50: Chapter 50 Fourteen Spirit Stones

When Mo Shoutian returned home, Mo Xiaochuan was waiting for him in the courtyard.

Before he could speak, Mo Xiaochuan said:

"Dad, I already know about what happened just now. Sending them into the Xuanyang Sect was also to protect the secrets of the Mo family."

Mo Shoutian sighed.

"It's a pity for Xiaozhuzi and Xiaoman."

"Dad, I don't think it's necessarily a pity. There's a saying: a blessing in disguise. Although they entered the Xuanyang Sect as mere outer court handymen, they can still be considered to have had the opportunity to touch Cultivation. How far they can go in the future depends on themselves."

"Besides, since you gave eight stalks of hundred-year-old Purple Marrow Ginseng, I suppose that Zhao Chengyue won't make things too difficult for them."

"I hope so."

Mo Shoutian looked at Mo Xiaochuan and asked:

"Have Xiaosong and Xiaohe already started to Cultivate?"

"Mn, they have already started, and there are no problems for now."

"Dad has been busy these past few days and hasn't had time to ask you. What are the Aptitudes of the four of them—Nannan, Xiao Niuzi, Xiaosong, and Xiaohe—really like?"

"Nannan has the best Aptitude, followed by Xiao Niuzi. Xiaosong and Xiaohe are slightly worse, but they can still Cultivate."

Mo Shoutian nodded.

"Xiaochuan, they are all the future of our Mo Family Village, and Dad hopes you can teach them wholeheartedly."

"Dad, rest assured, I will."

Mo Shoutian thought of another matter.

"Our family has collected so many medicinal herbs, why has your Master never let you use them?"

"Master said that most of the medicinal herbs our family collected are ordinary ones. They are fine for treating illnesses and healing injuries, but they aren't of much use for Cultivation."

Mo Shoutian asked:

"Are those hundred-year-old medicinal herbs also useless?"

"Hundred-year-old medicinal herbs carry Spiritual Qi, but they cannot be eaten directly. Master said that eating them directly not only wastes the medicinal potency, but might also hurt the Meridians if things go wrong. They must be matched with other herbs and refined into a Medicinal Pill before they can be used."

"I remember your Master saying that she knows Alchemy."

Mo Xiaochuan nodded.

"Master indeed knows Alchemy, but she now only has her soul left and is extremely weak, so she has no way to do it herself. After I reached Foundation Establishment, she started teaching me Alchemy. It's just that our family doesn't have a Pill Furnace, nor have we gathered the required medicinal herbs. I have never practiced it before, so everything has to be learned from scratch."

Mo Shoutian thought for a moment and asked again:

"If the things are gathered, can you learn it?"

"Master said we can try, but Alchemy cannot be learned in a day or two."

"As long as you can learn it, that's fine."

Mo Shoutian continued:

"You ask your Master later what kind of Pill Furnace is needed and which medicinal herbs are still missing, and write them all down. I will have Uncle Chen look for them one by one."

"Dad, a Pill Furnace is probably not cheap."

"No matter how expensive it is, we still have to ask. In the future, there will only be more and more people Cultivating in the Mo family. We can't always go outside and use Spirit Stones to buy however many Medicinal Pills we need."

"I know, Dad."

"There's nothing else here for Dad, go do your work."

The next day, Mo Shoutian did not leave the house all day.

Now the Mo family's business was growing larger and larger, and every day there were quite a few accounts that needed to be checked.

Mo Shoutian and Liu Chunmei each held a ledger, busy from morning until evening.

Just at this moment, Mo Changlin walked in, sweating profusely.

Seeing him like this, Mo Shoutian thought something had happened.

"Uncle Changlin, did something happen over at Xianrengu Market?"

Mo Changlin did not answer; he picked up a cup of tea by the table and drank it down in one gulp.

"Uncle Changlin, what on earth is wrong?"

Mo Changlin wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and grinned as he asked:

"Shoutian, guess how many Spirit Stones worth of goods our shop sold on its first day of opening?"

"Three?"

Mo Changlin shook his head.

"Five?"

Mo Changlin shook his head again, revealing a mouthful of old yellow teeth.

"Fourteen, a full fourteen Spirit Stones!"

"What? Fourteen?"

"That's right, exactly fourteen."

"Uncle Changlin, how could it sell so much?"

"This is all thanks to your in-law Chen Wanshan. He came up with something called a grand opening promotion, saying that for the first three days of opening, everything in the shop will be ten percent cheaper. As long as you buy one Spirit Stone's worth of goods, he'll give away two catties of large beast meat for free."

After listening, Mo Shoutian asked:

"Selling like this, wouldn't we earn a lot less?"

"Chen Wanshan said, this is called getting the customers through the door first. Our shop just opened, and nobody knows what is sold inside. Earning a bit less is still better than having no one enter the door all day."

Mo Changlin pulled over a chair to sit down and continued:

"In the beginning, really not many people went in. Later, some people heard that the things in the shop were cheap, so they went in to take a look. In less than an hour, a dozen people surrounded the entrance."

"Three hundred-year-old medicinal herbs were sold, over two thousand catties of large beast meat were sold, and a few fine beast skins were also bought away."

Mo Shoutian asked:

"Were all fourteen Spirit Stones brought back?"

"They're all brought back."

As Mo Changlin spoke, he took out a small cloth bag from his bosom and placed it on the table.

Mo Shoutian opened the cloth bag, counted the Spirit Stones inside, and couldn't help becoming excited.

The Spirit Stones he had seen before were far more than this, but these fourteen Spirit Stones were different.

This was exchanged on the very first day of the Mo family's shop opening, relying on selling medicinal herbs, large beast meat, and beast skins.

From this day on, silver and Spirit Stones trickled into the Mo family bit by bit.

However, the shop being able to sell fourteen Spirit Stones' worth of goods on the first day was also due to the ten percent discount.

After the first three days passed, the business in the shop slowed down.

Even so, it could still sell two or three Spirit Stones' worth of goods every day.

When encountering someone buying hundred-year-old medicinal herbs, it could even sell five or six Spirit Stones in a day.

Chen Wanshan did not just guard the shop to sell goods.

He wrote down every customer who entered the shop every day.

Who frequently bought large beast meat, who needed what medicinal herbs, and who had things the Mo family needed in their hands were all written into the ledger.

Over a month later, he actually acquired an old Pill Furnace from a Loose Cultivator.

After the Pill Furnace was sent back to the Mo family, Mo Xiaochuan began trying Alchemy according to the method Qingli taught him.

Not long after the first batch of medicinal herbs was put in, it was burned into a lump of black ash.

Although the second batch was not burned, it failed to form a Medicinal Pill in the end.

Mo Xiaochuan did not stop. After every failure, he would write down the problems he encountered during Alchemy and then ask Qingli.

It wasn't until three months later that he refined his first batch of Medicinal Pills.

A furnace of ten pills, and in the end only two successfully formed into Medicinal Pills, and their appearance wasn't very good-looking either.

Mo Shoutian held those two Medicinal Pills and looked at them for a long time.

The Mo family finally had their own Alchemist.

Meanwhile, the shop in Xianren Valley gradually gained a firm foothold. The beast-hunting team entered Baitou Mountain time and again, and there were more and more children in the school.

Mo Shoutian also hadn't forgotten the matters he promised to the families of Xiaoman and Xiaozhu.

Every half a year, the Mo family would send people to the Xuanyang Sect to deliver silver, clothing, and some daily necessities to the two children.

Days passed by one by one, the Mo family's family business grew larger and larger, and Mo Xiaochuan and the others never lacked Spirit Stones for their Cultivation again.

Yet no one knew that just as the Mo family was growing step by step, a disaster was also slowly approaching.

The Xuanyang Sect Sect Master and the Baihe Sect Sect Master were originally both at the Peak of the second layer of the second realm, Qi Refining and Soul Transformation, which was why they jointly established Xianrengu Market within this radius of several hundred miles.

Until ten years later, when the Baihe Sect Sect Master had a Breakthrough to the third layer of the second realm of Qi Refining and Soul Transformation, the Golden Core realm, the balance maintained by both sides for many years was also broken.