the flying squirrels, if the bloodline returns to its ancestral lineage, a ‘flower marten’ can be born, and the storage magic tool made by it can have a very large internal space… But this requires at least a Taoist foundation, or even a Yinshen Zhenren to use it…”

“This flying squirrel bag is enough for now. Thank you, Mr. Qiao. As for the price, I will deduct it from the payment for the goods this time…”

Fang Xing played with the gray animal skin bag, and said with emotion: “It wasn’t easy, I finally got a storage magic weapon…”

“Very good. Here is the “Art of Gathering Qi” that you requested last time… So, you still need to pay another 572 Talisman Money.”

Qiao Wuyong said with a smile.

Fang Xing was somewhat speechless. This was the scissors gap between industry and agriculture. He could only pick up a handful of berries and hand them over: “Is this enough?”

“That’s enough. That’s enough.”

Qiao Wuyong accepted it with a smile, and chatted for a few more words. Suddenly, he said meaningfully, “Daoyou, do you know…the Fei family is going to change the head of the family recently?”

“Oh? What happened to Fei Tianbao?”

Fang Xing remembered meeting this person five years ago, and the other person didn’t seem like a short-lived person.

“Haha, the Fei family has a family rule. When the head of the family cultivates to the ninth level of Qi Sensing and the Primordial Qi circulates throughout the body, he must abdicate and devote himself to the pursuit of the foundation of Taoism… This level is as difficult as ascending to heaven. If you are not careful, you may die.”

Qiao Wuyong said: “Therefore, the Fei family is planning to change the head of the family, and there are quite a few candidates competing for the position…”

The change of the head of the Fei family is also a big event for the five pioneering families.

Qiao Wuyong was leaking information and doing a favor.

(End of this chapter)